Editing Indiana Jones (character) (section)

===Films and television installments in the chronological order===
* ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' (1981)
* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]'' (1984)
* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'' (1989)
* ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'' (1992–1996)
* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'' (2008)
* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny]]'' (2023)

A native of [[Princeton, New Jersey]], Indiana Jones was introduced as a tenured professor of archaeology in the 1981 film ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', set in 1936. The Joneses are a family of paternal Scottish descent.<ref name="crusade">''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'' (1989). [[Henry Jones, Sr.]]</ref> The character is an adventurer reminiscent of the 1930s film serial treasure hunters and [[pulp magazine|pulp]] action heroes. His research is funded by Marshall College (a fictional school named after producer Frank Marshall), where he is a professor of archaeology. He studied under the Egyptologist and archaeologist [[Abner Ravenwood]] at the [[Oriental Institute (Chicago)|Oriental Institute]] at the [[University of Chicago]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Johnson|first=Steve|title=The Oriental Institute has a 100th birthday makeover wish – to no longer be Chicago's 'hidden gem'|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-oriental-museum-chicago-100-years-0922-20190919-hx7jj5lzezdb3ngocj4htwv65q-story.html|website=Chicago Tribune|date=September 19, 2019|access-date=October 13, 2019|archive-date=February 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203105056/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-oriental-museum-chicago-100-years-0922-20190919-hx7jj5lzezdb3ngocj4htwv65q-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

====''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981)====
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In the first adventure, ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', set in 1936, Indiana Jones is pitted against [[Nazi Germany|Nazis]] commissioned by Hitler to recover artifacts of great power from the Old Testament (see [[Nazi archaeology]]). In consequence, Jones travels the world to prevent them from recovering the [[Ark of the Covenant]] (see also [[Biblical archaeology]]). He is aided by [[Marion Ravenwood]] and [[Sallah]]. The Nazis are led by Jones' archrival, a Nazi-sympathizing French archaeologist named René Belloq, and Arnold Toht, a sinister [[Gestapo]] agent.

====''The Temple of Doom'' (1984)====
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In the 1984 prequel, ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]'', set in 1935, Jones travels to India and attempts to free enslaved children and the three Sankara stones from the bloodthirsty [[Thuggee]] cult. He is aided by [[Short Round|Wan "Short Round" Li]], a boy played by [[Ke Huy Quan]], and is accompanied by singer Willie Scott ([[Kate Capshaw]]). The prequel is not as centered on archaeology as ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' and is considerably darker.

====''The Last Crusade'' (1989)====
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The third film, 1989's ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'', set in 1938, returned to the formula of the original, reintroducing characters such as Sallah and [[Marcus Brody]], a scene from Professor Jones' classroom (he now teaches at [[Barnett College]]), the globe-trotting element of multiple locations, and the return of the infamous [[Nazi mysticism|Nazi mystics]], this time trying to find the [[Holy Grail]]. The film's introduction, set in 1912, provided some backstory to the character, specifically the origin of his [[fear of snakes]], his use of a [[bullwhip]], the scar on his chin, and his hat; the film's epilogue also reveals that "Indiana" is not Jones' first name, but a nickname he took from the family dog. The film was a [[buddy movie]] of sorts, teaming Indiana with his father, [[Henry Jones, Sr.]], often to comical effect. Although Lucas intended to make five Indiana Jones films, ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' was the last for over 18 years, as he could not think of a good [[MacGuffin|plot element]] to drive the next installment.<ref name="race against time">{{cite magazine|author1=Nick de Semlyen|author2=Ian Freer|author3=Chris Hewitt|author4=Ian Nathan|author5=Sam Toy|title=A Race Against Time: Indiana Jones IV|page=100|magazine=Empire|date=September 29, 2006}}</ref>

====''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'' (1992–1996)====
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From 1992 to 1996, Lucas wrote and executive-produced ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'', a television series aimed mainly at teenagers and children, which showed many of the important events and historical figures of the early 20th century through the prism of Jones' life.

