Emmerich Voss

CHARACTER
Emmerich Voss
Gender	Male
Birth	c. 1895 Germany
Death	c. November 15, 1937 Aboard Noah's Ark, Lake Hammar, Iraq
Nationality	German
Profession(s)	Archaeologist SS-Sturmbannführer
Allegiance(s)	Nazis Third Reich Special Antiquities Collection

"Let me tell you what are you missing, Dr. Jones. While you were playing your pointless game, I was playing you."

―Emmerich Voss to Indiana Jones

Sturmbannführer Emmerich Voss was a German archaeologist for the Third Reich Special Antiquities Collection and a Schutzstaffel (SS) officer within the ranks of the Nazi Party.

An old rival of his American counterpart Indiana Jones, by the time the two reunited around October 1937, Voss' pre-existing narcissism and obsession with psychoanalysis had coalesced around a dangerous and total dedication to the "power" of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.

He sought the combined teleportation ability of seventeen sacred stones linked via a Great Circle so that the Nazis could launch instantaneous blitzkrieg attacks anywhere in the world, but he overreached and his actions invited divine judgment while on board an ancient vessel, initiating a second Great Flood that became his undoing at Locus' hands.

Biography

Early life

"Remember: Emmerich Voss - with two M's and two S's. Like SS."

―Emmerich Voss

Born in Germany around 1895, Emmerich Voss was a student of Austrian physician Sigmund Freud's work and eventually applied the neurologist's observations to his own methodology, retaining a copy of The Interpretation of Dreams even though the book was banned during Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

An archaeologist, Voss was acquainted enough with his American counterpart Indiana Jones that the pair had conversed more than once which Voss had found useful but there was no love lost between them. Where Jones saw a sloppy amateur, Voss dismissed his opposite as a fraud, the gulf between them only widening when Voss embraced Nazism. Voss once gave a lecture in Vienna which Indy was present for only to later claim that he fell asleep during it.

Voss became a Nazi officer with the rank of major within the Schutzstaffel (SS) for the Third Reich Special Antiquities Collection. Around 1936, Voss learned that French mercenary René Emile Belloq had stolen an idol (which he mistook for an Ashinákan piece instead of a Chachapoyan one) from Jones and that his American rival had later found the Ark of the Covenant.

The Great Circle

Towards the latter half of 1936, Emmerich Voss learned of a power connected to the Great Circle, accessed through the abilities of seventeen stone artifacts hidden around the world, through an ancient scroll he uncovered in a tomb in North Africa concerning "forbidden stones". With Hitler's secured funding, Voss launched Operation Großer Kreis, an extensive series of excavations on a global scale to acquire them. By that point, however, the majority of the pieces had been unearthed by agents of the Vatican and stored away within the Holy See's secret archive. Nevertheless, he was confident that the modern Nazi military machine could efficiently and quickly secure the remaining artifacts where the Vatican had taken centuries to establish their incomplete collection. As noted by a German newspaper that got his name wrong, Voss' ambition on archaeology's science and its potential for the glory of Nazi Germany in the same way of the Roman Empire's magnificence, the powerful Mongolian hordes and the Persian wealth intrigued Hitler enough to finance the expedition, but Voss refused to give any comments to the public about what the operation would consist, being confidential.

In March 1937, Voss' expedition to Machu Picchu in Cuzco, Peru was funded and the Nazi archaeologist enlisted, whether by coercion or voluntarily, the help of Doctor Laura Lombardi for her expertise in ancient languages. The excavation uncovered the Earthsplitter Relic and a top secret experiment took place in May on board the KMS Kummetz off the Peruvian coast to tap into the stone's power despite Dr. Lombardi's reluctance, as Captain Konrad Alrichter threatened to report her to Voss if she refused to carry out the experiment. Observing from a safe distance aboard a nearby ship as reported by Captain Theodor Engel, Voss watched as the entire battleship and its crew disappeared. Teleported with the Kummetz and lost among the frozen peaks of the Himalayas, Lombardi realized that the Third Reich needed to be kept from reuniting the Great Circle artifacts and refused the recreate the experiment, perishing with the other survivors in the process around May.

Around July 15, Voss formed an uneasy alliance with Wehrmacht colonel Viktor Gantz, assigned alongside his regiment to protect the operation from outside interference (though it would later be suspected that the Führer had actually tasked him as one of his most loyal friends with keeping Voss in check). While Gantz was skeptical of occultism, Voss was able to manipulate him into being a useful ally while tolerating Gantz's "stunning incompetence" out of respect for their Führer.

