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Characters

Lego Indiana Jones has over 75 unlockable characters. As you play through the Story Mode, each level will have preset playable characters to join Indy in his adventures. These will correspond with the movies. For example, Marion will join you for the appropriate Raiders levels and Dr Henry Jones will for Last Crusade missions. Each character that is assigned to you and playable in the story mode levels will be unlocked automatically when you complete the level. Then in Free Play Mode you can take any of these unlocked characters into any of the completed missions for a second play through. For example, if you complete a Temple of Doom story level that features Short Round in your party, you can then use him in Raiders levels during Free Play Mode.

Similarly, most of the enemies and evil bad guy's that you encounter in Story Mode will be unlocked once you complete the mission in which they make their first appearance in. However, just because you unlock them, doesn't mean you automatically get to use them in Free Play Mode. Once they are unlocked, you will need to spend the Studs you collect to purchase these characters to play as.

Why play through levels again in Free Play Mode and why spend Studs on purchasing different characters? First off, who doesn't want to play as Mola Ram from the Temple of Doom? Secondly, each level has areas that you can't reach with the preset characters of Story Mode. These areas generally contain Hidden Artifacts or Parcels needed to complete the game to 100% and unlock fun cheats.

How do characters do this? Characters can have any number of Special Abilities in the game. These abilities range in their effect from simple digging to being able to gaining access to strictly enemy areas. Various characters may also have a weapon in which they start with and have unlimited ammo for. True adventurers will venture back into levels with a variety of different characters and abilities to hunt down every last treasure it has to offer.

• Academic: This ability allows characters to translate glyphs which then turns into a short memory mini-game. Characters like Henry Jones Sr. and Brody have this ability at all times. Other characters however can find blue books which will allow them to access these areas as well.
• Excavate: A few characters come equipped with a shovel that allows them to dig up hidden items. Be on the lookout for sparkling ground. Other characters can pick up shovel from around a level and use it to dig as well.
• Explosives: Some characters (mainly various bad guys) come equipped with explosives like hand grenades or bazookas. These characters have an infinite number of these while other characters who find this stuff around a level will only have a limited supply.
• Glass Shattering: A few characters have the ability to shatter glass.
• High Jump: All female characters have the ability to jump a lot higher then males.
• Mechanics: Some characters come equipped with wrenches. These can be used to fix smoking machines to bring them back to life. Other characters can pick wrenches to do the same thing.
• Small Access: Only a couple characters have this ability, like Short Round. You will find various small holes in the walls that only characters with this ability can crawl through. A tunnel like this will generally lead them to another area that was unreachable to the other characters.
• Soldier Access: Certain areas of the game can only be accessed by enemy soldiers. There will be a grey plate on a wall with an enemy symbol on it. Knock on this plate and a soldier will pop out to inspect you and clear you. Other characters can pick high ranking soldier hats to also gain access to these places.
• Thuggee Access: Certain areas of the game can only be accessed by Thuggee Cult members. You will find various Thuggee statues through out the game. Thuggee characters will automatically gain access to the hidden areas while other characters will need to find a Thuggee headdress to get past.

