History YMMV / YoungIndianaJonesAndTheMasksOfEvil

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Colonel Waters is presented as an adventurous {{Spymaster}} who can speak multiple languages — in short, a potential mentor figure for Indy who, as Waters points out, is still just 19 years old. In addition, he's American could have helped in terms of off-loading the whole "Henri Defense" thing. There must surely have been the potential to have him as a RecurringCharacter of some sort, yet he is the first of the group to die.

* HilariousInHindsight: A decade before ''Series/{{Spooks}}'', Creator/PeterFirth plays a spy who's actually TheMole.

* CompleteMonster: Mattias Targo is not just a bloodthirsty Romanian general, he's also a vampire who is implied to be the reincarnation of UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler -- meaning that to all intents and purposes, he's {{Dracula}}. Targo "liberates" a prisoner-of-war camp full of Allied soldiers in order to either transform them into members of his vampire army or just kill them by impaling them on stakes around his castle. When three spies (two Americans and a Frenchman) are sent to investigate his affairs, Targo sends body parts from each spy to their superiors as a grisly warning (it is initially implied from this that he killed them but it's later shown that they are, in fact, undead). When more spies (including Indy) show up, Targo has gruesome designs for them and actually performs an act of vivisection on one of them. A sadist who's so in love with his own brutality that he falls asleep to the sound of tortured screaming, Targo plans to have his army of the undead sweep through Romania and cleanse it in a wave of blood, slaughtering all those he decrees "intruders" onto his land.

* HilariousInHindsight: A decade before ''Series/{{Spooks}}'', Creator/PeterFirth plays a spy who's actually a double agent.

* HilariousInHindsight: Stefan, a DoubleAgent, is played by Creator/PeterFirth -- who later went on to play [[TheSpymaster Sir Harry Pierce]] in ''Series/{{Spooks}}''. Stefan's warning to Indy about getting emotionally involved with Molly has parallels with Harry's warning to Tom about getting emotionally involved with Christine.

* CompleteMonster: Mattias Targo is not just a bloodthirsty Romanian general, he's also a vampire who is implied to be the reincarnation of UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler -- meaning that to all intents and purposes, he's {{Dracula}}. Targo "liberates" a prisoner-of-war camp full of Allied soldiers in order to either transform them into members of his vampire army or just kill them by impaling them on stakes around his castle. When three spies (two Americans and a Frenchman) are sent to investigate his affairs, Targo sends their body parts back to their superiors as a grisly warning (it is initially implied from this that he killed them but it is later shown that they are, in fact, undead). When more spies (including Indy) show up, Targo has gruesome designs for them and actually performs an act of vivisection on one of them. A sadist who's so in love with his own brutality that he falls asleep to the sound of tortured screaming, Targo plans to have his army of the undead sweep through Romania and cleanse it in a wave of blood, slaughtering all those he decrees "intruders" onto his land.

* CompleteMonster: Mattias Targo is not just a bloodthirsty Romanian general, he's also a vampire who is implied to be the reincarnation of UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler -- meaning that to all intents and purposes, he's {{Dracula}}. Targo "liberates" a prisoner-of-war camp full of Allied soldiers in order to either transform them into members of his vampire army or just kill them by impaling them on stakes around his castle. When three spies (two Americans and a Frenchman) are sent to investigate his affairs, Targo sends their body parts back to their superiors as a grisly warning (it is initially implied from this that he killed them). When more spies (including Indy) show up, Targo has gruesome designs for them and actually performs an act of vivisection on one of them. A sadist who's so in love with his own brutality that he falls asleep to the sound of tortured screaming, Targo plans to have his army of the undead sweep through Romania and cleanse it in a wave of blood, slaughtering all those he decrees "intruders" onto his land.

