Indiana Jones took quite a licking over the course of three good movies and one movie we’ll kindly rate as two monkey armies on a scale of one to five monkey armies. How on Earth (or in some extra-dimensional space between the spaces) did he survive all of that, particularly the part in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull when he climbed into a lead-lined refrigerator at a nuclear test site, was flung several hundred feet in a nuclear detonation, and somehow survived the heat, radiation, and severe jostling with no serious injuries?
Steven Spielberg later took the blame for the “nuking the fridge” scene (and blamed George Lucas for the aliens), but Lucas said the nuked fridge was his responsibility, and “a lot of scientists” (but definitely not this one) told them Indy’s chance of surviving that hypothetical batsh*t scenario was “50-50” (never tell him the odds).
Now there’s a much more plausible explanation for how Indiana Jones could survive surfing a nuclear blast inside a refrigerator, and it all goes right back to The Last Crusade.
In a fan theory posted on Reddit (and credited to another Redditor), That_Secret_Chord posits “Indiana Jones drinking from the Holy Grail helped him survive unlikely scenarios, most notably the infamous fridge scene.”
If that water in the cup of Christ was able to instantly heal his father’s bullet wound, could him initially sipping from the cup to test it have granted him an unusually hearty constitution, perhaps a greatly expanded lifespan and vitality? Well, Harrison Ford can seemingly bounce back from any injury, becoming the highest-grossing actor and hanging out with M.C. Hammer til the early morning hours.
“But,” you may be asking, “Aren’t you confusing Harrison Ford the person with Indiana Jones the character?” Shush, you. It’s true. All of it.
(Via Reddit and The Mary Sue)