WMG / Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Any guess on what will be the movie's Main MacGuffin?

Each of Indiana Jones movies have Indy dealing with the artifact that served as the MacGuffin as the bad guys want to get their hands on and I believe this movie's MacGuffin will have to do with the Moon due to the film set in 1969 (The same year that the man first walk on the moon).

• Due to the speculation that time travel will be involved, Die Glocke could be the Dial.
  • Don't you think that the Die Glocke is too big for the Dial of Destiny? The Dial is that little artifact Helena is shown holding in one of the promotional photos.
  • The Dial could be a separate piece of Die Glocke, perhaps the part needed to make it work. In addition, it need not be a Nazi invention; it could be Lost Technology that they found and then misplaced during the war.
• Alternatively, the Dial could be (or could be related to) the Antikythera Mechanism which is speculated to have been a sort of dial.
  • Confirmed.

The real reason for the flashbacks with Digital De Aging...

It's the MacGuffin at work, allowing Indy to relive past memories, because the real bad guys are using him to find a lost treasure he might remember from his past. The memory thing may be of use later.

• Jossed. The flashback sequence only uses Digital De Aging to show when Indiana Jones first encounters part of the dial and his first encounter with Voller.

Helena's Parentage

She will be revealed to be the daughter or niece of Marcus Brody, as a way to honor the character. Indy mentoring his mentor's child would be fitting.

• Actually, the name Helena has Arabian origins, so maybe Helena is one of Sallah's daughters instead? It would be a bit surprising to connect her to a long-forgotten friend of Indy who died offscreen before the fourth film.
  • You are incorrect; the name Helena is of Greek origin.
• Helena could be the daughter of Toby Jones's character Basil, Indy's sidekick in the 1944 portion of the movie.
  • Confirmed as of the latest trailer.

This film will have an And the Adventure Continues style ending as opposed to definitively ending the franchise.

And after all this time spent with Indy hunting for legends, it would only be fitting if he became an undying legend in his own right.

• Confirmed. The very last shot is Indy picking up his hat, suggesting the world hasn't seen the last of him.

Indy will finally get his Eyepatch of Power.

If this is the last movie where the Harrison Ford will play Indiana Jones for the last time, then we should watch and find out how Indy got the scar on his face over his right eye in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. We don't know yet at what point in his life Indy got the scar from him on his right eye, which would lead him to wear an eyepatch.

• The Young Indy Bookends are ambiguously canon since all George Hall footage was removed in the show's 1999 re-edit. Plus, if Indy dies in the film, the Bookends would be rendered immediately non-canonical.
• Ultimately jossed. Indy ends the film with both eyes intact.

Indy will finally get over his fear of snakes.

A Running Gag in the Indiana Jones franchise is Indy's fear of snakes, making the Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? trope famous. So since this fifth movie in the franchise will be the last movie to have Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, then we should finally see Indy get over his fear of snakes, even if he finds out that snakes aren't as bad as he thought earlier in his youth, Indy would even adopt a pet snake.

• Bonus points if Indy ends up being forced in the climax to jump into a giant snake who has swallowed the Dial of Destiny to save the day.
• Or maybe if Dr. Jürgen Voller adopts the form of a giant snake a la Jafar in Aladdin to intimidate Indy into giving up, forcing Indy to finally gather enough courage to save his friends and the world and slaying Voller.
• Jossed. Indy encounters a pack of eels which prove his fear of snakes is as strong as ever.

There will be some references to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War due to being important things in the world's history around this period.

And maybe also a nod to The Bermuda Triangle given how the film's earliest rumors assured a plot surrounding that mystery?

• No reference to the Cuban Missile Crisis or the Bermuda Triangle. The Vietnam War is mentioned, however.

The film will be dedicated to Sean Connery.

He passed away during the pre-production of the film, so a dedication at the end would be nice, don't you think?

Marion passed away in the last 12 years, while Mutt now runs a motorcycle shop.

Or maybe Marion is on a trip with her friends and Mutt came back to school like he promised Indy to do in the last film?

• Or maybe the film starts just as the last film ends (like Frank Marshall previously said) and Mutt was accidentally left locked inside the church? That would be a perfect Take That, Scrappy!.
• Jossed. Marion is still alive, and she's divorcing Indy (though they get better at the end). Mutt died during the Vietnam War.

Both Marion and Mutt are dead.

