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* AccidentalAesop: The ending of Episode 5 is sort of the logical conclusion to the entire series and films. [[spoiler: Screwing around with the timeline keeps fucking things up til you have ''three'' older Marty's begging young Marty for help, all from different timelines. At that point, Doc just shrugs and tells Marty to ignore them. ''Now'' is important.]]
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** ...she becomes an absent-minded CrazyCatLady who lives by herself in a second-story apartment and is always using a megaphone to yell at hooligans from her window. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint What was your point again?]]
* PlayerPunch: [[spoiler: Doc!A's possible FaceHeelTurn.]]

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** ...well, it depends on the timeline. In the normal one, she becomes an absent-minded CrazyCatLady who lives by herself in a second-story apartment and is always using a megaphone to yell at hooligans from her window. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint What was your point again?]]
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* PlayerPunch: [[spoiler: Doc!A's Citizen Brown's possible FaceHeelTurn.]]
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* AndTheFandomRejoiced: So Michael J. Fox won't be voicing Marty...but his voice actor is spot on. Now we're at the last episode and...wait...WHAT?! Michael is gonna come back after all?!
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The change back to 1985 is heralded by a helicopter flying low over the clock tower, swinging a searchlight around.
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\n* BilingualBonus: in the scene with the broken telescope, when Doc says "Everything becomes....clear." Clara is Latin for clear, which can be seen in English words such as clarity or clairvoyance. It may not have been intentional, but this Latin nerd appreciated the extra touch of sweetness.
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* SoapboxSadie: Edna Strickland is arguably a Deconstruction. Her protests and general prudishness are harmless enough as a teenager, but when [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans she]] [[ShadowDictator gets]] [[MoralEventHorizon older...]]
** ...she becomes an absent-minded CrazyCatLady who lives by herself in a second-story apartment and is always using a megaphone to yell at hooligans from her window. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint What was your point again?]]
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* [[JustHereForGodzilla Just Here For The Plot]]: Many non-gamers have taken in the game strictly for the ''Back to the Future'' story line -- much to the chagrin of the more avid gamers who are, overall, disappointed with the game play of the series.

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* [[JustHereForGodzilla Just Here For The Plot]]: Many non-gamers have taken interest in the game strictly for the ''Back to the Future'' story line -- much to the chagrin of the more avid gamers who are, overall, disappointed with the game play of the series.
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* BrokenBase: There is a certain friction that occurs between those who are longtime fans of the ''Back to the Future'' franchise and those who are longtime fans of the Telltale Games company.
* [[JustHereForGodzilla Just Here For The Plot]]: Many non-gamers have taken in the game strictly for the ''Back to the Future'' story line -- much to the chagrin of the more avid gamers who are, overall, disappointed with the game play of the series.
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**Flying cars? How about hoverboards? People were practically frothing at the mouth for those back when the film came out, not at all helped by Zemeckis' tongue-in-cheek claim that they were real. Made by Mattel, no less.
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** When Marty first arrives back in the alternate 1985, he tries to enter his bedroom through the window and crawl into his bed, only to find out that an African-American family is now living in his house and is none too pleased with their bedroom intruder. This was kind of funny originally, but has become absolutely hilarious due to the similarities between it and the recent [[MemeticMutation memetically mutated]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw bedroom intruder incident]].

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** When Marty first arrives back in the alternate 1985, he tries to enter his bedroom through the window and crawl into his bed, only to find out that an African-American family is now living in his house and is none too pleased with their bedroom intruder. This was kind of funny originally, but has become absolutely hilarious due to the similarities between it and the recent [[MemeticMutation memetically mutated]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw com/watch?v=cKkT7_bDIOA bedroom intruder incident]].
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Because you do not store a car for a long time with gasoline in it because it will destroy the engine.


* PlotHole: Doc and Marty can't get the [=DeLorean=] up to 88MPH because the gasoline leaked out. Why didn't Doc get gasoline out of the other [=DeLorean=] in the mine? He could've easily left a note for 1955!Doc to fill up the tank when it's uncovered, thus avoiding a temporal paradox.

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* PlotHole: Doc and Marty can't get the [=DeLorean=] up to 88MPH because the gasoline leaked out. Why didn't Doc get gasoline out of the other [=DeLorean=] in the mine? He could've easily left a note for 1955!Doc to fill up the tank when it's uncovered, thus avoiding a temporal paradox.

