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Deckard Cain isn't just some random old man who happens to know a lot. He's a descendant of Jered Cain, the Horadrim mage who led the original hunt that trapped Diablo and his brothers in Soulstones centuries before the games even start.
Long before Gore Verbinski signed on, the script did the rounds in the early 90s and actually landed on Steven Spielberg's desk. His take on it wasn't quite what Disney wanted, but he'd apparently floated Bill Murray, Steve Martin, or even Robin Williams to play a version of Jack Sparrow. Wild to think how different the whole franchise could've looked.
Before she became the gauntlet-swinging enforcer we know now, Vi's design was completely different. A senior Riot animator revealed her original concept was a roller derby cop named Ruby, patrolling the streets of Zaun on skates rather than punching her way through walls.
Look closely at any vehicle you steal and you'll notice every single one is running the same plate, VC R29. It's a little detail that carried over the series' habit from GTA III, where every car in Liberty City read LC R29 instead. Nobody in Vice City seems bothered by the obvious paperwork fraud.
The blind, feral Falmer players fight in Skyrim's ruins were once the Snow Elves, a proud and prosperous civilization that rivaled the High Elves before being driven underground by the Nords in the Merethic Era.
Kit Harington once got pulled over for speeding, and when the officer recognised him as Jon Snow, he was offered a deal: reveal whether Jon lives or dies and skip the ticket. Kit apparently took him up on it, which might be the most Westeros way anyone has ever talked their way out of a fine.
While hammering out the screenplay, Reeves reportedly kept 'Thank God for the Rain' from the Taxi Driver soundtrack on loop, which tracks given how much of that film's lonely, paranoid energy bleeds into this version of Gotham.
The role of Iron Mace Alvida, the vain pirate captain who terrorizes Koby before Luffy shows up, went to Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, an actress previously seen in Queenpins and The Sex Lives of College Girls.
At the end of the campaign mission Exodus, you're meant to grab a briefcase and move on. Skip it and drop prone instead, and if you look closely you'll spot two scraps of paper lying nearby that both read 'MW2 Never Die', a little goodbye note from the devs.
Keep an eye on the walls of the museum where Steven works in episode one — there's a QR code hidden in plain sight, and if you scan it you actually get sent to a free download of Werewolf by Night #32, the comic where Moon Knight made his very first appearance back in the 70s.
