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Among the hundreds of blades welded together to form the Iron Throne, one of them has a much older claim to fame. Look carefully and you can spot Glamdring, the sword used by Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, hidden among the swords of vanquished kings and lords.
The magnetic gauntlet that lets Cap yank his shield back to his arm feels like slick movie tech, but it's actually pulled straight from the comics, where Tony Stark built a similar magnet-based retrieval system for his star-spangled teammate long before this film came along.
Dustin's claim that he has 'no collarbones' actually points to a genuine condition called cleidocranial dysplasia, which Gaten Matarazzo was born with. The Duffers wrote it directly into the show as an explanation for why the character was missing teeth in the earlier seasons, turning something very personal to the actor into part of Dustin's identity.
Critics were basically falling over themselves for this game at the end of 2011. It picked up Game of the Year honours from a huge stack of outlets and award shows, on top of being one of the most decorated titles of that generation.
In one of the game's twisted dream-sequence detours, Scarface delivers a version of Warden Sharp's usual welcome video, boasting that Killer Croc runs a security wing with a 'perfect record' and 'nothing but empty cells.' It's never spelled out directly, but the implication that Croc has simply been eating the patients is about as grim as this game gets.
Most three-kill streaks in Black Ops just give you information, like a Spy Plane. The RC-XD breaks that pattern completely, handing you a remote-controlled car packed with explosives that you drive straight into enemies before blowing it up. It's the only reward at that low a killstreak tier that lets you rack up an actual kill with your own hands rather than just intel.
Adult Swim rolled out Rixty Minutes before it actually aired on TV, splitting it into 109 separate 15-second clips posted to Instagram. Nobody had done that before, which technically makes it the very first television episode premiere to happen on Instagram.
There's a trophy called Stage Fright that pops up in Chapter 11 if you just stand still for 30 seconds after a certain cutscene. It's Naughty Dog poking fun at themselves, referencing the famously awkward E3 2015 stage demo where the controller froze up mid-presentation.
Before launch, Black Isle ran a Fallout trivia contest online and through an Australian gaming mag. The two winners, Lucas Kawarski from Poland and Cameron Rapmund from Australia, got themselves written into the game as actual villagers in Arroyo. A later patch even swapped the placeholder names Dumar and Standing Fist for Cameron and Lucas to make the tribute official.