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* CompleteMonster: In a way, 1985-A!Biff. The guy's much worse there than anywhere else.
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* PlotHole: Doc and Marty can't get the [=DeLorean=] up to 88MPH because the gasoline leaked out. Why didn't Doc get gasoline out of the other [=DeLorean=] in the mine? He could've easily left a note for 1955!Doc to fill up the tank when it's uncovered, thus avoiding a temporal paradox.
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** RuleOfFunny. Running back and forth made the InfoDump more entertaining.
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** Who says the Libyans went to Doc? Maybe ''he'' sought them out as an easy source of plutonium...
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* NewerThanTheyThink: Although it seems like hoverboards should be a staple of sci-fi as old as jetpacks and flying cars, which have both been in stories since at least the 1930s, this is actually what introduced them.



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* MoralEventHorizon: (Episode 3) [[spoiler: Edna Strickland]] could have passed for an [[TheScrappy extremely obnoxious]] WellIntentionedExtremist until [[spoiler:she has her husband, Citizen Brown, tortured and brainwashed at the end of Episode 3]].
* PlayerPunch: [[spoiler: Doc!A's possible FaceHeelTurn.]]
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* GeniusBonus: When the Colt salesman tries to get Marty to shoot the Peacemaker, he forces it into his left-hand (causing the first shot to miss completely, being Marty's weak hand) The Colt Single Action Army was actually originally designed to be fired left-handed while riding a horse. It's minor, but this gun-nut appreciated the attention to detail.

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* GeniusBonus: When the Colt salesman tries to get Marty to shoot the Peacemaker, he forces it into his left-hand (causing the first shot to miss completely, being Marty's weak hand) The Colt Single Action Army was actually originally designed to be fired left-handed while riding a horse. It's minor, but this gun-nut appreciated the attention to detail.detail.

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** Considering it was 1985, and Qaddafi was a serious threat, it makes perfect sense.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: What the heck WAS the reason for Marty's and Doc's running back and forth on the road upon going back to 1955 again? Couldn't Doc have just explained to Marty what they needed to do while standing still?

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: What the heck WAS the reason for Marty's and Doc's running back and forth on the road upon going back to first arriving in 1955 again? Couldn't Doc have just explained to Marty what they needed to do while standing still?
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: What the heck WAS the reason for Marty's and Doc's running back and forth on the road upon going back to 1955 again? Couldn't Doc have just explained to Marty what they needed to do while standing still?
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** However, before Pontiac went under, they did the Matrix/Vibe crossover car project... with Toyota. Zemeckis was in the ballpark...

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Back to the Future Part II only stated that, in 2015, a Miami team would lose to the Chicago Cubs.


** Past Biff doubts that Florida will win the World Series upon reading the Sports Almanac. They ''did''. In the same year the movie said they would.
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** Past Biff doubts that Florida will win the World Series upon reading the Sports Almanac. They ''did''. In the same year the movie said they would.
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* BetterOnDVD: Parts II and III actually make greater sense when watched back-to-back.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Robert Zemeckis said in an interview that he felt the story wouldn't stand up on its own, so he told composer Alan Silvestri to make the music as big and memorable as possible to make up for it. [[EarWorm And you know...he may have been right]].
** "Back In Time," "Power Of Love," and especially "Doubleback" deserve special mention!
*** And "Johnny B. Goode" too. "Earth Angel" as well: or is that CrowningMusicOfHeartwarming?
**** It's both.
** Alan Silvestri's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLN4g2S6X2A score for the train sequence]] in Part III is nothing short of brilliant. It uses the standard BTTF leitmotifs as a baseline; it throws in a drum beat that sounds like a train chugging; it intertwines the action themes, the tense themes, the love themes, the Western themes; and it ends with pure ''power''.



*MemeticMutation: ONE POINT TWENTY-ONE [[strike:GIGAWATTS]] JIGAWATTS!?
** What the hell's a jigawatt?!
** November 12, 1955. [[http://giveupinternet.com/2010/11/12/never-forget-november-12-1955-pic/ NEVER FORGET]].
* SpecialEffectsFailure: The Bobs were never thrilled with the effect used to show Marty's hand fading from existence.



