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| 3 | ->'''Short Round:''' What is "Sankara"?\ |
| 4 | '''Indy:''' Fortune and glory, kid. ''Fortune and glory''. |
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| 6 | ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' is a 1984 {{adventure}} film, the second entry in the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' film series, and a prequel to the previous film ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' (making it the first in terms of narrative chronology). It is directed by Creator/StevenSpielberg, with the screenplay by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz and the story written by Creator/GeorgeLucas. |
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| 8 | The prologue sees Indy (Creator/HarrisonFord) getting into some trouble in mid-1930s UsefulNotes/{{Shanghai}}, and nearly dying from poisoning when one of his clients tries to double-cross him. He escapes with his two sidekicks Willie Scott (Creator/KateCapshaw) and Short Round (Creator/KeHuyQuan) aboard a plane but they crash in the Himalayas. The main plot then begins when they arrive at a village in UsefulNotes/{{India}}, and the inhabitants tell them an evil cult stole a sacred stone from them and kidnapped their children for slave labor. Indy then sets out to retrieve the stones and free the children from the cult's grip. |
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| 10 | The film also stars Creator/AmrishPuri as Mola Ram, Roshan Seth as Chattar Lal and Philip Stone as Captain Philip Blumburtt. Along with the first ''Film/{{Gremlins|1984}}'' film, ''Temple of Doom'' is largely responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating. |
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| 12 | The film's story is followed in production order by ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. |
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| 15 | !!"Indiana Jones and the Tropes of Doom": |
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| 17 | * EightiesHair: Willie's hair is quite a bit more 1984 than 1935 -- check out that perm, and later on, those bangs! Apparently, she's so fashion-conscious that she's fifty years ahead of her time! |
| 18 | * AbortedArc: [[spoiler: There were still two Shankara Stones hidden beneath Pankot Palace. Their recovery is left hanging by the end of the film (especially with all but one of the found three lost).]] |
| 19 | * ActionPrologue: The skirmish in Shanghai with Indy, Willie, and Short Round escaping Chinese gangsters. |
| 20 | * ActorAllusion: [[Creator/HarrisonFord Indy]] [[Film/ANewHope chases after a small group of mooks, only to encounter a larger group of mooks and run away from them screaming.]] |
| 21 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Kali is portrayed as basically the GodOfEvil. In the actual mythology, while she is the goddess of destruction she is ''not'' considered evil for the most part. Ironically Shiva (portrayed as the GodOfGood) is ''also'' a deity of destruction. |
| 22 | * AgonyOfTheFeet: Indy slows 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 by stomping on the cart's wheel to apply pressure, as the cart's brake lever had snapped when they tried to use it. The frictional heat sets his shoe on fire and leaves him jumping around, calling for water to put it out. |
| 23 | * AllFlyersAreBirds: Done in-universe. Willie Scott, [[FishOutOfWater an]] ''[[FishOutOfWater extremely]]'' [[FishOutOfWater naïve Midwesterner]] who has apparently never been anywhere else other than Shanghai (where she performs her nightclub act), is riding an elephant through the Indian forest with Indiana and Short Round. She points out some "big birds" flying overhead -- and Indy informs her that those aren't "big birds", but giant bats. |
| 24 | * AllThereInTheManual: |
| 25 | ** The dinner scene is infamous as it appears to portray a crude stereotype of Indian cuisine (and perhaps non-Western dietary practices generally). However, the novelization makes it clear that the point was to provide the first clue that something was amiss at Pankot, and that Chattar Lal wanted to horrify the trio and the British officer in an attempt to get rid of them. We also get some information on Short Round's background, plus the fact that he thinks that one of the elephants is the reincarnation of his dead brother. |
| 26 | ** According to the novelization, Short Round's real name is "Wan Li". |
| 27 | * AlmostKiss: TheBigDamnKiss between Willie and Indy at the end gets delayed when the elephant spouts water in their faces. |
| 28 | * AndIMustScream: One victim of the [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Black Sleep of the Kali Ma]] describes it as a nightmare from which you can't wake up and to which death is preferable. |
| 29 | * AndShowItToYou: The villain pulls a man's heart out during a HumanSacrifice ritual. Due to the supernatural nature of the ceremony, the victim survives for several minutes before being lowered into lava, at which point his [[BeatStillMyHeart still-beating]] heart burns up in the BigBad's hand as the body is incinerated below. |
| 30 | * AndStarring: The cast roll here ends with "and introducing Creator/KeHuyQuan as Short Round". |
| 31 | * AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: Willie spends her first proper night in the jungle jumping and panicking at every sound and critter that appears, a tendency not helped by a tamed elephant's over-friendly tendency to lay its trunk on her shoulder. Then, after a particularly exhausting scream-a-thon and subsequent argument with Indy that wears her out, a deadly snake slithers down from a tree onto her shoulder. Whilst Indy himself is [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes paralyzed with fear]], Willie -- fed-up and assuming it's just the elephant -- yells "Cut it ''out''!", grabs the snake and hurls it very far away without even looking. |
| 32 | * AngryFistShake: Indy, getting tired of Willie's complaints of bugs while a ceiling trap is descending on him, emphasizes his command for her to "Do it! Now!" by sticking his hand at her via a hole in the wall and shaking his fist. |
| 33 | * ArcWords: "Fortune and Glory". |
| 34 | * ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: In the scene where Indy bursts into Willie's room looking for more hitmen and for the secret entrance to Kali's temple, Willie is at first coquettishly alarmed by the aggressive demeanour of Indiana ("Be--be gentle with me!"), then confused and finally disappointed. |
| 35 | -->'''Willie:''' ''[as Indy places his hands on the breasts of a statue in order to push it]'' I'm right ''here!'' |
| 36 | * 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. 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. |
| 37 | * ArtisticLicenseBiology: |
| 38 | ** 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 at the time, Willie was annoying him, so it is possible Indy only said that to scare her. |
| 39 | ** The "crocodiles" in the bridge scene at the climax of the film are recognizably American alligators, not crocodiles. |
| 40 | * ArtisticLicenseGeography: There are some conflicting sources regarding the 'exact' location of the fictional province of Pankot. However, none of the listed locations are anywhere near any actual volcanic activity in India, past or present. To have a hidden temple and mine full of lava pits is highly unlikely. |
| 41 | * ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Thuggee Cult died out in the 1850s, yet this film takes place in the 1930s and presents the arrival of a British regiment (or rather, an Indian Army regiment led by a British officer) at the end as TheCavalry. Small wonder it was banned in India. The film is inspired by ''Film/GungaDin'' which likewise took place in an earlier period. (The movie ''does'' refer to the Thuggees as having been originally wiped out "a hundred years ago", implying that the movie's Thuggees are meant to be interpreted as a fictional resurgence.) |
| 42 | * ArtisticLicensePhysics: The Thuggee perform human sacrifice by plunging a cage with the victim inside into lava, which is then winched back to the surface, with the victim completely gone. This is unrealistic for a number of reasons. Lava isn't hot enough to reduce bones to ash, but would probably have melted the cage, or would definitely at least have softened it to the point where it would have lost its structure. |
| 43 | * ArtisticLicenseReligion: |
| 44 | ** 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 for Christianity. |
| 45 | ** One of the most egregious errors is that Shiva and Kali are set up as gods of good and evil respectively, while in Hinduism they are both ''unambiguously'' good, and in Bengali Hindu tradition, they're ''husband and wife''. |
| 46 | ** Kali worship is a perfectly benign activity as opposed to the demonic rituals portrayed in the film, and the real-life Thuggees were never so diabolically evil. The only record of the Thuggee cult is that of the English governor William Sleeman who captured the original group, and some historians argue that he considerably exaggerated their presence and activity to boost his career. The little that we know of Thuggee suggests an organized group of highwaymen who robbed travellers and killed them by strangling them with a rumal (a special handkerchief/scarf), an ersatz-Aztec cult interested in human sacrifice they were not. In fact, the word "Thug" in North India now refers to a swindler or con-man rather than a violent goon or murderer. |
| 47 | ** Mola Ram claims that when he succeeds in his EvilPlan they will take down Allah, the Hebrew God ''and'' the Christian God, evidently not realising that all three are the same being. Admittedly, being a Hindu (and a ''thoroughly'' blaspheming one at that), he might just be ignorant of other faiths. |
| 48 | * AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Only Mola Ram (who is played by an Indian actor) speaks Hindi. The movie's Indian scenes was shot in Sri Lanka, so the starving villagers and their elder speak Sinhala as a result. |
| 49 | * AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: |
| 50 | ** Another all-screaming version with the title character chasing one of the bad guys armed with nothing but a sword... until the bad guy's friends show up (similar to the above ''Star Wars'' example), causing a hasty retreat. |
