Warning: SPOILERS for WandaVision episode 8, "Previously On".
WandaVision episode 8 definitively established that Evan Peters was playing a fake Pietro Maximoff all along. But if the pretender isn't Wanda Maximoff's (Elizabeth Olsen) twin brother in a different body, then who is he? WandaVision is now in its endgame with Wanda's wacky neighbor and best friend, Agnes (Kathryn Hahn), revealing her true identity as Agatha Harkness, a powerful witch who has been alive since the Salem Witch Trials of 1693.
Of course, Wanda and fans were shocked when Pietro, recast with the X-Men movies' Quicksilver Evan Peters, arrived in Westview at the end of WandaVision episode 5, "On A Very Special Episode..." After all, the real Pietro, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson died in Avengers: Age of Ultron. The arrival of Pietro with a different (but familiar) face threw everyone for a loop and launched a multitude of fan theories about Marvel's Multiverse, which was teased in Spider-Man: Far From Home and will be explored in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, which Scarlet Witch will be part of. Spider-Man: No Way Home may also be Multiverse-centric. In WandaVision episode 6, "All-New Halloween Spooktacular", Pietro fulfilled the TV trope of "long-lost brother causing chaos", and he evaded Wanda's tests of his veracity while providing just enough details about the real Pietro to be passably convincing as the MCU's Quicksilver magically resurrected.
Agatha Harkness spilled the beans about Pietro in WandaVision episode 8, "Previously On", during her supervillain monologue to the magically captured Wanda. Evan Peters' Pietro is, indeed a fake ("Fietro", as Agatha called him). Further, it was Agatha all along magically possessing Wanda's alt-twin brother, and she was seeing, hearing, and communicating with Maximoff through the fake Pietro. Agatha's plan was to use the return of Wanda's twin brother to prompt her to confess who she really is and how she is performing incredibly complex magic to control the entire town of Westview, but she got nowhere with her ruse. Agatha ultimately dropped the Fake Pietro gambit after Wanda magically tossed him aside before she expanded the range of the Hex to absorb much of S.W.O.R.D. based outside the magic bubble's original boundaries.
As Agatha explained, she couldn't resurrect the real Pietro: "Necromancy was a non-starter since your real brother's body is on another continent. Not to mention, full of holes." This confirms Pietro's bullet-ridden corpse is likely buried in the Maximoffs' home country of Sokovia, perhaps with their dead parents, Olek (Daniyar) and Iryna (Ilana Kohanchi). Instead, Agatha used a crystalline possession spell to control the mind of someone who was already in Westview.
So, who is the fake Pietro? His true identity hasn't been revealed yet and, unfortunately, Dr. Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings) and FBI Agent Jimmy Woo (Randall Park) have been separated and are preoccupied so they haven't been able to crack his identity like they did many other WandaVision cast members. However, Agatha via Fake Pietro may have dropped a clue when he was complimenting Wanda on her achievement in Westview during "All-New Halloween Spooktacular": Pietro mentioned that Wanda's illusion for each character is based on their personality underneath. So it's possible the man Agatha selected to play Wanda's "not-brother" is someone's twin brother, an athlete who runs very fast, or both.
The last time Fake Pietro appeared, he caught Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) snooping outside Agatha's house in the end-credits scene of WandaVision episode 7, "Breaking the Fourth Wall". Fake Pietro is likely still under Agatha's mind control and he may even retain Quicksilver's superspeed if he took on the newly-superpowered Monica, but there was no reason to continue the charade of being the resurrected Pietro Maximoff.
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