Avengers Endgame Encore Post Credit Leak Reportedly Reveals Tony Funeral Footage and Loki Peggy Scene

A new report claims the extra footage inside Avengers Endgame Encore breaks down into two specific scenes: additional material at Tony Stark's funeral, and a post credit scene showing Loki meeting Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter. This comes from the anonymous Twitter source known as Doomservant, described as a separate industry insider from the one who previously weighed in on Avengers Doomsday's post credit plans, and it follows the recent confirmation from AMC Theaters that the Encore rerelease only adds less than five minutes of total runtime.

This matters to anyone deciding whether to spend movie ticket money on a rerelease of a film already available on Disney Plus. If the new footage is just a couple of extra minutes stitched into a funeral scene and a short post credit tag, that is a very different pitch than a substantial new scene with Robert Downey Jr's Doctor Doom, which is what a lot of fans have been hoping for.

Doomservant's claim: Tony's funeral gets extra minutes, Loki meets Steve and Peggy after credits

The exact quote from Doomservant reads: "Hearing the additional four minutes is at Tony's funeral and the postredit scene is Loki meeting Steve and Peggy." That lines up with the AMC confirmed runtime addition of roughly three and a half to four minutes split across the mid film footage and the post credit scene, rather than one long new sequence.

I want to be clear about sourcing here. This is coming from one anonymous scoopster on Twitter, not a studio confirmation, and I am treating it with the same caution I apply to any single source leak. Still, it is specific enough, and lines up closely enough with runtime numbers we already had confirmed, that it is worth breaking down in detail.

Why the funeral footage claim worries me about a retcon

My original assumption was that whatever extra footage showed up in the middle of Encore would be original deleted material shot back in 2017, when Endgame and Infinity War were filmed concurrently, not brand new scenes shot now for added context. I did not think the Russos and Marvel Studios would put themselves in a Star Wars style situation, where despecialized original cuts become the fan favorite version and everything after feels like a tampered rerelease.

If new dialogue was shot for Tony's funeral now, after the fact, purely to add context about Victor von Doom taking Tony's identity, or to reinforce the idea that Tony was the anchor being of the universe or even the multiverse, that is a literal retcon rather than a deleted scene. We know for certain nobody involved in shooting the original Endgame funeral scene had a plan to bring Robert Downey Jr back as Doctor Doom. So if any of that footage happens to add context to Doomsday now, it is coincidence, not the bridge footage the Russos have actually teased.

Why the Loki, Steve and Peggy post credit scene actually makes sense to me

Despite my skepticism about the funeral footage, the Loki meeting Steve and Peggy idea fits well with what has already leaked about Doomsday's plot. It would explain how Steve ended up in the timeline he is in, establish the connection between him and this new TVA version of Loki, and set up Steve having the business card seen in the Doomsday trailer, which he can later use to reach the TVA when Thor asks him to track down word that a Loki is still alive.

That search is what leads the team to discover Doom is the actual villain of the film rather than an ally, since he has already attacked the TVA. Getting this connective tissue out of the way in Encore means less time spent in Doomsday itself just setting the table. As I put it, "the more table that's already set, the better," and that is what I think is the real reason behind releasing Endgame Encore with bridge footage in the first place, aside from padding box office numbers.

The trailer shot of Loki outside Steve and Peggy's house may not be the same footage

In the Doomsday trailer there is a shot of Loki standing outside what looks like Steve and Peggy's country house, and the coloring matches what you would expect from this TVA agent version of Loki described in earlier plot leaks, approaching Steve to explain he cannot stay there. If that shot is actually from Doomsday itself rather than from Encore's post credit scene, I am skeptical it is literally the same footage repeated in both films, since showing us that scene once in Encore would make repeating it in Doomsday redundant.

The Doom's Armory Room clue from the scoring session photo

I keep coming back to a rumor from a photo posted when composer Alan Silvestri and his team started scoring Avengers Doomsday. Scoring is usually done sequentially, and in the background of that photo, on one of the blue screens, you could clearly read "Doom's Armory Room," suggesting that whatever scene played at the very beginning of the scoring sessions, and possibly the start of the film's connective footage, may have come from this new Encore bridge material rather than Doomsday proper.

Why I am hoping the Encore footage includes new Doctor Doom material

Anthony Mackey said early on that Doomsday "picks up in the aftermath of Tony's funeral and the emotions wrapped there within," which only describes the plot picking up after the funeral rather than confirming that either of these specific scenes is real. Either of these scenes, as I put it, "could work their way into" the extra footage across Encore or Doomsday, but that is not confirmed.

My own take is that if people are paying twenty to twenty five dollars for a ticket, which is what it costs at the theaters I go to, and they do not get any new Doctor Doom footage out of it, "it's going to feel like a bit of a letdown." That is my personal opinion and I know not everyone will agree, but I am hoping the Russos and Marvel Studios decide Doom deserves a minute or two of dialogue to set up his motivations, given he has had far less screen time and buildup than Thanos did before Endgame.

Endgame Encore is reportedly heading to Disney Plus eventually

For anyone who has said they are not willing to pay full ticket price or take the family out just to catch one extra post credit scene, there is good news. Reports indicate Endgame Encore will eventually make its way to Disney Plus after finishing its theatrical run, which I would guess lasts about a month. So even though the Russos have called watching it mandatory viewing ahead of Doomsday, anyone skipping the theatrical release should still get a chance to see the added footage without spending the money.

If you had a couple of extra minutes to shoot new bridge footage for Avengers Doomsday, what would you make sure to include?