Avengers Endgame: Encore NEW FOOTAGE Breakdown!

Avengers Endgame Encore is out now with new scenes that directly set up Avengers Doomsday. So we're going to break down each of these scenes, talk about what they mean for Doomsday, and then ask the question, does any of this actually ruin the ending of Avengers Endgame? So at CinemaCon earlier this year, Marvel announced a re-release of Avengers Endgame with new footage that would tie it more directly into Avengers Doomsday. The Russo Brothers thought this was necessary because the multiverse saga itself apparently hasn't done a very good job setting up Doctor Doom. I mean, up until a couple years ago, the big bad of the multiverse saga was supposed to be Kang the Conqueror until they pivoted to the greatest comic book villain of all time, Doctor Doom. Now, the Russos also said that they view Doomsday as a direct sequel to Avengers Endgame. And on the surface, that does sound like they're saying you don't have to watch the hundred plus hours of the multiverse saga, but actually most of the Avengers movies are actually sequels to themselves. I mean, it helps if you watch the other MCU movies, but you can pretty much follow the overall story from just the team up films, except you do need to watch Captain America Civil War. But I digress. So the goal with Encore is to create a movie that does a better job setting up audiences for Doomsday without having to necessarily watch all the various TV series like Loki and What If to understand the multiverse. But was this experiment successful? Well, let's break these scenes down and find out. First of all, when the Russo Brothers announced the new footage, I thought maybe there were going to be some deleted scenes from Avengers Endgame that set up the multiverse. Like we talked about the ancient when deleted footage where she explicitly talks about clipping the branches. What if once we're done, we come back and we return the stones? Well, then the branches would be clipped and the timelines restored. Which Steve then repeats in the final cut of the film. Clip all the branches. And of course, clipping branches was the original mission of the TVA and the show Loki, which we'll talk about in a second. But instead of getting deleted scenes, instead we got a new ending and a lot of new post credit scenes, one of which I love and another one I think should have been in Spider-Man Brand New Day. So let's get to the first change. We go to the original ending of the movie with Steve and Peggy having their dance to Time Goes By, the same song that played on Steve's record player in The Winter Soldier. Ultimate happy ending. And we know from the first Doomsday teaser that he and Peggy have a son, James. But we also know that Steve does not stay retired. He shows up in the other Doomsday trailer. So something had to disrupt his happy ending. And now we find out what. After the final shot of Endgame, when Steve and Peggy kiss, there is a knock at the door as we cut to this overhead shot. Now this is important because it implies that they are being observed by some higher power, which of course they are. And you can see the look of worry on Steve's face. He knows he's not really supposed to be here. When he decided to go live in the past, he didn't ask Banner or a temporal scientist what the consequences would be. I think because he didn't want to know. From the moment Steve rejoined Peggy, he was dreading some kind of knock at the door. A fight that he couldn't run away from. And here we see that paranoia. Peggy goes to the door while Steve hides. Now could this also be because Steve, when he arrived in the past, decided that he had to be Peggy's secret husband for decades so he wouldn't affect the timeline? And we've talked about this in videos too. 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Now, back to what I was saying. So then Loki greets Peggy, and Peggy, who has never seen this man before, just says can I help you? And then Loki enters dressed in his TVA uniform. And this is where I think I should pause and give a little bit of background for some of you, or maybe just a refresher. The show Loki, which by the way, it's one of the best Marvel TV shows, shows us what happens to Loki after he nabbed the Tesseract in Endgame. He was arrested by time cops who work for the Time Variance Authority, and it's their job to make sure the timelines don't branch off and create threats to the multiverse. But those pruned timelines are filled with trillions of people who are erased from existence. So throughout the show, Loki undergoes a whole face turn and decides to actually use himself as a conduit for an ever expanding multiverse, which then takes the shape of the World Tree from Norse mythology. The last time we saw Loki, he was sitting at the center of that tree, unable to actually be with the new friends that he sacrificed his own freedom to save. And now he appears at Steve's front door. He might even be the mysterious figure that approached the door in the first Doomsday Teaser. Notice he is wearing his TVA uniform from the show. And this also checks with shots of Tom Hiddleston that we've seen in the trailer, where we pointed out that it looks like he was in a period home like Steve and Peggy's house. Now, I don't think that Loki is in this house like personally, like I don't think he