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"Toss a Coin to Your Witcher" wasn't added in post or written on a whim, composers Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli finished it back in November 2018, well before production began, because Joey Batey needed the finished track to actually perform on camera as Jaskier.
This was easily the biggest launch of 2020 across both physical and digital sales, moving over four million copies in its opening weekend alone and becoming the fastest-selling PlayStation 4 exclusive of all time.
In Extinction, there's a motel sign reading 'GIL'S LODGE MOTEL' that isn't just set dressing. Shoot specific letters on it in the right order to spell out LOL, and for the next couple of minutes every Cryptid your squad kills will burst into a shower of golden alien plush toys instead of the usual gore.
Someone on the dev team clearly had a soft spot for hidden teddy bears. There's one wedged in a drainpipe you have to swim to on the map Flooded, another sat on a desk wearing a hard hat on Sovereign, a pair sharing drinks inside a half-closed cardboard box on Overlord, and a particularly stubborn one nailed inside a suspended pipe on Siege that's basically impossible to reach without spectator mode.
Look closely during the hospital scene with Harvey Dent and you'll notice the Joker isn't wearing his gloves for once, and there's makeup smeared on his fingers. Heath Ledger came up with that detail himself, on the idea that the Joker applies his own face paint and would naturally get some on his hands.
Steve introduces a chocolate bar called Peanut Butter Boppers in the final season, and it's not a made-up prop. It's a genuine 1980s treat, and the props team went as far as consulting the original manufacturer to recreate the packaging accurately. The timing worked out nicely too, since the company ended up rereleasing the actual bar not long after the show came out.
Some fans and critics argued the show's Irene Adler was a step down from Conan Doyle's original, who beats Holmes by simply outsmarting him rather than falling for him. Moffat pushed back on that reading in an interview with The Guardian, pointing out that in the original story Adler's 'victory' was just running off and getting married, which he didn't think counted as much of a feminist win either.
Before they landed on the name we all know, Infinity Ward reportedly went through well over a thousand potential titles for the game. Some of the rejected ones were properly daft too, including the frankly brilliant Call of Duty: Warnado.
Johnny Depp's other favourite director popped up in an unexpected way here. Tim Burton, busy with his own projects at the time, still carved out time to help design the look of Davy Jones' grotesque crew.
Tom Hardy didn't just make Bane's voice up on the spot. He based it on Bartley Gorman, a real bare-knuckle boxer nicknamed the 'King of the Gypsies.' Hardy pitched Nolan two options, play it safe like Darth Vader or go weird, and they went weird.
