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Climb up to the roof of the Mass Fusion Containment Shed and you'll find a raider and a dead synth arranged in a way that mirrors the 'tears in rain' finale of Blade Runner. It's easy to miss since you need to clamber up some pipes and an air conditioning unit to spot it, but it's a genuinely moody little scene once you're up there.
Rather than adapting an existing comic or film plot, Warner Bros brought in veteran Batman writer Paul Dini - the man behind so much of The Animated Series - to craft a story specifically for Arkham Asylum. It's part of why the game's dialogue and character writing feels a cut above most licensed titles from that era.
An unused audio line has Mercedes Cortez ranting specifically about Love Fist's lead singer, dialogue that was likely meant to play right after the Love Juice mission wraps up. It never made the final cut, leaving her opinion of Jezz Torrent slightly less thoroughly documented than it could have been.
The sequence where Nate is clinging on for dear life inside a crashing cargo plane over the desert is one of the most talked-about set pieces in the whole series, and it's basically lifted shot-for-shot into the 2022 Tom Holland movie's opening. The film swaps the ending slightly (parachute versus plunging into the ocean), but it's unmistakably the same scene.
When Riot Games announced the Arcane voice cast in September 2021, it happened to land on the exact same day as the trailer for Marvel's Hawkeye, which stars Hailee Steinfeld, the same actor voicing Vi. Total coincidence, but it made for a pretty big week for her.
His take on the Riddler impressed DC enough that they brought him on to actually write a six-issue comic series, Riddler: Year One, exploring his own version of the character's backstory for their Black Label imprint.
The food court on the Arkaden map has a window looking into the kitchen, and if you look closely there's another giant teddy bear sitting in there, unarmed this time, clearly a cousin of the one hiding out on Lockdown.
Right after Sokka mutters that weird stuff keeps happening to the group, a guy sucking on an ear of corn sits down near him and Toph on the Ba Sing Se tram. Fans have long pointed to it as a nod to Invader Zim, another Nickelodeon show with its own devoted cult following.
In young Marc's childhood bedroom during episode five, there's a poster for Star Wars: A New Hope on the wall. It's a nod both to Marc's room in the original comics and a cheeky wink at Oscar Isaac himself, who of course played Poe Dameron in the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
The campaign splits between Pvt. C. Miller of the US Marines in the Pacific and Dimitri Petrenko of the Red Army on the Eastern Front. One of them survives to the credits, and one very much doesn't - a bleaker structure than the earlier games in the series went for.
