History Film / IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom

-->'''Willie Scott:''' ''(sees Indy raising his sword)'' ''Oh my '''GOD'''!'' Oh my god, oh my god, oh my ''GOD'', is he '''nuts'''?!
-->'''Short Round:''' He no nuts, he's crazy.

--->'''Wu Han:''' I've followed you on many adventures ... but into the great unknown mystery, I go first, Indy! I go...

--->'''Indiana''': Prepare to meet Kali... in Hell!

* KillItWithFire: Turns out to be [[spoiler:the cure for the Black Sleep.]]

''(Lao Che and his goons start laughing and he pulls out a vial)''\\

'''Lao Che:''' ''(begins laughing)'' The poison you just drank, Dr. Jones!

-->'''Indy''': Prepare to meet Kali... in Hell!

* SlaveLiberation: After Indy rescues Willie from being sacrificed, he sets out to free all the child slaves.

* AndShowItToYou: Mola Ram pulls out the heart of a sacrifice victim and holds it for everyone to see.

* ArtisticLicense: The film derives entirely from pulp fiction (like all ''Indiana Jones'' films), but even then almost everything about its portrayal of India is dated and outlandish: Serving live eels to human diners is a good way to get yourself charged with homicide, as raw eel blood is toxic to people. Pretty much all the banquet's "delicacies" are complete nonsense, and entirely made up by the screenwriters based on how gross Lucas and Spielberg found their suggestions. Indian cuisine is largely vegetarian, and non-vegetarian Hindus -- like most non-vegetarian people full stop -- would never consume live animals.[[note]]Brains are a large part of certain South-Asian cuisines, though it's usually the brains of cattle, sheep, or goats.[[/note]] Then again, the whole thing is actually a ploy intended to scare away Indy and the British officer without attracting attention.

* {{Bowdlerized}}: For its UK release, about one minute of violence and gore was cut in order to secure a PG rating rather than a 15 (the 12 rating wouldn't be introduced until 1989, and 12A until 2002). There was also some drama about the rating in the US. The uncut version was finally released on Blu-ray in 2012 with a 12 rating. [[https://youtu.be/q0sndAkUSCA Detailed 'Cutting Edge' background and comparison video via GNC Films]]

* CarCushion: Slight subversion in the beginning. The car is their means of escape.
* CarryingTheAntidote: Lao Che is chivalrous enough to swindle and poison Indiana in a reversible way.

* ChekhovsSkill: Indy fluently shifts into Chinese while arguing with Short Round over which of them is cheating more at cards. He later uses the same language to warn the boy that [[spoiler:he ''is'' going to cut the bridge]] without alerting Mola Ram and his Mooks.
** Indy, being an {{Omniglot}}, knew enough Hindi to activate the Stones by uttering an incantation:
--->'''Indy:''' You betrayed Shiva! Thum Shiva Ke Vishwasth Karthe Ho!
* ChildlessDystopia: The village, initially.

* ConveyorBeltODoom: Indy fights a big Thuggee on one that leads to a rock crusher.

* {{Cult}}: The Thuggee. ReligionOfEvil.
* CultureChopSuey: The historical Thuggee cult is rather lacking in actual documentary evidence, but the little that exist is drastically different[[note]]The Thuggee were largely highway robbers who attacked travelers and strangled them by using a handkerchief (a "rumal") and they did this in broad daylight on the road rather than an underground cavern over hot molten lava. The word "thug" is derived from their name.[[/note]] from what is seen in the film. It instead draws inspiration from Aztec, African and Carribean rituals, folklore and hearsay.

** Likewise the film's depiction of India is a melange of different and highly divergent Indian traditions. Since the film was shot in Sri Lanka, some of the extras actually speak Sinhalese. Geographically, the plane that carried Indy, Short Round and Willie was marked to be flying on the Northern border and Indy dives down a snowscape implied to be the Himalayan range, but the village he arrives in is more central Indian than North Indian. Kali worship is associated with Bengal and definitely not considered any Satanic figure.

* ForeignQueasine: "Ahh. Chilled monkey brains!" --Not to mention the appetizer course of giant beetles, live eels inside a posed snake corpse, eyeball soup... As it turns out, this was a BatmanGambit to try to encourage both the British and Indy's party to leave; it obviously failed miserably. The novelization highlights the banquet menu as a tipoff that all is not well in Pankot, as Hindus would never eat such food, and further that not even a "normal" bad guy would serve something so depraved.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Indiana thinks a wide string of coincidences brought him to the village. The villagers think Shiva sent him.

