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The fictional Gotham license plates dotted around the film were deliberately designed to look almost identical to real Illinois plates. It meant that whenever an actual Illinois-plated car slipped into a shot by accident, nobody in the audience would notice the difference.
The game gets a proper appearance in the 2010 film Kick-Ass, another sign of how quickly it became shorthand for gaming culture at the time.
Hunting down every one of the game's 100 hidden packages scattered across the map isn't just a completionist badge of honour, it actually unlocks a Rhino tank at Tommy's properties once you've found the lot. Considering how tucked away some of these packages are, that reward feels well and truly earned by the time you get there.
Pvt. Chernov, the diary-keeping Soviet soldier, actually ends up as a victim of a flamethrower attack later in the campaign - a grim payoff for a character who spends most of the game quietly writing down his experiences of the war.
One of the eerier backdrops Lucy walks past while exploring the surface is the actual wreck of the Eduard Bohlen, a German cargo ship that ran aground on Namibia's coast back in 1909 and has been slowly swallowed by sand ever since. No set dressing needed, it was already sitting there looking perfectly post-apocalyptic.
One of the four maps added in the paid map pack, Creek is a small Russian village built around a ridge with a cave running through it, dividing the level cleanly down the middle and forcing fights into the handful of buildings on either side.
That unforgettable season one moment where Daenerys eats a raw horse heart during her wedding to Khal Drogo wasn't actually gruesome to film, just sticky. The 'heart' was a big gummy candy soaked in corn syrup, and Emilia Clarke reportedly ended up so covered in the stuff afterwards that she got stuck to a toilet seat and needed a crew member to help free her.
Everything weird and colorful about the Land of Ooo exists because of a global nuclear exchange the show calls the Mushroom War, which happened roughly a thousand years before Finn and Jake ever met. It wiped out most of humanity, physically reshaped the planet, and somehow left behind a world of sentient candy people and elemental kingdoms in its place.
According to esports commentator Leigh Smith, the foley team got genuinely gross to nail Zac's wet, gooey sound effects, apparently mixing dog food and beans inside a condom and slapping it against a wall. Disgusting process, but you have to admit the end result sounds exactly right for a living pile of toxic slime.
