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The Epsilon Program, the in-game religion Michael can get roped into, was written as a pointed parody of Scientology and the wider self-help industry, right down to the invented founder Cris Formage and a made-up deity called Kifflom. Everything about the group, from the donation requests to the robes, is playing the con for laughs while still poking fun at very real belief systems.
Not content with just calling the shots, Favreau stepped back in front of the camera again as Happy Hogan, Tony's driver turned head of security, a role he'd keep returning to in later MCU films.
In the multiplayer map Zanzibar, there's a sign that only changes on January 1st. Load the map on New Year's Day and it swaps to read 'Baby Shark Petting', complete with a little cartoon of a kid petting a grinning shark, then quietly reverts back for the rest of the year.
Almost as soon as the game launched, players convinced themselves Bigfoot was hiding somewhere in the countryside near Back o' Beyond, and the rumor refused to die for years. Rockstar's own co-founder eventually shot it down publicly, though that didn't stop people from combing the woods with in-game cameras looking for him.
In the post credits scene, an alien warns Thanos that attacking Earth would be to 'court death.' It sounds like a throwaway warning, but comic readers clocked it as a deliberate pun straight away, since Thanos is famously, literally in love with the physical embodiment of Death in the source material.
That minigame everyone does for easy experience isn't just a random cave with glowing rocks. According to the lore, Guthix wept over the devastation left behind by the God Wars in a cavern under southern Misthalin, and the surrounding rock supposedly wept with him — which is where the Tears of Guthix are said to actually come from.
At The Game Awards 2018, God of War and Red Dead Redemption 2 walked in tied with eight nominations each, the most anyone had ever had at the show up to that point. Red Dead ended up winning more individual trophies overall, but it was God of War that took home the night's biggest prize, Game of the Year.
The level-1 citizens of Miscellania actually have unique overhead dialogue for when they fight back against attackers, but almost nobody's ever seen it. They've only got 1 HP, and killing one costs you 6% of your Miscellania favour, so there's basically no reason anyone would bother provoking them.
Almost every ship you see in the show is a real, physical build rather than a green-screen job. Showrunner Matt Owens has said the Going Merry and the other vessels were constructed at roughly three-quarter scale, which still made them genuinely enormous to work with on set.
Tommy Shelby is rarely seen without a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, and it turns out that adds up. Cillian Murphy had the props team count how many herbal, rose-scented smokes he got through in a single season, and the tally landed around 3,000. He doesn't actually smoke in real life; they're just mint and lemongrass rolled up to look the part.
