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Helena Shaw
Helena Shaw
"And then I stole it. It's called capitalism."
Played By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
"You've taken your chances, made your mistakes. And now, a final triumph!"
Indiana Jones's goddaughter and current partner in adventure. Basil's daughter.
- Action Dress Rip: Helena rips both sleeves off her top (one of them already having been damaged in the altercation in the hotel) to free her arms before she attempts a High-Speed Hijack by leaping from the tuk-tuk on to the back of Voller's car.
- Action Girl: A competent woman who's not afraid to throw a punch and save Indy along the way.
- Action Survivor: An aspiring archaeologist who, like Indy, mainly uses her wits to scrape by.
- Affectionate Nickname: Indy calls her "Wombat." Once they repair their relationship, he starts calling her this again.
- Anti-Hero: Much the same as Indy in his younger days, she's greedy, somewhat amoral, and a bit of a jerk. However, she'll always do the right thing in the end and she cares deeply for her loved ones.
- Badass and Child Duo: Forms this with Teddy. Downplayed since both of them are equal partners who're able to save each other.
- Brainy Brunette: She's brown-haired, a proficient historian and linguist, and earned her doctorate in archaeology before the events of Dial.
- Broken Pedestal: She's soured on Indy in the present day after he neglected her following Basil's death. She repairs her relationship with him over the course of their adventure.
- Character Development: From a greedy treasure hunter who claims to only care about profit, to a more noble figure who puts her life on the line for others, and has a genuine reverence for history. Much like Indy himself.
- Crowbar Combatant: Briefly uses a crowbar to smash a window trying to retrieve the half of the Dial from Voller during a car chase in Tangier. She loses it not longer after during a struggle with his goons.
- Deadpan Snarker: She's quite witty and sardonic. When Indy dramatically declares that he's her godfather, she brushes it off, saying she's only "mildly related" to him.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: With one of the ur-examples of the Adventurer Archaeologist (one who is Older and Wiser) right there to supply a comparison, she is one to characters who allegedly copy-cat Indiana Jones but have even lesser scruples than Indynote . Indy actually calls her out on it, which leads to her deciding to change.
- Deuteragonist: Helena serves as the second main character of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, with her character arc and relationship with her father and Indy getting just as much as focus as the latter himself.
- Distaff Counterpart: With her somewhat relaxed approach to the illegal selling of antiquities and younger sidekick, Helena is basically the female equivalent of a younger (Temple of Doom-vintage) Indy.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- The first sign she has a heart is when she orders Teddy to give Indy back his watch after Indy says it belonged to his father.
- She may have few scruples but even she wouldn't consider working with Nazis.
- Generation Xerox: While she's Indy's goddaughter rather than his flesh and blood, she takes after him in a lot of ways. She's a sarcastic, devil-may-care treasure hunter with a genuine love of history, who goes from being motivated by greed to genuine heroism.
- Guile Hero: Like Indy, she mainly uses her wits to get herself out of a jam. Best example is when Voller and his entourage capture her, Indy, and Teddy on Renaldo's boat. She manages to charm and talk long enough to discreetly hand a stick of dynamite for Indy to ignite, giving them all a chance to escape.
- History Repeats: Helena takes after her godfather Indy an awful lot:
- They’re both nicknamed after animals.
- They’re both experts in esoteric and forgotten civilizations.
- They both have abiding but complex love for their fathers and father figures.
- She especially resembles his more mercenary Jerk with a Heart of Gold portrayal from Temple of Doom, even having picked up a Kid Sidekick who backs her up when she enters a dangerous haunt filled with enemies for monetary purposes.
- Jerkass Has a Point: When Indy calls her a tomb raider, she points out that Indy did the same thing.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's greedy, sometimes callous, involved in shady dealings, and is willing to string Indy along, but she refuses to hurt innocent people and is quite empathetic beneath the surface. Much like Indy himself.
- Like a Daughter to Me: It's clear she's looking for a father figure in Indy after the death of Basil, and Indy is definitely looking be a father again after the death of his son.
- Lovable Rogue: She's a thief with black market connections who just wants to sell the Dial to the highest bidder, but she's not a bad person and saves Indy at several points when she doesn't have to.
- Meaningful Name: Maybe intentional or maybe not, Helena is appropriately named as she gives Indiana hell and raises plenty of it.
