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Arcane writer Amanda Overton has said she was genuinely nervous while developing Vi and Caitlyn's relationship, worried the slow burn might read as queerbaiting to fans who've been burned by shows that hint at queer romance without ever committing to it.
Amazon confirmed Fallout would return for a third season, announcing the renewal ahead of season two's launch. By that point the first two seasons had already pulled in over 100 million viewers worldwide between them, landing among the most-watched seasons in Prime Video's history.
Head to any multiplayer map with the big shipping containers, Shipment is the easiest spot, and take a proper look at the white lettering stencilled on the sides. Depending on the container, it reads out as 'INFINITY WRD' or 'COD MW', a sly little signature from the studio itself.
There's a bittersweet story behind all the 'Uncle has lumbago' jokes. John O'Creagh, who performed and voiced Uncle, passed away from a blood clot complication partway through the game's production. Rockstar removed most of his recorded lines out of respect, though the unused files still sit in the game's data. The one performance of his that made it into the finished game is his singing during the celebration scene at Beecher's Hope.
Before Toph Beifong became the blind, sarcastic earthbending prodigy we know, the character was originally written as male. Bits of that original design apparently still float around the show in background characters, including the wrestler known as The Boulder.
Keep an eye on the background wanted posters and you'll spot a torn one reading '...endish' with a familiar face. That's Cavendish of the White Horse, a character who won't actually show up in the story proper until much later arcs.
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.
French artist Kavinsky, best known for scoring much of the synth-heavy soundtrack to the film Drive, hosts his own in-universe station called NightRide FM. It's a neat bit of cross-pollination, especially given GTA V already hides a separate visual nod to Drive in one of its clothing stores.
Merryweather Security, the ruthless private military contractor that hounds all three protagonists throughout the story, is a clear stand-in for real-world firms like Blackwater. Rockstar leans into the satire hard, giving Merryweather every trapping of a legitimate defence contractor while making it obvious they're just as amoral and trigger-happy as anyone else in Los Santos.
When Diablo II's patch 1.13 dropped in 2009, fans noticed two mercenary names had quietly changed in the game files, from Weohstan and Erfor to Klar and Tryneus. Blizzard never explained why, and since it happened right as Diablo III was in development, plenty of fans still think it was some kind of quiet lore setup.
