History Characters / IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny

* MadDoctor: An unflinching Nazi sociopath with a doctorate. Voller's smarts let him escape justice post-WWII and sign on with NASA, allowing him to continue his schemes under American protection. It even factors into his fascination with the Antikythera, as to him it's not an "occult" device but a construction of cold mathematical precision.

** [[spoiler:When Agent Mason gets fatally shot by Klaber, Voller smugly reveals his true identity to her, seemingly to ensure she dies realizing that she, (an African-American woman), was unwittingly helping a [[PoliticallyIncorrect fanatical Nazi]].]]

* CharacterDevelopment: From a greedy treasure hunter who claims to only care about profit, [[spoiler: to a more noble figure who puts her life on the line for others, and has a genuine reverence for history. Much like Indy himself]].

* LikeADaughterToMe: It's clear she's looking for a father figure in Indy after the death of Basil, and [[spoiler: Indy is definitely looking be a father again after the death of his son.]]

* ShipperOnDeck: [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, she manages to reunite Indy and Marion.]]

* CowardlyLion: [[spoiler: Established has as timid, bumbling character...but he goes to save Indy without a second thought, and on the battle on the train, he's the one to land the killshot on Webber.]]

* BackseatDriver: [[spoiler: Once he overcomes the initial shock of having his plan failed, he starts arguing with the pilots in his plane and demanding them to fly him back through the rift, all while the pilots arguing back and telling him ''why'' they can't do that (due to having lost an engine already to a ballista bolt), culminating in him forcefully grabbing the controls and turning the plane back towards the rift.]]

* BigBad: The main villain of ''Dial of Destiny'', a former Nazi seeking the Dial [[spoiler: to return to 1939 and claim leadership of the Third Reich for himself so he can [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight lead Nazi Germany to victory]].]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: In a milder but no less grotesque display of this trope, Voller’s corpse is mangled and charred to the point that ''pieces of his skin are missing''.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: In proper ''Indiana Jones'' fashion, [[spoiler: albeit in a comparatively more mundane manner than usual, he's shot in the chest by Helena, then burnt to a crisp when his plane crashes in ancient Syracuse. However, while his death is less unusual, it may be one of the franchise's cruellest, as he gets several minutes of pure panic before his death, while all the other [[BigBad Big Bads]] died within seconds of using the McGuffin.]]

* GodhoodSeeker: At the beginning of the film, Voller claims that whoever wields the full Dial wouldn’t be a king, an emperor, or the Führer; they would be God. [[spoiler: Near the end of the film, Voller reveals that his plan is to use the Antikythera to travel back in time and [[KillAndReplace replace Hitler]] in order to [[InTheirOwnImage make history turn out the way he wants it to]].]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Like Belloq, Mola Ram, Donovan and Irina Spalko before him, Voller using the MacGuffin is what gets him killed. Unlike his predecessors, though, Voller doesn't technically die because of the MacGuffin itself. Rather, it's the physical plane crash after the Dial sends them back to the Siege of Syracuse that does him in.]]

* InTheirOwnImage: Voller essentially plans to [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight do this to modern history]]. [[spoiler: Upon assembling the [[MacGuffin Antikythera Mechanism]], he and his followers fly a bomber plane through a time portal, intending to travel back to 1939 in order to [[KillAndReplace kill and replace Hitler]], and then lead Nazi Germany to win UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and eventually [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]].]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: It is very heavily implied that the [[spoiler: "more competent leader" he seeks to replace Hitler with is ''himself''. Also, when he realises that the plane has travelled to the wrong time period, he immediately starts yelling about how ''he'' cannot be there, not caring about the lives of everyone else who joined him in his crusade]].

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Voller blames Adolf Hitler for leading Germany to ruins and plans to remedy that mistake with the Dial [[spoiler:by traveling to 1939 and assassinating the Führer before he can invade Poland]]. What puts him in the not-so-well-intentioned category is that he still believes in the Nazi ideology to the very end, only losing faith in Hitler's leadership, [[spoiler: with the further implication that ''he'' intends to be the one to led the Nazis to victory over the Allies.]]

