Zalim Singh used a voodoo doll to inflict pain on Indy. Indy was then attacked by the slavemaster and Shorty attempted to protect his friend, only to be tossed aside. When Jones decided to help all the children escape, Shorty helped him fight the guards and unshackle the slaves. Hitting Indy with a torch managed to clear the effects of Kali Ma from Jones' mind, and the two fought the temple staff for freedom, subduing Chattar Lal and saving Willie. Breaking free, he tried to snap Jones out of it, and was struck by his friend. Eventually he was re-captured, and was brought to witness another of Mola Ram's gruesome ceremonies, where a converted Indy was to put Willie to death. When the guards were absent, Shorty broke his chains and attempted to escape. Shorty was shackled and forced to work in the mines below the palace, alongside the other child slaves taken from the area's villages. Short Round attempted to stop the forced conversion of his friend by attacking Zalim Singh, but failed to prevent Indy from being forced to drink the dark blood. While imprisoned briefly with Indy, Shorty learned about how the prisoners were turned into Thuggee followers through a ritual of blood drinking. After Indy went to retrieve the Sankara stones, Willie and Shorty were captured by Thuggee cultists and separated. As they explored further, they witnessed a Thuggee ceremony presided by Mola Ram. Despite her fear of the insects crawling in the chambers, Willie managed to stop the traps and save their lives. Short Round accompanied Indy into a set of secret chambers found in Willie's room, but accidentally triggered some of the lethal traps. Shorty tossed Indy his whip, which reversed the ambush. That night, Shorty awoke to find Indy being attacked by a Thuggee assassin who had seemingly emerged from a painting. Īt Pankot Palace, the trio were welcomed in and made guests, attending the Guardian of Tradition Dinner. One night on the trail, Short Round beat Jones at poker, though they both accused each other of cheating. Short Round named his elephant " Big Short Round", believing him to be the reincarnation of Chu. When Jones was given the task of recovering the town's sacred stone from Pankot Palace, Short Round and Scott accompanied him through the trek on elephant through the jungle. When the three escaped the plane crash in India, they eventually reached the village of Mayapore. Jones, and when their pilots, employed by Lao Che, abandoned the plane, Short Round calmly recognized that all the parachutes were gone while Jones attempted to fly the plane. Ī capable assistant to the adventurer, Short Round demanded that Scott call his boss Dr. Using boxes strapped to his shoes to reach the pedals, he evaded Lao Che's men and sped to the airport. When Jones and singer Willie Scott - pulled into events following Wu Han's murder - made an emergency escape from Club Obi Wan, Short Round picked them up as they dangled from an awning. Short Round served as a driver for Jones and Wu Han while the pair were in Shanghai, trying to exchange Nurhachi's ashes for the Peacock's Eye from gangster Lao Che. Fortune and glory." ―Short Round and Indiana Jones Short Round: " What is Sankara?" Indiana Jones: " Fortune and glory, kid. ĭuring their time together, Indy introduced Short Round to American baseball-and the New York Yankees-and taught him additional survival skills like how to drive despite his young age. On one occasion, the three traveled together through the Himalayas where they were assaulted by nomadic thieves during a yak ride. Rather than turn Short Round over to the authorities, Indy introduced Short Round to his friend Wu Han with Shorty becoming one of Indy's contacts in Shanghai. Joining Indiana Jones Īt the Gung Ho Bar in 1935, Short Round attempted to pickpocket a tall North American man in a fedora, only to find himself trapped by Indiana Jones's bullwhip. Li gained much of his English from watching Hollywood films at the Tai-Phung Theater as he worked in shady areas such as the opium dens on Liu Street, and assumed the nickname Short Round. However, he soon turned to the seedy streets of the Shanghai underbelly, acquiring survival instincts while working as a guide, pickpocket, and cutpurse. He was taken in by a Christian mission, where he picked up basic English and mathematics. He also had a rotund brother named Chu, but he eventually died at some point of his life. The oldest child of a steel plant foreman in Shanghai, Wan Li was orphaned when a Japanese bombing raid killed his family in January 1932.
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