left the throne to come down here. He is still up in that multiversal tree looking down on them, hence that God's Eye view shot that we saw when Steve and Peggy first hear the knock at the door. But what Loki is doing here is duplication casting. I'll let him explain it. Whereas duplication casting entails recreating an exact facsimile of one's own body in its present circumstance, which acts as a true holographic mirror of its molecular structure. So after Peggy says, can I help you? Loki replies, no, but I can help you. And then says both of you implied that he knew Steve was hiding around the corner. Steve then rounds the corner and sees his old enemy, Loki. Now remember, the last time he saw Loki in his timeline, he was being arrested and taken to Asgard during Avengers Endgame. Thor probably told Steve that he reconciled with his brother in Ragnarok, and Steve definitely knows that Thanos killed Loki at the start of Infinity War. So Steve is now wondering, how are you alive and why are you here? And maybe he even has an inkling that this could be the same Loki that stole the Tesseract earlier in the film. After all, Loki stealing the Tesseract is what sent Steve to the past where he suddenly had a desire to reconnect with Peggy. So why is Loki there? Well, I think he's there to warn them about an incursion. Incursions are the big plot driver of Avengers Doomsday. It's when two universes are about to collide, and if you don't destroy one universe, they both die. It's the consequence of Loki creating this multiversal tree. In this case, Steve going into the past would have created a new branching universe, which then could lead to an incursion because he's screwing with time. So Loki is showing up to either warn him or offer him a way out. Now, we don't know what that way out is, but it's probably the same house where we saw Steve holding baby James. Maybe it's a new pocket dimension, or a random offshoot universe where Loki knows that Steve's timeline shenanigans will go unnoticed. Now for the plot of Doomsday, it actually makes the most sense if Steve is in one of the other universes, like the X-Men's universe or the Fantastic Four's 828. And I bet this earlier teaser does take place in the Fantastic Four's universe because the house does look pretty dated and not modern day like it would in the X-Men universe. So if Steve and Peggy are living in the Fantastic Four universe in the 1960s, that would also mean that Steve could have history with Doctor Doom. Now, does this scene actually work as an ending to Avengers Endgame? Absolutely not, but we'll talk about that later in the video. First, let's go to the next mid-credits scene, which shows another God's Eye view of Bruce Banner now in prison. When the Russo brothers said the early teasers were telling a story and they were all connected, we pointed out a commonality in those early teasers was that we initially saw all the shots from above, and all of these trailers prominently featured windows. This led me to believe that Doom was actually observing these events from the window of his palace, the same window that ends every trailer. Now, this trailer goes away toward confirming that, with Banner first being observed in this CCTV style footage. Now, I know a lot of you saw Spider-Man Brand New Day, but just in case, there is a spoiler warning ahead. In that movie, Banner is teaching at Empire State University. By the way, we do have an ESU shirt for sale at our merch store, along with Del Mar's Deli and this sweet new Infinity Tour shirt, with Thanos rocking out with the rest of the Black Order, and then all the locations from Infinity War on the back. There's actually a 15% off back-to-school sale right now at our store, links for all of these are below. Anyways, Banner is teaching at ESU, and he's wearing the inhibitor that we saw in She-Hulk in order to stay in human form, but when Jean Grey enters his mind, it breaks the Hulk free from his mental cage, and then Spider-Man and Punisher have to fight to put him back to sleep. Now, the last time we saw Bruce in that movie, he was in an ambulance asking if he hurt anyone, and now we see where he went. He's in a small but comfy cell. There's a couch, a lab. It's clear that this is not punishment, but a precaution that Bruce probably agreed to. Hell, he probably built the cell himself. We've actually seen him create other precautions against the Hulk, like Veronica. Then we go to a log recording. Now this is Bruce recording the progress of his new experiment, and we see that he is no longer clean-shaven. A good old passage of time beard. Exactly. He tells the camera that he suffered his first incident in over a decade, with the last one being in Johannesburg in Age of Ultron. He tells us that he self-imprisoned in a military complex two miles under the surface of the Earth, and then assures us that the Hulk is not getting out of here. This made me wonder, like, who is he recording this for? Like himself? Or is there, like, some other scientist who's gonna, like, record this information? Why is he specifically sharing information about the Hulk not being able to escape? I personally think this is some really clunky exposition, but nowhere near as bad as this. It also resulted in the President's Alexa Strangement from his daughter, Bruce Banner's ex-girlfriend. Anyways, then