Because I have such a hard time choosing, I'm going to go ahead and choose three per movie, as the initial post doesn't appear to specifically disallow it (and we're just posting messages in an online fan forum, after all, not taking SATs or something).
As long as I'm doing that, I'll go further and say I'm choosing an
average per movie, allowing for "flow" between movie character counts, in case I just have to pick more than three from one movie or another. Finally, although this is the "Trilogy" forum, I'll choose a more inclusive approach and include both
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles for a grand total of five productions, or fifteen characters (I guess I could stretch things further and include an average of three characters for each movie or individual episode, but that'd be really unwieldy). Oh, and of course I'm omitting Indy himself, since we all know he's #1 anyway. Finally, they're listed in alphabetical order (by first name, or first word in name; for simplicity's sake I'm just going with the simplest or most familiar version of each character name and not the most complete like, say, "Marion Ravenwood / Williams / Jones" or "Professor Henry Walton Jones, Sr."), saving me from the difficulty of trying to decide upon a ranking - paring it down to fifteen is tough enough!
Charles Stanforth
Elsa Schneider
Helen Seymour
Henry Jones, Sr.
Irina Spalko
Marcus Brody
Marion Ravenwood
Mola Ram
Mutt Williams
Remy Baudouin
Rene Belloq
Sallah
Short Round
Toht
Vicky Prentiss
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