Characters
Name	Weapon	Skill	Cost
Bandit	N/A	Digging	15,000
Bandit Swordsman	N/A	Glass Breaking	25,000
Barranca	Pistol	N/A	18,000
Bazooka Trooper (Crusade)	Bazooka	Soldier Access, Glass Breaking and Explosives	30,000
Bazooka Trooper (Raiders)	Bazooka	Soldier Access, Glass Breaking and Explosives	30,000
Belloq	N/A	Academic Access	50,000
Belloq (Jungle)	N/A	Academic Access	50,000
Belloq (Robes)	N/A	N/A	50,000
Boy Scout	N/A	N/A	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
British Commander	Pistol	N/A	30,000
British Officer	Pistol	N/A	25,000
British Soldier	Pistol	N/A	18,000
Brody	N/A	Academic Access	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Captain Katanga	N/A	Repairs	18,000
Chatter Lal	N/A	Thuggee Access	40,000
Chatter Lal (Thuggee)	N/A	Thuggee Access	40,000
Chen	Machine Gun	N/A	18,000
Colonel Dietrich	Pistol	Soldier Access	50,000
Colonel Vogel	Pistol	Soldier Access	50,000
Dancing Girl	N/A	High Jump	27,500
Donovan	N/A	Academic Access	50,000
Elsa	N/A	Academic Access and High Jump	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Elsa (Desert)	N/A	Academic Access and High Jump	15,000
Elsa (Officer)	N/A	Academic Access and High Jump	15,000
Enemy Boxer	N/A	N/A	25,000
Enemy Butler	N/A	N/A	15,000
Enemy Guard	Pistol	Soldier Access	18,000
Enemy Guard (Mountains)	Pistol	Soldier Access	30,000
Enemy Officer	Hand Grenade	Soldier Access, Explosives and Glass Shattering	30,000
Enemy Officer (Desert)	Hand Grenade	Soldier Access, Explosives and Glass Shattering	30,000
Enemy Pilot	Pistol	N/A	25,000
Enemy Radio Operator	Pistol	Soldier Access	25,000
Enemy Soldier	Pistol	Soldier Access	18,000
Fedora	Pistol	N/A	25,000
First Mate	N/A	Repairs	12,500
Grail Knight	Sword	Glass Shattering	100,000
Henry Jones	N/A	Academic Access	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Hovitos Tribesman	Spear	Glass Shattering	18,000
Indiana Jones	Whip	N/A	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Indiana Jones (Army Disguise)	Whip	Soldier Access	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Indiana Jones (Desert)	Whip	N/A	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Indiana Jones (Desert Disguise)	Whip	N/A	27,500
Indiana Jones (Dinner Suit)	Whip	N/A	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Indiana Jones (Kali)	Whip	N/A	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Indiana Jones (Officer)	Whip	N/A	18,500
Indiana Jones (Professor)	Whip	N/A	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Jock	N/A	Repairs	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Jungle Guide	Pistol	N/A	18,000
Kao Kan	Machine Gun	N/A	25,000
Kazim	Pistol	N/A	30,000
Kazim (Desert)	Pistol	N/A	30,000
Lao Che	Machine Gun	N/A	19,000
Maharajah	N/A	Thuggee Access and Small Access	40,000
Major Toht	Pistol	Soldier Access	50,000
Marion	N/A	High Jump	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Marion (Cairo)	N/A	High Jump	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Marion (Evening Dress)	N/A	High Jump	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Marion (Nightgown)	N/A	High Jump	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Masked Bandit	Sword	Glass Shattering	18,000
Mola Ram	N/A	Thuggee Access	50,000
Monkey Man	N/A	N/A	27,500
Pankot Assassin	Sword	Glass Shattering	25,000
Pankot Guard	Spear	Glass Shattering	18,000
Sallah (Desert)	N/A	Digging	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Sallah (Fez)	N/A	Digging	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Satipo	N/A	Digging	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Sherpa Brawler	Pistol	N/A	18,000
Sherpa Gunner	Machine Gun	N/A	25,000
Short Round	N/A	Small Access	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Slave Child	N/A	Small Access	3,000
Thuggee	Sword	Thuggee Access and Glass Shattering	18,000
Thuggee Acolyte	N/A	Thuggee Access	30,000
Thuggee Slave Driver	N/A	Thuggee Access	18,000
Village Dignitary	N/A	N/A	15,000
Village Elder	N/A	N/A	15,000
Willie	N/A	High Jump and Glass Shattering	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Willie (Ceremony)	N/A	High Jump and Glass Shattering	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Willie (Dinner Suit)	N/A	High Jump and Glass Shattering	15,000
Willie (Evening Dress)	N/A	High Jump and Glass Shattering	15,000
Willie (Pajamas)	N/A	High Jump and Glass Shattering	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.
Wu Han	Machine Gun	N/A	20,000
Young Indy	Whip	N/A	Unlocks automatically in Story Mode.