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...nooooot a Real Life Example, friend.


* ASimplePlan: Originally, Ryan was simply going to talk about 20 pages that he had dog-eared that interested him for various reasons. Instead, he wound up talking about the whole novelization page-by-page, which ultimately (at least going by the [=ebook=]) wound up being ''longer'' than it.

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* ASimplePlan: Originally, Ryan was simply going to talk about 20 pages that he had dog-eared that interested him for various reasons. Instead, he wound up talking about the whole novelization page-by-page, which ultimately [[{{Irony}} ultimately]] (at least going by the [=ebook=]) wound up being ''longer'' than it.
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misuse as superlative. No Real Life Examples Please


* ASimplePlan: Originally, Ryan was simply going to talk about 20 pages that he had dog-eared that interested him for various reasons. Instead, he wound up talking about the whole novelization page-by-page, which [[BeyondTheImpossible ultimately]] (at least going by the [=ebook=]) wound up being ''longer'' than it.

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* ASimplePlan: Originally, Ryan was simply going to talk about 20 pages that he had dog-eared that interested him for various reasons. Instead, he wound up talking about the whole novelization page-by-page, which [[BeyondTheImpossible ultimately]] ultimately (at least going by the [=ebook=]) wound up being ''longer'' than it.
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* CrazyAwesome: This is Ryan's reaction to Marty worrying that Doc will wind up in "[[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/19397627695/doc-recharges-the-delorean-with-more-plutonium-and a society of robots that takes [him] prisoner]]":

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* CrazyAwesome: This is [[{{In-universe}} Ryan's reaction reaction]] to Marty worrying that Doc will wind up in "[[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/19397627695/doc-recharges-the-delorean-with-more-plutonium-and a society of robots that takes [him] prisoner]]":
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* CrazyAwesome: This is Ryan's reaction to Marty worrying that Doc will wind up in "[[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/19397627695/doc-recharges-the-delorean-with-more-plutonium-and a society of robots that takes [him] prisoner]]":
-->MARTY WHY ARE YOU HINTING AT OTHER VERSIONS OF THIS MOVIE THAT WOULD’VE BEEN AWESOME??


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* FreakOut: [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/18950902663/spoiler-alert-the-craziest-thing-in-this A minor change]] to one of Doc's lines causes Ryan to go nuts:
-->WHAT\\
WHAT\\
THAT IS NOT THE APPROPRIATE QUESTION, [[PrecisionFStrike THAT’S THE EXACT SAME INAPPROPRIATE QUESTION WITH EXTRA PROFANITY ADDED IN]]\\
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND... THIS BOOK\\
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND... GEORGE GIPE\\
[[RuleOfThree I DO NOT UNDERSTAND...]] WHY THIS PASSAGE IMPLIES THAT [[spoiler:DOC BROWN SENT EINSTEIN STRAIGHT TO HELL]]


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* PrecisionFStrike: Here's the novelization's take on Doc correcting Marty's questioning where Einstein and the [=DeLorean=] went after it vanished; Ryan [[BlatantLies took it]] [[FreakOut well]]:
-->'''"The appropriate question," Doc Brown amended, "is not where are they, but where [[spoiler:''the hell'']] are they?"'''

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* ASimplePlan: Originally, Ryan was simply going to talk about 20 pages that he had dog-eared that interested him for various reasons. Instead, he wound up talking about the whole novelization page-by-page, which [[BeyondTheImpossible ultimately]] (at least going by the [=ebook=]) wound up being ''longer'' than it.



* ASimplePlan: Originally, Ryan was simply going to talk about 20 pages that he had dog-eared that interested him for various reasons. Instead, he wound up talking about the whole novelization page-by-page, which [[BeyondTheImpossible ultimately]] (at least going by the [=ebook=]) wound up being ''longer'' than it.
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-->[[http:// btothef.tumblr.com/post/28630952643/page-242-so-marty-cleans-up-and-goes-downstairs WHAT THERE'S ONLY SIX PAGES LEFT??]]

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-->[[http:// btothef.-->[[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/28630952643/page-242-so-marty-cleans-up-and-goes-downstairs WHAT THERE'S ONLY SIX PAGES LEFT??]]
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* BigWhat: Upon reaching the novelization's take on Marty reacting to the altered 1985, Ryan wonders how long it's going to take Marty to realize the future's been chang-
-->[[http:// btothef.tumblr.com/post/28630952643/page-242-so-marty-cleans-up-and-goes-downstairs WHAT THERE'S ONLY SIX PAGES LEFT??]]


