The temple of doom is staffed by a pair of bored priests. Not only does Indiana Jones have the trope namer, but it also has the ancient idol resting place from the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the temple of the Grail in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and the eponymous Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.After Barks, other writers would too feature such temples and ruins. This wasn't an actual trap of the temple, in the movie, but it was in the original comic, The Prize of Pizarro, which also contained some other traps used throughout the Indiana Jones' films. The one is the introduction idol and boulder scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was taken from the Seven Cities of Cibola and the other is the water bursting through the tunnel to the canyon side, near the end of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. There are also two scenes which Indiana Jones copied from such stories, which both Lucas and Spielberg proudly admitted. Classic Carl Barks stories with Donald Duck and his relatives usually featured this as a plot device.May be part of an Advanced Ancient Acropolis, and imply a Mayincatec religion, culture or whatever.Ĭompare Ruins for Ruins Sake, Dungeon Crawling, and Landmark of Lore. Logical location for Look on My Works Ye Mighty and Despair, if the work is philosophically inclined. Named for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which serves as an obvious inspiration for these levels.
In which case, you can also expect his Mooks and a few high-tech surprises as well. Occasionally, the Temple of Doom will be co-opted by the Big Bad to use as his base, which would explain why the traps still work.
And naturally, whatever treasure you go in there to find will be found in the very spot the Giant Space Flea From Nowhere has decided to make its home.
The Temple of Doom is almost always inhabited, often by the same Mooks and monsters found in the surrounding environment-oddly, they know how to avoid every single trap in the Death Course-but you can also expect things like ghosts, skeletons, living statues and other ancient guardians.
The temple is often full of ancient yet sophisticated machines and Booby Traps that still work to lethal effect even after thousands of years without maintenance. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.Īn ancient temple or city, usually buried deep within the jungle or in the middle of the desert. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup.
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