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There's a hanging body named Peter McCain visible in Shi No Numa, and if you use the noclip command to fly around and check, the rope he's supposedly hanging from isn't actually attached to his neck at all - it's coming out of his backpack. A proper behind-the-curtain modelling oversight.
The retired, cane-wielding hero Gran Torino shares more than just a name with Clint Eastwood's 2008 film. Both are grumpy old war veterans who feel disconnected from the world around them but still can't help stepping in to protect people when it counts.
Down in Secure Transit, there's a bit of graffiti scratched into the glass that riffs on the old office joke: 'You don't have to be mad to work here... but it certainly helps.' Pretty dark humour for a building full of murderers, but it fits the tone perfectly.
A guard patrolling the streets of Beauclair mutters 'all work and no play' at Geralt, lifted straight from The Shining, right down to the delivery.
Mojang leaned into the Herobrine hysteria so hard that they've written 'Removed Herobrine' into the changelog of pretty much every major update since 2012, despite the character never once existing in the game's code. It's become a running joke between the developers and the community, a wink to a myth that refuses to die.
There obviously weren't real wolves running around the Winterfell set, so the direwolves were played by Northern Inuit Dogs, a breed specifically developed to look wolf-like while still being trainable and safe around child actors. Two of the original season one pups, Odin and Thor, went on to become minor celebrities in their own right, complete with their own social media accounts.
When Blake Lively started dating Leonardo DiCaprio, the writers apparently drew on it for the show, even shifting filming out to L.A. for a stretch. Writer Joshua Safran later said watching Lively document her life in photos, pre-Instagram, was ahead of its time.
For One Piece Film: Z in 2012, the fashion label A/X Armani Exchange teamed up with Oda to design outfits for the Straw Hat crew. It's an unusual pairing on paper, high fashion meeting a pirate cartoon, but it shows just how far the franchise's reach extended even over a decade ago.
Creative director Amy Hennig has said the team deliberately went for a desert this time because sand, fire and water are some of the hardest 'organic' elements to fake convincingly with animation. Basically they picked the setting that would force them to get better at the stuff nobody else was doing well yet.
Out of everything in this three-hour epic, the actual moment Tony snaps his fingers in the gauntlet was the last piece of footage captured for the whole movie, shot during reshoots in January 2019, with the visual effects team still finishing work on it right up until the premiere.
