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You actually started life on Lifetime back in 2018 and flopped hard enough that the network dropped it after one season. Netflix had only bought the international rights at first, but once they saw how the show performed on their platform they bought it outright and turned it into a full-blown Netflix Original. Producer Greg Berlanti has said it went from one of the least-watched shows of his career to the most-watched almost overnight.
Marvel's higher-ups weren't fans of Hawkeye's farm reveal or the team's vision sequences and reportedly threatened to cut them entirely unless Whedon added in the subplot with Thor visiting the cave. Once test screenings reacted badly to that cave detour, the studio turned around and ordered it trimmed anyway, leaving the editor to stitch together a version that still made sense without it.
Swim out into Bittertide Lake in Sholazar Basin and you'll find a tiny island with a hatch set into the ground. A plaque beside it reads a string of numbers that's a cheeky one-digit-higher twist on the famous recurring sequence from the TV show Lost.
When Ultron is lounging on his makeshift throne talking down to Pietro and Wanda, he's draped in a red hooded cloak. It's a subtle wink toward his first-ever comic appearance back in Avengers #54 from 1968, where he disguised himself under the alias "the Crimson Cowl."
In the source comics, Ultron is Hank Pym's creation, not Tony Stark and Bruce Banner's. The switch happened mostly for practical reasons: Michael Douglas was busy playing an older Hank Pym over in the upcoming Ant-Man film, so handing the creation credit to Stark and Banner made a lot more sense for how the shared timeline was shaping up.
The art team photographed real Los Angeles neighborhoods extensively during development, and a lot of those photos ended up baked directly into the game's textures. Halfway through production the New York studio even went back to double-check every reference to keep the recreation accurate.
Alongside animated spinoff plans, there have been reports of a separate live-action League of Legends TV project, with location scouting reportedly taking place in Vietnam's Cát Bà Archipelago for a planned nine-episode series. It's a completely different production from the Arcane team's animated follow-up.
Dig through the leftover text strings in the game's files and you'll find mentions of unused characters called Mr. Moffat and Mr. Black, tied to missions that never made it to the finished product. Mr. Black in particular seems to have been meant as a contact for a scrapped string of payphone assassination jobs.
