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The 2015 of back to the future 2 was erased
Think about it! History was changed three times, once by Biff, a second time by Marty traveling back to 1955 to stop Biff, and agian in 1885 by Marty and Doc in Back to the Future 3. The new 2015 that resulted is basicly our timeline as it exists now. In 2015, a Back to the Future 4 will be released in which Marty Jr accidentally goes back to 1985.
The 2015 of back to the future 2 was erased by paradox.
Alot of them! Jennifer saw herself, Biff returned to a 2015 that by the new timeline he created in 1955, was impossible and thus Biff got erased. Marty and Doc then traveled back in time using a time machine that should no longer exist in the timeline they exist in now, however, Old Biff's desire to return to 2015, results in a possible timeline where he does, simply by punching in "last time departed". In this possible timeline, Marty and Doc, enter the time machine with the desire that they go to there 1985. However, Doc Fails to notice that the time machine's "last date traveled" is set to 1955. The time machine's computer then calculates 1985 from the 1955 it created. This erased both Marty and Doc's 1985, but not, from the time machine's perspective, Marty and Doc. This also erases the 2015 they just left. By traveling back to 1955 from the Alternate 1985, They rewrite history agian, creating yet another alternate 1985, and another alternate 2015. The timeline was able to create a stable time loop where because Doc died soon after coming to town, history was not sufficently altered to erase Marty. Because of Doc's Earlier Paradox encountering his older self, forming a Quantum Entanglement if you will, was drawn back to Marty in a self correcting loop. Since Marty failed to die, this self correcting time loop, was erased, creating an alternate 1955, 1985, and 2015, The Alternate 1985 of Eastwood Ravine was one of self correcting Paradoxs. Since Marty was sucessful, the stable timeloop of 1955 was allowed to continue along a similar enough path that they still buried the time machine in 1885 for Marty to dig up in 1955, allowing marty to go back to 1885. But agian, 1985, is the 1985 that the time machine would calculate which is the most correct, however, the only evidence for the 2015 it's previously been to was destroyed, and thus it can't calculate it's causality, all this leaves that 2015 open, as long as Marty doesn't use his knowledge of the Future to change history. But Marty did, and didn't race Needles, and thus the 2015 of "Your Fired" is erased, but the paper isn't because the paper of 2015 was recycled from paper of 1985. A new 2015 is created because Marty and Jennifer reject the 2015 they left. Since the 2015 they left was still unstable from the tripple paradox of Jennifer seeing from herself, Old Biff using the "Last Date Departed" and Marty and Doc using the Time Machine to Return to 1985, was hit by waves of instability coming from a massivly unstable 130 year long timeline with multiple self correcting time loops. The Final Paradox, the straw that broke the Universe's back was Marty and Jennifer using their knowledge to prevent it from happening. Meanwhile at an earlier point in the same timeline, Doc over many years, buys a steam engine, uses his knowledge of nuclear physics to very carefully create plutonium in the 19th century, hops in to the time machine with his wife and kids. Since this took place before Marty and Jennifer decide to use future knowledge to prevent futute events, thus spliting the Eastwood Ravine timeline, the steam engine would go to one of two 1985s, one where Marty and Jennifer get into the accident, and one where they don't. Since this is the one where they don't, that 2015 is rejected, and thus erased, and this current 2010s is the one we'll get, not the exponentally more immpossible 2015. The only X factor is where will Doc go in his Time Train. Do we exist in the "Eastwood Ravine" timeline? Is that timeline erased by Doc's next destination? And if so are we the timeline of that 2015, or one of the many 2015s that where erased?
In one timeline, Marty Pulls off a successful Oedipus and becomes his own father.
This is the reason Marty's siblings where erased before he was. In one timeline, Marty, confused as hell, actually gave in and, you know, with his with his mother. He then decides to stay in 1955. He will then try to father alternate versions of his brother and sister, But because they would have inhereted different genes from george then marty did, they where impossible, thus they where gone the night of the dance. However, Marty was still possible. Unlikly but possible. Only possible through a Sperm containing the exact half of the genes he inherited from his father joining with the exact same egg that made him. When he rejected this possible future in the car with his mother he began to erase himself agian, because in that timeline his mother would go home from the dance disapointed. Only by either getting his mother and himself back together, or by getting his mother and his father together, could a timeline where marty was possible come back into being.
Almost none of the films events actually take place.
Marty's brain is severely traumatized by the super-amp that blew him across the garage, sending him into a permanent fugue where he experiences all of the time travel adventures, despite actually being kept artificially alive in a hospital.
In 1955, Biff doesn't live with his grandmother.
He lives with his step-mother, Edna. He just calls her "grandma" as an insult.
Doc risked his past by going back to warn Marty and Jennifer to fix their future.
First, it is canon that, after surviving the bullets in the new version of 1985 at the end of Part 1, Doc decides to go forward in history. It is presumed that he does disappear from the timeline during his trip.
It may be presumed that everything else happens "normally" until he returns — the future that we see in Back to the Future II really happened the first time around. For example, the car accident that we see not happen at the end of Part 3 does.
Perhaps middle-aged-Marty's psychological problems are partly related to the trauma of Doc having disappeared.
Doc reads the newspaper article about Marty Jr in jail and decides he must prevent it. He goes back to 1985 and picks up Jennifer and Marty, then goes forward. This would have caused timeline alteration, including a no-Jennifer-and-Marty universe; but the ripple effect "hasn't happened yet", in accordance with BTTF metaphysics. They necessarily visit the exact same 2015 as the one from which Doc departed. It is only afterwards that things diverge, with the usual weird risks of paradoxes and whatnot, which is why the future of III is unknown in film canon.
