History Film / BackToTheFuturePartII

** Skinhead's first name is apprently Joey, as mentioned in the subtitles where 1955 Biff sent him out as a spy to check for "Calvin Klein's" whereabouts.

** Future Marty tries to talk his way out of being fired for his illegal operation by claiming it was Needles' plan, which is technically true but, as Fujitsu points out, Marty still cooperated knowing it was illegal.

** Marty tries to talk his way out of being fired for his illegal operation by claiming it was Needles' plan but, as Fujitsu points out, Marty cooperated knowing it was illegal.

** Hilldale is established as a rough neighborhood of disrepute, which indicates how bad Marty's future is if he's stuck living there. However, 1985 Marty comes from a time where Hilldale is the hot new development for affluent people, so he sees himself living there as a sign that he's made it big.

** Hilldale is indicated to be a rough neighborhood of disrepute, which indicates how bad Marty's future is if he's stuck living there. However, 1985 Marty comes from a time where Hilldale is the hot new development for affluent people, so he sees himself living there as a sign that he's made it big.

** When future Marty's boss confronts him about participating with Needles in an illegal scheme, Marty claims that he was setting Needles up as part of a sting operation. His boss doesn't buy it for one second.

* BigYes: Marty when he thinks he got his hands on Gray's Sports Almanac from Mr. Strickland's trash can in 1955, only to find out by opening the contents of the book that it was actually ''Oh Là Là!'' with the sports almanac cover over it. He also gives one upon seeing George punch out Biff.

* BigYes: Marty when he thinks he got his hands on Gray's Sports Almanac from Mr. Strickland's trash can in 1955, only to find out by opening the contents of the book that it was actually ''Oh Là Là!'' with the sports almanac cover over it.

* BlatantLies: When Strickland asks Biff if he smells liquor, Biff says he wouldn't know what liquor smells like, "because I'm too young to drink it."

* EvilSoundsDeep: Or, rather, electronic in the case of Griff.

* EvilLawyerJoke: "The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they've abolished all lawyers."

* ItsProbablyNothing: When Marty and Doc speed over to Marty's future home to retrieve Jennifer, Doc noticed a cab in his rearview display, thinking it might be following them, but dismissed it as nothing. Turned out it was the cab transporting 2015 Biff and really was following them.

* ItsProbablyNothing: When Marty and Dr. Brown speed over to Marty's future home to retrieve Jennifer, Dr. Brown noticed a cab in his rearview display, thinking it might be following them, but dismissed it as nothing. Turned out it was the cab transporting 2015 Biff and really was following them.

** In 1955, the very instant Marty tells Doc to be careful not to get struck by lightning, the [=DeLorean=] get fried by a bolt of it.

* WasItReallyWorthIt: The 2015 timeline showed that Marty had been provoked into doing incredibly stupid things whenever someone calls him chicken, adamant to prove he's not a coward. This always cost him dearly which, according to 2015 Lorraine, cause Marty to give up his music due to suffering a crippling hand injury as a result of a car accident after getting goaded into a street race years prior. 2015 Marty '''still''' doesn't learn his lesson when 2015 Needles goads him into committing what he knows is an illegal business practice just to prove he's not a chicken. Moments later, he gets angrily called by his employer, Fujitsu, who terminates him for the illegal transaction. 2015 Marty loses his job over his pride, which he's clearly not happy about. But hey, at least he's not a chicken, he's just an idiot.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The film explains what happened to Biff's goons during the first film.

** Since Biff's gang was only prevented from jumping 1955 Marty by 1985 Marty dropping sandbags on their heads in this film, what prevented them from jumping 1955 Marty in the first film?

** The [[Creator/IDWPublishing IDW]] comic ''Biff to the Future'' explains how A-1985 became so chaotic. A day after the school dance, Grandma Tannen forced Biff to drive her to Las Vegas, where he runs afoul of a hustler who tried to rob and kill him, and on his 21st birthday he uses the "Gray's Sports Almanac" to win his first million dollars. He then goes to Hollywood to become a film producer, where his crooked business partner scams him out of a sizable amount of money. After a chance encounter with UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan, who decided to go into politics, Biff has his business partner killed and quits show business for good to go into politics himself. Back in Hill Valley, Biff buys his way into the city council and eventually becomes mayor, and has George killed to stop the resistance movement against him. After Biff uses his vast fortune to buy the Washington Post, which owned Hill Valley's local newspaper, Biff accidentally stops the exposé of the Watergate Scandal, which attracts the attention of UsefulNotes/RichardNixon. Since no one wanted to take a bet from Biff, or his friends, since the "Gray's Sports Almanac" gave him an edge, Nixon makes Biff an offer: use his vast fortune to help dispose of toxic waste and bribe legislators to repeal the 22nd Amendment, and Nixon will legalize gambling, allowing Biff to keep making winning bets. Doc Brown gets committed to an insane asylum after he and the remnants of the anti-Biff resistance movement get discovered after they keep using the Doc's refrigerator time machine to change the past, which drained the town's power supply.

* StolenGoodReturnedBetter: In 2015, Marty ganks a Franchise/{{Barbie}}-branded {{hoverboard}} from a little girl. When he goes to return it, she lets him keep it because she found Griff's high-end, rocket-propelled "Pit Bull" instead.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Considered to be the darkest film in the trilogy, since the bad guy essentially wins at the end of the first act, resulting in a horrifying CrapsackWorld BadPresent that the protagonists have to spend the rest of the movie trying to fix. In the first film, Biff was a highschool bully. Part II takes his villainy up [[several notches ExaggeratedTrope]] to outright murder.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Considered to be the darkest film in the trilogy, since the bad guy essentially wins at the end of the first act, resulting in a horrifying CrapsackWorld BadPresent that the protagonists have to spend the rest of the movie trying to fix. In the first film, Biff was a highschool bully. Part II takes his villainy up a notch to outright murder.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Considered to be the darkest film in the trilogy, since the bad guy essentially wins at the end of the first act, resulting in a horrifying CrapsackWorld BadPresent that the protagonists have to spend the rest of the movie trying to fix.

* {{Irony}}: While 1985 Doc is warning Marty not to be spotted by his other self, Doc gets spotted by ''his'' other self. The way their awkward conversation ended only added to the irony.
--> '''1955 Doc:''' Well it was nice talking to you. Maybe one day, we'll run into each other again in the future!
--> '''1985 Doc:''' ''(to himself)'' Or in the past...

* {{Irony}}: While 1985 Doc is warning Marty not to be spotted by his other self, Doc gets spotted by ''his'' other self.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: It's implied 1985-A Biff has done this with his ancestor Buford (based on the Biff Tannen Museum video and the downplaying of Buford's nickname "Mad Dog"). ''Part III'' will subsequently confirm this.