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8 Actors Who Have Played Multiple Superheroes

It's hard to imagine now, but can you remember a time when talking racoons and Asgardian gods didn't rule the box office, a time when Robert Downey Jr. wasn't a bankable star and Christopher Reeves was the only Superman worth thinking about?
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Published: May 18, 2015 01:00 pm

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4) Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass/Quicksilver)

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Nicolas Cage isn’t the only Kick-Ass star to appear in another superhero movie. Seems that Kick-Ass himself somehow developed actual super powers along the way, joining the Avengers in the fight against Ultron. However, while Kick-Ass was a breath of fresh air in a genre already overcrowded with CGI enhanced heroes, Taylor-Johnson’s Quicksilver appeared in the wake of Evan Peter’s version of the character in X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Despite rocking a silver mullet and weird ass goggles, Peter’s Quicksilver wowed audiences with an incredible slow-motion action sequence that became the defining moment in Days of Future Past. Taylor Johnson’s Quicksilver had a lot to live up to, but even if his version had appeared first, the character would have still been upstaged by his onscreen sister, the Scarlet Witch. Maybe if the two had hooked up like they do in the comics, Johnson’s version could have been more memorable…

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