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Every violin Sherlock plays on screen across the three series is a genuine instrument on loan from Cardiff Violins, not a prop. The one used in Series Three was reportedly worth around £1200, and the company was apparently pretty touched when the BBC sent it back with a nice letter.
The film runs through roughly five different armor variants, and every one of them is pulled from the comics in some way. The gold-only look JARVIS shows off first is a wink to the classic 'Golden Avenger' era, while the finished red and gold design echoes the 1980s Silver Centurion armor.
Invincible VS, a fighting game spun off from the show, was developed by Quarter Up and published through Skybound Games, releasing on April 30, 2026 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC, and arcades. Several of the animated series' actual voice cast came back to reprise their characters for it, including J.K. Simmons as Omni-Man.
Niko's default hand-to-hand combat isn't just generic brawler animation, it's actually modelled on Krav Maga, the close-quarters fighting system developed for the Israeli military. Makes sense once you think about it, given Niko's background as a war veteran who's clearly had to defend himself in ugly situations long before he ever got to Liberty City.
One of the more surprising finds scattered through Part 2's abandoned buildings is a battered handheld console displaying Hotline Miami's neon-drenched box art. It's a small crossover nod to Dennaton Games' brutal top-down shooter, hiding in a game that's just as violent in its own way.
The massive walled capital of the Earth Kingdom wasn't dreamed up from nothing. The creators modeled its layout and architecture directly on Beijing's Forbidden City, which is a big part of why Ba Sing Se feels so imposing and layered compared to the show's smaller towns.
At the cocktail party before the Monaco race, Tony has a brief exchange with none other than Elon Musk playing himself, years before Musk's own public persona became so tangled up with the real-life Tony Stark comparisons.
The very first teaser trailer, released December 1st 2008, showed almost nothing, just Drake reaching out for a dagger in the middle of a snowstorm, rendered in the actual in-game engine rather than a flashy pre-rendered cutscene.
Verrückt is set in Wittenau Sanatorium, a former German asylum that the Nazis apparently repurposed - which explains the straitjackets, restraints, and unsettling gurneys scattered around what's otherwise a fairly cramped little zombie map.
Goggins' transformation into the Ghoul wasn't one mask, it was nine individual prosthetic pieces applied in sequence, along with a punishing daily prep schedule. He's since described the whole ritual as genuinely nerve-wracking, especially in the early days before the process was refined.