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** What adds credence to Ryan's theory is that the last two chapters of the book speed through the [[RaceAgainstTheClock clocktower scene]] and the ending. And that amounts to ''twenty pages'' altogether.
--->In the movie there's still lots of movie time left, but it seems Gipe is racing towards the finish line here? [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/27125442192/chapter-thirteen Perhaps at this point he realized he wasn't being paid by the word??]] Perhaps he said "aw frig, really?" and then busted out sentences like "then the teen with the shirt on went back to future, like in the title, and his parents were all weird, THE END"?
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North himself has stated how astounded he is that his look at the novelization wound up being longer than the actual novelization. THAT is was I was going for.


* RealityEnsues: [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/17375158174/page-16 Ryan mentions]] that [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/17606660283/remember-that-skateboarding-story-i-mentioned-in his brother]] tried holding onto the back of a vehicle while skateboarding, like Marty does in the film. The end result was that [[spoiler:he fell while the vehicle was still moving, and "got road rash on his chest SO BADLY that the pavement literally grated a nipple off[[note]][[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/17375460178/actually-it-was-only-mostly-scraped-off-it-was mostly]][[/note]] and he had to go to the hospital"]].

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* RealityEnsues: [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/17375158174/page-16 Ryan mentions]] that [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/17606660283/remember-that-skateboarding-story-i-mentioned-in his brother]] tried holding onto the back of a vehicle while skateboarding, like Marty does in the film. The end result was that [[spoiler:he fell while the vehicle was still moving, and "got road rash on his chest SO BADLY that the pavement literally grated a nipple off[[note]][[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/17375460178/actually-it-was-only-mostly-scraped-off-it-was mostly]][[/note]] mostly, actually]][[/note]] and he had to go to the hospital"]].



* ASimplePlan: Originally, Ryan was simply going to talk about 20 pages that he had dog-eared that interested him for various reasons. Instead, he wound up talking about the whole novelization page-by-page, which ultimately (at least going by the [=ebook=]) wound up being ''longer'' than it.

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* ASimplePlan: Originally, Ryan was simply going to talk about 20 pages that he had dog-eared that interested him for various reasons. Instead, he wound up talking about the whole novelization page-by-page, which ultimately [[BeyondTheImpossible ultimately]] (at least going by the [=ebook=]) wound up being ''longer'' than it.
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!!This book / series provides examples of[[note]]To make things easier, tropes from the novelization and tropes from the blog with be both brought up.[[/note]]:

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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Somehow, [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/19626038618/page-64-67-marty-had-never-been-shot-at-before the Lybians]] manage to miss shooting at Doc, with an ''AK-47'', at '''point-blank range'''.
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misuse. I\'m sure what the editor was going for but it\'s incorrect.


* RealityEnsues: [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/17375158174/page-16 Ryan mentions]] that [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/17606660283/remember-that-skateboarding-story-i-mentioned-in his brother]] tried holding onto the back of a vehicle while skateboarding, like Marty does in the film. The end result was that [[spoiler:he fell while the vehicle was still moving, and "got road rash on his chest SO BADLY that the pavement literally grated a nipple off[[note]][[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/17375460178/actually-it-was-only-mostly-scraped-off-it-was mostly, actually]][[/note]] and he had to go to the hospital"]].

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* RealityEnsues: [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/17375158174/page-16 Ryan mentions]] that [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/17606660283/remember-that-skateboarding-story-i-mentioned-in his brother]] tried holding onto the back of a vehicle while skateboarding, like Marty does in the film. The end result was that [[spoiler:he fell while the vehicle was still moving, and "got road rash on his chest SO BADLY that the pavement literally grated a nipple off[[note]][[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/17375460178/actually-it-was-only-mostly-scraped-off-it-was mostly, actually]][[/note]] mostly]][[/note]] and he had to go to the hospital"]].



* ASimplePlan: Originally, Ryan was simply going to talk about 20 pages that he had dog-eared that interested him for various reasons. Instead, he wound up talking about the whole novelization page-by-page, which [[BeyondTheImpossible ultimately]] (at least going by the [=ebook=]) wound up being ''longer'' than it.