| 51 | ** Also, later, Indy stops the runaway mine-cart by pressing his foot against the wheel, causing his foot to catch on fire. He hops around while Whillie tries to kick dirt at it, shouting, "Water, water! Water!" A few seconds later, the deluge unleashed by Mola Ram comes flooding through the entire tunnel, destroying everything in its path. "''Water! ''Waaater!''"'' While it's the same word, Indy is extremely panic-stricken and clearly doesn't want it anymore. |
| 52 | * BadReviewThreat: Parodied. The main characters' stay at Pankot Palace results in them being captured by the evil Thuggee cult, which secretly runs the place. As she's being lowered into a lava pit, Willie declares that, "I'm not going to have anything nice to say about this place when I get back!" |
| 53 | * BaitAndSwitch: The opening has a GiantMook ceremoniously banging a gong with his mallet in a ritual manner, pan to a flaming dragon... and out comes out a LadyInRed sparkling sequined dress, launching into a Mandarin "Anything Goes". |
| 54 | * BallroomBlitz: The movie starts out at a fancy dinner event in Shanghai which eventually escalates into a gunfight. |
| 55 | * BatOutOfHell: The giant bats are actually [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteropus real bats]] -- but not vampire bats, contrary to what Indy says. Many large bats in RealLife have been saddled with taxonomic names containing vampire references, so Indy might well have been misled by this -- or he was just trying to screw with Willy. Just listen to his voice when he says that line. |
| 56 | * BeatStillMyHeart: Mola Ram does the whole [[AndShowItToYou heart-pulled-out-of-chest-alive]] thing. |
| 57 | * BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: |
| 58 | ** Both Indy and the Maharajah get mind-controlled by the Thuggee, and are brought out of it when Short Round burns them with a torch. |
| 59 | ** Subverted with Willie out of the lava pit, Willie slaps him thinking he's still under the Black Sleep before Indy tells her it's really him. |
| 60 | * BeautyIsNeverTarnished: The heroine's clothes never tore or got stained. She also gets locked inside a metal cage and lowered into a lava pit. She's only a teensy bit sweaty when she's rescued, [[ConvectionShmonvection showing no visible burns or signs of heat stroke.]] |
| 61 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Indiana cries for water as he has set his shoes on fire while stopping the mine cart with his feet. Cue a big incoming flood triggered by Mola Ram. PlayedForLaughs. |
| 62 | * BelligerentSexualTension: ''So much'' between Indy and Willie. |
| 63 | * BellyScrapingFlight: A suspenseful moment when the faltering plane touches a peak in the Himalayas. |
| 64 | * BigNo: Willie during the CrowdHockey scene when a bucket of ice is dumped on the floor, preventing her from finding the diamond. She also lets out several as she's lowered to her doom in the lava pit. |
| 65 | * BilingualBonus: The Maharajah of Pankot is called 'Zalim' which means [[spoiler:evil]] in Hindi. Fitting, as he [[spoiler:is a bad guy. But only because his second-in-command was feeding him [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind-control juice]].]] |
| 66 | * BlackComedyRape: Indy shoving his hand into Willie's dress and basically groping her while he searches for the antidote that she grabbed is played for laughs, despite her struggling and squealing in protest, all of which he ignores. |
| 67 | * BloodyHorror: |
| 68 | ** [[spoiler:The scene where Mola Ram forces his hand into a victim's chest, removes his heart, and it's ''still beating after''.]] |
| 69 | ** [[spoiler:Also the scene in which the Thuggee guard is dragged into the rock crusher, leaving a huge smear of blood on the roller.]] |
| 70 | * BookEnds: The village is grim and dismal when the trio arrives. As well, Willie is irritated by Short Round and keeps pulling away from him and is rude to the inhabitants. At the end, the village is lush and colorful, Willie makes the required gestures of respect to the elder, and is now fond of Shorty. |
| 71 | * {{Bowdlerise}}: 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]] |
| 72 | * BrainFood: Indy and his friends are treated to "chilled monkey brains" as they are visiting the Pankot Palace. |
| 73 | * 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 before Indy can save him (cut from the movie both because it seemed too cruel and it begged the question of who brainwashed ''him?''). |
| 74 | * BrickJoke: Indy goes for his gun to deal with two sword-wielding guards, only to find it not in his holster because Willie lost it out the window all the way back in the ActionPrologue. |
| 75 | * BrokenLeverOfDoom: When Short Round tries to pull the breaks on their mine cart, the lever breaks leaving the cart to become a RunawayTrain. |
| 76 | * BulletHolesAndRevelations: Indy's original side-kick is holding the Chinese gangster at gun point when champagne corks pop, covering a gunshot which breaks the champagne glass on the tray he's holding. Then a dark red stain starts to appear on his shirt... |
| 77 | * BusbyBerkeleyNumber: The gloriously over-the-top cover of the title song from ''Theatre/AnythingGoes'' that kicks off the film. |
| 78 | * CacophonyCoverUp: When Chen shoots Wu Han in the middle of a crowded night club, he times the shot with a set of champagne bottles being uncorked. |
| 79 | * CallForward: Indy encounters two sword-wielding mooks and smiles to himself and reaches for his gun to dispatch them like in the classic scene from the original film, only to realise his gun is missing and promptly run away. The entire scene is framed like a CallBack by upping the number of enemies and giving Indy and knowing confidence, but since ''Temple of Doom'' is a prequel it's really a call forward. |
| 80 | * TheCameo: Creator/DanAykroyd appears in the beginning of the film as Weber, as payback for [[Creator/StevenSpielberg Spielberg's]] cameo in ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''. |
| 81 | * CarChaseShootOut: Two of these: |
| 82 | ** The ActionPrologue has a car chase shootout [[https://youtu.be/FNeXEZ03nn8?t=215 with the Shanghai mobsters]]. |
| 83 | ** The famous RollercoasterMine chase has the Thuggee mooks shoot at the heroes [[https://youtu.be/iv8uxdchhi8?t=81 from their mine car]]. |
| 84 | * CarCushion: Subverted in the beginning. The car is their means of escape. |
| 85 | * CarryingTheAntidote: In the opening of the movie, Dr. Jones trades the remains of Nurhaci to gangster Lao Che for a large diamond, when Indy is poisoned by Lao Che and offered the antidote [[ToThePain to intimidate]] him into giving back the diamond. Naturally there's a fight and Lao Che drops the antidote, allowing Indy to drink it and save himself (but he loses the diamond in the fight). |
| 86 | * CategoryTraitor: Jones accuses Mola Ram of betraying Shiva -- a deity that neither of them worship, but it mattered to the ancient text about the Sankara stones ("Follow in the footsteps of Shiva. Do not betray his truth."). Bizarrely, it's the one decent piece of Hinduism in the movie. Kali is Shiva's bride and both are part of the same over-deity. Mola Ram is a blasphemer on a ''big''-big scale. |
| 87 | * TheCavalryArrivesLate: Blumburtt and his troops at the end of the film. Lampshaded by Willie and only partially late since they neutralize the threat of the Thuggee archers, killing several and forcing the rest to flee. |
| 88 | * CerebusSyndrome: The movie starts out in typical Indy fashion, fast action, high adventure and a fun sense of humor. However, once you witness [[spoiler:a man being sacrificed by the Thugee cult in a ritual involving tearing his heart out and slowly lowering into a pit of fire]], the movie gets real bleak real fast. |
| 89 | * ChekhovsGun: Willie throws away Indy's gun. Later on he's confronted by two swordsmen, reaches for his gun and... oops! |
| 90 | * ChekhovsGunman: Captain Blumburtt of the 11th Poona Rifles. |
| 91 | * 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: |
| 92 | -->'''Indy:''' You betrayed Shiva! Thum Shiva Ke Vishwasth Karthe Ho! |
| 93 | * ChildlessDystopia: Indiana and his companions end up in an Indian village that had been raided by members of a [[ReligionOfEvil Thugee cult]] who had stolen the village's [[MacGuffin Sankara Stone]] and all the children. |
| 94 | * ClimbingClimax: The movie ends with Indy and the [[ReligionOfEvil evil cultists]] climbing up a fallen rope bridge. |
| 95 | * CombatPragmatist: Both Indy and the Chief Guard use whatever {{Improvised Weapon}}s they can reach to get the upper hand on the other. In fact, Indy very nearly manages to kill the guard with a [[PowerfulPick pick]] before the Maharajah intervenes. |
| 96 | * ConservationOfNinjutsu: Perhaps expected with Indy, but blatantly abused to the point of comedy with Short Round, a ten-year-old kid who is able to OneHitKO entire gangs of muscular Thuggee cultists. |
| 97 | * ContentWarning: One American poster featured the phrase "This film may be too intense for younger children" at the bottom corner (The poster for ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' also had that same inscription). Judging by the subsequent controversy, it's obvious that parents did not heed that warning. |
| 98 | * ContrivedCoincidence: An escaped child slave makes it all the way back to Mayapore on the exact same night that Indy and his companions arrived at the village and agreed to seek out the sacred stone, and carries with him a vital clue to guide Indy. (Then again, this could add credence to the village elder's belief that everything about Indy arriving at the village is by Shiva's design.) |
| 99 | * ConvectionSchmonvection: Zig-zagged. It's averted when the first sacrificial victim bursts into flames well before plunging into the lava pit (his heart, which Mola Ram holds onto the entire time, starts ''smoking'' even before that happens). Then it's played straight when Willie is in the exact same situation, and again during the mine cart chase tug-of-war in the lava cavern. |
| 100 | * ConveyorBeltODoom: |
| 101 | ** Indy fought a Thuggee guard on a conveyor belt that led to a rock crusher. Things were further complicated by the brainwashed prince stabbing a voodoo doll of Indy just as he gained the advantage in the fight. Indy of course escapes, the guard... doesn't. |
