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Scarlett Johansson was pregnant while shooting this, so the crew front-loaded a lot of her scenes early in production before it started to show and brought in three separate stunt doubles for the physical stuff later on. The doubles apparently looked so much like her that even her co-stars got confused, with Chris Evans admitting he'd sometimes start chatting to one of them mid-scene before realising it wasn't Scarlett at all.
When Illidan Stormrage bellowed 'You are not prepared!' in The Burning Crusade's cinematic trailer, it was supposed to be a menacing warning from one of Azeroth's most powerful villains. Instead the line got mocked so relentlessly by players who felt perfectly prepared, thank you, that it became one of the most quoted pieces of dialogue in the game's entire history.
Eagle-eyed fans noticed the Infinity Gauntlet glimpsed in Odin's trophy room back in the first Thor movie fits a right hand, while the one Thanos slips on during the credits here fits his left. It's a tiny detail that ended up fuelling years of fan theories about fake gauntlets and hidden vaults before later films sorted it all out.
In Stormsong Valley you can find NPCs named Severus the Outcast, Harald the Scarred, Ranald Flamehair, and Herme the Wise, a playful stand-in for Severus Snape and the Harry Potter trio, part of a wider scattering of wizarding-world nods across the game.
During the flashback to Zoro's childhood duel with Kuina, there's a flag in the background bearing the Shimotsuki family crest, a detail that only pays off once you know how deeply that family ties into Zoro's history in Wano.
Under Amy Hennig, the early version of the game leaned much harder into stealth and traversal, with Nate not even carrying a gun at the start, just his grappling hook and climbing gear. It was reportedly a deliberate attempt to dial back the gun violence that earlier Uncharted games had been criticised for.
For season two, production shifted away from Namibia and New York entirely, relocating to California so the team could recreate the neon ruins of New Vegas. The shift also let the crew build out locations more familiar from Fallout: New Vegas, following on from that final season one shot teasing the Strip.
Niko's default hand-to-hand combat isn't just generic brawler animation, it's actually modelled on Krav Maga, the close-quarters fighting system developed for the Israeli military. Makes sense once you think about it, given Niko's background as a war veteran who's clearly had to defend himself in ugly situations long before he ever got to Liberty City.
When Max Mayfield uses this 1985 track as her lifeline against Vecna in Season 4, nobody expected it to send a nearly 40-year-old song rocketing back up the charts. Kate Bush herself, notoriously private and rarely public about anything, posted a heartfelt statement thanking the show's young fans for giving the track, in her words, 'a whole new lease of life'.
In the level where you're hunting for Captain Keyes in the swamp, there's a spot where staying completely still and mashing the grenade button the moment Foe Hammer mentions the last transmission will let the dropship take off again with you still aboard, giving you a short bonus flight before it eventually crashes.
