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Deacon's laid-back charm hides a genuinely dark past. He used to run with a synth-hating gang called the University Point Deathclaws, until the group killed a synth who turned out to be a real human. Disgusted, Deacon walked away, settled down and got married, only for his old gang to track him down and kill his wife, revealing in the process that she'd been a synth the whole time. It's why he ended up working for the Railroad.
Heath Ledger's sister Kate has said her brother had plans to return as the Joker in another Batman film before his death in January 2008. Nolan chose not to recast the role out of respect, which is part of why the Joker is never mentioned by name in Rises.
Among the clippings and photos in Ledger's preparation diary was an image of a hyena, which people who've seen the documentary footage believe was one of the inspirations behind the Joker's cackling, unhinged laugh in the finished film.
The official soundtrack runs to nineteen tracks, running just over an hour, with titles like 'Chloe Frazer', 'The Western Ghats' and 'The Tusk of Ganesh' mapping neatly onto the game's key characters and locations.
The physical world map that shipped with the Collector's Edition wasn't just a nice extra. Follow the instructions printed on it while standing at the Muspelheim tower and you unlock the Grip of the Ages, an axe pommel that Brok and Sindri apparently tossed into the void before Kratos went looking for it.
Before he was rambling about princesses and penguins, Ice King was a scholar named Simon Petrikov, engaged to a woman called Betty Grof. He found a strange crown on an expedition to Scandinavia, and wearing it slowly ate away at his memories and sanity until Simon disappeared entirely, leaving the deranged wizard fans grew up watching.
Unlike other zombies maps where you play as a named character, Nuketown Zombies just drops you in as an anonymous CIA or CDC operative, and which side you get assigned to is randomized at the start of every match. It keeps the map feeling detached from the rest of the cast, more like a self-contained drill than part of the main story.
That little girl practicing archery with Clint in the cold open isn't just any child actor - it's Ava Russo, daughter of director Joe Russo. Nice bit of nepotism that actually pays off emotionally given what happens to the rest of the family seconds later.
During Destiny's public alpha, Ghost's flat delivery of a line about a wizard coming from the Moon was mocked so heavily online that Bungie pulled it from the final game entirely, an early sign the Ghost's dialogue and performance would become a lasting point of community ridicule.
In the farmhouse near the end of the game, when Joel and Tommy are combing the place for Ellie, there's a baseball poster tucked away in one of the rooms featuring a face fans might not recognise straight away - Daniel Kinnard. He was a Naughty Dog developer who sadly passed away while the remake was being made, and the studio quietly wrote him into the world as a lasting nod to his work.
