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South of the Shrine to Peryite, a skeleton is found wedged in a narrow mountain pass with a saber cat impaled on a glass sword beside it, restaging the scene from 300 where Leonidas traps and kills a wolf in a narrow pass using a similar technique.
Years before Illumination got the rights, Sony was quietly trying to build its own Mario movie franchise. Emails leaked in the 2014 Sony hack revealed producer Avi Arad had met with Nintendo, and executive Amy Pascal had even floated Genndy Tartakovsky as a director, though it never got past early talks.
Ask Telaendril for rumours and she'll tell you that Gogron gro-Bolmog once had a pet rabbit as a kid and petted it so hard he accidentally crushed its skull. That's basically lifted from Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, where Lennie does much the same thing to a mouse and a puppy while dreaming of one day tending rabbits of his own.
Keep an eye out during Chapter 12 and you'll spot a Precursor Orb, the glowing collectible that drives the plot of the old Jak and Daxter games. It's just sitting there for anyone who bothers to look.
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.
By late December 2010, barely six weeks after launch, Activision announced Black Ops had crossed a billion dollars in worldwide sales. Players had also logged more than 600 million hours in the game by that point, with the average person reportedly playing for over an hour every time they sat down with it.
During the campaign mission U.S.D.D., President Kennedy personally briefs Mason at the Pentagon and greenlights the mission to take down Dragovich. The story then jumps forward less than two weeks to Kennedy's trip to Dallas, and the final cutscene quietly places Mason himself in the crowd that day, leaving it deliberately unclear whether his brainwashing ever really got switched off.
The One Ring looks completely plain most of the time, but its fiery inscription only shows up when it's heated - exactly the trick Gandalf uses in Bag End to prove Bilbo's old ring is the real deal. Small detail, but it's the whole reason the plot kicks off.
Walt hurling a pizza onto the roof in frustration looks effortless, and that's because it basically was — Bryan Cranston nailed the throw on the very first try, and the crew reportedly considered it a one-in-a-million shot.
Long before Arcane existed, Fortiche and Riot were already working together on League music videos, including 'Get Jinxed' and 'Rise' starting around 2013. That earlier working relationship is a big reason Riot trusted Fortiche with something as ambitious as a full TV series years later.
