List of Indiana Jones characters
This is a list of characters in the Indiana Jones series.
Overview
Family tree
Introduced in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''
Indiana Jones
Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., the titular character and the main protagonist of the franchise, He is an archaeologist and part-time college professor.Satipo
Satipo is a guide accompanying Indy in the temple in the film's opening. He follows behind him through the temple's traps on the way in. When Indy and Satipo reach a pit on the way out, Satipo makes it over with Indy's whip and Indy is stuck on the other side. Indy throws over the fertility idol to Satipo, who offered to throw him his whip for it; but he betrays Indy, dropping the whip and fleeing. In his haste, he forgot to mind the wall trap he had witnessed Indy test and is killed; Indiana makes it out.In an early script of the film, written by Lawrence Kasdan, Satipo flees the boulder with Indy, only to be met with Barranca's ultimate fate in the finished film and killed by the Hovito tribe, but the script was scrapped.
He appears in the video game Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine in the secret level "Return to Peru", where Indiana returns to the same temple and finds the second idol.
His name is based on that of a Peruvian town, Satipo in Satipo Province in Junín Region.
Jock Lindsey
Jock Lindsey is an American freelance pilot. Jock cut his teeth as a stunt pilot performing in Midwest airshows and relocated to Venezuela after a rumored flight-related tragedy. He frequently was hired by Jones to fly the archaeologist to remote parts of the world. Easygoing and affable, Jock butted heads with Indiana on only one subject: his pet snake Reggie. According to the novelization of Raiders of the Lost Ark written by Campbell Black aka Campbell Armstrong, Jock is Scottish. The "Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar" cocktail lounge at Disney Springs says he settled down in central Florida in 1938.Barranca
Barranca is the other Peruvian guide who turns against Indiana. When Barranca draws a revolver, Indy uses his famous bullwhip and wraps the whip around the gun. The gun is yanked from Barranca's hand and lands in a stream. Barranca then runs away but is later killed with poisonous darts by the Hovitos tribe.In the early script of the film, written by Lawrence Kasdan, when Barranca pulls his gun out on Jones, the archaeologist uses his whip to make Barranca shoot himself, but the script was scrapped.
Like Satipo, his name is based on a Peruvian town and county, Barranca, Barranca Ward, Barranca County, Lima state.
René Belloq
René Emile Belloq is a French archaeologist and the main antagonist in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Belloq is the arch-nemesis of Jones, and the two know each other very well, including each other's strengths and weaknesses, as shown by their very first exchange in the film, where Jones says "Too bad the Hovitos don't know you the way I do, Belloq."; to which Belloq replies: "Yes, too bad. You could warn them, if only you spoke Hovitos". He is highly intelligent, as evinced by Sallah's "They have not one brain among them... except one... he is very clever - a French archaeologist...".In the film's opening, Belloq and Hovitos tribesmen force Indiana to hand over a fertility idol he has braved numerous booby traps to obtain. Belloq aids the Nazis in finding the Ark of the Covenant, as he wants to use the relic to speak with God. When the Ark is opened, its contained spirits engulf Belloq in flames and cause his head to explode; Indiana and Marion are spared and turn the Ark over to the US government. At one point in the film, Belloq says to Indy that they are very much alike and that he is Indy's "shadowy reflection".
The novelization of the movie reveals Belloq became Indiana's foe at graduate school, when he plagiarized his essay on stratigraphy, thus winning an award that rightfully belonged to Indiana. Another encounter in 1934 is detailed, when Indiana spends months preparing a dig in Rub' al Khali, only to arrive and discover Belloq has excavated the region. Indiana also encounters Belloq in two novels by Max McCoy, set before the films, in which Jones and Belloq meet for the first time and Belloq gives Indiana information for locating a crystal skull.
Belloq's first name was Emile in an August 1979 draft of the script, and Marion was originally more infatuated with him. Spielberg considered French singer and actor Jacques Dutronc and Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini for the part before casting Freeman. While watching Death of a Princess he noticed that Freeman had very piercing eyes.
Belloq was intended to appear in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but the character was written out for unknown reasons. He was set to appear in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, but the show was canceled before its third season. He and the 21-year-old Indiana would have become friends in Honduras in 1920, although his ruthless traits would be exhibited by stealing and selling a crystal skull to F. A. Mitchell-Hedges. He would have aided Indiana and Percy Fawcett in Brazil in an episode set in 1921. He was also intended to appear in the canceled Dark Horse Comics limited series Indiana Jones and the Lost Horizon, in which he appears in the prologue discovering a fake Turin Shroud in New York City in 1926.
