5. What Happened To Short Round? - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
In
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the underrated rollercoaster ride of a prequel to
Raiders of the LostArk, our hero winds up in India on an adventure with two invariably irritating characters, nightclub singer Willie Scott and a little Chinese kid, whose nickname is Short Round. Once the adventure is over, though, and given that this is a prequel, we can only assume that Indy and Willie realised that they were completely wrong for one another and went their separate ways. Fine. But what about Shorty? He's absent in the next two movies! Sure, we could just assume that he went off to college or made a successful career as a Chinese film star or something, but just one year later - in the series chronologically - he's vanished. He'd still be about 10 when
Raiders of the Lost Ark takes place, and he sure as hell isn't living with Indy in that movie. Same goes for
Last Crusade - Shorty isn't even mentioned in passing dialogue. I'm not suggesting that anything bad happened to the guy (
Indy killed him), but it's always bugged me that we never got told where the heck he ended up.