* CompleteMonster: Mattias Targo is not just a bloodthirsty Romanian general, he's also a vampire who is implied to be the reincarnation of UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler -- meaning that to all intents and purposes, he's {{Dracula}}. Targo "liberates" a prisoner-of-war camp full of Allied soldiers in order to either transform them into members of his vampire army or just kill them by impaling them on stakes around his castle. When three spies (two Americans and a Frenchman) are sent to investigate his affairs, Targo kills them and sends their body parts back to their superiors as a grisly warning. When more spies (including Indy) show up, Targo has gruesome designs for them and actually performs an act of vivisection on one of them. A sadist who's so in love with his own brutality that he falls asleep to the sound of tortured screaming, Targo plans to have his army of the undead sweep through Romania and cleanse it in a wave of blood, slaughtering all those he decrees "intruders" onto his land.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Colonel Waters is presented as an adventurous {{Spymaster}} who can speak multiple languages — in short, a potential mentor figure for Indy who, has Waters points out, is still just 19 years old. In addition, he's American. There must surely have been the potential to have him as a RecurringCharacter of some sort, yet he is the first of the group to die.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharachter: Colonel Waters is presented as an adventurous Spymaster who can speak multiple languages — in short, a potential mentor figure for Indy who, has Waters points out, is still just 19 years old. Indy for his part knows of him by reputation ("the Colonel Waters?") and is delighted to have the opportunity to go on a mission with him.

* CompleteMonster: Mattias Targo is not just a bloodthirsty Romanian general, he's also a vampire who is implied to be the reincarnation of UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler -- meaning that to all intents and purposes, he's {{Dracula}}. Targo "liberates" a prisoner-of-war camp full of Allied soldiers just so he can either transform them into members of his vampire army or just kill them by impaling them on stakes around his castle. When three foreign spies investigate his affairs, Targo kills them and sends their body parts back to their superiors as a grisly warning. When more spies (including Indy) show up, Targo has gruesome designs for them and actually performs an act of vivisection on one of them. A sadist who's so in love with his own brutality that he falls asleep to the sound of tortured screaming, Targo plans to have his army of the undead sweep through Romania and cleanse it in a wave of blood, slaughtering all those he decrees "intruders" onto his land.

* CompleteMonster: Mattias Targo is not just a bloodthirsty Romanian general, he's also a vampire who is implied to be the reincarnation of UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler -- meaning that to all intents and purposes, he's {{Dracula}}. Targo liberates a prisoner-of-war camp full of Austrian soldiers just so he can either transform them into members of his vampire army or just kill them by impaling them on stakes around his castle. When three foreign spies investigate his affairs, Targo kills them and sends their body parts back to their superiors as a grisly warning. When more spies (including Indy) show up, Targo has gruesome designs for them and actually performs an act of vivisection on one of them. A sadist who's so in love with his own brutality that he falls asleep to the sound of tortured screaming, Targo plans to have his army of the undead sweep through Romania and cleanse it in a wave of blood, slaughtering all those he decrees "intruders" onto his land.

* HilariousInHindsight: Stefan, a DoubleAgent, is played by Creator/PeterFirth -- who later went on to play [[TheSpymaster Sir Harry Pierce]] in ''Series/{{Spooks}}''. Stefan's warning to Indy about getting emotionally involved with Molly has parallels with Harry's warning to Tom and getting emotionally involved with Christine.

* HilariousInHindsight: Stefan, a DoubleAgent, is played by Creator/PeterFirth -- who later went on to play [[TheSpymaster Sir Harry Pierce]] in ''Series/{{Spooks}}''.

* CompleteMonster: Mattias Targo is a bloodthirsty Romanian general and ''an actual vampire'' who is implied to be the reincarnation of UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler -- meaning that to all intents and purposes, he's {{Dracula}}. Targo liberates a prisoner-of-war camp full of Austrian soldiers just so he can either transform them into members of his vampire army or just kill them by impaling them on stakes around his castle. When three foreign spies investigate his affairs, Targo kills them and sends their body parts back to their superiors as a grisly warning. When more spies (including Indy) show up, Targo has gruesome designs for them and actually vivisecting one of them while he's still alive. A sadist who's so in love with his brutality that he falls asleep to the sound of tortured screaming, Targo plans to have his army of the undead sweep through Romania and cleanse it in a wave of blood, slaughtering all those he decrees "intruders" onto his land.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Many a viewer may be interested in this episode purely because it's the one where Franchise/IndianaJones takes on {{Dracula}}.

