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Wayne Baker, the technician and consultant who helped run the IMAX cameras on set, sneaks in a brief cameo of his own. It's the only shot in the entire film that's a genuine close-up captured in the IMAX format, a nice bit of behind-the-scenes recognition tucked into the finished movie.
Most heroes are two or three steps removed from Sombra's mystery conspiracy, but Reinhardt is unusually close to it — directly linked to someone who's directly linked to it. Nobody's said out loud who that connection actually is yet, which makes it one of the more intriguing loose threads in the whole story.
Rather than relying purely on models and green screen, the production built two full-scale, functioning ships for the film: real-life versions of the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman that could genuinely sail.
Senior animator Mike Laygo, who'd previously worked on Lord of the Rings games, has said Aatrox's movement was directly inspired by Balrog and Sauron. It shows too, that same hulking, wing-dragging menace you get from the Balrog in the mines of Moria is baked right into the way Aatrox carries himself.
Almost everything about the Ghoul's look is done practically with prosthetics, but there's one exception. Goggins' nose is digitally removed in post-production, since that was the one detail the team couldn't quite pull off convincingly with makeup alone while still letting him act naturally under the rest of the prosthetic work.
Ever picked up Civerb's Vestments and not thought twice about it? Spell 'Civerb' backwards, swap a letter, and you get Brevik, a nod to Diablo co-creators David and Peter Brevik. A bunch of Diablo II's items and locations are staff names in disguise.
Brotherhood was the first entry in the series to let Ezio recruit and train his own roster of assassins, sending them off on missions across Europe. It's a small addition but it's the one that really cemented the idea of Ezio as a leader rather than a lone wolf.
There's a mannequin in the Visitor Center that looks harmless enough at first glance. Hang around and turn away for a bit, though, and its arms will have moved when you look back. It's never explained in the moment, but by the end of the game it's pretty clear who was hiding in plain sight the whole time.
Die at the wrong moment and one of the Game Over screens shows Bane snapping Batman over his knee. It's a direct lift from the iconic 'broken bat' scene in the Knightfall comics, and a genuinely nasty little punishment for messing up the fight.
