Avengers Endgame Encore Ending Explained: Every New Scene Broken Down

What happens in the new ending with Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter?

The extended sequence picks up in the 1940s, right after Captain America returns the Infinity Stones and chooses to stay behind with Peggy Carter. While the two are dancing, a doorbell interrupts them. Peggy opens the door and asks who's there. The visitor is Agent Loki from the TVA, who tells her he can help "both of you," then looks at Steve directly. Steve's reaction is visible panic, not relief.

That panic makes sense once you consider the mechanics involved. By remaining in the past, Steve created an unstable branch reality tied to Earth-616, one that risks collapsing entirely. Loki's proposed fix is to relocate Steve and Peggy to Earth-828, the universe home to the Fantastic Four, where the Avengers never existed in the first place.

Which Loki is this?

Two readings are circulating among fans. One is that this is the God of Stories Loki, projecting himself into Steve's timeline while holding the branches together from his throne. The other is a more conventional TVA Agent Loki, operating at a point before the events of Loki Season 2. The film doesn't confirm either reading outright.

How does Doctor Doom capture Bruce Banner?

The first post credit scene jumps forward to 2028, ten years after the events of Infinity War. Bruce Banner is working alone in a military bunker two miles underground, developing a Gamma Suppression Serum. The project exists because Jean Grey destroyed his external inhibitor device during Spider-Man: Brand New Day, causing him to lose control and transform for the first time in a decade.

While Banner records his research on a handheld camera, the feed glitches with green light, in a style that echoes the Ten Rings footage from the original Iron Man. Doctor Doom's voice comes through, saying, "Mr. Banner, I have come to collect you." He calls him "Mr." rather than "Doctor," despite Banner holding seven PhDs, a detail that suggests either Doom only cares about the Hulk or simply won't acknowledge another doctor. Banner transforms and the signal cuts out, leaving behind glowing runes on the bunker floor that match markings from Doom's throne room, apparently used as a multiversal teleportation device.

What does the Mobius and TVA scene reveal about the multiverse?

The Avengers Endgame Encore TVA scene introduces a Monitor Room built around Loki's Multiverse Tree, with walls lined by photos marking Loki as "Employee of All Time." Agent Mobius is told by O.B. that an incursion is underway between Earth-100005, tied to the Deadpool and Wolverine timeline, and Earth-1127.

As the scene continues, more universes are shown collapsing, including Earth-7355 and Earth-8558, while Earth-43214 appears already terminated on the monitors. The incursion count climbs rapidly from 3 to 30 to 300, reaching 3,000 recorded incursions across the multiverse. O.B. states plainly that the multiverse is collapsing, and Earth-616, the mainline MCU universe, is flagged as the next target.

Which universe is Earth-8558, and what about Earth-7355?

Earth-8558 and Earth-7355 each appear on screen for only a few seconds, shown as two of the additional universes caught in the collapse and destroyed during the sequence. Marvel hasn't attached either MCU Earth-8558 or Earth-7355 to a specific film, show, or set of characters, so what is Earth-7355 in Marvel and what is Earth-8558 remain open questions the studio hasn't answered yet. Earth-43214 is different: it isn't shown collapsing at all, it's already marked as terminated on the TVA's monitors before the incursion count even starts climbing.

What is the final teaser about Doctor Doom's mask?

A closing audio and visual moment reveals the source of the hammering sound heard at the end of the original Avengers Endgame. It was Victor Von Doom forging his ceremonial mask, the same style referenced in the post credit scene of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, rather than his full battle armor.

How does Avengers Endgame Encore connect to Avengers Doomsday?

Every new scene points toward the same event. Doctor Doom is actively hunting powerful beings like the Hulk, the multiverse is collapsing on a measurable timeline, and Steve Rogers has been displaced into the Fantastic Four's universe. Each thread lines up with what's been shown in the Avengers Doomsday trailer, and with what Marvel previewed at Marvel's SDCC 2026 panel, which makes this re-release closer to setup material than a simple nostalgia screening.