With confirmation that Shia LaBeouf is not in the film and no sign of Karen Allen in the trailer, it could well be that their characters are deceased. Perhaps Mutt was killed in a motorcycle accident and Marion was so grief-stricken that she died of a broken heart. This would explain why Indy is alone in the film apart from his goddaughter Helena.

• On the other hand Mutt will be subject to Chuck Cunningham Syndrome. Marion is still a beloved character, so she could be mentioned or just have a brief cameo. Mutt will just be treated as though he never existed, not even have his absence explained.
  • Word of God is that Mutt's absence in the film will be addressed despite LaBeouf not returning.
  • Still not word on if Allen's coming back or not, but Marion does appear in a photograph in one of the film's latest online featurettes.
• Mutt's absence will be explained via The Vietnam War. With Mutt being drafted and either being Deceased or MIA.
  • Confirmed. Mutt died in Vietnam.

Short Round will be mentioned or make a cameo.

Short Round is a very loved and appreciated character by Indiana Jones fans, thanks to the charisma and sweetness of Ke Huy Quan, who worked on different Steven Spielberg movies. But the actor who played Short Round retired from acting several years later, in the earlier Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull scripts, Short Round was going to be a cameo at Indy and Marion's wedding, but in the end It was changed. It would be interesting to see Indy's beloved Kid Sidekick in this latest film in the franchise. Although his original actor retired from acting years ago (before his comeback in Everything Everywhere All at Once), an adult Short Round could be played by a different actor, if Short Round doesn't appear, he could be mentioned by Indy, as a dear friend who accompanied him on his adventures.

• Unfortunately, Ke Huy Quan has said that he isn't in the film nor was added in reshoots because the film didn't have any, though he is open to reprise the role in a spin-off.

There will be an Actor Allusion regarding Mads Mikkelsen's role as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale

They got Bond himself appear in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, so they can easily reference Mads' other major role (according to me). Maybe probably have Voller beat Indy's balls like he did to Bond.

• Beating the protagonist's balls doesn't sound too rough and risque for a Disney-distributed movie? Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer isn't known for its kid-friendly image.

The titular dial is not an artifact; instead, it is a dial on a technological device.

The film is set in 1969, and Mads Mikkelsen's character is working in the moon-landing program at NASA. The television broadcast of the moon landing was a major historical event, so perhaps the title could refer to a dial on analog television sets, which were still very popular in the late 1960s, or it could refer to a dial on a device being used at NASA.

• Jossed: The Dial of Destiny is something that Mads Mikkelsen's character was searching for during World War II, and it seems like it's something that can be used to Set Right What Once Went Wrong or Make Wrong What Once Went Right.

The castle of the opening sequence is haunted.

As a nod to one of the earliest ideas for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? Back when filming started, several news outlets assumed that they would use the idea before it was revealed that the castle was a Nazi one.

Helena Shaw's mother is Karen Mays, Maggie O'Malley or Sophia Hapgood.

For the sake to the Indiana Jones Expanded Universe! Those three female sidekicks of Indy were shown to be interested in him despite never going as far to propose to him. Maybe Karen, Maggie or Sophia is the wife of Basil Shaw? If they married to a Shaw, Helena wouldn't need to have Mays, O'Malley or Hapgood as her last name. Or what if maybe Professor Jacques Levi of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was gay and Basil Shaw was his partner?

Jürgen Voller is related to Magnus Völler from Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings .

James Mangold was assured by Frank Marshall to be a great Indiana Jones fan. Why did he decide to give his film's Big Bad the same last name as the villain of Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings, the last Indiana Jones video game? Especially the only Indy video game in which George Lucas directly participated? Lucas consulted on Dial of Destiny and Mangold previously used elements he liked of the obscure X-Men Origins: Wolverine video game for Logan, Grand Finale of the X-Men film series. Why not using the same schtick here and relate the two Vollers? Mangold may pull a similar twist like that of Dr. Zander Rice revealing that Wolverine killed his father, with Dr. Jürgen commenting on how Indy killed his brother Magnus (bonus points if Jürgen doesn't give a heck for Magnus like Rice did with his father).

Or Voller is a relative from a previous film villain?

