# 7 Movies To Watch Before ‘Avengers Endgame: Encore’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/7-movies-to-watch-before-avengers-endgame-encore/
- Published: 2026-09-22T19:19:12+00:00
- Updated: 2026-09-23T08:00:08+00:00
- Original publisher: Collider
- Original article: https://collider.com/mcu-movies-to-watch-before-avengers-endgame-encore/
- Topics: Entertainment, Film

## Key points

- Seven MCU films are recommended before the *Endgame* re-release.
- *Infinity War* is presented as essential viewing.
- The selection refreshes major characters, relationships and plot threads.

## Summary

The article recommends revisiting seven Marvel films before *Avengers: Endgame: Encore*, a theatrical re-release of the 2019 finale ahead of *Avengers: Doomsday*. It argues that these films refresh the key characters, relationships and conflicts that give *Endgame* its emotional and narrative impact.

- *Iron Man* (2008), which begins Tony Stark’s story and the MCU.
- *The Avengers* (2012), where the original team first unites.
- *Guardians of the Galaxy* (2014), establishing the Guardians and their links to Thanos.
- *Avengers: Infinity War* (2018), the direct story-setting predecessor to *Endgame*.
- *Captain Marvel* (2019), explaining Carol Danvers’ role in the finale.
- *Thor: Ragnarok* (2017), providing important context for Thor’s circumstances.
- *Ant-Man and the Wasp* (2018), introducing elements relevant to the film’s time-travel plot.

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