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The cast's stunned reactions in the film's final scene weren't acted. Everyone had been told that Zoe Saldaña's Anamaria was the one who'd walk out at the end, so their surprise at seeing Geoffrey Rush's Barbossa instead was completely real.
There's a rare spawn called Nine Toads, which is a pretty obvious wink at Borderlands' Nine Toes. It doesn't stop at the name either, since killing it can drop a weapon called The Clipper, the exact same name as the gun Nine Toes drops in Borderlands.
Unlike the attack-and-defend setup of Search and Destroy, the Sabotage game mode starts with a single bomb sitting neutral in the middle of the map, and both teams have to fight their way to it before they can even think about planting.
Since the original game launched on PlayStation 3, Naughty Dog snuck actual PS3 consoles into the environment as a little in-joke. You can spot one under Joel and Sarah's TV right at the start, and another later inside Larry's TV & Stereo store, complete with a couple of DualShock controllers on a nearby shelf.
Tony's slick briefcase-turned-armor was inspired by early Iron Man comic artwork drawn by Bob Layton, who gave the suit a sleeker, more form-fitting look than the bulkier designs that came later.
Motorcycles make their series debut here, something that sounds minor now but was a genuine first for the franchise. Once you've weaved a PCJ 600 through Ocean Beach traffic at full throttle, it's hard to imagine the open-world GTA formula ever existing without two-wheeled chaos as an option.
If you use the Ring of Endurance on the archpriest unicorn found in the Hallowed Sepulchre, it triggers hidden dialogue explaining exactly where the ring actually came from — something you'd never stumble on unless you were pairing two very specific things together for no obvious reason.
Pastor Richards only shows up briefly at Ricardo Diaz's party in the finished game, but by most accounts he was originally written for a considerably larger role in the story. Whatever bigger plans existed for him got trimmed down to that one short appearance somewhere along the way.
The Striga's leaping attacks in season one weren't done with pure CGI. Stunt coordinators relied heavily on ropework, essentially rigging the performers to wires and yanking them through the air, to sell the monster's speed and the scene where it crashes through the floor with Geralt.
Hulk's iconic put down of Loki wasn't invented for the film. In the comics the Hulk's usual go-to insult is 'puny humans', so swapping it to 'puny god' for a literal god was a small tweak that turned into one of the most quoted lines in the entire MCU.