If we go by a direct route instead of one veering towards the Expanded Universe, erhaps Voller is a relative of Colonel Ernst Vogel from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? He could have changed his last name, as they do sound similar. Or maybe he is Ilsa Toht's son to explain his similar wardrobe to that of Major Arnold Ernst Toht? Or what if he is instead the son of René Emile Belloq with a Danish woman? That kid promised to get back for his father's death in that tie-in book released back when Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull premiered. Or even from Colonel Herman Dietrich, as apparently none of his relatives seem to be wishing to get back for his death and forgot about him...

The Dial of Destiny will bring us back through time travel to sequences of previous films.

And one of those is gonna be some set piece of Raiders of the Lost Ark!

For once, Indy will be able to bring his find to a museum and gain the recognition and respect he deserves.

The franchise's Running Gag is that Indy always loses the MacGuffin and thus never receives the fame he should have for uncovering marvelous relics. Throw the Dog a Bone here for his last hurrah, Lucasfilm.

The Paramount Pictures mountain logo will be replaced by The Walt Disney Company castle logo.

And once the film starts, the Disney Castle becomes something like an ancient temple or a castle.

• [Both logos appear, while the Lucasfilm logo is the one with the fade in effect.

Hergé will make a cameo.

As a nod to Steven Spielberg making The Adventures of Tintin in the interim between the fourth and fifth Indiana Jones pictures and as a reference to how much Hergé loved Spielberg's films and wished to meet him to discuss a Tintin film.

None other than Harrison Ford will make a cameo appearance As Himself with Digital De-Aging.

Harrison Ford's film debut was on Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round in 1966, so he was already acting by the time this film takes place. Would be a fun meta cameo, when taking in mind that in the lead-up to the film, Ford commented on how he remembers when the Apollo 12 landed on the moon.

Or even Steven Spielberg and George Lucas make cameos too?

James Mangold feels huge respect for the creators of the franchise, so why not include cameo appearances of them? Bonus points if maybe Indy impresses the duo with his heroics that makes them think about making films based on Dr. Jones' life.

Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles, the protagonists of Ford V Ferrari, will cameo.

A reference to James Mangold's latest film prior to this one plus the fact that such film takes place in the late 1960s and its epilogue says that they kept their 24 Hours of Le Mans winning streak in 1969, so if Indy and Helena go to Europe, maybe they show up? If Matt Damon and Christian Bale don't return, maybe their roles are performed by stand-ins or lookalikes?

The reason for which Sallah only appears at an airport in the trailers.

Because that's his only scene in the film. He just stands at that spot in the airport for all his appearance. If not, how did John Rhys-Davies manage to avoid his cameo getting leaked?

• What's more. Maybe Sallah appears in the climax of the film after Indy perhaps decides to give up and leave his quest, but Sallah manages to convince him to face Voller and defeat the Nazis one last time. Maybe that's why he doesn't appear in any other scenes.
• Jossed. Sallah has a few more scenes than that one.

Those Roman soldiers aren't here because Indy and Helena time travel into the past.

Instead, they are actors who are shooting a movie of swords and sandals in Sicily or Italy and Indy sneaks into the filming by accident. Like what Tintin does to Rastapopoulos' movie in Tintin: Cigars of the Pharaoh, remember? Olivier Richters' character is listed as "Actor" in IMDb, so maybe he is just a pissed off actor whose great scene Indy ruined?

Or the Roman soldiers are corpses that Voller revives with the Dial of Destiny.

Or what do you expect to justify their appearance in 196t9 if they aren't from the past? Robots? Or maybe from a Roman-worshipping cult like the Incan-worshipping cult of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun, another Tintin adventure?

Olivier Richters' character is the strong Spanish dude of the Fourth Nail story from The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones.

Was reading that comic book today at Read Comic Online.com and there's a strong Spanish dude that looks like Richters (unitentionally, of course, as Olivier had yet to be born when the issue was published), who faces Indy and gets defeated, but not killed. Maybe the filmmakers read that issue and brought him back for revenge? Either that or Richters is playing that strong guy's son...

Or if Olivier Richters is playing a big henchman akin to those of Pat Roach and Igor Jijikine.

Chances are that he will suffer a messy death. Nuff said.

• While his death isn’t messy, it is horrifying: he’s chained to a grate underwater and left to drown.

The film is inspired by Steven Spielberg's script for the still unreleased The Adventures of Tintin (2011) sequel.

