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As huge as Minecraft's sales numbers are, it still isn't technically the single best-selling game of all time once you count Tetris, which has racked up over 520 million units across its many different versions since the 1980s. Minecraft holds the record for best-selling single title from one continuous release, which is its own remarkable feat given it's had virtually no sequels or reboots to pad the numbers.
Right at the start of the game, there's a cutscene featuring a painting of Cain carrying his dead brother Abel's body. Stick with it all the way to the ending, and when Joker finally dies, Batman carries his body out of the theatre in the exact same pose as that painting. Easy to miss if you're not paying attention early on, but it's a nice bit of visual bookending.
The jackal-headed Nasus is a clear nod to Anubis, the Egyptian god tied to death and the afterlife, while his crocodile brother Renekton borrows from Sobek, who ancient Egyptians prayed to for safe passage across the Nile. Two brothers, two very different gods, and a rivalry that's baked right into the mythology they're drawn from.
This is the first MCU outing where James Rhodes suits up as War Machine without either Pepper Potts or Happy Hogan anywhere nearby, a small detail that quietly separates it from his earlier Iron Man appearances.
When MHA's manga wrapped up, One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda marked the occasion by redrawing a piece of fan art a 15-year-old Horikoshi had actually mailed him 22 years earlier, long before Horikoshi was a professional artist. It's the same trick Oda pulled when Naruto and Dragon Ball ended, turning old fan submissions into farewell tributes.
While the 2017 remake of Stephen King's It was in early development, Matt and Ross Duffer actually pitched themselves as directors for it and got turned down. Rather than sulk, they redirected all that Stephen King energy into their own passion project instead, which became Stranger Things. There's a nice bit of irony in the fact that Finn Wolfhard, who plays Mike Wheeler, ended up starring in the actual It movies anyway.
Ubisoft deliberately left this one un-numbered. The team felt fans expected a fresh ancestor and a new setting whenever the number went up, but Brotherhood was really just Ezio's story continuing straight on in Rome, so calling it a sequel rather than a numbered entry made more sense.
Long before Avatar and Guardians of the Galaxy, Zoe Saldana played crew member Anamaria in this film, and she's since said the experience wasn't a good one. She's described feeling completely overwhelmed by the scale of a major studio production, the shifting locations, and the pace, and has said she walked away not having enjoyed it much at all — which probably explains why her character never returned for the sequels.
