Trivia / Rainbow Six Siege

• Author's Saving Throw: After the heavy backlash regarding the aesthetic changes made to release the game in Asia, such as removing all references to sex and death in a biker-ran strip club, Ubisoft announced that they will revert the changes.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: Angela Bassett does the voice and motion capture of Six.
• Development Gag: Zero's beard and civilian outfit seem to be inspired by the unused "Hobo Fisher◊" design from the early versions of Splinter Cell: Conviction. However, if you look closely at Zero's chest area, you can tell he's wearing his iconic Spy Catsuit underneath.
• Dummied Out: Tachanka actually has a mostly-complete facial texture in the game files, however it is largely unused. When ripped and viewed with a texture editor, he seems to have an untextured balaclava laid on top of his face for some reason, even though none of his cosmetics ever showed him without his helmet.
• Fake Nationality: Although a majority of the main roster were indeed voiced by actors of their own nationalities, quite a few of them were not.
  • The Israeli Ash is voiced by Patricia Sumersett, who hailed from Canada.
  • The Uzbek Fuze is voiced by American actor Gabriel Furman.
  • Jäger is voiced by Michael Sinterniklaas, who's of French and Dutch descent.
  • The GIGN lot also seems to be voiced by Canadians in addition to native French speakers. Doc and Lion were voiced by Alex Ivanovici and Shawn Baichoo, respectively, both of whom are Canadians, and Ivanovici is additionally of Romanian descent.
  • Both of Capitão's voice actors, Jonathan Davis and Demore Barnes. Jonathan is Puerto Rican and Demore is Canadian.
  • Neither of Mira's two voice actors are actual Spaniards, with Christine Solomon being a Canadian, though at least Anahi Bustillos is partially Hispanic.
  • The Jordanian Oryx appears to be played by the French-British JB Blanc.
  • The Norwegian Ace is played by the Canadian Kyle Gatehouse.
  • Flores' voice actor, Jason Canela, is Hispanic (of Cuban descent), but not Argentinian.
  • The Croatian Osa is voiced by the American Nicole Maines.
  • Hibana is both played straight and an subverted: her first voice actress is Korean-American, while her second voice actress Laura Miyata is Japanese-Canadian.
  • Subverted in the case of Ying. While Jenny Raven is officially Canadian, she is of mixed British-Chinese ancestry and was born in Hong Kong.
  • Sens, a Belgian, is voiced by Amanda Cordner, a Canadian, although both are mixed race.
  • The Swedish Fenrir is voiced by the British Jack Hawkins.
• In Memoriam:
  • On Theme Park, one of the Rainbow Six Siege arcade cabinets displays the level, rank and hours played of BostonBearJew, a player who died of cancer.
  • The IceyCat weapon charm was released in commemoration of a content creator who took his own life in March 2020. It is only content creator charm purchasable for 1 renown and has a Legendary rarity.
  • A plaque in the cargo bay on Plane commemorates professional player-turned-caster KiXSTAr's eight-second ace, who died in a car accident in October 2021.
• Official Fan-Submitted Content: Several cosmetics are contributed by community artists, such as webcomic creator Sau_Siege.
• The Other Darrin: Although the majority of the game's voice cast has remained quite consistent since launch, several operators have received entirely new actors because of contractual or scheduling conflicts with their original ones.
  • Tachanka's voice work was redone entirely for his rework, as Anatoly Zinoviev was unavailable at the time. He was replaced by Vlado Stokanic from Year 5 onwards.
  • Christine Solomon was Darrin'd by Anahi Bustillos as Mira.
  • Hibana was voiced by Jamie Choi upon release, but has since been replaced by Laura Miyata for reasons unclear.
  • Similarly, the voice actors for IQ (Sandra Kawloski to Kristina Klebe) and Capitao (Jonathon Davis to Demore Barnes) were replaced from Year 6 onwards.
  • On a more meta level, Sam Fisher's voicework was provided by Canadian actor Jeff Teravainen when he was introduced to the game as Zero rather than Michael Ironside, who was still the character's official voice actor in other Ubisoft intellectual properties around the time of Shadow Legacy's release.
  • The same for Sam Fisher in the European French dub. Éric Peter replaced Daniel Beretta, who had voiced Fisher since 2002 (and passed away in 2024).
• Queer Character, Queer Actor:
  • Trans woman Osa is voiced by trans woman Nicole Maines.
  • Sens is voiced by Amanda Cordner, who is also nonbinary.
  • Trans man Tubarão is voiced by trans man Emmett Preciado.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The game began life as Rainbow Six: Patriots, a single-player game centred around an ethically dubious Rainbow Six facing off against a radical left-wing terrorist organisation called the "True Patriots" in New York City. The game didn't get very far into development before being cancelled, and Siege was envisioned in its place as a smaller scale project to revitalise the series.
  • The earliest trailers and game footage are very different from the released game.
    • For starters, there is no Operator system. Instead, one side plays as generic Rainbow operators while the other plays as generic terrorists/criminals.
    • The start of a game shows the Attackers being deployed on the map, most notably through a helicopter as shown in the first trailer. The attackers can also be deployed on the house at the start of a round.
    • The drone is a tiny pen-sized rolling stick.
    • Multiple Attackers can enter a window after one has placed a breaching charge on it. Try that in the finished product and you will be automatically kicked due to teamkills. Only the operator who plants the charge receives the prompt to enter the window. Anyone else standing near it will receive no prompt and get blown up by the blast.
    • The environment is fully destructible instead of just select walls and floors.
    • The defenders can move the hostage to anywhere they want. If the attackers shoot the hostage, it's up to the defenders to revive them instead of the other way around. This is very baffling because it implies that the defenders will lose regardless of who kills the hostage.
    • The defenders can go outdoor at any time without their location being marked on the map.
  • All of the Operators, including the DLC ones, have alternate lines that suggested that they could've been either an Attacker or a Defender, as well as gadgets that they don't, have yet to or no longer use, like Blackbeard using C4 and Smoke using normal Smoke Grenades.
  • As indicated by this interview with one of the game developers, Blitz was originally intended to spawn during the Prep Phase to give the Defenders something to worry about while they're reinforcing their positions. Needless to say, this ability turned out to be quite a Game-Breaker during development, so it was quickly scrapped.
  • Operation Health. By prioritising bug-fixing and the implementation of One-Step Matchmaking for Season 2, Ubisoft ended up shafting the Poland Season and delaying the Hong Kong Season. However, the GROM Operators are still a part of the Year Two Road Map, appearing separately in the later Blood Orchid and White Noise expansions.
• Word of God: Pulse is actually bisexual, according to his writer Lauren Stone.