That summer, through sheer coincidence, Indiana Jones found a Cat Mummy in Siwa, unaware that it held the Bearer Relic within and returned with the idol to Marshall College. Meanwhile, as his worldwide expedition continued, Voss wrote to journalist Marya Smirnova requesting an interview. Unwilling to entertain a puff piece, Smirnova "thanked" Voss for his letter but "respectfully" declined under the excuse that she was too busy while criticizing Voss for calling himself the "most important archaeologist of the world", responding that even Jones wouldn't get such treatment and laughing off Voss for calling her friend a fraud, pointing out that the American archaeologist's achievements were far greater in comparison while Voss' at the very least could be counted with a "cut hand".

At some point, Voss' operations in Giza uncovered a giant of a man trying to protect the local stone relic from being discovered. However, the Nazis subdued and captured him. Voss realized that the man was wearing a pendant which indicated that he was working for an agency within the Vatican and moved to follow its trail back there.

Around early October, Hitler ally and Fascist Italy's Il Duce Prime Minister Benito Mussolini met with Father Cesare Ventura, a close associate and highly-positioned Vatican City priest. When the Pope suddenly took ill, Ventura occupied the power vacuum among the clergy and, with Mussolini's Blackshirts, launched a purge of supposed Communist materials which was largely an elaborate front to give Voss access to the Vatican Secret Archive. While waiting for Voss' arrival, Father Nicoletti found an original 12th century copy of the Secretum Secretorum hidden at Villa Pia and wrote to Father Luis, one of Ventura's closest allies, to give it Ventura so he could give it to Voss to assist him, unaware that their document was a forgery.

Emmerich Voss with the Bearer Relic.

Eventually, Laura's sister Gina Lombardi, a resistance journalist and passionate anti-Fascist, investigating the whereabouts of her missing sibling learned enough to connect Voss to the disappearance and began looking into the Nazi archaeologist's activities. She and Indiana Jones—who had gotten involved in the search after the Cat Mummy was taken to Vatican City by Locus—observed Voss meeting with Mussolini and Ventura, witnessing how Voss destroyed the Cat Mummy to reveal the Bearer Relic inside. When the priest realized that Voss' presence was to loot part of the archive rather than simply view its collection, what little resistance Ventura displayed was neutralized when the Nazi analyzed him and threatened to expose his scandalous, unchaste proclivities to the public. Also during his stay, Voss got introduced by Ventura to Professor Aldrich Savage and his apprentice Sidney, who had gotten their excavation at the Apostolic Palace shut down by Ventura, so Voss invited them to come with him back to Giza. With the Vatican's incomplete set of Great Circle artifacts in hand, Voss departed on board a zeppelin with his guests which Jones and Lombardi soon infiltrated.

Upon returning to Giza with the Bearer Relic, Voss was harshly received by Gantz, who reminded him theorically about his authority in the excavation site and threatened to shoot Voss if he didn't hand him anything to present to Hitler upon being taunted over his capabilities. Undeterred, Voss didn't relent and requested Gantz to interrogate their giant prisoner so he could teach him how to do it upon his failure, causing Gantz to threaten to burn down the whole site before spitting on the archaeologist's face. Laughing, Voss admitted that the priests of his trip had been as tiresome as the colonel and simply took his car to his office to supervise the excavation before telling Gantz to take another ride, leaving him behind while telling his bodyguard Bertram Bergmann how he had manipulated the insecure Wehrmatch officer.

As Voss took back his position as head of the Nazi excavation in Giza, excavation chief Adalbert Engel prepared a report about the progress on the Pyramid of Queen Mother Khentkawes I, noting that while the zone had been cartographed exhaustively and efficiently quickly by the workers, technical problems caused by the hydraulic perforation had complicated matters and interrupted momentarily the task. On October 21, Voss signed a special approval of weapons to Captain Franz Jäger of the Archäologische Kampftruppe to equip his SS troops with close-range lethal weaponry to oppose any type of resistance in narrow tunnels or small spaces due to the operation involving exploration of unexplored and very dangerous environments. That same day, Voss had his safe's gold stolen by Anton Ritter and Wolfgang Schwartz, two rogue soldiers who hide his stolen goods in a secluded ancient Egyptian tomb away from the main excavation sites so they could later come back for it, but the former got rid of the latter after Schwartz expressed regret for betraying his superior. Two days later, Wagner and his men traced hieroglyphics and decorations of giants from a mural of a small temple discovered by Schnecke and prepared them for Voss to study them to see if they had any relationship with the Dream Stele. In one of his excations to find one of the steles, Voss found a chest whose research indicated that it was made during the Fourth Dynasty in Egypt and it could only be opened with three keys according to a medieval manuscript written by a German occultist, which were "scattered throughout the divine work" like a Roman tomb situated under a Vatican necropolis, at the hands of a rich Shanghai, China businessman and somewhere in Guiza, asking Möller to stay at his post with his instructions guarding the chest, which was later filled with dynamite for unknown reasons. Voss' irresponsible and destructive excavation methods also disturbed Professor Savage and Sidney, so the British archaeologist expressed his disgust at them and requested their transfer back to London unless Voss wanted a "diplomatic incident" at Cairo's British Embassy, resulting in Voss firing them and Sidney's imprisonment by the Wehrmatch.

