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Take a wander round the outside area on the multiplayer map Vacant and you'll spot a parked truck. Zoom in on its number plate and it reads 'Я3T4ЯD0', which if you squint is just a backwards spelling of a certain playground insult.
Robert Downey Jr. didn't have to screen test given his resume, but he did anyway, and he showed up dressed exactly like Tony Stark would: full tuxedo. It clearly worked, because Marvel handed him the role for a modest $2.5 million, pocket change compared to what he'd later earn.
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.
The gunslinger companion Cassidy flat out tells you in dialogue that he was named after a character from a 90s comic. That comic is real: Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher, which features a chain-smoking Irish vampire named Cassidy. Fallout 3 later returned the favour with a ghoul named Tulip, another Preacher reference.
Because Fox owned the X-Men film rights and Quicksilver is technically Magneto's son, Marvel had to walk a tightrope. The deal struck between the studios meant this version of Pietro could never be called a mutant, and no line could tie him back to the X-Men or his comic dad, even though Fox had their own speedster running around in Days of Future Past at basically the same time.
One of the bounty hunters Geralt runs into over in Skellige goes by the name Djenge Frett. Say it out loud a couple of times and it's not hard to hear the wink at Star Wars' Jango Fett.
The Banana Guards protecting the Candy Kingdom share a suspicious amount of DNA with the Minions from Despicable Me, both in their yellow, rounded shape and their goofy group energy. It's never called out directly in the show, but the resemblance is hard to miss once you're looking for it.
Buried inside Jenna Ortega's dance routine is a quick tribute to Lisa Loring, the actress who played Wednesday back in the 1964 series. If you know Loring's little arm flick from the original show, you'll spot it snuck into the choreography.
By the time all the dust settled on the 2020 awards season, The Last of Us Part 2 had picked up more Game of the Year wins than any other game in history, knocking The Witcher 3 off the top spot it had held for years.