The risk is more visible with old-Biff's adventures. He goes back in time and gives the almanac to himself. When he goes forwards, one would think he would arrive in a rich-Biff timeline. He doesn't because, since he left 1955 before the branching point when Marty either does or doesn't successfully take the almanac back, the changes haven't rippled forward as fast as Biff rippled out of the timeline... It may be presumed that he has the heart attack because the rich-Biff died in middle age.
The Delorean door opening in Part II killed Biff.
In a deleted scene, we see old Biff dissappear after changing the timeline. that's because in A!1985, The door opening killed A!Biff, so Old biff didn't exist.
Doc is a Chessmaster who planned out the entirety of Part II and III to ensure a better future for Marty
At the very end of the third movie, when Doc comes back in the train with his kids, Jennifer asks him about the fax, and the fact that it erased. He says of course it did, the future isn't written yet you can make it whatever you please. In my mind, this kinda cheapened the entire second movie. Why bother going to the future to change what happened to Marty Jr if the future isn't set in stone and can be changed?
But...it wasn't pointless. Doc PLANNED the entire thing. Doc knew that Marty being a hothead about being called "chicken" resulted in a future that was...not really great. He wants Marty to get over this, but can't just say "You're going to be in a car race that Needles eggs you in to, you're going to hit a Rolls Royce and ruin your future." Doing that would cause problems, because as he says multiple times, no one should know too much about their own future. So instead, he comes up with a plan: set into action a chain of events that will cause Marty to mature, and get over his whole problem with being called chicken. So he uses his knowledge of how timelines and time travel works, and figures out this plan, that involves the entirety of Btt F 2 AND 3, that eventually gets Marty to mature. His tombstone just HAPPENS to be next to where the De Lorean is buried in 1955? No...he planned it that way. He let it be known that is where he wanted to be buried, so that Marty would see the tombstone in 1955 and plan to come back to the past, and that the events of part 3 would happen and allow Marty to get over his issues and not get in that accident. Another part of the theory is the malfunctioning Time Circuits in part 2. They worked just fine, he simply made it look like they weren't so he'd have an excuse to be sent back to 1885. When he was trying to land the De Lorean in 1955 after Marty burned the book, he says that he has to fly back around due to the wind, but in what we've seen of the De Lorean flying previously, it seems like it is able to do a vertical landing, akin to a harrier jet. So why suddenly does the wind matter? It doesn't. Doc knows that if he stays in the air he will get hit by lightning, and has the time circuits ready to go to 1885, as it is all part of his perfectly thought-out plan.
Doc is a total bad-ass, and one of the greatest Chessmasters ever committed to film, using his own death as part of his plan.
Doc's inventions created the futuristic 2015 of the movie.
The reason why the 2015 in the movie looks nothing like what the true year of 2015 will be is because we're in a reality with no Doc Brown. The man is a genius who is WAY ahead of his time and it's fairly likely that he'd be capable of many other inventions after mastering time travel. It's possible then that everything from hoverboards to hovercars and anything else you saw in that futuristic 2015 were all based on Doc Brown's prototypes. Still odd how cell phones or laptops don't exist in that reality though.
The DeLorean's LED readout indicating the year is broken.
Specifically, the space which records the last digit of the year, which is why they can only travel to years ending in "5". (The time when Doc demonstrated the display with the years "1776" and "0000" was before it broke.)
The DeLorean LED readout is merely a relative measurement.
Going to 0000 from anywhen AD would result in landing in -1 AD/1 BC
Doc Brown is The Doctor.
An eccentric old man, more then happy to take an impulsive teenager back and forwards in time with him, but still takes preventing paradox's very seriously. Pacifistic enough that knowing a group of Libyan terrorists is coming after him he uses the information to get a Kevlar vest, which would do nothing if the terrorists decided to shoot him in the head point blank, even though he could have easily set up a trap to kill them. He must have aged at least 35-40 years (based on estimated age of the kids on the train) between 1955 and the end of film yet he looks no older.there are about 200 years between episode 11 and 12 of doctor who season 6 during this time we know nothing about his whereabouts. alternatively it is made very clear that the doctors intention at the end of season 6 is to lay low for a while. oh and his nickname is doc. just saying.
The Flux Capacitor doesn't make Time Travel itself possible, it makes it possible for a person.
The real function of the Flux Capacitor is to ensure that anyone traveling through time remains isolated from changes made to the time stream that may affect them. This is why Marty retains his memories from the "original" timeline and his Ripple Effect proof memory. Doc doesn't actually use the machine himself until the very end of the film and so his past was changed thanks to Future!Marty's involvement while Marty remembers things the way the used to be. This is also why Marty fades from time so slowly. In reality he should be the first kid in his family to fade because if they never married and had Dave they sure as hell aren't going to have Marty, but Marty was shielded from time's effects due to the Flux Capacitor.
The DHARMA Initiative hired the Libyans to assassinate Doc Brown
In a bizarre coincidence, the VW bus the Libyans drive is the exact same model and color as the kind DHARMA uses all over the island. Because rogue time travelers would cause DHARMA quite a few problems, they sent the Libyans to assassinate anyone who might time travel in hopes of stopping future problems.
At some point between reacting to the "new" 1985 and arriving in 2015, Marty's memories and personality change to fit the new version of history.
