if you'd have told me in 2002 that the funny guy leaping around in a superhero costume would, by age 48, basically have transformed himself into Hideo Kojima character, I would have laughed at them
that's like tom cruise ass levels of "i feel myself about to invent a conspiracy theory trying to explain how a man this white can have an ass this chunked"
there is probably 1000s of eugenicists for whom that animated gif would be the holy grail of their research who fortunately died before anyone invented a computer