10 Deleted Scenes That Explain Confusing Action Movie Moments

Making a movie is a long and arduous process that will invariably see changes and amendments from start to finish, and the action genre is no different. It is impossible to put everything written or filmed into the final product, and so from there we get the deleted scenes - and who doesn't love to watch them?

Usually labelled as bonus features, or as part of an extended or director's cut, such scenes can offer a glimpse behind the scenes, or into what the movie could have been. But sometimes, there is more to them than that.

Often, these scenes actually carry incredibly important details that would make more sense of the final cut. Whether it's further exposition, character traits and motivations, or even characters themselves whose appearance (or lack thereof) has left audiences scratching their heads, of all things often cut out of action movies for the sake of, well, more action, these deleted scenes can make a massive difference.

Of course, it's difficult to know where to draw the line. Obviously, the content of these scenes were cut from the final product for a reason, so they can't always be taken as canon. But even in spite of this, they can add that bit more context to make sense of a scene that left you with a few too many questions the first time around.

There's a quite infamous scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron, just after the team retreats to meet Hawkeye's lovely wife and kids. Thor, still reeling from having Wanda play with his brain, heads out and takes Selvig along to essentially have a bath that pointed him in the direction of the Infinity Stones.

It's an odd scene because it makes absolutely no sense, has no place in the movie, and yet is incredibly important to Thor as a character. This is what set up his entire arc going into Thor: Ragnarok, and was a precursor to Avengers: Infinity War on the whole.

The issue is that the scene was just too vague. There was a bit of splashing around, and then Thor had a vision that showed him the four Infinity Stones already seen by audiences with little to no context. There is a deleted scene, however, that was approached slightly differently.

What was kept out of the final product was Thor actually being possessed by the Norn, and being questioned directly by Selvig. This gave a lot more context, and explained much more clearly what fans were actually looking at. The problem was that it was just too weird, and as much as the theatrical scene didn't really have a place in the movie, neither did this one.