First-movie!Marty has self-esteem issues so bad, he won't send his demo tape to a record producer in case they don't like it. Second-movie!Marty automatically assumes he's going to be a famous rock star. This discrepancy is because second-movie!Marty was influenced by a father who was a successful author, not one who never sent his book to a publisher for exactly the same reason Marty wouldn't send his demo tape. The new Marty's improved self-image has a downside, however: that sensitivity to being called "chicken."
The McFly family is somewhat inbred.
Marty's paternal great-great-grandmother looks just like his mother. George and Lorraine are second cousins, although they are unaware of it.
Marty and the Doc are the same person.
The Doc never seems to age visibly; could he perhaps be an older (much older) version of Marty who has come across or invented some kind of rejuvenation treatment?
Old Biff's reason for choosing November 12, 1955:
When Old Biff gave the Timeline-Altering MacGuffin to his younger self on the date of the lightning storm, it was no coincidence. Biff chose that date because he believed that that day was the day that his entire life changed. And it was. Getting decked by George turned him from a bully into a
The Sims 3 is set in The Present Day (2008) version of Hill Valley.
Compare Hill Valley ◊ and The Sims 3
Seamus and Maggie McFly are Lorraine's great-grandparents, not George's.
The surname is just a coincidence. One of them looks like Lorraine, the other looks like Marty — not George, Marty. Marty didn't get his looks from his father's side, but from his mother's. (When you think about it, he looks more like her anyway.) This also explains why George and Lorraine are still happily married despite the implications of her having a son who looks exactly like her high-school boyfriend Calvin. She has photographic proof that that face runs in her family.
Doc got the time machine from the future.
He came up with the Flux Capacitor concept when he hit his head on the sink and was unconscious, right? Well, maybe Future!Doc (or someone) came back and implanted the idea in his head using future neural technology, or old-fashioned hypnosis? The time machine has no origin, it just keeps going around and around...
Marty's "daughter" is a trans-gendered son.
Yeah, Michael J. Fox played the part, but seriously, what woman has gams like that? It's never brought up on-screen because, well, it's the future, and such things are no longer an issue.
The father of the family that lives in Marty's house in 1985-A is Samuel L. Jackson.
He looks (and sort of sounds) like he's played by Samuel L. Jackson, but he was played by Al White. Instead, the character (only listed as "Dad") is Samuel L. Jackson.
One of the effects of 1985-A is that Samuel L. Jackson's movie career was unsuccessful, probably due to Biff's influence over Hollywood. We know that Biff lobbied in the state capitol and was helping Richard Nixon get elected to a fifth term in office; it's reasonable that he also had some sway in Hollywood. Thus, Samuel L. Jackson settled into a quiet suburban life in Hill Valley.
1985-A is the same 1985 that Watchmen takes place during.
There is a lot of crime, and Nixon is president. And it would be cool.
Marty jumped to his death during 1985-A
When Biff traps Marty on the roof, Doc seems to be waiting for him rather conveniently. It seems likely that Marty died in one timeline, and then Doc heard about it and went back to save him.
Marty needed to create an "ideal" 1950s courtship for his parents in order to create an "ideal" 1980s family for himself.
An interesting theory described in this essay.
The time Delorean is responsible for all life on Earth.
At some point, the time machine goes back to when Earth had just formed. Doc (or possibly Biff), unable to breathe, quickly returns to the human era, but leave behind some bacteria, which go on to evolve into everything else.
Twin Pine George was hit by Lone Pine Marty, not by the car that hit Twin Pine Marty.
The Twin Pine version of the same car hit Lone Pine Marty, and Lorraine went all (misnomer-version) Florence Nightingale Effect. Instead of trying to get them together in a different way like Twin Pine Marty, LP Marty sets up a Tricked Out Time "Loop" (as far as he knows, and for real assuming this is the case, a Tricked Out TimeLoop) the direct way by stealing a car and running it into George. Since he's used to driving, unlike Twin Pine Marty, he expects to be able to stop in time to avoid severely injuring George (whether he manages to compensate for the lack of power brakes and difference in density or if his inability to compensate causes George to be injured enough that Lorraine forgets about Marty for him is up to individual opinion).
George thought he had been visited by a devil, and with proof that Hell exists, was more interested in living a full, enjoyable life with maybe a little pain than living an empty life followed by possibly being toasted on a spit for all eternity thanks to some Deal with the Devil he might have accidentally made.
Dark Father from the planet of the fire god? I know Vulcan's the god of smithing, but that gives him dominion over forge fire and his name's in vulcanization and volcanoes. Punching Biff was keeping himself from committing a sin of omission, and publishing his novel was to make his years on earth more enjoyable since Heaven would become better (less stressful than life) and he might at least get some enjoyment out of life in case that's not where he went.
George figured out that "Calvin Klein" was a time-traveler, and eventually who he actually was
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it."
What a strange thing to say - but then, "Calvin" might have just thought he was a musical visionary.
However, "Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan" left an indelible impression on George (judging by the cover art of his book, assuming you can). A SF geek would have avidly watched Star Trek during its initial run, and the evening of November 17, 1967 probably didn't pass without poor George yelping at the Vulcan salute. While he did tell Calvin about the event, an angry George would have easily found out that no "Calvin Klein" wrote for Paramount - and more research would have found out that the writer didn't know any Calvin Klein and had never heard of his experience. In fact, research wouldn't have turned up anything about a Calvin Klein who went to his school - just a rising fashion designer who looked nothing like his old friend.
