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Black Mask had only ever been referenced through a scavenger hunt clue back in Arkham Asylum, so getting to actually see him locked up in Arkham City felt like a step up. He's not important enough to warrant his own boss fight here though, he's just one of the many prisoners you spot wandering around early on, saved for a bigger role down the line.
Rather than dumping a full season at once or doing the usual weekly single-episode drip, Netflix released Arcane in three-episode chunks called Acts, spaced roughly a week apart. It's an unusual middle-ground release strategy that kept people talking between drops without making them wait a full week per episode.
Among the various costumes and outfits players can dig up during their scavenging runs is a full Nathan Drake Halloween getup. It's become one of the most talked-about crossover finds in the whole game, mostly because it looks ridiculous on Ellie.
The whole movie arguably exists because of a theme park deal. Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination founder Chris Meledandri first connected through Nintendo's partnership with Universal Parks on Super Nintendo World, and that relationship is what eventually grew into the pitch for an animated Mario film.
In one of the very first rooms of Nacht der Untoten there's an old dentist's chair just sitting there. Hold the action button on the wheel at its base and you'll hear the drill start up along with a man screaming. Nobody needed that in a zombie survival map but here we are.
During the Fremennik Trials, there's a way to dodge the combat challenge entirely — a bloke called Thorvald will let you skip it if you bring him five sardines. There's even dedicated dialogue for using the sardines on him directly, except it turns out he was just messing with you the whole time.
During the beta, someone found a mysterious empty text box hidden on the Diablo III forums. After a load of guessing, a fan worked out that typing 'starcow' into it unlocked a hidden animation of a cow drifting through space to a Nyan Cat remix. Nobody really knows why it's there, it's just there.
Plenty of the Delta and SAS soldiers running around MW3's campaign barely get a close-up, but the actors behind them are surprisingly big names. William Fichtner, Idris Elba, Timothy Olyphant, Bruce Greenwood and Barry Pepper all lent their voices to characters who, in most cases, never even get a proper cutscene.
Taking over Bruce Banner from Edward Norton wasn't easy for Ruffalo, and he apparently spent the first few weeks of filming feeling seriously insecure about it. Both Whedon and Downey Jr had to keep reassuring him he was the right fit, with Ruffalo later saying Norton had essentially 'bequeathed' the part to him.
The moment Carol Danvers shows up to save a drifting Tony Stark isn't a standalone beat - it picks up right where her post-credits scene left off, with her tracking down his ship using the beacon left over from Nick Fury's pager call.
