The Avengers: Endgame Encore extra scenes have officially escaped their theatrical containment field, and Marvel’s copyright strike team is having the busiest week of 2026.
Ahead of the film’s September 25 re-release, bootleg clips and scene-by-scene descriptions have flooded Reddit, X, and every group chat with a Thanos meme in its history, and — because nothing stays hidden in a universe with a Time Variance Authority — we now have a pretty complete picture of what Marvel bolted onto the ending of its 2019 juggernaut.
Let’s break down every single one of the Avengers: Endgame Encore extra scenes, what they mean, and why Bruce Banner really should have picked a better hiding spot.
First, What Even Is “Encore”?
Avengers: Endgame Encore isn’t a new movie — it’s the 2019 original, dusted off and fitted with new connective tissue to Avengers: Doomsday, out this December. Co-director Joe Russo has called the Encore cut “required viewing,” insisting it will directly link the story of the two movies, according to ScreenCrush. Which is Marvel’s polite way of saying: “You will be buying a ticket to a seven-year-old movie, and you will enjoy it.”
That’s the theory, anyway. The plan for the Avengers: Endgame Encore extra scenes to stay under wraps until opening weekend lasted about as long as Cap’s shield in the final Thanos fight — because as The A.V. Club put it, in “a development absolutely everyone saw coming,” the new footage leaked on social media well before release, with the leaks arriving ahead of the film’s September 25 release date, despite Marvel’s extremely limited access to advance screenings. TechRadar reports the added material clocks in at roughly six extra minutes of never-before-seen footage, meant to set Endgame up as an immediate lead-in to Doomsday, which arrives December 18, 2026.
Now, onto the good stuff: a full breakdown of every leaked Avengers: Endgame Encore extra scene, ranked from “sweet” to “wait, is that a floating Robert Downey Jr. head?”
Also Read: Everything “Leaked” About the Avengers: Endgame Encore Post Credit Scene
Scene 1: Steve, Peggy, and an Extremely Awkward Doorbell
The original ending of Endgame let Steve Rogers ride off into a quiet, time-displaced retirement with Peggy Carter, and everyone agreed it was a lovely note to end on. The Avengers: Endgame Encore extra scenes disagree.
According to Gizmodo, the couple’s post-kiss bliss is interrupted by a knock at the door; Cap ducks out of sight while Peggy answers, revealing Loki standing on the porch, and the reveal reportedly draws a burst of applause from opening-night crowds.
ScreenCrush adds the finer costuming details: Loki shows up dressed in his TVA uniform from the Disney+ series, meaning this isn’t chaotic-god-of-mischief Loki — this is bureaucrat Loki, the one who spends his days filing incursion paperwork.
Per Epicstream’s account of the leak, Loki reportedly tells the couple they were never meant to live out their lives together in that particular timeline — which, sure, ruins the whole “happily ever after,” but does at least explain why Steve is apparently available for Doomsday duty.
Ranking this one among the Avengers: Endgame Encore extra scenes: objectively the most emotionally chaotic doorbell ring in cinema history. Somewhere, a Comcast technician is jealous of the timing.
Scene 2: The TVA Watches the Multiverse Have a Very Bad Day
Next up, we cut to TVA headquarters, where Owen Wilson’s Mobius M. Mobius and Ke Huy Quan’s Ouroboros are just trying to get through their shift. Per ScreenCrush’s rundown, the pair observe an incursion between two universes — one identified onscreen as “Earth-10005,” the official designation for Fox’s X-Men movie universe — before the incursions multiply from a couple into the thousands within seconds, prompting Ouroboros to declare that the multiverse is “collapsing”.
Yahoo’s report on the leak similarly notes Mobius and Ouroboros spotting the incursion involving Earth-10005 and a previously unseen world, Earth-1127, moments before the reveal that around 3,000 universes are affected.
So to summarize this particular Avengers: Endgame Encore extra scene: the multiverse’s smoke detector is going off, nobody unplugged the battery, and the guy from Wedding Crashers is now personally responsible for saving reality. Cinema.
Scene 3: Bruce Banner Learns That Bunkers Don’t Stop Dictators
This is the one that’s launched a thousand fan theories. Gizmodo describes a clip of Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner holed up in a bunker thousands of miles beneath Earth’s surface, insisting the Hulk can’t get out and nothing can get in, while recording himself working on a gamma ray suppressor — only for an unseen intruder to interrupt him, marked by green teleportation sigils etching into the ground, strongly implying Doctor Doom.
ScreenCrush fills in the “why”: Banner, last seen rampaging through New York in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, went into isolation after his first “incident” in over a decade, and is experimenting with a serum to suppress the gamma radiation in his blood — right before his camera glitches and Doom’s voice informs him he’s “come to collect him”.
TechRadar, citing leaker SukunaOnFN1, adds a wrinkle: this may actually be the first of the four scenes chronologically, and Doom reportedly never appears onscreen — only his voice does.
Whichever order it plays in, the takeaway from this Avengers: Endgame Encore extra scene is the same: if a supervillain wants to “collect” you, several thousand miles of dirt is apparently a speed bump, not a wall.
Scene 4: Tony Stark’s Helmet Gets a Very Ominous Upgrade
The last of the Avengers: Endgame Encore extra scenes is less a scene than a gut-punch of a sound cue. The original Endgame closed on the audio of young Tony Stark hammering together his first Iron Man suit. Per ScreenCrush, the Encore version intercuts that same sound with flashes of Doctor Doom — also played by Robert Downey Jr. — forging his own armored mask, ending the film on Doom’s face.
Yahoo frames it as a direct tease: the sequence closes the film on Doom’s mask, raising the question of whether Doom could be some version of a Tony Stark variant.
It’s a one-two combo of “aw, remember when this was wholesome” and “oh no.” Efficient. Rude. Very Marvel.
So… Are These Real?
As of publication, Marvel/Disney has not issued an official comment confirming the leaked material, and outlets are treating the footage and its accompanying descriptions as unverified-but-widely-corroborated, since multiple independent leaks from different screenings are lining up with each other.
TechRadar notes that what began as unverifiable Reddit descriptions were later followed by actual leaked footage of all four scenes, which is about as close to confirmation as spoiler culture gets before a studio’s PR team wakes up.
ComicBookMovie reports Disney is moving quickly to strike leaked clips off social media, though fans keep re-uploading them to other platforms as fast as they’re pulled, while EpicStream and ComicBasics have each independently published their own breakdowns of the Avengers: Endgame Encore extra scenes, lending the reports extra weight through sheer volume of agreement.
The Bottom Line
Between the Peggy-and-Loki doorstep reunion, the TVA’s multiversal fire drill, Banner’s underground gamma-suppressor experiment gone sideways, and Tony’s helmet getting philosophically hijacked by his own future nemesis, the Avengers: Endgame Encore extra scenes do exactly what Joe Russo promised: they turn a seven-year-old victory lap into unmistakable connective tissue for Avengers: Doomsday.
Whether you experience them via a leaked four-minute compilation on your feed or you do the right thing and buy a ticket this weekend, one thing’s clear — Marvel just proved that even “The End” comes with an asterisk.