* CompleteMonster: Mattias Targo is a bloodthirsty Romanian general and a literal vampire who is all but explicitly stated to be the reincarnation of UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, meaning that to all intents and purposes, he's {{Dracula}}. Targo liberates an Austrian POW Camp simply to murder all of the soldiers being held captive there, either to transform them into members of his vampire army or simply leave them staked around his castle. When three foreign spies investigate his affairs, Targo kills them and sends their body parts back to their superiors as a grisly warning. Targo later kidnaps Indy and his allies with gruesome designs for them, vivisecting one of them alive and screaming. A sadistic nightmare so in love with his brutality that he falls asleep to the sound of tortured screaming, Targo plans to have his army of the undead sweep through Romania and cleanse it in a wave of blood, slaughtering all those he decrees "intruders" onto his land.

* HilariousInHindsight: Stefan, a DoubleAgent, is played by Creator/PeterFirth -- who later went on to play [[TheSpymaster Sir Harry Pierce]] in ''Series/{{Spooks}}''.

* BizarroEpisode: The Transylvania part, so very much. The rest of the ''Young Indiana Jones'' series was pretty much grounded in the real world; this one ... not so much. In its original form, it was presented (via the bookend segments) as a story told by Old Indy to some children at Halloween, so there was the possibility that it was completely made up just to scare them. But the ReCut got rid of that. It does, however, feel closer in tone to the movies which often have supernatural shenanigans and goings on -- as do many of the novels and comic books in the wider Indyverse.

* BizarroEpisode: The Transylvania part, so very much. The rest of the ''Young Indiana Jones'' series was pretty much grounded in the real world; this one ... not so much. In its original form, it was presented (via the bookend segments) as a story told by Old Indy to some children at Halloween, so there was the possibility that it was completely made up just to scare them. But ReCut got rid of that. It does, however, feel closer in tone to the movies which often have supernatural shenanigans and goings on -- as do many of the novels and comic books in the wider Indyverse.

* BizarroEpisode: The Transylvania part, so very much. The rest of the ''Young Indiana Jones'' series which was pretty much grounded in the real world. In its original form, this one was presented (via the bookend segments) as a story told by Old Indy to some children at Halloween, so there was the possibility that it was completely made up just to scare them. But ReCut got rid of that. It does, however, feel closer in tone to the movies which often have supernatural shenanigans and goings on -- as do many of the novels and comic books in the wider Indyverse.

* BizarroEpisode: The Transylvania part, so very much. The rest of the ''Young Indiana Jones'' series which was pretty much grounded in the real world. In its original form, this one was presented (via the bookend segments) as a story told by Old Indy to some children at Halloween, so there was the possibility that it was completely made up just to scare them. But ReCut got rid of that. It does, however, feel closer in tone to the movies which often have supernatural shenanigans and goings on -- as do many of the novels and comic books in the wider Indyverse.

* BizarroEpisode: The Transylvania part, so very much. The rest of the ''Young Indiana Jones'' series which was pretty much grounded in the real world. In its original form, it was presented as a story by Old Indy to some children at Halloween, so there was the possibility that it was completely made up just to scare them. But ReCut got rid of that. It does, however, feel closer in tone to the movies which often have supernatural shenanigans and goings on -- as do many of the novels and comic books in the wider Indyverse.

* BizarroEpisode: The Transylvania part, so very much when compared to the rest of the ''Young Indiana Jones'' series which was pretty much grounded in the real world. In its original form, it was presented as a story by Old Indy to some children at Halloween, so there was the possibility that it was completely made up just to scare them. But ReCut got rid of that. It does, however, feel closer in tone to the movies which often have supernatural shenanigans and goings on -- as do many of the novels and comic books in the wider Indyverse.