* SmugSnake: While he can be genuinely competent and intelligent, Voller is still quite overconfident, and just about every line he delivers is in a noticeably condescending tone. [[spoiler: Like with other villains in the franchise, he arrogantly assumes himself to be smart enough to master a mysterious power that he barely understands, which eventually leads to a [[BreakTheHaughty satisfying]] [[VillainousBreakdown meltdown]], and a miserable death.]]

* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: He thinks that the Third Reich needs a better Führer to establish its thousand year reign, and his dialogue implies he has just the candidate in mind once he kills Hitler, [[ItsAllAboutMe i.e. himself]].]]

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: As his plane emerges in Ancient Syracuse, and it becomes clear that escape is not an option, Voller tries to take Indy and Helena’s parachute at gunpoint to ensure their deaths.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Like with [[BigBad Voller]], he dies when the plane he’s in crashes.]]
* LesCollaborateurs: [[spoiler: He betrays the United States by aligning with Voller to go back in time and help Nazi Germany win the war.]]

* MomentOfLucidity: [[spoiler: After having spent his VillainousBreakdown firing a machine gun at ancient Roman soldiers while oblivious to everything else, he finally snaps back to sanity as the machine gun in his hands runs out of ammo and realizes how the burning plane he is standing in the cockpit off is moments away from violently crashing into the ground. His last moments are spent in calm silent acceptance while turning to Voller for any further guidance.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], surprisingly enough. While he is an enthusiastic Neo-Nazi, the only time he comes off as particularly bigoted is during the climax [[spoiler: where he [[VillainousBreakdown goes berserk]] and starts gunning down Greek and Roman soldiers randomly, calling them savages while doing so.]] Otherwise, he isn’t too picky about who he kills or why, and his hatred of [[TokenGoodTeammate Agent Mason]] doesn’t seem to have anything to do with her gender or race, [[ItsPersonal he just despises her specifically]].

* TokenGoodTeammate: Agent Mason despises Voller and Klaber’s brutality and their disregard for innocent lives, and she’s clearly very happy when the CIA finally turns on Voller after enough screw-ups. [[spoiler: This, unfortunately, [[SacrificialLion gets her killed]].]]

* OhCrap: Has this reaction when he learns [[spoiler: the Spear of Longinus the Nazis have is a fake, and that [[ThisIsGonnaSuck he is going to have to inform]] [[BadBoss Hitler]]. In any case, he doesn't survive long enough to do so]].

* PerpetualFrowner: Hauke only has one expression and that is "menacingly grumpy". Only time it changes being [[spoiler: as he realize how screwed he is once handcuffed to something stronger than he is while submerged underwater, breaking out into screaming horror.]]

* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: Rather than get in a knock-down drag-out fight with Indy, like previous [[GiantMook Giant Mooks]], he's killed when Teddy handcuffs him to an underwater grate and leaves him to drown]].

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He falls into this by default, being a fanatical Nazi, but it's expanded in more than usual for the franchise. Notably, he mistreats a black bellhop and asks him what country he's from, ignores him when he says he's a born-and-bred New Yorker, and finishes up by saying that he and “his people” didn’t win the war, Hitler lost it.

* BackseatDriver: [[spoiler: Once he overcome the initial shock of having his plan failed, he starts arguing with the pilots in his plane and demanding them to fly him back through the rift, all while the pilots arguing back and telling him ''why'' they can't do that (due to having lost an engine already to a ballista bolt), culminating in him forcefully grabbing the controls and turning the plane back towards the rift.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He falls into this by default, being a fanatical Nazi, but it's expanded in more than usual for the franchise. Notably, he mistreats a black bellhop and asks him what country he's from - and ignores him when he says he's a born-and-bred New Yorker.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He justifies the Nazis' hoarding of priceless artifacts they took during the war on the basis of "to the victors go the spoils". Indy points out that, given their armies have been on full retreat and Berlin is close to falling to the Allies, the Nazis clearly ''aren't'' the victors of this war.

* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Considering he only appears in the climax, which involves time traveling back to 212 B.C., it's difficult to discuss Maximus without giving away the ending.]]

* InTheirOwnImage: Voller essentially plans to [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight do this to modern history]]. [[spoiler: Upon assembling the [[MacGuffin Antikythera Mechanism]], he and his followers fly a bomber plane through a time portal with the intent to travel back to 1939 in order to [[KillAndReplace kill and replace Hitler]], and then lead Nazi Germany to win UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and eventually [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]].]]