| 102 | ** There's a cage that is used to lower human sacrifices into a large lava pit. Indy manages to save Willie from a fiery demise in this device, but an unnamed SacrificialLamb is not so lucky. |
| 103 | * CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: Short Round covers his eyes at the end to avoid having to witness Indy and Willie's BigDamnKiss. |
| 104 | * CrazyEnoughToWork: Indy cutting the rope bridge, and many other {{Indy Ploy}}s fall under this category. |
| 105 | -->'''Willie Scott:''' ''[sees Indy raising his sword]'' ''Oh my '''GOD'''!'' Oh my god, oh my god, oh my ''GOD'', is he '''nuts'''?!\ |
| 106 | '''Short Round:''' He no nuts, he's crazy. |
| 107 | * CreatorCameo: Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/GeorgeLucas, Frank Marshall, and Creator/KathleenKennedy all have cameos at the airfield. Kennedy also appears as one of the dancers in Willie Scott's number at Club Obi Wan. |
| 108 | * CreditsGag: In the opening of the movie, the title appears during Willie Scott's musical number, carefully form-fitted so that Willie appears to be standing in front of the words. |
| 109 | * CreepyCentipedes: Willie is afraid of reaching into a hole that contains a lot of bugs, including centipedes. Actually justified, as centipedes can be quite venomous. |
| 110 | * CrowdHockey: The film's opening shootout at Club Obi Wan has Indy and Willie respectively chasing the antidote and a giant diamond all over the place while fleeing customers kick both objects around. Willie loses track of the diamond in a [[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles spilled bucket of ice]], but does end up with the antidote. |
| 111 | * CrownOfHorns: Mola Ram, who leads the ReligionOfEvil, wears one of these. It's made from a cow's skull, which is blasphemous in UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}} (a religion that reveres cattle), just to hammer home the point that Mola Ram "betrayed Shiva." |
| 112 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: That poor sacrifice victim: not only does he have his 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. |
| 113 | * {{Cult}}: The Thuggee, a ReligionOfEvil which worships Kali with HumanSacrifice and is planning to TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 114 | * CultureChopSuey: |
| 115 | ** 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. |
| 116 | ** Mola Ram's HumanSacrifice to "Kali" has more in common with Aztec rituals than anything in Indian myth and history. Mola Ram's outfit has more in common with stereotypical clothes worn by Shamanic priests from Africa and Latin American countries, most notable the shrunken head that he keeps hanging by his side. The VoodooDoll used by the possessed Little Maharaja to attack Indiana Jones is actually from ''European'' witchcraft (although wrongly associated with TheThemeParkVersion of the Haitian Voudou religion). The Red Pentagram worn by Chattar Lal would make Creator/AleisterCrowley jealous. |
| 117 | ** 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. |
| 118 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Creator/GeorgeLucas attributes it to the fact that he was going through a divorce and he was in a really dark mood at the time. Creator/StevenSpielberg was coming off ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' and wanted to do something a little less family friendly. |
| 119 | * DarkestHour: [[spoiler:Indiana Jones is brainwashed by Mola Ram and joins the Thuggees, Willie Scott is made a sacrifice to Kali, and Short Round is enslaved and toiling in the catacombs with all the other kidnapped kids, basically meaning that it was all over for the world, non-Thuggee religions and our heroes…]] [[spoiler:that is until Short Round destroys the chains on him and escapes!]] |
| 120 | * DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: The kidnapped children have this reaction after escaping from the tunnels where they've been held prisoner. |
| 121 | * DeadlyRotaryFan: Averted when Indy wraps one end of his whip around a {{Mook|s}}'s neck and the other end around the ceiling fan in his room; the thug is pulled into the fan blades, causing the whip to tighten and strangle him to death. |
| 122 | * DeadMansTriggerFinger: Chen manages to fire off one shot from his revolver as he dies from the flaming skewer Indy throws into his chest. |
| 123 | * DescendingCeiling: When Indiana and Short Round investigate a SecretUndergroundPassage, they end up getting trapped in a room and unwittingly activate a BoobyTrap involving a descending ceiling with SpikesOfDoom. |
| 124 | * DesignatedGirlFight: Kids rather than girls, but Short Round takes on the Maharaja himself. |
| 125 | * DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Mola Ram]] falls into a river, and we see crocodiles chewing up his clothing afterward. |
| 126 | * DistinctionWithoutADifference: According to Short Round, Indiana isn't nuts, he's crazy. |
| 127 | * DoomedByCanon: Indy's romance with Willie, considering he's single again by the first film, freeing him to reignite his relationship with Marion. |
| 128 | * DoomyDoomsOfDoom: The titular TempleOfDoom. |
| 129 | * DoorFocus: |
| 130 | ** When Indiana closes the door of the airplane, the camera shot reveals the airplane belongs to Lao Che. |
| 131 | ** A basic element of the IndyHatRoll performed later. |
| 132 | * DubNameChange: In the French dub of the film, Short Round is known as "Demi-Lune" (which translates to "Half Moon"). |
| 133 | * EatenAlive: The suspension bridge at the film's climax is already high enough up to kill anyone that falls off it, but even if they do survive, they get to experience first-hand what it's like to be torn apart and chewed up by hungry crocodiles. |
| 134 | * EmpathicEnvironment: When Indy first arrives at the Indian Village, it's desolate and lifeless. The sun is blotted out by thick clouds, the villagers barely have any food due to a drought and their children are missing. When Indy brings back the Sankara stones and their children, their village is full of life. Lampshaded by the Shaman. |
| 135 | -->'''Shaman:''' We know you are coming back, when life returned to our village. |
| 136 | * EverybodyHatesHades: This film played a large role in giving Kali the same reputation as the Greek God of Death in the Anglosphere. In Hinduism, Kali is a popular deity who represents transformation and transience, and the power to face most of life's challenges with strength. Here she's transformed into a Satanic figure against all traditions of existing Hinduism in India. |
| 137 | * 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 river of crocodiles. |
| 138 | * EvilLaugh: The Chinese gangster Lao Che and his son seem to be fond of it. Mola Ram makes a chilling evil laugh when the sacrifice victim burns in the lava. |
| 139 | * ExitPursuedByABear: Mola Ram falls into a river full of crocodiles and gets torn to bits. |
| 140 | * FacelessGoons: The two Thuggee mooks Indy encounters by the RopeBridge have their faces covered in black veils. |
| 141 | * FailedASpotCheck: Indy doesn't realize he's on a plane belonging to Lao Che. |
| 142 | * FaintInShock: Willie passes out when offered chilled monkey brains. |
| 143 | * FakeOutOpening: The film begins with a musical piece in a Shanghai nightclub. |
| 144 | * FakeShemp: Harrison Ford injured his back during filming, and was out for several weeks. To continue production Spielberg used Ford's stuntman Vic Armstrong to perform the action sequences (even the simpler ones Ford could do) from behind and Harrison later filmed a few token close-ups. |
| 145 | * FallingIntoTheCockpit: Indy finds himself in a cockpit trying to land the faltering plane in the Himalayas after the pilots escaped via parachutes. |
| 146 | * FamiliarSoundtrackForeignLyrics: The opening nightclub performance features Cole Porter's song "Anything Goes" in Mandarin (except for putting the Title Drop in GratuitousEnglish). |
| 147 | * FatalMacGuffin: The Sankara stones are not lethal to most people, but Mola Ram discovers that their sacred touch burns him, [[spoiler:which causes him to plummet to his doom when he tries to catch one while hanging off a cliff.]]. Indy himself gives up the stone to the village that originally owned it rather than returning it to a museum for his "fortune and glory." |
| 148 | * FateWorseThanDeath: One of the children hopes to die before the Thuggee turn him into a Kali Ma: "I pray to Shiva, 'Let me die.' But I do not. Now...now the evil of Kali take me." Another child describes it as being "alive, but like a nightmare." |
| 149 | * FauxFluency: |
| 150 | ** The opening "Anything Goes" number. It seems they did have a Mandarin translation of the Music/ColePorter song, but Kate Capshaw butchered the pronunciation. Since Mandarin is a tonal language, this effectively turned it into gibberish. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4bNusi9yAA Here's a Chinese speaker's best guess at a translation.]] |
| 151 | ** 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. |
| 152 | * 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. |
| 153 | * {{Fingore}}: |
| 154 | ** The Kali statues outside of Pankot Palace had necklaces of ''real human fingers.'' A rather blatant warning that the Thuggee were active in the area. |
| 155 | ** Lao Che's son Kao Kan lost one of his fingers in a failed attempt to steal Nurachi's ashes from Indy. |
| 156 | * FiveAcesCheater: Both Indy and Short Round cheat while playing cards in the jungle. |
| 157 | * FlayingAlive: A pair of flayed human skins serve as background decoration in the Temple. |
| 158 | * ForcedFriendlyFire: When [[WheresMyGun weaponless]] Indy faces two Thuggee mooks by the RopeBridge, he uses one of them as a puppet to fight with his sword against the other mook. |
| 159 | * ForeignQueasine: |
| 160 | ** There's a rather serious version of the trope when they're in the village near the start of the film. Willie is reluctant to eat what's offered until Indy points out the villagers don't have much else to offer. |
