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Marvel is notoriously paranoid about leaks, and on Endgame they took it to another level - most of the cast only got the pages for their own scenes. Robert Downey Jr. was reportedly the sole actor trusted with the complete script front to back.
That line Morgan says to Tony wasn't dreamed up in a writers' room - Robert Downey Jr. mentioned that one of his own children says something similar to him at home, and the filmmakers loved it so much they wrote it straight into the movie.
Rat traps scattered around rat-infested areas can be baited with cheese, and other players (or rats) can come along and try to grab that cheese off the trap. Because of how the mechanic works, it's been used as a sneaky way to transfer effectively infinite cheese to an ironman account, which definitely wasn't the intended use.
The jungle monsters Krugs get an odd little cameo when Ekko and the other kids are seen poking at a cluster of them. Funnily enough, this exact same critter turned up in the 'Enemy' music video that dropped before Arcane even premiered, so eagle-eyed junglers spotted the reference before the show had aired a single episode.
Beyond Officer Tenpenny's resemblance to a real corrupt LAPD officer, San Andreas pulls several of its bigger story beats straight from early-90s Los Angeles history, including the LA riots and the crack epidemic that shaped Grove Street's world. It's part of why the game still gets referenced as one of the more historically grounded entries in the series.
During Episode 3 of the Catwoman side content, you're given a choice: help Batman survive Joker, or grab your loot and run. Pick running and you get a whole alternate ending, with Oracle broadcasting a distress call revealing that both Batman and Gordon are dead, Joker's escaped and gone on a rampage, and Wayne Manor's been destroyed. It's bleak. The game then rewinds and makes you pick again so you can get the real ending, but that fake-out sticks with you.
Getting Patrick Stewart to voice Emperor Uriel Septim VII was a genuinely big deal back in 2006, when big-name actors in games were still pretty rare. Funnily enough, all that star power gets used up fast - Uriel is killed off within the opening stretch of the game, making his one of gaming's shortest celebrity cameos with the biggest opening impact.
Earning reputation with the Bloodsail Buccaneers means grinding down your standing with every neutral goblin settlement in the game, since the fastest route is simply killing Booty Bay's guards over and over. Get in deep enough and you'll be attacked on sight in Booty Bay, Ratchet, and Gadgetzan, locked out of their auction houses and flight paths, all just to earn a pirate hat and matching parrot pet.
Cain's 'Stay awhile and listen' became so iconic that Blizzard actually had his voice actor, Michael Gough, record a full rap song built around the line. Not something you'd expect from a wise old scholar NPC, but Blizzard leaned into it.