The Prisoners of the Sun reference described above could have something to do with the plot considering that Spielberg initially planned to wrap up the Indiana Jones series with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and then make sequels to The Adventures of Tintin (2011). Maybe Mangold retooled that script into the last Indy adventure given Peter Jackson's scheduling conflicts? Aside that Toby Jones appears in both films, then maybe Teddy Kumar is a stand-in for Zorrino. Bonus points if maybe the ones hiding the MacGuffin are a Roman-worshipping cult that opts to adopt him at the end?

René Belloq's son shows up for revenge against Indy.

Maybe he is one of the criminals who are after Helena Shaw? Helen Otway's 2008 reference book The Greatest Adventures of Indiana Jones mentions that Belloq's son is still wishing to get back at Indy after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And James Mangold is such a fan of the franchise, and so is Jon Kasdan, who was involved in writing the film early on.

• Jossed.

The pilot of the plane Indy is about to board in the trailer is Jock Lindsey.

As a call-back to Raiders of the Lost Ark, with Fred Sorenson reprising the role! Jock may have joined the big flying leagues after years of flying Indy at his several exotics destinations.

The film will reuse scrapped ideas from past films, especially from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Like previous films, and even other Lucasfilm projects like the Star Wars franchise, have done in the past.

Indy will mention his previous visit to Tangier.

As he visited it in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, having previously referenced the show's pilot TV movie in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull when he told Mutt about his encounter with Pancho Villa and his Villistas.

• Somewhat confirmed! Indy says that he “knows Tangier” and is shown to be extremely adept at navigating the city.

For the opening sequence, George "Mac" McHale from the last film will cameo to flesh out how Indy and him were brothers-in-arms during World War II.

Bonus points if Ray Winstone is digitally de-aged to reprise the role.

• Jossed. During the WWII flashback, Indy indeed has an ally, but it's a new character created for the film.

General Robert Ross will may cameo as well.

In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, not only is Mac mentioned to have met Indiana Jones during World War II, but also Robert Ross, that American general played by Alan Dale who tells the FBI to back off when they suspect Indy to be a Communist spy. Due to that Ross being a minor character, they could easily have Dale reprise the role through digital de-aging or simply recast him.

Destry Spielberg will make a cameo.

Her sister Sasha made one in the latest film, with Destry herself expressing interest at doing so back in 2018.

That guy screaming for Helena during the Tuk-tuk Chase sequence is a past lover of hers.

The way the guy yelled for her looks like he loves her or wishes her to forgive him for something.

• Confirmed.

Olivier Richters' character is the new Big Bad Henchman who wishes to kick Indy's ass.

Gives some Pat Roach and Igor Jijikine vibes.

Colonel Weber is actually Helmut von Mephisto of J.W. Rinzler's novel Indiana Jones and the Mystery of Mount Sinai.

Thomas Kretschmann looks justl ike that book character and maybe "Weber" is just a placeholder name (Weber was the name of Dan Aykroyd's character in the second film, in fact), plus Mephisto doesn't die in the novel. Jon Kasdan mentioned that while working on the film, he made references to Rinzler's novel. Plus, Rinzler passed away two years ago, so including the character could be a nice tribute to one of Lucasfilm's ace film historians.

Klaber will pull a Heel–Face Turn, thus surviving or dying doing so.

Boyd Holbrook has said that Klaber is insecure, so maybe he realizes that he should do things right and defects to Indy's side once he realizes how sick Jürgen Voller is? He could even sacrifice himself to stop Voller from killing Indy and his friends.

• Jossed. He remains a villain until the end and dies at Voller’s side.

Klaber will die in that plane sequence.

Helena seems to be on the verge of falling in the trailers and Klaber seems to be the one grabbing from her, but once Indy and her jump out of the plane, Klaber is nowhere to be seen. See you around, Klaber.

• Jossed; that isn’t Klaber, but he does die when the plane crashes.

Klaber will fall in love with Mason.

Boyd Holbrook has said that he shares some scenes with Shaunette Renée Wilson. Perhaps she is the owner of the motorcycle he steals during the Apollo 12 parade or is friends with the officer Klaber steals the motorcycle from, leading her to hunt him down along with Indy and his party. Yet Klaber has been confirmed to have insecurities because of his wishes to find some place where he belongs. Maybe he sees the error of his ways, outgrows his racism, falls for Mason and ends up teaming up with her and her employers to hunt any Neo-Nzis he knows down? Sympathetic Nazis in the series have always been a thing since Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. What about now such collaborator survives?

