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Here we have the daring heroes and blackhearted villains of the Indiana Jones saga of films, directed by Mr. Steven Spielberg and produced by Mr. George Lucas.
(Under Construction)
The Heroes[]
Indiana Jones (AKA Colonel Professor Doctor Henry Walton Jones Junior, Associate Dean of Princeton University's Department of Archeaology, 1957. AKA Corporal Henri Defense of the Belgium Army.)[]
- Absent-Minded Professor: At one point, Indy tries to return to his office and is besieged by students because he hasn't been grading any of their work. He has to climb out the window to escape.
- Some of the female students were there for something else...
- Ace Pilot: "Fly, yes. Land, no." Interestingly, in Temple of Doom, he says he doesn't know how to fly a plane. Guess he learned how to fly between then and Last Crusade.
- It should be noted that Temple of Doom is a prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Last Crusade being a sequel to the latter.
- In the novelisation for Temple of Doom, it's made pretty clear that Indy was joking with Willie that he didn't know how to fly to mess with her.
- It should be noted that Temple of Doom is a prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Last Crusade being a sequel to the latter.
- Action Duo: With Short Round, his father, or Mutt.
- Action Survivor: Indy may have styled himself as a Badass Action Hero, but in practice he's not much more than a slightly-greedy college professor who doesn't know when to quit.
- Adventure Duo / Battle Couple: With Marion.
- Adventurer Archaeologist: Duh.
- Agent Scully: To a point. In Crystal Skull, Indy is a big skeptic about the existence of alien races, and in Raiders, considers the Ark of the Covenant nothing but a fancy gold box, but when the Ark is opened at the end of the film he insists that he and Marion avert their eyes.
- Anti-Hero: Type II on the Sliding Scale. He's a Deadpan Snarker and somewhat cynical Knight in Sour Armor, but a generally good guy.
- Badass
- Badass Bookworm: Can grade your university thesis AND kick your ass.
- Badass Grandpa: Circa 1957.
- Badass Normal: Unlike many superheroes he has no superpowers but has a large number of Improbable Aiming Skills (you know - the gun, the whip etc. etc.)
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Marion.
- Berserk Button: One of the few ways to truly enrage the normally logical Henry Jones Junior is to harm an innocent child... just ask the shredded remains of Mola Ram in the bellies of a dozen satisfied crocodiles.
- "I HATE SNAKES, JOCK, I HATE 'EM!!!"
- And don't call him "Junior"!
- Bunny Ears Lawyer
- Captain Crash: "Fly, yes! Land, no!!"
- Colonel Badass: By the end of World War II.
- Combat Pragmatist: The poster boy.
- Cultured Badass: Equally at home in a Duchess's party as he is in the moldy depths of an ancient ruined city.
- Cutting the Knot: Indy's favorite solution to problems tends to include this.
- Cynical Mentor: To Mutt Williams.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Disney Death: Similar to Basil from The Great Mouse Detective. In The Last Crusade Indy seems he's fallen to his death in a deep chasm along with Vogel. While his father, Brody, and Sallah peering over the cliff, believing that he died, Indy climbs onto the cliff edge, revealing he's jumped from the tank before it fell..
- Disappeared Dad: Indy complained that his father was more concerned about artifacts in a museum than his own son. Notably, however, it was Indy that walked out on him.
- Eagle Land
- Estrogen Brigade Bait: He's played by Harrison Ford, so this is a given.
- Fedora of Asskicking: Basically codified this trope for modern times.
- The Gump: In the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, if he or she has been written down in the history books in the last 100 years, Indy has met/befriended/fallen in love/fought/slept with him or her.
- Harrison Ford: The role that made his career.
- He Cleans Up Nicely: Can pull off a dam fine Tux.
- Honor Before Reason: In his younger days, as chronicled by the TV series. Becomes cold and jaded in adulthood, but regains this trope after reconciling with his father.
- Hot-Blooded
- Hot Dad - To Mutt Williams, aka Henry Jones the Third
- Hot Teacher
- Iconic Item: His fedora and bullwhip.
