10 Most Out Of Place Scenes In Sci-Fi Movie History

Matt Reeves' The Batman has proven a critical and commercial success while thumbing its nose at the kind of universe-building interconnectivity that has seen the MCU and, to some extent, the DCEU, reign triumphant this past decade. Taking us back to Batman's early days, Robert Pattinson plays an unrefined junior bat who has a lot of unresolved, parent-based angst, and only half a utility belt to help deal with it.

As his opposite, Paul Dano is the Riddler, a genius incel with a chaotic plan to raze Gotham. Needless to say, Batman puts him in Arkham and throws away the key. But, in one of the film's most jarring sequences, Riddler plays whispers with the inmate in the cell next door: Barry Keoghan's wonky-toothed yokel Joker.

The deleted scene of Batman meeting Joker goes a long way to explaining why the Riddler/Joker scene exists in the first place, but the very fact that they didn't include the former should have been the impetus needed to nix the Clown Prince of Crime's inclusion altogether. As it stands, the scene feels shoehorned in, serving no purpose other than to tease lucrative sequel bait. Worse than that, though, it actually robs the Riddler of some of his mystique and has him playing subservient second-fiddle to a character who is not even in the film.