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Robert Downey Jr. Refused To Give Tony A Death Speech

The writers apparently drafted a bunch of dialogue for Tony's goodbye scene, but Downey pushed back hard and insisted the moment land better with Tony saying nothing at all. It's part of why that scene hits as hard as it does - the silence does the work.

Geralt's Voice Actor Calls the UK Home

Doug Cockle actually grew up in the US in a Marine Corps family before eventually settling in the UK with his wife back in 1999, where he still lives and works today. He holds both American and British citizenship.

The Opening Robbery Is a Sneaky Robert Pattinson Callback

Keep an eye on the convenience store that gets robbed early on, it's called 'Good Times Groceries'. That's a wink to Good Time, the 2017 Safdie Brothers film starring Pattinson, which Reeves watched and reportedly started writing this script with Pattinson already in mind for Batman.

Hemsworth Went Quiet Online For A Year Over Backlash

The recasting announcement didn't go down well with a lot of fans, and Liam Hemsworth reportedly stepped away from social media for roughly a year to avoid the pile-on before his first season as Geralt even aired.

Ilia Isorelýs Paulino Steps Into Alvida's Boots

The role of Iron Mace Alvida, the vain pirate captain who terrorizes Koby before Luffy shows up, went to Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, an actress previously seen in Queenpins and The Sex Lives of College Girls.

Season Three's Writers Room Shake-Up

For the first two seasons the writers room was basically all guys running around having Nerf gun fights and Lego competitions between pitches. Season three changed that with the show's first gender-balanced room, and both Harmon and Roiland have said the female writers brought in that year were a huge part of why the Beth and Summer storylines got so much stronger.

One Actor Voices Five Different Characters

Voice actor Wes Johnson returned to the Elder Scrolls series to voice Sheogorath, Emperor Titus Mede II, the Spectral Assassin, the Wretched Abyss (Hermaeus Mora), and the game's Dremora, plus Hermaeus Mora again in the Dragonborn expansion.

O'Sullivan's Pub

There's a rundown pub you pass through called O'Sullivan's, and the layout is a deliberate callback to the bar brawl that kicks off Uncharted 3. The name itself is a nod to Victor 'Sully' Sullivan, Nathan Drake's long-time partner in crime.

A Nametag for the Composer

Keep an eye on your fireteam roster in a few missions and you might spot a soldier tagged 'MRTY,' with 'O-Donnell' printed underneath. It's a little in-joke honouring Marty O'Donnell, the composer behind the game's score and pretty much the entire Halo sound.

What's Inside the Lockboxes

Scattered supply crates and lockboxes across the game usually hold ammo and grenades, but crack one open with the simple lock-picking minigame and you might land some of the best guns around, including the Silenced Pistol, an RPG, the China Lake shotgun-launcher, or the Harbinger sniper rifle.