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In Serenity Apartments, right after you meet Henry and Sam, take a look around the bedroom - there's a Jak & Daxter plush on the dresser and a Nathan Drake plushie on the bed. The remake even throws in a second Drake plush for good measure.
Ever wonder why the plain, unglamorous BF Sword costs so much for a stat stick with no passive? Part of the charm is the name, which is widely taken as a cheeky reference to Doom's ridiculously overpowered BFG9000. Big, expensive, and a little bit of an inside joke.
When Loki tracks down a Sacred Timeline version of Mobius, we learn his real name is Don and his house is numbered 1049. Fans have latched onto this as a possible nod to Earth-1049, one of the countless designated realities scattered across Marvel's multiverse.
Marienne isn't a straight adaptation of anyone from the third novel, You Love Me. She's loosely built from a librarian character named Mary Kay, though the show changes her daughter's age and softens how serious her relationship with Joe becomes compared to the source material.
In the shot where Shelob stabs Frodo, the prop stinger actually caught Elijah Wood for real. He's said it was genuinely painful and left him in hospital for a few days afterwards.
One of the more surprising finds scattered through Part 2's abandoned buildings is a battered handheld console displaying Hotline Miami's neon-drenched box art. It's a small crossover nod to Dennaton Games' brutal top-down shooter, hiding in a game that's just as violent in its own way.
Sam Wilson pops up briefly here, joking that he's busy working "missing persons" cases while Cap handles the actual avenging. It's a low-key tease that he's quietly helping Steve track down Bucky Barnes, a thread that would pay off properly once Captain America: Civil War rolled around.
During Kratos's very first fight with Baldur, he gets slammed into a stone slab, and if you catch it in the moment, that slab is carved with the exact same giant prophecy mural that shows up properly near the end. Most players only realise it on a replay.
Take fatal damage with this perk on and instead of dying outright, you drop to the ground and pull a pistol for one last chance to take someone with you. It became one of the more divisive perks in the game, loved by the people using it and despised by everyone on the receiving end.
If you let the credits roll all the way through the first song, someone introduces a rap track that name-drops both Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty 4, a little bonus most players never sit through long enough to catch.
