10 DC Movie Deleted Scenes You Need To See

There are countless reasons why a scene might end up on the cutting room floor, destined only to be seen in a DVD extras section or internet leak.

Maybe it just didn't come together right, or perhaps the director clamped down on filler to ensure a tighter runtime. These are perfectly legitimate reasons to hack away at the celluloid, but sometimes the scenes which get the chop are actually solid gold.

Occasionally, the jettisoned material expands a movie's lore, plugs a gaping plothole or simply ups the ante by delivering a bonus action sequence.

Deleted scenes that enrich the film they were booted from are a long-running theme in DC movies, dating back to Richard Donner's 1978 Superman and maybe beyond.

This trend continued with the Batman series and into the modern day DC Extended Universe era, and that's one of the main reasons these films are so sought after among fans when the DVD and Blu-ray editions land.

So here are the best scenes involving Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman et al that didn't make it into the final cut.

In the Richard Donner Superman movies, Eve Teschmacher is the Harley Quinn to Lex Luthor's Joker, and their relationship is similarly toxic.

This is best illustrated in a scene that was cut from the final film in which Gene Hackman's criminal mastermind attempts to feed his lovely assistant to his 'babies' - an off-screen menagerie of wild beasts - as punishment for helping Superman.

Fortunately for Ms Teschmacher, Supes swoops in and saves her before she can become baby food, having just rescued her mother, who sends her regards.

It's a fun sequence which adds to Lex's supervillain cred. Lowering somebody into a pit full of wild beasts is a trope straight out of the comic book bad guys handbook.

Apparently, Donner did away with the scene because he deemed it too silly. It's a good job the powers that be didn't take this approach when editing Superman III and IV because there'd be no footage left.