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The Prodigal Explorer wasn't just plucked out of thin air. He's named after Colt Hallam, a Riot Games staffer who's gone by the nickname Ezreal for years, and who worked on some of the earliest systems in the game, including the original ARAM mode.
Every violin Sherlock plays on screen across the three series is a genuine instrument on loan from Cardiff Violins, not a prop. The one used in Series Three was reportedly worth around £1200, and the company was apparently pretty touched when the BBC sent it back with a nice letter.
As of launch, GTA VI is confirmed only for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Rockstar hasn't said a word about a PC release window, following the same pattern as GTA V, which didn't arrive on PC until well over a year after console.
Every big-screen Batman before this had a pointy, beak-like nose on the cowl. Pattinson's version swaps that out for a rounder nose piece, which looks a lot closer to what Adam West wore in the 1966 series, right down to the visible stitching if you look closely enough.
Deep inside one of the game's monster caves is a skeleton with its arm trapped under a fallen rock, a grim little homage to 127 Hours imagining what might have happened if the climber in that film never made it out.
Tucked away in Winter Contingency is a tiny, scaled-down Skirmisher model that takes two players working together to actually reach. Once the civilians clear out of the building near your objective, a crouch-jump onto a ledge gets you close enough to spot it.
After Uncharted 2 wrapped up in 2009, Naughty Dog didn't just move on to another sequel - they split into two teams. One half stayed on Uncharted duty for Drake's Deception, while the other half went off to build something completely new, which eventually became The Last of Us.
The idea of a bigger villain pulling strings behind Loki actually came from Whedon himself. He suggested the Mad Titan Thanos as that hidden mastermind, got him written into the post credits scene, and had no idea at the time just how central that character would become to the entire franchise years later.
Before the story's big timeskip, Toei padded the anime with 58 filler episodes to keep pace with the manga. After the timeskip, that number dropped to just 18, and none of the newer filler arcs run longer than four episodes, a clear sign the studio leaned much harder into staying close to Oda's source material as the story matured.