Add to those details all the many little oddities of Calvin's behavior (and his weird "life preserver" outfit when he first arrived), and it would be a very small leap for George to realize that Calvin was from the future - and that he had probably been the "masked alien", as both of them had been very concerned about him getting together with Lorraine. 1977 would have clinched it if George had any doubt. Further pondering about just who would travel through time and care so much about him ending up with a particular girl would lead George to the conclusion that Calvin had to be a descendant of George and Lorraine.
Would he remember the "Dad...uh, daddy-o," slip? Would he dig up his old yearbook and see a picture of his son playing at the dance? Or would he just look at Marty one day and realize that Calvin had been a very immediate descendant of his?
Either way, he'd probably never tell Lorraine, if it could be avoided. That'd just be weird for her.
Marty actually DESTROYED Goldie Wilson's political career
Goldie managed to go from being a '50s black cleaning boy nobody gave a * beep* to Hill Valley's mayor in 30 years despite not studying when he was young, all by himself. Evidently, this convinced Goldie that he was able to achieve anything he wanted in his life, so he viewed the city hall as just a step before running for state governor and then US president.
Marty's intervention changed it. By travelling to 1955 and telling Goldie he would be mayor, he convinced Goldie he could only be mayor, something his 1955 self definitely saw as an ultimate goal in itself, but his (original) 1985 self wouldn't. The result was a Goldie actually less ambitious, that only aimed to be mayor and sticked in this charge once he achieved it, refusing to run for some higher post and failing to impress his issue into pursuing further political careers. From then on his descendants aimed lower and lower until Goldie's grandson came to feel himself fulfilled despite being just an used car salesman. Thus Marty destroyed both the apparition of an early Obama on the political stage and the emergence of a Black Kennedy-esque dynasty in Washington DC from the 90s onward.
From 1 BC to 1000 BC, the DeLorean just subtracts one from the absolute value of the year's number and adds a - in the first digit space.
Doc doesn't know ancient Egyptian, Greek, Babylonian, or any other language in its form from 999 BC or earlier, and he'd look as out of place there as he would in pre-White Man Cometh Aztec culture, and he really only cares about getting cool tech from the reasonably near future and going to the old west, so why bother putting an extra digit in just so you can risk giving a modern, virulent disease that we've adapted to to the direct ancestors of some tenth of humanity?
Doc and Clara had been traveling with Marty for years before they picked him up at the train crossing.
They already knew everything he did, and were just stopping by to say "Screw The Rules, I've Got An Awesome Time Machine And Know How To Avoid All The Problems I Was Worried About Before, so I'll be picking you up any time you want a ride back... to the future!"
Marty fading in the original film wasn't him being Ret Gone, it was just him being transferred back to the original timeline.
This also explains the difference between FirstMovie!Marty and SecondMovie!Marty pointed out in the "Changed To Fit The New Timeline" WMG above— between films, the original and "new timeline" Marties exchanged places, going back to their respective universes.
Those weren't laserdiscs discarded in the alley in 2015; those were DVDs.
Technology would be marching on and some new technology would be replacing them by 2015. I say "would be" because of the WMG below...
The future we live in now is the final result of all the time meddling through the three films.
The future of 2015 that Marty visited was only the result of the time continuum created by the events of the first movie. The results of the third movie are this time continuum we see today, so now, in 2010, there's no hope of hoverboards or flying cars or self-drying jackets or Mr. Fusion devices being developed in the next five years. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The BTTF universe takes place in a parallel universe to our own.
As far as we can tell, the real world and the BTTF world were pretty much identical pop culturally and technologically until at least 1985. Despite the open-endedness of Part III, Doc's train still has a hover conversion, and Jennifer still has that sheet of fax paper from 2015 (albeit a blank one, but bear with me), meaning that BTTF's 2015 still happens much of the same way, hover conversions and all (except that Marty is likely a successful musician).
It's just all in another universe. And we don't get hoverboards like they do.
That's not to say that BTTF's future is completely different from ours. Hover tech notwithstanding, perhaps BTTF's future is aware of things like House, Futurama, Harry Potter, the iPhone, and the Internet—all slightly different, of course, and all of which go unmentioned in the film for obvious reasons. (Heck, you could even argue that the likes of Lady Gaga or La Roux had a more lasting impact on the weird fashion sense of the BTTF future than in ours—just go watch the video for "Bulletproof" and compare the singer's look to some of the people in Part II.)
Speed for time travel is arbitrary based on the traveller's preferences.
For the first test at Twin Pines, Doc sets the speed for 88 mph to show off a bit to Marty ("...yer gonna see some serious shit!"); but the speed remains set at 88 when Marty accidentally jumps back to 1955. However, when Doc first departs for 2015 after dropping Marty off at the end of the film, the time machine definitely does NOT appear to be going 88, meaning Doc must have reset his temporal displacement activation speed (maybe as a safety precaution). That's what the the seemingly useless buttons and doodads on the DeLorean's ceiling are for, as Doc punches them at the end of Part I right before the car flies away. He sure didn't appear to be going 88 when he reentered 1985, and perhaps he reset it to 88 to be a showoff to Marty and Jennifer.
However, the arbitrary speed settings were damaged with the time control microchip when the car was struck by lightning in Part II. The replacement transistors and tubes from 1955 didn't have the speed settings that the microchip had, binding the time machine to the 88 mph needed for time travel, leading to the problem in Part III.*
Word Of God has it that the car jumped at the end of II because the shock wave from the lightning knocked it into a loop (hence the fiery trails looking like a double six).
