History Trivia / DetroitBecomeHuman

** As various lines of android models share the same body and face and occasionally interact, this is common. Bryan Dechart as Connor can die and be replaced several times over the course of his story, and while some of his memories are backed up he can claim to be a different Connor; he also ends up TalkingToHimself during a tense faceoff between the playable, now-deviant Connor and his latest would-be replacement. Amelia Rose Blaire did the motion capture for some of and voices all the Tracis. Kristopher Bosch as the Jerrys often shares a screen and dialogue with various other Jerrys, particularly during their introduction at the Pirates' Cove.

* CastingGag: Creator/LanceHenriksen, played the android Bishop in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', is in a video game about RidiculouslyHumanRobots.

* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** Creator/JesseWilliams and Creator/MinkaKelly, the respective actors of Markus and North, were in a romantic relationship in real life until January of 2018, a few months before the game was released.
** Bryan Dechart (Connor) and Amelia Rose Blaire (blue-haired Traci) got engaged in June 2017 and wed a month after the game's release.

** Unused voice lines in the game's files point to the existence of scrapped scenes and ideas. Most notably:
*** During "The Pirates' Cove", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHYbJddsbSY Kara and company would have been attacked by a group of humans riding in a truck]], dubbed the "Bad Boys", who regularly came to the park for target practice on the Jerrys.
*** In Connor's scene where he [[spoiler:addresses the liberated androids at the end of the game (if he went deviant and successfully infiltrated [=CyberLife=] and Markus was dead) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csCs4gBJEiw he was meant to give Markus' speech in his stead]], rather than Amanda hijacking his program immediately.]]
*** [[spoiler:During the "Kamski" ending, Kamski himself would have vocally expressed his disappointment at the failure of the android revolution, vowing to spark a second uprising with himself at the helm - hence his eventual reinstatement as CEO of [=CyberLife=].]]

*** During "The Pirates' Cove", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl_NSg8Gfc8&list=LL Kara and company would have been attacked by a group of humans riding in a truck]], dubbed the "Bad Boys", who regularly came to the park for target practice on the Jerrys.
*** In Connor's scene where he [[spoiler:addresses the liberated androids at the end of the game (if he went deviant and successfully infiltrated [=CyberLife=] and Markus was dead) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfpETVWJgIE he was meant to give Markus' speech in his stead]], rather than Amanda hijacking his program immediately.]]

* StarMakingRole: Bryan Dechart, due to his performance as Connor, instantly rose for a background character actor to a much more recognizable name in acting circles.

* FakeAmerican: Neil Newbon is English, but he uses American accents for both Gavin and Kamski.

* CastingGag: Creator/LanceHenriksen, played the android Bishop in ''Series/Aliens'', is in a video game about RidiculouslyHumanRobots.

** Creator/BryanDechart (Connor) and Amelia Rose Blaire (blue-haired Traci) got engaged in June 2017 and wed a month after the game's release.

*** [[spoiler:Kamski was to be revealed to have intentionally programmed deviancy into the androids during his respective ending, rather than simply being implied to have done so.]]

** Giving Markus's love interests other than North was considered for a time, but due to the amount of hassle it would be to program in it was never implemented.

** According to David Cage, there was a fourth-player character (who he declined to identify) in earlier versions of the game script that had to be cut because he felt it would be impossible to fit them into the game with the level of story branching he had planned.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Subverted; Bryan Dechart (Connor) and Amelia Rose Blaire (Tracy) got married after the game ended, but they were already in a relationship before they were cast in their respective roles.

** According to David Cage, there was a fourth player character (who he declined to identify) in earlier versions of the game script that had to be cut because he felt it would be impossible to fit them into the game with the level of story branching he had planned.

* FakeAmerican: Neil Newborn is English, but he uses American accents for both Gavin and Kamski.

** As various lines of android models share the same body and face and occasionally interact, this is common. Bryan Dechart as Connor can die and be replaced several times over the course of his story, and while some of his memories are backed up he can claim to be a different Connor; he also ends up TalkingToHimself during a tense faceoff between the playable, now-deviant Connor and his latest would-be replacement. Amelia Rose Blaire did the motion capture for some of and voices all the Tracis. Kristopher Bosch as the Jerrys often shares a screen and dialogue with a multitude of other Jerrys during his introduction at the Pirates' Cove.

