Avengers: Endgame Encore Ending: All 3 Post-Credits Scenes And What They Mean

Contains spoilers for "Avengers: Endgame Encore"

"Avengers: Doomsday" is already blowing away the box office months before its proper theatrical release, a reflection of the immense hype surrounding its imminent debut, which promises to both bring multiple corners of live-action Marvel media together and wind down a turbulent era for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As folks on the internet and in the real world conjure up their predictions for "Avengers: Doomsday" and its biggest plot points, the hype for this film just keeps growing and growing, getting an extra boost via the theatrical return of 2019's "Avengers: Endgame."

Now playing in theaters as "Avengers: Endgame Encore," the film not only allows moviegoers to experience this pop culture sensation with a crowd once more, but it also provides multiple new teases of "Avengers: Doomsday." This iteration of "Endgame" concludes with multiple scenes setting up the next "Avengers" installment, including a lightly expanded ending and multiple credit sequences. The latter "Endgame Encore" segments are especially tantalizing since they potentially reveal and finally confirm certain pre-existing MCU faces being a part of the "Avengers: Doomsday" madness.

What exactly happens in these "Endgame Encore" sequences? Better yet, how do they potentially reflect key elements of the highly anticipated "Avengers: Doomsday?" Let's break all of that down now and get to the bottom of what "Avengers: Endgame Encore" offers moviegoers.

The teases for "Avengers: Doomsday" don't even start in the film's credits. Instead, they begin during the original ending of "Avengers: Endgame," which shows Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) dancing in their home in an alternate timeline/universe. The scene plays out like it did in 2019, with the two tenderly waltzing after all these years — but just as it's supposed to cut to black, someone suddenly knocks on the door.

Rogers ducks away (a suggestion he doesn't belong in whatever realm he's now housed in) and Carter answers the door. Who should be there but Tom Hiddleston's Loki. This is the version of the character that anchored two "Loki" seasons and showed up earlier in the original "Endgame" cut using the Tesseract to evade the Avengers.

Now, he's at the doorstep of the Carter household in his TVA uniform, informing her that he can help "both of you." This causes the former Captain America to come out of hiding and see the foe he fought all those years ago before the scene ends. It's not clear what help Loki will provide exactly, but it's clear his multiverse experiences across two seasons of "Loki" is about to be deployed. 

A former villain reaching out to help Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter also seems to expand on the "Avengers: Doomsday" concept of friends and enemies emerging from unexpected places (as epitomized by Robert Downey Jr. portraying the new equivalent to Thanos).

Poor Hulk didn't have it easy in "Spider-Man: Brand New Day." In that film, Sadie Sink's Jean Grey used her telekinetic powers to ensure that Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), after years of keeping his Hulk persona suppressed, is unleashed in all his rageful glory. The Smart Hulk from "Avengers: Endgame" is gone, with a more feral version of the green Goliath seen in earlier MCU outings like "The Avengers" facing off with Tom Holland's Spider-Man. In Banner's final "Brand New Day" scene, he's being hauled off into an ambulance frantically asking if he hurt anyone in his Hulk form. There's no other indication of what happens to the character after that.

One of the "Avengers: Doomsday" scenes, though, offers some clarity on what happens next for Banner. This sequence sees Banner recording himself in an underground military facility, noting that, in his time away from society, he's been working on gamma-related science. As he's getting underway with his explanation, the lights flicker and an ominous green glow begins materializing on the floor. As the camera briefly cuts out, Banner's voice asks a mysterious figure in the room who he is, before Doctor Doom proclaims that he's "here to collect" Banner.

Suddenly, the Hulk's roar is heard as fragmented images of the green portal Doom used to enter this universe flicker on-screen. Poor Banner's situation has gone from worse to even more nightmarish.

Many once seemingly important MCU characters introduced in the Disney+ MCU shows — like Moon Knight and She-Hulk — still haven't shown up on the big screen and don't appear likely to make it to movie theaters anytime soon. Props to Owen Wilson's Mobius from "Loki," then, for joining Wyatt Russell's John Walker and and Danny Ramirez's Joaquin Torres as the rare MCU streaming character to leap to theatrical movies. His debut (not counting that "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" post-credits scene that repurposed "Loki" footage) comes in a new "Avengers: Endgame" credits sequence.

This scene takes place at the Time Variance Authority and features Mobius walking into a control room where monitors show two Earths firing at each other, one of which is the universe housing the Fox "X-Men" characters (last seen in "Deadpool and Wolverine"). Ke Huy Quan's O.B. guides Mobius and the audience through this situation by noting that each reality is trying to take each other out before an Incursion occurs. Suddenly, a deluge of new universes pop up on the monitors. Thousands of them, in fact. The warnings from the Miss Minutes instructional videos and TVA intercom about making sure separate universes do not interact aren't being heeded.

Instead, Mobius watches in horror as O.B. declares that the multiverse as a whole is collapsing. The unthinkable is transpiring, which (presumably) will lead to various corners of the MCU multiverse colliding in "Avengers: Doomsday." Hopefully this chaos will give Owen Wilson even more to do.

These three scenes, along with a brief repurposing of the original "Avengers: Endgame" audio of Tony Stark hammering away on his iron suit — now indicating Victor von Doom working on his metal mask — comprise the new material in "Avengers: Endgame Encore." One of the most important takeaways from these scenes is that the lore from "Loki" is still as crucial as ever.

Back when the show's first season debuted, speculation went into overdrive that "Loki" could affect every MCU Phase Four project. Now, that potential for long-term ripple effects is materializing, with the TVA apparently factoring into the narrative.

While Marvel recently promised that its TV programs and movies would be more separate, the TVA's prominent "Deadpool and Wolverine" role and intertwining with the multiverse made it inevitable that the organization might be a critical player in "Avengers: Doomsday." This was already strongly hinted at via an interactive experience at Disney's 2026 D23 fan expo, where patrons could wander through an extremely decimated TVA. This "Endgame Encore" credits scene focused on Mobius and O.B. just solidifies that these "Loki" characters might be important to the multiverse antics ahead.

In other words, while most MCU TV shows won't be required viewing for "Avengers: Doomsday," all that "Loki" lore is being teed up as vital for "Doomsday." Who knows who or what else from that show will factor into this gigantic team-up.

The casting of Robert Downey Jr. as big bad Doctor Doom for "Avengers: Doomsday" has made it clear that one core element of Anthony and Joe Russo's movie will be the concept of heroes becoming villains and vice versa. After all, Ian McKellen's "X-Men" villain Magneto appears to be working with the friendly mutants in "Doomsday," while former MCU baddies like John Walker/U.S. Agent and Ava Starr/Ghost will now be Avengers members fighting against Doom. The Latverian tyrant showing up to force Hulk into his employ in their "Endgame Encore" scene also suggests this theme.

This also points to one of the countless "Avengers: Doomsday" fan theories that actually make sense being possibly true. For ages now, there have been rumblings that Doom will fight the "Doomsday" heroes with former Avengers members like Doctor Strange or Wanda Maximoff at his side. None of these have been confirmed, but the reveal of Doctor Doom "collecting" Hulk at least suggests he'll have one MCU superhero at his disposal. Who's to say there won't be more?

If Hulk is just the tip of the iceberg for the super-powered pre-existing characters Doom is working with, then "Doomsday" will become a tragic enterprise full of multiverse calamities, leading former friends to turn on one another. Doomsday truly does bring out unexpected alliances.