Our timeline is the result of another time traveller messing with time.
Even though we already have some rudimentary form of flying car and hoverboard, by 2015 they will not be as advanced and ubiquitous as they were depicted to be in BTTF2. On the other hand, information technology marched much faster than what was shown in BTTF2, and pretty much every electronic device we have can be connected to the internet (which was implied not to exist in BTTF2). This is because another time traveller used his own time machine to change the timeline for his own purposes (just stealing the Delorean for it would result in a time paradox, because it is equipped with technology from a future this action would cause not to exist). More precisely, he went back to 1989 and invented the World Wide Web as Tim Berners-Lee. This caused information technology to progress with unnatural speed, while at the same time slowing down to a crawl every other sector of technology.
Doc, when he was in 2015 the first time, accidently interfered with the timeline This caused Marty, Jr. and his sister to get in trouble and jailed. Think about it, Doc is FANATICALLY opposed to any tampering with time even if it does spare suffering. He won't reveal to Marty the nature of his "accident in the future", yet Doc seems DETERMINED to interfere with the future timeline and spare Marty's children any suffering.
Time-travelling has caused many alternate and canon timelines.
Meaning that every fanfic about the series can be true, including "Morty Mc Fly's" cameo in My Immortal.
Before his first trip to 2015, Doc had an undiagnosed cancer.
He says he got his colon and spleen replaced and his blood changed, and that treatment added 30 to 40 years to his life. Now, why would that treatment extend his life so much? The answer is: Doc used to have a colon tumor (more common in old people) that metastatized to his spleen, so the future doctors had to replace those organs to remove the tumoral masses. And they changed his blood to flush out the remaining tumoral cells that circulated through his body.
The 47-year-old Marty was one of the "tranqs" the two cops were talking about.
Assuming "tranqs" are people who are addicted to tranquillizers.
Evidence: he activates "lithium mode" on a panel, and lithium being used as a tranquillizer is Truth in Television. The lithium mode he activated was probably lithium being added to their drinking water, which is what psychiatrist Peter Kramer proposed in reality in 2009 to reduce suicide rates.
The timeline would've corrected itself
Biff comes back out of the time machine in 2015 and disappears, but the neighborhood doesn't. Hilldale, for instance, was built in 1985 as a nice neighborhood. In 1985-A, it wouldn't have been built altogether. Furthermore, if Doc was committed, he would never have built the time machine, and never allowed Biff the opportunity. Marty and Doc were destined to succeed at saving the future.
During the build process, Doc replaced the De Lorean's stock engine
The stock De Lorean takes 10.6 seconds to get from 0 to 60 MPH, and 40 seconds plus a LOT of room to get up to 100. Doc had to include a lead-lined chamber for the plutonium, which must have added significantly to the car's weight. With the stock engine and that much extra bulk, it might not even have been able to reach 88 MPH at all. So he replaced it with a much more powerful engine from a sports car. That explains why the engine noises don't match those from a normal De Lorean.
In the original timeline, Chuck Berry didn't write "Johnny B. Goode"
All Marty says is that was an oldie where he comes from. Perhaps in the original timeline, it was a different artist's song, which Marty then gave Chuck Berry the idea for.
Biff decided to enter the auto detailing business because of the 1955 manure crash
We saw how outraged Biff was to be charged $300 to clean and detail his car after crashing into the manure truck in 1955. (Running that through an inflation calculator, it comes to over $2,300 in today's currency - no wonder he was so angry!) Obviously this experience stuck in his mind for a long time (he still remembers it when he travels back from 2015) and the fact that it was so expensive gave Biff the idea that detailing and repairing cars was a good way to make money.
Griff's gang in 2015 is made up of the grandkids of Biff's 1955 gang
Spike (the girl in Griff's gang) even has a slight physical resemblance to Biff's lackey Skinhead ("get a load of this guy's life preserver").
Biff didn't have anything to do with Doc's institutionalization in the "Hell Valley" timeline
Even though Old Biff warns Young Biff about "a kid or crazy, wide-eyed scientist" when he gives him the Timeline-Altering MacGuffin, Doc actually went insane because of his inability to understand why the timeline was deviating so much from what Marty told him. Doc would be the only one in the know about how certain future events are meant to unfold.
When Doc Brown and family visit Marty and Jennifer at the end of Part 3, Doc originally intended to destroy the Delorean and, if neccesary, kill Marty.
He had not foreseen that the train would destroy the flux capicitor, and, knowing Marty's irresponsible nature, predicted Marty would sell the technology. Not able to bring himself to harm Marty, he put it off, knowing he could always go back and do it later. But just in case it didn't come to that, he prepared the 1885 photograph to give to Marty as a gift.
Sonic CD is an alternate timeline of the original Back to the Future
After Marty went into the future and never came back, Doc decided he would rather escape than risk being arrested for life. He creates a spaceship (hey, he built a time machine, so how come he couldn't manage that?) and just so happens to crash into the Past version of Little Planet as he's passing over Mobius. He develops new and fantastic inventions in his laboratory (Wacky Workbench), including a version of the time machine that can operate at lower speeds and without need of a car to do it. A long while after Doc died, Robotnik found Doc's stockpile of time machines in Wacky Workbench (in the present) and decided to use them to take over Little Planet. That secret statue in Wacky Workbench Past that gives you rings? It's Doc's grave.
Needles is Biff's estranged son.