he makes a point to say, and no one else is getting in. This is really, really depressing. Bruce is a hero. He snapped back half of the entire universe, and now, much like Peter Parker at the end of No Way Home, he has condemned himself to a fate almost worse than death, eternal loneliness to save the people around him. The Hulk is, once again, a curse for Banner. He can't even kill himself like he told us in the Avengers. So I put a bullet in my mouth, and the other guys spit it out. So now, the greatest hero in the universe has to cut himself off from that universe, and he can't even see his son. Ewww! Banner then paces with the camera and tells us that during his time, he's been experimenting. And then he places his hand on the lens to disguise a scene change, and we're at his desk. Now, the monitors all show cross-sections of different parts of the body, with some On the table behind him, we see a laptop and what looks like several personal effects, which again shows us that he came here voluntarily and has been able to make this place into a home. The laptop also has several split screens, which is either from a really depressing Zoom call with his cousin and son, or he's now able to monitor the CCTV cameras guarding the bunker. He says that he's experimenting with a new gamma suppression serum, and then the grid starts to glitch. Now, notice the laptop in the background has its own separate glitch, and it's hard to see in this image, but I bet that we can see an intruder breaching the facility, or at the very least appearing outside of it before he teleports into Banner's cell. And then he says, I would like to demonstrate to you some of my findings as the glitch gets worse. And finally, he looks behind him and says, No. The screen then cuts to black and he asks, Who are you? And then we hear the voice of Dr. Doom say, Mr. Banner, which is rude. The man has a PhD. He's a doctor. The image then glitches back in as Bruce says, What are you doing here? Now, the first question you might have is, why does Banner say, No? You might be wondering if he recognizes Tony Stark, but I think he says no, because someone has been able to breach this bunker, and this means that the Hulk could once again be unleashed on the world. And then for a moment, we see this rune flash on screen. This is the same rune that appeared on Doom's gauntlet in the trailer, and we also see it carved into the ground in front of his throne. This is actually a huge reveal that we'll go into in a second, but this shows us exactly why Doom is so powerful in this film. Doom then replies, I have come to collect you. Then we hear a magical sound followed by the camera then falls, probably knocked over by the Hulk, and we see the same burning runes in the ground, and then we cut to black. So there's a few important things to unpack here. First of all, this absolutely does not work as an end credit scene in Avengers Endgame. It should have been on Spider-Man Brand New Day. If you watched Endgame for the first time, then watched this scene, you would be so confused about what happened to Banner to put him in this cage. That aside, let's talk about the runes and why Doom is collecting the Hulk. See, Doom is a badass, not just because he has a genius level intellect on par with Reed Richards, but he is also second in line for Sorcerer Supreme. In fact, in the comic event Doom War, he successfully merged magic and science when he used Wakandan Vibranium to create an army of Doombots that were powered by magic. I theorized in the past that Doom stealing Vibranium could be what draws Namor and Black Panther into the events of Doomsday. After all, Vibranium does come from a meteor that landed on Earth millions of years ago, and it has some connection to the mystical panther goddess Bast. So this mineral already has some magical properties tied into it. So this rune casting of course looks like a spell, as we saw in WandaVision, a witch can cast runes around an area to create a bubble where only she can perform magic. And maybe this is Doom's plan. In effect, he wants to cast these runes around Battleworld to create a bubble where only he can reign supreme. But the important part here is that the rune also flickers on the screen, showing us that he has successfully used magic to infiltrate a computer. He has fused science and magic. This also explains how he uses his spell to control the Sentinels in the last trailer. Doom isn't using magic to move them like puppets, he is using it to rewrite their programming. As for why he is collecting Dr. Banner, at SDCC this year, there were three Latverian witch costumes on display. And we immediately theorized that these are characters or variants that he is either mind controlling or he is convinced to come to his side. The most likely candidates, I think, are Clea, Fonky Jensen's Phoenix, and Sylvie, but let me know your theories in the comments. The point is, Doom is not going to be working alone in this movie, he is recruiting other heroes to his side. And I doubt if he is doing this with mind control, like there was a leaked mask that And Doom could simply convince Steven that the best thing for the multiverse is to streamline it or it will destroy itself. I mean, we already heard Steven Strange make a similar case in No Way Home. Or Doom could offer some of these people a