Suicide Squad: 9 Deleted Scenes That Would Have Definitely Improved The Film

David Ayer couldn't wait to show you his toys. Unfortunately, it feels like his play box had already been messed with by the sticky hands of Warner Bros. The director may claim that the version of his film currently stinking up theatres is his final cut, but stories of behind-the-scenes turmoil put that notion to bed; this is a movie built on compromise.

Just look at the amount of stuff that was in the trailers but didn't make it into the movie; there's so many shots and scenes not there that Marvel's marketing look positively honest by comparison. Most of these are minor moments - various physical beats that work great in a fast paced edit but maybe not in the full film, as well as what should have been the iconic moment of Harley using her baseball bat as a gun (perhaps acknowledging she's a useless addition to Task Force X) - but there's also hints at major removed subplots littered among them.

This, coupled with rumoured deleted scenes from reddit, point towards a majorly different version of Suicide Squad that, on top of having a nastier, intense tone, would have likely been a better movie. Here's nine of the most interesting and why they should have been kept in.

The Deleted Scene: Suicide Squad as-is opens on a couple of quick character beats - Deadshot and Harley Quinn in their cells, then Amanda Waller lamenting the death of Superman. However, one early cut had it beginning on June Moone's exploration of the jungle temple and subsequent possession by Enchantress, something that in the finished film only plays in abridged form during her character set-up.

Why It Would Have Improved The Film: It straight up gives us a reason for the Squad to be formed and would likely flesh out the villain a little more, establishing what exactly Enchantress is and perhaps seeding some of her choices later on. This was a major flub on the part of the film, with the question of who the big bad was passing over into the first act of the movie and making the whole thing seem rather aimless. Of course, this would mean the first thing we see is Cara Delevingne as an archeologist, but it's a worthy sacrifice.

So, Why Was It Cut? The film's real focus is on it's semi-villainous ensemble, so to have an opening sequence that doesn't directly show them probably didn't appeal to Warner, hence the short intros to the team's key players before their formal vignettes, even if that shows a distinct lack of faith in the audience to let a movie unfold.