{"id":548913,"date":"2026-04-24T20:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548913\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:51:25","slug":"avengers-endgames-new-scenes-might-help-doomsday-but-they-betray-the-mcus-18-year-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548913\/","title":{"rendered":"Avengers: Endgame’s New Scenes Might Help Doomsday, but They Betray the MCU’s 18-Year History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plenty of excitement and anticipation is building up for Avengers: Doomsday<\/a>, but the movie also has quite a bit riding on it. Myriad movies and TV shows<\/a> have been released since the MCU\u2019s most recent installment in the Avengers franchise, Avengers: Endgame<\/a>, but it certainly hasn\u2019t been smooth sailing. Although Endgame is largely considered one of the MCU\u2019s best movies, the franchise has faced a series of ups and downs since that movie\u2019s release, and some might argue that it\u2019s been more up than down.<\/p>\n

Marvel is clearly working hard to make this brand-new Avengers movie work, from Doomsday\u2019s cast<\/a> bringing back some of the franchise\u2019s most loved actors, like Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr., to having full-fledged hours-long cast announcement events. Among the more recent updates on the movie, however, is something that may accidentally spell trouble for the larger MCU: The decision to re-release Endgame<\/a> with brand-new, never-before-seen scenes.<\/p>\n

Endgame\u2019s New Scenes Will Undoubtedly Help Doomsday<\/p>\n

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Although the announcement that a new version of Endgame was going to be released was initially surprising, in terms of the timing, it makes sense. This is clearly being done in an effort to make the storyline of Doomsday more seamless. In fact, Doomsday\u00a0co-director Joe Russo basically said as much, referring to this re-release as a \u201ccritical companion story\u201d to Doomsday and saying, \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity to create a bridge from\u00a0Endgame\u00a0to\u00a0Doomsday\u00a0in a very unique way.\u201d Russo likewise indicated that these new Endgame scenes will be set in the Doomsday story. <\/p>\n

Audiences don\u2019t currently know what is being added to the new cut of Endgame, and it seems likely that those details will remain a mystery until the re-release hits theaters this September. Even without that information, though, Russo\u2019s comments suggest that the alterations are being made to Endgame specifically to make the two movies fit together better. That very well may improve Doomsday, particularly because the movie will need to explain the return of Steve Rogers, among other plot details, but it raises a host of concerning questions about Endgame and the larger MCU.<\/p>\n

Endgame Wasn\u2019t Perfect, But It Felt Complete<\/p>\n

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Perhaps the biggest concern about the re-release of Endgame is the fact that it doesn\u2019t seem to be for the benefit of Endgame at all. Currently, it appears as though this decision was made purely to improve Doomsday. Yet, that undercuts what Endgame meant in the larger MCU at the time (and in the time since). Neither Avengers: Infinity War nor Endgame was a perfect movie, but they did have one specific thing going for them. Both Infinity War and Endgame were the culmination of years of movies and stories within the franchise. <\/p>\n

Seeing the MCU\u2019s many characters come together in this way in a narrative that felt so intentional, even if it was flawed in certain ways, was a key factor in the two-parter\u2019s success. In fact, it was easier to overlook any issues with the movies because the narrative significance was so great. Going back and making changes to Endgame just to serve what the franchise is introducing now undercuts that history, and in so doing, it feels like it\u2019s damaging the decade of movies leading up to that massive Infinity Saga finale as well.<\/p>\n

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Ironically, the moves Marvel is making to ensure Doomsday is a success might actually end up doing the franchise more harm than good. Jeopardizing some of the most popular movies in the MCU to try and make the newest movie a success seems like a risky decision at best and a reckless, misguided one at worst. The reception of Doomsday is only going to go so far if it means that fan-favorite stories and projects are being changed in the process. This is also a concern that doesn\u2019t solely apply to the Endgame re-release.<\/p>\n

Already, there\u2019s been plenty of discourse regarding whether bringing Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. (even if he\u2019s playing a new character) back for Doomsday is really the right call, particularly after Endgame did so much work to say goodbye to these actors and the characters. It\u2019s possible that the MCU is actually making decisions that will harm the franchise overall, even as the intention behind these choices is just the opposite. Perhaps these decisions will be executed perfectly, but fans aren\u2019t wrong for being concerned.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below\u00a0and join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plenty of excitement and anticipation is building up for Avengers: Doomsday, but the movie also has quite a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[24462,32241,6458,96,5396,7468,2839,88885,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-548913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avengers","tag-avengers-endgame","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-entertainment","tag-marvel","tag-mcu","tag-movies","tag-regular-feature","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}