The addition of Evan Peters as Pietro Maximoff, a.k.a. Quicksilver, to the cast sparked wide discussion over the direction of the character, who was also slated to appear in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). Quicksilver had been discussed previously as a potential character in both X-Men: Conflitto finale (2006) and The Avengers (2012), but legal complexities over the license to the character resulted in his omission from both movies. However, in May 2013, Marvel and Fox Studios announced a resolution to the previous legal issues, and that Quicksilver would appear in this movie as well as an Avengers sequel, though under certain parameters: no reference to Quicksilver's membership in the Avengers can be made in an "X-Men" movie, and no allusion to his relations to the X-Men or Magneto (the character's father) can be made in an "Avengers" movie. The rights agreement between Fox and Marvel even goes so far as to stipulate the character cannot be referred to as a "mutant" in any Marvel movie. Additionally, the day after the announcement of Peters' casting, Marvel and Fox entered into a legal standoff over provisions of the rights agreement for the character, including the issue of whether Peters would be allowed to portray Quicksilver in any other movie outside the X-Men film franchise, possibly necessitating a second actor to play Quicksilver in any Marvel movie, resulting in two different versions of the same character appearing in two competing film franchises. Ultimately, Fox and Marvel decided to cast different actors in the part for the "X-Men" and "Avengers" movies, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson taking on the role in the latter sequel, thus preventing any connection between the two franchises and keeping the X-Men confined to a separate universe from those of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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