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* AgonizingStomachWound: Discussed when Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen pulls a derringer on Doc Brown and crows that the last guy he used it on bled to death over the course of two days. In the original timeline before Marty interfered, such a fate befell Doc (they operated under the assumption that Buford would shoot him on September 7th, turns out Doc got shot on September 5th and took two days to die).
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* AgonizingStomachWound: Discussed when Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen pulls a derringer on Doc Brown and crows that the last guy he used it on bled to death over the course of two days. In the original timeline before Marty interfered, such a fate befell Doc (they operated under the assumption that Buford would shoot him on September 7th, 7th and he would die right after, turns out Doc got shot on September 5th and took two days to die).
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* ForWantOfANail: The train departed on time, but Clara stopped it when she heard the barbed wire salesman talking about her and Emmett. Otherwise, Doc and Marty would have missed the train entirely.
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*ForcedDancePartner: Buford Tannen tries to force Clara to dance with him, claiming he'll take Doc Brown's $80 debt out of her. He then tells her, holding her close, "You can do something that's worth $80, can't you?" She tells him he's underestimating her, and executes a GroinAttack to free herself.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Doc's absentminded scientist character proves a formidable foe to a gang of bandits in an Old West town.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Doc's absentminded scientist character proves a formidable foe to a gang of bandits in an Old West town.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: The Bobs consider ''III'' as such for Doc. The first two movies deal with fixing Marty's past, present, and future, but ''III'' deals with saving Doc, and a primary focus is on the budding romance of Doc and Clara. Needless to say, Christopher Lloyd was delighted to play a heroic Western role ''and'' the romantic lead in such a big movie, opportunities he rarely had as a character actor.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: The Bobs consider ''III'' as such for Doc. The first two movies deal with fixing Marty's past, present, and future, with Doc as more of a supporting character, but ''III'' deals with saving Doc, and a primary focus is on the budding romance of Doc and Clara. Needless to say, Christopher Lloyd was delighted to play a heroic Western role ''and'' the romantic lead in such a big movie, opportunities he rarely had as a character actor.
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** PlayedForDrama: When Marty picks up Copernicus to take him back to 1955!Doc's truck, he merely glances at the "Emmett Brown" tombstone, before practically running back to it.
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** PlayedForDrama: When Marty picks up Copernicus to take him back to 1955!Doc's 1955 Doc's truck, he merely glances at the "Emmett Brown" tombstone, before practically running back to it.
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** 1885 Doc's initially not happy Marty disregard his explicit orders to return to 1985 instead of coming back to get him. But he's so delighted to be reunited with this Partner in Time that he can't stay mad at Marty for too long. And of course, once Doc learns what Marty and his 1955 counterpart discovered about his impending death, he's glad Marty disobeyed orders.
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** 1885 Doc's initially not happy that Marty disregard disregarded his explicit orders to return to 1985 instead of coming back to get him. But he's so delighted to be reunited with this Partner in Time that he can't stay mad at Marty for too long. And of course, once Doc learns what Marty and his 1955 counterpart discovered about his impending death, he's glad Marty disobeyed orders.
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* CoolGuns:
** 1885 Doc has developed a sniper rifle -- an obviously-modified lever-action rifle with a very long barrel and an enormous, high-powered scope. He claims to be able to shoot the fleas off a dog's back at 500 yards with it.
** And we can't forget the Peacemaker itself, the Colt Single-Action Army revolver. THE TropeCodifier for RevolversAreJustBetter.
** 1885 Doc has developed a sniper rifle -- an obviously-modified lever-action rifle with a very long barrel and an enormous, high-powered scope. He claims to be able to shoot the fleas off a dog's back at 500 yards with it.
** And we can't forget the Peacemaker itself, the Colt Single-Action Army revolver. THE TropeCodifier for RevolversAreJustBetter.
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* TimeTravelEscape: Marty and Doc save Clara Clayton from dying without realizing that doing so will [[AlternateHistory change history through the children she would have taught had she lived in the original timeline]]. In the end, Doc fixes this "mistake" by removing Clara from the timeline when he builds a second time machine and taking her into the future.
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* TimeTravelEscape: Early on, Doc and Marty wind up preventing a new schoolteacher, Clara Clayton, from falling into a ravine. However, it is only after the fact that they remember this was a historical event: That know of that ravine as "Clayton Ravine" back in 1985 ''because'' she fell in. While not much more is made of this in the movie, beyond the fact that Doc uses this as ''yet another example'' of why he shouldn't have invented time travel, the point effectively becomes moot by the end of the movie [[DownplayedTrope where we see she decided to come along with Doc to visit Marty and Doc save Clara Clayton from dying without realizing that doing so will [[AlternateHistory change history through Jennifer (after he completed the children she would have taught had she lived time train sometime in the original timeline]]. In the end, Doc fixes this "mistake" by removing Clara from the timeline when he builds a second time machine and taking her into the future.1890s).]]
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* TimeIsDangerous: By this movie, Doc seems to be acknowledging this. Marty's a little less sure, but both times Doc assures him that the obstacle he's seeing in the present won't be there in the destination time. Or that something that isn't there in the present ''will'' be there in the future, ([[spoiler:like the rest of the bridge.]])
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* TimeIsDangerous: By this movie, Doc seems to be acknowledging this. Marty's a little less sure, but both times Doc assures him that the obstacle he's seeing in the present won't be there in the destination time. Or that something that isn't there in the present ''will'' be there in the future, ([[spoiler:like like the rest of the bridge.]])bridge ([[spoiler:and a disel train]]).
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Marty uses a Frisbie pie tin to hit Buford's hand just as he tries to shoot Doc, causing his aim to shift slightly and blow Doc's hat off instead. It's implied this event creates a StableTimeLoop leading to the modern Frisbee toy. Maty also smashed Buford in the face with an oven lid [[spoiler:that he used as a makeshift bullet-proof vest in their duel]].
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Marty uses a Frisbie pie tin to hit Buford's hand just as he tries to shoot Doc, causing his aim to shift slightly and blow Doc's hat off instead. It's implied this event creates a StableTimeLoop leading to the modern Frisbee toy. Maty Marty also smashed Buford in the face with an oven lid [[spoiler:that he used as a makeshift bullet-proof vest in their duel]].
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** After changing events in 1885, the photo of Dr. Brown's tombstone only had his name erased but the tombstone remaining. According to if events play out as they are, Marty's alias of Clint Eastwood appears on the photo.