** As various lines of android models share the same face and occasionally interact, this is common. Bryan Dechart as Connor can die and be replaced several times over the course of his story, and while some of his memories are backed up he can claim to be a different Connor; he also ends up TalkingToHimself during a tense faceoff between the playable, now-deviant Connor and his latest would-be replacement. Amelia Rose Blaire did the motion capture for some of and voices all the Tracis. Kristopher Bosch as the Jerrys often shares a screen and dialogue with a multitude of other Jerrys during his introduction at the Pirates' Cove.

* FakeAmerican: Neil Newborn is English, but he uses an American accent for both Gavin and Kamski.

** Amelia Rose Blaire did the motion capture for some and voices all the Tracis.

* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Alice and Emma Philips were voiced and portrayed by child actress Audrey Boustani, who was around the same age as her characters. It was also her [[OneBookAuthor sole acting credit]].

* ThrowItIn: According to Bryan Dechart, a few of the scenes in Connor's story were ad-libbed, among others Connor's wink and Hank slapping Connor's face when he doesn't pull him up the ledge during the chase scene.

** Originally, the room of pigeons was supposed to be full of sparrows, but Bryan Dechart pointed out that no one hates sparrows.

** Giving Markus love interests other than North was considered for a time, but due to the amount of hassle it would be to program in it was never implemented.

** Cage considered giving the player the option of who would lead a revolution out of Kara, Connor, and Markus--Kara would take up the responsibility if Markus ''and'' Alice died. However, Alice was established as pivotal to Kara's story, and it overall would have had too many possibilities.
** Concept art notes for Kara say that she--a "housewife model"--takes care of a single father and his mute child. Notably, Alice is very quiet for her first couple of scenes in the completed game.
** Alice was originally intended to be a [[spoiler: human child]] in the concept art. Her appearance was also different from the final product's, being a dark-skinned child with frizzy brown hair.

* BigNameFan: Creator/TaroYoko has tweeted that he has played the game and enjoyed it.

* CastingGag:
** The scene where Kara has to hide evidence of her and her friends being Androids from the police is very similar to a scene in ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'', where Lucas had to conceal evidence of the murder he committed before an officer comes into his apartment. The cop in ''Detroit'' is voiced by David Gasman, Lucas's voice actor.
** Creator/MinkaKelly, North's actress, also played a humanoid robot meant for beauty that chooses to pursue a more dangerous lifestyle in ''Series/AlmostHuman''.
** [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Not the first time]] Creator/ClancyBrown's character has helped [[spoiler:a rebellion]].
** Also not the first time that Creator/ClancyBrown's character has [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime worked with sentient robots, dealt with a character that keeps coming back from the dead, and been in opposition with a black government authority figure named Fowler]].
** ''Also'' not the first time that he's had to deal with [[WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries losing a child]].
** ''Also''-also, not the first time he [[VideoGame/MinorityReportEverybodyRuns played a police detective in a video game set in a]] CyberPunk CrapsackWorld future. Making this one more amusing is that his characters in both have near identical names (Anderton/Anderson).
** Nor is it the first [[VideoGame/JakAndDaxter PlayStation video game he's been in where he hated mechanical beings]].
** [[OverusedRunningGag Or]] [[Film/{{Highlander}} dealing with an immortal guy named Connor.]]
** Or [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E9KrabBorgRockAByeBivalve being put into a]] SpotTheImposter [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E9KrabBorgRockAByeBivalve situation]].
** Matt Vladimery (Ralph) was in ''Of Men and Mice'', a movie that took place in Detroit and was about two laid-off employees trying to rob a bank because of the economic crisis.
** Creator/LanceHenriksen, who got his first big break [[Film/{{Aliens}} playing a]] [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Human Robot]], now employs one. Likewise, he also [[Film/TheTerminator played a detective investigating mysterious murders by a robot disguised as a human]].

* RomanceOnTheSet: Subverted; Bryan Dechter (Connor) and Amelia Rose Blaire (Tracy) got married after the game ended, but they were already in a relationship before they were cast in their respective roles.

** Creator/LanceHenriksen, who got his first big break [[Film/{{Aliens}} playing a]] [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Human Robot]], now employs one.

** Alice was originally intended to be a human child in the concept art. Her appearance was also different from the final product's, being a dark-skinned child with frizzy brown hair.