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In 2014, Breaking Bad action figures hit shelves complete with tiny meth lab accessories, and a Florida mom launched a petition against Toys 'R' Us over it. The backlash got loud enough that the figures were eventually pulled from stores.
Arcane writer Amanda Overton has said she was genuinely nervous while developing Vi and Caitlyn's relationship, worried the slow burn might read as queerbaiting to fans who've been burned by shows that hint at queer romance without ever committing to it.
There were plans for proper weather effects across Arkham City, including a whiteout that would've dropped visibility to basically nothing and forced players to lean on Detective Mode just to get around. It got scrapped because it hammered performance too hard on the hardware at the time, which is a shame because it sounds genuinely tense.
Get into a scrap with a citizen or a guard and you might hear onlookers yell 'Floats like a butterfly, stings like a scorpion!' It's a twist on Muhammad Ali's famous description of his own fighting style, swapped just enough to keep it from being a direct quote.
Commander in Chief Kong, a Marine leader who barely got screen time even in the original anime, shows up as a name and logo tucked into the end credits, a small hat-tip that most casual viewers would sail right past.
Bungie's original plan after Halo 3 was to wrap the trilogy up properly with a Halo 4. They scrapped that in favour of a prequel instead, mostly because it let them build something with a clean slate rather than being on the hook to tie up every loose thread left dangling from Halo 3's ending.
A typical film script runs somewhere around 120 pages. RDR2's story missions and side content reportedly ran past 2,000 pages of script, and that figure doesn't even include the roughly eighty extra pages written just so background pedestrians would have something to mutter as you walk by.
Christopher Plummer, best remembered as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music, voiced Arngeir, the Greybeard elder who first teaches the Dragonborn about the Way of the Voice at High Hrothgar.
Fans were bummed the show skipped Mihawk's famous solo arrival at the Baratie, but his little ship, the Hitsugibune, actually does appear. It's docked quietly among other boats in Loguetown during the very first minutes of the pilot.
Right near the start of the game, Vesemir describes Emperor Emhyr's summons as 'an offer one can't refuse,' borrowing one of The Godfather's most famous lines almost word for word.
