History Headscratchers / IndianaJones

* ''[[Headscratchers/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles Young Indiana Jones]]''

** The ''Raiders'' novel has Indy recalling how he developed his fascination for the bullwhip, seeing a whip-act in a travelling circus when he was seven years old. Obviously, the origin story in ''Crusade'' came later.

* ''[[Headscratchers/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny Dial of Destiny]]''

* ''Headscratchers/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles''

*** In "Raiders" he was going to Tibet. He'd likely have taken a train or plane cross-country to reach San Francisco. Back in the '30s the only way to cross the Pacific fast was on Pan American Airlines' flying boats (service had just started a year or two before the movie). It's more likely that the classic "Indy travelling the globe via red line" montage skipped a step of land travel, I think. Whereas to cross the Atlantic he would leave from a major port like New York- and by the '50s, international airline service was good enough he could easily catch a flight out of New York. The thing to remember is that in this era there wasn't an international airport for every city of respectable size. People trying to fly out of the country had a relatively short list of options.
*** He went to Nepal, not Tibet.\\
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The plane you are refering to is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Clipper China Clipper]], which started service in 1934 (although the plane featured is a Short Solent 3 - owned by Howard Hughes - which first flew in 1946).

** No, he didn't.
** Indy got the whip out of the lion tamer's car.

** The ''Raiders'' novel has Indy recalling how he developed his fascination for the bullwhip, seeing a whip-act in a travelling circus when he was seven years old.

* Indiana being a highly successful and respected archaeologist seems like more of an informed attribute than anything, at least going by his success rate on the movies. In Raiders, he lost the golden idol to Belloq, and while he does return witht he Ark, that was never made public. In Temple, he fails to return with the Sankara stones. In Last Crusade, he gets his only real hit by returning the golden cross of Coronado, but by the end of the movie the Grail and everything involved to it was lost. And finally, in Crystal Skull, he once again fails to return with the titular Macguffin.

*** Indiana Jones is ''kind of'' a respected archaeologist. We get a flat-out statement in ''Temple of Doom'' that Indiana Jones has a reputation and it's not all that good. Given he engages in what would blatantly be considered black-marketeering, grave-robbery, and outright theft today--it's no wonder. Remember, Indiana Jones started as an {{Antihero}} in Raiders. He's also fairly decent at getting small jobs done (as we see with, "They're good pieces, Marcus.") but the big history-making scores elude him. Honestly, Indy's {{Greed}} is his tragic flaw as finding the ashes of a Chinese Emperor would be enough for most people but he wanted the Peacock's Eye more.

** Considering what RealLife archaeologists were doing to each other and to locals back in [[TheRoaringTwenties The Twenties]] and [[TheThirties Thirties]], Jones' good standing among his peers may be FairForItsDay.

** A big problem from a narrative perspective are that the discoveries Indy makes in those movies are simply too big. Like yeah, they can have him returning with the cross of coronado because ultimately it's just a cool relic. On the other hand, the Ark, the Grail and the Sankara stones are proof that the supernatural is real, with the first two being proof that the Abrahamic God is real AND the stones indicating that he is not the only God out there. On top of that you have the brouhaha with the crystal skulls which is proof that there are beings from another dimension and thay have visited earth. Each one of those would profoundly change society as we know it, and his career would be basically over because all the fortune and glory would go to Indy.

** If he's farsighted, not having his glasses wouldn't impede his ability to judge distances. Most of the writing we see him read in the field is in the form of inscriptions on walls or artifacts, which probably use a larger font and/or can be seen from a sufficient distance that he doesn't need his glasses; it's the much smaller print in ''modern'' books that his spectacles help with.

** Not to mention, Indy wasn't exactly a "dropout", but a good student that left to fight in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI (okay, not through the usual route, but he did). I can't say for sure but I would imagine that soldiers had facilities to reinsert in civilian life.