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Comm Troopers can also scream "She's ''everywhere''!" (referring to Konoko); another phrase screamed by the assimilated BOBs was "They're everywhere!" Not coincidentally, Doug Zartman was the voice actor for both Marathon's BOBs ''and'' Oni's Comm Troopers.

;Zartman described the inspiration for the quote in the Marathon Scrapbook:

:''The idea was that some of the assimilated Bobs become insane from their conversion and run around yelling nonsense. Alex said to me ‘say something random’, and that phrase tumbled from my lips. Totally spontaneous. While I could have sat down and thought up something more random than that, it worked out well, since it sounds close enough to a real sentence that it kept people guessing and generated some fascinating (and totally wrong) discussion about what the phrase was and its meaning. One popular theory was ‘God bless the Marine Corps!’, which was a fair guess, but still wrong.''

It was very popular to say this in the text chat of a networked Bungie game; the sheer randomness of this phrase means it can be used at any time.

Forklifts in the Warehouse are labeled "BALOR", and Balor is the name of a [[wp:Balor|Celtic god]], but it is also the name taken by the incarnation of "the Leveler" in Myth.

;(adapted from Wikipedia)

:Balor is also the name Connacht the Wolf adopts when he becomes the new Leveler in the Myth computer game series. During the seventeenth year of the Grear War, he interrogated Alric, who was previously captured by The Deceiver. In that event Alric learned by chance that the Fallen Lords were bound to Balor. Towards the end of the war, Alric and the Legion went to Rhi'anon, Balor's fortress, and planted the Myrkridian standard they had found inside the Tain, an act that was meant to enrage The Leveler. During the Last Battle, the Avatara immobilized Balor with the aid of the Eblis Stone, thus allowing the barbarians of the Legion to behead the warlord. In the end, Balor's head was thrown into the Great Devoid, ending his life and his sway over the surviving Fallen.

Though not Easter eggs, resources that were never used in the final game can sometimes be found by looking through the level scripts and game data. For instance, a music theme called "[[Music/Ingame#The_Hunt|The Hunt]]" is available in [[{{C13}}]] but was supposed to play in [[{{C12}}]], and additional characters can be spawned for the boss battle in [[{{C14}}]]. A more famous example is an undressing animation for Konoko that was intended to be used in a [http://carnage.bungie.org/oniforum/oni.forum.pl?read=14686 cut feature] where Konoko could go undercover by changing into different clothes. More unused animations are listed [[XML:TRAM#List_of_unused_animations|HERE]]. Lastly, some sound effects for the [[Iron Demon]] can be found in the global resources.

As mentioned above, a reference to [[Developer Mode]] (the cheat code '''thedayismine''') is found on a crate label in {{C1}}, along with the Old Man Murray reference. Developer Mode was believed to be absent from the retail game builds, but was eventually unlocked in 2006.

Some features of the engine were not fully utilized by the game. In one case, a feature was even obscured by a bug: the AI knew how to dodge gunfire but were not looking at the right axes to reliably do this. This was fixed by Neo in a patch made with the [[Daodan DLL]], resulting in much smarter behavior by AIs under fire.