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That moment where the Fellowship leaps a gap in the collapsing stairs while orcs fire arrows at them, with Aragorn and Frodo riding a broken chunk of stone across the gap, was built as a real physical set piece rather than a digital effect.
Look closely at the back of Nathan Drake's holster and you'll spot the letters NDI branded onto it. It's a cheeky little in-joke standing for Naughty Dog Incorporated, hiding in plain sight on the character's own gear.
Co-creator Christian Linke has confirmed that Riot and Fortiche are already a year into developing the next chapter of the Arcane universe, this time exploring the regions of Noxus, Ionia and Demacia rather than revisiting Piltover and Zaun directly. Riot has since clarified it's not necessarily three separate shows, more a single project exploring those regions, with reports suggesting a late 2026 or early 2027 window.
When Fury mentions Life Model Decoys to explain away Coulson's supposed 'death', it flew right over most audiences' heads back in 2012. It's actually a proper deep cut reference to the comics, where LMDs are robotic doubles built to stand in for real people - Whedon dropped it in years before it would matter to anyone paying attention.
As huge as Minecraft's sales numbers are, it still isn't technically the single best-selling game of all time once you count Tetris, which has racked up over 520 million units across its many different versions since the 1980s. Minecraft holds the record for best-selling single title from one continuous release, which is its own remarkable feat given it's had virtually no sequels or reboots to pad the numbers.
Mortensen got so attached to Brego, the horse he rode as Aragorn, that he bought him from the production once filming wrapped, and picked up a second horse so Brego wouldn't be lonely.
Finish Sindri's 'Family Business' favour and you'll walk away with the Shattered Gauntlet of Ages, a relic built from scattered fragments. Fill all three of its enchantment slots and it fires off a purple beam, which is about as subtle a Thanos reference as Santa Monica Studio could get away with.
Right after Sokka mutters that weird stuff keeps happening to the group, a guy sucking on an ear of corn sits down near him and Toph on the Ba Sing Se tram. Fans have long pointed to it as a nod to Invader Zim, another Nickelodeon show with its own devoted cult following.
That 26-minute Extended Look wasn't a cinematic trailer dressed up to look like gameplay, it was genuinely captured running on a PlayStation 5, giving fans the clearest indication yet of what the final game will actually look like in motion.
Some fans and critics argued the show's Irene Adler was a step down from Conan Doyle's original, who beats Holmes by simply outsmarting him rather than falling for him. Moffat pushed back on that reading in an interview with The Guardian, pointing out that in the original story Adler's 'victory' was just running off and getting married, which he didn't think counted as much of a feminist win either.