grand bargain, a new universe where their lives would be perfect. And I think this is what he offers the Hulk, a chance to live in a universe where he is Essentially, a return to the status quo of Ragnarok, where Hulk was the biggest celebrity on planet Sakaar. Now, if we want to get into the multiverse of it all, there is also the possibility that this King Hulk takes on a new form, Maestro. Maestro is one of the greatest Hulk villains of all time. He is a future version of the Hulk with Banner's intelligence. He has become a villain and conquered the world. It would also make sense for us to see him appear in this form on Battleworld in Secret Wars. The fact that Banner has a beard in this scene and Maestro has a beard may not be a coincidence. And I think it would also be cool to see another original Avenger play a villain in this saga because that's the fun of multiverse stories. We get to see heroes become villains and villains become heroes. And this, by the way, is also our first confirmation that Banner will be in this movie, which is awesome. Mark Ruffalo wasn't in the chairs in the first teaser, but I'm glad that now he's back with the band. And this brings me to the next mid-credits scene and my personal favorite and the one that I think fits the most. We cut to a wide shot of the TVA. Now, when we first met the TVA, it was filled with brainwashed variants who believed that they were serving a trio of gods called the Time Keepers. Now, in fact, this was actually a smokescreen for a Kang variant called He Who Remains, who actually created the organization to prevent his variants from appearing in new timelines. The TVA brutally pruned any universe that didn't fit within their narrow view of acceptable. After they learned that the Time Keepers are animatronics, their mission shifted to allowing universes to branch exponentially, which led to the destruction of the TVA when their multi versal loom overloaded. Loki then created the World Tree as a solution to this destruction. Afterwards, we see that the TVA spend their time policing variants of He Who Remains. And they also keep their existence a secret. However, in the movie Deadpool and Wolverine, we also see that the TVA are overseeing the natural disintegration of some timelines, like Deadpool's universe. Then a rogue agent named Mr. Paradox wants to elevate himself throughout the rankings of the TVA by expediting the death of Deadpool's universe just to make himself look better. The point is, the mission of the TVA is in flux, and the organization lacks strong leadership. After Loki formed the multiversal tree, an infinite number of universes can now expand into more infinite numbers of universes, which creates an infinite number of problems, as we see here. We open on a wide shot of the TVA, looking like the Atlanta Marriott marquee where they filmed season one. Ms. Minutes is on the big board, saying our job is keeping them tidy and safe, referring to the universes in the multiverse. Now the inclusion of Ms. Minutes here is really cool, because she was originally programmed as a failsafe by He Who Remains. After Sylvie killed him in season one, she sets things into motion to bring him back. However, Ms. Minutes went a little bit love crazy after that. But then at the end of the series, they reactivate her to put her back to work. We then see another big screen, this time of the timelines of the multiversal tree. And this is similar to the sacred timeline screens we saw at the beginning of the series, but by the last episode, this was altered to show this same multiversal tree. But here, the board is much bigger, with way more timelines. Ms. Minutes then adds, so stay in your universe. As we saw in Multiverse of Madness, using the Darkhold to dreamwalk, or go into your multiversal self, causes incursions that can destroy an entire universe. So now, the TVA, in addition to policing Kang variants, are trying to prevent people from causing incursions by traveling throughout the multiverse. And in a second, we'll see how this ties back in with the Steve Rogers post-credits scene. See, by traveling to the past, he actually created a variant timeline, in essence, traveling to another universe, which potentially created an incursion. Loki, who is in charge of the multiversal tree, would be able to find Steve a safe place to hide. And he would have gotten this idea from his own variant, Sylvie, in Loki Season 1. She was hiding in apocalyptic disasters throughout time, where she could make no noticeable change to the timeline that the TVA could detect. In the same way, Loki found Steve a place where he would not cause an incursion. Well, hopefully. And then, we get the return of Owen Wilson's Agent Mobius, carrying a cup of coffee and saying good morning. Now, in Loki Season 1, he was a true believer in the timekeepers. And we meet in peace at the end of time. But throughout the show, he discovered that, much like your mall Santa, the TVA was an institution built on a throne of lies. And he was actually a variant of a man who loved jet skis and sold them for a living. And wherever I had a life before the TVA came along, I had a jet ski. Now by the end of the series, Loki, he has moved up in authority. And now we see that he's practically running the show. As he enters, Miss Minutes adds, so stay in your universe so we