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In Grizzly Hills you can find a young deer named Bambina wandering with a rabbit (Thudder) and a skunk (Flora), a clear Bambi reference. Wait around and a scripted hunter appears to shoot Bambina's mother, sending the fawn into a berserk, 2,000%-damage rage.
In September 2005, a debuff meant to stay contained to a single raid boss, Hakkar the Soulflayer, escaped into the wider world through infected pets. The resulting outbreak spread through capital cities so effectively that epidemiologists later studied it as a real model for how populations react to disease.
In the Canal District of Stormwind runs a flower shop owned by a man named Bernard Gump, a florist with an unmistakable nod in his name to Tom Hanks' Forrest Gump. A second, older reference (a long-missing character called Gubber Blump) predates him.
For The Taken King expansion, Bungie replaced Dinklage with veteran voice actor Nolan North, best known for Nathan Drake in Uncharted. Remarkably, North didn't just voice new lines, he re-recorded every single piece of Ghost dialogue from the original base game so the whole experience would feel consistent.
