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Arcane's second season carried a reported budget of around $250 million, which puts it up there as one of the most expensive animated series ever produced. Given how hand-crafted the animation is, with animators acting out scenes themselves rather than relying on shortcuts, it's not exactly a shock.
John Noble's Denethor wears a sword on his belt for the entire film despite never once drawing it. The props department just gave it to him so he'd feel like part of the club alongside everyone else who actually fought.
Troy Baker has admitted he nearly left his own audition for Joel because he didn't feel like he was right for the part. Neil Druckmann clearly disagreed, and once Baker and Ashley Johnson started reading together, the chemistry that ended up defining the whole game was already there.
On plenty of his other shows, like Haikyu!!, Yuki Hayashi split composing duties with fellow musician Asami Tachibana. For MHA he went it alone, cranking out 34 tracks for the first season and another 46 for the second entirely by himself.
Alongside the comic books and A Clockwork Orange stills, reports on Ledger's preparation say he also drew on the chaotic energy of the Sex Pistols while building his version of the character.
Andrew Scott's Moriarty was originally only meant to pop up briefly as Molly's boyfriend 'Jim from IT' in The Great Game. The writers were so impressed by him that they hurried to write in the swimming pool confrontation at the end of the episode, and that tense exchange between him and Sherlock was actually lifted straight from Scott's original audition script.
Vault 95 was pitched to its residents as a rehab facility for chem addicts, but Vault-Tec quietly stashed a huge cache of drugs inside as part of the experiment. Once people found it, things fell apart fast - staff were killed and the vault dwellers overdosed in waves. You can still find their bodies slumped around the vault today, chems scattered nearby.
Bowser's wedding is packed with familiar faces if you look past the main cast. King Boo from Luigi's Mansion, King Bob-omb from Super Mario 64, and Petey Piranha from Super Mario Sunshine all show up in the crowd, three villains who probably shouldn't be on speaking terms with each other.
The game finally fills in a piece of Chloe's background that had only ever been hinted at before, confirming she's half-Indian and half-Australian, which gives her hunt for the Tusk of Ganesh a much more personal weight than just another treasure job.
Between 11:00 PM and midnight, a stationary female ghost appears on the eastern peak of Mount Gordo. She won't move or react to being shot at, and simply fades away, one of several ghostly sightings Rockstar seeded into the world.
