Awesome / The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

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• The fact Indiana Jones managed to survive WW1. The show doesn't hesitate to show how unheroic and arbitrary the conflict could be. Even for a Pulp hero, it's a conflict that he barely made it out of several times.
• In The Phantom Train of Doom, Indy helps out a unit of older soldiers with an important mission to blow up a German artillery train. Their crazy ideas and stunts just manage to work, despite Indy's initial skepticism of their abilities. Special mention has to go to the climax, where Indy and co. decide to hijack the artillery train to use it against the Germans after their bombs initially fail to blow; when it looks like they have no choice but to abandon the train to the Germans after they blow the tracks and send a whole column of soldiers to steal it back, Selous manages to blow it by sniping one of the bombs from his rifle—from 500 yards away.
  Indy: What are you, crazy?! That's gotta be 500 yards away! Nobody could make that shot!
  Parks: Not true. I'd say there are at least three people in the world who could.
  Selous: I used to be the best shot in Africa once. According to you.
  Indy: That was a long time ago...
  (Selous proceeds to make the shot flawlessly, blowing the train to smithereens and sending the Germans running as the Fusiliers cheer)
  Selous: You're only as old as you feel!
• Attack of the Hawkmen has him successfully destroy a zeppelin base as well as a prototype long-distance German bomber. It turns out Indiana Jones' habit for blowing entire German bases up is something that started early.
• In Daredevils of the Desert, Indiana Jones manages to prevent the German army from blowing up all the wells near Acre and killing an entire regiment via thirst.
• In Masks of Evil Indiana Jones kills either Dracula or a Romanian General convinced he's Dracula... who is also a vampire.
• The fact that Indiana lived to see his nineties. Sure, there would later be a film showing him in his fifties and later one showing him at seventy (complete with an And the Adventure Continues ending), but the fact that he made it to his nineties is even more impressive.

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