| 161 | ** Indy, Willie and Short Round dine with their Indian hosts and are grossed out to find that ''every item on the menu'' is like this. Live eels, served inside a dead python. Eyeball soup. Steamed beetles. And for dessert, chilled monkey brains, served ''en suite'' in chilled monkey ''heads.'' The idea was that they were trying to get Indy and co. to leave by deliberately serving inedible food (for one thing, live eels are ''toxic'', so no sensible host on Earth would serve them), but it was poorly communicated and the movie was banned in India for spreading racist stereotypes. |
| 162 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: When Chattar Lal meets the trio at Pankot Palace, he puts a friendly arm around Short Round's shoulders and ushers him in first. [[spoiler:As an agent of the Thuggee, he wants to keep Shorty in good spirits as long as possible before sending him to the mines.]] |
| 163 | * FreudianThreat: It's heavily implied that this once happened to the protagonist on a previous adventure: |
| 164 | -->'''Chattar Lal:''' Dr. Jones, wasn't it the Sultan of Madagascar who threatened to cut off your head if you ever returned to his country?\ |
| 165 | '''Indiana Jones:''' No, it wasn't my head.\ |
| 166 | '''Chattar Lal:''' Then your hands, perhaps?\ |
| 167 | '''Indiana Jones:''' No, it wasn't my hands. It was my...\ |
| 168 | ''[looks down at his groin]''\ |
| 169 | '''Indiana Jones:''' ... misunderstanding. |
| 170 | * FrictionBurn: When the minecart's brake handle ends up busted, Indy tries to stop it by grinding the wheels with his feet before they hit the dead end. He barely makes it, but the friction leaves his shoes burning up and smoking. |
| 171 | * FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Much of what Short Round says in the film. "Maybe he like... ''older'' women." |
| 172 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: Eagle-eyed viewers during the dinner scene might notice that, for some reason, the Prime Minister is making a silly-looking bucktoothed grin when they bring out the plate of beetles. |
| 173 | * GiveMeBackMyWallet: Indy explains that he more-or-less adopted Short Round after he caught the kid trying to pick his pocket. Prior to that, Shorty was living on the street because the [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar Japanese bombings of Shanghai]] made him an orphan. |
| 174 | * GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld: |
| 175 | ** Indy's friend Wu Han has a kind of inversion when he's shot. |
| 176 | --->'''Wu Han:''' I've followed you on many adventures... but into the great unknown mystery, I go first, Indy! I go... |
| 177 | ** And Indy to the BigBad at the climax: |
| 178 | --->'''Indiana:''' Prepare to meet Kali... in Hell! |
| 179 | * GottaCatchThemAll: There were originally five Sankara Stones. The Thuggee have found three of them and are searching for the last two in order to rule the world. |
| 180 | * GovernmentConspiracy: The Thuggee operate from within Pankot Palace and have brainwashed the Maharaja and Prime Minister to do their bidding. |
| 181 | * GraveRobbing: Indy is accused of robbing a grave at the banquet. |
| 182 | * GroinAttack: Right after freeing Indy from the Black Sleep of Kali Ma, Short Round manages to down a Thugee by kicking him in the nads. |
| 183 | * GroundByGears: At the end of Indiana's fight with a GiantMook, the villain is dragged into a giant rock crusher [[KillerOutfit by his scarf]] and squashed to death. |
| 184 | * HandInTheHole: Indy and Short Round are going to get crushed to death in the trap full of bugs because Willie doesn't want to stick her hand in the dark hole to release the trap. It's a subversion, though, because it's not the dark hole that creeps her out. It's the fact that the hole is literally crawling with bugs of all types. And she picks the wrong hole at first as Indiana's hand points out. |
| 185 | * HangingAround: Indy dispatches the Thuggee mook sent to kill him by snaring his whip around the man's neck and tossing the free end up into the ceiling fan. The mook is hoisted off his feet and quickly dies from either strangulation or a broken neck. |
| 186 | * HardHead: When [[spoiler:Mola Ram falls to his death]], he slams his head into the cliff-face, but he doesn't seem to notice, given his uninterrupted scream. |
| 187 | * HealItWithFire: Turns out to be [[spoiler:the cure for the Black Sleep.]] |
| 188 | * HeartInTheWrongPlace: The villain attempts to snatch the heart from the left side of Indy's chest. It's hinted, however, that this may be hypnotic imagery rather than the heart being ripped out. |
| 189 | * HeWasRightThereAllAlong: Indy's bedroom in the palace has an elaborate mural decorating the walls. As Indy stands around waiting for Willie to arrive, one of the figures steps away from the wall behind him, revealing himself to be an assassin. |
| 190 | * HiddenInPlainSight: The assassin in Indy's room at Pankot Palace pulls this off in a pretty frightening way by posing as if he's part of the mural on the wall. |
| 191 | * HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: During the final confrontation against Mola Ram and the Thugees on the rope bridge, Indy manages to convey his plan to sever the bridge (with ''everyone'' on it) to his Chinese sidekick Short Round, using Mandarin. |
| 192 | -->'''Indy:''' Xiao zi, zhuo zhu sheng zi![[note]]"Kid, grab hold of the rope!"[[/note]] |
| 193 | * HighDiveEscape: Indy and Willie escape the opening BallroomBlitz by jumping out a window and down a series of canopies until they drop right [[CarCushion into the getaway car]]. |
| 194 | * HighSpeedTrainReroute: During the mine cart chase, one set of Thuggee... thugs shoots a switch to get themselves onto a safer track. |
| 195 | * HijackedByJesus: As far as the movie is concerned, Shiva is {{God}} and Kali is {{Satan}}. Someone apparently didn't realize that Kali happens to be Shiva's ''wife'', at least in another of her aspects (Parvathi). |
| 196 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Indy leads a slave revolt where the Thuggee slavers are killed by the chains, picks and rocks used and gathered by the child slaves. |
| 197 | * HollywoodDriving: When Short Round acts as a GetawayDriver for Indy, he turns his head to the backseat for an extended amount of time. |
| 198 | * HolyBurnsEvil: A rare example of Holy burning a non-supernatural being. Shiva is just ''that'' angry at Mola Ram's blasphemous crimes. |
| 199 | * HolyIsNotSafe: The Sankara Stones are harmless enough if treated with care and respect. Even an unbeliever like Indy can manage it. ''Disrespect'' them, though, as Mola Ram does, and you will not escape unscathed. |
| 200 | * HomageDerailment: There's a CallBack (technically a CallForward, since this movie takes place before ''Raiders'') to one of [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the first movie's]] scenes, where Indy is confronted by a swordsman and he just shoots him dead. This time, he's faced with two swordsmen. Indy smirks and reaches for his gun... and realizes he doesn't have one anymore because [[TheMillstone Willie lost it back in Shanghai]]. |
| 201 | * 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: |
| 202 | -->'''Mola Ram:''' [[EvilLaugh Hahaha!]] Drop them, Doctor Jones! They will be found! ''YOU'' WON'T! HAHAHA! ''GE NA!!''[[labelnote:Translation]]Get them![[/labelnote]]''Â '' |
| 203 | * HumanSacrifice: The Thuggee indulge in this, sacrificing unfortunate souls to Kali by ripping out their hearts and then lowering their bodies into a boiling pit. |
| 204 | * HungryJungle: Played for laughs when Willie gets frightened by a series of animals of the jungle like a bat, an owl and an iguana. |
| 205 | * IBrokeANail: Willie Scott breaks her nail... ''twice''. And her concern about breaking her nails is placed in contrast to the serious situation that Indy finds himself in, whether it be losing his gun or about to be squashed by a death trap. |
| 206 | * IdiotBall: When Indiana discovers the mine and throws a rock against a guard, revealing his presence and alerting the Thuggees, but it turns out he was surrounded already, other mooks were sneaking from behind. |
| 207 | * IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: |
| 208 | ** A slight variation, the first task assigned to "evil" Indiana is the sacrifice of Willie. |
| 209 | ** Used by Indy when he pretends he's about to throw Short Round into the lava pit as a feint against the Thuggee on the dais. |
| 210 | * IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Downplayed in that it's not a fight, but Willie trying to talk Indy out of dropping her into the lava pit: |
| 211 | -->"Please snap out of it. You're not one of them. Please come back to us." |
| 212 | * IllKillYou: Short Round threatens a large {{Mook}} to make him release Indy. |
| 213 | -->'''Short Round:''' Drop him down! I kill you! Drop him down! |
| 214 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The fate of Lao Che's son Chen. |
| 215 | * ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Mola Ram's archers are useless. For that matter, they don't do any better with guns, although they at least have the excuse that Indy's gang is ''moving'' in those scenes. |
| 216 | * ImprovisedParachute: Indiana Jones used an inflatable liferaft when the plane he was on was about to crash into a mountain. |
| 217 | * IndyEscape: Indy and his companions have to escape a rushing torrent of water coming down the mine shaft. |
| 218 | * IndyHatRoll: Trope Namer, done after escaping from the room with the descending spikes. |
| 219 | * IndyPloy: In the climax, Indy is in the middle of a rope bridge, surrounded on both sides by Thugees. Mola Ram forces Willie and Short Round to go out onto the bridge with him. Indy quickly wraps his leg around a rope railing and yells something in Chinese to Shorty, who quickly wraps his arm likewise and tells Willie: |
| 220 | -->'''Short Round:''' Hang on lady, we going for a ride!\ |
| 221 | (''Willie sees Indy raising his sword and realizes what he's going to do'') \ |
| 222 | '''Willie:''' OH MY GOD. Oh my god! Oh my god! (''wraps rope around arm'') Oh my god! Is he nuts?!\ |
| 223 | '''Short Round:''' He no nuts. He ''crazy!''\ |
| 224 | '''Indy:''' Mola Ram! Prepare to meet Kali! IN HELL!\ |
| 225 | (''Indy cuts the rope bridge with his sword and the bridge splits in half, sending the Thugees into the river below.'') |
| 226 | * InelegantBlubbering: When Willie's elephant knocks her off its back with a gush of water and she falls into the river, she pitches a hissy fit complete with some really childish tears. |