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** After changing events in 1885, the photo of Dr. Brown's tombstone only had his name erased but the tombstone remaining. According to if If events play out as they are, Marty's alias of Clint Eastwood appears on the photo.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Marty uses a Frisbie pie tin to hit Buford's hand just as he tries to shoot Doc, causing his aim to shift slightly and blow Doc's hat off instead. It's implied this event creates a StableTimeLoop leading to the modern Frisbee toy.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Marty uses a Frisbie pie tin to hit Buford's hand just as he tries to shoot Doc, causing his aim to shift slightly and blow Doc's hat off instead. It's implied this event creates a StableTimeLoop leading to the modern Frisbee toy. Maty also smashed Buford in the face with an oven lid [[spoiler:that he used as a makeshift bullet-proof vest in their duel]].
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* AndStarring: As with the previous two films, the opening cast roll ends with "and Creator/LeaThompson".
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** While 1955 Doc Brown was reading the letter written by his 1985 self, Marty is fiddling around with some of his inventions like the mind-reading helmet, the automatic chess set, and looking at the burned wind-up car used in the experiment in the first film.
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* ItsAllMyFault: Marty laments that it's all his fault that Doc Brown got stranded in 1885, kicking himself that it could have been avoided if he simply didn't let Biff get to him.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In the previous film, it was implied 1985-A Biff had done this with Buford (based on the Biff Tannen Museum video and the downplaying of Buford's nickname "Mad Dog"). ''Part III'' explicitly confirms it between Marty and 1955 Doc's research into Buford and once Marty encounters Buford in 1885.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: HistoricalVillainDowngrade: In the previous film, it was implied 1985-A Biff had done this with Buford (based on the Biff Tannen Museum video and the downplaying of Buford's nickname "Mad Dog"). ''Part III'' explicitly confirms it between Marty and 1955 Doc's research into Buford and once Marty encounters Buford in 1885.
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* ClothespinNosePlug: [[CantHoldHisLiquor After Doc passes out from a single shot of whiskey]], the bartender whips up his [[HideousHangoverCure wake-up juice]], which contains several spicy ingredients, including Tabasco sauce and cayenne pepper, so he has Marty stick a clothespin on Doc's nose before pouring the wake-up juice into his mouth. It doesn't help dull the taste, as it immediately causes Doc to run, screaming, to the horse trough and dunk his entire head in. And this is just the reflex action caused by the smell and taste, after which he passes out again. The bartender says it takes about 10 minutes to really start working.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Marty uses a Frisbie pie tin to hit Buford's hand just as he tries to shoot Doc, causing his aim to shift slightly and blow Doc's hat off instead.
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* AccidentalTimeTravel: The film's plot is the consequence of Doc and the [=DeLorean=] having been seen accidentally to 1885 due to a lightning striking them. While Doc wrote a letter to Marty asking him to forget about him and move on, the dog Copernicus spots Doc's tombstone, and Marty realized that Doc was murdered only one week after getting to that year, so Marty travels to that year as well to rescue him.
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* AccidentalTimeTravel: The film's plot is the consequence of Doc and the [=DeLorean=] having been seen accidentally sent to 1885 due to a lightning striking them. While strike in the previous movie. Though Doc wrote a letter to Marty asking him to forget about him and move on, the dog Copernicus spots Doc's tombstone, and Marty realized realizes that Doc was murdered only one week after getting sending the letter, and decides to that year, so Marty travels go to that year as well 1885 to rescue him.
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** The Time Train sprouts wings before flying off just like ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang''.
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* AccidentalTimeTravel: The film's plot is the consequence of Doc and the [=DeLorean=] having been seen accidentally to 1885 due to a lightning striking them. While Doc wrote a letter to Marty asking him to forget about him and move on, the dog Copernicus spots Doc's tombstone, and Marty realized that Doc was murdered only one week after getting to that year, so Marty travels to that year as well to rescue him.
* AnAesop: To sum up what Doc says at the end, the future is never written in stone; what it will be is entirely up to you, so "make it a good one".
* AgonizingStomachWound: Discussed when Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen pulls a derringer on Doc Brown and crows that the last guy he used it on bled to death over the course of two days. In the original timeline before Marty interfered, such a fate befell Doc (they operated under the assumption that Buford would shoot him on September 7th, turns out Doc got shot on September 5th and took two days to die).
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* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Doc's dog Copernicus seems to have an almost human level of intelligence at times. For starters, after Doc finishes reading the letter that his future self wrote to Marty, Copernicus seems to be rather sad about Doc being TrappedInThePast. In addition, Copernicus is the one who discovers Doc's tombstone, and he seems to realize what it says.
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* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Doc's 1955 dog Copernicus seems to have be at an almost human level of intelligence at times. For starters, after Doc finishes reading the letter that [[WriteBackToTheFuture his future self wrote to Marty, Marty]], Copernicus seems to be rather sad about Doc being TrappedInThePast. In addition, Copernicus is the one who discovers Doc's tombstone, and he seems to realize what it says.
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* AnAesop: To sum up what Doc says at the end, the future is never written in stone; what it will be is entirely up to you, so "make it a good one".
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The three fireplace-sized logs that Doc gives to Marty would ''not'' be sufficient to run a steam locomotive for a mile or more. This example overlaps with JustTrainWrong, because the idea behind a steam locomotive is to produce a steady, even source of heat and raise the water/steam temperature incrementally. Since there's such a large volume of fluid [[OvenLogic a significant, but short burst of heat]] probably wouldn't be sufficient to raise the pressure in any significant way. Not only that, but such a dramatic means of powering the train wasn't even necessary. Some trains of the late-19th century were ''more'' than capable of achieving the speeds required by the [=DeLorean=] under the normal capabilities of their boilers, and on properly built and maintained track. However, whether the class of locomotive shown or the underlying track would have supported / survived this effort tends to bring us back to this trope.
* BarSlide: A saloon patron slides Marty [=McFly=] a gun right before the big showdown, [[HomageShot in homage to]] a similar shot in ''Film/MyDarlingClementine''.
* BigBad: [[IdenticalGrandson Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen]], an outlaw ancestor of Biff's. He kills Doc in a timeline of 1885, and Marty's plot line is preventing "Mad Dog" from killing Doc.
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*** Similarly, [[spoiler:the thing that gets the [=DeLorean=] back to 1985 is the very same thing that takes it out upon reentry: the front end of a train going down the tracks]].
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* BorrowedWithoutPermission: When Doc explains to Marty his plan to use a train to push the Delorean to the speed necessary for time travel, he puts it like this: "We're going to hijack... ''borrow...'' the locomotive.."
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* ButNowIMustGo: Doc tells Clara he must leave 1885, forever.
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* ButNowIMustGo: BulletproofVest: Marty hides a stove door under his shirt just in case, and being GenreSavvy, acts out a scene from ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' with Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen.