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* ASimplePlan: Originally, Ryan was simply going to talk about 20 pages that he had dog-eared that interested him for various reasons. Instead, he wound up talking about the whole novelization page-by-page, which [[BeyondTheImpossible ultimately]] ultimately (at least going by the [=ebook=]) wound up being ''longer'' than it.
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* LiteralMetaphor: [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/19573390832/page-60-63-chapter-four-begins-with-the-obvious The coverage]] of [[spoiler:[[UnfortunateImplications the most racist pi in the novelization]]]] ends on this note:

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* LiteralMetaphor: [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/19573390832/page-60-63-chapter-four-begins-with-the-obvious The coverage]] of [[spoiler:[[UnfortunateImplications the most racist pi page in the novelization]]]] ends on this note:
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Well... actually, not ''everyone'' knows that story, or at least the finalized version. One particular person, George Gipe, was more familiar with the draft he was given in 1984 so he could write the novelization. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes.]] He wrote the novelization ''[[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness before]]'' the movie was finalized. [[ShockingSwerve And then he was stung to death by bees soon after submitting his manuscript.]] [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Again, yes.]] And, for a while, that was it: the novelization was published, and not much attention was directed towards it since.

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Well... actually, not ''everyone'' knows that story, or at least the finalized '''finalized''' version. One particular person, George Gipe, was more familiar with the draft he was given in 1984 so he could write the novelization. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes.]] He wrote the novelization ''[[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness before]]'' the movie was finalized. [[ShockingSwerve And then he was stung to death by bees soon after submitting his manuscript.]] [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Again, yes.]] And, for a while, that was it: the novelization was published, and not much attention was directed towards it since.
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* LiteralMetaphor: [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/19573390832/page-60-63-chapter-four-begins-with-the-obvious The coverage]] of [[spoiler:[[UnfortunateImplications the most racist page in the novelization]]]] ends on this note:

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* LiteralMetaphor: [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/19573390832/page-60-63-chapter-four-begins-with-the-obvious The coverage]] of [[spoiler:[[UnfortunateImplications the most racist page pi in the novelization]]]] ends on this note:


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* UnfortunateImplications:
** [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/19573390832/page-60-63-chapter-four-begins-with-the-obvious Page 63]], [[spoiler:the most racist page of the novelization]].
** [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/25435732570/page-199 Page 199]]. Just... page 199.
--->Doc "senses Marty's mental turmoil" and asks him what the deal is, and Marty says "I guess it's this whole thing with my mother" and [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/25363467824/page-198 oh boy we will have deal with THAT tomorrow! It is actually a whole thing! It's kinda awful!]]
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** In fact, Ryan calls out that portion of the film in all contexts.
-->[[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/24883494399/page-191 Okay, so this is a weird point in the story no matter how you dress it up.]]
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* DateRapeAverted: While that bit from the film is still intact in the novelization, here it's ''played up'' instead of downplayed. [[spoiler:[[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/26143173368/cliffhanger-ending-resolved-yes-he-does It even outright uses the word "rape" in one scene.]]]]


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* WhatTheHellHero: Ryan ''really'' lays into how the novelization handles the "Marty being too forward with Lorrane at the dance" plan, where instead of ''downplaying'' that it's an assault, it '''emphasizes''' it, even going so far as to... well, let's just say [[spoiler:Ryan labels [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/26143173368/cliffhanger-ending-resolved-yes-he-does a certain line]] as the worst line of the book]]...
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* ASimplePlan: Originally, Ryan was simply going to talk about 20 pages that he had dogeared that interested him for various reasons. Instead, he wound up talking about the whole novelization page-by-page, which [[BeyondTheImpossible ultimately]] (at least going by the [=ebook=]) wound up being ''longer'' than it.

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* ASimplePlan: Originally, Ryan was simply going to talk about 20 pages that he had dogeared dog-eared that interested him for various reasons. Instead, he wound up talking about the whole novelization page-by-page, which [[BeyondTheImpossible ultimately]] (at least going by the [=ebook=]) wound up being ''longer'' than it.
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* ASimplePlan: Originally, Ryan was simply going to talk about 20 pages that he had dogeared that interested him for various reasons. Instead, he wound up talking about the whole novelization page-by-page, which [[BeyondTheImpossible ultimately]] (at least going by the [=ebook=]) wound up being ''longer'' than it.
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* GenreShift: As Ryan points out, there are two instances where Marty suddenly acts like [[MoonLogicPuzzle he's in a]] PointAndClickGame. And when this happens, we are treated to "[[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/17319973021/pages-13-15 Marty]] [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/19626038618/page-64-67-marty-had-never-been-shot-at-before Quest]]" just to hit the point home.

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* GenreShift: As Ryan points out, there are two instances where Marty suddenly acts like [[MoonLogicPuzzle he's in a]] PointAndClickGame.AdventureGame. And when this happens, we are treated to "[[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/17319973021/pages-13-15 Marty]] [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/19626038618/page-64-67-marty-had-never-been-shot-at-before Quest]]" just to hit the point home.home, TextParser and all.



