History Videogame / BackToTheFuture

--> '''[[spoiler: Crazy!Edna]]''': "BACK! *steps out of [[spoiler: broken Delorian]] Back...to the past."

** TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:And she's also kind of a bitch. This could also be a case of being a BrokenBird because of the terrifying dystopia she's living in.]]

** TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:And she's also kind of a bitch. This could also be a case of BreakTheCutie because of the terrifying dystopia she's living in.]]

** [[spoiler:Crazy hermit Edna's primitive alarm system includes a couple of Frisbee pie tins. Doc of course uses a Frisbee tin to disarm Buford Tannen in 1885.]]

** Or, you know, XBox 360s exist along with Hoverboards in the BTTF 2015 but just weren't seen.

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

* ICanChangeMyBeloved: [[spoiler: The alternate Doc Brown is motivated to his FaceHeelTurn by this belief after learning that Edna became a bitter spinster in Marty's original history. Eventually, he realises his mistake.]]

* IdentityAmnesia: Justified with Crazy!Edna, who is ''understandably'' scrambled at having traveled back in time (not to mention [[spoiler:burning Hill Valley to ashes, thus overwriting its very existence]]).

** [[spoiler: And a quite literal one when we found out who's Marty's Grandma in Episode 5.]]

** Almost every objects in Doc's garage in eps one will be used in some way.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:In Episode 4, Citizen Brown voices his dissatisfaction with Marty's plan to "fix" time since it means Edna ends up a CrazyCatLady. Episode 5 shows that he blames science and not Edna for the Orwellian 1986, and he teams up with 1931! Edna to try and sabotage Marty's efforts and his own younger self's interest in science to ensure that he married Edna after all. He kidnaps his younger self and traps him inside a bathysphere while Edna gets Officer Parker to shut down young Emmett's booth and try to arrest Marty.]]

* EvilOldFolks: [[spoiler:Edna Strickland in Citizen Brown, ''and how''.]]

** Also [[spoiler: The fact that Doc's set up said residence instead of living elsewhere; 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.]]

*** When you go down the garbage chute and land in the dumpster, one of the items that flies out is [[SamAndMax a Banang bottle]].

* {{Arcadia}}: [[spoiler:Edna]] perversely views the 1800s as this, even burning down Beuregard Tannen's saloon ([[spoiler:after which the fire winds up spreading to the rest of Hill Valley]]) to preserve it.

* TalkingToHimself: AJ [=LoCascio=] plays both Marty and [[spoiler:Alt-1986!Jennifer's scumbag boyfriend]] in Episode 3.

* TalkingToHimself: AJ [=LoCascio=] plays both Marty and [[spoiler:Alt-1986!Jennifer's scumbag boyfriend]] in Episode 3.

* ActorAllusion: In Episode 3, Marty's brother, David, is said to be working for a newspaper in a big city and his sister, Linda, is said to be in a womens' boarding house. Marc [=McClure=] played Marty's brother in the movies, and also played Jimmy Olsen in ''Film/{{Superman}}''. Wendie Jo Sperber co-starred in ''Series/BosomBuddies'', set in an woman-only hotel. As an added bonus, both actors played these roles ''before'' the first movie came out.
** Young Emmett says his flying car idea will make traffic jams a thing of the past, which is the same thing [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Judge Doom]] - another character played by Christopher Lloyd - said about his freeway idea.

** If Marty turns on the TV in Doc's garage, he watches a short clip from [[CarlSagan Carl Sagan's]] ''{{Cosmos}}'' in which Carl wonders whether nature would allow a time traveler to prevent his own conception. Cue Marty looking over to his dad and smiling.

*** Doc has the alias CarlSagan in 1931. Additionally, the TV in Doc's garage plays a clip from ''{{Cosmos}}''.

* ButThouMust: Episode 4: [[spoiler: There's no way to avoid telling Citizen Brown that Edna will be sad and lonely in the true timeline.]]

*** Jennifer remarks Marty is "[[StarWars a little short for a Stormtrooper]]." Since ''StarWars'' had been released in theaters at that point, Jennifer is probably {{lampshading}} the situation.

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. It's plot revolves around working with a young Emmett Brown to save Doc from Prohibition-era Hill Valley and how Marty's efforts accidentally create a new timeline.

* BigBad: Kid Tannen in the first two episodes . [[spoiler: Edna Strickland]] starts out as something of an annoyance, but then assumes this role from Episode 3 onwards.

** As [[spoiler:Crazy!Edna]] prepares to execute Marty and Doc for their supposed crimes (actually, hers), [[spoiler:Willie [=McFly=] turns up in the nick of time. When she smugly points out that she can just as easily kill all three of them, Willie points out that she has no legal reason to do so]]. "And ''you'' [[DramaticIrony never break the law]]."

* EpicFail: [[spoiler: While in 1876, Edna tried to burn down Hill Valley's saloon since her grandfather wouldn't do anything about it. ...this ended up]] [[spoiler: ''burning down '''ALL''' of Hill Valley.'']]

* EpicFail: [[spoiler: While in 1876, Edna tried to burn down Hill Valley's saloon since her grandfather wouldn't do anything about it. ...this ended up]] ''[[spoiler: burning down]]'' '''''[[spoiler: ALL]]''''' ''[[spoiler: of Hill Valley.]]''