History WMG / IndianaJones

[[WMG: Indy survives because he can hear the music cues from [[Creator/JohnWilliams]] ]]

* In the liner notes to the first soundtrack [[Creator/StevenSpielberg]] jokes that Indy knew exactly when to duck because Williams was right there giving him the right music cues.

[[WMG: ''Temple of Doom'' was All a Dream]]

[[WMG: [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo and Chewbacca]] crashed on Earth in the distant past, with Han becoming Indy's ancestor and Chewy becoming Bigfoot]]

[[WMG: Neither Spalko nor the aliens have any psychic abilities.]]

[[WMG: Spalko won in the end.]]

[[WMG: The series has a reversal of ''Franchise/StarTrek'''s even-odd rules.]]

[[WMG: Indy is a distant cousin of Film/JamesBond.]]

[[WMG: Alternately, Indy is a distant cousin of [[Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen Alan Quatermain]].]]

[[WMG: The Aliens are of the same race as those from ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'']]

[[WMG: Hitler was never going to weaponize the Ark of the Covenant.]]

[[WMG: The Holy Grail only gives you one extra life]]

[[WMG: The Crystal Skull was magnetic]]

[[WMG: The Grand Alien Theory...]]

[[WMG: Irina Spalko was the protege of Rasputin from ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'']]

[[WMG: ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' himself was a protege of Indy's]]

--> ''Indy catches a glimpse of young Hellboy, who's been tailing him unseen''
--> '''Indy''': What was that?
--> '''Musgrove''': Uh... what was what?

[[WMG: ''[[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]]'' was also a protege/student of Indy's]]

[[WMG: Elsa Schneider was a virgin.]]

[[WMG: Building on the Indy Is Film/JamesBond's Cousin guess, Indy Is the original James Bond's Son.]]

[[WMG: The child Maharaja is the father of Khan from ''Franchise/StarTrek''.]]

[[WMG: The majority of the fourth movie is Indy's DyingDream as he is killed by the nuclear blast.]]

[[WMG: The spirits in the Ark of the Covenant are of all the people who had previously opened the Ark.]]

[[WMG: Spalko didn't die in Crystal Skull.]]

[[WMG: The skull is literally [[SelectiveMagnetism selectively magnetic]] ]]

[[WMG: Indy started carrying two guns after ''Temple Of Doom'']]

[[WMG: The Ark of the Covenant found in ''Raiders'' was [[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers France's April Fools joke]] gone ''horribly'' wrong.]]

[[WMG: Related to the ''Hetalia'' theory above, Indy is related to Alfred F. Jones.]]

[[WMG: ''Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' '''isn't''' a GenreShift- every film has aliens.]]

[[WMG: ''Temple of Doom'' is a DeconstructiveParody of the first film.]]

[[WMG: Drinking from the Grail gives you more than immortal life.]]

[[WMG: The aliens did give them a gift.]]

[[WMG: Indy is a [[Webcomic/GirlGenius jaegerkin]] with his teeth filed down and his accent covered up.]]

[[WMG: Mac was having a relationship with Spalko.]]

[[WMG: Spalko wished to "know" ''everything'', and got her wish.]]

[[WMG: The SecretGovernmentWarehouse at the end of ''Raiders'' isn't Area 51.]]

[[WMG: Twilight Sparkle and Timon from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' are incarnations of Indy.]]

[[WMG: The Grail's effects are temporary.]]

[[WMG: The Indiana Jones series takes place in the Franchise/StargateVerse]]

[[WMG: Henry Jones Sr. faked his death and became the new grail guardian]]

[[WMG: Raiders: The Brits are in from the beginning]]

[[WMG: The Brothers of the Cruciform Sword from ''Last Crusade'' are [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Assassins]]]]

[[WMG: Indiana Jones is a Time Lord.]]

[[WMG: Doctor Harold Oxley is The Doctor.]]

[[WMG: George Hall's portrayal of Indiana Jones was wiped out by the Time War.]]

[[WMG: Ianto Jones is the grandson of Indiana Jones.]]

[[WMG: Indiana Jones is just a dream that Han Solo had while he was frozen in carbonite.]]

[[WMG: If ''Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'' had a season 3, there'd be an episode where Indy visits China and meets the future parents of Short Round.]]

[[WMG: Indiana Jones as Tool of Fate]]

[[WMG: Short Round fought in World War II]]

[[WMG: Depsite without Paramount's involvement, there will still be reference to the Paramount logo joke at the beginning of Indiana Jones 5]]

[[WMG: Alternatively they will turn the Disney logo into a mountain]]

[[WMG: In ''The Last Crusade'', Schneider intentionally gave Donovan the wrong cup]]

* According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, it's ''Hangar 51'', no relation to the RealLife Area 51.

Paramount will still be involved, albeit more as a legacy credit (ala [[Film/TheAvengers The Avengers]] and [[Film/IronMan3 Iron Man 3]]).