* ButNowIMustGo:
** Doc Brown tells to Clara that hemust has to leave her and the town. He explains the reason to her, but she doesn't believe him (and thinks he got too obsessed with science fiction). This breaks his heart, but things get better for both of them since the parting doesn't stick.
** Marty finally returns to the year 1985, but without Doc, who remained back in the year 1885 to save Clara Clayton. Before he can dwell on it, Doc appears in his newly created steam locomotive time machine, to let Marty and Jennifer know he was alright... and introduce them to his new family: his wife Clara, and their two sons, [[ShoutOut Jules]] [[Creator/JulesVerne and Verne.]] Doc also leaves Marty with a copy of the photo they took together, back in 1885,forever.as a parting gift. Then [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O-8W4TykdQ bids him and his girlfriend farewell.]]
* ButNowIMustGo:
** Doc Brown tells to Clara that he
** Marty finally returns to the year 1985, but without Doc, who remained back in the year 1885 to save Clara Clayton. Before he can dwell on it, Doc appears in his newly created steam locomotive time machine, to let Marty and Jennifer know he was alright... and introduce them to his new family: his wife Clara, and their two sons, [[ShoutOut Jules]] [[Creator/JulesVerne and Verne.]] Doc also leaves Marty with a copy of the photo they took together, back in 1885,
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* CantHoldHisLiquor: Doc passes out after a single shot of whiskey.
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* CantHoldHisLiquor: Doc passes out after a single shot of whiskey. whiskey; the bartender then quotes the trope name verbatim. And before passing out from drinking said glass of whiskey, he manages to get plastered just by ''holding it under his nose''. Ironically in the script, he actually ''can'' hold his liquor, and then passed out as Marty comes to get him.
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* CarsWithoutTiresAreTrains: Averted. A careful viewer will notice that the [=DeLorean=] is actually fitted with train wheels.
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* CarsWithoutTiresAreTrains: Averted. A careful viewer will notice that The Delorean fits perfectly onto the [=DeLorean=] is actually fitted with train wheels.tracks in 1885. [[JustifiedTrope In this case]], it's been deliberately modified by Doc Brown with actual train wheels so that a steam locomotive could push it in order to get up to 88 miles per hour, meaning more thought was put into it than other examples.
* ChasedByAngryNatives: The arrival in 1885 is immediately followed by the [=DeLorean=] time machine being chased by Native Americans on horseback, setting the film's tone as a takeoff on TheWestern.
* ContrastingSequelSetting: The movie takes place in Hill Valley like the first two movies, but with a stronger Wild West flavor due to the year Marty and Doc have traveled to (1885).
* DancesAndBalls: The dance at the party to celebrate the building of the Clock Tower, where Marty discovers that Doc can dance.
* DeadlyDisc: It's an instance of creating a Stable Time Loop again, as the insinuation is that it's the original Frisby pie plate that inspired the phenomenon that led to the Frisbee.
* DescriptionPorn: Doc describes his rifle after shooting the rope off the noose which is hanging Marty's neck by Buford's henchmen:
-->'''Doc''': "It'll shoot the flea off a dog's back at 500 yards, Tannen! And it's pointing straight at your head!"
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Doc takes Clara to the dance and then takes her home. All is shown is a kiss but later Clara claims he "took advantage of her". Although, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance given the era]] the kiss might qualify as "taking advantage".
-->'''Doc''': "It'll shoot the flea off a dog's back at 500 yards, Tannen! And it's pointing straight at your head!"
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Doc takes Clara to the dance and then takes her home. All is shown is a kiss but later Clara claims he "took advantage of her". Although, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance given the era]] the kiss might qualify as "taking advantage".
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* DoomedNewClothes: Marty's original "western" outfit, particularly the boots and hat.
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* DoomedNewClothes: Marty's original "western" outfit, particularly the Marty is given a "[[FashionsNeverChange Western]]" outfit and a new pair of cowboy boots by Doc in. A bear eats the boots. Similarly, his ancestor gives him a new hat, only to have it lost and hat.probably trampled by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen's horse. The outfit gets torn up as Buford drags Marty down the street.
* DoubleVision: This effect was used to allow Marty to talk to his ancestor, also played by Michael J. Fox. Keep a lookout for the shot in which the baby is handed off; its mother walks in front of the camera at just the right moment needed to see it actually change hands, but it is done pretty seamlessly and is hard to notice if you aren't looking for it.
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* DriveInTheater: Featured in a PlayedForLaughs scene before Marty leaves for 1885.
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* DriveInTheater: Featured in a PlayedForLaughs scene before Doc Brown has Marty leaves for 1885.run the [=DeLorean=] Time Machine through the grounds of a drive-in to get it up to 88 MPH in order to go back in time, because in the 1880s that area was just sagebrush and empty grassland; when Marty rematerializes he won't end up crashing into a tree or a mountain.
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* DubInducedPlotHole: Not exactly a plot hole ''per se'', but Doc's last line "Already been there (the future)" is sometimes dubbed to "I already am in the future." The original line is meant to be the lead-up for the Time Train's flying capability. The dubbed line turns it into a character moment, showing that whenever he can go, his heart is still in the Old West. Both versions work in their own way, though the dubbed version makes the train's flight something of an AssPull.
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* DrunkOnMilk: In a variant, Doc Brown gets rather maudlin and detached from his surroundings by sitting at the bar ''holding'' a whiskey, not drinking or even sniffing it. Just holding the glass at the bar is enough to affect him.
* DubInducedPlotHole: Not exactly a plot hole ''per se'', but Doc's last line "Already been there (the future)" is sometimes dubbed to "I already am in the future." The original line is meant to be the lead-up for the Time Train's flying capability. The dubbed line turns it into a character moment, showing that whenever he can go, his heart is still in the Old West. Both versions work in their ownway, though the dubbed version makes the train's flight something of an AssPull.way.
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* EasilyForgiven: 55 Doc makes it clear that he doesn't hold Marty at fault for (eventually) winding up in 1885.
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** Similarly, 1885 Doc's initially not happy Marty disregard his explicit orders to return to 1985 instead of coming back to get him. But he's so delighted to be reunited with this Partner in Time that he can't stay mad at Marty for too long. And of course, once Doc learns what Marty and his 1955 counterpart discovered about his impending death, he's glad Marty disobeyed orders.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. (The nickname was invented by a newspaper reporter, for his HairTriggerTemper and his propensity for drooling. Buford didn't like it, and [[DisproportionateRetribution shot the reporter]].)
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. (The nickname was invented by a newspaper reporter, for his HairTriggerTemper and his propensity for drooling. Buford didn't like it, and [[DisproportionateRetribution shot the reporter]].)
