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{{quote|"[[Lampshade Hanging|You call this 'archaeology'?]]"|'''Henry Jones Sr.'''}}
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The ''Indiana Jones'' [[Expanded Universe]] consists of the normally expected items: television series, novels and [[Video Game|video games]], plus the most definitely unusual ride at Disneyland.
''The [[
[[George Lucas]] prided ''Young Indy'' on managing a [[Film]]-level quality production on a television budget, helped by revolutions in digital technology, and he has said that the show was partly a test to see how far he could take the later ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Prequel|prequels]]. Also like ''[[Star Wars]]'', the series was subject to subsequent [[
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The franchise is also fondly remembed for the two [[
Three platformer-style adventure games followed, ''Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures'' in 1994, ''Infernal Machine'' in 1999, and ''Emperor's Tomb'' in 2003. In 2008, ''[[Lego Adaptation Game|LEGO Indiana Jones]]'' was released, covering the events of the entire film series, but using [[Built With Lego|characters and settings made entirely of virtual LEGO blocks, of course]]. Another [[Video Game]], ''[[
"Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye", a dark ride at [[Disney Theme Parks|Disneyland]] in Anaheim, California, has you boarding Jeeps. You get, depending on which path isn't occupied, tons of gold/a drink from the Fountain of Youth/sight into the future, so long as you don't look into the eyes of a giant gold head of a god. [[Failure Is the Only Option|Someone, of course, looks]], and you're on your way through a cave full of lava, snakes, and traps. The ride could fit anywhere into the [[Continuity]], really. A similar ride is at Tokyo Disney Sea, Temple of the Crystal Skull, changing to a [[Hilarious in Hindsight|South American setting with a sinister Crystal Skull]] and wind effects replacing the fire and lava. Finally, there's Disneyland Paris' ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril'' rollercoaster, which was notably once set to send the cars going backwards for several years.
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Between the games, the TV show, the ride and the movies, Indiana Jones has become one of THE most popular and recognizable characters in a hundred years. Indeed, if adventure has a name...
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== Films ==
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== Video Games ==
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* [[George Lucas Throwback]]: When combined with ''[[American Graffiti]]'' and the original ''[[Star Wars]]'' trilogy.
* [[Indy Escape]]
* [[Indy Hat Roll]]
* [[Indy Ploy]]
* [[It Belongs in a Museum]]
* [[Temple of Doom]]
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]
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* [[Action Girl]]: [[Bottle Fairy|Marion Ravenwood]] in ''Raiders'' {{spoiler|and in ''Crystal Skull''.}}
* [[Action Survivor]]: Indy.
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** "I HATE SNAKES, JOCK, I HATE 'EM!!!"
** Don't hurt or threaten kids when [[Papa Wolf|Dr Jones is around]].
** Do NOT call Indy "Junior".
* [[Big Bad Friend]]: Happens at least twice.
* [[Blow Gun]]: Used in the opening sequence of ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'', and then again in the tomb sequence of ''Crystal Skull''.
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* [[Cataclysm Climax]]: In ''The Last Crusade'', ''Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'', and ''Fate of Atlantis''.
* [[Character Development]]: Jones is noticeably more mature and less greedy by the time of the ''The Last Crusade'', especially when compared with his shady treasure hunter in the chronologically earliest ''Temple of Doom''. It goes even further when you watch the Young Indy series.
* [[Character Name and
* [[Chased
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Indy, both [[Hot for Teacher|in-universe]] and [[Mr. Fanservice|out]].
* [[Clothes Make the Legend]]: Indy's fedora never comes off, except at dramatic moments, and you can bet he'll be back to get it if it does. This was even made part of the movie pitch.
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** {{spoiler|The Ark of the Covenant can be seen from inside a broken crate during the warehouse fight in the 4th movie.}} In fact, {{spoiler|the Ark's Letimotif plays throughout that scene.}}
** The third movie has Indy and Elsa Schneider seeing a painting of the Ark, which Indy identifies (complete with a few notes from the Leitmotif of the Ark added to the soundtrack).