- Remember the New Guy?: Downplayed, she wasn't born until 1939, a year after the third film, justifying why she was never mentioned in the original trilogy, but would have been 18 during the fourth film.
- Shipper on Deck: At the end of the movie, she manages to reunite Indy and Marion.
- Stylish Protection Gear: During the diving scene in the Aegean Sea, Helena's wetsuit is the only one with short sleeves, and, unlike the men's, hers does not zip all the way up to the neck.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Downplayed. A flashback to 1951 shows her as a perfectly ordinary 12-year-old girl. By the present day, she's become a scoundrel interested primarily in money, although she will do the right thing when pushed.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Indy rightfully calls her out when she celebrates their escape from the Nazis at the Aegean Sea. Because this was right after Renaldo's death, whom was his friend. To her credit, she sobers up and quickly apologizes.
Basil Shaw
Basil Shaw
Played By: Toby Jones
A friend of Indiana Jones who assists him in a mission during World War II and Helena Shaw's father.
- Absent-Minded Professor: He's quite bumbling and clumsy, with Indy even questioning why he'd try to rescue him singlehandedly when he has no combat skills.
- Bumbling Sidekick: He's a fumbling bookworm who - unlike Indy - is not an Adventurer Archaeologist. He even winds up shooting Indy in the arm by accident.
- Cowardly Lion: Established as a timid, bumbling character...but he goes to save Indy without a second thought, and on the battle on the train, he's the one to land the killshot on Webber.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: His realization of the Antikythera's power drove him mad from the sheer danger it posed. It eventually reached the point where Indy took the artifact away from him for his own good.
- Nice Guy: He's quite sweet and friendly, even risking his life to save Indy despite his obvious fear.
- No Man Should Have This Power: By the time Indy decides to take it away from him, Basil has become thoroughly convinced that the Antikythera needs to be destroyed due to the threat it poses and he spends the entire scene pleading with Indy to make sure it is destroyed. Indy never does destroy it though.
- Remember the New Guy?: He is described in the marketing and in several of the trailers as one of Indy's best friends, even naming Indy the godfather of his daughter, but has never been seen or mentioned until Dial of Destiny.
- Sanity Slippage: His realization of the Antikythera's power drove him to become increasingly obsessive and unhinged.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Combines traits from a few previous characters in the series. To wit, he's a bumbling, academic sidekick with no combat skills, like Marcus Brody; he's Indy's sidekick in a World War II adventure, as Mac was described as having been in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; he becomes obsessed with an ancient artifact, like Henry Jones Sr.; and he's the parent of a child Indy was estranged from after a falling out with said parent, like Marion. The Henry Jones Sr. comparison is unwittingly invoked by Helena; when Indy asks her why she'd want to find the artifact that drove her father crazy, she asks "wouldn't you?", recalling Jones Sr.'s obsession with the Grail that eventually drew Indy in.
- Undying Loyalty: To Indy. When Indy is captured by Weber's men, Basil goes in to rescue him despite being obviously terrified out of his wits.
Teddy Kumar
Teddy Kumar
Played By: Ethann Isidore
"I just thought we were in this for all the wrong reasons."
Helena's Kid Sidekick, accomplice, and a would-be pilot.
- Expy: Of Short Round, one of Indy's past sidekicks.
- Falling into the Cockpit: Manages to hot wire and pilot a plane using little more than the tips given to him by drunken pilots.
- Guile Hero: While not a physical fighter due to his youth, Teddy makes up for it with cunning and various skills.
- Kid Sidekick: He's a tweenager who serves as Helena's partner in crime and constant companion.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: He's prone to stealing valuables and even random objects. Helena even met him when he tried to steal her purse from her.
- Morality Pet: Helena cares for him and promises to give him a cut of whatever she makes, showing that she's not the callous, money grubber she makes herself out to be.
- Percussive Pickpocket: One of his favored methods of theft. He takes note of one kid who lightly ridicules him and makes a point of bumping in them... and using the stolen cash to buy himself some ice cream.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: A clear parallel to the series' other Kid Sidekick, Short Round. His backstory of how he first met Helena via attempting to rob her even sounds somewhat similar how Indy and Short Round first met.
Renaldo
Renaldo
Played By: Antonio Banderas
An old friend of Indiana Jones who assists him during his last adventure.
