6) Quicksilver – X-Men: Days Of Future Past
X-Men: Days of Future Past was a landmark movie for Fox’s X-Men franchise as it united both sides of the cinematic universe together; the old guys from the original trilogy and the young ones introduced in X-Men: First Class. Despite all the old favourites running around, though, the character everyone was left talking about was Evan Peters’ turn as Quicksilver.
As well as a charismatic performance from Peters, the character won fans over with the terrific ‘Time in a Bottle’ scene where he single-handedly rescues Charles, Logan and Eric from being gunned down in the Pentagon – all while listening to tunes on his headphones.
So awesome was the scene and the character’s inherent charm that the film sort of shot itself in the foot by not including Quicksilver in a bigger role: why the hell wouldn’t Charles and Logan bring Peter with them to Paris? Their troubles would have been sorted a whole lot quicker, right?
Thankfully, Quicksilver’s screen time was upped in the sequel X-Men: Apocalypse, where he’s eventually indoctrinated into the X-Men team properly.