Things almost came to a head between Voss and Gantz sometime after his return to Egypt when Voss learnt that Gantz had killed their giant prisoner during his interrogation. The colonel exploded into a rage when Voss described his actions as being tantamount to treason but even while pinned down with a gun to his head, Voss was not intimidated by a display that he reduced to being a limp attempt at domination, even mimicking an ape to annoy Gantz. Their priorities changed, however, when an eavesdropping Jones and Gina Lombardi suddenly fell through the ceiling. With Gantz incapacitated, Jones and Lombardi held Voss at gunpoint. Voss proceeded to taunt Jones over his issues with women and his father, as well as insisting to Gina that her sister had joined of her own volition. The American archaeologist recognized that Voss was trying to play him but on seeing the ancient tattooed markings on the body of the giant, he unwittingly allowed Voss to steer him through to the conclusion that the images were Adamic, the legendary first language given to humanity by God. All of which bought enough time for Gantz to recover. In the confusion that followed, Jones broke Voss' nose but when Gina accidentally knocked herself out while aiming at Gantz, the Wehrmacht colonel thought Voss had personally saved his life, feeling that he was in Voss' debt and quickly becoming a more useful instrument for the Nazi archaeologist, who assured him he was loyal to the Third Reich just like him and requested him to shackle their prisoners just as Jones, now recovered with Lombardi, knocked them out with a chair, proceeding to leave them unsconscious there.

Voss and his men soon found Jones buried up to the neck by the Egyptian desert in possession of the Giza stone and taunted him over being outsmarted. Putting himself face to face with the man after laughing at him with his men for not knowing the "real purpose" of archaeology, Voss assessed the archaeologist to be wondering if he should have built a life of meaning instead of meeting his end in Africa's lands. In response, Jones headbutted the Nazi in his bandaged nose, to which Gantz kicked Jones in the skull for hurting his superior. It was at that moment that Voss was notified by his men that the distress signal of the Kummetz had been received from Nepal, so Gantz offered to go to the Himalayas to retrieve the Earthsplitter Relic from there. Playing with Gantz's insecurities, Voss acted as if he didn't want to send his most valuable man in such a lethal mission, but Gantz insisted to do so for the Fatherland, to which Voss accepted by telling Gantz that it would gain the admiration of both him and Hitler. Gantz and his men proceeded to leave just as Voss commented to Bergmann how easy it was to manipulate Gantz. Voss then took the relic, mockingly gave Indy his fedora back for the heat left his rival to fend off the harsh climate and a small cyclone of scorpions until Gina and Dame Nawal Shafiq-Barclay came to his rescue.

As Gantz and his forces went after the Earthsplitter to the Himalayas, Voss and his men went to Sukhothai, Siam, where they reunited with Mussolini's men, as an expeditionary force had been deployed there by Il Duce himself to keep assisting Voss in excavating the zone's ruins to find the remaining stones. His arrival wasn't particularly welcome as a recent flash flood had ravaged the area, raising the river levels and complicating the dig, not to mention the conflict between the Siamese government and the Tigers rebel groupled by Pailin Chaladphukhealom. However, Voss and Mussolini made a deal with an unnamed, corrupt general of the Royal Siamese Army with Fascist sympathies so their forces could enter Sukhothai and pillage their ruins in exchange of generous bribes of golden bars and their Nazi/Fascist forces stamping out the rebels for him. Undeservedly complicating the lives of the already stressed local population, Voss proceeded to excavate the Wat Mahathat, but weeks of digging turned up nothing. At some point, Voss hired Annika Lund, a Sweddish archaeologist who had been Indiana Jones' student at Marshall, hence why Voss recruited her upon learning that fact.

