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The unsettling Mr. Handy unit that specialises in reattaching limbs (and taking a few in the process) is called Snip-Snip, and he's voiced by Matt Berry, best known for playing the vampire Laszlo on What We Do in the Shadows. His unmistakable voice makes the robot even creepier once you clock who's behind it.
Digging through the game's files shows that Raptor, the VIP you pull out during the Wolverines! mission, was originally written to be the President of the United States. That got dialled back before release, but the finished game still leaves heavy hints that he's someone seriously high up.
Lily Tomlin voicing Aunt May keeps a weirdly specific streak going. Rosemary Harris, Sally Field and Marisa Tomei all played May in live action and all picked up Oscar nominations at some point in their careers, and Tomlin herself was nominated for Nashville decades earlier. The writers apparently had her in mind the whole time they were writing this tougher, more no-nonsense version of the character.
As catchy as it is, "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher" was created purely for the Netflix adaptation. It has no equivalent in Sapkowski's original novels, it was written specifically to give the show its own musical identity.
Years before Destiny released, an advertising billboard reading 'Destiny Awaits' appeared in Bungie's Halo 3: ODST, complete with an image of Earth and what looks like the Traveler hovering above it, an early, subtle tease of the studio's next project.
One of Brotherhood's memories has Ezio disrupting an assassination attempt in the ruins of the Colosseum during a stage play depicting the death of Jesus Christ. Reviewers at the time singled it out as an unusually mature moment for a game about historical stabbing, handled with a lot more care than you'd expect.
The film's stop on the cannibal island wasn't just unsettling for some audiences, it got the movie banned outright in China, where censors objected specifically to the cannibalism content.
Not everything in that climactic Kraken confrontation was digital. When the beast spits and sends Jack flying, that gunk hitting Johnny Depp was genuine practical slime, not a CGI effect.
