In the 1984 film *Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom*, several characters meet violent ends, ranging from main antagonists to nameless henchmen. Below are the notable deaths and the specific details of how they occur.
### **Major Named Characters**
* **Wu Han (Indy’s friend):** At the start of the film in Club Obi Wan (Shanghai), Wu Han is disguised as a waiter to assist Indiana Jones during a deal with the gangster Lao Che. While Indy is distracted by being poisoned, **Chen** (one of Lao Che's sons) shoots Wu Han in the chest with a concealed pistol. Wu Han dies in Indy’s arms shortly after.
* **Chen (Lao Che’s son):** Moments after Wu Han is shot, Indiana Jones retaliates despite the poison in his system. He grabs a **flaming skewer of pigeon flambé** from a serving tray and hurls it across the table into Chen’s chest. The impact and the fire kill him, and his final involuntary muscle spasm causes him to fire his gun into the air, sparking a panic in the club.
* **The Thuggee Chief Guard (the Slave Master):** During the escape from the mines, Indy fights the massive Chief Guard (played by Pat Roach) on a moving conveyor belt leading into a **giant rock crusher**. During the struggle, the guard's red sash/uniform becomes caught in the gears of the machine. Despite Indy's brief, instinctive attempt to pull him free, the machinery is too powerful, and the guard is pulled into the crusher and killed.
* **Mola Ram (The High Priest):** In the film’s climax on the rope bridge, Indiana Jones invokes the power of the Hindu god Shiva, causing the stolen **Sankara Stones** to glow and burn through Indy’s satchel. As the stones fall, Mola Ram desperately tries to catch one. The stone burns his hand, causing him to lose his grip on the bridge. He falls into the crocodile-infested river below, where he is **devoured by crocodiles**.
### **Secondary or Unnamed Characters**
* **The Sacrifice Victim:** In one of the film's most infamous scenes, an unnamed man is sacrificed to Kali. Mola Ram magically **reaches into the man's chest and pulls out his still-beating heart**. While still alive, the man is lowered in a cage into a **pool of molten lava**, where he is incinerated.
* **Thuggee Assassin in Indy's Bedroom:** At Pankot Palace, an assassin attempts to strangle Indy with a sash. Indy uses his whip to snag the assassin’s neck and loops the other end over a **large ceiling fan**. When the fan is turned on, it yanks the assassin upward, hanging him and breaking his neck.
* **Chattar Lal (The Prime Minister):** While his fate is slightly ambiguous in the final cut (a scene of his clear death was deleted), he is seen being **fatally crushed** by the large winch wheel that controls the sacrifice cage during his fight with Indy. In the novelization and the original script, he falls into the lava, but in the movie, he simply disappears after being crushed by the machinery.
* **The Shanghai Henchmen:** During the car chase through Shanghai, one of Lao Che’s henchmen is shot by Indy. Later, the pilots of the cargo plane dump the fuel and parachute away, leaving the plane to crash into a mountain; however, the pilots themselves do not die on screen.
### **Generic Casualties**
* **Thuggee Guards and Priests:** Numerous Thuggee guards are killed during the mine-cart chase (by crashing carts), the battle in the temple (knocked into lava), and the bridge sequence. When Indy cuts the rope bridge, several guards fall to their deaths or are eaten by crocodiles. Additionally, the British Indian Army soldiers (led by Captain Blumburtt) arrive at the end and shoot several Thuggee guards who are attempting to fire on Indy from the cliffs.
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