'Endgame Encore' Adds 4 Scenes Bridging to Doomsday — SkimNews
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- Marvel re-released 'Avengers: Endgame' as 'Avengers: Endgame Encore' with four new scenes totaling four minutes of footage, all shot during 'Avengers: Doomsday' production to bridge the two films.
- Loki appears in a Time Variance Authority uniform at Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter's door during their closing dance, implying their alternate timeline created an unstable branch in the multiverse.
- Mobius, Casey, Ouroboros, and Miss Minutes at the TVA witness two Earths colliding in an incursion as more alternate worlds begin collapsing — a sequence that may set up the Fox X-Men universe clashing with the mainline MCU.
- Bruce Banner is shown in an underground bunker working on a Hulk-suppression serum after being apprehended in 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day,' when Doctor Doom breaks in and Banner Hulks out to face him.
- Doctor Doom is shown forging his metal mask using the same metallic clang that fans identified in the original 'Endgame' post-credits as Tony Stark building his suit — hinting that the two characters' origins are mirrored.
- 'Avengers: Doomsday' is set to open Dec. 18, the same day as 'Dune: Part 3,' in a showdown Marvel and Disney have dubbed 'Dunesday.'
Why it matters: Marvel is using a theatrical re-release with new footage — including a Doctor Doom-versus-Hulk confrontation and the reveal of Doom forging his mask — as a zero-cost marketing bridge from Spider-Man: Brand New Day's record summer run to its Dec. 18 tentpole. With 'Doomsday' opening against 'Dune: Part 3' in a head-to-head 'Dunesday' showdown, the re-release is designed to convert four new minutes of connective tissue into opening-weekend urgency.
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