• EXTREMELY jossed. Mason is killed by the Nazis.

Basil Shaw was one of Helen Margaret Seymour's pupils.

In The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Professor Helen Margaret Seymour from Oxford University was mentioned to have served as the tutor of Henry Walton Jones, Senior's and later becomes Indy's as well. Maybe she also had Basil Shaw as one of her pupils? After all, Helena is confirmed to have been born in Oxford...

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania actors will show up in the film.

Both films were shot in the same studio during 2021 (heck, the COVID-19 Pandemic affected them through norovirus outbreaks and delayed their releases. Though Harrison Ford didn't show up in that film, maybe Paul Rudd, Jonathan Majors or any other cast members of Peyton Reed's film show up here?

Teddy is a child from another time.

The Dial of Destiny may bring him into the present day, right? If not, then he possibly is Renaldo's kid.

• Jossed on both counts. Teddy is an orphan Helena met a few years ago, and has been working with ever since.

Renaldo is a Twist Villain.

Antonio Banderas was giggling when he said that Renaldo's a guy who would die for Indy. Maybe it's just a marketing lie and Renaldo is actually in cahoots with Voller?

• Jossed.

Renaldo will die.

Antonio Banderas did say that Renaldo is a good fella who would die for Indy. Maybe he's right?

• Confirmed.

Charles Stanforth will make a cameo.

Jim Broadbent said back in 2017 that he would be interested in returning to the role, considering his Suspiciously Similar Substitute to Denholm Elliott's Marcus Brody role. Granted, Indy no longer works at Marshall College but not at Hunter College, but what if Stanforth also moved in to Hunter?

Mason is a Twist Villain.

If Renaldo isn't, then maybe it turns out that Mason is actually a rogue CIA agent who plans to obtain the Dial of Destiny for her own ends? If that happens, then Indy surely mentions or suspects from her beforehand due to his experiences with Sophia Hapgood and Simon Turner in Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine.

• Jossed. Mason is an antagonist, but she isn’t really a villain or a traitor.

René Belloq, Mola Ram, Walter Donovan and Irina Spalko will come back as hallucinations caused by the Dial of Destiny to face Indy.

Maybe Mola Ram gets subjected to The Other Darrin due to Author Existence Failure, but Belloq, Donovan and Spalko still have their actors around, so a bit of Digital De-Aging is enough to bring them back.

• Jossed. The Dial doesn’t cause any hallucinations.

Helena is actually Voller's daughter.

What if maybe Helena is in reality the daughter of Jürgen Voller before Basil Shaw adopted her due to her father's arrest? Indy says to Helena that her father shot him once (Voller would have definitely wished to do so) and his remarks that her father became crazy over the Dial of Destiny, but what if maybe he is referring to Voller?

• Jossed. There is no reference to Helena being anyone but Basil’s daughter.

Or maybe if she isn't Basil's, Helena is Forrestal's daughter?

Highly unlikely, but if we go by the route that Helena isn't Basil's daughter, what if she is the daughter of that poor competitor of Indy who we first met skewered in the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors in Raiders of the Lost Ark?

We may get tons of Continuity Nod and Continuity Cavalcade.

Unlike past films in the series, which were always stand-alone save for the inclusion of a few familiar characters other than Indy himself, because this is Indy's last stand, we will get to see more ferences to past films. Indy does reference the voodoo torture he was subjected to in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in one of the trailers and there's no way he doesn't reference the Soviets from the fourth film if his government is still at war with them in the Space Race.

• Semi-confirmed, semi-jossed. There are several returning characters and callbacks, but Indy never actually mentions the Soviets (or aliens) at all.

Part of the film will take place in a Nazi-ruled world.

Think something akin to Earth-1 in the Arrowverse crossover "Crisis on Earth-X" (which would be ironic due to the occasional Indy references that franchise made). It makes sense, considering Voller likely wishes to restore Nazi Germany.

• Jossed. Voller is never actually able to complete his plans, so no AU where the Nazi’s won.

The criminal buyer works for the mob.

He seems to be stationed on Italy or Sicily, so kinda obvious, right?

How Mutt's absence will be explained

• He and Indy simply parted ways.
  • Jossed.
• Mutt fought and died in the Vietnam War.
  • Confirmed.

