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Originally Posted by GGG
Quicksilver could still turn out to be quicksilver
The person in “witness protection” could be a mutant who crossed over in the multiverse which is why they sent the superhero involved FBI agent and a sword rep to track him down. All of the bread crumbs are still there and could be used in the future. Fantastic Four could still be the result of the accident in space that made the astronauts lose their nerve. This type of bread crumbing for future writers to use is a staple in connected universes as the ret conning makes it feel planned. Like in Harry Potter when Riddles diary is a horcrux or in Star Wars Luke and Leila being siblings. Things don’t need to pay off now. For now it can be a dick joke.
Even if the above doesn’t happen the Quicksilver cameo stills does work for the greater MCU. It introduces people to the idea of the multiverse and gets people talking about how a multiverse works in advance of the Strange and Spidermam movies. This conditions the audience to be ready that these things are possible and makes the next movies easier to understand. So it wasn’t done just as an FU.
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Yeah I don't see it as an FU either. It was trolling somewhat, but all in good fun.
Plus they actually IMO needed that character in the series so Wanda could have someone to have those specific conversations. Sure they could have gone with any actor to avoid the misdirect, but that would have been way more boring. This was a pretty meta series, os having some meta nonsense fit the tone very well. IMO.
Plus obviously this stunt got a lot of attention which is what Disney wants, because they want this streaming stuff to be just as must-watch as the movies.
And of course I think they probably wanted to test the waters a bit and see how people react.
Personally, having recently re-watched the Fox films, I say it's mostly a pile of hot garbage in retrospect, and Marvel should just scrap it all and re-do all of those characters from scratch. Except for Deadpool and Negasonic Teenage Warhead obviously.
EDIT: Domino was a ton of fun too. They really should just let Ryan Reynolds do his thing, with better special effects and the occasional actual-MCU cameo.