don't have to hunt you down like a dog. So maybe the TVA was actually about to arrest Steve until Loki intervened. In fact, maybe Loki turned out to be the cause of the incursions that set the whole multiverse saga into motion. Mobius then enters a workstation similar to Mr. Paradox's from Deadpool and Wolverine. But this one doesn't have deep worker pits like an Imperial Star Destroyer. Then we cut to an image of Loki like an Employee of the Month plaque. This plaque reads, Employee of All Time, which is also similar to Sylvie's Employee of the Month plaque at the 1980s McDonald's where she was hiding out. This plaque wasn't actually featured in an episode, but it was a promotional piece used to promote the show. Now the phrase here, of all time, is also indicative of the TVA's motto. Now Loki has this plaque because he is the ultimate TVA worker who gave up his own freedom so the organization and his friends could live on. This is actually an incredibly important shot because for people who didn't see the show Loki, this single image automatically tells everyone that, hey, Loki is connected to this weird organization that monitors timelines. It's actually a brilliant piece of exposition. I was worried about how Avengers Doomsday would be able to stop and explain the events of Loki, but if this scene appears in Doomsday, this is just a great way for the filmmakers to show instead of tell. Mobius then joins Casey and Ouroboros. Casey, played by the great Eugene Cordero, was a low-level TVA employee in season one who, you know, initially explained the Infinity Stones to Loki. We actually did a lot of those. Some of the guys use them as paperweights. Ouroboros, played by Academy Award winner Kihoo Kwan, is a TVA engineer who is a major character in season two. He's like a snake eating its own tail. Now notice this screen on the left that shows two orbs. As Ouroboros says, it's a level one incursion. Now, in the comic event, Time Runs Out, incursions are drawn as these spheres. Basically, you see another Earth in the sky, and then you know your universe is doomed unless you take out that Earth. Casey then adds that universes 1005 and 1127 are about to collide. Now, 1005 is actually the number designation of the original X-Men 2000 universe. In the past, we theorized that this was the actual first universe in the multiverse, because Kitty Pryde is able to project Logan's mind into the past to alter the course of history, which of course creates a split timeline that we see at the end of the movie Days of Future Past. Now, because a naturally occurring mutant power is the cause in the timeline split, it makes sense that the X-Men have been breaking time for a very long time. In fact, in the Doomsday trailer, we also see Professor Xavier watching an incursion, maybe the same incursion they are talking about right here. Now, Mobius tries to make this seem ordinary as the camera pans around to show us these two colliding worlds. Mobius says, I didn't read about this in the scanner report. It could have slipped to the cracks. And then the focus shifts to this one monitor where we see these lines appear between the two worlds. And Casey asks, are those missiles? Then we get a closeup of the two universes and notice that the lines streaking across the screen actually look like the missile lines from the old Atari game Missile Command, which makes perfect sense given the retro technology the TVA uses. Ouroboros then explains one universe is trying to take out the other before they collide. And this is exactly what happens in the comics. Reed Richards and the Illuminati create a device that will destroy another Earth in order to save their own. So this tells us that the X-Men and probably Magneto have already destroyed at least one universe by the beginning of Avengers Doomsday. Maybe I think the X-Men are going to start off the movie as villains, like maybe their Earth is about to collide with Earth 616, which is the main Marvel universe. And so the Avengers and the Fantastic Four fight them to try to stop them from destroying their universes. After all, in the last Avengers Doomsday trailer, we saw that not one, not two, but three universes are about to collide, being 616, 828, and the X-Men universe 1005. Mobius then tries to be casual, saying call forecasting, find out why we didn't get a heads up, and he's interrupted as another incursion pops up. Again, this is portrayed like two spheres colliding, just like in the comics. So this is telling us that up until now, incursions had been predictable and something that the TVA was able to manage. But now, in this moment, incursions are occurring exponentially. And this might be because Loki, the person who is overseeing the multiverse, has been attacked by Doctor Doom. The music then ramps up as Mobius says, that's a glitch, reset this. And then there's a third, and we see that two universes have now been eliminated, 7355 and 9558. And by the way, if you're wondering who names these universes, it's the TVA, but the Illuminati also gave them their own names in Multiverse of Madness. Our universe is 838, and we've designated yours 616. And then a third universe is eliminated. Now look, a lot of good outlets, including The Direct, are reporting that there are three universes in particular listed as terminated or destroyed. I personally did