New MCU Release Officially Hits Disney+ Today, And It's Perfectly Timed After Major Doomsday Twist Confirmation

Published Nov 13, 2026, 8:27 AM EST

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Disney+ has another new MCU release, and it's one that's well-timed in the lead-up to Avengers: Doomsday. For all that Marvel's streaming output has been maligned in recent years, 2026 has actually been a pretty strong year for it. Things got off to a great start with Wonder Man, which is exactly the sort of creative move that was needed, though that's tempered somewhat by the fact Marvel decided not to go ahead with Season 2.

Then there was Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, which featured more of the show's thrilling action sequences, took the story of Matt Murdock vs. Wilson Fisk in exciting new directions, and did a particularly great job with the character of Bullseye. And more recently there was VisionQuest, which completed a Disney+ trilogy of sorts after WandaVision and Agatha All Along, and gave a sense of redemption to Ultron, 11 years after his Avengers movie.

What's notable is that those projects were, for the most part, disconnected from the movies. One complaint regarding Marvel's Disney+ shows is that they felt like homework but, while having, say, watched Wonder Man will give you a deeper understanding of the Department of Damage Control's actions in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, it isn't essential. They're more focused on telling their own contained, strong stories... or were, until a recent twist flipped that and became crucial to Avengers: Doomsday.

As Avengers Endgame: Encore now hits the platform, coming almost two months after its theatrical run pulled in $143 million worldwide, that twist matters even more. This week has really put us on the road to Doomsday, and it's a journey that must go through Disney+.

Avengers: Endgame: Encore's Disney+ Release Ties In With A New Doctor Doom Twist

Warning: Contains SPOILERS For VisionQuestAlthough mostly telling its own story, albeit one connected to WandaVision and Agatha All Along, VisionQuest's post-credits scene leaned directly into Avengers: Doomsday, with an appearance from none other than Doctor Doom himself.

That alone would be quite momentous for a Disney+ series, but even more so is what the scene entailed, and who else was involved. The sequence featured Doom arriving at Mount Wundagore after Wanda Maximoff's death in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. He lifts away the debris, and announces that he wants Scarlet Witch's power for himself. Wanda is resurrected by Doom, with the returning Elizabeth Olsen opening her eyes and gasping for breath as the show ends.

Even just on its own this is a huge deal for Doomsday, pointing to Doom assembling his team, with Wanda liking filling the role of one of the Latverian Witches we've seen in the marketing. But it does very much tie in with one of Avengers Endgame: Encore's own post-credits scenes, and both of them make more sense and become even more important with the context of the other.

The first of the new post-credits sequences finds Bruce Banner in an underground bunker, sealing himself away after the Hulk returned in Brand New Day. However, he's soon interrupted by Robert Downey Jr's villain, with Doom revealing he has "come to collect" Hulk, something he clearly succeeds in. When paired with the Scarlet Witch scene, it makes the events of Encore much more interesting, because this is a pattern, and something Doom has been gradually building for years.

It remains to be seen which other heroes he might have collected, but Hulk and Scarlet Witch are two of the most powerful characters in the MCU. If Doom is harnessing their abilities, plus those of others, then it helps to explain why the Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Wakandans, and other heroes cannot defeat him in Doomsday.

Avengers Endgame: Encore Is Even Better On Disney+ Than Theaters

Avengers Endgame: Encore had a lot to live up to when it released in theaters. The original movie not only worked as the culmination of over a decade of storytelling, but it was also a genuine cinematic event. Videos of fans reacting to moments such as Captain America wielding Mjolnir and saying "Avengers Assemble" went viral, it feels like everyone went to see the movie (and a lot of people more than once), and it was a communal movie going experience, which doesn't happen very often, and certainly even less so post-Covid.

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A re-release of the same movie was never going to capture that same magic, and the struggles of the MCU in its post-Endgame landscape only exacerbated the problem. The new release, and the new footage, felt like a way to engineer hype for Avengers: Doomsday because the Multiverse Saga had failed to do so, and to juice the numbers so that Endgame could reclaim its position as the highest-grossing movie of all time.

In fairness, it works on both fronts, but three new scenes never really seemed like worthy justification for paying to go to the theater to see an MCU movie released seven years ago, and for a lesser overall experience. That gives Avengers Endgame: Encore's Disney+ release an advantage, at least if you're already subscribed to the platform. Since it's already included in the cost, then it means it's easy to stick on and revisit the entire movie again, or just to watch the new scenes ahead of Doomsday. It makes more sense for it here, and should play better to audiences than forking out for another ticket.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a long-running multimedia franchise drawn from the heroes, villains, and narratives of Marvel Comics. The MCU formally began with 2008's Iron Man, with other successes forming the basis for the contemporary path from comic page to screen, including over 30 films and 20 TV shows.