** Vampire bats are native to the Americas. Of course, the "vampire bats" seen in the film are actually fruit bats, hence their size.
** The "crocodiles" that devour the {{Mooks}} and [[spoiler: Mola Ram]] are actually American alligators.

* PapaWolf: Indy is enraged when the Maharaja whips Short Round, even though he's being whipped himself and can only shout "Leave him alone, you bastards!" Between that and the other enslaved children, the Thugee are arguably the only enemies that Indy fought with ''more'' fury than he did later against the Nazis.

* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: [[spoiler: When liberating the children from the diamond mine]], Indy encounters a supervisor. After giving him a DeathGlare, Indiana punches the guy so hard, he slides a few metres over ''gravel'', being only stopped when bumping into a boulder.

* RevoltingRescue: Willy is quite displeased to learn the only way to save Indy and Short Round from a DeathTrap is by pulling a release mechanism located in a slimy crevice covered in bugs. They end up crawling all over her during the attempt.
* RollercoasterMine: TropeCodifier, almost every minecart ride in any media is a reference to the famous scene here.
* RopeBridge: A pretty iconic example during the climax of the film.

* SavedByCanon: Being a prequel to ''Raiders'', Indy's survival is guaranteed.

** Many to ''Film/GungaDin'' (from the Thuggee plot to minor details and iconic scenes such as the bridge) to the point it can be considered its SpiritualSuccessor. [[http://www.theraider.net/information/influences/gunga_din.php Read]]

* SpikesOfDoom: Indy and Short Round get caught in just such a trap.

* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Willie stores the antidote there.

** Willie freaks out about the wildlife, not to mention being annoyed about an elephant that keeps nudging her with its trunk. Then a snake slithers onto her and she casually throws it aside while Indy has frozen in terror, thinking it's the elephant again.

* AndShowItToYou: Mola Ram pulls out the heart of a sacrifice victim and holds it for everyone to see.

* ArtisticLicense: The film derives entirely from pulp fiction (like all ''Indiana Jones'' films), but even then almost everything about its portrayal of India is dated and outlandish: Serving live eels to human diners is a good way to get yourself charged with homicide, as raw eel blood is toxic to people. Pretty much all the banquet's "delicacies" are complete nonsense, and entirely made up by the screenwriters based on how gross Lucas and Spielberg found their suggestions. Indian cuisine is largely vegetarian, and non-vegetarian Hindus -- like most non-vegetarian people full stop -- would never consume live animals.[[note]]Brains are a large part of certain South-Asian cuisines, though it's usually the brains of cattle, sheep, or goats.[[/note]] Then again, the whole thing is actually a ploy intended to scare away Indy and the British officer without attracting attention.

* {{Bowdlerized}}: For its UK release, about one minute of violence and gore was cut in order to secure a PG rating rather than a 15 (the 12 rating wouldn't be introduced until 1989, and 12A until 2002). There was also some drama about the rating in the US. The uncut version was finally released on Blu-ray in 2012 with a 12 rating. [[https://youtu.be/q0sndAkUSCA Detailed 'Cutting Edge' background and comparison video via GNC Films]]

* CarCushion: Slight subversion in the beginning. The car is their means of escape.
* CarryingTheAntidote: Lao Che is chivalrous enough to swindle and poison Indiana in a reversible way.

* ChekhovsSkill: Indy fluently shifts into Chinese while arguing with Short Round over which of them is cheating more at cards. He later uses the same language to warn the boy that [[spoiler:he ''is'' going to cut the bridge]] without alerting Mola Ram and his Mooks.
** Indy, being an {{Omniglot}}, knew enough Hindi to activate the Stones by uttering an incantation:
--->'''Indy:''' You betrayed Shiva! Thum Shiva Ke Vishwasth Karthe Ho!
* ChildlessDystopia: The village, initially.

* ConveyorBeltODoom: Indy fights a big Thuggee on one that leads to a rock crusher.

* {{Cult}}: The Thuggee. ReligionOfEvil.
* CultureChopSuey: The historical Thuggee cult is rather lacking in actual documentary evidence, but the little that exist is drastically different[[note]]The Thuggee were largely highway robbers who attacked travelers and strangled them by using a handkerchief (a "rumal") and they did this in broad daylight on the road rather than an underground cavern over hot molten lava. The word "thug" is derived from their name.[[/note]] from what is seen in the film. It instead draws inspiration from Aztec, African and Carribean rituals, folklore and hearsay.

** Likewise the film's depiction of India is a melange of different and highly divergent Indian traditions. Since the film was shot in Sri Lanka, some of the extras actually speak Sinhalese. Geographically, the plane that carried Indy, Short Round and Willie was marked to be flying on the Northern border and Indy dives down a snowscape implied to be the Himalayan range, but the village he arrives in is more central Indian than North Indian. Kali worship is associated with Bengal and definitely not considered any Satanic figure.

