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== Indy has bad vision in one eye ==

Indy is nearsighted in only one eye. His eyes naturally adapted to favor the good eye, giving him 20/20 monocular vision. The "leap of faith" in ''Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade'' then makes slightly more sense, as Indiana Jones has no depth perception.

* Indy from the TV series ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'' wore an eyepatch. His eye was lost in an [[Noodle Incident|unspecified event]].

** In ''Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life'' Indy catches a blast of steam in the face (the right side) when the boiler of the boat he's on is hit by a bullet, so that may account for his poor depth perception later in life.

 

== Spalko won in the end. ==

* But it must have been painful, and probably not as expected. [[Pyrrhic Victory]], anyone?

 

== The series has a reversal of ''[[Star Trek]]'''s even-odd rules. ==

The odd-numbered ones (''Raiders'' and ''Last Crusade'') are usually regarded as better than the even-numbered ones (''Temple of Doom'' and ''Crystal Skull''), forming an inverse of the rules which determine which ''[[Star Trek]]'' films are good.

* But ''Nemesis'', which was the 10 ''Star Trek'' movie, bombed. Its failure derailed ''Star Trek'''s movie series for several years, thereby breaking the "even-odd" rule.

** That really doesn't make sense because the Temple of Doom may not have been as good as the other original films, but it is leaps and bounds above Crystal Skull.

* These "even-odd" rules are just superstitions in the guise of "rules" or insincerely only half-meant "jokes". They never work, except maybe by pure fluke. People say the same thing about Beethoven, that you should listen only to his odd-numbered symphonies, but this deliberately overlooks the sixth being universally considered one of his finest. In fact, the fourth symphony alone among all of the nine blows chunks.

*** I'm sure that by "James Bond was Indiana Jones' dad" the troper meant something more like "James Bond is the spiritual precursor of Indy."

* All the more likely since the new "Casino Royale" essentially canonized the idea that "James Bond" is a moniker attached to the 007 rating. The odds of Indy sharing genes with any one of an untold number of past 007 agents are not small...

*** Really belongs more on the [[James Bond]] WMG page, but...it only [[Jossed]] the idea that the Bond identity is attached to the 007 number automatically. It did NOT Joss, and in fact strongly indicated, that "James Bond" is a cover identity (hence M's "when I knew you were you" line.") All of which goes along with other little hints like Lazenby's "This never happened to the other fellow." So (to tie this back in) Indy's Dad has a Scottish cousin who becomes the first James Bond.

 

 

== Indy wasn't poisoned in ''Temple of Doom''. ==

 

The war in the Pacific was going to happen whether we like it or not. HOWEVER if Indy failed to destroy the plane that was about to take the Ark to Germany, Knowing how impatient Hitler was, he would have demanded to see it upon arrival without Belloq's approval. They would have opened the Ark before Hitler and most likely it would have melted his face off. The Ark would have been locked away in a giant secret warehouse/bunker anyways because the Nazi's can't use it.

* Then some other Nazi with more common sense shows up instead and ww 2 changes drastically, with either good or bad results in the long run. good being the soviet union falls apart, then allies defeat via invasion from the mediteranian instead of d-day, which leads to no cold war and democracy in most nations of the world because stalin will be in no postition to demand the eastern european naitons, or support communist china, or creating north korea, leading to the U.S. not feeling the need to install dictators in power, leding to slow develpoment of democracies instead of rushing to put in something that can fight a war. that, or they get nukes and the world is devistated by nuclear war.

The Musical Aliens (in [[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]) have been locked in a deadly war with the Crystal Aliens for millions of years. The Crystal Aliens made contact with the humans first, intent on looking for some advantage against their cousins.

 

 

The Crystal Aliens quickly learned that Earth gave them no major advantage, but a few rogues did discover that humans are... well, tasty. Earth's rich geological resources also intrigued them, and so they become obsessed with grabbing everything in sight and screwing with humanity... for fun. This never was approved by the Crystal Alien leaders. They allowed the humans to disable the largest hive mind on Earth with some simple trickery, resulting in the members of Akator's 13 being trapped on Earth.

The Musical Aliens continued to wage war against the Crystal Aliens and eventually drove them back far into space until both civilizations were decimated, becoming nothing more than a memory, a record in the mind of a person who was now an old man on Earth...

 

Ever notice how similar Spalko is to Rasputin? And why would the Communists have any interest in the paranormal? Answer: Spalko is Rasputin's protege.

 

Because that would just be too cool.

 

 

== Elsa Schneider was a virgin. ==

 

== Building on the Indy Is [[James Bond]]'s Cousin guess, Indy Is the original James Bond's Son. ==

* No, no, no. James Bond is a Time Lord. Before regenerating into George Lazenby, Sean Connery went back in time and decided to work as an archeologist for a while using the same device that The Doctor used to become human, where he eventually sired Indy. Of course, the events of The Last Crusade reawakened his memories of his life as a secret agent, so he returned to the 60's and continued his role as James Bond.

* How about this: As noted before, drinking from the Holy Grail gave both Dr. Joneses immortality. However, the immortality doesn't activate until after death, thus allowing for the existence of Elderly!Eyepatched!Indy in the 1990s. Therefore, it's after Jones Sr. "died" sometime prior to 1957 that he took on the 007/James Bond identity. Of course, something went horribly wrong during his tenure, leading to [[The Rock|his subsequent imprisonment by MI6]].

 

== Spalko wished to "know" ''everything'', and got her wish. ==

 

== The [[Secret Government Warehouse]] at the end of ''Raiders'' isn't Area51. ==

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