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On the campaign level The Hornet's Nest, break away from the main path and head right, then cut through a shack tucked near some barrels. Keep pushing and you'll end up in a small garden with a stash of items waiting at the far wall, if you know where to turn.
Andy Serkis has said that Gollum's wet, rattling cough is modelled on the sound his own cat made when it was hacking up a hairball. Not exactly a glamorous inspiration, but it worked.
The old Marco Polo minigame, first seen as a lighthearted moment between Nate and Elena back in Uncharted 2, shows up again here as a small optional distraction, a nice quiet callback for anyone who's been with the series a while.
Within a week of its first three episodes dropping, Arcane had a 100% Tomatometer score and a 98% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, edging out Squid Game's numbers at the time and setting the record for Netflix's best-reviewed original series to that point.
Setting a game in Italy was apparently too good an opportunity to pass up. One of Brotherhood's achievements is literally called 'Plumber', and its icon is a green Warp Pipe lifted straight out of the Super Mario games.
Emily Rose landed the role of Elena Fisher almost by accident, she'd just tagged along to support a friend who was auditioning, and ended up getting cast herself thanks to the chemistry she showed reading opposite Nolan North.
Long before she suited up as Pharah, Fareeha Amari was a kid who was completely obsessed with Overwatch and everything it stood for. It makes her eventual path into the organization feel less like a coincidence and more like something she was working toward her whole life.
Mr. Poopybutthole technically first shows up in Total Rickall, but the production team went back and edited him into the memory scenarios shown in that episode's own opening scenes to sell the joke that he'd secretly always been part of the family. So depending how you look at it, he was either never there before, or he always was.
That fan theory going around since season one turned out to be spot on. Singed brings Vander back from the brink after his fight with Silco by turning him into Warwick, the feral beast champion. According to the animation team, the idea that Vander's stubborn resilience would eventually make him into Warwick was baked into the character from the very start of the show.
