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Raul Tejada, the ghoul companion and gifted mechanic you can rescue from Black Mountain, is voiced by Danny Trejo. It's a fun bit of casting when you consider Trejo had already built a career playing tough, world-weary characters, and Raul, an old gunslinger who's outlived pretty much everyone he ever cared about, fits that mould nicely.
For the Amazon ruins section, the team actually sketched concept art of Sully getting swarmed by spiders as a potential obstacle. It never made it into the finished game, but the idea didn't go to waste, since something very similar turned up years later in Uncharted 3.
For The Taken King expansion, Bungie replaced Dinklage with veteran voice actor Nolan North, best known for Nathan Drake in Uncharted. Remarkably, North didn't just voice new lines, he re-recorded every single piece of Ghost dialogue from the original base game so the whole experience would feel consistent.
Not every map made it to launch. A pair called Favela and Invasion were cut from Call of Duty 4's Variety Map Pack, but Infinity Ward clearly didn't want to waste the work, because both eventually resurfaced in Modern Warfare 2 instead.
Early in Chapter 4, you can find Nate and Elena's home console set up with a fully playable, emulated version of the original PS1 Crash Bandicoot. You can actually take control of Crash yourself, and it's mapped to the D-pad rather than a thumbstick, matching how the game was originally controlled back in 1996.
Every time someone starts a round of Pyramid Plunder, the game randomly assigns which tomb door is 'correct' for everyone on that world. Players eventually figured out that if you cram a huge crowd onto one world and get everyone spam-clicking a single door, you basically guarantee someone gets the right one almost instantly.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Red Right Hand is so tied to Peaky Blinders now that it's easy to forget it's been knocking around since 1994 and has turned up in a pile of other things, including The X-Files, Scream, Hellboy, and even the comedy Dumb and Dumber.
The hollow-eyed raiders that Maximus and Lucy scrap with on the bridge aren't just generic bandits, they're Fiends, a chem-addicted faction that made their debut in Fallout: New Vegas. In the games they're famous for attacking anything that moves, and the show keeps that same feral, no-negotiation energy.
Head to Vault 75 and you can trigger one of the game's hidden UFO encounters, complete with an alien crash site to fight through. Win the scrap and you'll walk away with an alien blaster pistol, easily one of the most satisfying secret weapons to stumble across in the Commonwealth.
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.
