Over Seven Million Copies Shipped
By May 2011, just half a year after launch, Ubisoft confirmed Brotherhood had shipped 7.2 million units, pushing the whole franchise's lifetime shipments up to around 29 million at that point.
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An Item Whose Purpose Was Only Ever Implied
The Ball Gag is in the game but technically does nothing when you carry it, until you talk to a cut casino character who was going to make a very pointed remark about you using it in a dance performance. The joke survived in the files even though the content around it didn't.
Toph Basically Drew the Nickelodeon Logo
Keep an eye on Toph's metalbending in Book Three and you might catch her twisting metal into a splat-like shape that mirrors the Nickelodeon logo, minus the lettering. It's such a quick gag that most people watch right past it.
A Country Legend Plays a War-Weary Soldier
Kris Kristofferson, the country singer and actor from the Blade films, voices Chief Hanlon, the tired old NCR soldier who's grown disillusioned with the war for Hoover Dam. His weathered, gravelly delivery fits the character's exhaustion perfectly, which is probably exactly why he was cast.
USS Ozymandias and the Shelley Reference
The wrecked survey ship USS Ozymandias off the coast of Point Lookout is more than a scavenging spot. Its name, the quest 'An Antique Land,' and the in-game Bysshe Company are all references to Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem 'Ozymandias', right down to using the poet's own middle name.
The Secret Cow Level Made It Into Azeroth
Blizzard spent years insisting 'there is no cow level,' a running joke going back to the original Diablo. For Diablo's 20th anniversary they finally caved, at least in WoW: killing a Treasure Goblin in the Broken Isles could pull you into a farmer's field crawling with axe-wielding cows and a boss called the Cow King, who'd hand out a toy guitar that plays Tristram's theme song.
BMO's Donut Line Is A Real Old Ad
When BMO says "time to make the donuts" before getting to work in the Distant Lands special, it's not an original BMO catchphrase. It's a straight lift from a Dunkin' Donuts commercial character from the 1980s, dropped in as a little treat for older viewers watching alongside their kids.
Xur Almost Missed Its Big Debut
The legendary exotic rocket launcher Gjallarhorn was sold by Xur only three times across the game's entire history, twice in Destiny 1's first year. Many players missed or ignored the very first sale simply because they didn't yet realise how good it was or didn't have enough Strange Coins.
Downey Jr Ad-Libbed Several Iconic Lines
Whedon wrote a tight script overall but gave his cast room to improvise, and Downey Jr made the most of it. Lines like his dig at Thor, 'Doth mother know you wear-eth her drapes?', along with his closing 'let's just not come in tomorrow' at the end of the film, weren't in the original screenplay at all.
Season Three's Writers Room Shake-Up
For the first two seasons the writers room was basically all guys running around having Nerf gun fights and Lego competitions between pitches. Season three changed that with the show's first gender-balanced room, and both Harmon and Roiland have said the female writers brought in that year were a huge part of why the Beth and Summer storylines got so much stronger.