** Doc's "nuke" is described as a "shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts", suggesting that nothing he provided them with was of strategic value. Being a dummy, he wouldn't bother with proper arrangement of explosive charges, capacitors, wiring, etc. that could be repurposed if the right material is found, which is still unlikely considering that if the Libyans knew jack squat about building a nuke, [[FridgeBrilliance they never would have gone to Doc Brown in the first place.]]

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** Doc's "nuke" is described as a "shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts", suggesting that nothing he provided them with was of strategic value. Being a dummy, he wouldn't bother with proper arrangement of explosive charges, capacitors, wiring, etc. that could be repurposed re-purposed if the right material is found, which is still unlikely considering that if the Libyans knew jack squat about building a nuke, [[FridgeBrilliance they never would have gone to Doc Brown in the first place.]]



* IWantMyJetpack: 2015.

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* IWantMyJetpack: 2015. We better be seeing our damn flying cars soon, engineers.



* MagnificentBastard: Biff. He may not be ''too'' smart, but with one simple plan from an older (and more experienced) Biff to help his younger self, he starts an empire from successful "gambling" that allows him to start several companies (most highly nuclear power plants that generate enough pollutant to require a waste reclamation sub-industry; hmmm). Considering how he claims he "owns the police," he can certainly manipulate a lot, and he's definitely a bastard.




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* PlotHole: There's a deleted scene where Old Biff fades away. Was the removal of that scene confusing to hardcore fans? Yes. Was it justifiable? [[NightmareFuel Jesus CHRIST yes]].
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* NightmareFuel/MoodWhiplash: In the space of a few minutes we go from their colorful, {{Zeerust}}y vision of the future to an utter CrapsackWorld where presumably all of America has become a WretchedHive out of ''MadMax''.

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* NightmareFuel/MoodWhiplash: NightmareFuel / MoodWhiplash: In the space of a few minutes we go from their colorful, {{Zeerust}}y vision of the future to an utter CrapsackWorld where presumably all of America has become a WretchedHive out of ''MadMax''.
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* NightmareFuel/MoodWhiplash: In the space of a few minutes we go from their colorful, {{Zeerust}}y vision of the future to an utter CrapsackWorld where presumably all of America has become a WretchedHive out of ''MadMax''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: "Gimme a Pepsi Free."
** That whole exchange is also a good example of WhosOnFirst.



** Doc's "nuke" is described as a "shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts", suggesting that nothing he provided them with was of strategic value. Being a dummy, he wouldn't bother with proper arrangement of explosive charges, capacitors, wiring, etc. that could be repurposed if the right material is found, which is still unlikely considering that if the Libyans knew jack squat about building a nuke, [[FridgeBrilliance they never would have gone to Doc Brown in the first place.]]

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** Doc's "nuke" is described as a "shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts", suggesting that nothing he provided them with was of strategic value. Being a dummy, he wouldn't bother with proper arrangement of explosive charges, capacitors, wiring, etc. that could be repurposed if the right material is found, which is still unlikely considering that if the Libyans knew jack squat about building a nuke, [[FridgeBrilliance they never would have gone to Doc Brown in the first place.]]]]

!!Part II:
* HarsherInHindsight: In Part 2, the ''USA Today'' in 2015 talks of the U.S. preparing for ''Queen'' Diana's visit. Unfortunately, in 2015, she will have been dead for 18 years.
** Then again, that also assumes Elizabeth II isn't around in 2015. As of 2011, she still is.
* HilariousInHindsight: Even though JapanTakesOverTheWorld by 2015, the Toyota (formerly Studebaker) dealership bizarrely now sells Pontiacs. Pontiac folded in 2009.
** When Marty first arrives back in the alternate 1985, he tries to enter his bedroom through the window and crawl into his bed, only to find out that an African-American family is now living in his house and is none too pleased with their bedroom intruder. This was kind of funny originally, but has become absolutely hilarious due to the similarities between it and the recent [[MemeticMutation memetically mutated]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw bedroom intruder incident]].
** Also, one of the newspaper's "Newsline" items refers to a female President. The way things are shaping up, that can only mean one thing...
*** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Hillary Clinton?]]
* IWantMyJetpack: 2015.
* LoveItOrHateIt

!!Part III:
* GeniusBonus: When the Colt salesman tries to get Marty to shoot the Peacemaker, he forces it into his left-hand (causing the first shot to miss completely, being Marty's weak hand) The Colt Single Action Army was actually originally designed to be fired left-handed while riding a horse. It's minor, but this gun-nut appreciated the attention to detail.

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