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Rather than leaning into typical on-screen tropes for female characters, Arcane's writers deliberately shaped Vi and Caitlyn's dynamic around trust and vulnerability instead of spectacle. The show even avoids giving them an on-screen kiss for most of the run, letting small gestures like holding each other's faces carry the weight instead.
Robert Downey Jr. has a habit of sneaking food onto set to keep himself going through long days, and a lot of Tony Stark's snack moments came from that habit rather than the script. The bit where he offers everyone food around the table apparently wasn't planned at all.
Halo 2 was originally supposed to bring back the large-scale vehicle warfare mode that had been cut from the first game, under the working name Warfare. As the single-player campaign ran into delay after delay, Warfare got shelved entirely, and it was really only down to multiplayer lead Max Hoberman pushing back that the smaller-scale multiplayer we actually got shipped at all.
Finish the Forlorn Watchman quest and you'll get your hands on a ship's log describing a mutiny led by a sailor named Gable against a Captain Laughton. That's a wink at Mutiny on the Bounty, where Clark Gable and Charles Laughton played the mutineer and the captain respectively.
The man behind JARVIS's voice has apparently never sat through Iron Man and doesn't really know what happens in it. He's described the job as the easiest paycheck of his career, just a couple of hours in the booth before heading off on holiday with his wife.
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich wasn't a fantasy specialist before taking this on. Her résumé includes writing and producing credits on The West Wing, Parenthood, and Marvel's Daredevil and The Defenders, a pretty different toolkit that she brought over to building the Continent.
Before he became Jamie Fraser on Outlander, Sam Heughan actually tried out for a part on Game of Thrones. He's spoken about auditioning early on, though obviously the role went a different direction and he went on to lead his own big fantasy drama instead.
Kuldra, the Dragon Queen you're working toward all game, picks up a much darker title by the time the story wraps up: in the Scorned Wilderness finale, she's referred to as 'the God Eater'.
Extinction mode gets called 'alien mode' by basically everyone, but the Cryptids you're gunning down were on Earth long before humans, or even the dinosaurs. The lore ties them back to a prehistoric cataclysm, a comet igniting the atmosphere in a firestorm, which the creatures supposedly survived by going into hiding underground, only to get stirred up again by the ODIN strike in the main campaign.
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely didn't just sit down one day and bang out Infinity War and Endgame. They started plotting both films years earlier during downtime on the Civil War set, scribbling ideas while the cast was off filming other scenes.
