Would the world have been better off without Indy?

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Posted by ROB T. from 162.10.138.197 on December 18, 1999 at 00:25:59:

I'm talking about Indy as if he were a real person here not a movie character.
If Indy had stayed home instead of going after the Ark would the world have been a better place? Consider, if Indy had let the Nazis get the Ark and take it to Hitler then Hitler would've had his face melted off just like Toht or Belloq. There never would've been a World War Two.
We can assume that even without Indy Belloq would've opened the Ark on that island and Belloq, Toht, Deitrich and the other Nazis would've been killed. But at some point more Nazis would've been sent out to find out what happened (after all, the Tannis development was a personal project of Hitler's so he wouldn't just let things slide with the mysterious disappearance of his agents).
The next batch of Nazis might have opened the Ark also and suffered the same fate but sooner or later some smart Nazi would've delivered the Ark intact to Hitler's feet. The Fuhrer would most definately have opened it. Probably in some big ceremony just like Belloq except with thousands of Nazis in attendance. They would all have been wiped out and hence no need for World War Two.

So, what do you think? Did Indy unwittingly cause World War Two?


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