For folks who don't want to click, the argument is Indiana Jones didn't have an impact on the outcome of the story; the Nazis still would have found the arc and

For folks who don't want to click, the argument is Indiana Jones didn't have an impact on the outcome of the story; the Nazis still would have found the arc and died in the end. It's an amusing idea, but I've always thought it was weird to call it a problem with the movie, as it would apply to the protagonist in a bunch of movies (spoilers abound in this extremely random assortment of movies off the top of my head): * If Kurt Russel's character hadn't been in The Thing, everything that happened still would have happened * If Harry and Sally hadn't been in When Harry Met Sally, New York would still be Yorking * If Florence Pugh's character hadn't gone to Sweden in Midsommar, the tourists still would have died * If Richard Dreyfuss's character hadn't been in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the aliens still would have made contact, dropped off their old passengers, and picked up new passengers * If Scott Pilgrim hadn't been in Scott Pilgrim, everyone would probably still just be hanging out more or less the same * If Matt Damon's character hadn't been in The Martian, they would have all still ended up back on Earth * If Rocky Balboa hadn't been in Rocky, probably two other people would have boxed and one of them would have won To each their own, but for my money good stories are about character journeys, not about... I dunno, like, an accounting of what changed during the movie.