| 227 | * InevitableWaterfall: Inverted, as the characters had previously fallen off a ''mountain'' while in their raft moments before landing in the river. |
| 228 | * InspirationNod: In the opening scene Indy is dressed similarly to Film/JamesBond in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. It comes full circle in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' when Creator/SeanConnery stars as Indy's literal father. |
| 229 | * IntimateOpenShirt: Indy does this as he's planning to get frisky with Willie. However, they don't get around to that since Indy discovers a secret passageway in her room. |
| 230 | * IntimidationDemonstration: Indy faces off against two swordsmen. They did some brief sword spinning as well. He tries to resolve the situation in the same way as before...except after reaching for his empty holster, he remembers he'd been relieved of his pistol earlier in the film. |
| 231 | * IronicEcho: Indy calls for water when he sets his shoes on fire stopping the minecart. A second later he's shouting the same phrase to warn against the rushing torrent of water [[IndyEscape coming down the mine shaft]]. |
| 232 | * ItsPersonal: One of Lao Che's sons tries to shoot Indy for injuring his brother (when he tried to steal the artifact without paying). |
| 233 | -->'''Lao Che:''' You have insulted my son.\ |
| 234 | '''Indy:''' No. You have insulted ''me''. ''[sees Lao's son glare at him, even showing his injured hand]'' I spared his life. |
| 235 | * ItWasThereTheWholeTime: Indiana and Willie debate to themselves about whether to resolve their sexual tension. We see a mural of a shadowy figure painted in the background whenever it cuts to Indy in closeup, but don't pay it any mind until the "figure" in the painting quietly sneaks up from behind and tries to garrote him. |
| 236 | * JumpScare: A short while after Indy leaves Short Round and Willie to retrieve the stones, a Thuggee guard suddenly appears towards them with a menacing scream. |
| 237 | * JustDesserts: The final fight occurs over the bridge of a river full of [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile crocodiles]]. [[spoiler:Mola Ram and a couple of mooks get eaten by them.]] |
| 238 | * KidsDrivingCars: Indy has Short Round act as a getaway driver for his meeting with Lao Che. Short Round's age isn't given in the film, but his actor (Ke Huy Quan) was twelve when the movie came out. He ties boxes around his feet to operate the pedals of the car. |
| 239 | * KillerOutfit: While fighting Indiana Jones, the GiantMook's sash is caught in the rock crusher and he's pulled to his doom. |
| 240 | * LadderTipping: Short Round tips a ladder to get rid of a mook who chases after him in the mines. |
| 241 | * LastNameBasis: Short Round mostly refers to Indy as "Dr. Jones", due to having a lot of respect for him. |
| 242 | -->'''Indy:''' Willie, Willie. What is that, short for something?\ |
| 243 | '''Willie:''' Willie is my professional name, Indiana.\ |
| 244 | '''Shorty:''' Hey lady, you call him "Dr. Jones"!\ |
| 245 | '''Indy:''' ''My'' professional name. |
| 246 | * TheLavaCavesOfNewYork: The underground cavern of the palace just happens to have a direct line to the Earth's crust and hot magma flowing out. While there are (dormant) volcanoes in India, they are primarily located 'south' of New Delhi, not Northeast as Pankot is placed. |
| 247 | * LavaPit: Seen with the variation that the unfortunate prisoner has his heart removed before being lowered, and the heart catches fire when the poor man is dipped into the lava. |
| 248 | * LethalLavaLand: The titular Temple of Doom. The arcade and Nintendo adaptations take this to great extremes. |
| 249 | * LetsGetDangerous: Indy doing the unthinkable and cutting the bridge hundreds of feet up over a river filled with man-eating crocodiles, surrounded on either side by a group of armed Thugees. |
| 250 | * LiteralCliffhanger: During the ending, main characters are hanging off a broken RopeBridge above a crocodile-filled ravine. |
| 251 | * LogoJoke: Cutting from the Paramount logo to a fake mountain on the set of Willie's nightclub act. |
| 252 | * LuckBasedSearchTechnique: Short Round leans against the wall, triggering the DescendingCeiling plus SpikesOfDoom. Why the builders decided to have the trap set off by a protruding block in the wall rather than, say, a hidden floor switch is a question for the ages. Maybe it was only supposed to prevent idiots from reaching the aforementioned Temple. Technically, there was a floor switch, which sealed them in when Short Round stepped on it. Frustrated, Indy tells him to stand against the wall, out of the way... |
| 253 | * MacGuffinMelee: The lounge scene, where Jones, Willie Scott, and Lao Che's goons fight over a diamond and the antidote to the [[spoiler:poison Jones drank]]. |
| 254 | * MagicAntidote: Indy is double-crossed and poisoned by Lao Che, so the former would return a diamond to the latter in exchange for the antidote. Chaos ensues, and all the while Indiana becomes progressively dizzier, hotter, and has difficulty breathing. When he swallows the antidote, all these symptoms disappear almost immediately. |
| 255 | * {{Malaproper}}: Willie calling mummies ''mommies'' doubles as EstablishingCharacterMoment for DumbBlonde. |
| 256 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The opening of the movie. Shiva sent you! Indiana attempts to convince them that it really was a string of wild coincidences that brought him there, alive, despite many, many things that could have killed him if they had shifted by a hair's breadth. Oddly enough, they continue to find the divine intervention plausible. (Later events are clearly supernatural; it's only Indiana's presence that is ambiguous.) |
| 257 | * MeaningfulName: Willie Scott's first name is, rather aptly, a nod to the Wilhelm Scream. |
| 258 | * MenOfSherwood: The British riflemen who act as TheCavalry kill several {{Mook}}s without losing anyone. Only their leader gets named and listed in the credits. |
| 259 | * MightyWhitey: Indiana Jones is anointed by the village head as a saviour sent by Shiva to rescue the villagers from the Thuggee. Indy also rescues a bunch of child slaves and liberates them. Likewise, the finale has the British officer leading a contingent of Indian Army troops to arrive as TheCavalry to repel the Thuggee. |
| 260 | * MinecartMadness: The scene where Indy, Short Round, and Willie escape from the Thuggees' mine on a cart whose track wildly winds over lava pits. |
| 261 | * MisplacedWildlife: |
| 262 | ** Indy misidentifies the large bats as vampire bats, which aren't found in India. Granted, he might've been yanking his companions' chains, and it also qualifies as RuleOfScary (a way of creating an unsettling mood by alluding to the bloodsucking monsters of folklore). In reality, if you see a bat you can in any way describe as large it's probably a "megabat", which are also known as "fruit bats", because that's what they eat. |
| 263 | ** The crocodiles that devour several Mooks, as well as [[spoiler: Mola Ram]] in the climax, are American alligators, not any of the four Indian species, the saltwater crocodiles, mugger crocodiles, gharial or false gharial. Although this could be because alligators are much easier to obtain for filming than Indian crocodiles. (For the record, salties and muggers ''will'' happily eat human meat if they can get it.) |
| 264 | ** None of the bugs in the "bug tunnel" scene are actually from India. |
| 265 | * MissedHimByThatMuch: Short Round escapes just as the large Thuggee was approaching. |
| 266 | * MistakenAge: Willie assumes the Maharaja is an adult. |
| 267 | * AMoltenDateWithDeath: The Thuggee sacrifice people by lowering them into molten lava. Indiana Jones also kills a few of the Thuggee priests during the final battle by throwing them into the lava. |
| 268 | * MoodDissonance: |
| 269 | ** There's a scene where Indy and Short Round are trapped in a room with a DescendingCeiling and filled with spikes. In order to free them, Willie has to reach into a hole filled to the brim with bugs. Scary, but thanks to Indy and Willie both freaking out, it's also hilarious. |
| 270 | ** Willie Scott's Creator/BusbyBerkeley-esque performance of "Anything Goes" in Chinese tops the film off. |
| 271 | * MysticalIndia: India as seen in this film, although being set in one of the princely states (ruled by princes of India that co-operated with the British in exchange for free rein), the whole 'very backwards' thing is justified. A stereotypical Indian wise man even shows up in ''Egypt'' in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. |
| 272 | * NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: Early in the film, Willie's efforts to recover a large diamond from the nightclub floor are nullified when an ice bucket is knocked over and scatters its contents across the area where she last spotted it. |
| 273 | * NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: There's a CallForward to the use of this trope in the first film in which Indy is confronted by ''two'' swordsmen. He reaches for his gun... [[WheresMyGun only to find an empty holster]], as he'd forgotten that his pistol was confiscated earlier in the movie. |
| 274 | * NeverSmileAtACrocodile: The climax of the movie has Mola Ram and most of his Thuggee cult followers [[JustDesserts eaten alive by crocodiles]]. |
| 275 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Short Round accidentally locks Indiana and himself in a trap room after unknowingly stepping on a floor switch. Indiana then tells him to just stand by the wall so he won't accidentally step on other switches. He does as told, but accidentally presses in a wall switch that triggers the crushing spike trap. After reversing the trap, Willie accidentally triggers it ''again''. |
| 276 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: Indiana Jones was ready for his nocturnal activities and not really too eager to investigate much before a hitman is sent against him. |
| 277 | * NoisyNature: One scene had enough wildlife sounds to supply a trip to the zoo. |
| 278 | -->''[A tiger roars in the distance]''\ |
| 279 | '''Willie:''' Omigod, what else is out there? |
| 280 | * NoMacGuffinNoWinner: Downplayed. [[spoiler:While the village's Sankara Stone ends up getting returned, the two other Sankara Stones which Mola Ram had worked so hard to dig up fall deep into a croc-infested river.]] |
