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The Gotham Rogues stadium collapse was filmed at Heinz Field with around 10,000 extras. The scene is set in the fall, so everyone was in heavy coats and gear during an actual August heatwave, and medics ended up treating people for heat exhaustion on set.
The trophy/achievement title 'Dial B for Bomb' is a riff on Dial M for Murder, the 1954 Hitchcock thriller. It's the kind of joke that only really lands if you're a bit of a film nerd, which, fair enough, describes a lot of the writers at Rockstar.
Each Barrows equipment set comes with its own unique special effect, but here's the catch: you only get it if you're wearing every single piece of that brother's full four-item set at once. Mix and match with other gear and the bonus just doesn't trigger.
Michael's mansion sits in Rockford Hills, the game's stand-in for the real Beverly Hills, complete with its own version of Rodeo Drive renamed Portola Drive. It's one of dozens of Los Santos neighbourhoods built as a direct, slightly exaggerated mirror of an actual LA district, right down to the shopping.
The Steve Harrington fans adore today started life on the page as, in Ross Duffer's own words, 'the biggest douchebag on the planet'. Early drafts had him behaving far more aggressively toward Nancy and heading for an early death in Season 1. Joe Keery's natural charisma is basically the reason the character survived and turned into one of the show's most beloved arcs.
When the final season swept the Emmys in 2014, it broke the record for the most Emmy wins by a drama series in a single year, taking home five. A pretty huge sendoff for a show that started as a low-budget cable gamble.
The Fremennik NPC who ferries you to Waterbirth Island has a hidden line of dialogue that only fires if your character happens to share the exact same randomly generated Fremennik name as him. The odds of that happening are roughly 1 in 256, so most players will never once trigger it.
The flashy E3 demo that first showed off Halo to the world was smoke and mirrors in one big way — none of the enemies or allies on screen were actually running on AI, every bit of their movement was pre-scripted for the presentation.
The Prydwen's chief medic, Knight-Captain Cade, has a line that Star Trek fans will clock instantly. Greet him for a check-up and there's a chance he'll say 'Please state the nature of your medical emergency' - the exact stock phrase used by the Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager. It's an especially neat touch since Cade is voiced by Dwight Schultz, who actually appeared in Voyager as Lieutenant Barclay.
Early on, Genji and Hanzo weren't two brothers at all — they were a single cyborg ninja hero with a big grab-bag of tricks. Devs realised that was way too much character crammed into one kit, so they split it into two, and honestly the brother rivalry angle works a lot better than one guy trying to do everything.