- Defiant to the End: After Voller shoots him in the leg in an attempt to motivate Indy into translating the Graphikos for him Renaldo grabs a crowbar and charges at Voller rather than let himself be used as leverage.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: Defied. After Indy and Helena narrowly escape his killers, Helena is jubilant, only for a distraught Indy to remind her that his friend was just murdered. Helena offers her condolences.
- Hero of Another Story: Indy claims he was Spain's greatest Frogman and they clearly served together at some point, but his adventures are never shown.
- Nice Guy: He's always friendly and jolly, and is a loyal friend to Indy.
- Remember the New Guy?: He's yet another character introduced as an old friend of Indy's.
- Retired Badass: He was one of Spain's most decorated Frogmen before retiring.
- Sacrificial Lion: Voller murders him to show he means business.
- Senseless Sacrifice: When Voller shoots him in the leg to encourage Indy to translate the Graphikos for him Renaldo defiantly grabs a weapon and charges the Nazi, choosing to lay down his life rather than allow Voller to use him as leverage. Unfortunately, he might have survived had he simply waited, since Helena manages to work out an escape by pretending to defect and translating the Graphikos herself moments later. The senselessness of his death is used in the aftermath to shoot down Helena's jubilation over the group's successful escape.
- Silver Fox: He's an old man, but he's still very handsome and absolutely ripped beneath his shirt. Helena is very much attracted to him.
Archimedes
Archimedes
Played By: Nasser Memarzia
The famous Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.
- All for Nothing: Created the Antikythera so people from the future could time travel back to ancient Greece and help them win the Siege of Syracuse. However, Helena ultimately tells Archimedes that they can't change the past if they want to avoid a Time Paradox, so the fates of Archimedes and his neighbors stay the same.
- Big Damn Heroes: One of his assistants saves Indy and Helena from a Roman soldier.
- Entertainingly Wrong: Evidence in his tomb points out that Archimedes is a time traveller. This turns out to be false and these are actually sightings and gifts from visitors from the future.
- Fling a Light into the Future: The purpose of the Antikythera is actually to help Greece to win the battle of Siege of Syracuse.
- Giving Radio to the Romans: His skeleton is wearing a watch which gives the indication that Archimedes traveled to the future. In truth, Archimedes isn't a time traveler and the watch belonged to one.
Enemies
Jürgen Voller
Jürgen Voller
Played By: Mads Mikkelsen
"Hitler lit a fire that could have burned 1,000 years. I saw every mistake. Every blunder. And I will correct them all."
A former Nazi during World War II who has been hired by NASA and seeks to use the Antikythera for his own gain.
- All for Nothing: Since the Antikythera is rigged to only send its users to the Siege of Syracuse, Voller's plan was doomed to failure, and all his efforts to find it were pointless.
- Asshole Victim: He ends up being killed by the Romans who mistake his plane for a dragon. But since he's a deeply committed Nazi and the main villain of the story, nobody sheds tears for him.
- Backseat Driver: Once he overcomes the initial shock of having his plan failed, he starts arguing with the pilots in his plane and demanding them to fly him back through the rift, all while the pilots arguing back and telling him why they can't do that (due to having lost an engine already to a ballista bolt), culminating in him forcefully grabbing the controls and turning the plane back towards the rift.
- Bad Boss: When Hauke falls into a river and is swept away, Voller orders his men to leave him for dead.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: He's quiet and taciturn, but he proves to be one of Indy's most ruthless opponents.
- Big Bad: The main villain of Dial of Destiny, a former Nazi seeking the Dial to return to 1939 and claim leadership of the Third Reich for himself so he can lead Nazi Germany to victory.
- Body Horror: In a milder but no less grotesque display of this trope, Voller’s corpse is mangled and charred to the point that pieces of his skin are missing.
- Broken Pedestal: Voller is a true believer in Nazism, but he lost faith in their de-facto founder, Adolf Hitler, as early as 1944 due to how badly Nazi Germany is losing to the Allies. In present day, he views Hitler as an incompetent moron who practically handed victory to the Allies. Which is why he plans on replacing him with someone more competent, with it being heavily implied that he intends to make himself the next Führer.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: As Mason points out, the U.S. government considers him this. No one actually believed the Dial was of any practical use, but because he helped them land on the moon they're willing to bankroll his efforts to find it.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: He plans to betray the U.S. from day one, and very quickly cuts ties with them by killing several of their agents after they refuse to bankroll his efforts to find the Dial anymore. Helena also planned to sell him the Dial and he was a client of hers, yet he chooses to try and kill her rather than buy it. Likewise, his final plan is to assassinate Hitler—not out of any good intention, but because he believes he should be the one running Nazi Germany.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist:
- To René Emile Belloq. Belloq worked with the Nazis, but he was a hired gun and was in it for the wealth and fame that would come from finding the Ark of the Covenant. Voller is fanatically dedicated to Nazism and is already acclaimed for his discoveries; he's just dedicated instead to making sure Nazi Germany rises again. Or rather, to making sure it never fell in the first place.
- To Mola Ram. Mola Ram was deeply religious and believed firmly in supernatural powers, even practicing sorcery. Voller is a man of science who believes the Dial is a purely mathematical invention, and is quite skeptical of magic.
- To the Nazis of the previous films in general, who were generally portrayed as comically inept (with even the sinister Arnold Ernst Toht making boneheaded mistakes like grabbing the scalding-hot medallion with his bare hand) and blindly following the orders of Hitler. Voller, by contrast, styles himself as The Chessmaster, using his respected NASA position to craft a neo-Nazi cell in plain sight and expresses disdain for Hitler's failures as a leader. And where the previous Nazis in the series relied on outside help (Belloq, Walter Donovan) to achieve their goals, Voller betrays and kills off his unwitting CIA collaborators once they outlive their function. In the end, though, he falls victim to the same hubris that befalls all the other Nazis in the series, not questioning whether the artifact in his possession will truly serve his will until it's too late.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: In proper Indiana Jones fashion, albeit in a comparatively more mundane manner than usual, he's shot in the chest by Helena, then burnt to a crisp when his plane crashes in ancient Syracuse. However, while his death is less unusual, it may be one of the franchise's cruellest, as he gets several minutes of pure panic before his death, while all the other Big Bads died within seconds of using the McGuffin.
- Dirty Coward: When he's in control, he's perfectly calm and collected. However, when his plans unravel in the climax, Voller collapses into a screaming wreck and demands his men help him escape.
- Doctor von Turncoat: Like Wernher von Braun, he was taken by the Americans to help them win the Space Race.
- Evil Genius: He's a brilliant astrophysicist and was even recruited into NASA by the CIA after World War II. Unfortunately he's still very much loyal to the Nazis and is utterly ruthless.
- Final Boss: He is the final antagonist faced by Indiana Jones in the film series and the entire franchise (unless Indy came across several other foes offscreen between the events of Dial of Destiny and the present-day bookends segments in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles).
- Flat-Earth Atheist: Despite believing in the Dial's ability to aid in time travel, Voller refuses to believe in magic and insists the Dial is purely mathematical in nature.
- Foil: To Indy. Both are veterans of World War II who feel alienated in 1969, but Indy fought with the Allied forces while Voller is a Nazi. Where Indy is mournful of the collapse of his family and his retirement, Voller mourns the fall of Nazi Germany and wants to see it resurrected. And where Indy learns to let go of the past and embrace the present, Voller sticks to his guns and remains rooted in his twisted nostalgia.
- Former Regime Personnel: He's a former Nazi who managed to work his way into the good graces of the United States government.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He's a ruthless Nazi who sports a pair of glasses, underlying his general callousness towards most people.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He was a lowly scientist in the Nazi party during World War II. By the time of the film, he's become a leading astrophysicist- and he's become much more of a threat in the interim.
- Godhood Seeker: At the beginning of the film, Voller claims that whoever wields the full Dial wouldn’t be a king, an emperor, or the Führer; they would be God. Near the end of the film, Voller reveals that his plan is to use the Antikythera to travel back in time and replace Hitler in order to make history turn out the way he wants it to.
- Hate Sink: There's nothing likable about Voller. He's cold, taciturn, a bigot, ruthless, and fanatically dedicated to Nazism. Even his (utterly despicable) loyalty to Nazi Germany is tempered by the heavy implication he believes he is the only capable leader for it.
- Have We Met?: When he and Indy meet at the auction in Tangiers, he indicates he doesn't remember ever meeting Indy; well, Indy sure remembers him.Indy: My memory's a little fuzzy... are you still a Nazi?
- Herr Doktor: A German physicist that ended up involved in the Apollo program.
- Hero Killer: He kills Renaldo to prove to Indiana that he means business.
- Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: He’s the rare example of a Nazi trying to go back in time and kill Hitler. His plan is to go back to 1939, kill Hitler before he invaded Poland, lead the Nazis to victory, and possibly become Führer. But the plan goes horribly wrong when the dial takes him and his neo-Nazis back to ancient Syracuse, where their plane is taken down by Roman forces.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Like Belloq, Mola Ram, Donovan and Irina Spalko before him, Voller using the MacGuffin is what gets him killed. Unlike his predecessors, though, Voller doesn't technically die because of the MacGuffin itself. Rather, it's the physical plane crash after the Dial sends them back to the Siege of Syracuse that does him in.
- Ignored Epiphany: In between 1944 and 1969, Voller became disillusioned with Hitler. However, he only does so because he realized Hitler was incompetent; he still wholeheartedly believes in the Nazi doctrine.
- In Their Own Image: Voller essentially plans to do this to modern history. Upon assembling the Antikythera Mechanism, he and his followers fly a bomber plane through a time portal, intending to travel back to 1939 in order to Kill and Replace Hitler, and then lead Nazi Germany to win World War II and eventually conquer the world.
- It's All About Me: It is very heavily implied that the "more competent leader" he seeks to replace Hitler with is himself. Also, when he realises that the plane has travelled to the wrong time period, he immediately starts yelling about how he cannot be there, not caring about the lives of everyone else who joined him in his crusade.
- Jerkass: Even aside from being a Nazi, he's rather cold and taciturn with everyone. He treats most people with barely concealed disdain, and not even his men are immune to his ruthlessness.
- Kick the Dog:
- When Agent Mason gets fatally shot by Klaber, Voller smugly reveals his true identity to her, seemingly to ensure she dies realizing that she, (an African-American woman), was unwittingly helping a fanatical Nazi.
- When Indy refuses to translate the tablet, Voller shoots Renaldo dead and then threatens to do the same to Helena and Teddy.
- Toward the end of the movie, Voller has Klaber pull a gun on a harmless old man working at an archaeological site. A few scenes later, Helena happens upon the old guy's corpse, revealing Voller had him killed for pretty much no reason whatsoever.
- When he holds Helena at gunpoint in order to force Indy to hand over the other half of the Antikythera, he goes so far as to mock him over his son’s death and his wife leaving him as a result.
- Knight of Cerebus: The mood darkens significantly when Voller appears. Where the previous films' villains had some humorous or campy moments, Voller is dead serious at all times and he's much more prone to pointless bloodshed than them - with the exception of Mola Ram.
- Mad Scientist: An unflinching Nazi sociopath with a doctorate. Voller's smarts let him escape justice post-WWII and sign on with NASA, allowing him to continue his schemes under American protection. It even factors into his fascination with the Antikythera, as to him it's not an "occult" device but a construction of cold mathematical precision.
- Made of Iron: Downplayed. The prologue ends with him getting clocked in the head by a water tower and knocked off a moving train. While he's next seen 25 years later, he shows no lasting damage from the injury besides a somewhat blurry recollection of the events which transpired that night.
- Make Wrong What Once Went Right: His goal with the Dial, to kill Hitler before the Nazis invaded Poland, thus entrusting the Third Reich to a more competent leader. Namely, it is implied, himself.
- Meaningless Villain Victory: Voller successfully acquires and uses the Dial to travel back in time. However, the plan ultimately fails both because he didn't take continental drift into account and because he had no way of knowing Archimedes had rigged the Antikythera to only return its users to Ancient Syracuse.
- Mr. Smith: In 1969, he goes by the alias Professor Schmidt, which allows him to be recruited into NASA's Apollo Program without raising any red flags of his Nazi background.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: He resembles Wernher von Braun
, a Nazi scientist who was recruited by the US government and revolutionized space travel. - Non-Action Big Bad: He doesn't have the skills to go toe to toe with Indiana Jones or his allies (in fact, he got quickly knocked out by Indy's single punch during the train heist), which is why he relies on his goons to do the fighting for him.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Voller comments to Indy that they are both men time has passed by. While they were at home in World War I and II, in the present both have become alienated from what they held dear.
- Not So Stoic: He spends most of the film stoic and composed, but when he realizes he's miscalculated and he won't be going to 1939, he collapses into a screaming mess.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Voller blames Adolf Hitler for leading Germany to ruins and plans to remedy that mistake with the Dial by traveling to 1939 and assassinating the Führer before he can invade Poland. What puts him in the not-so-well-intentioned category is that he still believes in the Nazi ideology to the very end, only losing faith in Hitler's leadership, with the further implication that he intends to be the one to led the Nazis to victory over the Allies.
- Oh, Crap!: Three in quick succession. He has a moment of this when Indy tells him Archimedes didn't know about continental drift, meaning wherever they'll be going it won't be 1939. Voller briefly recomposes himself when he flies through the fissure and sees Sicily...only to launches right back into a Villainous Breakdown when he realizes he's thousands of years off-course in ancient Sycaruse. His final and most satisfying Oh, Crap! moment comes right before his plane crashes; one can literally see the life sink out of his eyes right before he crashes.
- Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: Voller is in his late fifties, but he’s still the Younger Villain to Indy, who’s in his seventies at this point.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Voller giving Helena a pouch full of diamonds in exchange for translating the Graphikos and revealing where the other half of the Antikythera is seems oddly decent, considering it would be worth far more than her asking price. However, he does so only to shut up Indy when he points out Voller will almost certainly kill her after she tells him.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He falls into this by default, being a fanatical Nazi, but it's expanded in more than usual for the franchise. Notably, he mistreats a black bellhop and asks him what country he's from, ignores him when he says he's a born-and-bred New Yorker, and finishes up by basically saying “You [and “your people”] didn’t win the war, Hitler lost it.”
- Smug Snake: While he can be genuinely competent and intelligent, Voller is still quite overconfident, and just about every line he delivers is in a noticeably condescending tone. Like with other villains in the franchise, he arrogantly assumes himself to be smart enough to master a mysterious power that he barely understands, which eventually leads to a satisfying meltdown, and a miserable death.
- The Sociopath: He demonstrates no empathy towards anyone else, not even his own men. He's also willing to kill or harm anyone in his way - even children - and only expresses concern for himself.
- The Starscream: He thinks that the Third Reich needs a better Führer to establish its thousand year reign, and his dialogue implies he has just the candidate in mind once he kills Hitler, i.e. himself.
- Still Wearing the Old Colors: Played with in that he spends most of the movie in plain suits, but he still has his old Nazi uniform and wears it for the climax.
- The Stoic: He's perpetually stern and cold, almost never expressing emotion.
- Taking You with Me: As his plane emerges in Ancient Syracuse, and it becomes clear that escape is not an option, Voller tries to take Indy and Helena’s parachute at gunpoint to ensure their deaths.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: During 1944, while Voller is still a Nazi and thus evil by default, he comes across as anxious and personable towards his colleagues. By 1969, he's lost even those small virtues and become cold to everyone, even his own men.
- Tragic Time Traveler: His plan involves traveling back in time to kill Hitler and put a more competent Führer in order to win the war. However, the Dial goes way further back in time to the Siege of Syracuse in 214 BC, and doesn't offer a way back. By the time he realizes this, he's already stuck millenia in the past with a Roman ballistae shooting down his plane moments later.
- Undignified Death: Spends his last moments in a screaming, panicking hissy fit—totally at odds with his composed behavior beforehand—before meeting his unceremonious Karmic Death in a plane crash. For extra ignominy, Archimedes happens upon his torched corpse shortly afterward and nicks his watch to prove the Antikythera works.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Downplayed. He was always a Nazi, but in 1944 he was merely an anxious academic trampled on by his superiors. In 1969, he's a much more sinister figure and so cold he's barely human.
- Villain with Good Publicity: By 1969, he's become quite respected for helping revolutionize space travel. Unfortunately, he's still a follower of the Nazi ideology and uses his political pull to his advantage.
- Villainous Breakdown: When he travels to 214 BC rather than 1939 AD, Voller loses it and has a screaming meltdown. He spends the rest of the climax panicking and screaming at his own men, focusing on his own safety rather than acknowledging how they're all in danger.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: An utterly twisted example. Voller believes so firmly in the Nazi cause that not even the realization that Hitler is incompetent has stopped his devotion to it. Voller is convinced that Nazism would work perfectly with him at the helm, rather than accept it is an inherently flawed ideology.
- Would Hurt a Child: He's perfectly willing to use Teddy as a hostage. And while he never physically harms him, he's more than happy to leave him to drown.
Klaber
Klaber
Played By: Boyd Holbrook
A corrupt CIA agent and Neo-Nazi who works for Dr. Jürgen Voller by 1969.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Word of Saint Paul hints that Klaber is just a very confused person who doesn't know who he is and has trouble over fitting in with people. And that's why he opts to fill that void by joining the Neo-Nazis.
- Ax-Crazy: Word of God describes him as a nutty minion, and he proves disturbingly willing to kill civilians with no provocation. Fittingly, Agent Mason calls him a "trigger-happy cracker."
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Like with Voller, he dies when the plane he’s in crashes.
- Les Collaborateurs: He betrays the United States by aligning with Voller to go back in time and help Nazi Germany win the war.
- Deep South: He's a Neo-Nazi with a prominent Southern accent, and the most violent of Voller's mooks.
- The Dragon: He is a deranged henchman who serves as Jürgen Voller's "lapdog".
- Faux Affably Evil: He's folksy and jovial, but he's also a ruthless Neo-Nazi who won't hesitate to kill innocent people.
- Kick the Dog: Whenever Voller kicks the dog, Klaber is usually the boot he kicks with. Special notice goes to murdering numerous innocent civilians to enforce Voller's "no witnesses" order, and shooting an old man on Voller's behalf for apparently no reason whatsoever.
- The Mole: While he nominally works for the CIA, Klaber is in reality an avowed Neo-Nazi loyal to Voller's agenda.
- Moment of Lucidity: After having spent his Villainous Breakdown firing a machine gun at ancient Roman soldiers while oblivious to everything else, he finally snaps back to sanity as the machine gun in his hands runs out of ammo and realizes how the burning plane he is standing in the cockpit off is moments away from violently crashing into the ground. His last moments are spent in calm silent acceptance while turning to Voller for any further guidance.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His decision to murder several innocent civilians - among other illegal actions by Voller's group - leads to the CIA cutting ties with them. While they continue to pursue the Dial regardless, it still proves an inconvenience for them and limits their resources.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Downplayed, surprisingly enough. While he is an enthusiastic Neo-Nazi, the only time he comes off as particularly bigoted is during the climax where he goes berserk and starts gunning down Greek and Roman soldiers randomly, calling them savages while doing so. Otherwise, he isn’t too picky about who he kills or why, and his hatred of Agent Mason doesn’t seem to have anything to do with her gender or race, he just despises her specifically.
- Sadist: Klaber clearly enjoys shooting and killing people way more than anyone should.
- Stupid Evil: He's very prone to engaging in murder even when it's pointless and detrimental to Voller. He even spends the climax trying to gun down random Roman and Greek soldiers.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He fills a similar role to that of Donald Pierce from Logan, a previous Grand Finale film directed by James Mangold: they are mostly similar in that they are both portrayed by Boyd Holbrook and serve as The Dragon for the Big Bad of their respective films.
- Villainous Breakdown: While he wasn't very stable in the first place, once he realizes he's been sent to the Siege of Syracuse he snaps and starts gunning down everyone in sight while screaming his head off.
Agent Mason
Agent Mason
Played By: Shaunette Renée Wilson
An American agent from the CIA.
- All There in the Manual: Word of God is that she was recruited into the CIA as part of the organization's efforts to infiltrate Black Panthers.
- Dies Wide Open: Last time we see her is that of her lifeless body still staring at Voller.
- Horrible Judge of Character: It takes multiple civilians being senselessly shot for her to realize what kind of people she's working with, and she doesn't realize that her entire group has become a Nazi cell until it's much too late to do anything about it.
- Only Sane Man: She's the only member of Voller's group who isn't a Nazi, and is the only one to grasp that murdering civilians will come back to bite them even outside of her moral reservations.
- Sacrificial Lion: She's murdered in cold blood by Klaber to show how dangerous Voller and his cohorts are.
- Token Good Teammate: Agent Mason despises Voller and Klaber’s brutality and their disregard for innocent lives, and she’s clearly very happy when the CIA finally turns on Voller after enough screw-ups. This, unfortunately, gets her killed.
- Unwitting Pawn: She has no idea that Voller is secretly planning to travel back in time to 1939 so he can help Nazi Germany win World War II and that her work with him is helping him make progress to achieving that goal.
Colonel Weber
Colonel Weber
Played By: Thomas Kretschmann
"To the victor goes the spoils."
A Nazi colonel who comes across Indiana Jones and his friend Basil during World War II.
- Disc-One Final Boss: Leads the Nazi forces in the opening prologue of the film, and is killed at the end of it.
- Hypocrite: He justifies the Nazis' hoarding of priceless artifacts they took during the war on the basis of "to the victor go the spoils". Indy points out that, given their armies have been on full retreat and Berlin is close to falling to the Allies, the Nazis clearly aren't the victors of this war.
- Kick the Dog: He viciously interrogates and tortures Basil for information, despite how clearly harmless and bumbling the man is.
- Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction when he learns the Spear of Longinus the Nazis have is a fake, and that he is going to have to inform Hitler. In any case, he doesn't survive long enough to do so.
- Smug Snake: He fully believes the Nazis are winning the war, while in reality they are on the verge of losing the war and Hitler is hiding in a bunker. He doesn't react well to Indy pointing it out.
- Starter Villain: He's the initial antagonist of Dial of Destiny.
- This Is Gonna Suck: While he's resigned to informing Hitler the Spear of Longinus is a fake, he's bitterly aware it will end in his death.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: When he confronts Indy and Basil on top of the train, he grabs the Villain Ball by preferring a melee fight to kill them. This trope is especially aggravating because Weber DOES carry a gun, but attempts to use it when it's far too late for him to have a good shot.
- Villainous Valor: Weber proves to be quite brave. Not only does he lead the manhunt for Indy personally, he climbs on top of a moving train to go after him with a knife.
Hauke
Hauke
Played By: Olivier Richters
A musclebound Neo-Nazi working for Voller.
- Asshole Victim: No pity will be had for his inevitable death when Teddy handcuffs him underwater in the river, seeing as how he was a neo-Nazi who condemned an innocent man to drown earlier.
- The Brute: He's a hulking giant of a man who isn’t especially bright, but makes up for it with sheer strength and viciousness.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: While his death isn't as graphic as previous villains, it's still horrifying. When he and Teddy fall into an underground river, Teddy handcuffs him to an underwater grate and leaves him to drown. Hauke is last seen screaming in horror.
- Giant Mook: He's a musclebound giant who doesn't get too much characterization, but he's the biggest physical threat of the antagonists.
- Oh, Crap!: When he realizes Teddy has handcuffed him to an underwater grate, thus dooming him to death by drowning.
- Perpetual Frowner: Hauke only has one expression and that is "menacingly grumpy". Only time it changes being as he realizes how screwed he is once handcuffed to something stronger than he is while submerged underwater, breaking out into screaming horror.
- The Quiet One: You can count the number of times any sound comes out of his mouth on one hand.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He fills the same role as the Giant Mooks played by Pat Roach in previous films.
- The Unfought: Rather than get in a knock-down drag-out fight with Indy, like previous Giant Mooks, he's killed when Teddy handcuffs him to an underwater grate and leaves him to drown.
Maximus
Maximus
Played By: Maur Cardinali
The Roman general commanding the invasion of Sicily.
- Cool Helmet: Being a Roman officer, he's got a pretty spiffy crested helmet, as does his Mook Lieutenant Pontimus.
- In the Back: One of Archimedes' servants shoots him in the back with an arrow as he's about to kill Indy.
- Revenge Before Reason: Is really mad about the "dragon" (i.e., the Nazi plane) laying waste to his navy. After seeing Indy and Helena parachute out of the crashing aircraft, he believes them to have been responsible and pretty much abandons any semblances of trying to take Syracuse just so he can go and stab them.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He isn't around for very long, but his decision to retaliate against what he thinks is a dragon kicks off a battle between the Nazis and the invading Roman forces, causing the Nazi plane to sustain enough damage to eventually crash.
- Walking Spoiler: Considering he only appears in the climax, which involves time traveling back to 214 B.C., it's difficult to discuss Maximus without giving away the ending.
