History Film / IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom

* TheLavaCavesOfNewYork: The underground cavern of the palace just happens to have a direct line to the Earth's crust and hot magma flowing out. The only areas of Volcanic activity in India, and dormant activity at that, is in the Andaman Islands, and nowhere on the mainland of the Indian subcontinent.
* LethalLavaLand: The titular Temple of Doom.

The film also stars Creator/AmrishPuri as Mola Ram, Roshan Seth as Chattar Lal and Philip Stone as Captain Philip Blumburtt.

The film was released on May 23, 1984. Along with the first ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' film, ''Temple of Doom'' is largely responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating.

''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' is the second film in the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' film series, and a prequel to the previous film ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' (making it the first in terms of narrative chronology). It is directed by Creator/StevenSpielberg, with the screenplay by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz and the story written by Creator/GeorgeLucas.

-->'''Mola Ram:'''[[EvilLaugh Hahaha!]] Drop them, Doctor Jones! They will be found! ''YOU'' WON'T! HAHAHA! ''GE NA!!''

-->'''Mola Ram:'''"[[EvilLaugh Hahaha!]] Drop them, Doctor Jones! They will be found! ''YOU'' WON'T! HAHAHA! ''GE NA!!''"

* HopeSpot: As the final confrontration on the bridge begins, Mola Ram's taken Willie and Short Round hostage. Indy threatens to drop the Shankara Stones into the river below if Mola Ram doesn't let his friends go. For a moment, it looks like his threat's gonna work; the Thugees instantly halt their approach and Mola Ram becomes genuinely worried...for about 10 seconds. Then he shrugs it off with this iconic rebuttal:
'''Mola Ram:'''"[[EvilLaugh Hahaha!]] Drop them, Doctor Jones! They will be found! ''YOU'' WON'T! HAHAHA! ''GE NA!!''"

-->"[[EvilLaugh Hahaha!]] Drop them, Doctor Jones! They will be found! ''YOU'' WON'T! HAHAHA! ''GE NA!!''"

* WheresMyGun: Indy is confronted by a massive Thuggee swordsman and cockily reaches for his revolver (in a CallForward to the famous scene in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''). However, his smile vanishes when his hand pats his empty holster and he remembers that his pistol was taken off him when he was captured.
** Actually, he lost it earlier during the car chase with Lao Che's men, when he handed it to Willie, who of course dropped it out the window (to be fair, this is because it was very hot and she couldn't hold it), causing him to scream this trope at her.

%%* HumanSacrifice: The Thuggee indulge in this.

%%* IBrokeANail: Willie Scott... ''twice''.

* AudienceSurrogate: Short Round is meant to be one for the kids watching the film, allowing them to realize their dream of wanting to go on cool adventures with Indiana Jones, be semi-adopted by him, and even being able to save him from danger.

* HollywoodDriving: When Short Round act as a GetawayDriver for Indy, he turns his head to the backseats for an extended amount of time.

* SavedByCanon: As a prequel to ''Raiders'', obviously, Indy will survive the events of the film.

** Indy tells Willie that the "birds" she is seeing are giant, vampire bats. Vampire bats are both small and from the Americas. Those are fruit bats. Although Willie was annoying him, so it is possible Indy only said that to annoy her.

* NooseCatch: A variant when Indy wraps one end of his {{whip|ItGood}} around a {{mook|s}}'s neck and the other end around a ceiling fan. Instead of getting hanged by falling, the mook gets hanged when the fan yanks him ''upward'' and breaks his neck.

[-[[caption-width-right:350:[[TagLine "If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones."]]]]-]

* WhipItGood: Indy's whip gets used in lieu of a gun when he goes up against a pair of swordsmen.

** Subverted when Indiana is about to pull his "revolver defeats swordsman" routine from the previous movie, but he is lacking the gun. He resorts to GoodOldFisticuffs and then proceeds to WhipItGood.

* BallroomBlitz: The movie starts out in a fancy dinner event in Shanghai which eventually escalates into a gunfight.

* OddballInTheSeries: In many ways. It's the only film where Indy isn't shown teaching at his university at any point (although it is mentioned), and it's the only one which uses the poster font in the opening credits. This is the only Indy film so far where the major villains were non-white. In past and future films, while some of the minor mooks may have been people of color, the major enemies have been either Nazis or evil Russians. It's also the only film in which Indy plays an active part in killing off the BigBad at the end.

* PedalToTheMetalShot: There is such a shot at the start of a CarChase. Short Round acts as a getaway driver for Indy. He [[KidsDrivingCars is only a 13 year old kid]] so he has boxes tied around his feet to operate the pedals of the car.

* GroinAttack: Right after freeing Indy from the the Black Sleep of Kali Ma, Short Round manages to down a Thugee by kicking him in the nads.

* AlmostKiss: The TheBigDamnKiss between Willie and Indy at the end gets delayed when the elephant spouts water in their faces.

* MickeyMousing: When Chen shoots Wu Han, he times the shot with a set of champagne bottles being uncorked.