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Matthew Modine's character Foley gets run down by Talia's truck near the end, but you only see the aftermath. Modine later said his stunt double's death scene was filmed so violently that Nolan worried it would push the movie into NC-17 territory, so it got cut down to keep the PG-13.
Early on, the working names for the leads were Joel 'Miller' and Ellie 'Williams,' but Naughty Dog dropped surnames entirely for the finished 2013 game. Fans kept using the old names anyway, and eventually the studio made it official - 'Miller' was confirmed as canon in Part II, and Neil Druckmann later confirmed 'Williams' for Ellie himself.
Peter Vaughan, who played the ancient, sightless Maester Aemon from season one through five, wasn't just acting the part. His eyesight had genuinely deteriorated badly by the time he took the role in 2011, so a lot of what looked like great performance choices were simply him navigating the world as he actually experienced it.
When Emperor Argall finally shows up and speaks in Season 4, the voice belongs to Frank Welker, best known as the original voice of Megatron in the 1980s Transformers cartoon. Having him face off against Peter Cullen's Thaedus, the show's Optimus Prime, is a deliberate bit of stunt casting that Transformers fans clocked instantly.
There's a minigame in Dorgesh-Kaan where you sell exotic food to hungry goblins, and for a while after it launched in 2007 you could offer them something dirt cheap, like a single potato, for a price in the billions. An integer overflow bug meant they'd often just accept it.
Before he was scoring Dune and Dark Knight sequels, Hans Zimmer wrote his very first video game score for MW2. You can hear that cinematic, dread-heavy sound all over the campaign's big set pieces.
There was originally a scene in The Great Game laying out exactly why Mycroft and Sherlock don't get along, tied to some childhood incident Mycroft blamed on his brother. It got cut in the end, with Moffat and Gatiss deciding the rivalry worked better left a mystery.
Take a close look at the barcode on Soldier: 76's Biotic Field when he's wearing the Grillmaster skin and you'll find the number 0118 999 881 999 119 7253 — the fake 'easy to remember' emergency number from The IT Crowd. Cheeky pick given the item's whole job is healing people.
When Harry Flynn saves Nate from a botched jump in the second chapter, he cracks "you put on weight, mate" and tells him to lay off the doughnuts, a cheeky little reference to the Doughnut Drake multiplayer skin most players wouldn't even connect unless they'd already unlocked it.