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'''Indy:''' Ark of the Covenant.
'''Elsa:''' Are you sure?
'''Indy:''' Pretty sure. }}
*** An almost identical exchange takes place between Indy and Sophia in the ''Fate of Atlantis'' game.
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* [[Crossover Cosmology]]: Through artifacts, there's pretty hard evidence that at least that both the Hindu gods and the Judaic God are actual entities. Not to mention {{spoiler|the interdimensional beings, too.}}
** Plot complexities aside, even Indy's parting words to the second film's villain -- "Prepare to meet Kali, ''in Hell!''" -- are a fairly concise example of this trope.
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS-MSi05tx0 These two] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWPxrm8B8Tc&feature=related videos] chronicle the many (214!) deaths that occur in the films. Some of them are far from pleasant.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Indy hides the truck carrying the Ark of the Covenant by disguising it as a Cairo fruit stand (''Raiders of the Lost Ark''). The Nazis, not to be fooled a second time, kidnap Brody by luring him into a truck that's disguised as a building (''The Last Crusade'').
* [[David Versus Goliath]]: Every time Indy fights the [[Giant Mook]] of the situation.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Most characters who appear in the series, especially Indy and Henry.
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'''Indy:''' I KNOW, DAD!
'''Henry:''' Well...it's a new experience for me.
'''Indy:''' Happens to me all the time! }}
* [[Deadly Fireworks Display]]: All of the movies except ''Temple of Doom''.
* [[Death
* [[Death Course]]
* [[Disappearing Box]]
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: All four films.
* [[Distinctive Appearances]]: That's exactly why he has his fedora. During the creation of the character, the concept artists found that the fedora added a highly distinct look, silhouette, and appearance to the character. Indy could be in a crowded room with his back towards the audience (as he usually is when he's introduced in some of the movies) and he'd still stand out heroically. As well, the fedora allowed the character to be visible from further away such as during the bridge scene in ''Temple of Doom''. On a more critical analysis, the fedora also marks the [[Age Cut|transition from Henry Jones Jr to Indiana Jones]], and it's also a great way to hide the transition from Harrison Ford to Harrison Ford's Stunt Double. This is also why most scenes have him wearing the hat except when he's being just a teacher -- him taking it off would be like going back to his secret identity.
* [[Dressing
* [[Durable Deathtrap]]: In every single movie.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everybody Smokes]]
* [[Expanded Universe]]: And how!! A TV series, comics, video games, novels, young novels, make your own adventure novels, theme park rides... And according to LucasArts, '''everything''' is [[Canon]].
** Well, everything that isn't explicitly overwritten by something else, anyway. {{spoiler|Elsa can be spared from her [[Plotline Death]]}} by having Indy pick up up the Grail before she does in the [[Indiana Jones and
* [[Expy]]: Avoided in the films. As one of Indy's characteristics was to be a [[Chick Magnet]] and as a result to have a new love interest in each movie, Spielberg and Lucas made their best effort to make any new girl as different as possible from the previous one. Kate Capshaw even had to dye her natural brown hair blonde to play [[
** Willie and Elsa are actually Expies of Lucas's original concept for the love interest of ''Raiders'' as a "Marlene Dietrich-type German lady singer/double agent". Willie is a singer and dancer; Elsa is German [Austrian] and a double agent (though loyal to the wrong side, unlike the girl Lucas first envisioned).
** Played straight in the expanded universe however, where Sophia Hapgood has evolved gradually into a fake Marion Ravenwood with psychic powers. In the [[Dark Horse]] comic ''Indiana Jones: Thunder in the Orient'' (which is basically a retelling of ''Temple of Doom'' with elements of ''Raiders'' in it) she doesn't even have psychic powers anymore. There is also an [[Expy]] of Short Round in this comic, Khamal, which is different only in that he is Lebanese instead of Chinese and a [[Knife Nut]] rather than a [[I Know Karate|Kung Fu]] fighter.