- I Know Karate: Young Indiana Jones has shown proficiency in Northern Style Kung Fu in his TV series; though this is not retconned into the movie series proper, Indy has consistently been shown to be skilled in US Marines CQC (Close Quarters Combat, made famous by The Boss and Big Boss) since Temple of Doom; justifiable considering his extended experience in the military.
- Indy Ploy: THE Trope Namer
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold
- Jumped At the Call: He may be a world weary cynic but no one optionally does the kind of stuff Indy does without enjoying it just a bit.
- Knight in Sour Armor: He is cynical most of the time, but has his romantic moments as well.
- Line-of-Sight Name: "Henry Defense" came into being when he was asked to give a name while enlisting for the Belgium Army in World War I, and the French word "Defense' just happened to be on a plate resting on the desk.
- Loveable Rogue
- Memetic Outfit: He does wear a wide variety of clothes in the films but He just isn't Indy without the Leather Jacket and fedora.
- Mighty Whitey: Skirts the line in that he actually wants to preserve and protect the cultures he researches rather than lord and dominate over them.
- Missing Mom: Indy's mother died while he was at a young age.
- Nice Hat: Can You imagine Indy kicking ass without his trademark fedora? Didn't think so.
- The Obi-Wan: To Mutt.
- Omniglot: Latin, Greek, Japanese, German, Mayan, Egyptian, French, Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Irish, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Hindi, Dutch, Old English, Quechua, and most likely others. Word of God says he speaks 27 languages. Unfortunately, he didn't take that summer course in Hovitos...
- One-Man Army
- Only Known by Their Nickname: All of his friends consistently refer to him as "Indiana" or "Indy". It wasn't until the third movie that people learned his first name is actually Henry, and that he got his nickname from their dog.
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Sallah: What does it mean, this "junior"? |
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- Papa Wolf: "They're innocent children... Mola Ram, prepare to meet Kali IN HELL!!"
- And of course, to Mutt. When he thinks that Mutt is simply Marion's son, Indy looks out for him like anyone else with him on an adventure, but when he learns the truth, the trope is embodied full-on.
- Refuge in Audacity: "No ticket."
- Weapon of Choice: Whips, revolvers, and fists.
- Whip It Good
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Trope Namer, in that getting to the Ark meant going into a room loaded with them.
Marion Ravenwood[]
- Action Girl: Actually helps in Indy's battles, quite unlike the Damsel in Distress staple to "normal" pulp adventures.
- Adventure Duo / Battle Couple: With Indy in "Raiders" and "Crystal Skull".
- Badass Adorable
- Badass Damsel: She knows pretty well how to use fire weapons and to fight. Moreover she must have a lot of nerves to face a sadist torturer like Toht and blowing smoke in his face.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension - With Indy, of course. She punches him in the face when he first shows up in her bar.
- Bottle Fairy: As demonstrated with Belloq, she could drink any man under the table.
- Bound and Gagged: In both movies she appears in.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Disney Death: In Raiders, Indy thinks she's dead when the truck she was thrown in while she was in a basket explodes. But he finds her alive at the Tanis site since they have switched baskets.
- Fetish Fuel Station Attendant: Most in "Raiders", but also in Crystal Skull she hasn't lost her beauty.
- First Girl Wins: Given the backstory in "Raiders", Marion WAS Indy's girlfriend before Willie. It was the reason why Indy and Abner had a falling out.
- Foot Focus: Spends half of "Raiders" barefoot.
- Hot-Blooded: A rare female example.
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- Hot Mom: To Mutt Williams. Oh so very very cute for a 49 year-old gal.
- I'm Taking Her Home with Me
- Tsundere
- When She Smiles
Professor Henry Walton Jones Senior[]
- Action Duo: With his son.
- Action Survivor: Starts out as one.
- Actor Allusion: Played James Bond, one of the figurative fathers of Indiana Jones.
- Badass Beard
- Badass Bookworm: Like father, like son.
- Badass Grandpa: Took down a German fighter plane with a fricking umbrella and a flock of seagulls... what a man!!
