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== Actual Trivia ==
* The German version of the game is censored for violence, and is more difficult as a result (you can't tell if a Hunter is on fire because the flames would be censored) so a number of weapons are ported from ''[[
* Valve is infamously known for their [[Schedule Slip|Valve Time]] where they either set a date for a release for something and it gets delayed (sometimes several times) or they don't mention a release date at all until the product is good and ready to ship out. ''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]'' is one of the few exceptions to the rule; the game was released one year after the original ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' due to Valve wanting to prove that they ''can'' release on a fixed schedule. This action caused a [[Broken Base]] and it's best to leave it at that.▼
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Most of the NPC Survivors are played by guys who also did voices for ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]''. For the curious the boat man is the Sniper, the infected helicopter pilot is both the Spy and Pyro, and the pilot in Dead Air is the Demoman and Heavy.▼
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Coach is played by Cutty Wise from ''[[The Wire]]'', who was an ex-con that finally found his calling... as a boxing coach.
* [[Banned in China]]: Due to rules against the depiction of violence towards authority figures, the Riot Infected were absent from the censored version released in Germany and Australia, though they were later put back in by a patch.
* [[The Danza]]: Rochelle is voiced by Rochelle Aytes.
* [[Defictionalization]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20100809215629/http://store.valvesoftware.com/productshowcase/productshowcase_L4D2-BoomerPlush.html Valve started selling interactive Boomer plushies from their website.]
* [[Fan Nickname]]: The female Boomer is often referred to as a Boomette. The nickname actually originated from the game files.
▲* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Most of the NPC Survivors are played by guys who also did voices for ''[[
** Bill is [[Half-Life|Father Grigori]].
** Zoey is also [[Halo|Cortana]] and [[Super Mario 64
*** Or [[No One Lives Forever|Cate Archer]]. They pretty much have the exact same voice.
** Coach is [[The Wire|Cutty Wise]].
** Ellis is [[The Killing|Jamie Wright]]
*** Meanwhile, users of the French dub get their Keith tales off the mouth of [[Great Teacher Onizuka|Eikichi Onizuka.]]
** You might recognize Hugh Dillon (Nick) from [[Flashpoint (TV)|Flashpoint]] or his singing career.▼
*** Some people might wonder why Ellis didn't grow [[Infamous (video game series)|electrical powers and fry the zombies]].
** The crazy church guy is [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|the Scout.]]▼
▲** You might recognize Hugh Dillon (Nick) from [[Flashpoint (TV series)|Flashpoint]] or his singing career.
** The infected have been voiced by [[The Darkness]], [[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (Animation)|The Hulk]] and [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Appa]].▼
▲* Valve is infamously known for their [[Schedule Slip|Valve Time]] where they either set a date for a release for something and it gets delayed (sometimes several times) or they don't mention a release date at all until the product is good and ready to ship out. ''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]'' is one of the few exceptions to the rule; the game was released one year after the original ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' due to Valve wanting to prove that they ''can'' release on a fixed schedule. This action caused a [[Broken Base]] and it's best to leave it at that.
▲** The infected have been voiced by [[The Darkness]], [[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
* [[Too Soon]]: A writer for the Houston Chronicle [https://web.archive.org/web/20141018020308/http://blog.chron.com/gamehacks/2009/07/racism-in-video-games-the-new-norm/ accused] Valve of this for setting a game in ruined New Orleans. A few million extended middle fingers in his direction later, [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|the game was released anyway]].
* [[Urban Legend of Zelda]]:
** A rumor was immediately born after The Passing was released and was debunked just as quickly. <ref> you could bring Bill back to life with the defibrillator, which was quickly proven false since his body does not have a red outline when you hold out the item and his body is propped up against the generator, which wouldn't play the defib animations correctly since all survivors that die always have a set pose for this. Valve caught on to this, though; a few patches after ''The Passing'' came out, they added a unique message for people trying to defib Bill.</ref>
** One myth that many believe to this day is healing each other with first aid kits instead of using them on yourself will make the director spawn more first aid kits due to using more "teamwork." There has been no concrete proof of this.
*** This myth likely alludes to the first game's health bonus in versus where healing teammates, passing pills to the weakest survivor and the like raised the bonus by a few points. Final score is tallied by:
**** 1. Percentage of the map complete
**** 2. Health bonus
**** 3. Map difficulty multiplier
**** 4. Survival multiplier (x1 ~ x4)
*** Taking the time to pass around some pills carefully on the finale might raise your bonus by five, surviving with everyone multiplies by four and to top it off, the x2 multiplier for map 5 nets you forty extra points than you would have had. Completely removed in the sequel much to the dismay of the [[Professional Gaming|competitive community]].
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** Louis was originally envisioned looking more [https://web.archive.org/web/20090614210056/http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/ul/84640-left4dead.jpg like a bum.]
** Valve almost used the same face model for Zoey that they did for [[Portal (series)|Chell]], but changed their minds.
** Rochelle went through a lot character changes during development. Rochelle had her face and hair style changed a few times, and tweaks to her clothes as well. None of the screen shots and videos pre-release were consistent on whether her hair was an afro pony tail, dread locks, or corn rows.
** The Hunter was originally designed to be able to hang from the ceiling and jump down onto the survivors, and ''be able to turn invisible''. Fortunately, it was taken out, due to it not being realistic. This is possibly based on a mod of Half-Life called ''The Hidden''.
** There was almost a DLC with based on the plot of ''[[The Cabin in the Woods]]'', and Valve was working directly with both Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon in order to create it, intending its release to coincide with the film's debut. However, when the movie's release date was pushed from 2010 to 2012, the project was scrapped. A few characters and monsters from the movie still appear in the game as [[Easter Egg]]s. [[Word of God| Goddard himself has confirmed this]], claiming the DLC was "amazing" (by his account) and would have involved players fighting in both the above-ground area ''and'' the underground facility, further stating that "It pains me that it didn't happen."
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