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In 2021, a Japanese wedding planning company called ESCRIT launched a package built entirely around the series. Guests get greeted with a wanted-poster style welcome sign, a life-size cutout of the crew, and a menu inspired by Sanji's cooking, so devoted fans really can tie the knot pirate-style.
The song playing when we first meet Miles almost wasn't Sunflower at all. The filmmakers had a different track locked in for that scene until the rights fell through, leaving them scrambling to find a replacement in time to still animate the shot around it. Post Malone and Swae Lee's song ended up working even better than the original plan, since the joke was always that Miles is singing something a little out of his depth, which mirrors him being handed a role he doesn't feel ready for.
The paid membership model that's funded the game for over two decades launched on 27th February 2002, barely over a year after RuneScape first went live. Jagex genuinely needed the money just to keep the servers running as the player base exploded.
The Vanity Fair reporter digging into Justin Hammer's business dealings is the same Christine Everhart who interviewed, and later spent the night with, Tony back in the very first Iron Man movie.
Concept art and some leaked demo footage show off a vehicle nicknamed the 'Warthog of the Seas,' basically a Warthog reimagined as a speedboat with a turret bolted on. It never shipped, but it's a fun glimpse at how much got tried and thrown out before the game went gold.
At the end of the God Wars, Seren didn't just retreat like the other gods — she actually broke her own being apart into crystal shards, existing in that fractured state for ages before eventually being reformed. It's a genuinely unsettling way for a goddess of peace to protect herself.
MW3 wasn't just breaking its own franchise's records, it marked the third year in a row that a Call of Duty game had set an entertainment industry day-one sales record, following Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops before it.
There's a long-known Zombies exploit where you grab a Mystery Box weapon while still mid-animation drinking a Perk-a-Cola, letting you carry three guns instead of two. Get downed while holding a live grenade, get revived, and repeat the trick to stack even more. It's fiddly but people were doing it for years before it got patched out in later titles.
The PC and Mac ports snuck in a bit of bonus content for multiplayer that console players never got, including a flamethrower that had been cut from the main game at the last minute, plus the ability to use Banshees and a rocket-launcher-armed Warthog in matches.