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- Bus Crash: He's mentioned in the fourth film to have died sometime after the third. Justified since Sean Connery refused to come out of retirement just to make some cameo that would ultimately be insignificant.
- Captain Obvious:
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- Catch Phrase: "This is intolerable!"
- Deadpan Snarker: Runs strong in the Jones family.
- Establishing Character Moment: Smashes a vase over his son's head, and is immediately more concerned about the vase.
- In the very beginning, not being interested in hearing Indy tell him about getting the Cross of Coronado, being wrapped up in writing his grail diary.
- Honor Before Reason
- The Load: Do not let Henry Sr. near anything that fires bullets.
- Subverted later on, regardless of what Indy may think.
- Nice Hat: His bucket hat. Yes, it's really called that.
- Parasol of Pain: As the German fighter pilot above found out the hard way...
- The Pen Is Mightier: Ironically, the man is deadlier with a fountain pen!
- Playing Against Type: Action icon / sex symbol Sean Connery as Indy's academic, somewhat aloof father.
- Sean Connery
- "Well Done, Son" Guy
Sallah[]
- The Big Guy
- Boisterous Bruiser: A large man, fond of singing and beating up Gestapo agents in equal measure. He's very rarely upset.
- Cuddle Bug: Sallah really likes to hug the people that he cares about, and it doesn't make him any less manly!
- Deadpan Snarker: Of Indy's caliber.
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- Fake Nationality: Mr John Rhys Davies, a Welshman playing an Arab.
- Gentle Giant
- The Glomp: Sallah's speciality in Raiders.
- Large Ham: When John Rhys-Davies is involved, there is no other path.
- Took a Level In Dumbass: In Raiders, Sallah was competent, brave and intelligent. In Last Crusade, he was a borderline idiot savant comic relief character whose only redeeming characteristic was he could hit really hard.
- YMMV on that. He knew that there was no museum in Iskendun, but the Nazis were too clever with the fake storefront leading to a truck. Is it because he wanted a few camels to compensate for his brother-in-law's car being blown up? That just makes him a good in-law! Also, do you realize how far it is to drive from Cairo in Egypt to Hatay in southern Turkey? Hundreds of miles. He was doing Indy a huge favor.
Professor Marcus Brody, Dean of Princeton University's Department of Archaeology.[]
- Absent-Minded Professor: Smart enough to become the Dean of Archaeology at Princeton University, and yet can get lost inside his own museum, if Indy's word is to be believed.
- The Cast Showoff: Mr. Elliot was an accomplished equestrian and so was able to safely nearly-fall-off-the-horse in the third movie.
- The Character Died with Him: Denholm Elliott's death was written into the fourth film.
- Flanderization: From a slightly absent-minded professor who was implied to have Indy-like adventures himself to someone who needed to be handheld through every situation.
- The Fool: Though he's not stupid, just a little bit of a clutz.
- Nice Guy
- The Load: Not all of the time, but often.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Dean of Archaeology at Princeton University.
- Too Dumb to Live:
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Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott[]
- Adult Child
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Willie during the entire scene where Indy bursts into her room to look for the secret entrance to Kali's temple. "I'm right here!"
- Diamonds in the Buff:
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- Distressed Damsel: To the point where most fans consider her a Damsel Scrappy.
- The Ditz
- Dumb Blonde
- Dyeing for Your Art: The actress who played her dyed her brown hair blond for the role.
- Glamorous Wartime Singer
- Gold Digger: She has shades of this.
- Hate Sink
- Large Ham: A lot.
- The Load
- Money, Dear Boy: Mild case with her actress Kate Capshaw, who although was a single mother feminist in Real Life, actually enjoyed playing a role that smeared all her ideals into the ground, calling it "the most fun I ever had in a role."
- Well in that case it seemed like she was being a parody of every thing her views are against.
- Meaningful Name: Apparently, her name is derived from the "Wilhelm Scream", which leads us to...
- She's also named after Steven Spielberg's pet dog, much like how George Lucas had named Indy after his pet dog.
- Screaming Woman: And how.
- Well, Excuse Me, Princess!
