Four of the post-credits teases pointed at Avengers: Doomsday are dead. Most of the rest are still open. Exactly one of them changes what the movie is actually about, and it dropped three weeks before the film opens.

The Infinity Saga never ran this ragged. Looper’s rundown of the Doomsday setups says Marvel teased Infinity War and Endgame with “a full-on eight years of post-credits scenes,” and that the build since Endgame has run just as long, “though the pieces have not fit together quite so cleanly.” Some of those pieces got retired by news off screen. One of them played only in theaters most people couldn’t get into.

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Spoiler Warning

This piece spoils the credit scenes of VisionQuest, Avengers: Endgame Encore, Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts*, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, The Marvels, Eternals, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, along with the ending of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

The Tag That Rewrites December

VisionQuest wrapped its eight-episode run on Disney+ on Nov. 10, and IGN confirms the finale carries both a mid-credits and a post-credits scene. The second one is the one that matters. It replays Wanda Maximoff’s death under Mount Wundagore from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, then keeps going: Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom lifts the rubble off her and says, “Scarlet Witch, awaken. Your power will be mine.” Her eyes snap open.

Elizabeth Olsen was not among the actors Marvel trotted out in its Doomsday cast reveal, which makes this stinger the real confirmation that Wanda is in the film on Dec. 18. Marvel primed the audience ahead of time with a binary-coded post that decoded to the WandaVision line “We could never truly leave each other, even if we tried.”

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Grade: pending, and the highest-stakes item on this entire board.

The Full Checklist, Graded

  1. VisionQuest mid-credits, Ultron and the Jocasta drive. Ultron sits in Virgil’s mansion tapping a USB labeled “Jocasta.” Showrunner Terry Matalas has said the scene calls forward to nothing specific, telling Entertainment Weekly it was “just a promise of some kind that Ultron’s not done,” a tease worked through in more detail in VisionQuest’s Ultron Stinger Is a Promise Nobody Can Keep. A deleted scene would have shown Jocasta surviving in nanobots; Matalas cut it because it “relieved a bit too much of the drama of the finale”. Grade: pending, deliberately unclaimed.

  2. Endgame Encore, Loki at the door. The September re-release added four scenes, the first extending Steve and Peggy’s dance until Loki knocks in a TVA uniform. Grade: pending.

  3. Endgame Encore, Doom and Banner. Doom tells a Bruce Banner sealed two miles underground, “Mr. Banner, I’ve come to collect you.” Ruffalo was not on the main Doomsday cast list. Grade: pending.

  4. Endgame Encore, the TVA incursion board. Ouroboros tells the room the multiverse is collapsing. That scene played only in IMAX and Infinity Vision-certified screenings, partly because Warner Bros. had booked every IMAX screen for Dune: Part 3 for three weeks starting the same Dec. 18 date Doomsday opens. Grade: pending, and the least-seen tease on the list.

  5. Endgame Encore, Doom forges his mask. The scene echoes the sound that closed the original Endgame. Grade: pending.

  6. Captain America: Brave New World, the Leader’s warning. Samuel Sterns tells Sam Wilson about “the others.” ScreenRant has argued the line points at the New Avengers conflict rather than a multiverse war. Grade: pending, and possibly misread since early 2025.

  7. Thunderbolts, the Fantastic Four ship.* The post-credits scene ends with an extradimensional ship carrying the FF logo heading for Earth. The Fantastic Four: First Steps arrived in July 2025 without answering it. Grade: pending.

  8. Thunderbolts, the name lawsuit.* Sam sues the team over calling itself the Avengers. Grade: paid off in part, since that fight is what forced the Avengers to rebuild in the first place.

  9. The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Doom and Franklin. The mid-credits scene kneels Doom beside a preschool-aged Franklin Richards, with no follow-up since. The film’s separate post-credits cartoon is a style gag, not a setup, and the only item on this list that was ever meant to pay off instantly. Grade: pending on the Franklin scene.

  10. The Marvels, Monica and Beast. Monica wakes in a parallel reality with a Binary-costumed Maria Rambeau and Kelsey Grammer’s Beast. Three years on, nothing has followed. Grade: pending.

  11. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the Kang council. Marvel dropped Jonathan Majors after his conviction, scrapped Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and installed Doom as the villain of Doomsday and Secret Wars. Grade: abandoned.

  12. Eternals, Starfox and Blade. Variety’s audit of unpaid Marvel teases doubted Eros ever returns, and Polygon reports the Blade film is “all but dead”. Grade: abandoned.

  13. Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Ned’s tracker. The post-credits scene has Ned’s tracker locating Peter Parker off Earth, with Tom Holland absent from the Doomsday call sheet. Grade: pending.

Also still dormant, and unlikely to be graded any other way by December: Hercules from Thor: Love and Thunder and Jake Lockley from Moon Knight. Shang-Chi’s singing rings stay unexplained too, even with Simu Liu confirmed to appear in Doomsday, a wrinkle in how the Avengers assembled this time that the film itself will have to account for, the same way it has rewritten why Doom’s grief plays differently than it did on the page.

What Doomsday Actually Inherits

Add it up and Doomsday opens Dec. 18 with four teases dead, one resurrection locked in and a Hulk sealed two miles underground. Thanos got a cleaner runway than this. The difference is that Infinity War and Endgame were built around one tease that everyone could see coming. Doomsday is built around the one tease almost nobody outside a Disney+ subscription saw at all.