[[WMG: ''Raiders Of The Lost Ark'', ''Temple Of Doom'' and ''The Last Crusade'' otherwise known as the ''Indiana Jones'' Trilogy is set in the same universe as other movies and series]]

[[WMG: ''Raiders Of The Lost Ark'', ''Temple Of Doom'' and ''The Last Crusade'' otherwise known as the ''Indiana Jones'' Trilogy is set in the same universe as other movies and series''

[[WMG: [[StarWars Han Solo and Chewbacca]] crashed on Earth in the distant past, with Han becoming Indy's ancestor and Chewy becoming Bigfoot]]

* A proposed book, which would have been authorized by Lucasfilm, would have tied the mythos of ''Film/THX1138'', ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'', ''StarWars'', and ''Indiana Jones'' together.

Alternatively: '''the aliens are the [[StarWars Whills]], who wrote the eponymous Journal.'''

* In ''Raiders'' (1936) he is a competent curator but feels too weak for the field work. "''Five years ago I would have gone after the Ark myself''"
* In ''Crusade'' (1938) he is quite less serious and competent, and shows clear signs of starting to lose touch with the world.
** He got lost in his own museum.
*** I think people read too much into that "shift." It's possible that Marcus was good at (and a huge fan of) field work - but the respectable, legitimate, by-the-book kind of fieldwork, where everything's been cleared by the proper authorities, there are teams of professional diggers to assist you and do the heavy lifting, etc. Stealing artifacts from under the noses of a Nazi army isn't exactly conventional archaeology, even the "field work" kind.
*** Thus, he's out of his depth for all of Crusade as he and Indy are doing everything on the fly, operating without a safety net, and in the middle of a ton of fighting, none of which he'd be used to. He thought he'd love to go after the Ark (or the Grail), but it wasn't the kind of field work he was used to.

** Or possibly a case of being KickedUpstairs into a sinecure which would allow him to retain his dingity as he deteriorated while lower-level college officials did all the actual work. By 1944 Brody may have either died or have been too far gone to continue to function in this role.

** He said the grail itself cannot be taken past the great seal on the floor. The reason why Henry Sr. eventually died of old age was because his use of the grail was to recover from a mortal wound. Indy was perfectly healthy when he drank from it which is why the effects of the grail allow him to be so spry well into his sixties.
*** He said "You have chosen... wisely. But, beware: the Grail cannot pass beyond the Great Seal, for that is the boundary, and the price, of immortality." What that means is if you cross the seal, you are no longer immortal.

Jossed, Lucasfilm uses it's own branding from Disney's

[[WMG: The Ark of the Covenant found in ''Raiders'' was [[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia France's April Fools joke]] gone ''horribly'' wrong.]]

[[WMG: Twilight Sparkle and Timon from ''Disney/TheLionKing'' are incarnations of Indy.]]

** But it could. Ox was an old friend of Indy; he could have known him all along but was unable to communicate it properly, or he could have not registered who was with him until then... In his state of mind, there's all kinds of mundane possibilities. Sorry, [[LogicalFallacies you fail logic forever]].

[[WMG: Short Round fought in WorldWarII]]

[[WMG: Short Round fought in WW2]]

The second James Bond (third 007 or later) used archaeological expeditions as excuses for his extended absences, and MI6 gave him crash courses in archaeology to make it plausible. After Henry Jones [[WMG/JamesBond retired and was replaced]], losing the accent he used for cover on missions, he went into archaeology for real. (The James Bond played by Sean Connery would be [[WMG/JamesBond a different Bond]] than the one who was Indy's dad.)

** But it could. Ox was an old friend of Indy; he could have known him all along but was unable to communicate it properly, or he could have not registered who was with him until then... In his state of mind, there's all kinds of mundane possibilities. Sorry, YouFailLogicForever.

* It can also go a long way to explain Indy's relationship and reconciliation with his father, after all Han is loner and an orphan who secretly yearns for family.

This was forwarded by a non-canonical but LucasFilm-authorized ''StarWars'' comic.

* A proposed book, which would have been authorized by [=LucasFilm=], would have tied the mythos of ''Film/THX1138'', ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'', ''StarWars'', and ''Indiana Jones'' together.

[[WMG:Indiana Jones 5 will be set in China during the Cultural Revolution]]

In the previous films, Indy always tries as hard as possible to scrabble out of the way of anything potentially lethal (whether or not he succeeds). But in the fourth film, he finds the deadly merely unpleasant. He is almost fearless. He knows that Ox was talking about two more possibly deadly waterfalls after dropping down the first, but he doesn't seem to try to avoid them. He balks at grabbing the snake and makes an offhand remark about hitting the bottom of the sandpit. He says that he should go into the city alone. He almost never tries to escape the Russkies on his own initiative. He survives an atomic bomb blast at almost point blank range with only a refrigerator for a shelter. He ends up taking just as much of a beating as in his previous films; but he never seems to feel as battered and exhausted, even though he's ''older''. Oh, and his dad? They never show him; he isn't dead because he ''can't die''. '''Neither of them can'''. His only worries in this film are protecting the lives of others, keeping his Main/HealingFactor-based immortality secret from everyone, and avoiding especially unpleasant “deaths.”

* Pretty much confirmed by [[WordOfGod George Lucas himself]][[http://maddogmovies.com/almost/scripts/raidersstoryconference1978.pdf here]].