| 281 | * NonDubbedGrunts: In the foreign translations, Willie's screaming is often left undubbed. Curiously, there is an exception where her screams ''are'' dubbed, during the scene where the group camps for the night on the way to Pankot Palace. The most likely answer for this is that Willie screaming and the others talking ended up on the same audio track, so the dialogue could not be removed without also erasing the screaming. |
| 282 | * NoodleIncident: During dinner at Pankot Palace, Chattar Lal brings up a grave-robbing incident in Honduras which Indy claims was greatly exaggerated by the press, and another one where Indiana was threatened with the loss of something very dear to him if he ever returned to a particular Sultan's realm. Lal thinks it was Indy's head, then his hands, and Indy corrects him: |
| 283 | -->'''Indy:''' No, it wasn't my hands, it was [[GroinAttack my... my misunderstanding]]. |
| 284 | * NooseCatch: A variant when Indy wraps one end of his whip around a {{mook|s}}'s neck and the other end around a ceiling fan. Instead of getting hanged by falling, the mook gets hanged when the fan yanks him ''upward'' and breaks his neck. |
| 285 | * NoOSHACompliance: The only thing blocking off the lava cavern in the mines is a set of flimsy wooden barricades, and most of the cart track ties in there have crumbled away. |
| 286 | * NotDistractedByTheSexy: After being attacked by an assassin in his room, Indy goes to Willie's room to search for the SecretUndergroundPassage that the assassin entered from. But Willie mistakenly believes that Indy showed up at her room so that he could make love to her. Willie spends the next few moments offering herself to Indy while he ignores her in his search for the passage. |
| 287 | * NotHimself: Indy, for a short time, under the effects of the Thuggees' drug. |
| 288 | * NotMyDriver: The plane Indy, Short Round, and Willie board to escape Shanghai mobster Lao Che is owned by Lao Che, so he promptly signals the pilots to parachute out and let the plane crash. |
| 289 | * NotQuiteDead: Indy thinks he has finished off the villain who assaulted him during the RollercoasterMine scene, but the guy comes back from a dead angle. |
| 290 | * {{Novelization}}: The film was novelised by James Khan. [[https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Temple_of_Doom_(novel) More details here]]. |
| 291 | * OddballInTheSeries: In many ways. It's the only film where Indy isn't shown teaching at his university at any point (although it is mentioned), and it's the only one that uses the poster font in the opening credits. This is the only Indy film so far where the major villains were non-white. In past and future films, while some of the minor mooks may have been people of color, the major enemies have been either Nazis or evil Russians. It's also the only film in which Indy plays an active part in killing off the BigBad at the end. |
| 292 | * OhCrap: |
| 293 | ** Indy actually lets out a little yelp of terror when he realizes there are more Thuggees charging towards him. Also when he realized he doesn't have his gun. |
| 294 | ** This is Wille's facial expression for much of the film. |
| 295 | ** The plane's fuel is empty and is about to crash into the mountains. |
| 296 | --->'''Indy:''' I think we got a big problem. |
| 297 | ** "Indy, cover your heart! Cover your heart!!" |
| 298 | ** Mola Ram when he sees Indy climbing up after him on the rope bridge after attempting to knock him off. |
| 299 | * OminousAdversarialAmusement: After Indy takes a drink, Lao Che makes a demand. |
| 300 | -->'''Lao Che:''' And now, you give me the diamond.\ |
| 301 | '''Indy:''' Are you trying to develop a sense of humor, or am I going deaf? ''[Chao holds up a vial]''\ |
| 302 | '''Willie:''' What's that?\ |
| 303 | '''Lao Che:''' Antidote.\ |
| 304 | '''Indy:''' To what?\ |
| 305 | '''Lao Che:''' The poison you just drank, Dr. Jones. ''[his sons start laughing]'' |
| 306 | * OneLinerNameOneLiner: Indy to Short Round by the Indian village: |
| 307 | -->"Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory." |
| 308 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: |
| 309 | ** When he first appears, at the dinner scene, the young Maharajah speaks with a ''very'' plummy [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents RP accent]]. However, much later on, after Shorty has beaten him up, he comes out with "Please leesten! To git out, you mast tek de lift tunnal!", in some sort of "ethnic" (Indian?) accent. Well, he was BrainwashedAndCrazy before. |
| 310 | ** Willie's Missouri drawl tends to slip back in when she gets ''really'' mad. (Kate Capshaw is really from there.) |
| 311 | * {{Orientalism}}: The film was famously mocked and derided in India for its bafflingly inaccurate depiction of that country, full of AnachronismStew and just plain weirdness; mixing parts of Hinduism with bits from Aztec and Polynesian culture, as well as Voodoo and the filmmakers' own weirdness all for the sake of fantasy. |
| 312 | * OutlivingOnesOffspring: Chen, Lao Che's son, gets fatally wounded when Indy skewers him alive with a pigeon flambé for killing his friend Wu Han. Lao Che, of course, [[AbusiveParents doesn't seem to mind]]. |
| 313 | * 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 the only enemies that Indy fought with ''more'' fury than he did later against the Nazis. |
| 314 | * ParallelConflictSequence: Indy fighting the Thuggee Guard on the ConveyorBeltODoom while at the same time Short Round [[DesignatedGirlFight takes on the Maharaja]]. |
| 315 | * PedalToTheMetalShot: There is such a shot at the start of a CarChase. Short Round acts as a getaway driver for Indy. He [[KidsDrivingCars is only a 13-year-old kid]] so he has boxes tied around his feet to operate the pedals of the car. |
| 316 | * PeekABooCorpse: Short Round gets booed by two corpses in the SecretUndergroundPassage. |
| 317 | * PlatonicDeclarationOfLove: Short Round tearfully tells Indy that he loves him as he's preparing to [[BeatTheCurseOutOfHim burn him with a torch to undo the brainwashing]]. Given that he calls the older adventurer his best friend almost immediately after (and their relationship also resembles a father/son bond), it's clear he meant a non-sexual type of love. |
| 318 | * PoisonAndCureGambit: The movie involves a one-person version of this trope in the ColdOpen where Indiana is tricked into drinking poison. "And now, doctor Jones, you give me the diamond." |
| 319 | -->'''Lao Che:''' And now, ''you'' give ''me'' the diamond.\ |
| 320 | '''Indy:''' Are you trying to develop a sense of humor or am I going deaf?\ |
| 321 | ''[Lao Che and his goons start laughing and he pulls out a vial]''\ |
| 322 | '''Willie:''' What's that?\ |
| 323 | '''Lao Che:''' Antidote.\ |
| 324 | '''Indy:''' ... To what?\ |
| 325 | '''Lao Che:''' ''[begins laughing]'' The poison you just drank, Dr. Jones! |
| 326 | * PostAdventureAdventure: The movie opens with the title adventurer meeting with a man in a Shanghai nightclub. It turns out that he's just come back from a quest to find the remains of the first emperor of the Manchu Dynasty and the man he's meeting with hired him to find them. The man then betrays Indiana and the resulting altercation sends him to a village in India where he's asked to help with their problem. |
| 327 | * ThePrecariousLedge: After the mine-cart chase scene, Indy and his companions wind up on a narrow ledge that runs past the shaft's opening. Water cascading from the mine causes parts of the cliff wall to cave in or be penetrated by broken wooden beams, forcing the three further along the ledge to avoid the debris. |
| 328 | * PrecisionFStrike: In the rope bridge scene, Indy gives an "Oh, shit!". |
| 329 | * PreemptiveDeclaration: |
| 330 | -->'''Willie:''' What's that?\ |
| 331 | '''Lau:''' Antidote.\ |
| 332 | '''Indiana:''' To what?\ |
| 333 | '''Lau:''' The poison you just drank, Dr. Jones. |
| 334 | * PrepareToDie: Meeting-with-deities styled with, "Prepare to meet Kali, in Hell!" |
| 335 | * {{Prequel}}: The film takes place a year before ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', but the only indication is the date at the start of the film. |
| 336 | * ProductionThrowback: The scene where Chattar Lal meets Indy and Willie outside Pankot Palace is virtually identical (down to the camera angles) to the scene where Lando Calrissian meets Han and Leia outside Cloud City in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''. |
| 337 | * PsychicSurgery: Mola Ram [[BeatStillMyHeart removed the hearts]] of his sacrifices this way, without killing them. |
| 338 | * 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. |
| 339 | * PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Indy has an encounter with a bad guy wearing a turban. His body ends up horribly mangled. |
| 340 | * PunctuatedForEmphasis: Indy and Short Round are stuck in a [[DeathTrap room trap with a descending ceiling and spikes]], and Willie is freaking out because she [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes has to reach into a hole filled with bugs to pull a lever and save them]]. |
| 341 | -->'''Indy:''' Willie! WE! are GOING! to DIE! |
| 342 | * RaisedHandOfSurvival: Indy's raised hand appearing from below the cliff is the first sign of him having survived the collapsed rope bridge. |
| 343 | * ReadyForLovemaking: |
| 344 | ** PlayedForLaughs, where Indy and Willie have an argument over their BelligerentSexualTension. Each one is certain that the other is hot for them (and they're both right), but their egos won't allow either to "submit". Thus, they retire to their individual rooms and the audience is treated to a montage as they prepare themselves for a wild night of raunchy sex, only to (angrily) realize that neither one is biting. Then, the trope is played its straightest after Indy is almost assassinated in his room and barges into Willie's to check for another assassin, with Willie reclining on the bed, positively giddy to see a crazed Indy bursting her door down, sexily cooing "Oh... ''Indy''...!" |
| 345 | ** When Indy grabs the breasts of a statue (to push to reveal a secret entrance), Willie snarks, gesturing to her ''own'' breasts, "Hey, I'm right '''''here'''''!" |
