AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR DELETED SCENES BREAKDOWN

Avengers: Infinity War is now available on Digital HD, a home release which includes four deleted scenes among its bonus content. There’s really one truly never-before-seen scene, however, with the other three being extended versions of scenes that ended up in the theatrical release.

Running one-minute and twenty-three seconds, this early scene includes a cameo by Iron Man director Jon Favreau, reprising his role as Tony Stark’s harried security chief-flunky-pal Happy Hogan. The scene retains the larger exchange between Tony and his fiancee Pepper Potts in the park talking about Tony’s dream where they had a child named Morgan. The theatrical version of the scene ends with a portal opening and the arrival of Doctor Strange and then Bruce Banner.

But cut from that sequence was an earlier moment where Happy pulls up to Tony and Pepper in a golf cart. He commiserates about them jogging in public when he’s spent so much time keeping paparazzi away from the high-profile, engaged couple, to the point that he’s incurred legal woes over a run-in with someone from TMZ. Happy says they should just elope because the media circus they cause is putting him on edge. Tony glibly acknowledges how hard Happy works before Happy spots a photographer and drives off after him. “Man, we gotta get him a girlfriend," Tony quips to Pepper before all the Doctor Strange stuff happens.

Running one minute and twenty-four seconds, this is an extended version of the sequence in Scotland where a wounded Vision and Scarlet Witch are under attack from two members of Thanos’ Black Order, Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight.

We see Wanda and Vision hiding behind pillars as the two Children of Thanos try to locate them. The final theatrical version jumped right from the attack into the ongoing fight between the heroes and villains without any of the cat and mouse stuff.

At three minutes and twenty seconds long, this is the only truly deleted scene among the “deleted scenes” as no version of this ended up in the theatrical release. It opens with some of what we did see in the final film, namely Nebula killing her guard and escaping confinement. The scene then cuts to the Milano, which we will learn is still parked on Knowhere hours after Gamora had been taken away by Thanos.

Peter Quill’s stuck in a funk and has been playing KISS’s “New York Groove” on repeat for hours, much to Drax’s aggravation. They get into an argument after Drax turns the song off, with Drax calling the singer a degenerate and Quill defending KISS’s Ace Frehley and demanding his Zune back.

Quill then realizes there are a slew of distress calls from Nebula on the coded message channel that both Mantis and Drax have overlooked for hours, messages that tip them off to Thanos’ location. The scene ends with “New York Groove” kicking back in and the Milano flying off into space.

Running four minutes, this is the most dramatically important of the four "deleted" scenes even though it’s really an augmented version of a scene included in the final movie. Cut from the theatrical release, though, was a moment where Thanos uses the Reality Stone to confront Gamora with a vision from her past. Featuring unfinished visual effects, the scene sees Gamora watching her slightly younger self back when she was still a dutiful soldier for her father, informing him of a civilization she helped subjugate for him.

This glimpse from her villainous past prompts an angry exchange between Gamora and Thanos about her loyalty to him, which leads Thanos to confront her about lying to him about the location of the Soul Stone. We saw this -- and the subsequent revelation of Nebula’s captivity and torture -- in the final version.

The filmmakers' commentary track over the theatrical version revealed that this extended version of the scene -- while deemed "wonderful" and "complex" for diving deeper into the "malignant" family history between Thanos and Gamora -- was ultimately cut in favor of a more expedient way to get the emotional complexity and depth of their relationship across while keeping the story moving.