History VideoGame / LegoIndianaJones

** ''The Adventure Continues'': Along with the Assassin actually becoming competent enough to ''[[ParryingBullets block Indy's bullets]]'', every movie now ends with the villain becoming a giant boss running on the RuleOfCool: Belloq obtaining power from the ark (the puzzle is probably to destroy the enemies the electricity is connecting to, though), Mola Ram commanding a huge rock monster, Donovan turning into a [[BossBattle monster]] when he drinks from the wrong cup, and Spalko surrounded by a lethal force field.

* GratuitousDiscoSequence: In the first game, there's a hidden area based on the Cantina in ''Star Wars'' that plays a disco remix of the Raiders March.

* ProductPlacement: The first game was released to tie in with ''Kingdom of the Crystal Skull''.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Indy's well-known fear of snakes is used as a game mechanic; if there are snakes, he'll refuse to go anywhere and just stand there shuddering, meaning you'll have to solve a puzzle with your other character to get rid of the snakes and get Indy where he needs to be. This also happens to Willie, who's afraid of bugs, and Henry Jones and Elsa, who are afraid of rats.

** Taken to extremes in the second game's handheld version: the game opens with ''every single villain'' that Indy has faced aboard a plane with him, all teaming up to steal his journal. This includes Dovchenko, Spalko and Mac, whose movie deaths are implied in the actual game, but not outright shown.

** Temple of Doom: While he died in a deleted scene. [[spoiler:Chattar]] dies when his [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath body explodes after his boss fight]].

** Temple of Doom: While he died in a deleted scene. [[spoiler: Chattar]] dies when his [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath body explodes after his boss fight]].

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* RaidersOfTheLostParody: Naturally, due to the AffectionateParody nature of the Lego games.

** Temple of Doom: While he died in a deleted scene. [[spoiler: Chattar]] dies when his body explodes after his boss fight.

** For Temple of Doom, the fate of Wu Han is reduced from a gunshot to simply dropping dead from poison, complete with X's over his eyes, the infamous Thuggee sacrifice scene where a man is burned alive while screaming in agony which was responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating is reduced to a simple NakedPeoplAreFunny gag. Also, Indy is never put under the Thuggee cult's control and Mola Ram's grisly fate as gator food simply has Mola Ram falling into the water and the next time we see the gators, one of them burps while wearing his hat!

** At climax of the Raiders playthrough, the deaths of Belloq, Major Toht, and Dietrich are reduced from their nightmare-inducing gory fates to the trio simply reacting in horror once the Ark spirits turn hostile and having vanished entirely once the Ark has shut itself again.

** Temple of Doom: While he died in a deleted scene. [[spoiler: Chatter]] dies when his body explodes after his boss fight.

* DeathByAdaptation: The porters were scared off originally. Here, one is shot by the Hovitos with a poison dart and another accidentally walks off a cliff during the opening cutscene.

* NoSwastikas: The Nazis are called "Enemies", and a few parts (particularly in the second game, where the Berlin scene from ''Last Crusade'' is a level) at most have a German eagle.

* AdaptationalDyeJob: In the first game, Marion has brown eyes instead of blue (in the DS version, [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow her hair is also brown]] instead of black). Corrected in the sequel.

** Of particular note is Willie Scott. Notorious in the films for being basically useless, but here, she is the only character in the game with the ability to shatter reinforced glass.

* GiantSpider: For whatever reason, the Hovitos Temple level in the first game has a bunch of spiders bigger than an average man alongside regular-sized spiders. No other level has ''giant'' spiders, and they're completely absent from the second game, which begs the question why a tribal temple staffs such massive arachnids.

* AdaptationDistillation: ''The Adventure Continues'' had six whole {{Hub Level}}s to create and five levels each, all of which while being very experimental on the gameplay, so with only one hub each for the first three movies, the overall plots of them were heavily condensed and simplified, such as how the Hovitos Temple doesn't even get a proper story level like in the first game, only a small bonus one.

* ArtisticLicense: Many of the adaptational changes, especially in ''The Adventure Continues'', really deviate from the films.

* GlassShatteringSound: Willie Scott's special ability.

** The second has a much larger hub (one for each of the original trilogy, three for the ''Crystal Skull'' parts) that the player needs to explore and actively seek out new levels.

* NoSwastikas: The Nazis are enemies, and a few parts (particularly in the second game, where the Berlin scene from ''Last Crusade'' is a level) at most have a German eagle.

** The first game's adaptation of ''Last Crusade'' averted this by killing Elsa off like in the film, but the one in the sequel played it straight: not only does she live, but also pulls a HeelFaceTurn and is seen driving off with Indy and the others in its final cutscene.

* BadassAdorable: LEGO Indiana Jones.

* FaceHeelTurn: It turns out Satipo was working for the villains the whole time. Then again, he was always a bad person.

* AdaptationDistillation: ''The Adventure Continues'' had six whole {{Hub Level}}s to create and five levels each, all of which while being very experimental on the gameplay, so with only one hub each for the first three movies, the overall plots of them were heavily condensed and simplified, such as how the Hovitos Temple doesn't even get a proper story level, only a small bonus one.

* SteppingStoneSword: Done with spears.

* RuleOfCool: The new boss fights in ''LEGO Indiana Jones 2'' have the characters gaining various superpowers or turning into monsters entirely because the general normalness of the franchise resulted in the first game's bosses being rather underwhelming visually, and the developers couldn't figure out how to fix that outside "embellishing" the story with extra cool powers.

** {{Inverted|Trope}} with Colonel Vogel, who has many {{mooks}} visually based on him attack Indy and his father in "Motorcycle Escape", before getting promoted to a boss for the next two levels.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The UsefulNotes/{{Nazi|Germany}}s get turned into a group of [[NoSwastikas "Enemies"]]. Really though, it's a ''very'' sensitive topic.

* DegradedBoss: The Sherpa Gunner in "Into the Mountains", after you leave the Raven, appears as a normal enemy.
** Inverted with Colonel Vogel, who has many copies to attack Indy and his father in "Motorcycle Escape" and is promoted to boss for the two next levels.