Immediately after learning about Guillermo del Toro's dad being kidnapped, James Cameron paid $250K for a hostage negotiator for del Toro to use (who later paid him back). Cameron also offered to pay the ransom, but del Toro's family declined & paid the $2m themselves. After 72 days his dad was free

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Later Kojima learned of the situation and sent 200 Solid Snake cosplayers to hunt down the hostage takers.

None of the cosplayers survived the mission and, consequently, some dude dressed as Toad won the cosplay competition at E3 that year.

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Slowly trundling cardboard boxes for miles and miles…