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Long before it was ever spelled out in later books and games, Dr. Halsey's personal journal entries were the first real hint that fans picked up on suggesting she was Miranda Keyes' mother. It stayed as fan theory territory for a while before eventually being confirmed properly.
The Fractured Plains Vault won't even show itself until you've dealt with a pile of boulders blocking the way in, which can be cleared with either a pickaxe or the Rocksplosion spell, making it one of the more literal 'hidden entrance' moments in the game.
For One Piece Film: Z in 2012, the fashion label A/X Armani Exchange teamed up with Oda to design outfits for the Straw Hat crew. It's an unusual pairing on paper, high fashion meeting a pirate cartoon, but it shows just how far the franchise's reach extended even over a decade ago.
When MW3 dropped at midnight on 8th November 2011, it didn't just sell well, it broke every record going. In North America and the UK alone it shifted 6.5 million copies and pulled in over $400 million in the first 24 hours, more than any film, album or game had ever managed in a single day.
The film opens inside the Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility, a SHIELD and NASA site studying the Tesseract as part of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. It seems like throwaway setup at the time, but that exact facility becomes central to Captain Marvel years later, when a young Nick Fury and Carol Danvers head there to dig into Dr Wendy Lawson's research.
The Jotunheim murals depicting Kratos's journey never actually use his Greek name. Instead the giants inscribe him as Farbauti, which in Norse mythology is the name of Loki's father, tying the whole prophecy back into who Atreus is going to become.
Imagine Dragons and JID's theme song 'Enemy' wasn't the band's first rodeo with Riot Games. They'd already made 'Warriors' back in 2014 for the League of Legends World Championship, so by the time Arcane rolled around it was a bit of a reunion rather than a first date.
In that same post-credits scene, Jake Lockley wheels Arthur Harrow out of a building called Sienkiewicz Psychiatric Hospital. That's a direct tip of the hat to Bill Sienkiewicz, the artist who helped shape Moon Knight's whole look and tone back in the comics.
After you take down Ezek during the Broken Blade quest, three skeleton guardians show up named Brother Larel, Brother Karel and Brother Moek. Say them out loud and it clicks: it's a goofy little Three Stooges reference tucked into a pretty grim questline.
Fallout 4's first piece of concept art was made in 2009, about a week after Fallout 3's final DLC wrapped up, meaning the game had already been quietly cooking for roughly seven years by the time it launched in 2015. Lead artist Istvan Pely stuck with the Fallout concept work rather than moving onto Skyrim with the rest of the team.
