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The typeface used for the original RUNESCAPE logo apparently gets reused constantly outside of gaming — it turns up as the signage font for a huge chunk of Asian-themed restaurants across the US, which is a genuinely strange bit of overlap for a font most people associate with a fantasy MMO.
Same bedroom, another hidden reference: a poster reading 'Starlight Savage 2: Coming Soon.' Starlight Savage is the fictional comic series Ellie is obsessed with in The Last of Us, quietly tying the two worlds together on a kid's bedroom wall.
The Lich King isn't one villain, it's a title that's been passed around. It started with Ner'zhul, an orc shaman whose soul was frozen into a block of ice by the Burning Legion, and it only became Arthas Menethil once the paladin claimed both the cursed runeblade Frostmourne and the Helm of Domination, fusing the two souls into the icon most players remember.
While the crew filmed the chase sequence along Lake Street, actual Chicago residents started phoning the police, convinced they were watching a genuine pursuit involving a mystery dark vehicle tearing through the streets.
Kris Kristofferson, the country singer and actor from the Blade films, voices Chief Hanlon, the tired old NCR soldier who's grown disillusioned with the war for Hoover Dam. His weathered, gravelly delivery fits the character's exhaustion perfectly, which is probably exactly why he was cast.
At the cocktail party before the Monaco race, Tony has a brief exchange with none other than Elon Musk playing himself, years before Musk's own public persona became so tangled up with the real-life Tony Stark comparisons.
Odin and Thor, the two Northern Inuit dogs who played the direwolf pups Summer and Grey Wind, weren't treated like ordinary animal actors. Their owner had them insured for a million pounds apiece, and over the years following the show they went on to meet roughly 400,000 fans through appearances and tours.
Before Troy Baker took over the role, Todd Stashwick was cast as Sam Drake and even appears as the character's voice in the very first teaser trailer. When the game changed direction, Stashwick was quietly replaced.
When Olenna Tyrell meets Ellaria Sand in Dorne and jokes about a Tyrell being assassinated with 'a hundred red scorpions,' it's a wink to George R.R. Martin's novels. The line nods to the death of an ancestor, Lyonel Tyrell, who had a habit of storming Dornish castles and kicking the local lords out of their own bedrooms, until the Dornish decided to make an example of him.
Trailer 1 pulled in over 93 million views on YouTube within its first 24 hours, which was enough to set a Guinness World Record for the most-watched video game trailer ever and quietly overtake MrBeast's previous best of 59.4 million.
