‘Avengers: Endgame Encore’ Post-Credits Scene Gave Every Marvel Universe a Number, and Most of Them Are Doomed

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The ‘Avengers: Endgame Encore‘ post-credits scene has turned a six-year-old film into homework for anyone heading into ‘Avengers: Doomsday’. Marvel Studios clearly wanted people paying attention, and the multiverse math now has fans pausing frames like forensic analysts.

The re-release hit theaters on September 25 with a changed ending and three new post-credits sequences. It has since landed on streaming, so Disney+ has carried it from Friday, November 13. That means every monitor in the TVA’s control room can now be studied at home.

The result is a flood of fan-compiled Earth lists. One breakdown claims the scene officially confirmed the status of more than a dozen universes. It says the X-Men’s Earth-10005 survived an incursion with Earth-1127, while other worlds were terminated outright. It also says Marvel again addressed the MCU’s main universe as Earth-616, not Earth-199999.

Mobius, Ouroboros, Casey and Ralph investigate incursions that are collapsing the multiverse. The agents start with a Level 1 incursion between universes 10005 and 1127, but more follow, and they eventually count 3,000 universes under incursion at once.

Earth-10005 and Earth-1127 are seen firing missiles at each other. That is a strange image for a scene meant to establish the stakes. It suggests entire worlds are fighting for survival rather than simply being erased.

Earth-10005 is the easier of the two to place. It is the Fox X-Men universe, and the number became MCU canon with ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’. Earth-1127 remains a mystery, and one report notes it is unclear whether the number is a new designation or a misreported one.

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Other monitors show a graveyard. The TVA screens show multiple universes already destroyed, including the Hulk universe and the 2015 ‘Fantastic Four’ universe. One breakdown also lists Earth 7355 and Earth 8558, among several others, as terminated.

Not every account agrees on the details, though. Another write-up reads one of those terminated numbers differently. A third version gives yet another figure. The less familiar numbers are tiny on screen and easy to misread, so treat any complete status table with caution.

The same goes for the claim that Earth-10005 “survived” its incursion. One report notes that if one of the two colliding worlds is destroyed, it saves the other, at least temporarily. The scene alone doesn’t show a clean survival.

The naming detail matters to longtime fans. The MCU’s main reality has been designated Earth-616 since ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’, despite its original designation as Earth-199999. The ‘Endgame Encore’ TVA scene names it again.

For a franchise built on shared continuity, that quiet consistency is reassuring. The label that began as a comics nod is now the TVA’s official shorthand for home.

The bigger takeaway is which worlds are left. By the time ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ opens, only Earth-616, Earth-828 and Earth-10005 reportedly remain. Those are the MCU, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men.

That trio lines up with the marketing for the film. ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ brings together Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four to face Doctor Doom. It also gives the X-Men’s weary look in the trailers a reason, since their world may have been fighting off collisions for a long time.

Some worlds fans keep asking about are less certain. Marvel hasn’t placed Earth-838, the Illuminati’s world, in the film. The same goes for the mystery Earth-1127.

The stakes are clear. ‘Endgame Encore’ earned $142.9 million and helped the film retake the title of highest-grossing movie ever, with a total gross of $2.94 billion. The strategy worked financially, and now it has to pay off creatively.

‘Avengers: Doomsday’ arrives in theaters on December 18, so there is little time left for theories. Whether the extra Earth numbers prove meaningful or turn out to be background detail, the TVA scene has made one thing plain: the multiverse is running out of room.

Which Marvel universe would you most want to see survive the multiverse crisis in Avengers: Doomsday?

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