- You Can Keep Her: Needless to say, Indy's threat didn't exactly work.
Short Round (AKA Wan Li)[]
- Badass Adorable
- Beam Me Up, Scotty: Short Round doesn't say "No time for love, Dr. Jones!", but rather, "Hey, Dr. Jones, no time for love!".
- Bratty Half-Pint
- Fake Chinese: The actor who played him is Vietnamese.
- Honor Before Reason
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: He's an Adventurer Archaeologist in training, he can fight, and he can drive. Did I mention that he's about twelve years old!
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold
- Kid Sidekick
- I Know Karate: Northern-Style Kung Fu, actually. Ask the Thuggee guards whose arses he kicked.
- The Not Love Interest
Mutt Williams (AKA Henry Jones the Third)[]
- Action Duo: With Indy in "Crystal Skull".
- Badass Bookworm
- Brilliant but Lazy: Has a lovely habit of being repeatedly kicked out of prep schools, despite being an excellent student.
- Chekhov's Skill: Mutt's reason for being kicked out of every school he went to is that he is such an accomplished swordsman he has made quite a handsome profit betting on himself in the inter-high fencing tournaments, and he proves just how fearsome a warrior he is in the Jungles of Peru, fighting experienced-swordswoman Irina Spalko to a standstill atop two speeding jeeps.
- Composite Character: Mutt is modeled on a combination of Jim Stark (James Dean) in Rebel Without a Cause and Johnny Strabler, a biker played by Marlon Brando in The Wild One.
- Generation Xerox: Acquires a visible facial scar through his Weapon of Choice, much like his father did on his chin with the whip. He even named himself Mutt.
- Heroic Bastard: When he was born, his REAL parents were most certainly NOT married.
- Hot-Blooded
- Old Archaeologist, Young Archaeologist: Wasn't really interested in being an Archaeologist in the beginning, no doubt that's changed.
- Reckless Sidekick: See: Hot-Blooded above.
- Weapon of Choice: The sword.
The Villains (Under Construction)[]
Doctor René Belloq[]
- A God Am I: You'd almost think René got into this business just so he could hold idols over his head and make people bow to him.
- Adventurer Archaeologist: The bad guy version of the trope. Plus, he's willing to let someone else do the adventuring while he waits outside to hold them up for the treasure at gunpoint.
- Arch Enemy: Well, the closest thing to it that Indy has.
- In the Novelization, it's revealed that Belloq built his career around letting Jones do all the work, then swooping in to steal his artifacts/research papers.
- Be Careful What You Wish For
- Blue Eyes
- Dragon-in-Chief: Nominally the main antagonist of the film, it's actually Nazi Colonel Dietrich who is the one in charge of the quest of the Ark and the one who calls all the shots. However Belloq uses his smooth talk and archeological expertise to sway Dietrich around to his point of view and get the colonel to do what he wants.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Draws the line at rough treatment of women. René repeatedly tries to shield Marion from harm, though he's not overly enthusiastic about it.
- Evil Counterpart
- Evil Genius
- Fake Nationality: Paul Freeman, a Brit, plays Belloq, a Frenchman.
- French Jerk
- Irony: If it weren't for the test he suggested that ultimately resulted in his and his co-villains Karmic Death on a remote island and delivered it to Berlin as is, there most likely would not have been a World War II because of the Ark blowing it up.
- Karmic Death
- Loveable Rogue: Tries to present himself as this to Marion, and succeeds at first. This illusion is probably shattered for good later when a captured Marion gets shoved around by a soldier and Belloq coldly brushes by without a word.
- Manipulative Bastard: Gets into the heads of and manipulates the natives of South America, Marion, and even Indy himself.
- Nice Hat: A white fedora.
- Not So Different: Gives a standout example of such a speech to Indy in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- Omniglot: Taking that summer course in Hovitos really came in handy down in Peru, 1936.
- The Quisling: René is French; France and Germany have not been on the best of terms since
19141870, mind. - Smug Snake
- Wicked Cultured
- Worthy Opponent: "Where shall I find a new adversary so close to my own level?"
