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Every Walt Disney Pictures release up to this point had been rated G or PG, so putting out a PG-13 pirate movie was a genuine departure for the studio, and one that plenty of people internally, including Eisner himself, were nervous about.
Because Christmas isn't celebrated in Islam, broadcasters airing MHA in parts of the Middle East simply cut the Christmas-themed segments from episode 101 entirely. Mineta's more perverted moments were also toned down for the same broadcasters.
In June 2005, a Dutch modder found a disabled sex scene still sitting in the game's files and released a fix to switch it back on, calling it Hot Coffee. It spread fast, and within weeks Rockstar was staring down a full-blown industry crisis rather than just a modding curiosity.
The idea of a bigger villain pulling strings behind Loki actually came from Whedon himself. He suggested the Mad Titan Thanos as that hidden mastermind, got him written into the post credits scene, and had no idea at the time just how central that character would become to the entire franchise years later.
Graham McTavish, reprising his role as Charlie Cutter, and Alan Tudyk had already filmed scenes for the earlier version of the game before Amy Hennig's departure. Once their contracts were voided along with the change in direction, neither character made it into the final release.
Keep an eye on the convenience store that gets robbed early on, it's called 'Good Times Groceries'. That's a wink to Good Time, the 2017 Safdie Brothers film starring Pattinson, which Reeves watched and reportedly started writing this script with Pattinson already in mind for Batman.
There's a moment where a cloaked, mysterious mage saves a young Jayce, and the spell effect used looks suspiciously like Ryze's Realm Warp ability from the game. It's one of the more obscure references in the whole series, easy to miss unless you're specifically looking for it.
Reports emerged that the demanding schedule and working conditions on the film led to a wave of animators leaving the production, over a hundred by some accounts. It's a sobering counterpoint to the film's celebrated visuals, and it fed into wider industry conversations about crunch culture in animation.
Jumping from the modern setting of Call of Duty 4 back to World War II meant losing gadgets like night vision goggles - but World at War compensates by handing the Soviet campaign Molotov cocktails and the Pacific campaign a flamethrower, two nasty new toys the series hadn't really used before.
According to the in-game backstory, the mission to kill Zakhaev in 1996 marked the first time the British government had authorised an assassination order since the Second World War, which says a lot about how seriously they took the threat of him buying up Chernobyl's leftover fuel rods.
