History Videogame / BackToTheFuture

** Hey - we still have two years to develop flying cars, rehydrators, home fusion, holographic movies and hoverboards!

* ExtyYearsFromNow: Downplayed; it's Exty-''Five'' Years From Now. Marty travels back 55 years to 1931 throughout Episodes 1 and 2 [[spoiler:and it was hinted that he'd travel forward 25 years to 2011, the year of the final episode's release. Sadly, that didn't pan out. Then you have 1876, which is nine years before 1885, the time of ''Part III''.]]

* ChangedMyMindKid: Despite expressing his dread of "Scary Mary", [[spoiler:Willie [=McFly=]]] turns up to rescue Marty and Doc at [[spoiler:Crazy!Edna]]'s shack, [[CrowningMomentofAwesome grabbing her shotgun barrel before she can fire.]]

* ChangedMyMindKid: Despite expressing his dread of "Scary Mary", [[spoiler:Willie [=McFly=]]] turns up to rescue Marty and Doc at [[spoiler:Crazy!Edna]]'s shack, grabbing her shotgun barrel before she can fire.

** [[spoiler: Great-grandpa Willy makes an appearance - voiced by Michael J. Fox!]]

** [[spoiler:Crazy hermit Edna's primitive alarm system includes a couple of Frisbee pie tins.]]

* XMeetsY: Episode 3 is ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' moved to a setting similar to ''Film/DemolitionMan''.

** DeconReconSwitch: [[spoiler: After Marty does SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, 1986!Edna is shown to be still in contact with - and good friends with - Doc Brown, and ''married'' to Kid Tannen, having met him in prison.]]

** Also [[spoiler: The fact that he's set up said residence because Marty's meddling in his past allowed him to better reconcile with his father: he's there to run a foundation set up in his father's name for young inventors.]]

* PlayingWithFire: In Episode 5, [[spoiler: we learn Edna was... aroused by the sight of the speakeasy in flames.]]

* LargeHam: Trixie Trotter. She's not bad, but the fact that she's quite obviously quoting the script word-for-word makes it seem like she's being overly poetic about the whole thing.

** It's actually pretty jarring, considering they drop the word "shit", but not "damn" or "hell" (instead preferring "dang" and "heck").

** It's also a Subversion of a Deconstruction: [[spoiler: After Marty does SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, 1986!Edna is shown to be still in contact with - and good friends with - Doc Brown, and ''married'' to Kid Tannen, having met him in prison.]]

* CallingTheOldManOut: Emmett and his father, Judge Brown.

* ShootTheHostage: [[spoiler:In Episode 5, 1986A! Citizen Brown has hidden 1936! Emmett Brown inside a bathysphere and poses as Jacques Doutoux, and wouldn't let Marty near the bathysphere. Marty steps on the bathysphere's hose, cutting off oxygen to Emmett in order to get Brown, who begins to painfully fade away, to release him.]]

* MayorPain: Citizen Brown is 1984-A's equivalent of Mayor (he demands that Marty address him as "[[InsistentTerminology your Honor]]"), and cultivates the image of a Type A. When [[spoiler:Edna]]'s plans unravel, he turns out to be a benign Type B.

In December of 2010, over twenty years after the last ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' film came out, TelltaleGames had developed an episodic PointAndClick game series -- which involves both Bob Gale and Christopher Lloyd, the latter of who would be reprising his role as "Doc" Emmett L. Brown. The first episode, which begins a new chapter in the Back to the Future series, was released on PC and Mac in December 2010 to solid reviews, and subsequent episodes have been equally well received. Its plot revolves around working with a teenaged Emmett Brown to save Doc from Prohibition-era Hill Valley and how Marty's efforts accidentally create a new timeline.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: See Not So Harmless below.

** In Episode 5:
*** In episode 5, Marty is called [[spoiler: Yakov Smirnoff, while Edna herself goes by Mary Pickford, which makes [[FridgeBrilliance perfect sense]] since Pickford was a famous actress in 1931 whose name no one would recognize in the 1870's.]]

* TimeshiftedActor: Young Emmett is voiced by JamesArnoldTaylor; also, Young and Old Edna each have their own voice actress.

*** When trying to get into the speakeasy, Marty can say that he's "selling these [[Film/TheLastCrusade fine]] [[MonkeyIsland leather]] [[Creator/LucasArts jackets]]."

* HumiliationConga: Inverted in Episode 4, which centers on subjecting poor Young Emmett to this. Citizen Brown [[WhatTheHellHero calls Marty out on it]] shortly before the plan reaches completion.

* TitleDrop: Brilliantly subverted when [[spoiler: Crazy!Edna]] acts like she's in the past.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Shouldn't the lightning that created two copies of the [=DeLorean=], one that was sent back to 1885 and one that was sent forward to 2025, also create two copies of the Doc, who was driving it at the time? What happened to the duplicate Doc that ended up in 2025? Although, that might be addressed in a future episode.
** As of Episode 2, the question may have become academic. [[spoiler: That time copy of Doc would have disappeared along with the original Doc and Einstein after Marty seriously altered the past. [[TimeyWimeyBall The bigger question here is, if Doc and Einstein disappeared because Doc never invented time travel, then why does the Delorean still exist?]]]]
*** [[spoiler:We saw how Marty "parked" the Delorean. Saying it doesn't exist anymore is a fair judgment.]]
*** [[spoiler: Near the end of Episode 5, it ceases to exist as the ripple effect catches up to it. This troper's theory? The ripple effect's countdown is proportional to how long between events the change occurs. The [=DeLorean=] (of any timeline) has traveled between multiple centuries, both with time travel and The Slow Path. The Ripple Effect simply took multiple episodes worth of time to catch up to the Delorean, since it had to ripple between each and every year that the Delorean has existed: just in the movies alone, the Delorean traveled 610 years. Compare that to the mere 30 years Marty jumped in Part 1 of the trilogy, and it took him ''seven days'' days to fade out.]]
*** Duplicating a living human being is not even remotely the same thing as copying an object (especially an object which is specifically made for time travel). In this troper's opinion, the lightning that created two copies of the [=DeLorean=] ''didn't'' also create two copies of the Doc.