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A lot of action movies fudge their countdown clocks to stretch out tension, but the nuke timer in the final battle actually tracks pretty closely to the real runtime of that section of the film. It's a tiny bit of restraint that a lot of viewers never clock because they're too busy watching Stark fly it through the portal.
One outlet actually sat down and counted every single Nintendo reference they could find in the film, landing on a huge 85 separate Easter eggs, which works out to roughly one for every minute of runtime. Safe to say this is a movie built for repeat viewings.
Season one made Arcane the first streaming show ever to win the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program, back in 2022, and it took home four wins total that year. Season two then repeated the trick in 2025, beating out competition like Bob's Burgers and The Simpsons for the same award.
Amazon didn't wait around to see how audiences reacted. Just ahead of the Season 1 finale in April 2021, the platform locked in both Season 2 and Season 3 in one go, with Kirkman saying at the time that the response had exceeded anything he expected.
Episode six reveals that Matt Berry's character, the actor who did all those Mr. Handy voiceovers pre-war, was actually a man called Sebastian Leslie. He and Cooper Howard knew each other in old Hollywood, and Sebastian had signed away the rights to his voice, which is why it ended up echoing out of household robots for the next two centuries.
The sound designers built Shelob's shriek out of several unrelated recordings layered together, including a plastic alien toy, hissing steam, and an actual Tasmanian devil. Somehow it all blends into one nightmare noise.
For the first time in the series, you're not playing as Nathan Drake at all. Chloe Frazer, who'd only ever been a supporting character back in Uncharted 2 and 3, finally gets to run the show, with Nate nowhere to be found.
A lot of players who go back to GTA IV today notice the radio isn't quite what it used to be, and there's a boring but real reason for that. Rockstar's original music licensing deals only ran for about ten years, and once they expired in 2018 a big chunk of the soundtrack had to be pulled. Vladivostok FM got hit hardest, needing a near-total replacement of its entire song list.
The Uncharted 4 that shipped isn't the one that started production. Longtime series writer Amy Hennig and Uncharted 3 director Justin Richmond both departed partway through, and Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley, fresh off The Last of Us, were brought in to take over and reshape the project.
During the forest scrap between Thor and Iron Man, the two trade headbutts, and if you catch Stark flying backward and facing the camera afterward you can see a proper dent left in his faceplate from Thor's skull. Small detail that sells just how much force a god actually hits with.
