| rdfs:comment | - Screenwriters tend to have a certain pool of references they call upon certain genres of movies to come up with an Affectionate Parody: science-fiction (Mainly May the Farce Be with You and Where No Parody Has Gone Before for Star Wars and Star Trek, respectively, as well as Jurassic Park), fantasy (The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Dungeons and Dragons), and mystery and spy adventure (particularly James Bond). As commonplace as the aforementioned subgenres of parodies is one that seemingly sprang up to immense popularity among screenwriters since movie titans Steven Spielberg and George Lucas teamed up and created a dream project for New Year's Day 1981. Like Lucas's previous mega-hit, Star Wars, the Indiana Jones franchise has been subjected towards numerous parodies and homages o
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| abstract | - Screenwriters tend to have a certain pool of references they call upon certain genres of movies to come up with an Affectionate Parody: science-fiction (Mainly May the Farce Be with You and Where No Parody Has Gone Before for Star Wars and Star Trek, respectively, as well as Jurassic Park), fantasy (The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Dungeons and Dragons), and mystery and spy adventure (particularly James Bond). As commonplace as the aforementioned subgenres of parodies is one that seemingly sprang up to immense popularity among screenwriters since movie titans Steven Spielberg and George Lucas teamed up and created a dream project for New Year's Day 1981. Like Lucas's previous mega-hit, Star Wars, the Indiana Jones franchise has been subjected towards numerous parodies and homages over the years, some of them downright nasty, others that pay a rather touching tribute to the quadrilogy, specifically Raiders of the Lost Ark, the most easily recognizable and famous film of the franchise, and where this trope gets its name. The common elements that a majority of these parodies contain include:
* Extremely deadly and often insanely-designed booby traps that seem impossible to overcome.
* A giant rolling ball of doom, straight from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
* A face-melting scene
* An idol-swap scene.
* A Hot-Blooded, Badass Adventure Archaeologist with a cynical and snarky take on the universe, an Omniglot who is deadly in hand-to-hand as well as firearm combat. Typically wears a fedora and carries a bullwhip around with him and daylights as a college professor.
* Said Adventure Archaeologist also has a tendency, in these parodies, to use his whip for almost every situation.
* A MacGuffin that can range from something as mundane as a pencil to as important as a religious artifact with supernatural powers (i.e. The Ark Of The Covenant), something that proves unwise to tamper with.
* A love interest or female companion that, most of the time, is shrill, irritable, and annoying.
* Human foes that include natives or Nazis.
* Extreme, over-the-top violence (in the darker parodies).
* A score similar to John Williams's iconic Raiders March.
* A plot, if said parody goes beyond the iconic scenes in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, or Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, that tends to get pretty crazy and ridiculously over-the-top.
* A "map with constantly moving red line superimposed on stock footage of various modes of transportation and famous landmarks" sequence to indicate where the characters are going next. A subtrope of Stock Parodies. Can lead to the Weird Al Effect due to the easily recognizable traits shared with both the film and the numerous parodies. Examples of Raiders of the Lost Parody include:
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