Indy is almost too smart
When we think of Indy, we think of the adventurer. The action hero. But we tend to forget that, in his day job, Indy is a very famous and successful professor and archeologist. As such he kind of knows… everything. It’s a bit of a trick but his smarts make it believable that he knows every legend, every language, almost anything he needs to know in a particular scene. This continues to be a fact we’ve just come to accept about the character.