In early November, for which by the time his nose had already healed as he no longer had any bandages, Voss visited the Khaimuk Sakskit village to talk through a translator to Uncle Sunan, the village's headman, who offered him and his men accomodations at his huts by the river, but Voss made it clear they were only there for a short visit and said sarcastically that maybe next time would accept the invitation before stating that the Tigers had destroyed a large shipment of their gifts to the general, with one of them having been spotted at his village yesterday. Sunan told him that he hadn't seen any rebels and that if he saw any, he would tell him, but Voss warned him that the rebels were delaying his excavation for something very important and that if he wanted him and his men to leave, then he should stop the rebels. Sunan insisted they only wanted to live in peace and someone with Voss' keen intellect would understand, to which Voss agreed so he told him to have a good night and just asked to get those "savages" off his back, unaware that during all that time, Indiana Jones and Gina Lombardi, who had survived their encounter with Gantz after being transported with the Earthsplitter with him to Shanghai, China, where they managed to escape unlike Voss' enforcer from a battle in the middle of the Second Sino-Japanese War, had been under him with Pailin and a fellow rebel aboard a canoe, spying them below the hut in the river.

Over the following days, Jones and Lombardi disrupted Voss' operations without him knowing about their survivals, stealing his golden bribes to the general or even got the Idol of Yaksha from Lund after a failed attempt on swaying her out from his side, as Voss' hold on Lund had proved to be too strong. However, when Jones managed to retrieve the Wavebreaker Relic only to come across Locus threatening Lombardi's life if he didn't surrender the pieces in his possession, Voss revealed himself and his men upon laughing at their encounter, holding the trio at gunpoint, mockingly agreeing with Locus that Jones was a pathetic little man. Realizing what had become of Gantz, Voss admitted that he had a feeling Gantz would die for the Fatherland and mocked his devotion for the Fuhrer before mockingly asking Gina if she and Laura had a sweet reunion in the Himalayas, with Gina's insult of asking him to go to Hell revealing to him that Laura didn't survive, to which Voss sarcastically expressed his disappointment and said he was growing quite fond of her before proceeding to point at them with his gun and order his men to fire, ordering his men to spend all of their bullets on their targets. Subsequently, Jones, Lombardi and Locus covered themselves with a stone slab, blocked their way with some rocks and tried to escape aboard a boat while the Tigers stalled Voss and his men in combat, prompting Voss to steal a rifle from one of his men to defend himself. However, the chase through Sukhothai's rivers ended up with their boat exploding, separating the trio in a way that Gina got captured by Voss' men. Meeting again, Voss mocked Gina's swimming abilities, to which she replied Laura must have despised him and how did he get her to work with him, so Voss again implied he had gotten Laura voluntarely to work with him by arousing her relentless research obsession, remarking that she would compromise her principles for the opportunity to indulge on her fascinations, even their lives. Incensed, Gina tried to hit Voss but was stopped, with Voss calling her gullible, which earned him a disgusted knee to the groin that made him cough and admit that maybe he only bend Laura's will by threatening something greatly valuable to her like her family, mockingly yelling that family is everything to get on Gina's nerves before leaving, having his men take Gina away while furiously ordering them to find Jones immediately.

Eventually, all interested parties who had survived the chase for the remaining Great Circle pieces confronted each other at the Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq, the resting place of Noah's Ark which had used the relics to collect examples of the planet's creatures to survive the Great Flood and repopulate the Earth in its wake. Out on Lake Hammar aboard the ancient vessel, Voss activated the stones which seemingly brought God's judgment back down upon the Ark when a localized storm engulfed the area. Blaming Jones for interfering, Voss dragged the archaeologist towards him with his own whip and they engaged in a fight while Bergmann held Lombardi at bay. Nearly falling into the squall, Voss and Jones continued to brawl and their sudden disappearance over the side took Bergmann's attention off Lombardi long enough to allow her to best Bergmann and rescue Jones. Locus moved to take the vessel out of harm's way, and Jones and Gina abandoned the Ark at the giant's urging but Voss ignored Locus' repeated warnings to get clear and a beam of light fired from the wheel through the Nazi. Unseen by the distracted Jones as he and Gina headed for shore, what was left of Voss' blackened corpse was unceremoniously dumped as the Ark was steered through a distant portal out of mankind's reach to an uninhabited part of the world.

