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That iconic blue 'product' wasn't anything exotic to film with — it was rock candy, made by a real candy shop in Albuquerque where the show was shot. The shop actually sold the stuff to fans while the series was still airing.
Karen Strassman voices Zyra, Cassiopeia, Fiora, Shyvana, and Elise, five champions who otherwise have almost nothing in common. She's also done plenty of anime voice work on shows like Gurren Lagann and Code Geass, so if any of them sounded oddly familiar, that's why.
Bake your very first cake in Minecraft and the achievement you unlock is simply called 'The Lie', a cheeky little wink at Portal's endlessly quotable line about the cake being a lie. It's easy to miss if you're not already in on the joke, but once you know it's there you can't unsee it every time you go for that early-game achievement.
Lena Headey played one of the most hated characters on television so convincingly that some fans genuinely struggled to separate her from Cersei. She's talked about being shunned and called names at conventions, and even had people snatch books away before she could sign them, which says a lot about how believable her performance was.
That eyepatch-wearing Morty who shows up briefly back in season one turns out to be the mastermind running the entire Citadel of Ricks election storyline in The Ricklantis Mixup. The second the show confirms he's Evil Morty, For the Damaged Coda by Blonde Redhead kicks in, and the band's music has basically become his unofficial theme ever since.
The game's anima-based magic system lets players summon a spectral axe that fells trees instantly, turning what's normally a slow survival-game grind into a quick bit of casting instead.
A lot of action movies fudge their countdown clocks to stretch out tension, but the nuke timer in the final battle actually tracks pretty closely to the real runtime of that section of the film. It's a tiny bit of restraint that a lot of viewers never clock because they're too busy watching Stark fly it through the portal.
Instead of the usual photorealistic motion blur you'd get in modern CG, the animation team drew old-school smear frames by hand to sell fast movement, the same trick classic 2D cartoons used decades ago. It keeps every pose looking like a clean illustration rather than a blurry photograph, which is a big part of why the action reads like it's ripped straight off a comic page.
Development quietly kicked off back in 1999, but the game wasn't revealed to the world until a European trade show on September 2, 2001, just days before the September 11 attacks reshaped the news cycle. Fans at the reveal were actually expecting an announcement about StarCraft II and were caught completely off guard when Blizzard said it was making an MMO instead.