* ForeignQueasine: "Ahh. Chilled monkey brains!" --Not to mention the appetizer course of giant beetles, live eels inside a posed snake corpse, eyeball soup... As it turns out, this was a BatmanGambit to try to encourage both the British and Indy's party to leave; it obviously failed miserably. The novelization highlights the banquet menu as a tipoff that all is not well in Pankot, as Hindus would never eat such food, and further that not even a "normal" bad guy would serve something so depraved.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Indiana thinks a wide string of coincidences brought him to the village. The villagers think Shiva sent him.

** Vampire bats are native to the Americas. Of course, the "vampire bats" seen in the film are actually fruit bats, hence their size.
** The "crocodiles" that devour the {{Mooks}} and [[spoiler: Mola Ram]] are actually American alligators.

* PapaWolf: Indy is enraged when the Maharaja whips Short Round, even though he's being whipped himself and can only shout "Leave him alone, you bastards!" Between that and the other enslaved children, the Thugee are arguably the only enemies that Indy fought with ''more'' fury than he did later against the Nazis.

* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: [[spoiler: When liberating the children from the diamond mine]], Indy encounters a supervisor. After giving him a DeathGlare, Indiana punches the guy so hard, he slides a few metres over ''gravel'', being only stopped when bumping into a boulder.

* RevoltingRescue: Willy is quite displeased to learn the only way to save Indy and Short Round from a DeathTrap is by pulling a release mechanism located in a slimy crevice covered in bugs. They end up crawling all over her during the attempt.
* RollercoasterMine: TropeCodifier, almost every minecart ride in any media is a reference to the famous scene here.
* RopeBridge: A pretty iconic example during the climax of the film.

* SavedByCanon: Being a prequel to ''Raiders'', Indy's survival is guaranteed.

** Many to ''Film/GungaDin'' (from the Thuggee plot to minor details and iconic scenes such as the bridge) to the point it can be considered its SpiritualSuccessor. [[http://www.theraider.net/information/influences/gunga_din.php Read]]

* SpikesOfDoom: Indy and Short Round get caught in just such a trap.

* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Willie stores the antidote there.

** Willie freaks out about the wildlife, not to mention being annoyed about an elephant that keeps nudging her with its trunk. Then a snake slithers onto her and she casually throws it aside while Indy has frozen in terror, thinking it's the elephant again.

** The actor playing the village Shaman spoke no English, so delivered his lines by phonetically repeating after Spielberg, who was prompting him off-camera. His long pauses are not for [[DramaticPause dramatic effect]], but simply because he is waiting to receive his next line. Even a moment where he wipes his eyes was him mimicking Spielberg
.* FeminineLegSwish: Willie Scott is laying in bed, wearing a pair of silk pajamas, absently kicking her legs back and forth as she waits for Indy to come to her. It showcases a bit of her {{Womanchild}} tendencies. She grows irate as Indy fails to put in an appearance. Of course, the audience knows it's because he's currently fighting off a cult member trying to strangle him with a garrote.

-->'''Willie (as Indy places his hands on the breasts of a statue in order to push it):''' I'm right ''here!''
* ArtisticLicense: The film derives entirely from pulp fiction (like all ''Indiana Jones'' films), but even then almost everything about its portrayal of India is dated and outlandish: Serving live eels to human diners is a good way to get yourself charged with homicide, as raw eel blood is toxic to people. Pretty much all the banquet's "delicacies" are complete nonsense, and entirely made up by the screenwriters based on how gross Lucas and Spielberg found their suggestions. Indian cuisine is largely vegetarian, and non-vegetarian Hindus -- like most non-vegetarian people full stop -- would never consume live animals.[[note]]Brains are a large part of certain South-Asian cuisines, though it's usually the brains of cattle, sheep, or goats.[[/note]] Then again, the whole thing is actually a ploy intended scare away Indy and the British officer without attracting attention.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: Indy uses his boot-clad feet as brakes to slow down the runaway mine cart that he, Shorty, and Willie are escaping in before it crashes into the barricade at the end of the tracks. The frictional heat sets his clothing on fire and leaves him jumping around in pain and crying for water to put it out.
* AllThereInTheManual:

* AngryFistShake: Indy, getting tired of Willie's complaints while the ceiling trap is descending on him, emphasizes his command for her to "Do it! Now!" with a fist shake.

