Disney confirmed the date on November 11: Avengers: Endgame Encore arrives on Disney+ on Friday, November 13, as part of the streamer's “Countdown to Avengers: Doomsday” collection. The film is the same cut audiences saw in its theatrical rerelease on September 25, with new color grading and four additional scenes that connect the 2019 original to Doomsday, which opens in theaters on December 18. The extras bring the runtime to 185 minutes — four minutes longer than the original.
For fans who did not want to pay for a movie ticket to see four minutes of new footage, the wait is over. The scenes that leaked online within hours of the theatrical rerelease are now available to every Disney+ subscriber at home — and according to the Russo brothers, who directed both films, Encore is where the Doomsday story actually begins.
The four new scenes
The first change is the ending itself. In the extended ending, Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter are visited by a version of Loki, who promises to help them — which is very likely why Captain America will appear in Doomsday at all, despite seemingly living a happy life with Peggy in the past. The scene quietly rewrites the meaning of the ending fans have lived with for seven years.
Then come two mid-credits scenes. In one, Bruce Banner is self-isolating in a military complex after an “incident” — presumably referring to the events of Spider-Man: Brand New Day — and as he experiments with a way to suppress the gamma radiation in his body, Doctor Doom teleports him out of his cell. In the other, the Time Variance Authority employees Ouroboros, Casey and Mobius M. Mobius discover that two alternate universes, Earth-10005 and Earth-1127, are about to collide.
And the film closes on a sound every Marvel fan knows: the metal hammering that plays over the credits. In Encore, that hammering is finally revealed to be Doctor Doom forging his mask. It is the last thing the movie leaves you with, and the first thing Doomsday will pick up.
What it changes
Four minutes does not sound like much, but these are not deleted scenes restored for completists. The Russos filmed the new material during the making of Doomsday, and each scene is a deliberate bridge: Loki explains Cap's return, the TVA scene sets up the multiverse collision, the Banner scene shows Doom already collecting powerful people, and the final shot introduces the villain himself. Marvel has not said the original theatrical version is being erased from continuity — but Encore is now the version that leads into Doomsday.
The timing is the point. Encore lands on Disney+ exactly five weeks before Doomsday, giving Marvel fans one month to rewatch the extended cut and argue about what it means. Robert Downey Jr., who spent more than a decade playing Tony Stark, returns in Doomsday as Victor von Doom — and Marvel has not confirmed whether Doom is a version of Stark, or something else entirely. The Banner scene, in which Doom comes for one of the Avengers' strongest members, is the clearest hint yet that the villain is already moving.
Should you rewatch it?
If you have Disney+, the answer is simple: the four scenes are the homework for Doomsday, and the Loki scene is the one that matters most. If you have already seen Endgame a dozen times, the rest of the film is the one you know — same story, same ending, new color grading. But the last four minutes are new, and they are the first four minutes of the next Avengers movie.
The road to Doomsday
Encore is not a standalone curiosity — it is the first chapter of the next Avengers movie. The September 25 theatrical rerelease returned Endgame to the top of the all-time box office chart, and now the streaming release puts the extended cut in front of every Disney+ subscriber exactly five weeks before Doomsday. Marvel announced the digital release with a new commercial, and the film now sits at the center of the streamer's “Countdown to Avengers: Doomsday” collection, which gathers the other films and shows Marvel is encouraging fans to revisit before Doctor Doom takes on the multiverse.
Doomsday arrives in theaters on December 18, with Anthony and Joe Russo returning to direct and Robert Downey Jr. as Victor von Doom, alongside characters from the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men. The four new scenes in Encore are the connective tissue: Loki's visit explains a return, the TVA scene sets up a collision, the Banner scene shows Doom already hunting the Avengers' most powerful members, and the final hammering sound tells you who has been forging the future all along. Watch Encore this weekend, and you will walk into Doomsday knowing exactly where the story starts.
Avengers: Endgame Encore streams on Disney+ starting today, November 13. Avengers: Doomsday opens in theaters on December 18, with Anthony and Joe Russo returning to direct, and the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men facing Doctor Doom together.
