10 Video Game Easter Eggs Nobody Understands
4. That Random 9/11 Reference - Metro Exodus
In the case of this Metro Exodus Easter egg, it isn't so much that people didn't understand its meaning, but that they simply didn't understand why it was in the game at all.
In the Caspian-1 satellite control centre, players can enter a storage room where there are pigeonhole slots for dated artefacts to be placed. If you look at the pigeonhole for September 2001, you'll be able to spot a toy airplane.
While this is obviously referencing the 9/11 attacks, players have debated the precise intent of its inclusion ever since.
Some have pawned it off as a tacky half-joke or at least in poor taste, while others felt it was merely acknowledging an event from real world history within its own continuity.
Either way, the lack of clarity continues to leave fans divided, though thankfully for developers 4A Games it didn't boil over into a wider controversy and PR headache.