Avengers Endgame Encore: How the 4 new scenes set up Doomsday

Marvel's Endgame Encore adds four scenes linking Steve Rogers, Hulk, the TVA and Doctor Doom to Avengers: Doomsday. The footage ties Endgame's ending to the multiverse crisis while leaving key questions about Doom and Steve's timeline open.

In Short

• Endgame Encore adds four new scenes linking to Doomsday
• Loki visits Steve and Peggy, tying Steve’s timeline to the multiverse crisis
• Doctor Doom seeks Bruce Banner, hinting at future conflicts

There is a reason Marvel has chosen Avengers: Endgame as the film to revisit ahead of Avengers: Doomsday. The 2019 blockbuster was built as an ending: to the Infinity Saga, to several character arcs and, most importantly, to the original Avengers’ story. The new Endgame Encore footage changes that equation.

The theatrical re-release adds four new scenes: an extension of Steve Rogers’ (Chris Evans) ending with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), a Bruce Banner/Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) sequence involving Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.), a scene at the Time Variance Authority and, finally, an image of Doom forging his mask.

Together, they provide new links to Doomsday. But they don’t all function in the same way. Some directly expand what we know about the next Avengers film; others establish the wider multiverse situation or deliberately leave questions open.

The most significant change comes to Steve Rogers’ ending.

1. Loki arrives at Steve and Peggy’s door

Endgame originally ended with Steve and Peggy dancing in her home. It was a deliberately quiet conclusion after a film dominated by time travel, battles and loss. Steve had returned the Infinity Stones and, instead of coming back to the present, had chosen to remain in the past and live his life with Peggy.

The new footage picks up during that dance. There is a knock at the door. Peggy answers it and finds Loki (Tom Hiddleston) outside, wearing TVA clothing. Steve remains out of sight initially, alert to the unexpected visitor. Peggy asks Loki if she can help him. Loki replies that he can help both of them. Steve then reveals himself.

The scene is brief, but it changes the context of Steve’s decision.

Until now, Steve’s choice to remain in the past was largely understood as the conclusion to his personal story. Endgame Encore instead connects that choice directly to the multiverse storyline that will drive Doomsday.

Anthony Russo has also spoken about the significance of the new material, describing it as going “one beat past” the original Steve-Peggy ending and saying that this is “where Doomsday is born.”

That does not mean the film establishes that Steve and Peggy deliberately caused the multiverse crisis. It does, however, make their branched timeline relevant to what comes next. Loki’s involvement is important for another reason. Following the events of Loki, he is no longer simply the mischievous Asgardian audiences first met in 2011. He is closely connected to the MCU’s understanding of branching timelines and the multiverse. His arrival at Steve and Peggy’s home therefore places their private life inside a much larger problem.

The scene also gives more context to the version of Steve seen in Doomsday promotional material. Marvel has shown Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers in footage connected to the new film, including imagery associated with the TVA. Encore does not spell out exactly how Steve becomes involved again, but it establishes that Loki and the TVA have a connection to the timeline in which Steve chose to stay with Peggy.

That is the important addition: Steve’s ending is no longer entirely separate from the next Avengers story.

2. Doctor Doom comes looking for Bruce Banner

The second scene moves into the aftermath of Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Bruce Banner is shown in an underground bunker, recording himself while working on a gamma-related project. The setup follows the events of Brand New Day, in which Banner’s Hulk transformation returns after an incident involving Jean Grey.

Banner explains that he is working on a way to control the transformation. He is effectively trying to prevent the Hulk from taking over again.

Then the lights begin to flicker. Doctor Doom arrives, although he is only heard rather than seen. He addresses Banner and says he has come to “collect” him. Banner begins transforming into the Hulk. The scene cuts away before the confrontation is shown in full. When the footage returns to the location, Banner and Doom are gone, with Latverian symbols visible on the floor.

It is a straightforward setup, but it raises several questions. The first is why Doom wants Banner.

The footage does not answer that. It is possible that Doom is interested in Hulk’s physical strength. Banner’s scientific knowledge could also be relevant. There is no confirmation yet that Doom needs him for one specific purpose. What the scene does establish is that Doom is already making moves outside the main events of Doomsday. He is not introduced as someone who simply reacts to the multiverse collapsing. He is actively seeking out people.

