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Ever picked up Civerb's Vestments and not thought twice about it? Spell 'Civerb' backwards, swap a letter, and you get Brevik, a nod to Diablo co-creators David and Peter Brevik. A bunch of Diablo II's items and locations are staff names in disguise.
Sombra's 'Deaf-Mute' spray nods to the Laughing Man from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex — and that character's own catchphrase is itself lifted from The Catcher in the Rye. It's a reference wrapped inside another reference, which feels very on-brand for a hacker character.
Taylor Momsen has said leaving the show in season four wasn't a hard call emotionally, just a legal headache. She was locked into a contract with Warner Bros. and The CW, and once they wouldn't release her, she went straight to showrunners Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage and basically asked them to write her out so she could focus on her band, The Pretty Reckless.
Dan Harmon has said the whole concept behind Pickle Rick was directly inspired by the Breaking Bad episode 4 Days Out, where Walt and Jesse get stranded in the desert and have to survive using nothing but their wits and whatever junk is lying around. Swap the desert for a sewer full of rats and you've basically got Rick's version of the same survival story.
Swain never appears on screen in Arcane, but a black crow with three eyes is shown flying over the rubble of Piltover and later among the Noxian ships. That's the exact crow from Swain's official splash art, and most fans read it as a not-so-subtle hint that Noxus could be next for the League of Legends TV treatment.
As of launch, GTA VI is confirmed only for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Rockstar hasn't said a word about a PC release window, following the same pattern as GTA V, which didn't arrive on PC until well over a year after console.
Season 3's frequent shots of Joyce and Hopper lighting up cigarettes landed the show on a list of the worst offenders for on-screen tobacco use, according to a Truth Initiative survey. Netflix responded publicly, promising that future projects rated TV-14 or below would go smoke and vape free unless historical accuracy genuinely called for it.
Not every studio was flattering about it though. In Battlefield: Bad Company 2, a character named Sweetwater mocks the idea of calling in backup by griping they'll just send 'special ops douchebags with pussy-ass heartbeat monitors on their guns', a pretty direct dig at MW2's signature gadget.
Before it was ever a TV show, Gossip Girl was being kicked around as a one-off feature film, and the name attached to play Blair Waldorf at one point was Lindsay Lohan. Wild to picture now given how synonymous Leighton Meester became with the role.
Arcane's linework often looks scratchy or uneven rather than perfectly clean, and that's not a technical limitation, it's a specific shader-driven effect the team built to make the animation feel more like a living drawing than a polished cartoon.
