“The Batman” director Matt Reeves released deleted scene showing an encounter between The Batman and his greatest villain, The Joker.

Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader comes face to face with Barry Keoghan’s Joker at Arkham Asylum.

After a series of riddles through the ARG website rataalada.com, Warner Bros. released the full deleted scene. It was also later shared on Warner Bros. Pictures YouTube channel.

Since the release of The Batman in theaters, Warner Bros. has been dropping new content on its ARG website.

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Fans solved three riddles to watch the much-sought at clip.

In the theatrical cut, the Joker doesn’t show up until the very end, when he has a chat with a newly incarcerated Riddler.

“What’s interesting is that the reason that Joker’s in the movie is there was actually another scene that was earlier,” Reeves explained previously to IGN. “And because the movie is not an origin tale for Batman, but it’s his early days, it really is an origin tale for the Rogue’s Gallery’s characters. And for me, I think [it’s] this idea that the Joker is not yet the Joker, but they already have this relationship.”

In the new deleted scene, Batman seeks the Joker’s help in trying to figure out the identity of the Riddler (Paul Dano). Reeves likened the scene to the Silence of the Lambs-like sequence, in which Batman seeks the help of another killer mastermind to understand his current enemy.

“The scene that was not in the movie, the scene that this is really the companion to, which is actually a really cool scene that will release at some point, it’s a scene where Batman is so unnerved because the Riddler is writing to him,” Reeves said. “And he’s like, ‘Well, why is this guy writing to me?’ And he figures he’s got to profile this killer.

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“He goes to see another killer that he’s clearly had an experience with in these first two years. And this killer in this story is not yet the character that we come to know, right? So everybody’s in their infancy,” he continued. “So in the comics, these characters often declare their alter egos in response to the fact that there’s a Batman out there. And so here, we have a Joker who’s not yet the Joker.”

The Batman hit the theaters on March 4, 2022 and, according to Forbes, Reeves’ franchise reboot was headed to a $700 million hit at the global box office.