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Right after the studio logos, the film flashes the old Comics Code Authority seal, a real stamp that used to appear on comics to reassure parents the content was tame. It was officially retired back in 2011, so bringing it back here is a sly little wink, especially since Spider-Man 2099 spends the movie acting like a one-man censorship board trying to keep Miles in line.
The dune landscapes of Gran Canaria stood in for the sea of sand Geralt has to cross on his travels, while nearby jungle and coastline on the islands were used to bring the Dryads' Brokilon Forest to life. Same set of islands, two very different biomes.
Lee Sin's whole design leans on an older folk tale about a blind but incredibly skilled monk who fights through senses other than sight. It fits him perfectly, a martial artist who's lost his eyes but never lost his edge, relying on instinct and discipline instead.
High Charity was originally meant to throw a massive tentacled enemy called the Flood Juggernaut at players. It got cut before release, but the files never left the disc, and if you dig it up through modding tools it's technically still killable. There's just one catch: nobody ever built a death animation for it, so it simply freezes solid the moment it dies.
In an old EGM interview, co-president Evan Wells admitted the ending boss fight was shaped by the confines of the island they'd already built, and that a bit more time might have let them do something flashier. Amy Hennig chimed in too, noting games often struggle with escalating to a climax the way movies don't have to.
Not long after the Season 2 trailer dropped, Amazon quietly released a separate Atom Eve special dedicated to fleshing out Samantha Eve Wilkins' backstory before she became a bigger part of the main storyline. It's an easy one to overlook if you're only tracking numbered episodes.
Scattered copies of a fictional newspaper called The Daily Metro pop up across the game, and if you stop to actually read the headlines, one of them is a proper gem: 'Uncharted 13: A Lush Movie — Justin Bieber as Drake.' Naughty Dog poking a bit of fun at their own flagship franchise.
Longtime swordmaster Bob Anderson, who trained the cast for the film's combat, called Viggo Mortensen the best swordsman he'd worked with across his entire fifty-year career, which is a genuinely huge compliment coming from someone who's coached fencers and film stars alike.
When Singed visits the room set aside for his daughter, there's a ballerina statue sitting there that looks a lot like Orianna's eventual champion design. Sure enough, later in the season she shows up in a fully mechanical body, hinting Viktor may have had a hand in rebuilding her.
For the tenth anniversary of the Falador Massacre in 2016, Jagex added a little tribute nobody was expecting: log into Falador on the normal servers around that time and there's a chance Durial321's face flashes across your screen for a second before you're handed a green partyhat.