** Janice Le Roi from the "Tomb of the Gods" comics ends up being an [[Expy]] of ''all three'' love interests from the films: she's streetwise and tough as nails (Marion), she's VERY fond of the high life (Willie), and at one point she works with the Nazi Ahnenerbe agents to meet her own ends (Ilsa).
** In the TV series episode ''Palestine, October 1917'', that takes place in the Middle East during [[World War
** Yet the head of the Sword Brotherhood in the third film ''[[Name's the Same|was]]'' named Kazim... Interesting?
* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: At least one in every film. Usually the [[Giant Mook]], and the big bads.
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* [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]]: The first two films would be rated PG-13 nowadays, and even then would still skirt the R rating. Raiders had to make a few cuts to avoid that, and ''Temple of Doom'' was one of the driving factors for the MPAA to create PG-13 in the first place.
* [[Fanfare]]: The main theme is actually a mix of two fanfares the [[John Williams]] wrote. It was suggested he just combine them.
* [[Franchise
* [[Generation Xerox]]: {{spoiler|Indy receives his scar on the chin through his trademark weapon The Whip, and Mutt receives his scar on his right cheek through his trademark weapon The Sword.}}
** This is the entire reason that {{spoiler|Mutt's character was a greaser. He was originally supposed to be a geek, but it was decided that it would be better if he was a [[Rebel Without a Cause]], so Indiana would have an idea of what his father had to put up with when raising him.}}
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* [[Interesting Situation Duel]]: At least one per film: the flying wing fight in ''Raiders'', the rock crusher fight in ''Temple'', the tank fight in ''Crusade'', and the sword fight on top of ''moving jeeps'' in ''Crystal Skull''.
* [[Intimidation Demonstration]]: Pops up in several of the films.
** The famous scene in ''[[
** There was a similar scene in ''[[Indiana Jones and
* [[Jerk
* [[Jungle Opera]]: Most of the films have elements of this.
* [[Just a Flesh Wound]]
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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Most of the scenes that aren't horrifying are amusing.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: [[Harrison Ford]]. Oh so very much.
* [[Mugged for Disguise]]: Several [[Dressing
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: When he is not killing Nazis or searching for magnificent items that always end up killing someone, he is a teacher of Archeology and encourages people not to follow the same "field work". If you get right down to it Indy is one of the worlds first heroic action nerds.
* [[Never Bring a Knife
** Indy also gives Mutt this advice in ''Kingdom''.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Indy's trademark Fedora. The fact that Indy miraculously keeps the same hat throughout all his adventures is ultimately lampshaded in the third film.
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* [[Not My Driver]]
* [[Omniglot]]: It isn't prominent in the films, but in the expanded universe, Indy has supposedly picked up twenty-seven languages while wandering around the world. Belloq appears to speak even more, and mocks Indy because he doesn't speak the obscure tribal language of the Hovitos.
* [[Piggybacking
* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: For a "Professor", Indy doesn't get around to ''teaching'' all that much. Lampshaded in ''Crystal Skull''.
* [[Reality Subtext]]: Indiana was the name of George Lucas' dog, who was also the inspiration for [[Star Wars|Chewbacca]]. The third film reveals that Henry Jones Jr. chose his nickname after his own dog.
* [[Rebellious Prisoner]]: Indiana and the friends that he makes along the way:
** Indy himself does not comply with his captors, or make it easy for them. He'll snark and resist, and improvise means to escape. The only way to get him to cave is if one of his loved ones is threatened, like Marion.
** Marion is not a fun prisoner. She'll always think of how to escape, like outdrinking a captor that lets her change into a beautiful dress, or knowing when to steal a gun. This didn't change when she {{spoiler|had Mutt a short while after Indy left her at the wedding aisle; while being threatened with death, she was more worried about the fact that Mutt came to rescue her and got captured in turn}}.
** Henry Jones, Sr., endured captivity at the Nazis' hands for months for his knowledge on the Holy Grail. He refused to cough up any information, and was willing to hit any guards with a vase, as long as it's not Ming. Later, he makes great use of a fountain pen to blind a soldier maneuvering a tank; "The pen is mightier than the sword," indeed.