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**Similarly, 1885 Doc's initially not happy Marty disregard his explicit orders to return to 1985 instead of coming back to get him. But he's so delighted to be reunited with this Partner in Time that he can't stay mad at Marty for too long. And of course, once Doc learns what Marty and his 1955 counterpart discovered about his impending death, he's glad Marty disobeyed orders.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen.(The The nickname was invented by a newspaper reporter, for his HairTriggerTemper and his propensity for drooling. Buford didn't like it, and [[DisproportionateRetribution shot the reporter]].)
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen.
* EverybodyLives: There was a deleted scene showing Marshall Strickland being murdered by Buford Tannen, though the scene was cut explicitly ''because'' of this trope (Buford would have surely been hanged for killing a lawman, but according to the plot he ''had'' to live in order to keep the Tannen bloodline going).
* EveryCarIsAPinto:
** A steam locomotive gets its boiler supercharged to the limit of its pressure capacity and then explodes in a quite realistically violent manner after it goes hurtling off a cliff. Steam locomotives occasionally exploded spectacularly in real life, sometimes hurling pieces of themselves tremendous distances.
** Averted when the [=DeLorean=] is hit by a train after returning to 1985. Rather than explode in a fireball (it didn't even have any gas in it that could have ignited in such an unrealistic fashion), it more or less shattered into pieces without any pyrotechnics.
* EveryCarIsAPinto:
** A steam locomotive gets its boiler supercharged to the limit of its pressure capacity and then explodes in a quite realistically violent manner after it goes hurtling off a cliff. Steam locomotives occasionally exploded spectacularly in real life, sometimes hurling pieces of themselves tremendous distances.
** Averted when the [=DeLorean=] is hit by a train after returning to 1985. Rather than explode in a fireball (it didn't even have any gas in it that could have ignited in such an unrealistic fashion), it more or less shattered into pieces without any pyrotechnics.
* FantasticRomance: The movie has Doc and Marty stuck in TheWildWest, where Doc falls in love with a local woman after saving her from a runaway carriage (she had died in their original timeline). At the end, he takes her with him to explore time together in a new time machine. Marty's happy ending is that he and Jennifer are reunited and their future is [[ScrewDestiny whatever they make it]].
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* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Doc arranges for Marty to return to his own time from 1955 by carefully storing his [=DeLorean=] in a cave, with instructions for his 1955 counterpart on how to restore the machine to working condition.
* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Doc arranges for Marty to return to his own time from 1955 by carefully storing his [=DeLorean=] in a cave, with instructions for his 1955 counterpart on how to restore the machine to working condition.
* FlyAtTheCameraEnding: The movie ends with Doc's train aiming at the camera after Doc and his family bid Marty and Jennifer farewell. As a CallBack, the ending shot references the ending of the first movie.
* FlyAtTheCameraEnding: The movie ends with Doc's train aiming at the camera after Doc and his family bid Marty and Jennifer farewell. As a CallBack, the ending shot references the ending of the first movie.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Doc and Clara return in the time machine train, Doc in the foreground tells Marty and Jennifer to make their future a good one. In the background, for whatever reason, the child playing Verne motions towards the camera and points to his crotch. It's been hypothesized that the child actor was trying to signal to someone (possibly director Zemeckis) that he needed to pee.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: FunnyBackgroundEvent:
** When Doc and Clara return in the time machine train, Doc in the foreground tells Marty and Jennifer to make their future a good one. In the background, for whatever reason, the child playing Verne motions towards the camera and points to his crotch. It's been hypothesized that the child actor was trying to signal to someone (possibly director Zemeckis) that he needed to pee.
** When Doc and Clara return in the time machine train, Doc in the foreground tells Marty and Jennifer to make their future a good one. In the background, for whatever reason, the child playing Verne motions towards the camera and points to his crotch. It's been hypothesized that the child actor was trying to signal to someone (possibly director Zemeckis) that he needed to pee.
* GetBackToTheFuture: A variation. The actual time machine part isn't broken -- no need to harness lightning -- but the ''car'' is broken in a way that can't be fixed in the time they are in, and since the time travel requires reaching a specific high speed...
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* GreekChorus: WordOfGod describes the three old-timers, played by western veterans Dub Taylor, Harry Carey Jr., and Pat Buttram, who hang out at the 1885 saloon as this. They comment on how Marty and his actions are being perceived by the average townsman (although unlike many examples, they let Marty hear them).
* HangingAround: Buford Tannen and his gang try to hang Marty. During filming of this scene, the safety line actually snapped, so Creator/MichaelJFox was [[EnforcedMethodActing really being strangled]] during the scene. It was only due to the crew realizing what had happened that FatalMethodActing was fortunately averted.
* HeldGaze: Doc and Clara have one.
* HangingAround: Buford Tannen and his gang try to hang Marty. During filming of this scene, the safety line actually snapped, so Creator/MichaelJFox was [[EnforcedMethodActing really being strangled]] during the scene. It was only due to the crew realizing what had happened that FatalMethodActing was fortunately averted.
* HeldGaze: Doc and Clara have one.
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* TheGreatRepair: The [=DeLorean=]'s gas tank ruptures and all the gasoline is lost with no way to make more. Unable to get to 88 miles per hour, they're now stranded in 1885. They have to concoct a scheme to get their damaged time machine up to the magic speed and escape.
* GreekChorus:WordOfGod [[invoked]]WordOfGod describes the three old-timers, played by western veterans Dub Taylor, Harry Carey Jr., and Pat Buttram, who hang out at the 1885 saloon as this. They comment on how Marty and his actions are being perceived by the average townsman (although unlike many examples, they let Marty hear them).
* GunTwirling: Buford "[[BerserkButton Mad Dog]]" Tannen enjoys this little bit of showboating before his climatic [[ShowdownAtHighNoon Showdown at]] [[ShowdownAtHighNoon Eight O'Clock]] with [[SueDonym Clint Eastwood]], twirling his revolver forward, then twirling it back to smoothly replace it in its holster.
* HandWave: Creator/LeaThompson, who plays Marty's mother Lorraine Baines-[=McFly=] throughout the trilogy, plays his ''paternal'' great-great-grandmother Maggie [=McFly=] in Part III. The real explanation was that neither Creator/RobertZemeckis nor Bob Gale could bear making a BTTF movie without her, and the InUniverse explanation is that [[LikeParentLikeSpouse all McFly men are genetically predisposed to be attracted to women who look like]] Creator/LeaThompson.
* HangingAround: Buford Tannen and his gang try to hang Marty. During filming of this scene, the safety line actually snapped, so Creator/MichaelJFox was[[EnforcedMethodActing really being strangled]] strangled during the scene. It was only due to the crew realizing what had happened that FatalMethodActing was fortunately averted.
