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The gunslinger companion Cassidy flat out tells you in dialogue that he was named after a character from a 90s comic. That comic is real: Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher, which features a chain-smoking Irish vampire named Cassidy. Fallout 3 later returned the favour with a ghoul named Tulip, another Preacher reference.
Series composer Yuki Hayashi is apparently something of a dog person, to the point where interviewers and photographers note he'll almost always have one of his dogs with him whenever he's being profiled or photographed.
Stan Lee's obligatory cameo has him wandering into the backstage crowd, and Tony greets him as though he's talk show legend Larry King, brushing past him without a second thought.
Gollum doesn't properly show up as a character until the second film, but he technically appears in Fellowship three separate times: as a shadow during the prologue, briefly during his torture in Mordor, and as a pair of eyes watching from the dark in the Mines of Moria.
Naughty Dog rebuilt its facial animation system from scratch for this game. Where faces in The Last of Us and Uncharted 3 relied on roughly 90 to 100 animation points, Uncharted 4's characters use somewhere between 300 and 500, letting the team capture far subtler expressions.
Omnimovement lets players sprint, slide, and dive in literally any direction instead of just forward, and it runs across campaign, multiplayer, and zombies alike. Treyarch confirmed there's no toggle for it either, since the studio considers it a core part of how the whole game is built rather than an optional feature players can turn down.
Christian Bale spent two movies complaining that the Batsuit's neck piece didn't let him turn his head, so for this one the costume team finally built in an articulated neck. There's even a little in-joke moment where Lucius Fox tells Bruce the new suit lets him 'turn his head' - a wink at exactly that gripe.
The rune spear in RuneScape Classic might be one of the strangest weapons Jagex ever added. It had roughly a 1-in-a-million drop chance from mid-to-high level monsters, and despite that rarity it was a throwable ranged weapon — meaning you'd permanently lose it the moment you actually used it.
A typical film script runs somewhere around 120 pages. RDR2's story missions and side content reportedly ran past 2,000 pages of script, and that figure doesn't even include the roughly eighty extra pages written just so background pedestrians would have something to mutter as you walk by.
