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Taz Skylar has said he came into the show with zero martial arts background, so he put himself through roughly eight hours of training a day to get there. By his own account, every single kick Sanji throws on screen is genuinely his, with no CGI leg work involved.
The goblins roaming Ashenfall used to follow the war god Bandos back in mainline RuneScape lore. On this continent, they've switched allegiance entirely and now serve the dragon general Velgar instead.
This version of Wilson Fisk isn't based on any of his earlier film appearances. His look is pulled from the 1986 graphic novel Daredevil: Love and War, illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz, which is also where the film gets the softer, more devoted side of Fisk's relationship with his wife Vanessa before it all curdles into obsession.
During the G.I. Blues quest you can find three men camped out named Roy, Wayne, and Farris. Put those together and you get Roy Wayne Farris, the real name of 80s wrestling star The Honky Tonk Man. It's such an obscure reference that even people who've played the game dozens of times tend to miss it completely.
Season 2's first episode quietly teases property belonging to the Manmayer and Figarland families in Loguetown, two of the powerful Celestial Dragon bloodlines, with Figarland notably being the family Shanks himself comes from.
Scattered through the campaign are hidden data terminals that, when accessed, unlock short archived recordings tied to the Gravemind and the ancient Forerunner-Flood war. They're entirely optional, but for players who track them all down they add a whole layer of backstory that the main campaign never spells out directly.
The phrase existed in smaller gaming circles before this game came out, tracing back to Halo 2 forums as far back as 2004. But it was Call of Duty 4's underslung grenade launcher that pushed the term into the mainstream and made it a permanent part of shooter slang.
Partway through Chapter 8, after a nerve-wracking grapple swing off a crumbling tower, drop down into a small hidden nook below the branch instead of continuing on. There's a collectible plastic skull waiting there that you can shake like a Magic 8-Ball for a little fortune. It's the same Strange Skull toy that first popped up in The Last of Us: Left Behind.
Elijah Wood happens to have a knack for staring straight ahead for ages without blinking, which turned out to be perfect for the scenes where Frodo lies comatose, wrapped up in Shelob's webbing.
