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Trivia: Chris O'Donnell, who plays an acrobat in this film, has acrophobia in real life.

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Trivia: John Glover, who plays Dr. Woodrue, also voiced The Riddler in Batman: The Animated Series.

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Power Broker - S1-E3

Trivia: When Dovich and Karli are speaking in the street in Vilnius, Lithuania, visible in the background is a gate being guarded by several men, and on the gate is an encircled X, very reminiscent of the X-Men logo. The fictional nation of Madripoor seen in this episode is also closely associated with the X-Men in the comics. (00:38:57)

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Trivia: The end of the film shows Jordan's motivation to return to the NBA is when his ability to play is questioned by the other players in the film. This isn't far off from reality. In real life, part of what fuelled his return to the NBA was when he was visiting Utah Jazz members and former Dream Team teammates Karl Malone and John Stockton while the Jazz were in Chicago, and young Jazz guard Bryon Russell approached Jordan and asked him why he retired, and told him he could guard him. Coincidentally, Russell would end up trying to guard Jordan on his final possession as a member of the Bulls, which saw Jordan sinking the game winner of the 1998 NBA Finals.

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Out of the Past (2) - S3-E2

Trivia: Cyclops and Jean's waiter Sidney is a caricature of Sidney Iwanter, a writer for the show. (00:08:20)

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Trivia: Jared Leto is the first actor to portray the Joker in two live action films. Interestingly, despite being Batman's archnemesis, neither film Leto appears in is a Batman film.

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Previously On - S1-E8

Trivia: The all-white appearance of the reassembled Vision shown in the mid-credits scene is a nod to his look in a 1989 comics storyline called "Vision Quest," in which he was rebuilt without his original memories.

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Trivia: When Elizabeth Olsen says "Previously On WandaVision" at the start of every episode beginning with episode 2, her voice gets progressively less enthusiastic.

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Mojovision - S2-E11

Trivia: When the camera is panning across Mojo's studio audience after he has abducted the X-Men, you can see an older man in the middle of the crowd. This man is a caricature of Marvel Comics legend Jack Kirby. Coincidentally, Kirby died the day after this episode originally aired. (00:07:52)

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Whatever It Takes - S2-E3

Trivia: Mjnari was modelled on producer/director Larry Houston's son, Adrian.

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Trivia: A few weeks into the show's production, the staff was informed by Marvel that their character designs had to be changed. This is because the characters were modelled on artist Jim Lee's redesigns in the comics, and he, along with some other artists, were in the process of leaving Marvel Comics to found Image Comics. To convince Marvel to change their minds, storyboard artist Will Meugniot submitted a deliberately awful looking model sheet that looked reminiscent of 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

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Repo Man - S2-E5

Trivia: Snowbird wasn't in the original script for this episode because they couldn't afford any more speaking parts. Larry Houston decided to add her to the episode and just not give her any lines, so that the full Alpha Flight team would appear.

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Mojovision - S2-E11

Trivia: The TV salesman that is assisting Cyclops and Jean is a caricature of former Marvel president Joe Calamari. His name tag even says "Calamari." (00:04:28)

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A Rogue's Tale - S2-E9

Trivia: The man who attempts to steal Mystique's umbrella at the beginning of the episode is a caricature of series producer Frank Squillace.

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Time Fugitives: Part 1 - S2-E7

Trivia: When Beast is looking through the logbook detailing patients and their slide numbers, some of the names listed, such as Frank Squillace and Larry Houston, are people who worked on the show. (00:09:47)

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Days of Future Past: Part 2 - S1-E12

Trivia: In this episode, Storm tells Gambit that she knows him better than anyone. This is a reference to the comics, in which Storm was the first member of the X-Men that Gambit met, and whom vouched for his initiation onto the team. (00:07:08)

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Doomsday - S2-E13

Trivia: After Silver Surfer passes by the Marvel Comics office, two other characters fly by his path, while a third lands on the building on the right. The two that fly by are Darkhawk and Justice, and the other is Speedball. All three are members of the superhero team New Warriors. (00:01:00)

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Doomsday - S2-E13

Trivia: When Silver Surfer is departing Africa, you can very briefly see a woman jumping out of the ocean and back in with a couple of dolphins. This woman is Namorita, cousin of Namor, who appeared as a foe-turned-friend to the Fantastic Four early in the series. (00:00:50)

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Trivia: The first three letters on the license plate of Q's car are "LRY." This is a reference to "Larry," an imaginary character from the TV series that Joe is usually calling out to or frantically searching for.

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Doomsday - S2-E13

Trivia: The X-Men's Blackbird jet makes two appearances in this episode. First it is shown attacking Dr. Doom after he traps the Avengers inside a bubble, and then again it is shown in outer space when Johnny is trying to destroy Doom with a supernova blast. (00:11:34 - 00:16:02)

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