On second thoughts, it's probably for the best that this didn't happen.
We have the bookends as a sort of epilogue, where we meet Sophie (Indy's daughter), and ackowledgement that he has more still alive children in the early 1990s (meaning that he's spawned more than two (i.e. Sophie and Mutt), but the actual number (and who they are) is left up to our imagination. Such a scene in the movie would be limited to a couple of selected characters, likely picked by marketing or something, rather than creatives), we meet one of his grown grandchildren, one of his college-aged grandchildren (and a mention of a third, younger grandchild), and a couple of great-grandchildren. Maybe Mutt isn't even dead (I've seen some theories online). We didn't see him die, we didn't see the funeral. You can easily headcanon it as Mutt ending up as a POW, who gets wrongfully registered as killed in action/presumed dead, then (after the war) is among the hundreds of American POWs who gets returned. The film doesn't give us a definitive ending to Indiana Jones, that would permit no more adventures, nor an ending that would not permit Sophie (or her hinted at siblings/half-siblings) to exist.
We have the bookends as a sort of epilogue, where we meet Sophie (Indy's daughter), and ackowledgement that he has more still alive children in the early 1990s (meaning that he's spawned more than two (i.e. Sophie and Mutt), but the actual number (and who they are) is left up to our imagination. Such a scene in the movie would be limited to a couple of selected characters, likely picked by marketing or something, rather than creatives), we meet one of his grown grandchildren, one of his college-aged grandchildren (and a mention of a third, younger grandchild), and a couple of great-grandchildren. Maybe Mutt isn't even dead (I've seen some theories online). We didn't see him die, we didn't see the funeral. You can easily headcanon it as Mutt ending up as a POW, who gets wrongfully registered as killed in action/presumed dead, then (after the war) is among the hundreds of American POWs who gets returned. The film doesn't give us a definitive ending to Indiana Jones, that would permit no more adventures, nor an ending that would not permit Sophie (or her hinted at siblings/half-siblings) to exist.
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