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Inside the Sandtrap multiplayer map's temple, where the giant Elephant vehicle is parked, sits a two-screen laptop that will occasionally flash up a fake Windows-style error screen, complete with the kind of garbled system text you'd expect from a crashed PC rather than a 26th-century UNSC terminal.
Athene's Unholy Grail wasn't always called that. It started out as the Chalice of Discord before Riot renamed it in honour of Athene, a well-known World of Warcraft streamer who reportedly brought thousands of players over into League. Not a bad way to say thanks.
Alduin, the 'World-Eater' players fight throughout Skyrim's main quest, is a child of Akatosh, the God of Time, whose true purpose is to eventually devour the world so a new one can begin. His war against humanity stems from pride and a refusal to accept that duty rather than pure malice, and after his defeat, Arngeir suggests he may one day return to fulfil it.
Back in 2010, a twelve-year-old Norwegian boy named Hans Jørgen Olsen ran into an angry moose while out walking with his sister. He taunted the moose to pull its attention away from her, then feigned death once it turned on him, both straight out of his hunter playbook in WoW, and it actually worked; the moose lost interest and wandered off.
Lead writer Joseph Staten has voiced every single Grunt in the Halo trilogy, but in ODST he also stepped in to voice the New Mombasa Superintendent, the calm AI narrating the Rookie's wander through the city. So a fair chunk of the game's dialogue, both the smallest alien mooks and the biggest guiding voice, comes out of the same guy.
Vladimir Kulich, who played Buliwyf in The 13th Warrior, voiced Ulfric Stormcloak, the rebel Jarl of Windhelm whose bid for Skyrim's independence drives the game's civil war questline.
Stan Lee's cameo in this one isn't just his little shop scene. The 180-odd animators on the film were all diehard Marvel fans and every single one of them wanted a shot at drawing him, so the directors let them sneak him in wherever they could. Pause the movie any time a subway train rattles past in the background and there's a very good chance you'll spot him sat inside it. It ended up being his last ever voice role.
John DiMaggio doesn't just voice Jake the Dog, he's also the guy behind Bender in Futurama, and honestly you can hear a bit of Bender's swagger in Jake's delivery. The connection got a fun little nod when Finn and Jake popped up for a quick cameo in the Futurama episode "Leela and the Genestalk."
Steven Grant's wobbly British accent wasn't written into the scripts at all — head writer Jeremy Slater says the original difference between Steven and Marc was purely down to attitude, until Oscar Isaac pitched giving Steven a distinct voice himself.
That gut-punch opening with Hawkeye's family turning to dust was actually written for Infinity War. It got pulled because the editors felt that film was already jumping between too many characters, so it got saved and used to kick off Endgame instead.
