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For all the power the Elder Gods hold over the creation of planets and life itself, the game's lore has never actually explained where they originally came from. It's treated as an open mystery even within the story itself, rather than something the writers just haven't gotten around to yet.
In the opening mission you run into a soldier named Pvt. Pyle - a direct wink at the character from Full Metal Jacket, right down to sharing the 'Gomer Pyle' nickname. Subtle enough that plenty of players never clock it.
Some details in Arcane don't line up perfectly with existing League of Legends lore, and creator Christian Linke has been upfront that these aren't meant as retcons. The team saw them as small adjustments made purely to serve the strongest possible story for the show, even if it meant bending a few established facts from the game.
The game quietly uses its early missions to introduce you to different weapon types. You get the MP5 during the cargo ship practice run, the M21 during All Ghillied Up, and the W1200 shotgun doesn't show up until Charlie Don't Surf.
For years, the WoW community's most argued-with developer wasn't known by his real name at all. Lead systems designer Greg Street posted under the handle Ghostcrawler on the official forums, fielding endless class-balance complaints, and only became widely known by his actual name after leaving Blizzard for Riot Games in 2013.
Dig into the Journal of Justice and you'll find out Blitzcrank isn't just a giant golden robot punching people into the stratosphere, he also runs a chain of magic cafes on the side. The pitch is "Fleshling Compatibility Services," which is Runeterra's oddly clinical way of describing a matchmaking business for champions.
During the F.N.G. training level, Gaz holds a squad record of 19 seconds on the obstacle course. Beating it isn't required to progress, but it is tied to an achievement, so plenty of players have spent way too long trying to shave off a second or two.
Blizzard couldn't resist bringing their favorite little WoW menace along for the ride. There's a giant murloc slurping a bowl of ramen in Hanamura, murloc plushies up for grabs in the arcade, and murloc graffiti tucked away at Temple of Anubis. None of it means anything, it's just Blizzard being Blizzard.
That eyepatch-wearing Morty who shows up briefly back in season one turns out to be the mastermind running the entire Citadel of Ricks election storyline in The Ricklantis Mixup. The second the show confirms he's Evil Morty, For the Damaged Coda by Blonde Redhead kicks in, and the band's music has basically become his unofficial theme ever since.
Mackenyu didn't wear fake piercings to match Zoro's look, he actually went and got his ears pierced for the role, positioning them to line up exactly with the swordsman's design from the manga and anime.
