Avengers Endgame Encore's Four Leaked Post-Credit Scenes Set Up Doctor Doom's Revenge in Avengers Doomsday

Avengers Endgame Encore has already opened in a number of countries overseas, and it comes with four post credit scenes. Spoilers are coming for all of them, so this is the point to click away if you would rather go in blind. Of the four, the third one is my favorite, and I think it is really, really epic. Let's get into them in order.

Before diving in, it's worth noting the sourcing situation. This footage is out overseas right now but has not released in the US yet. A lot of the clips being posted online have already been taken down, which to me suggests they are legitimate rather than fake.

Post Credit Scene One: Loki Pulls Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter Into the Fantastic Four's Universe

The first scene is pretty much what reports had already told us to expect. It cuts to the same ending Avengers Endgame gave us, with Steve and Peggy back in time, dancing together. They're interrupted by a rather aggressive knock at the door. Steve hides behind a wall while Peggy answers it, and of course it's Loki. Peggy asks, "Can I help you?" and Loki replies, "No, but I can help you. Both of you." Steve recognizes the voice and comes around the corner to confirm it's him.

This lines up with earlier leaks that said Loki appears to Steve and Peggy to tell them he has to move them because the universe they're in is going to be destroyed, since Steve wasn't supposed to stay back in time. Loki reportedly takes them to the Fantastic Four's universe, which is also where all the evidence points to Doctor Doom coming from, and those events play out in Avengers Doomsday.

This scene has a lot to do with one of Doctor Doom's motivations in that film, which is revenge on Steve Rogers. What I've heard is that Steve being in the Fantastic Four's universe causes an incursion, because a person crossing from one universe into another destabilizes that universe the way we've seen throughout the MCU. Steve being there draws a universe toward the Fantastic Four's and Victor von Doom's universe, and Victor blames him for it throughout the movie.

Post Credit Scene Two: Doctor Doom Collects Bruce Banner After His First Hulk Incident in a Decade

The second scene, by all indications, takes place after Spider-Man: Brand New Day, even though it follows right after Endgame chronologically. We find Banner in a military complex bunker two miles underground, recording himself on a handheld camera. He says, "I've recently suffered my first incident in over a decade." That line is why I believe this is set after Brand New Day, since Banner appears to have kept the Hulk contained since Endgame until Gang Green forced him to hulk out in that film.

Banner says, "The Hulk is not getting out of here and no one else is getting in," then explains he's been experimenting with a new gamma suppression serum with promising early results, and that he wants to demonstrate some of his findings. Right as he says that, the lights flicker and the computer screens and camera start to glitch. Banner asks, "No, who are you?" and we hear Robert Downey Jr.'s Latverian accent as Doctor Doom answer, "Mr. Banner, I've come to collect you." The Hulk yells, the camera falls to the floor, and we see glowing green runes on the ground as Doom takes him.

Bruce Banner is someone who has traveled back in time, just like Steve. It seems Doom has a vendetta against people who have messed with the proper flow of time and the multiverse in general. We were told in Loki that the Avengers were supposed to go back in time, but maybe, according to Doom, they weren't, and maybe they caused real problems now that Loki has allowed the multiverse to exist with free will instead of the character who was previously in charge of keeping everything in check. It seems Doom is going after key players who disrupted time and the multiverse, and that comes into play heavily in the third scene.

Post Credit Scene Three: The TVA Watches Thousands of Universes Die in a Level One Incursion

I'm excited this is the direction things are taking, because it sticks pretty true to comic accurate material, at least from the 2015 Avengers: Secret Wars and the Time Runs Out storylines leading into it. This scene opens in the TVA, which we hadn't heard much about beyond the possibility it gets destroyed. Miss Minutes says, "Our job is keeping the multiverse, the timelines tidy and safe. So do us a favor, stay in your universe," and we see a picture of Loki on the wall.

A level one incursion is reported, with universes 1005 and 1127 about to collide. Universe 1005 is the X-Men universe, which sets up their return in Avengers Doomsday. Mobius says he didn't read about this in the scouting report and wonders if it slipped through the cracks, before Casey notices missiles on screen. The two Earths are shown firing at each other, with OB explaining each Earth is trying to take out the other before they collide. Then more incursions start appearing, Mobius initially dismisses one as a glitch, but the count keeps climbing: one agent reports 20 universes down, then 100, then 300, then 3,000. The Yggdrasil tree shows universes disappearing, and OB says the multiverse is collapsing.

I love this for a few reasons. There are an infinite number of universes in the multiverse, and new ones get created constantly, but it seems Avengers Doomsday ultimately comes down to a handful of universes, maybe three, which tracks with the comics: Secret Wars begins with only about twelve universes left before it narrows further to the main Earth universe and the Ultimates universe. In the comics, an incursion triggers a domino effect where universes keep colliding until Doctor Doom eventually creates Battleworld out of roughly forty different universes combined, which appears to be what's coming in Avengers Doomsday.

Looking specifically at the 1005 X-Men universe, it clearly shows they've been through incursions before and know they have to destroy the other Earth to survive. This appears to connect to reports about Avengers Doomsday's opening scene, where the X-Men universe comes into contact with Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man universe and the X-Men have a bomb they're trying to plant there to destroy it. That's straight from the comics: when two Earths collide, both universes get destroyed entirely, so destroying the other Earth lets your own universe survive. That's why the trailers show Professor X looking out the window in horror, since they are effectively killing billions of people, and with his telepathy he might even be hearing some of them die. It's a survival decision, a kind of us versus them situation playing out on a universal scale.

I hope Avengers Doomsday shows more of this rather than just the TVA reacting to numbers ticking up, as cool as that is. I'd like to actually see universes dying and fighting each other on screen. My honest read is that the Avengers don't win this, nor does any single superhero group. I think Doctor Doom wins, which most people probably expect at this point since that's how the story heads into Secret Wars, Battleworld, and God Emperor Doom.

Post Credit Scene Four: The Forging Sound From Endgame's Ending Returns, This Time for Doctor Doom's Mask

The final scene is a clever twist. Avengers Endgame originally didn't have a post credit scene, but at the very end we heard the clank of Tony Stark forging his first Iron Man suit in the cave. This time we hear that same sound, except it's Doctor Doom's mask being forged instead.

This offers a strong hint that there really is some connection between Doctor Doom and Iron Man. A lot of people have been doubting whether that connection is real, or whether Robert Downey Jr. was simply cast as Doom without his face being used much. We've heard that if Doom takes his mask off in Doomsday, it's only in private, because he's scarred and doesn't want people to see it, which is very true to the comics.

That raises the question of why he looks like Tony Stark in the first place, and this scene points toward there being a real link between the two. It's possible it even echoes Tony's original story in some way. I don't personally think Victor von Doom should be a straightforward variant of Tony Stark or vice versa, since they have their own specific origins, and you could still tell a variant story where Victor goes off with his Latverian parents on his own path. I do think some of the events will tie them together in some form, and I think a lot of people will be happy to see that.

Which of these four scenes is your favorite, and are you still planning to see this on the big screen?