User blog:LoveWaffle/A Tale of Two Quicksilvers

For those who haven't yet heard, The Wrap today confirmed after months of speculation that Aaron Taylor-Johnson will portray Quicksilver in Marvel's The Avengers: Age of Ultron.

So please bare with me as I think way to hard about the irony in this casting:

Quicksilver will be the second comic book character Aaron Taylor-Johnson will portray in a movie, the first being Kick-Ass (aka Dave Lizewski) in the two Kick-Ass movies. The first movie also featured Evan Peters, who will portray FOX's version of Quicksilver in X-Men: Days of Future Past, as Dave's friend Todd Haynes. Although Peters did not return for the sequel, his character becomes one of the many costumed vigilantes inspired by Kick-Ass. However, Haynes' identity of "Ass-Kicker" is a clear rip-off of the hero that inspired them, earning him the ire of the other heroes for not being more creative.

So, as Marvel hired the actor from the Kick-Ass movies who portrayed the real Kick-Ass to be their Quicksilver, FOX hired the actor from the Kick-Ass movies who portrayed the knock-off Kick-Ass to be their Quicksilver.

Ahh, art, how your ability to imitate life never ceases to amaze me.