It also brings Hulk back into the wider Avengers picture. Banner has remained on the periphery of the MCU since Endgame, and his latest storyline had been largely contained within She-Hulk and Brand New Day. The new footage changes that by putting him directly in Doom’s path.

There is also a larger question about where this sequence belongs in Marvel’s plans.

Because the scene follows Brand New Day and resembles the kind of character-specific post-credits sequence usually used to set up a subsequent film, it may not be solely about Doomsday. It could also be laying groundwork for Avengers: Secret Wars. The footage itself does not settle that question.

For now, the clear information is simpler: Doom has found Banner, and Banner is being taken somewhere.

3. The TVA watches the multiverse collapse

The third new scene provides the clearest explanation of the crisis facing the MCU. At the Time Variance Authority, Mobius (Owen Wilson), Ouroboros (Ke Huy Quan), Casey (Eugene Cordero) and other TVA personnel monitor the multiverse.

Then the incursions begin. The scene identifies one collision involving Earth-10005, the reality associated with the Fox X-Men universe, and Earth-1127. As the TVA watches, more incursions follow. Entire worlds are destroyed.

The scale of the event quickly becomes impossible for the TVA to contain. By the end of the sequence, thousands of universes have been lost, and the TVA recognises what is happening: the multiverse is collapsing. This is perhaps the most useful piece of Doomsday setup because it establishes the film’s central problem without requiring another character to explain it later.

The multiverse isn’t simply unstable. It is breaking down.

That also gives Marvel a practical narrative route for bringing together characters from different realities. The X-Men, Fantastic Four and various Avengers characters do not need to exist within the same universe for the story to work. If those universes are colliding, the characters can be pulled into the same conflict as a consequence.

The scene also connects Doomsday more directly to Loki. The TVA, which has spent the series dealing with the mechanics of time and branching realities, is now watching those realities become unmanageable.

What remains unclear is the precise relationship between this collapse and Steve Rogers’ timeline.

The new footage puts the two ideas next to each other, but it does not provide a complete explanation of cause and effect. Marvel is showing us that Steve’s alternate life and the multiverse crisis are connected to the same larger story; it has not yet explained every step between them.

4. Doctor Doom forges his mask

The final addition is the most deliberately symbolic.The original Endgame did not have a conventional post-credits scene. Instead, audiences heard the sound of metal being hammered — a callback to Tony Stark building his first Iron Man armour in Iron Man.

It was a small gesture towards where the MCU had begun. Endgame Encore changes the image attached to that sound.

This time, the hammering belongs to Doctor Doom, who is forging his mask. The significance is difficult to miss because Doom is played by Robert Downey Jr., the actor who spent more than a decade defining Tony Stark.

But the scene itself does not confirm that Victor von Doom is a Tony Stark variant, nor does it establish that Doom’s identity is secretly connected to Tony’s. What it does is create an unmistakable visual connection between the two characters.

Tony built his armour. Doom is building his. The same actor sits at the centre of that parallel.

It is also a neat reversal of the original Endgame sound cue. What once functioned as a callback to the beginning of the MCU now introduces the character who will drive its next Avengers chapter.

So, how do the four scenes connect to Doomsday?

The four additions serve different purposes, but together they fill in some of the gaps between Endgame and Doomsday.

Steve and Peggy’s timeline is no longer just a romantic conclusion. Loki’s arrival establishes that something about that branch matters to the events ahead.

The Bruce Banner scene puts Hulk directly in Doctor Doom’s orbit and suggests that Doom is already gathering what he needs.

The TVA sequence establishes the scale of the multiversal crisis, showing that incursions are happening across multiple realities and that even the TVA is struggling to respond.

And the final Doom scene establishes the film’s central villain while deliberately echoing the MCU’s most recognisable origin story.

There is a clear progression in the way the material has been arranged. The first scene revisits a character’s personal ending. The second introduces Doom’s intervention in another character’s life. The third expands the problem to the entire multiverse. The fourth leaves us with Doom himself.

What Endgame Encore does not provide is a complete roadmap. It doesn’t explain exactly why Doom needs Banner, how Steve’s timeline factors into the collapse, or whether every character teased here will have the same role in Doomsday.

And that is probably the point.

Avengers: Doomsday arrives in Indian theatres on December 18, 2026.

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