What The Hell Was Ralph Bohner?

When Marvels Wandavision first kicked off on Disney+ fans across the MCU were enthralled in the world Scarlett Witch had created for herself. It seemed the MCU was expanding and fans everywhere had theories about where Marvel was headed after Wandavision. The biggest push was the appearance of Evan Peters as a cliff hanger late in the season. Fans of Marvel immediately saw this as a potential X-Men crossover event that would bring the Merry Mutants to the MCU. But what Wandavision gave us might have been the biggest slap in the face from any Marvel movie up to that point.

#marvel #wandavision #xmen #quicksilver #evanpeters

[pennywisethedancingclown]

Imagine if Andrew Garfield in No Way Home turned out to be some random guy named "Kess McCrack"

[TheKevinWood]

It was kind of the move that defined post Endgame Marvel. They were literally building up the early part of the Multiverse Saga, and instead of introducing a small but significant plot thread that they could expand on as much as they wanted later, they used Evan Peters as a dumb joke. Now we're stuck knee deep in a multiverse storyline that feels way to drawn out, but also like it never really started.

[Zechariah]

I just hate how they thought they were being clever.

[goatbrook]

I remember when this first happened, we were all pissed😭. We thought this was finna be some big fox x men and mcu avengers cross over but they made it a dick joke. That is insane work

[dredgen]

God I was so pumped seeing him in WandaVision. They fumbled it so bad—who the fuck thought what as a good idea??

[Geekeh_UK]

I just don't think you should sacrifice in-universe logic, for the sake of a joke. They thought they were being meta, but really it just came across as Disney buying Marvel, then making fun of both the property and its fans.

[RedisNotaFlavor]

There is a universe out there where the MCU just kept Evan Peters as Quicksilver. what a huge fumble.

[BenAri]

I remember all the theories about how Quicksilver could possibly make a return and when he did the the internet broke, the possibilities were endless....

[rig-zag]

Aside from Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, Quicksilver was the very best thing in all of the Fox X-Men movies.

[krishshautriya]

Ralph Boner was the first sign that Marvel was going down the drain. Most of us were just too in love with it to notice it.

[dustinkenney]

One of the worst TV show bait and switches of all time.

[alexmikhylov]

this was not the only problem with Wandavision by a mile.
past the middle point WandaVision turned into a cliched marvel slop, that's the problem. it even ended with a big cgi battle between 2 people with the exact same powers.
the cleverness of the first 4 episodes was a ruse.

[AstroMonkey]

After Watching Deadpool and Wolverine, I gotta say someone on the Marvel team must really hate Quicksilver. Such a shame.

[Aldrnari]

I’m still off the opinion that Marvel missed their golden ticket for retroactively integrating mutants into the MCU. Having it end with “No more mutants”, and making every movie that came before into a version of history where the mutants were already erased would have given them the ability to tell whatever story they wanted to for mutant origins and not worry about conflict. They could hand wave all the continuity errors as, “yea, but it only played out in that movie that way because Wanda erased the X-men. The *real* history is that they did join the Avengers last stand against Thanos. And Wolverine *really was* in Captain America, the First Avenger, but Wanda had erased him from the timeline.

[robertw]

Personally I prefer the Fox X-Men Quicksilver to the MCU one.

[robertdascoli]

I hated the fact that Agatha had the power to SUPER SPEED to someone. That's a huge power buff that will never be addressed again.

[Kasual]

Marvel level of disrespect was insane, I mean you casing Fox Quicksilver actor as Wanda's brother? What do you think people gonna expect? They knew what they were doing: trolling, just like they did with the Mandarin in Iron Man 3, Task Master in Black Widow or even Mysterio in Far From Home.

[grubbsthebugbear]

It worked. It gave a Francis type character for the Malcolm in the Middle episode, gave Agatha a way to get Wanda to open up to someone she trusts as much as Vision and made us believe he was really Pietro even though they seem to not have been able to get ATJ again. It also sets up that their magic can’t resurrect people so people don’t demand Wanda bring people back moving forward. I thought it was great. Like I would have loved if that led to Quicksilver being a part of the MCU, his slow motion scenes are some of the best comic book movie sfx scenes out there. There’s also no reason this prevents him from returning with that actor again.

[WinterGirlRules]

I contend that Evan Peters IS the FoX-Men Universe Quicksilver who was teleported to the MCU & went into Witness Protection under a different name. It's a missed opportunity if they didn't address this in "Deadpool & Wolverine".

[drmay]

The ralph bohner bait and switch was so stupid. left a very gross taste at the end of wandavision, that and the stupid mcu 3rd act last episode.