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When Thor confronts Loki up on the cliffside, two ravens can be seen scattering as the Asgardians land. They're a nod to Huginn and Muninn, Odin's ravens from Norse mythology and the comics, who fly across the world gathering information and reporting back to him - basically Odin's own surveillance system keeping tabs on his sons.
During one of Scarecrow's fear-gas hallucinations, he appears posing as Batman's therapist and casually remarks that Bruce has 'been like this' ever since his parents died - a chillingly casual line delivery that plays on one of the character's most famous traumas, before it's clarified he doesn't actually know who's under the mask.
Keira Knightley had chopped her hair into a short pixie cut for the film Domino, and there simply wasn't time to grow it back before shooting started. So most of Elizabeth Swann's flowing locks in this one are actually extensions.
After you free Cash and Dr Kellerman from the laughing gas trap, look back through the glass into the room they were held in. Rocksteady snuck in a not-so-subtle nod to the much-maligned 1997 Batman & Robin film here, poking fun at one of the franchise's lowest points at the time.
In June 2005, a Dutch modder found a disabled sex scene still sitting in the game's files and released a fix to switch it back on, calling it Hot Coffee. It spread fast, and within weeks Rockstar was staring down a full-blown industry crisis rather than just a modding curiosity.
In the wider story, the numbered Baroque Works agent titles don't retire when someone dies, they just get reassigned. After Zoro kills the original Mr. 7, the position and number are picked up by a new operative who later appears working alongside Miss Father's Day during the Arabasta arc.
Present Mic's civilian name, Hizashi Yamada, is thought to be a small nod to Yamada Hisashi, a well-known Japanese radio DJ. It fits, considering Present Mic's whole hero persona is basically 'radio host with superpowers.'
In Dalaran's Legerdemain Lounge, a human named Roscoe and a blood elf named Rachele sit across from each other on the coffee shop's centre couches, a clear stand-in for Ross and Rachel from Friends. Rachele will occasionally wonder aloud where 'Phoe'be' has got to.
In multiplayer, the M1 Garand is oddly the only rifle in its weapon class that can be fitted with a sniper scope attachment, unlocked after the flash hider, bayonet and rifle grenade. A neat little outlier buried in the game's weapon progression.
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.