The show initially featured the formula of an elderly (93 to 94 years of age) Indiana Jones played by [[George Hall (actor)|George Hall]] introducing a story from his youth by way of an anecdote: the main part of the episode then featured an adventure with either a young adult Indy (16 to 21 years of age) played by [[Sean Patrick Flanery]] or a child Indy (8 to 10 years) played by [[Corey Carrier]]. One episode, "Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues", is bookended by Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, rather than Hall. Later episodes and telemovies did not have this bookend format.

The bulk of the series centers around the young adult Indiana Jones and his activities during [[World War I]] as a 16- to 17-year-old soldier in the Belgian Army and then as an intelligence officer and spy seconded to French intelligence. The child Indiana episodes follow the boy's travels around the globe as he accompanies his parents on his father's worldwide lecture tour from 1908 to 1910.

The show provided some backstory for the films, as well as new information regarding the character. Indiana Jones was born July 1, 1899, and his middle name is Walton (Lucas's middle name). It is also mentioned that he had a sister called Suzie who died as an infant of fever, and that he eventually has a daughter and grandchildren who appear in some episode introductions and epilogues. His relationship with his father, first introduced in ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'', was further fleshed out with stories about his travels with his father as a young boy. Jones damages or loses his right eye sometime between the events of [[Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny|1969]] and the early 1990s, when the "Old Indy" segments take place, as the elderly Indiana Jones wears an eyepatch.

In 1999, Lucas removed the episode introductions and epilogues by George Hall for the VHS and DVD releases and re-edited the episodes into chronologically ordered feature-length stories. The series title was also changed to ''The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones''.

====''The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' (2008)====
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The 2008 film, ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'', is the fourth film in the series. Set in 1957, nineteen years after the third film, it pits an older, wiser Indiana Jones against Soviet [[KGB]] agents bent on harnessing the power of an [[Extraterrestrials in fiction|extraterrestrial]] device discovered in South America. Jones is aided in his adventure by his former lover, [[Marion Ravenwood]] ([[Karen Allen]]), and her son—a young [[greaser (subculture)|greaser]] named [[Henry "Mutt" Williams]] ([[Shia LaBeouf]]), later revealed to be Jones' unknown child. There were rumors that Harrison Ford would not return for any future installments and LaBeouf would take over the franchise.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/02/indy_update200802|title=My Indiana Jones Crackpot Theory|website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|date=January 4, 2008|access-date=January 2, 2011|archive-date=January 16, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080116145137/http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/02/indy_update200802|url-status=live}}</ref> This film also reveals that Jones was recruited by the [[Office of Strategic Services]] during [[World War II]], attaining the rank of [[Colonel (United States)|colonel]] in the [[United States Army]], and that in 1947 he was forced to investigate the [[Roswell UFO incident]], and the investigation saw that he was involved in affairs related to [[Area 51|Hangar 51]]. He is tasked with conducting covert operations with [[MI6]] agent George McHale against the Soviet Union.

====''The Dial of Destiny'' (2023)====
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The 2023 film, ''[[Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny]]'', is the fifth and final film in the series. Set in 1969—twelve years after the fourth film and during the height of the [[Space Race]]—Jones has moved to New York City, teaching at [[Hunter College]] with plans to retire, after his marriage with Marion collapsed following Mutt's death in the [[Vietnam War]]. Once his estranged goddaughter Helena Shaw ([[Phoebe Waller-Bridge]]) arrives asking for [[Antikythera mechanism|Archimedes' Dial]], a relic Jones and her father Basil retrieved from the Nazis in 1944 during the [[End of World War II in Europe|Allied liberation of Europe]] in [[World War II]], a [[Operation Paperclip|Nazi-turned-NASA scientist]] Jürgen Voller ([[Mads Mikkelsen]]) starts pursuing Jones, wanting to exploit the Dial's unusual properties to change the outcome of World War II.

As the film concludes, Indiana and Marion are reconciled.