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Miles' invisibility power sounds simple on paper, but figuring out how it should actually look on screen was a nightmare for the animation team. They went through around 70 different visual designs trying to nail down something that felt cool without looking like a generic vanishing effect, before landing on the version that made it into the final cut.
The expedition team you're stuck with on Ashenfall isn't a cast of nobodies. Slayer Master Vannaka, cave goblin hero Zanik, the Wise Old Man, and dwarf craftsman Doric all show up, each dragging their own RuneScape history along with them.
Ever wondered why the game isn't just called Halo? Microsoft got nervous that a single-word title referencing a religious symbol might raise eyebrows, so Combat Evolved got bolted on at the last minute to make it read a bit less like scripture and a bit more like an action game.
That whiny, dramatic voice you hear every time LSP shows up on screen belongs to none other than Pendleton Ward himself. He also does a handful of other side characters like Shelby and the Snow Golem, but LSP is the one that stuck as his signature role in his own show.
People assumed the Batmobile's chase scenes had to be CGI trickery given how huge and strange the vehicle looks, but the Tumbler was completely real. Production designer Nathan Crowley built it from scratch with a fiberglass body and a 5.7-litre V8 engine, at 9 feet wide and 16 feet long, costing around $150,000 and taking a full year to engineer.
According to the show's own lore, Zaun wasn't always its own city, it began life underneath Piltover purely as a place to bury waste and toxic fumes the surface city didn't want dealing with. That original imbalance between the two, baked in from the very start, is what the entire generations-long conflict in the show keeps circling back to.
When the corrupted dragon aspect Deathwing tore his way back into Azeroth to kick off Cataclysm, he didn't just show up as a raid boss, he actually reshaped the overworld itself. Zones like the Barrens were split in half, coastlines were redrawn, and Azeroth's original launch-era map became permanently different from the one players had known for the game's first six years.
The show landed consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations in both 2024 and 2025, and Season 3 was also nominated for the Critics' Choice Award for Best Animated Series in 2025, cementing it as one of the more critically respected superhero shows on TV right now, animated or otherwise.
There's a huge Nazi eagle hanging above the chairman's seats inside the Reichstag during Downfall, and if you blast it down with a Panzerschreck, Reznov will actually notice and comment on it. Small touch, but it shows the level of detail Treyarch put into reactive dialogue.
Over in Japan the game didn't even carry the Uncharted name. It was released as 'Uncharted: The Secret Treasure of El Dorado', dropping the Drake's Fortune subtitle entirely in favour of something a bit more literal.