In an early script of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull called Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods and written by Frank Darabont, the Nazis were set to appear, seeking revenge for Belloq's and Toht's deaths, but the script was rejected.
Kenner released a action figure in late 1982, which was available by mail order until 1983. A Belloq figure in normal clothes was also released in 1983. He was included in a TSR, Inc. collection of metal miniatures the following year. Hasbro released a Belloq in Jewish robes in 2008. An Adventure Heroes figurine, which comes with the Ark and a murderous spirit, will also be released. Lego made a Belloq figure for a playset based on the Raiders opening sequence.
Marcus Brody
Marcus Brody is an academic and curator who has known Indy since he was a child. Brody was friends with Indy's father, Henry Sr., and served as something of a surrogate father figure, as Indy did not get along well with his own father. In the film, Brody makes a deal with government agents that Indy will recover the Ark of the Covenant and put it in a museum, but the agents put it away in a top secret hiding place, much to his disappointment. He reappeared in The Last Crusade, aiding Indiana on the search for his father and getting captured by the Nazis. In 1940, Marcus Brody retired as curator of the National Museum and accepted a position as dean of students at Marshall College. After Brody died in 1952, Indy lobbied hard for the bronze statue of Brody featured in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on the Marshall College grounds. The statue of Brody lists his years of service as dean of students from 1939 to 1944. Denholm Elliott's death in 1992 was written into Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with the death of his character.Spielberg cast Elliott in the role because he was a fan of the actor. His return in Crusade was motivated by the director's desire to have the film hew closer to Raiders. He was initially portrayed in the first film as a knowledgeable, accomplished archaeologist in his own right, with much apparent field work under his belt, and tells Indy that he would accompany him on his quest but for other responsibilities. By the third film in the series, though still portrayed as intelligent, his character had changed to a somewhat bumbling figure who Indy mentions had gotten lost in his own museum and provided much of the film's comic relief. Brody has also appeared in the video games Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, the Marvel Comics Indiana Jones series, a Young Indiana Jones book and the Bantam novels series.
Marion Ravenwood
Marion Ravenwood had a crush on Jones in 1926, leading him to pursue a relationship with her, despite the fact that, she was a minor at the time. This had ended abruptly, when Jones' mentor and Marion's father, Abner Ravenwood had discovered their romance. Ten years later, a resentful Marion is forced to aid Indiana in retrieving the Ark of the Covenant after her bar in Nepal is burned down, by Arnold Ernst Toht and his thugs. Marion was a regular supporting character in the Marvel Comics series set after the film.In the early script of the film, written, by Lawrence Kasdan, Marion was set to be a prostitute after Abner's death, but George Lucas rejected the script.
According to Steven Spielberg, Marion was set to appear in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, along, with her father, Abner, but George Lucas had scrapped the idea. During the development of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, an early draft, called Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars, written, by Jeb Stuart, Marion was set to appear in the wedding of Indy and Dr. Elaine McGregor, alongside Sallah, Short Round, and Willie Scott, but the draft was rejected. In another early script, Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods, written by Frank Darabont, Marion was set to appear again as Indy's partner, but this draft was also scrapped.
Allen reprised the role for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008. It is revealed that, over the course of the film that, Indy and Marion were engaged to be married, but Indiana left her a week, before the wedding as he was concerned that, it was not going to work out. Therefore, Indiana was unaware that, Marion had married his old friend, Colin Williams, and that Marion gave birth to his son, Henry Jones III, who adopted the nickname "Mutt" as a teenager. After the two are reunited, when a Soviet plot attempts to find a secret discovered, by an old colleague of Abner and Indiana, Marion reveals the truth about Mutt's parentage and Indiana admits that, none of the women he was, with after Marion left compared to her. Once they return to America, the two marry in a ceremony at the college.
Allen reprised the role for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny in 2023 in a cameo appearance. It is revealed that, over the course of the film that, Indy and Marion are, in the process of a divorce after Mutt was killed in the Vietnam War. After Indy is brought back from travelling back in time to Ancient Greece, by his goddaughter, Helena, he reconciles, with Marion and the mourning couple embrace.