Because come on, every Tannen has a beef with a Mc Fly in every timeline EXCEPT the present one. Needles is just Biff's son from a woman that's no longer with Biff. So he has a different last name and doesn't associate with his Father until he has a son of his own, which he names Griff as a nod to his Father that he accepts him into his family.
Jennifer looking different in Part 3 is a side effect of the timeline getting changed around.
While Marty's parents presumably conceived their children at the same or similar time as the previous timeline, Jennifer's parents conceived her at a different point, resulting in the egg being fertilized by a different sperm; the child was still female but looked different.
Doc Brown murdered Lone Pine Marty.
Doc Brown had met Twin Pines Marty and had his letter explaining what would happen. He knew sending the new, spoiled rich-kid Lone Pine Marty back into the past risked messing up the time-stream even more. Therefore, he rigged the car Lone Pine Marty drove in some way, probably to take that Marty to an isolated time period and explode. That second Marty seems to drop off the face of the Earth. There's no indication in the second movie that the Marty seen in the past isn't the original Twin Pines Marty.
Griff is the illegitimate son of Biff's daughter Tiff, who is mentioned in the Telltale game.
This would explain Griff's surname.
When 1955!Doc asked Marty whether something had happened to the Earth's gravitational pull by 1985, he was just being sarcastic.
If some punk kid from thirty years in the future showed up on my doorstep and repeatedly used obnoxious future-slang (e.g., "this is heavy") at me, you'd better believe I'd call him out on it.
Marty is very vain about his teeth.
He refuses to eat anything with sugar and in 1885, members of Mad Dog's gang mentions that he never saw teeth that white and straight that weren't "store bought". Could be Marty had braces when he was younger and now prides himself on having very nice teeth.
Marty has mild type II diabetes.
Marty was always sensitive to being called "chicken".
2015 is a dystopia.
The dog statue on alternate 1986's City Hall aren't of Einstein.
The Bttf Trilogy represents the themes of the first three Metal Gear Solid games.
Certain aspects of time itself is sentient and can affect timelines, and it likes both Martin and Doc.
Lorraine has an interesting way of meeting boyfriends...
By the end of "Double Visions", everything will be fixed.
"OUTATIME" will be about Doc and Marty trying to get back to 1986 in a malfunctioning DeLorean.
The DeLorean is destroyed/wrecked in every third installment.
The Doc set an explosive on a timer in his blacksmith shop so no one would learn any new technologies from it.
But, after saving Clara they got back right in time to defuse the bomb and get to work on their time machine.
Clara, building on Doc's explanation of the time travel circuit, was the one who figured out the principles they built the train on.
Doc couldn't have come up with it all on their own.
The components in the hoverboard could be refitted into a crude time machine
It's among their assets.
Clara and Doc built a one-shot time machine and used it to go to the future first.
They were able to make only one trip, so they went to 2015 and could get all the parts they needed.
Doc Brown was named after himself.
The Doc's parents, a young couple new to America in the 1880s, changed their last name to Brown after meeting an inspirational and quirky blacksmith, and subsequently named their son Emmett after the blacksmith and encouraged him in scientific pursuits.
Doc and Marty leaving at the end of "OUTATIME" had a better explanation.
At the end of "OUTATIME", Doc and Marty see THREE Marties arriving from the future, ALL of them wanting their help. Such an event is just BEGGING to tear apart the time stream, according to Doc himself. So, what do they do? Leave the three behind as they go time traveling without them. An actual logical reason isn't given as to why they leave them, but if you think about it, a reason isn't needed.
For you see, just like the audience, THEY don't understand what the {bleep} is going on so they decide to leave as soon as possible. They WILL sort this out... only after they collect themselves to better understand the situtation. And hey, they still have a DeLorean time machine, so...
The timeline itself caused the DeLorean to malfunction in Part I, every time it did so, in order to prevent paradoxes.
The first time it malfunctions is shortly after traveling to 1955, when it breaks down in front of what would later become the Lyon Estates housing development, which conveniently has a large sign to block the easy view of the car from a road, and being in an undeveloped area is highly unlikely to be traversed until Marty and Doc can move the car (as it's a weekend, not even the construction or survey crews will be there). Having the starter malfunction prevents Marty from driving the vehicle into 1955 Hill Valley proper, which would garner attention of the wrong sort (which might in turn make it impossible, in some way, for Marty to have access to the vehicle on the night he absolutely needs access to the vehicle - remember, there is plutonium in it!).
The second time it malfunctions is just before the trip back to 1985. The timeline probably causes this because the timer is actually off slightly, and if Marty actually were able to start accelerating when the timer rang he would end up reaching the wire too early, which would cause innumerable problems.
The third time it malfunctions is just after Marty gets back to 1985. The timeline probably causes this to force Marty to go to the mall on foot, minimizing the chance that his earlier self could see him and potentially trigger a paradox. This also answers a Headscratcher question about why Marty only gives himself ten minutes of leeway: the timeline would ensure he couldn't interfere no matter how much time he gives himself. An hour of time, and the timeline might cause there to be a police patrol of the town square at 12:35 that morning. The property damage to the theater front, plus the fact that the DeLorean is not, strictly speaking, Marty's, would be enough for them to detain him at least until they can contact Doc and/or his parents, which would almost certainly be after the Libyan-shooting incident at 1:35. (It would probably take that long just for the paperwork, fingerprinting, etc., and that assumes Marty submits quietly which under the circumstances is not a guarantee.) He gives himself a day or more, and Doc informs him of the bulletproof vest and keeps him hidden until the event actually happens.