* HatDamage: Buford Tannen holds Doc at gunpoint and Marty hits the gun with a thrown pie plate the moment he pulls the trigger. Doc's hat gets a neat bullethole right in the center and is knocked off his head, but he is uninjured. Played completely serious.
%%* HeldGaze: Doc and Clara have one.
* GreekChorus:
* GunTwirling: Buford "[[BerserkButton Mad Dog]]" Tannen enjoys this little bit of showboating before his climatic [[ShowdownAtHighNoon Showdown at]] [[ShowdownAtHighNoon Eight O'Clock]] with [[SueDonym Clint Eastwood]], twirling his revolver forward, then twirling it back to smoothly replace it in its holster.
* HandWave: Creator/LeaThompson, who plays Marty's mother Lorraine Baines-[=McFly=] throughout the trilogy, plays his ''paternal'' great-great-grandmother Maggie [=McFly=] in Part III. The real explanation was that neither Creator/RobertZemeckis nor Bob Gale could bear making a BTTF movie without her, and the InUniverse explanation is that [[LikeParentLikeSpouse all McFly men are genetically predisposed to be attracted to women who look like]] Creator/LeaThompson.
* HangingAround: Buford Tannen and his gang try to hang Marty. During filming of this scene, the safety line actually snapped, so Creator/MichaelJFox was
* HatDamage: Buford Tannen holds Doc at gunpoint and Marty hits the gun with a thrown pie plate the moment he pulls the trigger. Doc's hat gets a neat bullethole right in the center and is knocked off his head, but he is uninjured. Played completely serious.
%%* HeldGaze: Doc and Clara have one.
* HideousHangoverCure: The "Wake-Up Juice" is an actual legit drink, the Bull Shot, a variant on the well-known Bloody Mary. The drink used in the film is actually a combination of ''two'' Bull Shot variations (Bull Shot, Bull Shot #4). It consists of one ounce of club soda, two ounces of beef broth, one ounce of tomato juice, one teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce, quarter of a teaspoon of lemon juice, three dashes of Tabasco-Habanero sauce, and some dried garlic. It immediately causes the Doc to holler and rush to the nearby water trough without waking up. Explanation? "That's just a reflex reaction. He won't be awake for another 10 minutes." Doc does wake up a few minutes later, with a headache.
* HomageShot: Doc's idiosyncratic way of dancing in 1885 is stated in the commentary to be an homage to ''Film/MyDarlingClementine''. There is also a careful reproduction of another shot from that film: [[BarSlide a gun being slid down a bar toward the camera, in deep focus]].
* HomageShot: Doc's idiosyncratic way of dancing in 1885 is stated in the commentary to be an homage to ''Film/MyDarlingClementine''. There is also a careful reproduction of another shot from that film: [[BarSlide a gun being slid down a bar toward the camera, in deep focus]].
* HubcapHovercraft: The Time Train from the end of the movie can hover like the [=DeLorean=], except it has its own thrust engines - the wheels are still, for some reason, rotated by the steam pistons in their flying position.
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* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Doc with the train whistle--"I've wanted to do that all my life!"
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* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: IAlwaysWantedToSayThat:
** After hijacking a steam locomotive, Docwith Brown blows the train whistle--"I've engine's whistle, saying, "I've wanted to do that all my life!"life!" There's a ShoutOut to this in Robert Zemeckis' ''WesternAnimation/ThePolarExpress'' where the boy protagonist does the same thing and says the same line.
** Earlier in the movie, Doc and Marty are discussing how to catch up to that train on a short timeframe. Doc is more familiar with the local area than Marty (or at least, more familiar with traveling around it with 19th-century technology), so he points out that they will have to "cut 'em off at Coyote Pass!" This does not receive an explicit remark, but considering that Doc is explicitly stated to be a fan of the Old West several times in the series, maybe Zemeckis just figured it wasn't needed.
** After hijacking a steam locomotive, Doc
** Earlier in the movie, Doc and Marty are discussing how to catch up to that train on a short timeframe. Doc is more familiar with the local area than Marty (or at least, more familiar with traveling around it with 19th-century technology), so he points out that they will have to "cut 'em off at Coyote Pass!" This does not receive an explicit remark, but considering that Doc is explicitly stated to be a fan of the Old West several times in the series, maybe Zemeckis just figured it wasn't needed.
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* IconicSequelCharacter: Creator/MarySteenburgen is the only new actor of any note (other than Elisabeth Shue being TheOtherDarrin for Jennifer) introduced to the series for either sequel. She’s one of the most liked in the series.
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* IconicSequelCharacter: Creator/MarySteenburgen is the only new actor of any note (other than Elisabeth Shue being TheOtherDarrin for Jennifer) introduced to the series for either sequel. She’s one of the most liked in the series.[[invoked]]
* JustKeepDriving: At the end the [=DeLorean=] [[spoiler:is destroyed by an oncoming train on the tracks as it arrives in the present]]. It doesn't even stop, just keeps going.
* JustTrainWrong: A shaky dance with plausibility:
** In RealLife, the locomotive used, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_No._3 Sierra No. 3]], would have a hard time reaching even 65 MPH ''on a good day'', much less 88. Like electric engines, however, steam engines have the advantage of being measured in terms of pure Tractive Effort: their limiting factor is the amount of steam pressure they can generate and how long they have to build up momentum. As the engineer says, if you get the boiler hotter than Hades and have a long stretch of straight track and are willing to risk the whole thing blowing up or flying off the tracks, it's possible -- the infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Jones#Death Casey Jones wreck]] involved an engine with nearly identical stats pushed to an 80 mph "cannonball" run while hauling a light six-car train (with some help from a downhill stretch of track).
** Doc Brown states that the logs he has created for Marty to throw into the stolen locomotive are made mostly out of anthracite coal. While anthracite does burn much more efficiently than wood, it can also be incredibly difficult to ignite, especially when it isn't broken into very small pieces. The engine in the film was also designed to burn wood, which allow too much or too little air draft to ignite the coal even if Marty did have the time to sit there and baby it. The filmmakers' explanation here is the "mostly" -- if the logs consisted of finely-ground anthracite mixed with a firework-style oxidizer, it would be a rather effective way to force-feed the engine oxygen and fuel. Or blow it up like the test model.
** The last component is steam generation -- you would want as much water in the tender tank as possible, but you'd also have to make sure that it didn't flood the boiler either. [[note]]High heat + Empty boiler = KABOOM!... but High Heat + too much water = Also KABOOM! + blast wave of superheated steam![[/note]] Doc does mention that the boiler will catastrophically explode if it reaches a certain pressure, and during the last minute of the scene, rivets and seams are visibly failing and spewing vapor or jets of superheated water. Also, the train explicitly does retain the tender in the script (Doc commands the engineer and fireman to "uncouple the cars from the tender"). In RealLife, the tenders were often physically attached to the engine and could not be removed without significant effort anyway.
