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The Sniper Rifle That Became a Machine Gun

The Bozar was supposed to be a slow, accurate sniper rifle. Somewhere during development someone accidentally flagged it for burst fire instead, turning it into this absurd automatic hand-cannon. The team liked the happy accident so much they just left it broken, and it became one of the best late-game weapons in the game.

Why There's No Real Post-Credits Scene

Both Kevin Feige and Joss Whedon went out of their way beforehand to tell audiences not to expect a post-credits scene this time. Whedon reasoned that the shawarma gag at the end of the first Avengers had already set an impossibly high bar, and he didn't want people sitting through ten extra minutes of credits only to walk away disappointed.

Dr. Zwicky, the Fish That Might Bite Back

You can fish up a strange item called Dr. Zwicky, but only from the highland swarms in Terokkar Forest, which you can only reach on a flying mount. It has three charges and a four-hour cooldown, and each use is a gamble: a temporary companion, a surprise enemy, a box of potions or a health buff. Sometimes it also hands you a magical crawdad battle pet.

The Ice Cream Van's Secret Speed-Up

Ever driven an ice cream truck around Liberty City and noticed the tune speeding up? That jingle is actually a warped version of the game's own theme song, and the faster you drive, the faster it plays - a tiny detail Rockstar didn't need to bother with, but did anyway.

That Cowl Owes a Debt to Adam West

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.

Silco Raised the Girl Piltover Feared Most

After Vi is arrested and Powder is left alone following the tunnel explosion, it's Silco who takes her in and shapes her into Jinx. He's framed as a villain for most of the run, but the show is careful to make his bond with her feel genuine, which is exactly what makes the ending hurt as much as it does.

A Hippo Hidden in the Garbage

Bungie's running hippo joke, first hidden on shotgun shell casings in the original Halo, made its way into Halo 3 too. Tucked in a pile of garbage in the back right corner of the multiplayer map Foundry sits a tiny hippo image, only really visible if you zoom in with a sniper rifle scope.

The Bag-Headed Spider-Man Cameo

Among the sea of Spider-People wandering around headquarters is one wearing a paper bag over his head with a Fantastic Four costume underneath. That's a direct pull from an old comic run where Peter lost his suit and had to improvise, earning him the nickname Bombastic Bag-Man. Blink and you'll miss him, but it's exactly the kind of deep-cut reference the movie is stuffed with.

Southeast Asia Got a Very Different Cut of the Show

Broadcasters in places like Indonesia and the Philippines heavily edited MHA for TV, cropping and zooming out swimsuit scenes and blurring Momo's costume to hide her cleavage. Violence got trimmed too, so a decent chunk of viewers in the region ended up watching a noticeably tamer version of the show.

The Sunken Submarine Fortune

One of the largest single cash stashes in the game, $25,000, sits on top of a wrecked submarine deep underwater, next to the vessel's entrance hatch, rewarding players willing to dive for it.