History Film / IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom

* BlownAcrossTheRoom: [[spoiler: When liberating the children from the diamond mine]], Indy encounters a supervisor. After giving him a DeathGlare, Indiana punches the guy so hard, he slides a few metres over ''gravel'', being only stopped when bumping into a boulder.

* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Indiana's HesBack moment where he punches a slaver so hard he slides along the floor a good distance.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: When he first appears, at the dinner scene, the young Maharajah speaks with a ''very'' plummy [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents RP accent]]. However, much later on, after Shorty has beaten him up, he comes out with "Please leesten! To git out, you mast tek de lift tunnal!", in some sort of "ethnic" (Indian?) accent. Well, he was BrainwashedAndCrazy before.

* WeHaveReserves: On the broken bridge, Mola Ram pushes one of his own men off in his attempts to make Indy fall.

* FauxFluency: The opening "Anything Goes" number. It seems they did have a Mandarin translation of the Music/ColePorter song, but Kate Capshaw butchered the pronunciation. Since Mandarin is a tonal language, this effectively turned it into gibberish. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4bNusi9yAA Here's a Chinese speaker's best guess at a translation.]]

* ForWantOfANail: Willie grabs the antidote that saves Indy's life, enabling him to go on this adventure. And since this is a prequel to ''Raiders'', she essentially allows him to go on that adventure as well along with ''The Last Crusade'' and ''Kingdom of the Crystal Skull''. Meaning that shrieking, ditzy, much-maligned Willie is basically responsible for the entire Indiana Jones series.

* ArtisticLicense: The film derives entirely from pulp fiction (like all Indiana Jones films) but even then almost everything about its portrayal of India is dated and outlandish: Serving live eels to human diners is a good way to get yourself charged with homicide, as raw eel blood is toxic to people. Pretty much all the banquet's "delicacies" are complete nonsense, and entirely made up by the screenwriters based on how gross Lucas and Spielberg found their suggestions. Indian cuisine is largely vegetarian, and non-vegetarian Hindus -- like most non-vegetarian people full stop -- would never consume live animals.[[note]]Brains are a large part of certain South-Asian cuisines, though it's usually the brains of cattle, sheep, or goats.[[/note]] Then again, the whole thing is actually a ploy intended to get rid of Indy and the British officer without attracting attention.

* ArtisticLicense: The film derives entirely from pulp fiction (like all Indiana Jones films) but even then almost everything about its portrayal of India is dated and outlandish:
** Serving live eels to human diners is a good way to get yourself charged with homicide, as raw eel blood is toxic to people. Pretty much all the banquet's "delicacies" are complete nonsense, and entirely made up by the screenwriters based on how gross Lucas and Spielberg found their suggestions. Indian cuisine is largely vegetarian, and non-vegetarian Hindus -- like most non-vegetarian people full stop -- would never consume live animals. Then again, the whole thing is actually a ploy intended to get rid of Indy and the British officer without attracting attention.
*** Brains are a large part of certain South Asian cuisines, though it's usually the brains of cattle, sheep, or goats.

* PapaWolf: Indy is enraged when the Maharaja whips Short Round, even though he's being whipped himself and can only shout "Leave him alone, you bastards!" Between that and the other enslaved children, Indy ends up fighting the cult ''at least'' as bitterly as he fought the Nazis.

** Every single thing to do with Hinduism. In fact, what the movie gets right about Hinduism or India can be counted on the fingers of ''one'' hand. Though to be fair to film, most of the Hindu characters are explicitly shown to be members of the villainous Thuggee cult, making them as much of an accurate representation of Hinduism as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple the Peoples Temple]] was to Christianity.

** Every single thing to do with Hinduism. In fact, what the movie gets right about Hinduism or India can be counted on the fingers of ''one'' hand.

* NoodleIncident: During dinner at Pankot Palace, Chattar Lal brings up a grave-robbing incident in Honduras "greatly exaggerated by the press" and another one where Indiana was threatened with the loss of something very dear to him if he ever returned to a particular sultan's realm. Lal thinks it was Indy's head, then his hands, and Indy corrects him:

** The nightclub where the movie begins is named "Club [[Franchise/StarWars Obi-Wan"]]. In that scene the origins of Indiana as a derivative Film/JamesBond are very explicit and homaged, as he's dressed similarly to Creator/SeanConnery's Bond in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. It comes full circle in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' when Connery stars as Indy's literal father.

'''Indy:''' Are you trying to develop a sense of humor, or am I going deaf? ''[Chao holds up a vial]'' What's that?\\

'''Lao Che:''' ''[starts laughing]'' The poison you just drank, Dr. Jones.

** The opening "Anything Goes" number. So far as anyone can tell, they did have a Mandarin translation of the Cole Porter song, but Kate Capshaw butchered the pronunciation. What with Mandarin being a tonal language, this effectively turned the lyrics into gibberish. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4bNusi9yAA Here's a Chinese speaker's best guess at a translation.]]

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Wu Han, Indy's associate who's dressed as a waiter in the Club Obi Wan, dies within minutes of appearing.

* TempleOfDoom: {{Trope Namer|s}}. Although for what it's worth, the words "Temple of Doom" only appear in the title, and the eponymous locale is never referred to as such in any dialogue. Based on the film by itself, it can't be said for sure whether "Temple of Doom" is even the official, in-universe name for the place.

* TempleOfDoom: {{Trope Namer|s}}.

* MightyWhitey: Indiana Jones is anointed by the village head as a saviour sent by Shiva to rescue the villagers from the Thuggee. Indy also rescues a bunch of child slaves and liberates them. Likewise, the finale has the British General leading a contingent to arrive as TheCavalry to repel the Thuggee.

The film also stars Creator/AmrishPuri as Mola Ram, Roshan Seth as Chattar Lal and Philip Stone as Captain Philip Blumburtt. Along with the ''Film/{{Gremlins|1984}}'' film, ''Temple of Doom'' is largely responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating.

The film also stars Creator/AmrishPuri as Mola Ram, Roshan Seth as Chattar Lal and Philip Stone as Captain Philip Blumburtt. Along with ''Film/Gremlins1984'', ''Temple of Doom'' is largely responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating.

The film also stars Creator/AmrishPuri as Mola Ram, Roshan Seth as Chattar Lal and Philip Stone as Captain Philip Blumburtt. Along with the first ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' film, ''Temple of Doom'' is largely responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating.

* ChekhovsSkill: Indy fluently shifts into Chinese while arguing with Short Round over which of them is cheating more at cards. He later uses the same language to warn the boy that [[spoiler: he ''is'' going to cut the bridge]] without alerting Mola Ram and his Mooks.

---> '''Indy:''' You betrayed Shiva! Thum Shiva Ke Vishwasth Karthe Ho!

--> '''Shaman:''' We know you are coming back, when life returned to our village.

--> '''Indy:''' Xiao zi, zhuo zhu sheng zi! [[note]]"Kid, grab hold of the rope!"[[/note]]

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Mola Rom's archers are useless. For that matter, they don't do any better with guns, although they at least have the excuse that Indy's gang is ''moving'' in those scenes.

-->'''Indy:''' I think we got a big problem.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Volcanism in India is more strongly associated with the land 'South' of New Delhi, not North as Pankot is described to be. Even if it weren't, almost if not all Indian volcanoes are inactive.