- "Try the local sewer."
- You Wouldn't Shoot Me: Successfully pulls a variant of this on Indiana freaking Jones, for god's sake.
- Your Head Asplode
Colonel Herman Dietrich[]
- Affably Evil
- Big Bad: After all he's the one who commands the Nazi squad who searches the Ark. Belloq serves just as his ally.
- Blond Guys Are Evil
- Blue Eyes
- Even Evil Has Standards: Does a very minor one when he seizes the smuggling ship. Captain Katanga tries to protect Marion by implying that he plans to sell her as a Sex Slave, hoping that after the Nazis get their cargo back and find no trace of Indy they'll be satisfied. Instead a visibly disgusted Dietrich immediately grabs Marion and threatens to sink Katanga's ship.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a scar across his left cheek.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty
- Kick the Dog: Takes an offered melon from an Egyptian merchant and tosses it at a random offscreen dog.
- Lantern Jaw of Justice: Actor Wolf Kahler has a serious jawline.
- Officer and a Gentleman: To a point.
- Satellite Character: Major Gobler, his ever-present second in command. Even the novelization emphasizes Gobler as "Dietrich's shadow" and little else.
- The Stoic: Indiana Jones hijacking the truck carrying the Ark and all the wild driving his Mercedes is put through as a result? It barely earns a raised eyebrow and a mild frown from him.
- Not So Stoic: Although Indy continually coming out of nowhere to ruin his mission eventually starts getting to him, both with the tossing a melon at a dog thing and when his men can't find Indy on the smuggler's ship. "WHAT ABOUT JONES?!!"
- Wicked Cultured: Listens to a record player and drinks bourbon from a cut crystal decanter outside his tent in Tanis.
Arnold Toht[]
- Annoying Laugh
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Toht is very fastidious.
- Bad Boss: When Indy and one of his henchmen are fighting, he gives the order to "shoot zem both".
- Cold-Blooded Torture: With a red hot poker.
- The Dragon: To Dietrich, specifically.
- Dyeing for Your Art: Ronald Lacey was not actually balding. In films before and after Raiders of the Lost Ark, he has a full head of hair. However he shaved the top portion of his head but left the hair on the sides and back to give Toht male pattern baldness.
- Fake Nationality: Ronald Lacey is English playing a German villain.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul
- The Hyena: Of the giggly, effeminate variety.
- Large Ham
- Meaningful Name: See the German word "tot" for more details.
- It's "death", just in case you're lazy.
- Nice Hat
- Psycho for Hire: It’s pretty blatant he really enjoys being a Torture Technician.
- Psychotic Smirk
- Scars Are Forever: The headpiece to the staff of Ra happens to be super-heated when Toht grabs it, leaving an imprint of the map seared into his hand.
- Scary Shiny Glasses
- Screams Like a Little Girl: During the Ark Opening scene. Even Belloq screams in a somewhat more manly way.
- Stab the Salad: The famous coat hanger scene.
- Torture Technician
- We Have Reserves: At one point he instructs a Mook to shoot both Indy and another mook who are in the middle of wrestling for possession of a gun. Backfires spectacularly, since now Indy and said mook both want to shoot the same guy with the gun.
- We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Major Gobler[]
- Disney Villain Death: Dies when the truck he is in drives off a cliff during a car chase.
- Mook Lieutenant: Gobler doesn’t even make die during he opening of the Ark, but rather halfway through the film in a car chase.
- Satellite Character: To Dietrich.
Satipo[]
- Asshole Victim: Speared by one of the traps shortly after betraying Indy.
- Dirty Coward: Abandons Indy to die.
Mola Ram[]
- Badass Boast: "The British in India will be slaughtered. Then we will overrun the Muslims. Then the Hebrew God will fall. And then the Christian God will be cast down and forgotten. Soon, Kali-ma will RULE THE WORLD!!"
- Bald of Evil: He wears an animal skull for his rituals, but has not a hair on his head save for his eyebrows.
- Beat Still My Heart: See the page picture. Possibly the most famous example of this trope.
