7 Alternate DC Movie Scenes We Almost Got To See

Oh what could've been...

by Ewan Paterson
Dark Knight Behind The Scenes Joker Green Screen
Warner Bros.

Fittingly, as comic books themselves do so often, comic book moviesalways tend to contemplate the "What Ifs?" of the genre.

With alternate scenes aplenty - deleted, scrapped in an early draft or even lost to the cutting room floor - one of the main talking points whenever a superhero movie releases usually involves what audiences didn'tget to see.

And, as was the case with Marvel, films based on the worlds of DC Comics have undergone seismic changes during production. With directors coming and going, studios interfering and actors improvising, it's little wonder that this is the case, and though in most cases the finished product was better than the alternative, one can't help but wonder what some of these films would've looked like, had they taken a different route.

Irrespective of DC's current movie troubles either, the publisher's mythos was the first to be the subject of a big comic book blockbuster.

Every modern superhero film - at least partially - owes its success to Batman '89. They all share its DNA, and with countless other comic book movies to their name name, it's a case of anything Marvel does, DC probably already did a long time ago - especiallywhen it comes to alternate scenes.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.