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Athene's Unholy Grail wasn't always called that. It started out as the Chalice of Discord before Riot renamed it in honour of Athene, a well-known World of Warcraft streamer who reportedly brought thousands of players over into League. Not a bad way to say thanks.
Deep in Oasis, at the northern edge of the map, you'll find Harold, a ghoul who has literally become one with a tree, now known as Bob. Harold first appeared as a mutated ghoul in the original two Fallout games, and his transformation into a sentient tree is one of the series' longest-running character arcs.
Early on when Drake and Tenzin stumble across a pile of dead wolves in the ice cave, don't rush past it. If you look closely at the blood splattered in the snow you'll spot a single red paw print sitting among the mess, which is actually a nod to the Naughty Dog logo itself, tucked into the scenery where most players never think to look.
One of Sojourn's sprays, 'Old Soldiers,' is a shot-for-shot recreation of that famous arm-wrestling handshake between Dutch and Dillon in Predator. If you've seen the movie, it's instantly recognizable — if you haven't, it just looks like a really intense high-five.
Take a close look at the barcode on Soldier: 76's Biotic Field when he's wearing the Grillmaster skin and you'll find the number 0118 999 881 999 119 7253 — the fake 'easy to remember' emergency number from The IT Crowd. Cheeky pick given the item's whole job is healing people.
When the shoot wrapped, Peter Jackson quietly gave Elijah Wood and Andy Serkis each one of the actual rings used on set as a wrap gift. Both of them genuinely believed they'd been handed the only one, with no clue the other had one too.
By the time Red Dead Redemption 2 opens, John Marston has already spent fifteen years riding with Dutch's gang, having only recently come back after running off for a year. It's a detail that quietly reshapes how you read his whole arc once you know just how long he'd been in this life before the story even starts.
There was originally a scene in The Great Game laying out exactly why Mycroft and Sherlock don't get along, tied to some childhood incident Mycroft blamed on his brother. It got cut in the end, with Moffat and Gatiss deciding the rivalry worked better left a mystery.
Co-executive producer Kevin R. Wright revealed the team actually crunched the numbers, and across a full decade of MCU movie appearances, Hiddleston's Loki had been on screen for less than two hours total. Season one alone blows straight past that, clocking in at 280 minutes and 17 seconds across just six episodes.