* JustTrainWrong: A shaky dance with plausibility:
** In RealLife, the locomotive used, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_No._3 Sierra No. 3]], would have a hard time reaching even 65 MPH ''on a good day'', much less 88. Like electric engines, however, steam engines have the advantage of being measured in terms of pure Tractive Effort: their limiting factor is the amount of steam pressure they can generate and how long they have to build up momentum. As the engineer says, if you get the boiler hotter than Hades and have a long stretch of straight track and are willing to risk the whole thing blowing up or flying off the tracks, it's possible -- the infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Jones#Death Casey Jones wreck]] involved an engine with nearly identical stats pushed to an 80 mph "cannonball" run while hauling a light six-car train (with some help from a downhill stretch of track).
** Doc Brown states that the logs he has created for Marty to throw into the stolen locomotive are made mostly out of anthracite coal. While anthracite does burn much more efficiently than wood, it can also be incredibly difficult to ignite, especially when it isn't broken into very small pieces. The engine in the film was also designed to burn wood, which allow too much or too little air draft to ignite the coal even if Marty did have the time to sit there and baby it. The filmmakers' explanation here is the "mostly" -- if the logs consisted of finely-ground anthracite mixed with a firework-style oxidizer, it would be a rather effective way to force-feed the engine oxygen and fuel. Or blow it up like the test model.
** The last component is steam generation -- you would want as much water in the tender tank as possible, but you'd also have to make sure that it didn't flood the boiler either. [[note]]High heat + Empty boiler = KABOOM!... but High Heat + too much water = Also KABOOM! + blast wave of superheated steam![[/note]] Doc does mention that the boiler will catastrophically explode if it reaches a certain pressure, and during the last minute of the scene, rivets and seams are visibly failing and spewing vapor or jets of superheated water. Also, the train explicitly does retain the tender in the script (Doc commands the engineer and fireman to "uncouple the cars from the tender"). In RealLife, the tenders were often physically attached to the engine and could not be removed without significant effort anyway.
* KissingDiscretionShot: The shot is pulled back and seasoned with a shooting star when Doc Brown and Clara Clayton kiss, probably because Creator/ChristopherLloyd was deemed too old to do so up close.
* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: At the Hill Valley town festival on September 5th, 1885, Doc and Clara are dancing when Buford Tannen points a derringer pistol at Doc's back. Clara agrees to a dance with Buford in an attempt to defuse the situation, till a lecherous comment from him leads her to kick him in his shin, and he shoves her to the ground, making the band stop and Buford is about to shoot Doc before Marty intervenes by throwing a pie-tin as a frisbee at Buford. This, in turn, leads to a tense standoff between Marty and Buford where they agree to a duel before Marshall Strickland intervenes, telling them to stand down and asking the band to resume playing music.
* LikeADuckTakesToWater:
** Marty [=McFly=] travels through time back to the old west. Despite being only a teenager who has presumably never shot a real gun before, he turns out to be an expert at quickdraw and pistol shooting (once he adjusts to the recoil) because of his [[IKnowMortalKombat familiarity with a video game from 1985]].
** Despite being considered a [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold crazy, dangerous nut]] in his own time, Doc Brown's love of the Old West made him fit in perfectly with Hill Valley in 1885. Throughout the third film, he's shown to be well-liked and on first name terms with many local townspeople, including even the Mayor and until he learned that Marty came back to prevent Buford Tannen from shooting him, Doc was quite content to simply live out the rest of his life in the past.
** Marty [=McFly=] travels through time back to the old west. Despite being only a teenager who has presumably never shot a real gun before, he turns out to be an expert at quickdraw and pistol shooting (once he adjusts to the recoil) because of his [[IKnowMortalKombat familiarity with a video game from 1985]].
** Despite being considered a [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold crazy, dangerous nut]] in his own time, Doc Brown's love of the Old West made him fit in perfectly with Hill Valley in 1885. Throughout the third film, he's shown to be well-liked and on first name terms with many local townspeople, including even the Mayor and until he learned that Marty came back to prevent Buford Tannen from shooting him, Doc was quite content to simply live out the rest of his life in the past.
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** The song being played is actually "The Battle Cry of Freedom" by Frederick Root, an incredibly popular song from the Civil War era that remained so for several decades afterward.
* ManHug: Doc hugs Marty when the latter turns up in 1885.
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* MayItNeverHappenAgain: [[spoiler: After Marty had come back to 1985 from the Wild West, the Delorean time machine was hit by a train and broke into a million pieces. Marty couldn't fix it due to the fact that time traveling is dangerous. It also meant that the time machine could never be used again.]]
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* MayItNeverHappenAgain: [[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After Marty had come back to 1985 from the Wild West, the Delorean time machine was hit by a train and broke into a million pieces. Marty couldn't fix it due to the fact that time traveling is dangerous. It also meant that the time machine could never be used again.]]]]
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: When Marty and Doc are at the train stop looking at the map of the train and the ravine, Clara is in the background, waiting to be picked up by Doc.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: When Marty and Doc are at the train stop looking at the map of the train and the ravine, Clara is in the background, waiting to be picked up by Doc.
* MisterSandmanSequence: The sequence introducing 1885 Hill Valley includes a small harmonica bit of the ''Back to the Future'' theme tune, when Marty is looking at the courthouse in construction.
* NitroBoost: The three chemical bricks Doc puts in the [[RunawayTrain steam engine]]. Each one makes it rapidly accelerate, the third [[ExplosiveOverclocking blows the tank]]!
* OverlyStereotypicalDisguise: Marty's flamboyant cowboy attire, which he does lampshade, but (1950s) Doc insists is fine to wear (note that westerns were huge in 1955, but historical accuracy in westerns was not). Marty switches to more reasonable clothes as soon as he can.
* PlayingPossum: Marty fakes his death when Buford Tannen shoots him, wearing a make-shift bullet-proof vest -- foreshadowed in the [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII second movie]] in the Creator/ClintEastwood scene on the TV in the hot-tub scene.
* PlayingPossum: Marty fakes his death when Buford Tannen shoots him, wearing a make-shift bullet-proof vest -- foreshadowed in the [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII second movie]] in the Creator/ClintEastwood scene on the TV in the hot-tub scene.
* PoisonIsCorrosive: Marty gets poured a free shot of whiskey by a bartender that wants to make sure he knows what they serve in his bar. Strong stuff all right -- the bar top smokes from the overpour. Marty wisely leaves it alone. (While not billed as poison, one shot of the same whiskey puts Doc on the floor.)