- Big Bad
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The shooting script and novelization had Mola Ram have the same confused and bewildered, snapping-out-of-brainwashing reaction as everyone else that was mind-controlled after handling the glowing stone. In those version he looks confused and terrified for a second, then falls to the crocodiles. The final film, however, does not have this, leaving him solely as a Complete Monster.
- Category Traitor: Indy accuses Mola Ram of betraying Shiva - a deity that neither of them worshiped. Mola Ram was a priest of Kali, who in this particular setting seem to be the evil half of a black and white dualism, locked in eternal battle with the good deity Shiva. Indy never explained his reasoning, but one can assume that he felt that Mola Ram was obliged to worship Shiva because he was Indian.
- Uh, no no no, if you had been paying attention, he was probably doing that to try and see if the stones had any actual power, which were created by Shiva, which had been hinted at by a mural to be how to uses them.
- It might not much a stretch. From Hindu mythology, Shiva IS a supreme god and one of Hindu Trinity. He is also a god of destruction and Kali husband. So Indy might have a point here. (Although I need some expert to confirm this).
- Disney Villain Death: Subverted. It’s not the fall that kills him, it’s the crocodiles.
- Dyeing for Your Art: Amrish Puri shaved his hair for this film, and because of his iconic performance, he kept his bald appearance for the rest of his life.
- Evil Laugh
- Faux Affably Evil: When Indy is captured by the cultists, Mola Ram is quite lighthearted, with big, creepy smiles and a mellow voice... his laugh is quite off-putting, as well.
- Large Ham: "Drop them, DOCTOR JONES! The stones will be found... YOU WON'T!"
- Mean Character, Nice Actor: Amrish Puri, a professional wrestler, is said by Harrison Ford to be one of the sweetest and kindest men he has ever worked with.
- Orcus on His Throne
- Religion Is Magic
- Religion of Evil
- We Have Reserves: Pushing his own men to their deaths, hoping their falling bodies will knock Indy from the rope bridge.
- Would Hurt a Child: Child slaves are ideal for mining mountains for magic rocks. Small hands, y'see.
Chattar Lal[]
Lao Che[]
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His two sons Chen and Kao Khan.
- Greed: Tries to kill Indiana simply to get out of paying him.
- Jerkass
Chen and Kao Khan[]
- Character Death: Kao is impaled on a pigeon flambé by Indiana.
- Smug Snake: Both of them.
Demetrios/Claw[]
- Red Right Hand: By 1916 his hand has been replaced with a metal claw. Fittingly, he has been dubbed Claw.
- Starter Villain: The first enemy Indiana ever faced.
- Karma Houdini: During his first meeting with Indy he managed to get away with the jackal headpiece, avoiding punishment for the murders he committed. He wasn’t so lucky in his second encounter.
Mattias Targo[]
- Big Bad: Of Masks of Evil.
- Dead Guy on Display: Leaves impaled corpses dotted around his castle.
- Faux Affably Evil
- Our Vampires Are Different: A reincarnation of Vlad the Impaler.
- Vampire Monarch: Heavily implied to be one.
Walter Donovan[]
- Affably Evil: Played straight for a while, then subverted and goes into Faux Affably Evil.
- Big Bad
- Chair Reveal: "Didn't I warn you, Doctor Jones, not to trust anybody ?"
- Death by Irony: Ages to a corpse within seconds. Nothing a little Botox can't fix, right Donovan?
- Fake American: Donovan is played by respected British actor Julian Glover.
- Hey, It's That Guy!! He also played General Veers, and James Bond villain Aris Kristatos.
- Immortality Immorality
- Kick the Dog: Shooting Henry to force Indy into clearing the path to the Grail of its traps.
- Manipulative Bastard: The way he kicks the dog definitely qualifies him.
- The Mole
- Piggybacking on Hitler: Selling out America to the Nazis for a grab at immortality.
- Rapid Aging: A punishment for choosing the wrong grail.
- Treacherous Advisor
- Smug Snake
Dr. Elsa Schneider[]
Elsa wonders with amazement at the Holy Grail.
