As; "The Big Bang Theory" Pointed Out There Is A Glaring Plothole In; "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" (1981).

https://www.tmz.com/2025/09/12/charlie-kirk-shooting-person-of-interest-in-custody-donald-trump/

In that the heroic central character, Indiana Jones, is completely immaterial to the story.

Without him the Bible thumping Nazis still recover the Ark of the Covenant, in a place which clearly isn't Utah. They still open it and all die. Leaving it to be studied by America's top, top people.