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* WhosOnFirst: This is how Ryan describes the "bit" where Marty confirms with Doc about "[[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/16924215161/page-7 [meeting him] at Twin Pines Mall at 1:15 tomorrow morning]]":
-->It’s like they’re in a “who’s on first” routine, only instead of jokes, there’s just repeated confirmation of a useless fact! [[SarcasmMode I say, are they to meet at Twin Pines Mall at 1:15 am tomorrow morning? Could this be clarified somehow??]]
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** Similarly, [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/21209877188/page-119-120 1955!Doc picks up his Brain-wave Analyzer]] after learning UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan is President in 1985... and it's intact, despite Doc having smashed it '''[[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/20965807440/page-116-117 three pages ago]]''':
--->(which is also insane!! He smashed it into smithereens just three pages ago but hah hah continuity across three pages? [[SarcasmMode WHY NOT ASK FOR THE MOON WHILE YOU’RE AT IT]])
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-->[-[[LampshadeHanging it's ronald reagan i said so in the first sentence]]-]

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-->[-it's ronald reagan i said so in the first sentence-]

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* ForegoneConclusion: [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/21027693029/page-118 Page 118]] ends with 1955!Doc asking Marty who's president in 1985, and Ryan makes it a big CliffHanger moment. Only problem? Even if you honestly don't know yourself for whatever reason, Ryan '''quotes the movie version of this scene at the start of the post'''. "UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan, the actor?", remember?
-->CLIFFHANGER ENDING: COME BACK TOMORROW TO FIND OUT WHO IT IS/WAS, NO CHECKING WIKIPEDIA OR YOUR MEMORY BECAUSE THAT IS CALLED "CHEATING"
** Even funnier is that one of the tags ''points this out'':
-->[-it's ronald reagan i said so in the first sentence-]
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* YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe: In playing "[[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/19626038618/page-64-67-marty-had-never-been-shot-at-before Marty Quest II]]", Ryan has trouble working the [=DeLorean=][[note]]'''Bold Text''' is [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer lifted directly from the novelization]].[[/note]]:
-->> hint
-->'''On the steering column, just like any other ordinary unsophisticated car, [[CuttingTheKnot is an ignition switch and a key]].'''
-->> [[SarcasmFailure are you serious]]
-->[[CompletelyMissingThePoint I am Marty Quest II!]]
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* PortingDisaster: [[DownplayedTrope The GIFs]] that were in the Tumblr posts couldn't work for the [=ebook=] version, and as such, were replaced with still images.
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* LiteralMetaphor: [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/19573390832/page-60-63-chapter-four-begins-with-the-obvious The coverage]] of [[spoiler:[[UnfortunateImplications the most racist page in the novelization]]]] ends on this note:
-->"a swarthy character resembling Yasser Arafat leaned out. He threw up an AK 47 submachine gun and opened fire."
-->And so this, [[spoiler:the most racist page so far]], ends with Yasser Arafat [[VomitIndiscretionShot vomiting up machine guns]].


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* PortingDisaster: [[DownplayedTrope The GIFs]] that were in the Tumblr posts couldn't work for the [=ebook=] version, and as such, were replaced with still images.
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** Parodied in [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/29410872090/whoah-have-you-ever-wanted-to-own-some-data the ebook=] announcement, where Ryan lists people the [=ebook=] would be the perfect gift for:

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** Parodied in [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/29410872090/whoah-have-you-ever-wanted-to-own-some-data the ebook=] announcement, ebook announcement]], where Ryan lists people the [=ebook=] would be the perfect gift for:

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While "B^F"'s primary form of existence comes in the form of the Tumblr blog, [[http://www.amazon.com/B-F-Novelization-Feature-Film-ebook/dp/B008X945R4/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 an ebook version]] was made after it finished, released on August 12th, 2012.

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While "B^F"'s primary form of existence comes in the form of [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/ the Tumblr blog, blog]], [[http://www.amazon.com/B-F-Novelization-Feature-Film-ebook/dp/B008X945R4/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 an ebook version]] was made after it finished, released on August 12th, 2012.


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* EnsembleDarkhorse: {{In-universe}}, Ryan ''really'' loves [[spoiler:Mr. Strickland]].
** Parodied in [[http://btothef.tumblr.com/post/29410872090/whoah-have-you-ever-wanted-to-own-some-data the ebook=] announcement, where Ryan lists people the [=ebook=] would be the perfect gift for:
--->It is the perfect gift for anyone who likes jokes! And reading! And writing! And time travel? And... ''[[spoiler:Book Marty??]]''

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