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Before they landed on the name we all know, Infinity Ward reportedly went through well over a thousand potential titles for the game. Some of the rejected ones were properly daft too, including the frankly brilliant Call of Duty: Warnado.
Viggo Mortensen only joined the production after filming had already started, stepping in for actor Stuart Townsend just a handful of days into the shoot. He hadn't even read the books before signing on.
Singer Hiroshi Kitadani opened the very first episode of One Piece back in 1999 with 'We Are!' and he's kept coming back ever since, lending his voice to five different openings across the show's run including 'We Go!,' 'We Can!,' 'Over the Top' and 'A~su!.' No other artist has been asked back to the theme song chair that many times.
The game's final post-credits shot isn't just a throwaway sting. It shows Guilty Spark surviving the ring's destruction and making his own way through space to the nearest Forerunner outpost, a gas mining facility that would go on to become a full location in Halo 2.
The museum Drake and Flynn sneak into during the Istanbul chapters is modelled on the Topkapi Palace Museum, once the actual seat of the Ottoman sultans and still one of the most visited landmarks in Turkey today.
The underwater stretch of the Deeprun Tram, which links Stormwind and Ironforge, occasionally has visitors: a Loch Ness-style sea serpent, a huge basking shark, the odd diver, and a chest that spawns and vanishes without explanation.
The astrolabe device that appears in the season 8 opening titles isn't just decoration, it's basically a visual timeline of the whole show. Look closely and you can spot the birth of Daenerys's dragons, the red comet from season two, and even a tiny dragon breaking through the Wall, referencing Viserion's attack.
Because nearly every Horde player levelled through the Barrens between roughly level 10 and 20, general chat in that one zone became infamous for repetitive spam, bad jokes, and trolling, to the point where 'Barrens chat' turned into shorthand across the whole community for exactly that kind of chaos. It's calmed down a lot since dungeon finders stopped funnelling everyone through the same zone, but Classic servers brought the old chaos right back.
There's a neat pattern running through all three films: the main villain hides in plain sight disguised as one of their own minions at some point, Ra's al Ghul in Batman Begins, the Joker in The Dark Knight, and Bane in Rises. Easy to miss unless you're watching for it.
