10 Best Times Star Wars Appeared In Other Movies

8. Indiana Jones

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With both franchises having George Lucas as a creative spearhead, it would be a genuine shock if the Indiana Jones movies didn't pay homage to Star Wars in some small way, but fortunately, they do.

The most famous of these homages is found in Raiders of the Lost Ark, with a pair of R2-D2 and C-3PO hieroglyphs appearing right next to Indy when he and Sallah first uncover the Ark of the Covenant.

There's another, lesser-known nod at the start of the movie too, with the text "OB-CPO" emblazoned on the side of Jock's airplane at the end of the opening sequence - a shoutout to Obi-Wan Kenobi and C-3PO.

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Temple of Doom continued to dish out the Star Wars goodness, with the club that Willie sings at being called "Club Obi Wan", while the sound effect used for the crashing plane's engine failure is the same sound effect heard in The Empire Strikes Back, when the Millennium Falcon's hyperdrive fails.

And finally, while The Last Crusade is surprisingly light on Star Wars nods, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has Indy utter the iconic line "I've got a bad feeling about this", which has been spoken in almost every single Star Wars flick to date.

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