10 Heroic Movie Characters Who Actually Didn't Affect The Plot

2. Indiana Jones - The Temple Of Doom

Everyone loves Indiana Jones: he saves the world, proves the existence of God, and of aliens, gets the girl (despite being a sexual deviant and chauvinist), and he makes archaeologists look an awful lot cooler than they are all while being scared of snakes. So his demographic includes at least every human who likes living, religious folk, UFO believers, fans of sex and sexists, archaeologists and wimps with big dreams.

But the man is a charlatan.

Despite having a cool hat and whip, and a barbed tongue, he is both the beneficiary of the ineptitude of stupid villains with doomed plans and profits from praise for actions that actually change very little. There are two major incidences that prove as much, and the lesser of the two comes in Temple Of Doom, when Indy manages to thwart Mola Ram's attempt to find and use the final lost magical stones he needs to take over the world by dropping them into a river.

The world is saved and Indy is proclaimed a hero, despite the fact that Mola tried to flood the mines to kill Indy earlier in the film, who had the stones on him, thus achieving exactly the same result that Indy managed when the stones are "lost forever" in the river. So Indy stops Mola and the Thugee, who almost drowns the stones himself, by drowning the stones. And it doesn't end there...