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Finish Sindri's 'Family Business' favour and you'll walk away with the Shattered Gauntlet of Ages, a relic built from scattered fragments. Fill all three of its enchantment slots and it fires off a purple beam, which is about as subtle a Thanos reference as Santa Monica Studio could get away with.
The in-game book 'Kolb and the Dragon' functions as a playable choose-your-own-adventure story within Skyrim itself, letting the reader pick different paths through the narrative rather than simply reading static text like the game's other books.
The Cabbage Vendor's whole shtick of watching his cart get destroyed became such a running joke that it escaped the franchise entirely. He shows up in Baldur's Gate 3, complete with an extra bit of dialogue reserved just for Monk characters.
With basically the entire MCU cast standing together at Tony's funeral, you'd assume some digital trickery was involved to get everyone in one shot. Nope - every actor was physically there on the same day, and the crew just shot five or six takes of the whole group.
The franchise's signature line gets a proper callback in the season one finale, first spoken by Barb during the Vault-Tec conspiracy meeting, then echoed two hundred years later by Cooper, who's clearly quoting her without the audience even realising it until that second use lands.
Viggo Mortensen only joined the production after filming had already started, stepping in for actor Stuart Townsend just a handful of days into the shoot. He hadn't even read the books before signing on.
Both Kevin Feige and Joss Whedon went out of their way beforehand to tell audiences not to expect a post-credits scene this time. Whedon reasoned that the shawarma gag at the end of the first Avengers had already set an impossibly high bar, and he didn't want people sitting through ten extra minutes of credits only to walk away disappointed.
The whole show basically got greenlit because of a train ride. Moffat and Gatiss were chatting about how much they both loved Holmes on the way to the Doctor Who offices in Cardiff, and Moffat went home and told his wife Sue Vertue about it. She's the one who pushed them to actually pitch it to the BBC.
Arthur Harrow's whole look was built around old cult leader imagery, right down to his rust-coloured linen robe and oversized woven sandals. He also wears two bracelets on screen that are lifted straight from ancient Egyptian art symbolising death.
Rather than reusing any of the established zombies crew, the Mob of the Dead map builds a completely self-contained story around four mobsters locked up on Alcatraz during Prohibition. They're in the middle of executing a daring escape plan the same night a zombie outbreak hits the island, turning their jailbreak into a fight for survival instead.