| 346 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: The Thuggees all wear black and red robes and black turbans. [[BigBad Mola Ram]] goes even further by having a red and black tattoo (or possibly war paint) on his head. |
| 347 | * RefugeInAudacity: Indy's solution to being cornered in the middle of a rope bridge with enemies approaching on both sides: [[spoiler:cut the bridge]]. Even Mola Ram is shocked. |
| 348 | * RevealingCoverUp: The Thuggee cult sends an assassin against Indy once he reveals he knows about the Shankara stones to the Maharajah. This gives him the lead he needs to find the secret temple and thwart their evil schemes. If they had just left Indy alone he probably wouldn't have found anything at all. Or they could have just said, "Sorry Dr. Jones, you've overstayed your welcome", given him a lift to the nearest port and sent him home. |
| 349 | * RevoltingRescue: Willie 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. |
| 350 | * RollercoasterMine: TropeCodifier, its famous minecart scene is the inspiration for most other examples on this page (with the scene even using some of the sound effects from Ride/BigThunderMountainRailroad). |
| 351 | * RopeBridge: While running from the Thuggees, Indy, Willie, and Short Round find themselves trapped on a long rickety rope bridge. Indy warns Short Round in Chinese, then cuts the bridge himself, with the intent of dropping the bad guys into the crocodile-infested river below. Needless to say, Willie and Short Round are ''not'' impressed by this plan. |
| 352 | -->'''Willie:''' Oh my God oh my God oh my God, is he nuts?\ |
| 353 | '''Short Round:''' He no nuts, he's ''crazy!'' |
| 354 | * SacredHospitality: Downplayed. Indy, Willie and Short Round are given food when they come to the village. Willie refuses it at first, Indy says that they have been given more food than the villagers get in a week. So, Willie's natural reaction is to give it back so the villagers can eat. Indy summarizes that she is just insulting [the villagers] and embarrassing him in the process. After Willie reluctantly eats, the village elder is a lot more friendly. |
| 355 | * SavedByCanon: Being a prequel to ''Raiders'' (it takes place in 1935, while the first movie is set the following year), Indy's survival is guaranteed. |
| 356 | * 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 is a well-deserved painful end to the brute's life of cruelty,]] even Indy can't help but turn away in horror at the [[{{Gorn}} gruesome results.]] |
| 357 | * SayYourPrayers: The unfortunate sacrifice victim begins babbling them as soon as he's strapped into the cage. |
| 358 | * SayMyName: Willie shouts "SHORTY !!!" when the latter almost falls in the crocodiles-infested river. |
| 359 | * SecretUndergroundPassage: Indy discovers a path from Willie's room into the mines. |
| 360 | * SeeYouInHell: |
| 361 | -->'''Indy:''' Prepare to meet Kali... in Hell! |
| 362 | * SelfPlagiarism: The gag of Indy chasing a henchman only to retreat from an army of them was reworked from ''Film/ANewHope''. |
| 363 | * SexyShirtSwitch: Subverted. Willie wears Indiana's tuxedo after they escape from the nightclub, but it's not post-coital, there simply isn't anything else for her to wear. It still looks very good on her, though. |
| 364 | * ShoutingShooter: In the ColdOpen, Lao Che's son goes full-auto at Indy with a Thompson sub-machine gun yelling what sounds like, "What's your name! What's your name!" |
| 365 | * ShoutOut: |
| 366 | ** The nightclub from the prologue is called "Club [[Franchise/StarWars Obi-Wan]]". |
| 367 | ** 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 spiritual successor. [[http://www.theraider.net/information/influences/gunga_din.php Read]] |
| 368 | ** The [[StockFootage footage]] of the giant bats as Jones and his entourage pass through the jungle on their way to Pankot Palace is taken from ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai''. Spielberg pays {{homage}} to Creator/DavidLean, the man who inspired him to become a director. |
| 369 | ** The names Pankot and Mayapore are taken from the 1960s-70s "Raj Quartet" novels by Paul Scott, of whom writers Willard Huyk and Gloria Katz are fans. |
| 370 | ** The name of Short Round is a {{Homage}} to Creator/SamuelFuller's ''Film/TheSteelHelmet'' where the American GI protagonist befriends a Korean boy during the UsefulNotes/KoreanWar and gives him [[TheNicknamer the same nickname]]. |
| 371 | ** The opening musical number is Spielberg's spoof of Creator/BusbyBerkeley musicals of the early 30s, namely the number "Shanghai Lil" from ''Footlight Parade'' which has the same element of Chinoiserie and Shanghai setting. |
| 372 | ** The scene where Indy wakes up and discovers the plane's pilot has disappeared is straight out of ''Film/LostHorizon''. |
| 373 | * ShrunkenHead: Mola Ram's ceremonial headdress is crowned with what looks like one of these. |
| 374 | * ShutUpKirk: A good one from Mola Ram, calling Indy's bluff to drop the Sankara Stones in the river: "Drop them, Dr. Jones! They will be found! '''''YOU WON'T'''''! ''[in Hindi]'' '''GET HIM!'''" |
| 375 | * SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Mola Ram wears bone jewelry and a CrownOfHorns made from a cow's skull. The latter serves to hammer home the point that Mola Ram "betrayed Shiva," since cattle are sacred in UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}}. |
| 376 | * SkullCups: The Thuggees have a skull filled with "The Blood of Kali". They force their prisoners to drink it and it immediately induces a FaceHeelTurn. |
| 377 | * SlapSlapKiss: Willie after being saved by the no-longer-evil Indiana. |
| 378 | * SlasherSmile: Mola Ram and the brainwashed maharaja make these. |
| 379 | * SlaveLiberation: After Indy rescues Willie from being sacrificed, he sets out to free all the child slaves. |
| 380 | * SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: In a franchise wherein the primary antagonists are ''Nazis'', Mola-Ram is still agreed to be '''the''' single most evil onscreen antagonist, as he gleefully kidnaps a village of innocent children to mine for diamonds to fund the Kali-Ma cult's war to TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 381 | * SlippingAMickey: Indiana's drink is poisoned by Lao Che. |
| 382 | * SoLastSeason: Indy is pitted against two swordsmen in a reprise of the iconic scene from ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''. This time, Indy doesn't have his gun, and laughs sheepishly. Considering that ''Temple Of Doom'' is supposed to be a prequel, though, this is rather odd. |
| 383 | * SomewhereAMammalogistIsCrying: Indy identifies the large winged creatures flying overhead as "giant vampire bats". Vampire bats are indigenous to South America, not India; given their size and the fact they're flying in broad daylight, the animals in question are almost certainly harmless fruit-eaters. Possibly Indy was just yanking Willie's chain, since giant vampire bats were real creatures, but they've been extinct for tens of millions of years. |
| 384 | * SpikesOfDoom: Indy and Short Round get caught in the DescendingCeiling trap. |
| 385 | * SpitefulSpit: Willie to evil-Indiana before he lowers her into the lave pit. |
| 386 | * StallingTheSip: Indy retrieves the ashes of [[UsefulNotes/DynastiesFromShangToQing Nurhaci]] offscreen for Lao Che, a crime lord in Shanghai, but Lao tries to stiff him on the payment (a diamond). They end up engaging in some subtle yet intense negotiating in Lao's own nightclub using a rotating piece on a table -- and when Lao puts the diamond on the table, it's accompanied by a glass of poisoned wine. Indy takes it and ''almost'' takes a sip from it a few times, most notably getting bumped and inadvertently spitting it out when [[ItMakesSenseInContext the lounge singer he took hostage]] gets up. Eventually he does drink it, though...only to be alerted that something is wrong when Lao pulls out a vial of antidote. This sets off a huge brawl which ultimately leads to the aforementioned singer getting caught up in the main plot. |
| 387 | * StandInPortrait: The Thuggee who ambushes Indy in his room eludes detection by pretending to be one of the guards in the wall painting. |
| 388 | * StopHittingYourself: Not only does Indy resist Mola Ram's attempt to tear out his heart by pushing his hand back, he also forces Mola Ram to punch himself in the face. |
| 389 | * SupervillainLair: On the whole, ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' villains don't tend to have these. In this movie, however, Mola Ram has the titular building: an underground temple that serves as the home base of his Thuggee cult. Hidden underneath an apparently innocuous palace, it serves as a place of worship and of ritual sacrifice, a mine to dig out gems to finance the cult, a barracks for his guards and for the slaves that do the digging... and a makeshift excavation site in which he digs for the mystical Sankara stones. And, of course, the temple overlooks a hot pit filled with lava. |
| 390 | * SwordFight: Unlike in the first movie (where Indy shot at a swordsman in what was supposed to be a sword duel), Indy does fight some of Mola Ram's henchmen with swords. He previously tried to shoot at them instead, only to find his holster empty. |
| 391 | * TakeItToTheBridge: Indy, Short Round and Willie trapped in the middle of a rope bridge with the bad guys surrounding them. Indy: "[[OhCrap Oh shit]]." |
| 392 | * ATasteOfTheLash: Regular treatment for the child slaves and given to Short Round and to Indiana, with his own whip. |
| 393 | * TempleOfDoom: {{Trope Namer|s}}. Although for what it's worth, the words "Temple of Doom" only appear in the title, and the eponymous locale is never referred to as such in any dialogue. |
| 394 | * TemptingApple: Willie is [[ForeignQueasine disgusted by the dinner]] served at the temple and refuses to eat, despite being obviously hungry. Retiring for the night, the BelligerentSexualTension her Willie and Indy is heightened by Indy appearing with a big juicy apple that Willie devours with lust. |
| 395 | * TemptingFate: |
| 396 | ** After they drop down from the plane in a rubber dinghy and more or less safely land on a mountain slope, Indy comments on how well it turned out for them. Cue the rubber dinghy going over a cliff and down a raft. |