So the De Lorean was feeling suicidal at the end of the third film?
In at least one timeline, a daughter (or son) of Marty will marry a son (or daughter) of Doc.
This would explain the first Future!Marty using the expression "our great-great-grandkids" when talking to Doc. If one of Future!Marty's kids has kids with one of Doc's kids, their kids' kids (see what I did there? :-D ) will be both Marty's and Doc's great-great-grandkids.
In an eventual second season of the game, Marty and Doc will immediately return to 1931.
For two reasons. First, because it would be the cheapest possible cop-out, so it would be the most effective way to troll fans. Second, because Doc saying "The future can wait" means that they are going to the past again.
Leather jacket future Marty is LP!Marty.
See the headscratchers page for the TP!/LP!marties confusion. LP!Marty will be the new Big Bad of season 2, trying to kill TP!Marty for stealing his place in life. Future Marty #2 is the Marty of the current alternate present as of episode 5.
The Telltale series will eventually end with Marty preventing Doc from inventing the flux capacitor.
The timeline will at some point become such a mess the only way to fix it is stop all of the time travelling from happening in the first place. If it's good enough for the card game...
In the altered timeline that Marty creates through his trip to 1955, Biff has been castrated in the 30 years between then and the "good" future that the Mc Flys have
George Mc Fly could have done this himself to get back at him for attempting to rape Lorraine, or this could have happened any way as a form of karmic justice. Some fans may say that this at least partially explain why Biff is somewhat less "manly" than in the original timeline. However, it definitely explains why Lorraine is (seemingly) okay with seeing her would-be rapist every day and with the fact that he also has keys to her house. She would (possibly) be cool with this because he is not only unable to even attempt this again, but he is also going to be reminded of this (and the fact that he works for his castrator if it was George who did it).
In the first film, Biff was planning on raping Marty.
"You caused three hundred bucks' damage to my car, and I'm gonna take it out of your ass," he says, before throwing Marty to his flunkies. He built up the necessary rage and lust beforehand, with the Ooh La La magazine and booze, while he was planning on attacking Marty at the dance, but Lorraine (who he'd been pursuing for weeks) presented herself as a more preferable target.
Doc burned down his house for the insurance money
Look closely at the newspaper clippings at the start of the first film. We know that Doc is living in his garage and that the land was sold for a large sum of money. Doc claims to have spent the family fortune building the time machine. It's only reasonable to assume that he burned the house down and made an insurance claim. After that money ran out, then he sold the land to a property developer.
The reason why Doc is so cheerful despite everything
He has a goddamn time machine. His second order of business when Marty got back from 1955 was to retroactively cause all his enemies not to exist.
Doc is a fan of Carl Sagan because Carl succeeded where he had failed.
Carl Sagan's deservingness of his fame is something of a point of contention among the scientific community because of how little he has actually contributed to science. However, his immensive skill in getting people interested in science and in providing perspective and aiding in understanding is indisputable. Compare with Doc, whose only admirers were a teenage kid who broke into his garage and that kid's father, who only respected Doc because his son did.
This could potentially explain one of Doc's strangest choices...
Carl Sagan's Cosmos inspired Doc to choose a Delorean.
When the time came to put his flux capacitor into a vehicle, he realized that if anyone was ever going to take him seriously - something that had rarely happened for him - he'd have to capture their imaginations, just as Carl Sagan had with his TV series and its cool 'ship of the mind'. He waved off his own concerns about his integrity with what he believed also occurred to the people behind the show: you might as well do it with some style!
Doc Brown and his family started the race of Time Lords.
It's possible Jules and Verne were affected in some way by the constant time travel, and that frequent exposure to the time stream integrated new powers to the DNA of the Brown clan. As centuries passed, the descendents of Doc Brown made more time machines, eventually integrating space-faring capabilities into the machines. This new breed of humans decide to leave Earth at some point, and found their own, free and open society on a planet called Gallifrey. Down the line, a young man of a race known as Time Lords is visiting 20th century England and gets an idea for a ship design...
The events of the movies are directly responsible for the events of Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
Marty's drag-racing crash in in the original timeline would've killed the father of Hitomi Shizuki when he was still a boy visiting Issei (first generation Japanese-American) relatives in Hill Valley. Hitomi of course becomes the Unwitting Instigator of Doom for Sayaka's (and the show's) Start of Darkness. But the Ripple Effect created when Marty avoided the crash caused the crash 26 years later that injured Sayaka's love interest's (also a budding musician) wrist, and eventually leads to her contract (and eventual Witchdom...which of course sets off a Domino Effect that destroys the world in one timeline). All their messing around with the space-time continuum had of course put considerable strain on it.
Of course in the previous version where Marty does crash, Marleen becomes a Magical Girl to help her struggling family and deeply depressed father...and eventually a Witch when she's arrested trying to bust out Marty Jr. in Timeline 1a and when Marty gets fired in Timeline 1b. One of the survivors of the crash (Hitomi's would've-been second cousin) became Marty's boss at his office job, initially forgiving and taking pity on him, but nursing a deep grudge that led to Marty's firing.
Before the time machine was invented, Marty was also rather unconfident (he didn't think anyone would like his audition tape), and wouldn't have gotten in that drag race in the first place. But as mentioned above, changing the past the first time around also made him rather more cocky and reckless.
I also wish Doc had never invented that infernal time machine...
Hill Valley was originally named after its founder.
A man with the family name of Hill. They stopped calling it Hill's Valley after awhile out of laziness.