On the above note, he could simply be MIA (Missing In Action) and the army Never Found the Body

• Note how the method he was KIA (Killed In Action) was subtly left vague and not specified; having a friend report him dissapearing in a dust cloud of a Viet-Cong ordinance-barrage is just as valid a "report of death" as a found bullet-ridden corpse. And as Mutt is still in his prime with feats of dexterity, endurance and speed equal if not rivalling his father's during his prime when we last saw him, it would take more than a stray shell to do him in, neatly and sutbtly leaving the back-door fully open for a The Fast and the Furious style Back from the Dead scenario if Lebouf cleans up his act and reconciles with Lucasarts one day. Infamously vindictive towards actors who have offended him though Spielberg may be, and assuming he is hesitant about handing out the olive branch, Hollywood is still first and foremost a business, allowing a bitter ex-wife like Linda Hamilton to work again with James Cameron, the ex-husband she openly-loathes, Only in It for the Money to make Terminator: Dark Fate. If the rumors of the Disney+ non-Indy spinoffs ring true, Every Man Has His Price after all if the price is right. Besides, on a more positive note, a Short-Round and Mutt team-up where the former finds, heals, mentors and adventures with the latter as a Cool Big Bro is an opportunity too good to miss.

Voller will suffer a horrible death.

It's an Indiana Jones tradition, and if Disney allows the Marvel Cinematic Universe to have bloody graphic scenes like those of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness or Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, why not here?

• Sadly, jossed. Voller dies in a plane crash and while his body is pretty badly burned, it’s nowhere near Indiana Jones’s face-melting heights.

Hitler will be resurrected by Voller, leading him and Indy to have their ultimate Final Boss showdown.

That actor Arthur Sylense, best known as Joe Gallina, may actually be Hitler resurrected. Perhaps Voller brings him back to life, either Hitler thanks him or kills him and then fights Indy to do what he should have done back in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when he came across Indy and didn't kill him due to failing to recognize him.

• Jossed. Vollmer's plan is to kill Hitler before WWII starts, in order to be sure Germany would have a more competent leader who would be more likely to win the war.

Voller will be undone by his misuse of the Dial.

It’s a long-standing Indiana Jones tradition that the villains are taken down by the same MacGuffin they were searching for. Voller will probably be no exception. Given that Time Travel is shown in fiction to be a dicey proposition at the best of times, it’s likely he will attempt to Time Travel, and suffer a horrific fate.

• Confirmed. The dial leads him to 212 BC instead of the beginning of WWII, where his plane crashes and he dies.

The Dial was never completed.

A newer trailer shows that the Dial was created by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes. The real-life Archimedes suffered an abrupt death at the hands of a Roman soldier during the siege of Syracuse. Reportedly, his last words were “Do not disturb my circles!”, a reference to a geometric figure he had been working on in the sand. However, the dial itself seems to be made of concentric circles. Perhaps he had been desperately trying to complete his work on the Dial, but the soldier got to him first, leaving the Dial unfinished. As a result, it may still have some major flaw that isn’t immediately obvious.

• Jossed. The Dial was completed, however, the only place it was ever meant to send anyone was 212 BC.

Archimedes originally created the Dial for the same reason Voller wants to use it: to undo the outcome of a war.

To be more specific, the second Punic War, which involved the fall of Archimedes' home of Syracuse to the Romans. As to why he didn’t use it, perhaps the above WMG is accurate and he never completed it, or maybe he just never got the time to use it as was intended.

• Confirmed. The Dial was rigged to send its user to the Syracuse's siege, in the hope they would bring help and could contribute to repel the Romans.

Indy caused the dial to malfunction.

At one point Indy says a lot of the supernatural stuff he's witnessed is because people believe them to work a certain way so they do. The reason he brings up continental drift isn't because he thinks it will actually be a factor, it's because he knows that if Voller doesn't believe 100% he will end up in 1939, he will end up in a different time period.

The flashback where Basil gives Indy the Dial takes place shortly after Henry passed away.

The Ultimate Guide establishes Henry passed away in 1951, and Indy tells Mason he hasn't seen Helena in 18 years. Indy grew more distant from the Shaw's because he was dealing with his grief over losing his father, and depending on whether Marcus's death the following year was from a long-term illness, knew that he was shortly going to be burying Marcus as well.

Marion wasn't the one destroyed by grief, Indy was.