not see this in the footage, although there is a suspicious high res image that is definitely at least AI upscaled, maybe AI generated, but we're not going to show that image here. But because other outlets have reported on these universes, we will describe the universes listed. We did, however, spot that universe 616 is listed as being monitored. Earth 40083 says terminated, maybe meaning that this was destroyed by another universe. Now this is the universe number for the 2003 Ang Lee Hulk film. So now that film has truly been wiped away from canon. We also see 15866, that's the 2015 Fantastic Four film. And finally, Earth 82111 is the universe from What If, Episode 1, where Peggy Carter gets the super soldier serum and becomes Captain Carter. Now these last two are marked destroyed, which probably means that they collided in an incursion. Personally, I hope that Miles Teller's Reed Richards survive this incursion and the traumatic experience turns him into a villain. In the Ultimate comics, an alternate version of Reed Richards turns heel and becomes a villain called The Maker, who is a very important character in the Secret Wars comic book. Teller is a great actor, and I would love for the multiverse saga to make something good come out of that really terrible film. Now our own Colton Ogburn pointed this one out, but if the guy in the back who says we've got a third looks familiar, it's because he also appeared in Deadpool and Wolverine, where Deadpool flirts with him. His clothes say middle management, but his eyes say... And this other speaking role is from an actor who has a long history going back to the original X-Men movie, This Is Your Mom. Ouroboros looks at the big board of the sacred tree where the universes are flashing, showing how they are now in danger of simply blipping out. Mobius then orders a full alert and gets a count. First 20, then 100, then 300, and now 3,000 universes have been destroyed. This is the real-time collapse of everything that Mobius and Loki have built. The whole purpose of the show Loki was to create a new multiverse where different universes would be safe, and now for no reason that Mobius can understand, it's all collapsing. Notice on the board behind Mobius, we see that only three universes are actually stable and surviving. Now these would be Earth-616, 828, and 1005. That's the main MCU, the Fantastic Four, and the Fox X-Men universe. So this directly sets up Avengers Doomsday, with these last three universes being the last of the multiverse, and they are also about to collide, which unfortunately I'm just realizing means that Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man is dead. They love me. The music swells, and this is actually the same score that led up to Thanos's false snap in Endgame, and this is letting us know that there is a big impending disaster. Ouroboros gets the final killer line that will get cheers from some fans. The multiverse is collapsing. And then the final post-credits scene isn't really a scene, but it's cool as hell, and one that our own Colton Ogburn predicted. See, Endgame originally didn't have a post-credits scene. It ended with the sound of hammering. This was the same sound from when Tony Stark first forged his Iron Man armor. It was included at the end of Endgame as a full circle moment and a tribute to the character. But at the end of Encore, the hammering is now intercut with Doom hammering to make his armor and mask. It's a perfect post-credits scene because it links together Robert Downey Jr. playing both characters and sets us up for the rise of Dr. Doom. As we saw in the most recent Avengers Doomsday trailer, Doom used to be friends with the Fantastic Four. He has only recently turned heel, and we think this is because an incursion killed his wife and son, who we see on this tapestry. It would also make sense if up until now, Doom's face has not been scarred. Maybe the Fantastic Four know exactly what he looks like. But the incursion that killed his family could have also scarred his face, and this fully made him turn evil and become Dr. Doom and create this mask. And notice in the background, we see a carving of the same room that Doom used to take over Bruce Banner's computer. It's an awesome scene, and it would work perfectly at the end of Avengers Endgame. But the other post-credits scenes kind of ruin the ending of the movie, in the case of Steve's, or they include too much information from outside the films, like the TVA clip. Or they're completely out of nowhere, like the Banner scene. But Doom creating the mask, I could totally watch at the end of Endgame in 2019, and you get it. Doom is coming. Now, as for the question of does this ruin Avengers Endgame? I mean, yeah, absolutely. Steve had a perfect ending in that film, and now it's undercut by a tease for a sequel. In these days of a forever franchise, we're never allowed to truly get an ending to things, which is why films like Endgame and Logan stood out. And now, those films have had their endings retconned by different movies. Now, I'm not saying this means that the post-credits scenes are bad, or that Doomsday will be bad. Just that Avengers Endgame, as a film, would not work as well with these post-credits scenes added. But what did you guys think about the scenes? 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