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Years before he was making everyone's skin crawl on the Iron Throne, Jack Gleeson had a tiny role in Batman Begins as a young boy who stumbles across Batman prowling the city at night. Gleeson later described the experience as a genuinely memorable moment early in his career.
Dig into the old game files and you'll find a 'Life Rune' sitting there in the code — fully defined, but with absolutely no way for players to ever actually get their hands on one. It's basically a ghost item that never made it into the live game.
The Joker's 'now you see it, now you don't' pencil gag looks like an obvious CGI trick, but it wasn't one. Visual effects supervisor Nick Davis said the team avoided building a digital pencil because the film was shot in IMAX, and a CG element would never blend seamlessly into an image that huge and detailed.
Cinematographer Greig Fraser called this the most complicated lighting job he'd ever tackled, saying the real challenge was finding the right balance of darkness and light specifically for how Batman himself needed to look on screen.
Down in the corner of your HUD, next to the minimap, the game names whatever bit of the map you're standing on. Most of these are useful callouts, but a few multiplayer maps hide joke locations tucked into odd corners, like a ledge on Boardwalk nicknamed 'Makeout Point.' Camp in one long enough and you'll pop the Confused Callouts achievement.
The performers at the Aces theater in the Tops, led by Tommy Torini, are called the Rad Pack Revue, a direct play on the real-world Rat Pack of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and friends. It goes a step further too, since actual Sinatra and Martin recordings show up on the in-game radio, tying the joke together nicely.
When Zamorak betrayed and struck down Zaros to seize godhood, he didn't even use a weapon of his own making — he did it with the Staff of Armadyl, a relic belonging to an entirely different god. There's something almost darkly funny about ending an empire with someone else's stick.
Head to Thousand Needles in World of Warcraft and you can stumble into a Star Wars-style pod racing event in the Shimmering Flats. One of the racers is Diablo himself, and he does not look thrilled about being stuck in a go-kart instead of terrorizing Sanctuary.
Shortly after launch in 2014, players discovered a cave in the Skywatch area of the Cosmodrome where low-level enemies respawned almost instantly. Guardians lined up to farm it for easy Engrams and XP, turning it into one of the most infamous grinding spots in gaming history before Bungie patched it out.
Outside Marc's storage unit in episode two, there's yet another scannable QR code, and this one unlocks Werewolf by Night #33 — the second issue Moon Knight ever appeared in, following straight on from the one hidden in episode one.
