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Rather than being embarrassed by criticism calling the show inappropriate, the marketing team leaned right into it for season two promos, plastering lines like 'mind-blowingly inappropriate' and 'every parent's nightmare' straight from critics onto the ads.
Warcraft Wiki lists about 90 NPCs that are normally invisible, from the ghostly citizens of Caer Darrow to a whole family of 'Cheerful' spirits for every playable race. You only see them with something like Detect Invisibility or the Extra-Dimensional Ghost Revealer, and plenty could count as easter eggs.
Lead writer Joseph Staten has voiced every single Grunt in the Halo trilogy, but in ODST he also stepped in to voice the New Mombasa Superintendent, the calm AI narrating the Rookie's wander through the city. So a fair chunk of the game's dialogue, both the smallest alien mooks and the biggest guiding voice, comes out of the same guy.
Roughly 4.7 million copies flew off shelves worldwide in the first day alone. By March 2010 that number had ballooned to over 14 million, making it the second best-selling game ever in the UK at the time and third in the US.
Between October 2016 and July 2017, Adult Swim quietly slipped sixteen tiny stop-motion Claymation shorts into their ad breaks, each one putting Rick and Morty into parodies of famous film scenes rendered entirely in clay.
Among the hundreds of blades welded together to form the Iron Throne, one of them has a much older claim to fame. Look carefully and you can spot Glamdring, the sword used by Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, hidden among the swords of vanquished kings and lords.
When the team first approached J.K. Simmons, they actually had him in mind for Cecil Stedman, the shady government fixer. Simmons read the script and told them he'd rather play Omni-Man instead. Kirkman and the writers agreed on the spot, and Walton Goggins ended up taking the Cecil role instead.
The Saudi Arabia invasion mission borrows its name straight from Apocalypse Now, where Robert Duvall's Kilgore snarls the same line before an airstrike. Infinity Ward leaned on war-movie references a lot for mission titles, and this is one of the more obvious ones once you know it.
Alongside the classic campaign skulls, Bungie hid a separate set of skulls exclusively inside Forge-enabled multiplayer maps like Sandbox, Assembly, and Orbital, later expanding the hunt with three more skulls on maps added by Halo 3: ODST. These didn't unlock cheats like the campaign skulls did, but collecting all of them triggered its own dedicated achievement.
Kevin Feige deliberately tucked Nick Fury's Avengers Initiative cameo after the credits so it wouldn't overshadow the main film if the bigger universe plans never panned out. He was stunned by how fast it blew up anyway, with outlets covering it within days.