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** Marshall Strickland doesn't arrest Tannen after he attempts to murder Marty and Doc on two different occasions. His deputy eventually does arrest Tannen for robbery (a crime he apparently considers more serious then attempted murder), but only after Marty has made it easy knocking Tannen out.
*** Though in the deleted scene, Marshall Strickland does try to stop him from his challenge with Marty, until Tannen shoots his gun from his hand, and then shoots him in the back.
*** Though in the deleted scene, Marshall Strickland does try to stop him from his challenge with Marty, until Tannen shoots his gun from his hand, and then shoots him in the back.
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** Marshall Strickland doesn't arrest Tannen after he attempts to murder Marty and Doc on two different occasions. His deputy eventually does arrest Tannen for robbery (a crime he apparently considers more serious then attempted murder), but only after Marty has made it easy knocking Tannen out.
***out. Though in the deleted scene, Marshall Strickland does try to stop him from his challenge with Marty, until Tannen shoots his gun from his hand, and then shoots him in the back.
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* ProphecyTwist: The photograph of Doc's tombstone accurately predicts that he will die on Monday, September 7, 1885 by Buford shooting him in the back over a matter of $80 if history continues on the same course. Doc and Marty fail to realize that just because he ''dies'' on Monday does ''not'' mean he gets ''shot'' on Monday, hence Doc's surprise when Buford shows up to shoot him on ''Saturday'' is quite genuine. (Because Buford's guns are all confiscated to enter the dance, he sneaks in a small but effective pistol that would kill when fired -- but thanks to the small calibre ammo, it would take three days for the victim to expire.)
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* ProphecyTwist: ProphecyTwist:
** The photograph of Doc's tombstone accurately predicts that he will die on Monday, September 7, 1885 by Buford shooting him in the back over a matter of $80 if history continues on the same course. Doc and Marty fail to realize that just because he ''dies'' on Monday does ''not'' mean he gets ''shot'' on Monday, hence Doc's surprise when Buford shows up to shoot him on ''Saturday'' is quite genuine. (Because Buford's guns are all confiscated to enter the dance, he sneaks in a small but effective pistol that would kill when fired -- but thanks to the small calibre ammo, it would take three days for the victim to expire.)
** The photograph of Doc's tombstone accurately predicts that he will die on Monday, September 7, 1885 by Buford shooting him in the back over a matter of $80 if history continues on the same course. Doc and Marty fail to realize that just because he ''dies'' on Monday does ''not'' mean he gets ''shot'' on Monday, hence Doc's surprise when Buford shows up to shoot him on ''Saturday'' is quite genuine. (Because Buford's guns are all confiscated to enter the dance, he sneaks in a small but effective pistol that would kill when fired -- but thanks to the small calibre ammo, it would take three days for the victim to expire.)
* QuickDraw: Marty is challenged to a 19th Century shooting range and manages to shoot every single target -- [[IKnowMortalKombat before this point, he'd probably never used a real gun in his life.]] His first shot goes completely wild because he wasn't prepared for the kick and he was being made to use his left hand, but he does absolutely perfect on his second attempt after switching.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The movie has a race against distance, in which the protagonists much reach a certain speed before their train topples off of a bridge.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The movie has a race against distance, in which the protagonists much reach a certain speed before their train topples off of a bridge.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: When Marty arrives in 1885 to save Future-Doc (who's TrappedInThePast), Future-Doc is aghast at his bizarre cowboy outfit and asks who dressed him like that, to which Marty says, "you did" -- he means Past-Doc from 1955. The book adds the twist of Doc suddenly ''remembering'' this happening. It's an odd twist because while it's not ''inconsistent'' with how memory is shown to work in the films (''e.g.'' does Marty come to "remember" his assertive parents?), it's also possible that this version of Doc ''is'' the same Doc who dressed him up but is just kinda scatterbrained.
* RubeGoldbergDevice: The ice-making machine Doc made in the Wild West. Its status as a Rube Goldberg Device is primarily due to the fact that Doc was constrained to 1885 technology. Later on in the movie, there's a downplayed breakfast machine which fries two eggs and some bacon.
* RubeGoldbergDevice: The ice-making machine Doc made in the Wild West. Its status as a Rube Goldberg Device is primarily due to the fact that Doc was constrained to 1885 technology. Later on in the movie, there's a downplayed breakfast machine which fries two eggs and some bacon.
* RunawayTrain: There's one deliberately set up my Dr. Brown and Marty, as an out-of-control train is the only way to get the crippled [=DeLorean=] up to 88 mph. The point where the train goes from a controlled time-travel experiment to a runaway is when they notice Clara has snuck on board, and the train is going too fast to stop before reaching the gorge with the incomplete bridge.
* ScaleModelDestruction: There's a model layout made to simulate the plan to return to 1985; and again, the only thing that gets wrecked is the model steam engine... the same way they plan to sacrifice the real one.
* ScaleModelDestruction: There's a model layout made to simulate the plan to return to 1985; and again, the only thing that gets wrecked is the model steam engine... the same way they plan to sacrifice the real one.
* ScarpiaUltimatum: Mad Dog drops this one on Doc Brown and Clara. The point is for Clara to dance with Mad Dog to get him to leave Doc alone, but it's as close to lewd as one can get in a gingham dress. Shortly afterward he suggests she have sex with him to cover Doc's debt.
* SecondActBreakup: Happens between Doc Brown and old west schoolteacher Clara Clayton. Notable as it's part of a science-fiction comedy movie trilogy that doesn't normally dwell on such things; and that despite the breakup happening over a misunderstanding, no one was really at fault -- it's just really hard for someone living in the old west to believe someone who tells them he's a time-traveller from a hundred years in the future.
* SecondEpisodeMorning: During the movie's ending, Jennifer believes that her time in the future was a dream -- until she finds the fax paper in her pocket.
* SecondEpisodeMorning: During the movie's ending, Jennifer believes that her time in the future was a dream -- until she finds the fax paper in her pocket.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The movie has Marty go back further in time to 1885; when lightning struck the time machine, Doc Brown was left stuck in the past, but sent a letter to Marty in the present to explain where and when he was, and that he was perfectly happy. Marty enlists the 1955 Doc to repair the time machine to get him back home, but they discover Doc's gravestone from less than a week after he mailed the letter, saying he was shot by Buford Tannen. Marty travels back to 1885 to save Doc, and in the end, he alters his own future by overcoming his own ego and the taunts of others, and Doc's by saving his life and getting him a lover.
* SettleItWithoutWeapons: When Marty is duelling Beauford Tannen, he drops his gun and asks if they can settle it like men. [[spoiler:Beauford [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just shoots him]], which Marty was counting on - he'd improvised a bulletproof vest out of an oven door.]]
