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Head to Vault 75 and you can trigger one of the game's hidden UFO encounters, complete with an alien crash site to fight through. Win the scrap and you'll walk away with an alien blaster pistol, easily one of the most satisfying secret weapons to stumble across in the Commonwealth.
For a chunk of the English dub cast, MHA was basically their big break. Justin Briner (Midoriya) and Clifford Chapin (Bakugo) both had this as a career-defining role, and Christopher Sabat took on All Might right around the same time he was already busy being the voice of Vegeta.
Halo 3's ranked multiplayer used Microsoft Research's TrueSkill system to calculate player skill, a ranking algorithm originally designed as a more flexible successor to chess's Elo rating system, adapted here to handle team-based matches with more than two players at once.
Martin Freeman turned up to his first Watson audition in a foul mood after having his wallet stolen, and it apparently came across as him being uninterested in the part. Thankfully he was in much better spirits for the second audition and it worked out fine.
Before becoming the peaceful grandmaster of the Greybeards atop the Throat of the World, Paarthurnax served as Alduin's trusted lieutenant during the Dragon War, reportedly committing atrocities against mankind before ultimately betraying his brother and teaching the first mortals the power of the Thu'um.
For the tense final standoff between Tony, Steve, Thor and Thanos, the Russo brothers said they were drawing on the classic tension-building style of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West rather than anything from previous superhero movies.
Sully's trusty seaplane is named the Hog Wild, which isn't a random pick. It's lifted straight from a level of the same name in Crash Bandicoot, another Naughty Dog classic, giving longtime fans a little nostalgic nudge.
A whole British campaign was planned for World at War at one point, and you can still find unused weapons like the Sten, Bren and Lee-Enfield sitting dormant in the game files. There were even three cut missions set in Holland that survived into the Mod Tools. Would've been a very different game.
The massive portal battle where every hero shows up at once took roughly 1,400 visual effects artists working flat out, and they only had around sixteen weeks to pull it off. Given how much is happening on screen in that sequence, that's a genuinely wild turnaround time.
