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Out in Azsuna there's a rare spawn called the Treacherous Stallions, two hostile unicorns standing guard over the corpse of a third. That dead unicorn is simply named Charlie, a direct wink at the cult animated short about a bedraggled unicorn dragged into disturbing adventures, and beating the pair actually rewards you with a kidney.
Between the designer labels and the sheer volume of outfits needed every week, the original Gossip Girl's costume budget reportedly added up to around $19 million across its run, according to reporting at the time.
Goris is an albino deathclaw and the son of the tribe's leader, Gruthar, and he can join your party despite being unable to wear armor or hold a weapon. He's also oddly well-read and philosophical for a seven-foot-tall apex predator, which makes him one of the strangest and most memorable companions in the game.
Michael Caine has said in later interviews that the whole idea of Alfred having a military past came from him, not Nolan's script. That backstory is what gives weight to the 'some men just want to watch the world burn' speech he gives Bruce partway through the film.
The way the gang gets talked about in-game echoes two very real crews from the era: Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch and the Dalton Gang, both of whom actually rode through the American West around the same period the game is set in.
At the Ark, the Gravemind strikes an uneasy truce with both Master Chief and the Arbiter, helping them cut down the Prophet of Truth and even manipulating Truth's own infection to seal his fate. The moment the shared goal is achieved, though, the Gravemind turns on its erstwhile allies immediately, forcing the two to fight their way clear before it can finish what it started.
Christopher Lee had been reading Tolkien's trilogy once a year since it was first published in 1954, right up until he died in 2015. He's also the only cast member who actually met Tolkien, having crossed paths with him in an Oxford pub years earlier.
That bus smashing backwards into the bank during the opening heist looked simple on screen but was a nightmare to actually pull off. The crew had to strip the bus down, reassemble it inside a disused post office behind a hidden false wall, then fire it backwards with an air cannon.
The field chosen for the Battle of the Pelennor Fields turned out to be riddled with rabbit warrens. Before any horses could gallop across it, the whole terrain had to be swept and every hole filled in for safety.
Down in the sewers there's a small room decked out with two photos of Killer Croc and the chain that used to be locked around his neck, laid out on a bed like some sort of shrine to him. It's a nice bit of environmental storytelling for a character you barely get to interact with directly in this one.