Legacy

Emmerich Voss' assertion of Indiana Jones' issues with his estranged father were challenged the following year, when both Joneses were captured by the Nazis in Walter Donovan and Elsa Schneider's quest to retrieve the Holy Grail from the Temple of the Sun, an experience that enabled them to repair their relationship as they foiled Adolf Hitler's forces all their way from Castle Brunwald to the Canyon of the Crescent Moon.

Voss' speculation over Jones' fears around parenthood would ultimately be resolved two decades later when, on a race to prevent Spetsnaz colonel Irina Spalko from taking a Crystal Skull back to Akator, Jones reunited with Marion Ravenwood, who told him he had fathered Mutt Williams, with whom Jones had bonded as his new found family thwarted the Soviet plot.

Personality and traits

"If a man bores him, Voss will make a game of dissecting his psychology and breaking him."

―Meier, to Viktor Gantz

Emmerich Voss was a student of the work of Sigmund Freud and learned karate. He wore round glasses not unlike Third Reich Special Antiquities Collection member Arnold Ernst Toht, albeit with a bandage across his nose once Indiana Jones' elbow smashed the respiratory organ. He spared no expense in finding the Great Circle artifacts and apparently expected much from his own men, given how Nazi soldiers serving him were concerned about their uniforms being "messes" whenever he was about to arrive.

Voss prepares to intimidate Ventura under Mussolini's observation.

A cunning archaeologist, he became known for playing mind games, dissecting a person's psychology and breaking them mentally if bored. In this manner, he learned how to manipulate people, be they friend or foe, into doing what he wanted, which is why Indiana Jones warned Gina Lombardi to not trust any word coming from Voss' mouth about her sister Laura. However, Voss also displayed arrogance to the point that he believed himself incapable of making an error. When he began to lose control over his machinations, he was quick to lay the blame elsewhere, unable to see that his own judgment could be flawed. His manner of speaking was reminiscent of that of the late French mercenary René Emile Belloq, which echoed in Voss' obsession with one's place in history. His personal philosophy was "to dominate the future, first we have to look at the past".

An old rival of Indiana Jones, a respected American archaeologist and university professor, Voss had pieced enough of the man's psychology to deduce his complicated relationships with Marion Ravenwood and his father, observing that Jones' fears of becoming the latter were why his romance had collapsed with the former. For his part, Jones considered Voss a "sloppy amateur" and "nasty piece of work", recognizing that the Nazi's pursuit of power overshadowed any archaeological interest. Indy knew enough of Voss to know that trying to reason with him was a waste of time and that any word coming from his mouth was to manipulate others. When he infiltrated Voss' excavation of the Ziggurat of Ur, Jones uncovered a proposal by Voss to dismantle Noah's Ark when it was no longer useful in an effort to understand how the wooden vessel had survived millennia intact.

Behind the scenes

"He is searching for those major mysteries and those things that are unknown to the rest of the world. That's a big part of what's driving him. So when it comes to that obsession, they are very much alike. I think that that's the key element here that makes this a very, very interesting antagonist for Indiana Jones."

―Jerk Gustafsson, on Emmerich Voss' characterization.

Concept art of Emmerich Voss.

Emmerich Voss appears in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, performed by renowned Greek-German dubbing voice actor Marios Gavrilis. As a voice actor, Gavrilis not only voiced Voss in the original English version but also on the German dub. Stunt performer Nicklas Hansson performed Voss for his final scenes due to Gavrilis contracting COVID-19. Gavrillis remained in Stockholm and directed him through Zoom until he recovered, went back to the set and performed the scenes himself so his face could be captured for Voss.

The creative team have called Emmerich Voss one of their favorite villains, describing him as an "intensely psychological" and "highly intelligent" man obsessed with the human mind and how to manipulate it, serving as the perfect foil for Indiana Jones due to both being brilliant people compelled by their obsessions and passions albeit driven down two wildly different roads. The aim is for the character to get under the player's skin as he does with Indy. The game's developer direct displayed some concept art of Voss as well. To craft Voss just like the villains from the studio's many other games whom they give flaws or quirks to compensate for slivers of empathy or humanity not only for the sake of realism but also to prop the protagonist up and bring their best qualities up, lead writer Tommy Tordsson-Björk enjoyed writing his personality despite finding so a bit challenging due "going into research mode" to find angles to lean into characteristics where he and Indy could go head to head and act each other as foils. Gavrillis describes Voss as a totally indoctrinated Nazi and Schutzstaffel (SS) member who has his own objectives and agenda, deluding himself into believing he's the hero and "Indy" of his own story, who uses language as a torture tool to humiliate and intimidate his foes. Gravillis 'armed' the character with his talking style as his most menacing and greatest weapon while giving Voss some insecurity and emotions to humanize him to avoid a "soulless cartoonish figure", drawing a line between making Voss a believable and profoundly disturbing antagonist and an over-the-top cringe-worthy clown nobody takes seriously, never acting like the latter for cheap entertainment but to degrade his enemies where it hurts, being so calculating and controlling that when he loses control he lashes out in ways funny to the audience.

