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Because Fox owned the X-Men film rights and Quicksilver is technically Magneto's son, Marvel had to walk a tightrope. The deal struck between the studios meant this version of Pietro could never be called a mutant, and no line could tie him back to the X-Men or his comic dad, even though Fox had their own speedster running around in Days of Future Past at basically the same time.
Vergil isn't an independent AI, it's a subroutine that Sadie's own father, Dr. Daniel Endesha, coded specifically to keep an eye on his daughter while he worked at the Superintendent's data centre. So the AI that ends up guiding half the game's story exists purely because one dad wanted a way to make sure his kid didn't skip town unsupervised.
Wubba Lubba Dub Dub wasn't even in the script. The line called for Rick to yell 'Woob woob woob' like Curly from The Three Stooges, but Roiland is dyslexic and just blurted out the wrong words entirely. Everyone in the booth loved it so much it stuck, and the writers later decided it secretly means 'I am in great pain, please help me.'
There's a cut sequence called Jackson Party that was trimmed from the finished game but resurfaced as one of the Lost Levels in the remaster. It shows Ellie more settled into her life before everything falls apart, including a scene that finally explains where her tattoo actually came from.
Hidden inside Ysgramor's Tomb, only accessible during a Companions questline, sits a helmet modeled after Darth Vader's iconic mask, one of two direct Star Wars references built into Skyrim.
Watch the post credits scene closely and Chris Evans is the only Avenger not eating, and he's clearly holding his hand up against his jaw the whole time. That's because he'd already started filming Snowpiercer and refused to shave his beard, so the makeup team stuck him in a wig and a prosthetic chin and hoped nobody noticed the awkward hand placement covering the seams.
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.
There's a bittersweet story behind all the 'Uncle has lumbago' jokes. John O'Creagh, who performed and voiced Uncle, passed away from a blood clot complication partway through the game's production. Rockstar removed most of his recorded lines out of respect, though the unused files still sit in the game's data. The one performance of his that made it into the finished game is his singing during the celebration scene at Beecher's Hope.
Katherine Marlowe isn't just some random villain with a grudge, she's the head of a shadowy British order that supposedly traces its roots back to Queen Elizabeth I's own inner circle, including her spymaster Francis Walsingham and the occultist John Dee. That's the whole reason her group has been hunting Iram of the Pillars for centuries before Nate ever showed up.
Poke around the vault in the Seattle bank during Day 1 downtown and you'll find a drawer with an engraved ring sitting inside it. It's the same ring Nathan Drake wears throughout the Uncharted series, a nice little wink from Naughty Dog to their other flagship franchise.
