Report Claims Avengers: Doomsday Picks Up Right After Endgame and Rewrites the Multiverse Saga

In September 2025, a report resurfaced claiming that Avengers: Doomsday would pick up right after Avengers: Endgame ends, and that as its story played out anew, the Multiverse Saga would be rewritten as though those events never happened. If that report is true, it corroborated what I covered earlier that year, and it would mean everything is going to change for the MCU.

Below I go through where the report came from, what it said about Avengers: Doomsday, and why I think the canon Marvel Studios had already built with Kang, the Loom, the TVA and Loki makes it hold together better than it first sounds.

The Multiverse Saga lacked the Infinity Saga's luster, but it was no throwaway

Say what you will about Phases Four, Five and the beginning of Phase Six, the Multiverse Saga lacked the same sort of luster and excitement that the Infinity Saga ended with as it approached Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. That does not mean it was a complete throwaway, though.

Speaking for myself, some of my favourite Marvel projects, including Loki season 2, Werewolf by Night and Spider-Man: No Way Home, have been part of this saga. It inevitably grew the MCU into a very different place, even without some of the key characters from the Infinity Saga.

A comicbooknews.com report said Avengers: Doomsday would start right after Endgame

The latest report surfaced on comicbooknews.com two days before I wrote this, and it touched on something I had been talking about loosely: where Avengers: Doomsday actually takes place. There was already an assumption that we would get flashbacks, either in the 616 or in other timelines, wherever Victor von Doom's original timeline turns out to be, to establish his backstory.

With the recent confirmations pointing to Steve Rogers returning at the point where he gave back the Infinity Stones and then spent his life with Peggy Carter, I also assumed we might revisit those scenes. But it seems that not only would we be revisiting them, the film would be completely changing the future.

According to that report and its sources, Avengers: Doomsday is going to pick up right after Avengers: Endgame ends. As the story plays out anew, it will completely rewrite the Multiverse Saga, in the sense that those events never happened and none of those projects ever existed in the timeline going forward.

Loki and He Who Remains explain how the Multiverse Saga stays canon

What this does not mean is that those projects were not canon. They were canon, but they were simply the last time we played through the loop that He Who Remains said would inevitably play out time and time again. Loki finally broke that loop.

In that context this makes sense, because there is a new story coming, one that will change wherever it picks up in that loop, and apparently it will be picking up at Avengers: Endgame. Everything after Loki took his seat at the throne and broke the Loom means we were into a new story, and something else may play out along that circle, which for us apparently is going to be in the past.

What that also does is sort of lessen all of the stakes, if there were any, that Marvel built during the Multiverse Saga. I only say that half joking, because there were stakes.

Loki season 2 and No Way Home sit alongside misses like Secret Invasion

I like some Multiverse Saga projects enough to put them in my top 10. Loki season 2 is "an absolute masterpiece." Werewolf by Night is one of the best things Marvel Studios has ever put out for what it is, and Spider-Man: No Way Home is an all time great. I really enjoyed Shang-Chi as well.

There have been plenty of misses too, like Marvel's worst project, Secret Invasion. I say that unequivocally, because it is so far behind any other Marvel project, and that is saying a lot. Still, all of these projects were canon in that they formed the end of the last part of the loop that was playing through for He Who Remains.

Tony Stark's death and Kevin Feige's "new beginnings" point toward a reset

From the very beginning, the Russos said that Tony Stark's death would have a huge meaning in Avengers: Doomsday, so the film was always going to reach back to it in some way. All of the logical context from the canon Marvel Studios had already established with Kang, the Loom, the TVA and Loki follows. There are actually no problems there.

It also affords Marvel a huge opportunity to remake the continuity exactly how it wants. Kevin Feige teased singular timelines being reformed, then went a step further and said "Endgame was about the end," adding, "Avengers Secret Wars is about new beginnings."

If the Multiverse Saga has been left in canon but erased from the continuity, Marvel Studios has a brand new opportunity to explain backstories and relationships that did not exist before. The X-Men could have always been here, they could know Sam Wilson's Captain America, Iron Man and Shang-Chi, and there could be a new Steve Rogers and a new Tony Stark, with all of it playing out completely differently from what we saw before. Again, it is not erased from the canon. It still happened, it is just erased from the continuity going forward after Avengers: Secret Wars. That is a huge distinction.

Sam Wilson and Shang-Chi show the reset may be simpler than it sounds

After working through how complicated this could be, I think it is actually easier than that. We have already seen characters on screen who have been in the same place at the same time, working together, and who presumably know each other. A great example is Sam Wilson and Shang-Chi, who have never actually spoken on screen. Relationships like that exist by proxy all over the MCU.

On top of that, just because things played out differently does not mean some of them did not play out the same. Does Thor still have Gorr's daughter, Love? Did Shang-Chi get the Ten Rings from Wenwu in the same way? Some of these things will still have happened. A new playthrough of continuity does not mean everything changed, only that things happened differently.

The real onus is on where Avengers: Secret Wars ends. If Secret Wars starts at the end of Avengers: Endgame, plays out a brand new storyline and then ends in a place before the Multiverse Saga ever happened, some characters will not yet have experienced those events and some will have. Marvel Studios is obviously going to leave this ambiguous and open ended, and explain it whenever it needs to so it can bring back characters like Steve Rogers and Tony Stark.

The end of Avengers: Secret Wars could already hold a new Tony Stark and Steve Rogers

That leads me to the conclusion that when we watch the final credits scene for Avengers: Secret Wars, if there is one, there will be a new Tony Stark and a new Steve Rogers, and characters like Miles Morales who were not in the MCU at the time might already be there. We might not meet them in some of the first films, like Blade, the X-Men reboot or Fantastic Four, but they would already be there.

As soon as the continuity carries on into a singular timeline at the end of Avengers: Secret Wars, there is a new Tony Stark and a new Steve Rogers, and things played out completely differently. It does not have to be that complicated. There will be times when Marvel has to address it, but as long as the studio does not paint itself into a corner, which I know is easier said than done, there is no reason it should not be able to use a reset like this to its advantage for storytelling, and to the fans' advantage by bringing back some key characters. "Let's see if they actually make it count."

How do you feel about Marvel essentially overwriting the Multiverse Saga, and how complicated do you think it will be once the new X-Men and all new events arrive on the other side?