| 397 | ** Short Round wants to demonstrate the sturdiness of the RopeBridge to Willie by wildly jumping around on it. Guess what happens next. |
| 398 | * ThemeMusicPowerUp: After Indy gets out of the Black Sleep of Kali, as he and Short Round start kicking some Thuggee butt. Another example would be when Indy gains the upper hand during the fight with the slave driver after Short Round stopped the Maharajah from using the VoodooDoll on Indy. |
| 399 | * ThisCannotBe: Willie when she is about to be sacrificed. |
| 400 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: |
| 401 | ** Played deadly serious; when Indy is caught by the Thuggee guards and is chained up, the lead Thuggee (played by Creator/PatRoach) brandishes Indy's bullwhip to use on him. Indy's face says it all. |
| 402 | ** Willie's reaction when she realizes that Indy is gonna cut the RopeBridge. |
| 403 | * ThisIsNoTimeForKnitting: When Indy has his hands near Willie's breasts, he is reprimanded by Short Round, who says, "Hey, Dr. Jones, no time for love!" He was actually searching for the antidote for a poison that she had hidden in VictoriasSecretCompartment. |
| 404 | * TownWithADarkSecret: Or rather "Princedom with a Dark Secret", tucked away in a remote corner of UsefulNotes/TheRaj. The secret in question is that a ReligionOfEvil has bewitched the local rulers and enslaved children from a nearby village to mine for the film's MacGuffin. |
| 405 | * TravelMontage: Used to show the heroes' flight across China and into the Himalayas. |
| 406 | * TreasureIsBiggerInFiction: Although the sankhara stones aren't conventional looking diamonds, Indy is on the search for three historical stones, all about 10 inches long. |
| 407 | * TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Lao Che and his henchmen. |
| 408 | * UncertainDoom: The last we see of Chattar Lal, he gets stuck under the wheel in the sacrificial chamber, then starts crawling away after Indy and Shorty pull it off him. His fate is left unclear; originally he was planned to suffer a DisneyVillainDeath by being thrown into the lava pit. |
| 409 | * {{Understatement}}: "I'm not going to have anything nice to say about this place when I get back!" |
| 410 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Lao Che is ultimately this to Mola Ram's crusade. Double-crossing Indy in the prologue sets off the chain of events that strands Indy in India and pits him against the Thugees for control of the Shankara Stones. |
| 411 | * VictoriasSecretCompartment: Willie hides the cure to the poison that infected Indiana. Later, while Indy attempts to retrieve and Willie mewls, "I'm not that kind of girl!", Short Round comments: "Hey, Doctor Jones, no time for love! We got company!" Indy finally retrieves and downs the antidote while Willie indignantly snaps, "I hope you choke!" |
| 412 | * VillainExitStageLeft: Mola Ram escapes through a trap door after Willie's sacrifice is thwarted. |
| 413 | * VoodooDoll: The young [[CultureChopSuey Maharajah]] uses one to cripple Indy as he's busy fighting with the GiantMook, requiring Short Round to step in and save Indy from certain head-squishing death. |
| 414 | * WaterWakeup In the opening scene, Indy tries to wake himself from the numbing effect of the poison by pouring a glass of champagne into his face. |
| 415 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: In the beginning of the movie, we meet one of Indy's closest allies Wu Han. He gets killed off shortly by one of Lao Che's thugs. |
| 416 | * WeHaveReserves: |
| 417 | ** On the broken bridge, Mola Ram pushes one of his own men off in his attempts to make Indy fall. |
| 418 | ** Earlier, Mola Ram floods the tunnels, which would certainly kill the four minecarts of Thuggees pursuing Indy. |
| 419 | * WheresMyGun: Indy is confronted by a massive Thuggee swordsman and cockily reaches for his revolver (in a CallForward to the famous scene in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''). However, his smile vanishes when his hand pats his empty holster and he remembers that he lost his pistol in the beginning of the film. |
| 420 | * WeveGotCompany: |
| 421 | ** Line said by Short Round when he notices the Shangai mob chasing their car in the ActionPrologue. |
| 422 | ** Said again by Indy during the RollercoasterMine chase when he sees the Thuggee mooks approaching in their mine carts. |
| 423 | * WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Indy and the others are outnumbered enough to hold from stopping the torturous sacrifice of an adult. Whipping a little kid with the same numbers however, ''that's'' going too far. |
| 424 | * WheresMyGun: Indy is confronted by a massive Thuggee swordsman and cockily reaches for his revolver (in a CallForward to the famous scene in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''). However, his smile vanishes when his hand pats his empty holster. He lost it earlier during the car chase with Lao Che's men, when he handed it to Willie, who of course dropped it out the window (to be fair, this is because it was very hot and she couldn't hold it), causing him to scream this trope at her. |
| 425 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: |
| 426 | ** Willie freaks out about the wildlife, and is 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. |
| 427 | ** 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, so Indy is unfazed. |
| 428 | * WhyDontYouJustShootHim: |
| 429 | ** The two thugs that work for Lao Che. Instead of simply shooting Indy while he was sleeping on the plane, they instead plot a collision course into a mountain and then parachute from the plane. This is even more stupid when you realise that they're just parachuted into the middle of the Himalayas! Where the hell were they planning on going after landing halfway up a mountain?! [[note]] According to the shooting script, the two thugs saw that Indy had quick reflexes and weren't sure whether he was asleep or half-asleep so they got cold feet and decided to jump out of the plane rather than go after him with a knife [[/note]] |
| 430 | ** Subverted when Indiana is about to pull his "revolver defeats swordsman" routine from the previous movie, but he is lacking the gun. He resorts to GoodOldFisticuffs and then proceeds to use his whip. |
| 431 | * WilhelmScream: Three times - first in the club when a serving cart smashes into the orchestra, second when one of Lao Che's mooks is shot by Indy during the car chase, and finally at the end when Mola Ram is getting eaten by alligators. |
| 432 | * WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: To be expected, as this is an ''Indiana Jones'' movie. But a few notable examples: |
| 433 | ** The raft escape. The thing doesn't flip over during the whole fall (which ''Series/MythBusters'' demonstrated it would), the landings don't hurt everyone aboard or throw them clear, and the raft doesn't burst on impact after the spectacular fall or get shredded during the toboggan-style slide down the mountain. |
| 434 | ** If The Maharajah was planning to have Indy killed, why send a single assassin? He had a palace of guards at his disposal. |
| 435 | ** Fire breaks the Black Sleep? Seems like this might cause a lot of problems, given the Temple of Doom is in a lava-oozing cave network, with lots of torches around. Indeed, in the novelization, this is how Short Round learns -- a guard is burned by a spurt of lava and starts to snap out of it just before he's led away by other guards, no doubt to be drugged again. |
| 436 | ** Willie Scott would have certainly burned to death, that close to the lava. Yet she's absolutely unhurt. |
| 437 | ** Many, many, many times, the minecarts (in all instances) would have gone off the rails. That track layout was not practical to carry the minecarts. |
| 438 | ** The fact that Indy stops a runaway minecart by using his feet as brakes and still even has feet, let alone being able to run for his life on them soon after. |
| 439 | ** The pressure of the water from the collapsed storage tank is WAY too powerful by the time it reaches the end of the mine cart tracks, given the distance it covered and the lava it certainly encountered (boiling away and/or filling up the empty space under the tracks). |
| 440 | * WorthIt: The warm smile Indy wore on his face as blew his cover to [[PapaWolf save a slave child from being whipped to death;]] there was not a ''trace'' of regret for saving the boy's life on his brave grizzled face, even as Mola Ram threatened him with torture. |
| 441 | * WouldHurtAChild: The Thuggees. Especially that one who viciously whips Short Round. Indy (under the brainwashing) strikes Short Round when he tries to help him. |
| 442 | * WouldntHitAGirl: Mola Ram chose not to rip Willie's heart out. But he'd rather have it broken by Indy's supposed betrayal. |
| 443 | * WrestlerInAllOfUs: Indy busts out a double drop kick on the [[GiantMook Thuggee foreman.]] It did not work. |
| 444 | * YellowPeril: Indiana Jones briefly faces off against Chinese mobster Lao Che and his cronies. Not ''particularly'' stereotypical (they speak near-perfect English), although all [[LargeHam rather hammy]]. |
| 445 | * YouCanKeepHer: Lao Che's reaction to Indy holding his moll (Willie) at fork point. |
| 446 | * YouLeaveHimAlone: The moment Indy switches from being a money-first mercenary to a proper PapaWolf comes when he sees the cultists whipping Short Round: |
| 447 | -->'''Indy:''' ''Leave him alone, you bastards!'' |
| 448 | * YouNoTakeCandle: Short Round talks this way. Especially JustForFun/{{egregious}} in the case where he mixes advanced grammar with a beginner's word omission. |
| 449 | -->"Dr. Jones! I keep telling you, you listen me more, you live longer." |
| 450 | * YoureInsane: |
| 451 | ** "What a vivid imagination..." |
| 452 | ** Later: |
| 453 | --->'''Short Round:''' Hang on, lady. We're going for a ride!\ |
| 454 | '''Willie:''' Oh my God... ''Oh my GOD!'' Is he ''nuts''?!\ |
| 455 | '''Short Round:''' [[ByNoIMeanYes He no nuts, he CRAZY!!!]] |
| 456 | * YourOtherLeft: Willie Scott has to save Indy and Short Round from a room with spikes by pulling a lever inside one of two small holes. Indy tells her, "Go to the right hole!", and she puts her hand in the hole to Indy's right, but to her left. Indy's hand comes out and grabs hers while he says, "The other one, the other right. YOUR OTHER RIGHT!" |
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