An Indiana Jones fan since childhood back when every Christmas all classic movies were played on television like the Indy ones, Gavrillis went up for Great Circle unaware that it was an Indiana Jones title due to codenames being used, assuming the game was a further entry in the Wolfenstein series due to his character being German and it being a MachineGames production. He auditioned with the scene of Voss blackmailing Father Cesare Ventura, which he praised as genius writing, with the developers casting him at the end of 2021 and then informing him of what the game was starring Troy Baker in the lead role. Retrospectively, Gravilis considered that he would have blown his audition had he known what the game was ahead of time, as his ignorance had allowed him to be "freer" with the role having improvised the gestures Voss makes to force Ventura to comply over playing it safe and delivering the lines less involved. He enjoyed working with the cast, particularly with Locus performer Tony Todd, with whom he bonded over drinks at their hotel. He called the experience of being part of an Indy game as a "dream come true".

To prepare for the role, Gavrillis broke down the script, psychologically analyzed Voss to understand why he does what he does and found the right tone for the setting within the franchise, hence he rewatched all the films, particularly Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade which bookend the game, paying special attention to Arnold Ernst Toht and René Emile Belloq while wishing to inject "a bit of Klaus Kinski flavor" for intensity purposes. Unlike his character, however, Gavrillis doesn't know karate and was thankful that it wasn't a requirement for the game. The character was refined with the assistance of Gavrillis' acting coaches Bernard Hiller and Adrian Gaeta as well as the game director Tom Keegan whose vision and directions for Voss aligned with Gravillis'. Game director Jerk Gustafsson loved Gavrillis' performance as Voss due to how the actor could keep calm in certain lines but then go up to crazy and just explode in others, looking at the characters from the films and even from some of their own games for inspirations, as they use to bring depth to their antagonists so they aren't "amateur", thus they achieved a "hobby psychologist" with Voss, someone who tries to analyze and question everything the characters around him do, like psychologically using Indy's obssesion against him in his dialogues when interacting. Gavrillis' favorite scenes to shoot were any of those between his character and the protagonist, making sure they felt like a boxing match.

Since the release of Great Circle, Gavrilis has acknowledged players' hatred of his character on his Twitter account as having successfully done his job, signing off the tweet as Voss. He opines that what makes Voss an enticing and standout character, whom he enjoyed playing for being a "baddie" as that type of characters allows actors to bring out their inner darkness, is his unapologetic and radical nature, being trust driven with a constant switch on a razor's edge between deadpan seriousness and clownery, having Joker-like qualities almost like a God-level troll or a schoolyard bully who took his "shithousery" to a whole different level by backing it up with true knowledge and skill.

Continuity

The Lucasfilm.com article "8 New Discoveries in the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Trailer" noted that bandage across Voss' nose was reminiscent of the one worn by Jack Nicholson's J. J. "Jake" Gittes throughout Roman Polanski's 1974 film Chinatown, a classic moody genre picture about the 1930s.

The Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Digital Art Book's cut content section shows an alternative fate for Voss, trapped alive underwater beneath an ice sheet with Noah's Ark.

Appearances

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (First appearance)

Sources

•  8 New Discoveries in the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Trailer on Lucasfilm.com (backup link on Archive.org)
•  First Look at Playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on Lucasfilm.com (backup link on Archive.org) (Pictured only)
• The Faces & Places of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle™ on Bethesda.net
•  Watch the Final Trailer for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on Lucasfilm.com (backup link on Archive.org)
•  Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Is Here! on Lucasfilm.com (backup link on Archive.org)
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Digital Art Book
•  How Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Changes How We Watch the Indy Films on Lucasfilm.com (backup link on Archive.org)
•  Game Awards Nominee Troy Baker on the Authentic Adventure of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on Lucasfilm.com (backup link on Archive.org) (Pictured only)