What do you think happened to Short Round?

Indiana Jones doesn't have an extensive "expanded universe". Certainly on the scope and scale of Star Wars. Looking at Short Round's Wikia, there's not really much concrete to go on.

My own take has always ben that Indy found Short Round an adoptive family soon after the events of TOD. He went to school, perhaps following in Indy's footsteps in archeology and likely signed up to fight in WWII. I'd love to see them bring him back in some capacity as a grown man in Indy 5.

I personally didn't mind Short Round but I would've liked at least a mention of him.

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Grew up, migrated to the States and fathered Data from Goonies!

Perhaps in the next film, we'll see Indy looking him up in order to obtain an important artefact.

Short Round: "I learned to hate you in the last 30 years!"
Indiana Jones: "I never meant to hurt you."
Short Round: "I was a child, I was in love. It was wrong and you knew it!"
Indiana Jones: "You knew what you were doing."

Etc.

He became a Chinese nationalist and fled to Taiwan.

Ended up getting shot cheating at cards with the wrong people.


...For every man who has ever lived, in this universe, there shines a star.
-Arthur C. Clarke

Decades after the events of TOD he discovered this little creature called a Mogwai, which he then took back with him to the big city where he opened up an antique shop (some of the artifacts he sold came from Short Round's adventures with Indy) that is operated by him and his grandson. :)

You want something corny? You got it!

There was another adventure (never filmed) where Short Round and Indy were going through the jungle and Short Round kept screaming/yelling DR. JONES LOOK! and got shot by an arrow.