New deleted scene may make 'Batman v Superman' less (or more) confusing *spoilers*

WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — Just days after "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" was released in theaters, racking up negative reviews and record ticket sales, Warner Bros. posted a deleted scene from the film online Monday.

Director Zack Snyder has said his R-rated director's cut of the film on DVD will include several additional scenes, so this may be one of them.

It is hard to say exactly what is happening in the 45-second scene, titled "Communion," but it potentially answers at least one of the unresolved questions about the movie.

*Spoilers ahead. You've been warned.*

At one point in the film, Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) boards General Zod's Kryptonian ship from "Man of Steel" to turn Zod's dead body into the monster Doomsday and asks the onboard computer to share its knowledge of the universe with him.

This deleted scene appears to show the moment of Luthor's arrest later in the movie.

Heavily armed officers find Luthor on the Kryptonian ship communing withumsomething. It is a large horned creature with three boxes floating around it that resemble the Mother Box that helped create the superhero Cyborg in another part of the film.

Mother Boxes are technology from Apokolips, the home planet of the character Darkseid, whose presence is heavily hinted at in Batman's dream sequence earlier in the movie. The boxes and the creature disappear, leaving Luthor standing alone in a pool of alien gunk and looking creepy.

Many theories are flying around online about who that creature is and whether it is related to Darkseid. If nothing else, the scene may help explain why Luthor knows so much about the threat coming to Earth that he describes to Batman in his prison cell at the end of the movie.

All of these questions may or may not be answered in Snyder's three-hour director's cut of "Batman v Superman" when it is released, or the truth might remain unclear until the "Justice League" movies hit theaters in 2017 and 2019.