-->'''Willie:''' I'm right ''here!''
* ArtisticLicense: The film derives entirely from pulp fiction (like all ''Indiana Jones'' films), but even then almost everything about its portrayal of India is dated and outlandish: Serving live eels to human diners is a good way to get yourself charged with homicide, as raw eel blood is toxic to people. Pretty much all the banquet's "delicacies" are complete nonsense, and entirely made up by the screenwriters based on how gross Lucas and Spielberg found their suggestions. Indian cuisine is largely vegetarian, and non-vegetarian Hindus -- like most non-vegetarian people full stop -- would never consume live animals.[[note]]Brains are a large part of certain South-Asian cuisines, though it's usually the brains of cattle, sheep, or goats.[[/note]] Then again, the whole thing is actually a ploy intended to get rid of Indy and the British officer without attracting attention.

** Indy tells Willie that the "birds" she is seeing are giant, vampire bats. Vampire bats are both small and from the Americas. Those are fruit bats. Although Willie was annoying him, so it is possible Indy only said that to scare her.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Only Mola Ram (who is played by an Indian actor) speaks Hindi. The movie was shot in Sri Lanka, and all extras speak Sinhalese as a result.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Anyone opposed to Mola Ram: The maharaja, many of the slaves, and even [[spoiler: Indy]]. Possibly Chatter Lal as well. Don't drink the kool-aid around Mola Ram. Hell, the novelization and shooting script both had even ''Mola Ram'' waking up from brainwashing when he grips the Sankara Stone at the end. And then the poor guy falls to the crocodiles (cut from the movie both because it seemed too cruel and it begged the question of who brainwashed ''him?'').

* CacophonyCoverUp: When Chen shoots Wu Han, he times the shot with a set of champagne bottles being uncorked.

** The actor playing the village Shaman spoke no English, so delivered his lines by phonetically mimicking Spielberg, who was prompting him off-camera. His long pauses are not for [[DramaticPause dramatic effect]], but simply because he is waiting to receive his next line.
* FeminineLegSwish: Willie Scott is laying in bed, wearing a pair of silk pajamas, absently kicking her legs back and forth as she waits for Indy to come to her. It showcases a bit of her {{Womanchild}} tendencies. She grows irate as Indy fails to put in an appearance. Of course, the audience knows it's because he's currently fighting off a cult member trying to strangle him with a garrote.
* {{Fingore}}:

* ForeignQueasine: "Ahh. Chilled monkey brains!" --Not to mention the appetizer course of giant beetles, live eels inside a posed snake corpse, eyeball soup...turned out it was a BatmanGambit to try to encourage both the British and Indy's party to leave; it obviously failed miserably. The novelization highlights the banquet menu as a tipoff that all is not well in Pankot, as Hindus would never eat such food, and further that not even a "normal" bad guy would serve something so depraved.

* HiddenInPlainSight: The assassin in Indy's room at Pankot Palace pulls this off in a pretty frightening way.

-->'''Mola Ram:''' [[EvilLaugh Hahaha!]] Drop them, Doctor Jones! They will be found! ''YOU'' WON'T! HAHAHA! ''GE NA!!''

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Willie trying to talk Indy out of dropping her into the lava pit:

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: That poor sacrifice victim, not only does he have has heart torn out (and is somehow still alive), he is then slowly lowered into a pit of lava until the flames roast him alive. As if this weren't horrible enough, he is praying for his life the whole time.

* SaveTheVillain: When The Head Thuggee Guard is [[KillerOutfit getting pulled into the rock crusher via his sash]], Indy tries to pull him to safety, ''trying to save him'' despite the fact the guy just tried to kill Indy the same way. When that doesn't work, he hands the guard one end of a rope attached to a pulley system and pulls down on the other end, trying to lift him out. Of course, the guard is too heavy (and the pull proves too great) that it lifts Indy instead of pulling the guard free. [[LaserGuidedKarma Even though it was a well-deserved painful end to the brute's life of cruelty,]] even Indy can't help but turned away in horror at the [[{{Gorn}} gruesome results.]]

* SaveTheVillain: When The Head Thuggee Guard is [[KillerOutfit getting pulled into the rock crusher via his sash]], Indy tries to pull him to safety, ''trying to save him'' despite the fact the guy just tried to kill Indy the same way. When that doesn't work, he hands the guard one end of a rope attached to a pulley system and pulls down on the other end, trying to lift him out. Of course, the guard is too heavy (and the pull proves too great) that it lifts Indy instead of pulling the guard free. [[LaserGuidedKarma Even though it was a well-deserved painful end to the brute's life of cruelty,]] even Indy can’t help but turned away in horror at the [[{{Gorn}} gruesome results.]]