** Mutt has this reaction when Irina Spalko threatens him at swordpoint to get Indiana to cooperate. He takes time to comb his hair, showing that it's not a weapon, and looks her straight in the eye while telling Indiana to not "Give these pigs anything".
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: From ''The Raiders'', Indy who suffers a serious snakes pohbia must face thousands of poison snakes who inhabited the Well of Souls.
** Hilariously done in the ''Crystal Skull'', where Indy is forced to hang on to a <s>snake</s> "rope" to get out of a quicksand pit.
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** Indy's [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|snake phobia]].
* [[Say My Name]]: Count the number of times that the bad guys scream "JOOOOOONES!" And all the times Indy's friends and allies yell "Indy!", or in Henry Sr.'s case, "Junior!".
** And it's Henry Sr.'s gentle, insistent "Indiana" that saves Indy from [[Death
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The ''Young Indiana Jones'' TV series loves to linger nostalgically on famous landmarks as establishing shots for the country of the week Indy is adventuring in. The series was intended to be semi-educational in nature. The films also do this to present the glamorous, exotic locales frequented by a globe-trotting adventurer.
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: The [[MacGuffin]] artifact usually turns out to be long-lost for a ''reason''. You know the bit about [[All Myths Are True]]? It also applies to curses, supernatural monsters, and divine wrath. Marcus lampshades the Ark's dubious rapport, for instance, about 10 minutes into ''Raiders''.
** Sallah also lampshades this in ''Raiders'':
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* [[Secret Government Warehouse]]: The ending of ''Raiders'' has one of the most famous examples. Revisited in ''Crystal skull''
* [[Sesquipedalian Smith]]: Indiana Jones.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Indy gets one per movie.
* [[Stock Scream]]: All the films use the Wilhelm Scream at some point.
* [[Temple of Doom]]: [[Once Per Episode]].
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: The villains of the ''Raiders'' and ''The Last Crusade''.
** Incidentally, this almost partly killed the franchise. After the harrowing and humbling experience of filming ''[[Schindler's List]]'', Steven Spielberg decided he could no longer in good conscience use Nazis as stock pulp villains as in ''Raiders'' and ''The Last Crusade''.
* [[Timeshifted Actor]]: Teenaged Indy is played by River Phoenix in ''The Last Crusade''. The TV series had several actors play Indy at various ages.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Travel Montage]]: The famous map scenes that appeared in all of the films.
* [[Treasure Map]]
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* [[We Have Ways of Making You Talk]]
* [[Whip It Good|Whip]] [[Sword and Gun|And Gun]]: There was actually a fight sequence intended. [[Word of God]] says that Harrison Ford had dysentery that day and asked "[[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|Why don't I just shoot him]]?" They thought about it and decided to give it a shot, but were going to film the fight later anyway. The first take was so good, Spielberg said "Print it!" and the rest is history.
*** In the "Making of Indiana Jones" book producer Howard Kanzanjian said they actually had two cuts of the movie. One with the Indy fighting the swordsman with the whip(preferred by Lucas) and another version with the Indy shooting him(Spielberg). They left it to the test preview to decide which to use. The audience reaction to Indy shooting was so great that that became the final version.
** Indy tried to subvert it again/[[Prequel|beforehand]] in ''Temple of Doom'' but forgot that he lost his gun earlier in the movie.
** A similar situation happened in "Staff of Kings". Though instead of losing the gun, it was out of bullets when he tried shooting "the dragon".
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Indy is afraid of snakes, Indy's dad is afraid of rats and Mutt of scorpions. Of course, this means they all encounter the subject of their debilitating phobias again and again in a series of [[Contrived Coincidence|contrived coincidences]]. Mind you, is Mutt's reaction to the scorpion a genuine fear of scorpions, or the normal person's reaction to seeing [[Big Creepy
** Henry Sr.'s fear of rats could come just from his being a Medieval historian and knowing the "Black Death" that ravaged Europe in the [[Middle Ages]] was caused by fleas on rats brought by ships from China.
* [[World War II]]: Leading up to it, at least. Indy's military service during the war is also referenced in the fourth film.
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