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Even with the ending this movie has, the studio approached Christian Bale about doing a fourth Batman movie. He said no, partly because the trilogy was always meant to be three films and partly, as he joked, because Nolan had already walked away and Bale figured his services weren't exactly required without him.
Liberty City wasn't always going for gritty realism. Early in development the characters moved in a much more exaggerated, childish way and the whole colour palette was way too bright for a gangster story, before the team pulled it back to the tone we ended up getting.
Dacre Montgomery had built a noticeably muscular physique for Power Rangers, but when he landed the role of Billy Hargrove he made a point of shedding that gym-honed look. He wanted Billy to feel like a real teenager from the mid-80s rather than a superhero, and leaned into that more ordinary build to make the character's swagger and menace feel grounded.
Season 2, subtitled Into the Grand Line, moves the Straw Hats past Reverse Mountain and into locations like Whiskey Peak, Little Garden and Loguetown itself, taking the story from the East Blue into the far more dangerous waters beyond.
Somewhere in Blood and Wine there's a note written by a character called Smigole Serkis, mourning the loss of his beloved golden spoon. It's a two-for-one joke, poking fun at both Gollum's alter ego Smeagol and Andy Serkis, the actor who brought him to life.
Right at the peak of the tallest, most distant mountain visible from Toussaint, there's a framed photo of the actual development team propped on an easel between two pillars. There's no legitimate way to reach it during normal play, you need the game's debug free camera to teleport Geralt all the way up there.
Unlike Diablo, Mephisto and Baal, who consider themselves true brothers, the four Lesser Evils split into two separate pairs. Andariel and Duriel call each other twins, while Belial and Azmodan see themselves as siblings, and that lack of unity is a big part of why the Lesser Evils struggled to team up against the Three.
Within a week of its first three episodes dropping, Arcane had a 100% Tomatometer score and a 98% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, edging out Squid Game's numbers at the time and setting the record for Netflix's best-reviewed original series to that point.
There's a moment where a young Maximus survives a nuclear blast by climbing into a fridge, and eagle-eyed fans reckon it's a wink at the Fallout 4 side quest 'Kid in a Fridge,' where the player rescues a super mutant kid who's been hiding out in an old refrigerator for who knows how long.
Donkey Kong's big entrance in the movie is scored to the DK Rap, the gloriously cheesy theme song from Donkey Kong 64 that's become a meme in its own right over the years. Oddly enough, the song's original composer Grant Kirkhope didn't get a credit for it in the film.
