The entire internet has spent the last several weeks doing what it does best: obsessively speculating about Avengers: Endgame Encore Extra Scenes before a single frame has actually been confirmed
Marvel Studios has decided that “if it ain’t broke, add a post-credits scene to it” is a legitimate business strategy, and honestly? We respect the hustle.
On September 25, Avengers: Endgame returns to theaters as Avengers: Endgame Encore, and the entire internet has spent the last several weeks doing what it does best: obsessively speculating about Avengers: Endgame Encore Extra Scenes before a single frame has actually been confirmed. Let’s dig into what’s real, what’s rumored, and what would make Tony Stark roll over in his beautifully lakeside grave.
Okay, But Is This Actually Happening?
Yes — and this time it’s not just a leak with a screenshot of someone’s “source.” According to GamesRadar, co-director Joe Russo confirmed at the Sand Films Festival that the re-release will include footage set within the Doomsday storyline, describing it as a “critical companion story” designed to bridge Endgame directly into December’s Avengers: Doomsday. Russo called it a chance to “enhance the story of Doomsday” while continuing the journeys of characters he and his brother have spent years building — which is a very poetic way of saying “we’re not done wringing emotional value out of this cast just yet.”
Theater listings confirmed the runtime bump: GamesRadar and The Playlist both report the film now clocks in at 185 minutes, four minutes longer than the original 181-minute cut, officially making it the longest Marvel Studios movie ever released. Four minutes doesn’t sound like a lot, but this is a franchise that once spent four minutes just on Cap picking up Mjolnir, so nobody’s ruling out something dramatic.
So What Are The Rumored Avengers: Endgame Encore Extra Scenes, Exactly?
This is where things get genuinely fun. A report circulated by MSN, citing insider accounts, claims the re-release will include roughly seven minutes of new material — more than the confirmed four-minute runtime bump, so treat this one as speculative — built around a custom intro sequence, several new character scenes, and a revised ending complete with Endgame’s first-ever post-credits tag. If true, here’s the rundown of what these Avengers: Endgame Encore Extra Scenes reportedly include:
- Steve Rogers gets some closure conversations. At Tony’s funeral, new dialogue reportedly has Steve talking with both Pepper Potts and Scott Lang — the latter making a lot of sense given Scott’s own multiversal misadventures in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
- A brotherly Thor and Steve moment, apparently setting up the surviving Avengers stepping into leadership roles after Tony’s sacrifice.
- A Loki cameo with a reality-altering bombshell. Per the same report, Loki reportedly shows up at Steve and Peggy’s house to reveal that the Time Heist didn’t send anyone back in time at all — it created new universes and a nexus event, retroactively reframing Steve’s entire “happily ever after” ending as a multiversal incursion rather than a simple timeline branch.
If even half of that is accurate, Marvel isn’t just tacking on a trailer — it’s rewriting the emotional logic of its own ending to make room for a Doctor Doom-shaped multiverse crisis. Bold. Slightly chaotic. Extremely on-brand.
The Official Word (Which Is Much More Cautious)
Here’s the responsible-journalism caveat: Marvel’s actual marketing has been coy to the point of mischievous. ComicBook.com notes that the newly released Encore trailer contains zero new footage — just a highlight reel of Endgame’s greatest hits, from the portal entrances to Tony’s final snap, clearly designed to sell nostalgia rather than spoil surprises. The outlet points out that Marvel is deliberately withholding the new material, likely because previewing it risks souring ticket sales if fans decide the additions aren’t worth a second trip to the theater.
The one thing Disney has officially confirmed, via a press release covered by both BamSmackPow and ComicBookMovie.com, is that the Encore presentation includes an “exclusive look” at Avengers: Doomsday, with a second, longer sneak peek reserved exclusively for IMAX and Infinity Vision-certified screens. So even if the rumored character scenes turn out to be exaggerated, at minimum you’re contractually owed some kind of Doomsday tease — and a slightly better one if you spring for the fancy screen.
ComicBookMovie.com also floats the reasonable theory that whatever new content does appear will likely center on Steve Rogers’ post-Endgame life with Peggy Carter, especially now that Hayley Atwell’s return for Doomsday has been confirmed — which lines up suspiciously well with the Loki-reveal rumor above, even if nobody’s stitched the two reports together officially yet.
Our Entirely Unqualified Predictions
If we’re placing bets on what the confirmed Avengers: Endgame Encore Extra Scenes ultimately deliver, our money’s on a tasteful, tightly-edited coda: a brief Peggy-and-Steve epilogue, a Loki or TVA-adjacent narrative wrinkle to explain away the multiverse mechanics, and a proper post-credits scene — Endgame’s first ever — that ends on some Doctor Doom-shaped cliffhanger designed to make you buy a second ticket to Doomsday in December before you’ve even left the parking lot. Whether that amounts to four minutes or seven, Marvel is clearly banking on the idea that reliving Tony Stark’s goodbye in a packed theater, one more time, is worth the price of admission all by itself — new footage or not.
Whatever it turns out to be, here’s hoping Marvel handles Steve and Peggy’s story with the same care it always has. Some endings deserve to stay earned, even when there’s a sequel to sell.
Sources referenced: GamesRadar · The Playlist · MSN · ComicBook.com · BamSmackPow · ComicBookMovie.com