* SaveTheVillain: When The Head Thuggee Guard is [[KillerOutfit getting pulled into the rock crusher via his sash]], Indy tries to pull him to safety, ''trying to save him'' despite the fact the guy just tried to kill Indy the same way. When that doesn't work, he hands the guard one end of a rope attached to a pulley system and pulls down on the other end, trying to lift him out. Of course, the guard is too heavy (and the pull proves too great) that it lifts Indy instead of pulling the guard free. [[LaserGuidedKarma Even though it was a well-deserved painful end to the brute's life of cruelty,]] even Indy [[ICantWatch turned away in horror]] at the [[{{Gorn}} gruesome results.]]

** Every single thing to do with Hinduism. In fact, what the movie gets right about Hinduism or India can be counted on the fingers of ''one'' hand. Though to be fair to the film, most of the Hindu characters are explicitly shown to be members of the villainous Thuggee cult, making them as much of an accurate representation of Hinduism as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple the Peoples Temple]] was to Christianity.

* SaveTheVillain: When The Head Thuggee Guard is [[KillerOutfit getting pulled into the rock crusher via his sash]], Indy tries to pull him to safety, ''trying to save him'' despite the fact the guy just tried to kill Indy the same way. When that doesn't work, he hands the guard one end of a rope attached to a pulley system and pulls down on the other end, trying to lift him out. Of course, the guard is too heavy (and the pull proves too great) that it lifts Indy instead of pulling the guard free. [[LaserGuidedKarma Not that Indy is too broken up over it.]]

* SaveTheVillain: When The Head Thuggee Guard is [[KillerOutfit getting pulled into the rock crusher]], he desperately reaches for a rope, attached to a pulley. Indiana grabs the rope as well... ''trying to save him'' despite the fact the guy just tried to kill Indy the same way. Of course, the guard is too heavy (and the pull proves too great) that it lifts Indy instead of pulling the guard free. [[LaserGuidedKarma Not that Indy is too broken up over it.]]

* GroundByGears: At the end of Indiana's fight with a GiantMook, the villain is dragged into a giant rock crusher by his scarf and squashed to death.

* SaveTheVillain: When The Head Thuggee Guard is getting pulled into the rock crusher, he desperately reaches for a rope, attached to a pulley. Indiana grabs the rope as well... ''trying to save him'' despite the fact the guy just tried to kill Indy the same way. Of course, the guard is too heavy (and the pull proves too great) that it lifts Indy instead of pulling the guard free. [[LaserGuidedKarma Not that Indy is too broken up over it.]]

* SayMyName: Willie shouts "SHORTY !!!" when the latter almost falls in the crocodile-infested river.

* HopeSpot: As the final confrontration on the bridge begins, Mola Ram's taken Willie and Short Round hostage. Indy threatens to drop the Shankara Stones into the river below if Mola Ram doesn't let his friends go. The Thugees instantly halt their approach and Mola Ram becomes visibly worried. Willie start grinning smugly, rightly thinking Indy's checkmated Mola Ram...only for all their hopes to be quickly dashed by this classic rebuttal:
-->'''Mola Ram:''' [[EvilLaugh Hahaha!]] Drop them, Doctor Jones! They will be found! ''YOU'' WON'T! HAHAHA! ''GE NA!!''

* EatenAlive: The suspension bridge at the film's climax isn't high enough to kill humans, meaning that anyone who falls into the river are still alive... to experience first-hand on what it's like to be torn apart and chewed up by hungry crocodiles.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Nearly every scene in the film is totally tense and filled with peril. Plane crash lands in India, the jungle is filled with vampire bats, monkeys, snakes and elephants. Limited diet, monkey brains, snakes and eels are there for your liking. Then you have underground caverns filled with sulphur, hot lava, crazed cultists, narrow mine carts, a rickety wooden bridge over a lake of crocodiles.

* HopeSpot: As the final confrontration on the bridge begins, Mola Ram's taken Willie and Short Round hostage. Indy threatens to drop the Shankara Stones into the river below if Mola Ram doesn't let his friends go. The Thugees instantly halt their approach and Mola Ram becomes genuinely worried. Willie start grinning smugly, rightly thinkig Indy's checkmated Mola Ram...only for all their hopes to be quickly dashed by this classic rebuttal:

** Subverted during the dinner scene with "Snake Surprise" the snake itself is dead, and what are commonly mistaken to be snakes crawling out of the body are actually eels.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Subverted during the dinner scene with "Snake Surprise" the snake itself is dead, and what are commonly mistaken to be snakes crawling out of the body are actually eels.