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Herobrine has to be the most famous thing in Minecraft that was never actually in Minecraft. The whole legend traces back to a 2010 forum post claiming a white-eyed figure was haunting someone's world, supposedly the ghost of Notch's dead brother. Notch has flat out said he doesn't have one, but the myth took on a life of its own anyway and is still one of the game's most enduring urban legends.
Somehow Paul Rudd managed to juggle shooting Endgame and Ant-Man and the Wasp during overlapping windows. Keeping two separate Scott Lang timelines straight in his head while bouncing between sets sounds like a headache, but you'd never know it from the finished films.
Aizawa's hero name comes straight from David Lynch's 1977 cult film Eraserhead, a surreal horror movie about the anxieties of parenthood that has genuinely nothing to do with quirks or teaching. Fans have gone back and forth for years on whether Aizawa's detached, deadpan personality was meant as a nod to the film's tone.
While he was still playing Walter White on Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston actually auditioned for the role of Jerry Smith. He lost out to Chris Parnell, which honestly feels like the universe course-correcting, because it's very hard to imagine Heisenberg's voice coming out of Rick and Morty's most useless dad.
The Great Khans, the drug-running faction you find holed up in Red Rock Canyon, were designed as a blend of real motorcycle gang culture and Great Plains Native American history, drawing loosely on groups like the Kansa, Osage, and Cheyenne alongside the aesthetic of clubs like the Mongols MC. It's a strange combination on paper, but it gives them a distinct identity compared to every other faction in the Mojave.
Somebody at Rockstar genuinely had this as part of their job. Ride a male horse out into the snowy mountains and, if you look closely enough, you'll notice things shrink up in the cold and settle back down once you're somewhere warmer. It got so much attention before launch that the studio ended up confirming it themselves rather than letting fans keep guessing.
During the chaotic backstage scramble as Tony pushes his way to his car after the Expo, keep an eye out for Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, who gets a quick cameo as himself.
Avatar: The Last Airbender took home a Peabody Award in 2008, an honor usually reserved for serious journalism and prestige drama. For a Nickelodeon action-adventure cartoon aimed at kids, that's a pretty rare shelf to sit on.
For years the lore treated Guthix as one of the original gods, but it's since been revealed he actually started out mortal and only ascended to godhood by killing another deity, Skargaroth, using an Elder Artefact known as the Blade. Kind of recontextualises the whole 'oldest and most powerful god' reputation once you know he had to earn it the hard way.
In Intensive Treatment you can find the old holding area for Killer Croc, security collars and all. One of the lockers nearby has a photo of Croc's hand taped to it, along with a scrawled warning to keep your mitts off. Small detail, but it does a lot to sell how much everyone at Arkham fears the guy.
