Hundreds of Billions of Fictional Dollars Have Been Dumped Into Saving Matt Damon

Saving Damon is stripping the planet's wallet.

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Jimmy Kimmel tried to warn us. Matt Damon, at least in the cinematic sense, is quite the burden on the world's wallet. Though dude most recently got himself stranded on Mars with Ridley Scott, promptly inspiring an unbelievably expensive rescue operation, Damon has actually been placing himself in money pits of abandonment for decades.

Since humans rarely have anything better to do, one brave Quora user decided to actually break down the fictional math behind all the fictional times that a fictional Matt Damon had to be expensively rescued in the name of good-natured entertainment. As one would guess, saving Matt Damon is pretty much never a cheap undertaking. For example, saving Damon via helicopter ran an estimated $300,000 in the relatively underrated Denzel Washington / Meg Ryan thriller Courage Under Fire. As for that intergalactic Martian rescue? That'll run you about $200 billion or so, according to esteemed Quora frequenter Kynan Eng.

Peep the full list of expenses involved with saving Matt Damon over and over (and over and over) again below, including the astounding grand total of roughly $900 billion:

Courage Under Fire (Gulf War 1 helicopter rescue): $300k

Getting expensively lost is a cool hobby, Matt Damon. I totally get it. But maybe start considering the financial toll it takes on those around you. 

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