Doc is also responsible for creating his own family's original fortune.
Doc's family, the Von Brauns, moved to Hill Valley in 1908. Assuming that Doc Brown in 1955 was the same age as Christopher Lloyd at the time (47), then Doc was born that same year. At some point, Doc travelled to meet his parents in the past and inspired them to move to Hill Valley, giving them valuable information about possible business or investment opportunities, allowing them to make the money that he would later use to build the time machine.
Doc Brown is travelling through time in his train in order to keep paradoxes and deaths from occurring.
It's been covered many times before how the 1950s have tons of Martys, the 1985 that Marty ends up in at the end of Part I is completely different from the one familiar to Marty and therefore everyone there would be strangers to him, and all the weird things that happen that should change the timeline in numerous catastrophic ways.
However, there's one way around all the headscratchers and fridge horror: Doc Brown traveled to various points in time to nudge things in various directions so the timeline Marty ends up in at the end of Part III is nearly identical to the one he started out in at the beginning of Part I, with minor changes in parts of history Marty would know little to nothing about. As far as Marty knows, the two timelines are exactly identical. Thus, Marty faces no problems with his memories not matching up with others' memories, and the moral Doc utters that Marty's destiny is only what he makes of it still rings true, as the only changes Marty can observe are those which me makes without the use of time travel. As far as Marty can tell, it's all mundane normality, but he knows about the other timelines and thus knows more about the possible consequences of his actions, good and bad. He's free to forge his own future, but with more insight as to the impacts of his actions.
There is a God of Karma in the BttF Universe.
In the pre-movie version of the timeline, the Tannens have been giving Hill Valley a hard time (Mad-Dog the murderer, Biff the wanna-be rapist, to name two examples) for a hundred years or more. The GoK finally got fed up and used a pair of fairly decent chaps and their time machine to put the Tannen family through a Humiliation Conga, while rewarding Doc and Marty with better lives than those with which they started (Marty's family escaped loserdom, Doc got a family). Not Laser-Guided Karma, but definitely heat-seeking. Bonus sub-Guess:
There will be another sequel.
With 2015 fast approaching and Michael J. Fox's return to acting, the timing's right...
It'll include such things as a Lampshade Hanging of "jigowatts" and how Part II saw 2015.
Biff didn't kill off Doc in 1985-B because he, to an extent, realised the Almanac's origin.
At first, all Biff knew about the almanac was that "some relative" knew a guy who could see into the future. With millions of dollars and the years passing, Biff eventually became more intelligent and started to realise how his Gray Sports Almanac could tell the future-then he met the wild-eyed professor Doc Emerett Brown. After interrogating him, Biff put two and two together and figured out that a time machine brought back the Gray Sports Almanac, and that Doc Brown will one day build it. Wanting Doc Brown to not be a threat yet needing his genius, he had Doc Brown committed and looked after in a makeshift duplicate of his lab. His cronies gave Doc the technology to design the Delorean, and had this timeline progressed Biff would've used it to go back and give himself the Gray Sports Almanac. Anything he's saying to Marty-A is partly him playing dumb
At the end of the first movie, the Doc of that timeline sacrifices the Marty of that timeline to avoid a time paradox.
Let's call the timeline at the beginning of movie 1985-A, and the Marty we follow throughout the movie Marty-A. Marty-A travels back to 1955-A, but when saves George from being hit by a car, the timeline changes into 1955-B. At the end of the movie Marty-A travels back to the the future of this timeline, i.e. 1985-B. He then sees the Marty who grew up in this timeline, i.e. Marty-B, being sent back to the past. Now, remember that Marty-B's past is the timeline where Marty-A appeared in 1955. If the events of 1985-B played out exactly as those of 1985-A, Marty-B travels back to the same 1955 where Marty-A was. So they'd both be in Hill Valley at the same time, and Marty-B would probably try to get back to the future the same way Marty-A did (by asking Doc Brown of 1955 to help). However, this would mean that Marty-B had a high chance of meeting Marty-A, and Marty-B might also change the past so that 1985-B never happens. To put it short, the chances of Marty-B either causing a paradox or messing up the timeline are pretty high. Even if Marty-B somehow managed to avoid changing the timeline and managed to get back to 1985-B, that would mean Marty-A and Marty-B both now exist in 1985-B, which would be a pretty awful situation. (Since George and Lorraine are technically Marty-B's parents, and Jennifer is his girlfriend, Marty-A would probably have to create a new identity and move out of Hill Valley.) Now, Doc-B realizes all this could happen, so he has to come up with a plan to avoid it. His only option is to set the timer of the DeLorean to some other year than 1955, to either send Marty so far back in the past that he can't change the lives of his ancestors, or so far in the future that his future version has already died. If he sends Marty-B to the future, he probably has to sabotage the DeLorean too, so that Marty can't get it to work again in order to travel back to 1985-B. Now, this a pretty awful thing for the Doc to do, since he's known Marty-B for much longer than Marty-A, but it's still better than the alternative. (All the Doc can hope for is that Marty-B get to live decent life in the time period he sends him to.) Since Marty-B isn't seen in 1955, nor does he come back to 1985-B, it means the Doc's plan worked.
Due to the delayed feedback effect in the movies and the butterfly effect from real life, Marty's actions in the first movie changed Jennifer's genetic makeup.
That's why she starts off as Claudia Wells in the first movie and has suddenly transformed to Elisabeth Shue by Part II. (Of course it doesn't explain the fact the same scene has played out twice in the subsequent movies with both actresses.)
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