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It is indeed, but Indy was also conceived as a character who might appear in a total of five movies over the course of perhaps a decade, or maybe a decade and a half, not four movies, a TV series, dozens of novels and comic books, numerous games, etc. over the course of three decades or more. The sort of "quintessential" Indy the character was created for has already been presented many, many times, and the longevity of the character has simply afforded greater opportunities to explore aspects of him that were never on the agenda when Lucas and Spielberg were whipping him up way back in the late '70s and early '80s.