Trivia / Just Cause 2

• Official Fan-Submitted Content: Colonels Bertrand, Shved, Bamert, Wright, and Relutzu were all named by fans as a result of a contest held by Eidos Interactive.
• Orphaned Reference:
  • The PDA's description for Colonel Perang Lee says that he hides opium in rice paddies that are under the jurisdiction of Colonel Ken Merdeka; a Colonel guarding rice paddies near Perang Lee is a perfect description... of Colonel Relutzu. This suggests that prior to Eidos's Colonel-naming contest, Relutzu was named Ken Merdeka, and nobody caught that the original name was still used in the game.
  • You were originally supposed to go up against the police as a low-level enemy type below the army, similar to how it worked in the original Just Cause. The police were cut from the game in favor of the army taking up their responsibilities, but there's still plenty of nods to them if you know where to look:
    • The Vaultier Patrolman was originally supposed to be a police car with its suggestive name, a Mythology Gag present in the first game. If that wasn't enough, it is the only civilian vehicle with a siren.
    • The loading screen tip for the Heat meter includes an image of Rico being chased by police SUVs. Those could have been also MV V880s.
    • Plenty of news broadcasts still mention the police as playing an important role in suppressing dissent in Panau.
    • The mission "Information Highway" involves assassinating a police officer. This "police officer" is in reality just a bodyguard using a pistol, but he is nonetheless the only enemy to be described as such in the game.

---