Get the watch order straight for 'Avengers: Doomsday' and 'Avengers: Endgame Encore'
Avengers: Endgame Encore adds extra footage setting up a looming threat and teasing two big names ahead of its December release.
Four minutes of fresh footage are reportedly being slotted into a new theatrical cut of Avengers: Endgame , and the additions aren’t throwaway tags. Think Loki in a Time Variance Authority jumpsuit crashing Steve and Peggy’s dance, a TVA control-room panic over an incursion, a post‑credits Bruce Banner standoff that tees up Doctor Doom, and a final clang that echoes Endgame’s original coda — only this time it ’s Doom forging his mask.
The re‑release, said to be titled Avengers: Endgame Encore, was reportedly filmed alongside Avengers: Doomsday and features Tom Hiddleston back as Loki, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, and — in a twist sure to set message boards on fire — Robert Downey Jr. appearing as Doctor Doom.
What’s reportedly new
- Loki interrupts the “happily ever after”: During Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter’s closing dance, Loki arrives in a TVA uniform, potentially addressing how Steve’s time-hopping created an unstable branch of the multiverse.
- Incursion alarm at the TVA: Mobius, Casey, Ouroboros and Miss Minutes watch two Earths collide — an incursion event that sparks a cascading multiversal collapse.
- Banner’s post‑credits cliffhanger: Set after events tied to Spider‑ Man: Brand New Day , where Jean Grey reportedly triggered a Hulk transformation, Bruce works in an underground bunker on a serum to suppress the other guy. Doom breaches the facility, Banner Hulks out — smash to black.
- Doom’s mask, Endgame’s echo: A final tag shows Doctor Doom forging his metal mask to the same metallic clanging that closed the original Endgame, hinting at a mirrored “man in a suit” mythology — even more eyebrow‑raising with Downey Jr. linked to both legacies.
That TVA incursion scene is also being read as the on‑ramp for characters from Fox’s X‑Men universe to cross into the main MCU timeline. The report specifically flags:
- Professor Xavier
- Magneto
- Cyclops
- Mystique
- Nightcrawler
- Gambit
Why it matters for Doomsday
The connective tissue is the point. Endgame’s epilogue moments reportedly now point directly at Avengers: Doomsday — from Loki and the TVA’s multiversal triage to Doom stepping out of the shadows. Stitching those beats into Endgame reframes the Infinity Saga curtain call as the first domino for Marvel ’s next crossover.
Secret Wars buzz
The same report also floats where this is all heading: Avengers: Secret Wars. In the comics, the omnipotent Beyonder builds Battleworld from fragments of broken realities and forces heroes and villains to fight. With “Brand New Day” reportedly teasing characters stepping into a new universe — possibly Battleworld — the Beyonder is being talked up as the end‑boss after Doom.
Avengers: Doomsday is reportedly set for December 18 in theaters.