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Crack open the circuit box where Deadshot keeps his gear stashed and there's a weird glowing prop that a lot of players assumed was a lightsaber reference. Turns out it's actually just a low-res model of a sniper scope that ended up looking way more sci-fi than intended. Still funny that it fooled so many people.
The name of the Flood's central intelligence wasn't lifted from any existing mythology, it was coined by Bungie staff writer Jaime Griesemer specifically for the character. The Gravemind is voiced throughout the trilogy by actor Dee Bradley Baker, known for his extensive voice work across animation and games.
There's an intentional bit of world-building buried in the Flying Dutchman's crew designs. The more twisted and creature-like a crew member looks, the higher up the ship's hierarchy they actually are, so the most monstrous faces belong to the ones closest to Davy Jones.
Weta's digital version of Treebeard was so complex that a single frame took up to 48 hours to render. Since he appears throughout the film, that adds up to something like 50 years of computer processing time in total.
Casting Wayne Newton as the radio host Mr. New Vegas is one of those decisions that just makes too much sense. Newton had been performing in actual Las Vegas for decades and was practically synonymous with the city, so having him play the smooth-voiced DJ of the Mojave's own radio station was a perfect bit of stunt casting that also happened to work brilliantly.
Uma Thurman was offered the part of Eowyn but passed on it. Miranda Otto took the role instead, and Thurman later admitted she regretted saying no.
Strip the 'Earl of' off Jakben, Earl of Imbel's name and you get JakbenImbel, which reads a lot like 'Jack be nimble' if you squint. Fittingly, he's connected to Springheel Jak - a play on the English folklore figure Spring-Heeled Jack - whose boots give you a hefty Acrobatics boost, perfect for jumping over candlesticks.
Vault 95 was pitched to its residents as a rehab facility for chem addicts, but Vault-Tec quietly stashed a huge cache of drugs inside as part of the experiment. Once people found it, things fell apart fast - staff were killed and the vault dwellers overdosed in waves. You can still find their bodies slumped around the vault today, chems scattered nearby.
In Tolkien's original story, the Warg attack actually happens near the Mines of Moria in the first book and takes place at night. Jackson moved the whole sequence into The Two Towers and shot it in broad daylight instead.
During one of Scarecrow's fear-gas hallucinations, he appears posing as Batman's therapist and casually remarks that Bruce has 'been like this' ever since his parents died - a chillingly casual line delivery that plays on one of the character's most famous traumas, before it's clarified he doesn't actually know who's under the mask.
