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Back in the original 2010 game, a rendering glitch could occasionally spawn a woman with what looked exactly like a donkey's head sat on her shoulders. It was never an intended feature, just a broken asset swap, but it became one of those glitches players actively went hunting for instead of reporting.
Nate's family ring isn't just sentimental jewellery, it's actually a key. The whole opening con is built around the fact that an old cipher disk only reveals its hidden message once Sir Francis Drake's ring is slotted into it, which is exactly why both Nate and Marlowe are so desperate to get their hands on it.
The Wild Hunt aren't the ghostly folklore riders that common folk on the Continent assume they are. They're actually elves from a different, dying world, crossing between dimensions in search of people carrying Elder Blood, like Ciri, because their own world is running out of options.
When you first meet Jörmungandr, he speaks, but not in any language players could actually make out. It took a leaked copy of the game's WGA Awards script for fans to finally learn what he was saying, which turns out to be him walking Kratos through what's needed to properly honour Faye's death.
Vince Gilligan personally insisted on using Badfinger's 'Baby Blue' over the closing shot, even though his own music team pushed back on it. Turned out to be the right call — the song reportedly sold over 5,000 copies on iTunes the night the finale aired.
While filming, Cumberbatch cuts out drinking and smoking entirely and gets into swimming and Bikram yoga sessions in a sauna. It's a nice bit of accidental accuracy too, since sauna-going was actually something Holmes enjoyed in Conan Doyle's original stories.
In the manga, Mirko loses her forearm and a leg in a brutal fight against a High-End Nomu, blood and all. Japan's stricter rules for early evening broadcast slots meant the anime toned the gore way down, cutting most of the blood so the injury reads as far less shocking on screen.
For the meat grinder scene in season two, the production built a full-sized prosthetic corpse so lifelike it unsettled Penn Badgley to even touch it. Every strand of body hair on the dummy was individually applied real human hair, and the whole thing was rigged to bleed once the effects team started cutting into it.
In October 2010, right as Wrath of the Lich King launched in mainland China, Blizzard confirmed WoW's global subscriber base had crossed 12 million players, a figure that still stands as the Guinness World Record for the most popular subscription-based video game ever. The numbers have never come close to that peak since, but the record has never been beaten either.
