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A line from Luke 23:41 gets referenced repeatedly throughout the game as a kind of thematic anchor, tying into the story's ideas about guilt, self-justification, and whether any of the treasure-hunting characters actually deserve redemption.
In the show's own lore, Zaun was originally just Piltover's undercity, a dumping ground for the fumes and waste the surface city didn't want. That founding imbalance, baked in from the start, is really what the entire Piltover-Zaun conflict across both seasons comes back to.
Rather than lean fully on CGI, the crew built enormous scale models they nicknamed 'bigatures.' The one for Orthanc, Saruman's tower, stood a full 27 feet tall on its own.
Not long after the remake launched, fans started sharing screenshots of a pinboard covered in fantasy-style concept art, including what looks like a unicorn-esque creature. Similar imagery had already turned up in The Last of Us Part II, and plenty of players are convinced it's a breadcrumb pointing toward Naughty Dog's next original IP.
Stan Lee's obligatory cameo has him wandering into the backstage crowd, and Tony greets him as though he's talk show legend Larry King, brushing past him without a second thought.
An early draft had a much darker beat where Thanos opens a portal to reveal he'd already been to the battlefield and tosses the head of the 2012 version of Captain America onto the ground in front of the heroes. Understandably, it never made it past the drawing board.
According to producer Phil Lord, Hobie Brown's inclusion wasn't locked in until Daniel Kaluuya actually signed on. Before that, the character was apparently in danger of being cut from the film entirely, which is wild considering how big a scene-stealer he ended up being.
Ron Perlman opens New Vegas the same way he's opened every mainline Fallout game since the 1997 original, with that instantly recognisable 'war never changes' narration. By this point it's basically the voice of the whole franchise, and it's wild to think Bethesda kept bringing him back across totally different developers and console generations.
The senator who spends the film trying to strong-arm Tony into handing his armor over to the government turns out, years later in Winter Soldier, to have secretly been working for HYDRA the entire time, which suddenly makes his push for total control over the Iron Man suit feel a lot more sinister.
Kravitz tried out for a small, unnamed role in 2012's The Dark Knight Rises and was reportedly told the studio wasn't going 'urban' for that part. A story she's told a couple of times since, long before Selina Kyle ever ended up being hers.