Indy describes Mutt's death as the thing that broke their marriage. When we see Marion at the end of the movie, she is clearly grieving, but otherwise together. She explicitly says she came back because she heard Indy was back. It was Indy who couldn't go on after losing her son. Now that Helena has rekindled his spirit of adventure (and has the prospect of a new family with her and Teddy), Marion can come back to the man she fell in love with - Indiana Jones.

• That fact Indy say Mutt enlisted to "piss me off" suggests that he blames himself for his son's death. He might have driven Marion off precisely because she was willing to put it behind them, and he couldn't.

Indy will die at the end.

Given Harrison Ford's age and the confirmation that this movie is the last of the series, it's likely that Indy will valiantly give his life to stop the villain. He will then be buried next to his parents and Mutt where Marion will appear, grieving.

• Jossed. Indy is alive and well at the end, and the very last shot implies his adventuring days are far from over.

After the movie, Indy and Marion get a knock on the door.

• It's a beautiful young Vietnamese woman. Mutt fell in love with her during his tour, married her, and gave his life saving her. And then there's a further surprise - "Hi Grandma, hi Grandpa!" Proving once and for all that Indy has something to live for in 1969.
  • Henry Jones Junior's eyes then fill with Manly Tears as the little boy's maternal grandfather walks in to greet him. Teenage weddings were still acceptable across Asian Cultures, Chinese and Vietnamese, during World War 2; and Short Round himself had found love, settled down, and had a daughter since he and Indy parted ways. Once brothers in arms, the two legendary heroes embrace, now truly brothers.

The Lance of Longinus is not a fake.

Indy claims that the Lance is a fake due to it being made of a metal not around during the Roman era. However, it was likely made by the Romans from the remnants of the Nazi plane that crashed during the Siege of Syracuse.

Voller's plan did leave a lasting imprint on history.

By planting the idea of what a "dragon" would look like due to how the Romans and Greek in ancient times (who knew "dragons" as "huge snakes" at the time) looked up, saw a "giant snake" flying through the sky, and after the Siege of Syracuse, spread the story of the "Flying Giant Snake" through Europe by describing it in terms they could recognize at the time and call it a "dragon" due to being a "giant snake" as they saw it, but later generations, having the description of the "dragon" as a "huge flying beast with wings and roaring fire" from the Romans, imagined it as the image of a dragon we would have today once the first image of what they thought it looked like came into existence far later once the story taken root into mankind's consciousness. So if Voller accomplished anything with his plan, then it would be the creation of the "European Dragon", brought by his plane, which survived all the way into modern times. So he did have an impact on history, just not the one he wanted.

Indy is no longer a murder suspect because Sophia Hapgood cleared his name.

In 1969 Sophia is a high-ranking CIA official. Because of Mason's work handling Voller Sophia is made aware of the events in New York involving Voller and Indy. Obviously, Sophia doubts Indy would needlessly murder colleagues, even after his family tragedy, so she uses her influence to have his name cleared. Mason's death might even allow Sophia to start a CIA investigation into Voller's group that further exonerates Indy.

Indy and Marion have a grandchild, the offspring of their late son Mutt.

While Dial of Destiny ended with Indy and Marion's reconciliation, it never answered the question of whether Indy's family legacy would end with him or if he and Marion actually have a hidden grandchild somewhere. It is possible that before or during The Vietnam War, Mutt may have fathered a child with a lover but neither he nor his parents would know about the kid before his death or disappearance in Vietnam. Indiana and Marion would not learn about the existence of their grandchild until some time after Dial of Destiny. If the franchise does get revisited in the future with Expanded Universe materials such as novels, comic books, or even a streaming miniseries, perhaps Indy and Marion searching for their long-lost grandchild could be a potential storyline.

The Dial of Destiny finds ALL time fissures that link to the Siege of Syracuse.

Archimedes would have had no way of knowing where, when, or by whom the dial of destiny would be retrieved, and so designed it to calculate as universally as possible. At some point Indy realises this, and once again uses the dial to travel back through a time fissure where he works with Archimedes to discover a time fissure forward to The Vietnam War where he retrieves Mutt to the Siege of Syracuse, whose body had never been found, before they use another time fissure to once again travel back to their own time.Semi-confirmed. The Dial is rigged to find fissures to the siege, but Indy doesn’t use it to retrieve Mutt.

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