- Anti-Villain: Type I.
- Blondes Are Evil
- Dark Chick
- Disney Villain Death
- Executive Meddling: She could have survived (Allison Doody was really pushing for it) but Spielberg and Lucas didn't allow it.
- Fake Nationality: Elsa is Austrian while her actress Alison Doody is Irish.
- Hot Librarian
- Not in This For Your Revolution: Hinted at a few times, yet ultimately subverted; Elsa detests the Nazis for destroying art, but her greed trumps any righteous indignation.
- "Take That!" Kiss: "This is how we say goodbye in Austria."
- The Baroness
- The Mole
- Vague Age: Elsa's age isn't given, but presumably she is at least thirty while Alison Doody was only twenty-two when she was cast.
Colonel Ernst Vogel[]
- All There in the Manual: His first name is given in the Marvel Comics adaptation.
- Combat Pragmatist: Following on from below, Vogel has no problem using chains and shovels to beat up the good doctor. He also enjoys punching Indy in the face when our hero is strapped into a chair.
- Disney Villain Death: Averted. We see Vogel's body get thrown around like a ragdoll and crushed when his tank plummets over the side of a cliff.
- Deadpan Snarker: "This is how we say goodbye... in Germany." *Face punch*
- Dragon-in-Chief: Donovan may have had the money and knowledge, but it is Vogel who controlled the military might of the Nazi Grail-expedition.
- Fail O'Suckyname: The German word Vogel, which means "bird," is often used as "idiot." Unfortunately for the colonel, the word ernst also means "seriously." Der Oberst Ernst Vogel ist ernst ein Vogel!
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: When English boxer Pat Roach's obligatory Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh fight scene with Harrison Ford was cut by Executive Meddling, Vogel stepped in to give our hero a vicious, brutal beating with shovels and chains atop a tank careening towards a canyon in The Last Crusade.
Colonel Doctor Irina Spalko[]
- Affably Evil: Out of all of Indy's foes, she treats him with the most respect and as an equal. She also showed genuine horror and sadness at the death of Dovchenko, implying that she saw the fellow colonel as a friend rather than just a tool.
- Could also be the horrifying manner of his death, too.
- Authority Equals Asskicking
- Badass Bookworm
- The Baroness
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Said to her by Indy.
- Big Bad of the fourth film.
- Bob Haircut
- Brainy Brunette
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Colonel Badass
- Fake Russian
- Fetish Fuel Station Attendant
- I Know Karate: According to Cate Blanchett, Irina knows Shotokan-Ryu Karate to be exact. However, considering Irina's vocation as a Russian soldier, its more likely to be the Soviet Military art of Sambo.
- Lady of War
- Large Ham
- Ms. Fanservice
- My Skull Runneth Over: Her brain ignites after the aliens tell her everything.
- Royal Rapier
- Tragic Villain: Her lust for knowledge lead to her destruction.
George "Mac" McHale[]
- Anti-Hero: In Indiana Jones and the Army of the Dead.
- Death Equals Redemption: For what it's worth, he regarded Indy as a friend to the very end, and let himself be dragged into oblivion so Indy wouldn't be dragged down with him.
- Death by Materialism: His greed is what ultimately did him in.
- Go Out with a Smile: And a wink.
- Heel Face Revolving Door
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- I Did What I Had to Do: When trying to justify his actions to Indy, of course for him, he's just a greedy little bastard.
Colonel Antonin Dovchenko[]
- And I Must Scream: His death, described below.
- Colonel Badass
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Having thousands of giants ants eat you from the inside out is never pleasant.
- The Dragon: Mild subversion as he actually holds equal rank to Irina Spalko, namely a Colonel.
- Giant Mook
- I Know Karate: Specifically, the Russian Military martial art of Sambo, which focuses on throws, grappling and painful joint-locks/breaks. Combined with his already impressive size and strength, Dovchenko's mastery of Sambo almost allowed him to kill Indy were it not for the timely presence of a tree branch...
- Mighty Glacier: Though relying more on technique and skill rather than brute force alone.
- Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh