I feel like even colonialist academics of the 30s would not say "it belongs in a museum" abt an idol protected by operational traps including a giant rolling boulder, maintained by the indigenous people. I feel like they would let that one go, out of self preservation at least
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Or, in other words: Indiana Jones isn't a pulp academic with the racist attitudes "of his times," he's a terrible academic in any era and also a mercenary who uses an incoherent racist justification to seek glory or money
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I feel like reading Doctor Aphra comics makes this really apparent, she's exactly like him except that she suffers consequences and gets kicked from academia
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Similarly, his pederasty isn't actually excused by anyone in his time, which is why his victim sets her bar on fire rather than willingly interact with him, is a self destructive alcoholic, and doesn't actually forgive him even after he helps her survive a Nazi kidnapping
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Unfortunately, the end of the movie strongly implies that they end up together, and according to the most recent film they had a kid even if the marriage didn't last. (So, a lot like Han, basically.)
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Crystal Skull says they were *going* to get married but then Indy ghosted her a week before the wedding due to his commitment issues, unaware that she was already pregnant She then married another dude (with the last name Williams) so Henry wouldn't grow up a bastard
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The stepfather dies in WWII and young Henry ends up a troubled fatherless child anyway and takes on the nickname "Mutt" etc There are parallels to the Star Wars story but Mutt clearly has a much more valid grievance against Indy
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Anyway Crystal Skull ends with Indy finally actually marrying Marion and being there for his son, though we'll see if that sticks when they do the sequel
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Harrison Ford actually said he was looking forward to doing an Indiana Jones movie where Indy isn't a lone hero with no family for once, circling back to the family themes with Holy Grail But then they officially confirmed Mutt isn't coming back so I dunno
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That's possibly due to real-life concerns with Shia LeBoeuf's reliability
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Which is saying something considering Ford is pretty hard to get to commit to projects himself.
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Not if you pay him enough. He's been really open about that, he will be in anything if you pay him enough. "Enough" just gets pretty high
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