- LEGO Star Wars
- LEGO Indiana Jones
- LEGO Batman
- LEGO The Lord of the Rings
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
- LEGO Jurassic World
- LEGO Marvel's Avengers
- LEGO The Incredibles
Recurring Characters
The Basilisk
Promotional artwork for LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4, depicting Harry Potter doing battle with the Basilisk.
A recurring Boss in the series, the Basilisk is a giant snake monster that cannot be attacked from head-on, but it always falls victim to Boss-Arena Idiocy.
It had an Early-Bird Cameo in, appropriately enough, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, before later being properly shown in LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4.
- Boss-Arena Idiocy:
- LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures: The only way of attacking it is by throwing the torch on the wall of its Boss Room at it.
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4: The only way it can be hurt is by making it ram itself into some boulders, with the finishing blow being dealt by a Telekinetically-moved sword. There’s also the entirety of the ingredients to a strength potion lying around the chamber.
- Bullfight Boss: In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, it charges straight at you as its primary means of attack, but can be hurt if its head hits some boulders.
- Early-Bird Cameo: A few years before being properly showcased with a more elaborately detailed model in the first LEGO Harry Potter game, LEGO Indiana Jones featured it in a small role with the original 2002 "The Chamber of Secrets" playset design, albeit lacking the markings of the original
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In its Early-Bird Cameo in LEGO Indiana Jones it was modeled directly off the version from the Harry Potter LEGO playset showcasing it, but when it properly appeared in the LEGO Harry Potter game it was given a design overhaul that was bigger, bulkier, and possessing a feather plume.
- Gender Flip: According to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, male Basilisks have a feather plume on their heads, while females don't. The basilisk in the films and books didn't have a plume, making it female, while the one in the LEGO games does have one, making it male.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: It's original appearance in LEGO Indiana Jones had absolutely zero foreshadowing about it, as while there are snakes everywhere to capitalize on Indy's fear, and the Well of Souls is utterly swarming with them, there are no prior hints about you facing a giant snake. The lack of dialogue to talk about it or even an introductory cutscene also means that zero fanfare is given for its sudden appearance, and after it's beaten Indy and Marian don't even make the slightest pantomimed reaction to fighting it in the ending cutscene.
- Put on a Bus: Its last appearance was in LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, which released in 2011, never appearing in any further LEGO games, not even showing up in LEGO Dimensions, which was all about being a Massively Multiplayer Crossover.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Originally from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, it appears as an enemy to menace (who else?) Indiana Jones in this series.
- Zero-Effort Boss: In LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, the Basilisk is helpless if you stay away from it. You can just chuck torches in its face and never worry about a thing.
Civilian In Peril
Less of a Character and more of a living collectible, Civilians In Peril are scattered all around the levels (and the Hub Level in later games) and can be saved by the player from whatever predicament they got themselves into.
- 100% Completion: In every game they appear in, saving every single one of them is necessary to reach 100%.
- Butt-Monkey: They really only exist to find themselves in perilous situations so that the player can rescue them.
- Promoted to Playable: In the LEGO games based on Marvel Comics, Stan Lee plays the role of the Civilian, and can be unlocked by saving every version of him. The same can be said of Adam West, who plays the role in LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham.
- Sir Cameos-a-Lot: More or less the point of them as a character, they are put in trouble, the player saves them, rinse and repeat every level. Lampshaded in the Marvel Universe games, where they’re Stan Lee himself!
