Avengers: Endgame Encore, Marvel’s extended cut of its record-breaking 2019 blockbuster, begins streaming on Disney+ today, Friday, November 13 — exactly five weeks before Avengers: Doomsday opens in cinemas on December 18. The Encore cut runs 185 minutes, about four minutes longer than the original film, and those extra minutes are the whole point: four new scenes that bridge Endgame directly into Doomsday.
Marvel announced the streaming date on November 11, and the official Disney+ title page lists the film as coming to the service on November 13. The new footage includes an alternate ending in which Loki interrupts Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter’s dance, a TVA sequence dealing with the collapsing multiverse, and a post-credits scene that reveals the hammering sound at the end of the original credits was Doctor Doom forging his mask — not Tony Stark building the Iron Man armour. A Bruce Banner scene also answers a mystery left hanging at the end of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, according to Polygon.
A bridge built for Doomsday
The Encore cut first played in cinemas on September 25, 2026, as a limited re-release that launched Disney’s Infinity Vision premium format and produced an $86 million global opening, pushing Endgame’s lifetime gross towards $2.925 billion. The Russo brothers have described the re-release as a bridge from Endgame to Doomsday, and Disney is bundling the streaming debut into a Countdown to Avengers: Doomsday collection of earlier Marvel titles.
What to watch before Doomsday
Disney is treating the Encore debut as the start of the Doomsday countdown, bundling it into a collection of earlier Marvel titles deemed essential viewing before the December 18 release — December 17 in India. The Russo brothers have been clear that the four new scenes are the start of the Doomsday story itself, not a footnote to it. For Marvel fans, that makes today’s streaming debut required viewing; for everyone else, it is a reminder that the biggest film of the year is now five weeks away.
One question remains unanswered: the cinema version also included a second Doomsday sneak peek that played only on IMAX and Infinity Vision screens, and Disney has not said whether that footage is in the Disney+ cut. For most viewers, though, the Encore edition is the essential homework before December 18 — the four new scenes are, by Marvel’s own account, the start of the Doomsday story itself. James Gunn and Peter Safran are out at DC Studios after four years, and The Rings of Power season 3 premiered today to divided reviews.
