No 'Batman' in the Title
For all its box office dominance, this is actually the first Batman feature film where the word 'Batman' doesn't appear anywhere in the title itself.
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One of the First Games to Use an Online Pass
Buy it used back in the day and you'd need to cough up for a PlayStation Network Pass just to get into multiplayer. Uncharted 3 was one of the earliest big titles to lean on this system, which Sony (and pretty much every publisher) quietly dropped a few years later once everyone realised how unpopular it was.
Firefly's Cast Basically Reunited on New Mombasa
Three of your five squadmates are played by former Firefly cast members. Nathan Fillion (Captain Mal himself) voices Buck, Adam Baldwin plays Dutch, and Alan Tudyk voices Mickey. Romeo's the odd one out, but if ODST's banter ever felt weirdly like eavesdropping on the Serenity crew, that's why.
Owen Wilson's Spoiler Strike
Owen Wilson let slip in an interview that he'd grown a moustache for playing Mobius, and later that day he got a text from an unknown number that just said "Strike 1." He reckons it might have been Kevin Feige himself on a burner phone, and after that he was a lot more careful about what he said in press.
A Theme You Only Hear Twice
Composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard made a conscious choice to use Batman's heroic musical theme only twice across the whole film. Their reasoning was that a hummable heroic tune would undercut the darker, messier version of the character they were going for, so hearing it sparingly turns it into what Zimmer called a kind of musical foreshadowing.
Grasp of Avarice Was Built Around the Loot Cave
Years after Destiny 1 ended, Bungie revisited the Cosmodrome loot cave as the setting for the Grasp of Avarice dungeon in Destiny 2's 30th Anniversary Pack, spinning the community's favourite exploit into an in-universe story about a fireteam corrupted by greed.
The Three Brothers Ruled Hell by Force
Mephisto, Baal and Diablo styled themselves as a dark ruling triumvirate over the whole of Hell, using brutal strength and cunning to keep the four Lesser Evils in line beneath them. It's this power imbalance that eventually sparked the rebellion known as the Dark Exile.
Award Recognition for Geralt's Voice
Doug Cockle's performance as Geralt in Witcher 3 didn't go unnoticed by the industry. It earned him genuine critical acclaim along with multiple award nominations at major gaming awards ceremonies.
A Question That Comes Back to Bite Him
Early in episode one, a little girl asks Steven if it hurt when he got rejected from the Field of Reeds. It's such a throwaway moment first time round, but it's actually setting up exactly what happens to him falling from Taweret's boat in episode five.