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Despite all the choices scattered through the campaign, Black Ops Cold War really only has one moment that matters for its ending: whether you tell Adler the truth about Perseus hiding at the Solovetsky Monastery, or lie and send the team to Duga instead. Telling the truth leads to the canonical good ending, while lying opens up two darker variations depending on what you do afterward.
Turn the power on in Verrückt and sprint up to one of the balconies and you'll catch a warped, distorted version of a stock track called 'Valse' drifting out of the wall speakers. It's easy to mistake for a glitch rather than an actual hidden bit of sound design.
Scattered through ODST are strange glyph symbols that fans spent years trying to decode, convinced they hid some kind of message or code left by Bungie. Community sleuths kept chasing the mystery well over a decade after release, with Marty O'Donnell himself eventually dropping hints, making it one of the longest-running unsolved secrets tied to the game.
Bowie was apparently a genuine fan of the show and once sent Cillian Murphy a picture of himself wearing a cap with razor blades sewn into the peak. He also agreed to let a track from what turned out to be his final album feature in the series, but sadly passed away before he ever got to see it air.
Strip the 'Earl of' off Jakben, Earl of Imbel's name and you get JakbenImbel, which reads a lot like 'Jack be nimble' if you squint. Fittingly, he's connected to Springheel Jak - a play on the English folklore figure Spring-Heeled Jack - whose boots give you a hefty Acrobatics boost, perfect for jumping over candlesticks.
Tucked around the open-world Western Ghats section are eleven Hoysala Tokens, and hunting down every last one rewards players who fully explore the map rather than just racing to the next story beat.
By the end of season two, Mel Medarda is given a significant magical boost tied to her Noxian bloodline, which lines up with theories that she'll be the connective thread between Arcane and whatever region-based show comes next, given her family ties run straight through Noxus.
Within a week of its first three episodes dropping, Arcane had a 100% Tomatometer score and a 98% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, edging out Squid Game's numbers at the time and setting the record for Netflix's best-reviewed original series to that point.
Mr. Poopybutthole technically first shows up in Total Rickall, but the production team went back and edited him into the memory scenarios shown in that episode's own opening scenes to sell the joke that he'd secretly always been part of the family. So depending how you look at it, he was either never there before, or he always was.
The scene where Loki forces a crowd to kneel in Germany wasn't shot anywhere near Stuttgart. It was filmed at Tower City Complex on Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio, dressed up to look European for the day.
