Line #17 Awesome/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/indy_cuts_bridge.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[LetsGetDangerous "Mola Ram! Prepare to meet Kali... in HELL!"]]'']]
3	->'''Willie:''' Indy, c'mon, we're getting out of here!\
4	'''Indy:''' Right. ''[[SlaveLiberation All of us.]]''
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7	* Indy, brainwashed, being snapped out of it by Short Round (also gives Willie a short moment when she slaps Indy not realizing he's merely faking still being brainwashed). Then, instead of just running off with the Shankara stones, he saves Short Round, a villageful of children and Willie. ''Then'' he proves how the IndyPloy doesn't always work, ''twice'' (once in a [[BottomlessMagazines subversion]] of the previous movie's awesomeness), before proving that, while cutting a shaky rope bridge, sometimes it does.
8	* Just to prove Indy's [[PapaWolf big bad protector of children credentials]] there is a scene with two slavers beating a child. Cue whip crack, one slaver dropping a club, both of them turn, the music kicks in and the camera reveals Indy emerging from the shadows, wearing the most pissed-off DeathGlare you'll ever see. Two loud thuds later, both slavers land on the ground. Ten feet away. And then slide a good five more feet after they land.
9	** The newly liberated children fighting back against their captors--dropping rocks on them and practically running them over
10	* Most of the movie is scary, with the most terrifying villains of all the movies. Then Indy [[LetsGetDangerous gets dangerous]], and the tone switches to one of pure uninterrupted asskicking. Also inverting TheWorfEffect.
11	* A scene in the {{novelization}} tells why Lao Che's pilots don't [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just directly kill]] Indiana and Company in the airplane: as one of the pilots approaches a sleeping Indy with malicious intent, an egg drops from a crate above Indy's head. Without much effort, Indy catches it ''while still frigging asleep,'' and freaks out his would-be killer. The narrative jovially sums up the badassery:
12	--> Indiana Jones was not without flaw, but he had a sense for falling eggs.
13	* "Mola Ram, [[PreMortemOneLiner prepare to meet Kali... in]] ''[[PreMortemOneLiner hell]]''!"
14	* Indy resisting the heart-ripping magic that the high priest is capable of and punching him with his own fist!
15	* Seriously, just the fact that Indy more or less beats the villain ''personally'' for once in the franchise, if you don't count ''The Emperor's Tomb''.
16	-->'''Mola Ram:''' THE STONES ARE MINE!\
17	'''Indiana:''' ''(grinning)'' You've betrayed Shiva! Thum Shiva Ke Vishwasth Karthe Ho! You betrayed Shiva! Thum Shiva Ke Vishwasth Karthe Ho! ''(Indy's satchel bursts into flames as the Sankara Stones blaze red hot)'' YOU'VE BETRAYED SHIVA! THUM SHIVA KE VISHWAASTH KARTHE! VISHWAASTH KARTHE!! ''VISHWAASTH KARTHE''!!!\
18	'''Mola Ram:''' ''(tries to seize the last stone as it tumbles from the ruined satchel, searing his hand, he loses his grip and plummets to his death while Indy snatches the stone out of the air)''
19	* Mola Ram gets one just before, when Indy threatens to drop the Sankara stones into the river.
20	-->"[[EvilLaugh Hahaha!]] Drop them, Doctor Jones! They will be found! ''YOU'' WON'T! HAHAHA! ''GE NA!!''"
21	* Lao Che gets a terrific bad guy moment near the beginning of ''Temple of Doom''
22	-->'''Willie:''' What's that?\
23	'''Lao Che:''' Antidote.\
24	'''Indiana Jones:''' [[OhCrap To what?]]\
25	'''Lao Che:''' The ''poison'' you just ''drank,'' Dr. Jones!\
26	''(Cue [[GigglingVillain giggling]].)''
27	* This and SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment\|s}}, when Short Round and Indy are pummeling the Raj and his slaver in unison as the camera cuts between them. If the earlier hat-swap was the emotional synchronous moment, this is the badass determinator moment. Dammit, Short Round should have taken over the Indy name for the fifth film.
28	* Though it's not enough for Willie to be RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap, during the mine cart chase scene a determined mook attempts to strangle Indiana Jones to death whilst hijacking their cart riding at top speed, and doesn't let go. Willie finally makes herself useful after spending the entire film doing nothing but complaining, and simply punches the mook square in the face, sending him flying. And knocking the other cart off track. Indy was impressed.
29	** Willie spends half the time screaming her head off and the other half with a surprising amount of self control. She immediately defuses the tension between Indy and Lao Che by rushing over and asking to be introduced--in a manner that suggests this isn't the first time she's had to mediate such a situation, she saves the antidote, this saving Indy's life, the abandoned plane simply gets a very calm "oh no," she (unknowingly) flings a large snake several feet away, spits in a brainwashed Indy's face just as she's about to be sacrificed... and of course there's the aforementioned one punch knock-out.
30	** She gets some CharacterDevelopment as well--jumps right in to help release the kids from their chains as Indy knocks out the various guards, gives Mola Ram a very smug look when Indy threatens to throw the stones away--revealing that she fully understands their importance--and also takes on an almost MamaBear-like attitude to Short Round--spending several instances rescuing or protecting him, to the point where at the end when Mola Ram forces them to walk out onto the bridge, she puts him in front of her, most likely to prevent Mola Ram from harming him.
31	* Indy kills one of Lao Che's sons with a flaming shish-kabob. [[LaserGuidedKarma The same one who just killed his partner Wu Han, in fact.]]
32	* The thrilling mine-cart chase, still one of the most exciting chase sequences in movie history.
33	* [[TheCavalry The British Indian Army]] coming to the rescue and killing or capturing most of the Thuggees at the end of the film.
34	** The British did a lot of harm in India, but one of the inequivably good things they did was destroy the Thuggee and end their reign of terror. In-universe, this could be considered making sure the cult ''stays'' down this time.
35	* Indy ending the last BelligerentSexualTension moment by using his whip to seize Willie by the waist. She whirls to him...and then smiles sexily and lets him pull her to him for TheBigDamnKiss.
36	* The young Maharaja has quite a commanding presence during the dinner scene. Notice how everyone stops dead when he speaks, to the point where the musicians in the background even stop playing. Even Indy is deferential to him.
37	-->'''Maharaja:''' I have heard the evil stories of the Thugee cult. I thought the stories were told to frighten children. Later I learned that the Thugee cult was once real and did unspeakable things. I am ashamed of what happened here many years ago and I assure you it will never happen again in my kingdom.\
38	'''Indiana Jones:''' If I offended you, I am sorry.\
39	'''Maharaja:''' (waves it off politely)
40	* A real life one for Creator/KateCapshaw, as this film went above and beyond in the series' tradition of using real animals for its gross out scenes, for which she had to have a ton of bugs crawling all over her. That whole scene probably didn't require much acting...

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