It’s easy to forget that Wanda Maximoff had a twin brother Pietro since he died in the film that he was introduced in, but WandaVision had brought a version of Pietro back in the form of Evan Peters.
While fans have wondered what Peters getting cast in the role could mean for the Marvel multiverse, it ultimately didn’t lead to anything, and Ralph Bohner was considered to be one of the worst things about WandaVision. Even if that was the case, Quicksilver still had some influence in the spinoff Agatha All Along.
Why Quicksilver Was Dropped from Agatha All Along
As it turns out, the idea of having a Mare of Easttown/True Detective homage was originally conceived for WandaVision as a way to introduce Evan Peters’ Quicksilver character. Talking to The Wrap, showrunner Jac Schaeffer explained, "It was going to be the eighth episode of WandaVision, that was going to be like a 'CSI' episode, and she was going to be solving the murder of Pietro [Evans Peters' Ralph Bohner]. He was the one on the slab… It was [Wanda's] way, sort of like, to break out of what was going on, and for her to, like, fully understand what’s going on. And I mean, that was a cool idea."
Though the original plan was for Wanda to find out who murdered Pietro, the writers decided to pivot because they wanted all the homages to be from uplifting family sitcoms. Schaffer continued:
"But once we got in the writer’s room and really started putting that together, it was clear that we needed to have discipline in our approach to WandaVision. Even early, we had a lot of different sitcoms. We had workplace sitcoms and we looked briefly at sort of like socially political sitcoms, and we were like, 'No, it is aspirational family sitcoms only.'"
In lieu of paying homage to crime series like CSI, the episode that introduced Even Peters’ Quicksilver in the show was instead inspired by the 90s sitcom Malcolm in the Middle.
What Was It All For?
Back during the airing of WandaVision, the inclusion of Peters’ Quicksilver was considered a huge deal for fans because they thought that it would be addressing the first crossover between the MCU and 20th Century Fox’s Marvel universe.
While the original Quicksilver of the MCU is Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Fox’s Quicksilver was Evan Peters, which he played to great effect.
Fans thought that Peters getting included in WandaVision would start the exploring of Wanda and Agatha’s abilities to jump across the multiverse, but as it turns out, Peters wasn’t even playing the Fox version of Quicksilver—he was just some random guy named Ralph Bohner.
The only time that Marvel Studios really started crossing over with the Fox characters was this year with Deadpool and Wolverine.
If anything, there were a lot of concepts for WandaVision that ended up getting scrapped. Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) was originally supposed to make an appearance and get Wanda out of the spell, and it was implied that Agatha’s pet rabbit was going to turn into something terrible. Besides rewrites and the COVID-19 pandemic happening, it was understood that a lot of pieces had to be moved in order to accommodate all the production limitations.
Agatha All Along is now streaming on Disney+