Avengers: Endgame Encore Hits Disney+ Today — Four New Scenes Point Straight at Doomsday

Sarah Collins | November 13, 2026 | Entertainment

Seven years after it closed the book on the original Avengers, Endgame is back — and this time it comes with a warning about what happens next.

Avengers: Endgame Encore starts streaming today, Friday, November 13, exclusively on Disney+. Marvel confirmed the release on November 11, and it was not on the streamer's published list of November titles. The surprise drop is the last Marvel release before Avengers: Doomsday opens in theaters on December 18.

The Encore cut runs about four minutes longer than the 2019 film. It adds four scenes that connect the story directly to Doomsday, along with revised color grading throughout. Disney has not said what happens in the new footage. What it has said is that the scenes were built to bridge the end of the Infinity Saga to the film that follows it.

This is not the first time the extended version has played. Encore opened in theaters on September 25, and the rerelease took in an estimated $86 million worldwide in its opening weekend. That run gave Marvel a way to put Doomsday trailers in front of audiences who had already paid to see Endgame again. The streaming release does the same thing at a much bigger scale: anyone with Disney+ can watch the new cut 35 days before Doomsday arrives.

The timing is deliberate. Doomsday is the biggest swing Marvel has taken in years. Robert Downey Jr., the actor who played Tony Stark for more than a decade, returns as Victor von Doom. Anthony and Joe Russo, who directed Infinity War and Endgame, are back behind the camera. The film pulls heroes from three universes into one fight — the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, and the Fox-era X-Men — most of whom have never shared a screen before.

Fresh details about Doomsday surfaced this week as well. Entertainment Weekly reported on November 12 that Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman hold "additional literary material" credits on the film, according to a Writers Guild of America listing. The pair are not the credited screenwriters — that belongs to Stephen McFeely and Michael Waldron — and neither actor has confirmed he appears in the movie. The film is also expected to feature Patrick Stewart in what is described as his final onscreen role.

Marvel has spent the week building the runway. The studio released a new "Countdown to Doomsday" television spot and poster ahead of the Encore debut. Disney+ has put together a rewatch collection for the Infinity Saga, plus a five-episode companion podcast hosted by Iman Vellani, who plays Ms. Marvel, and Frank Alvarez. Each episode revisits one film from the saga and looks at what might still matter for Doomsday. The final episode, on Endgame, arrived with the theatrical rerelease.

The strategy is simple enough: get everyone to rewatch the ending before the next chapter starts. Endgame was built to finish several characters' stories. The Russos have said that when they started working out Doomsday, they realized they needed to pick up where they left off. Encore is the pick-up point.

Doomsday lands on December 18, the same day as Dune: Part Three, setting up the biggest box-office clash of the year. Before that, Marvel is betting that four new scenes and a fresh coat of paint are enough to pull millions of viewers back to a movie they already know by heart.

For fans who watched Endgame in 2019, the question is no longer whether the story is over. It is what the new footage changes — and what it says about the villain Downey is about to play.

Sources: Collider (November 12); Variety via Inside the Magic (November 11); Entertainment Weekly via Geo News (November 12); Disney Dining (November 11); BamSmackPow (November 11).