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The final mission ends with a recording of President Truman's actual voice talking about Germany's surrender and the bombing of Hiroshima, right before the screen just states plainly that 60 million people died in the war. No triumphant music, no victory lap - just a gut-check ending.
One of the sneakier details carried over from the comics is that The Spot's interdimensional energy doesn't register on anyone's spider-sense, his or hers, which is exactly why he's able to sneak up on Spider-People who'd otherwise see any other threat coming a mile off.
When South Park decided to make an episode about WoW, Trey Parker and Matt Stone were stunned that Blizzard agreed to help. Blizzard let them shoot scenes on the Burning Crusade alpha server, and 'Make Love, Not Warcraft' went on to win the 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program.
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.
When the Hot Coffee content came to light, Australia's Attorney-General opened an investigation, and on 29 July 2005 the game actually lost its rating entirely, meaning it couldn't legally be sold there. Rockstar had to submit a cleaned-up version a few months later to get it back on shelves.
Brian Tyler didn't just write the score on a laptop, he flew it out to Slovakia and recorded it live with the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra at Slovak Radio's concert hall, with a full team of orchestrators and arrangers helping shape the final sound.
That gut-punch opening with Hawkeye's family turning to dust was actually written for Infinity War. It got pulled because the editors felt that film was already jumping between too many characters, so it got saved and used to kick off Endgame instead.
For a while, scripts kept mysteriously turning up online before episodes aired. Producers hired a private investigator and eventually traced it to a teenage hacker overseas who'd broken into a writer's email and was selling scripts on eBay. Because the hacker was a minor, nothing could be done, so the crew started printing scripts on red paper just to stop leaks.
Digging through old build files shows Infinity Ward experimented with night-time versions of several multiplayer maps, including Ambush, Strike, District and Overgrown. They were basically identical to the day versions bar the lighting, and none of them made the final cut.
