9 Possible Reasons The Joker Scene Got Cut Out From The Batman

If the filmmakers are not satisfied with their work with The Joker’s make-up or realized at the last minute they have a better idea for Joker’s look for the sequel, it might have been the best move to save the character's first real appearance.

Matt Reeves' tells us his interpretation of The Joker"

Well, maybe there's something here where it's not something where he fell in a vat of chemicals or it's not the Nolan thing where he has these scars and we don't know where they came from. What if this is something that he's been touched by from birth and that he has a congenital disease that refuses to let him stop smiling? And he's had this very dark reaction to it, and he's had to spend a life of people looking at him in a certain way and he knows how to get into your head.

From what we got from the deleted scene, The Joker has more than just a congenital disease where he cannot stop smiling. He looks like something happened to him that left him with white skin and a grotesque appearance: a vat of acid if you will. It is entirely possible that Matt Reeves' changed his mind on what The Joker should be at the last minute when he realized that a man with a simple congenital disease is a better idea - cutting The Joker out so he can properly change it for the future.

If the deleted scene is left in the movie, then they are stuck committed to the look with no freedom to change it if they want.

The only Joker scene that appeared in the final product is a blur shadow of him, a scene where we cannot make out what he looks like. It is the compromise the filmmakers need for the freedom to change Joker’s look if they still want to.