Shouldn't Indy have cancer?


Indy was involved in a nuclear explosion in the previous film. Wouldn't the radiation have caused him to develop cancer by the time of Dial of Destiny?

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Ignoring all the silliness with the lead lined refrigerator, did the physicists who observed the Trinity detonation develop cancer en masse?

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Shouldn't he have had gotten injured from getting pulled on a rope by a speeding car in Raiders?
Shouldn't he have had broken bones from jumping out of an airplane thousands of feet in the air onto a raft in Temple of Doom?
See what I did there. He survives ridiculous things before so why not a nuclear bomb?

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Well he drank from the grail and even tho he had to remain in the temple to be immortal it probably still protected him from stuff like that

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I like how in the scene in the cave, he complains to Helena about his age and the punishment he has been through in life. Seemed to neglect mentioning experiencing a nuclear bomb which is quite a biggie.

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He was decontaminated.

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Yup. Plus he wa pretty old. So he'll probably die of old age before he gets cancer. Lol

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Not everyone who is exposed to radiation will necessarily get cancer.

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Would you like him to have cancer?

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When I ask myself - "Would I rather have watched a film about Indy suffering terminal cancer and coming to terms with his mortality - rather than Dial of Destiny?" -- I honestly have to call it a toss-up. Dial of Destiny is such a mediocre piece of "product" that I only remember fragments of it, and not one single thing impressed me positively.

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The TC hates both the 4th one and this one and wishes they both didn't exist.

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