GTA 6 Trailer 2 Easter Eggs: Every Hidden Detail Fans Have Found

The GTA 6 Trailer 2 easter eggs hunt has become a genuine community pastime, and for good reason. Rockstar published Trailer 2 on 6 May 2025 and confirmed it was captured in-engine on PS5, which means the details on screen are actual in-game footage rather than concept art. Trailer 1 arrived back in December 2023, and between the two, fans have picked apart every frame they can. This guide rounds up the most interesting confirmed details and keeps the fan theories clearly separated from fact. For context, GTA 6 is set in the state of Leonida with Vice City at its centre, and the protagonists are Jason and Lucia. A lot of the confirmed references reward players who remember the original Vice City. Below, everything marked confirmed is visible on screen. Everything marked as a theory is fan interpretation, not something Rockstar has stated. The Red Dead Redemption money detail This is the one that set the internet alight. Around the 2:07 mark of Trailer 2, an NPC throws $10 bills into the air. Fans identified the portraits on those bills as Thaddeus Waxman and Franklin Hardin, two fictional US presidents that also appear in Red Dead Redemption 2. This was reported and analysed by Dexerto, Game Rant, and RockstarINTEL. Here is where you need to draw a firm line. The shared currency is confirmed on screen. What it means is not. Some fans read the presidents as evidence that GTA and Red Dead share a single universe, and speculation has run all the way to connecting Jason with Arthur Morgan. That is pure fan theory. Rockstar has never confirmed any universe link between the two series, so treat the crossover talk as fun guesswork rather than established lore. Vice City callbacks you can spot Trailer 2 is full of nods to the original Vice City, and several are subtle enough to miss on a first watch. These were rounded up by outlets including Den of Geek. The Tommy Vercetti lizard A wall painting in the trailer shows a lizard wearing a blue floral shirt. That outfit is a deliberate callback. It is the same style of shirt Tommy Vercetti wears in the original GTA Vice City, tying the painting directly to the 2002 game's protagonist. The V-Rock t-shirt and licence plates Jason wears a "V-Rock" t-shirt in the trailer, referencing the Vice City radio station of the same name. Elsewhere, licence plates show fictional states, including a Georgia parody called "Glorianna" and a Liberty City plate. These small touches confirm the game is stitching its world into the wider GTA map of fictional places, and they were reported by Den of Geek. The possible Phil Cassidy connection An Ammu-Nation style commercial features a mulleted man who resembles Phil Cassidy, a character from Vice City. This one comes with a fan interpretation attached. Because the original Phil lost his arm in Vice City, and the man in the commercial appears to have both, fans think this is likely his son rather than Phil himself. Den of Geek reported the resemblance. The "son" part is fan reasoning, not confirmed by Rockstar, so file it under educated guess. Why the analysis got so detailed The depth of this detective work is worth appreciating. Fans uploaded all of Trailer 2's roughly 5,000-plus frames for frame-by-frame analysis, as reported by Game Rant. That kind of collective effort is how tiny background details, a painting, a t-shirt logo, a portrait on a banknote, get surfaced and cross-referenced against decades of Rockstar history. When you have thousands of eyes going through thousands of frames, very little slips through. Confirmed versus theory: a quick recap Confirmed on screen: the Red Dead presidents on the $10 bills, the Tommy Vercetti-style lizard shirt, the Phil Cassidy lookalike commercial, the V-Rock t-shirt, and the "Glorianna" and Liberty City licence plates. Fan theory only: that GTA and Red Dead share a universe, that Jason connects to Arthur Morgan, and that the mulleted man is specifically Phil Cassidy's son. Keeping those two columns separate is the whole game with trailer analysis. The confirmed details are a real window into Leonida. The theories are what make the wait fun, as long as nobody mistakes them for facts. When GTA 6 finally arrives and the community server scene spins up, 6Charts will be here to help you find where to play. You can browse GTA 6 servers, read player reviews before you commit, and vote for the communities bringing these Vice City details to life. Until then, keep watching those frames.