* SettleItWithoutWeapons: When Marty is duelling Beauford Tannen, he drops his gun and asks if they can settle it like men. [[spoiler:Beauford [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just shoots him]], which Marty was counting on - he'd improvised a bulletproof vest out of an oven door.]]
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*** Gets even better when you remember [[Creator/JulesVerne who originally wrote that story]]...
** Marty's authentic 1885 outfit (the one he wears after the goofy pink one) is a ShoutOut to ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' (appropriate given [[Creator/ClintEastwood Marty's alias]]), as is the climax with the "bullet-proof" protection--[[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] in ''Part II''.
*** He also says [[Film/SuddenImpact "Go ahead, make my day."]]
** Marty's authentic 1885 outfit (the one he wears after the goofy pink one) is a ShoutOut to ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' (appropriate given [[Creator/ClintEastwood Marty's alias]]), as is the climax with the "bullet-proof" protection--[[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] in ''Part II''.
*** He also says [[Film/SuddenImpact "Go ahead, make my day."]]
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*** ''The Wizard of Oz'' was referenced in each film, in the OnceAnEpisode scenes of Marty waking up after being left unconscious.
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* ShowdownAtHighNoon: Lampshaded and averted. Buford Tannen does his shooting before breakfast. Marty retorts he does his after.
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* ShowdownAtHighNoon: Lampshaded and averted. Zigzagged. Marty asks Buford Tannen does his shooting if he wants their showdown to happen at high noon, but Buford insists that he "does [his] killing before breakfast. breakfast." Ultimately, the film provides a DoubleSubversion of the trope when Marty retorts he does refuses to take his after.place in the duel, but is forced to anyway. However, he still refuses to actually shoot Buford, relying instead on a BulletproofVest ploy.
* SlippingIntoStink: Marty defeats Mad Dog Tannen by punching him out and causing him to fall on a manure wagon.
* TeleFrag: Doc explains the reason they're out in the middle of the desert is because the De Lorean will have plenty of run-off space in a wide-open area. Sending Marty back to a place that is populated or geographically unknown would be ''very'' dangerous idea; there's a risk he could easily [[PortalSlam crash into]] someone or something that once existed there. Doc doesn't clarify if this also extends to materializing ''inside'' something that once existed as well, but the implication is that it would be just as much of a danger. In an example of MythologyGag, Doc warns Marty that he might crash on a tree that was there 100 years ago... unaware that the first thing Marty did [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 when he first traveled back in time]] was crashing on a tree that was there 30 years ago.
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** Likewise, throughout the 1885 sequence, there are two [=DeLoreans=] present: the one that Doc has stored in the mine, and its 70-years-older counterpart with vacuum tubes that Marty used to time travel from 1955.
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** Likewise, throughout Throughout the 1885 sequence, there are two [=DeLoreans=] present: the one that Doc has stored in the mine, and its 70-years-older counterpart with vacuum tubes that Marty used to time travel from 1955.
* ThatWasNotADream: At the end of ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' and the beginning of this one, Marty finds the 1955 Doc literally ''moments'' after he sent the Marty from the first film back to 1985. When Marty tries to explain that he's come back ''from'' the future, the 1955 Doc faints from shock. As seen in ''Part III'', the next morning, the 1955 Doc thinks he hallucinated the whole thing till he finds Marty, who brought him home, with him in his house, scaring Doc as Marty tries to fill him in on everything that transpired in the previous movie.
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* TimeTravelRomance: Doc Brown falls in love with a schoolteacher from the Old West.
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* TimeTravelEscape: Marty and Doc save Clara Clayton from dying without realizing that doing so will [[AlternateHistory change history through the children she would have taught had she lived in the original timeline]]. In the end, Doc fixes this "mistake" by removing Clara from the timeline when he builds a second time machine and taking her into the future.
* TimeTravelRomance: Doc Brownfalls in unexpectedly encounters love in the Wild West with a schoolteacher from much younger woman named Clara. [[spoiler: They stay together and they travel through time together.]]
* TimeIsDangerous: By this movie, Doc seems to be acknowledging this. Marty's a little less sure, but both times Doc assures him that theOld West. obstacle he's seeing in the present won't be there in the destination time. Or that something that isn't there in the present ''will'' be there in the future, ([[spoiler:like the rest of the bridge.]])
* TimTaylorTechnology: Doc's solution to getting a steam locomotive to reach 88 mph is some pyrotechnically-treated wood that brutally overclocks the boiler. You can guess [[ExplosiveOverclocking how it ends]]. Since he deliberately ran the engine off an unfinished bridge, he knew the overclocking wasn't going to be the worst problem.
* TimeTravelRomance: Doc Brown
* TimeIsDangerous: By this movie, Doc seems to be acknowledging this. Marty's a little less sure, but both times Doc assures him that the
* TimTaylorTechnology: Doc's solution to getting a steam locomotive to reach 88 mph is some pyrotechnically-treated wood that brutally overclocks the boiler. You can guess [[ExplosiveOverclocking how it ends]]. Since he deliberately ran the engine off an unfinished bridge, he knew the overclocking wasn't going to be the worst problem.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: When Creator/{{TNT}} aired the movie in the 1990s, their commercial bumpers included shots of the Time Train flying away, spoiling the ending for any viewers watching the movie for the first time.
** Similarly, the teaser trailer at the end of Part II spoiled that [[spoiler:Marty would make it back to 1985, as he reunites with Jennifer while still wearing his cowboy clothes.]]
** Similarly, the teaser trailer at the end of Part II spoiled that [[spoiler:Marty would make it back to 1985, as he reunites with Jennifer while still wearing his cowboy clothes.]]
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: TrailersAlwaysSpoil:
** When Creator/{{TNT}} aired the movie in the 1990s, their commercial bumpers included shots of the Time Train flying away, spoiling the ending for any viewers watching the movie for the first time.
**Similarly, the The teaser trailer at the end of Part II spoiled that [[spoiler:Marty would make it back to 1985, as he reunites with Jennifer while still wearing his cowboy clothes.]]
** When Creator/{{TNT}} aired the movie in the 1990s, their commercial bumpers included shots of the Time Train flying away, spoiling the ending for any viewers watching the movie for the first time.
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* TrappedInThePast: Doc, after realizing he's stuck in 1885. All he has to do is leave a letter with Western Union.
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* TrappedInThePast: Doc, after realizing Doc Brown resigns himself to the fate of living in TheWildWest -- and he's stuck in 1885. All actually quite happy about it. He even goes as far as to give Marty instructions to not pick him up. Being an inventor, though, he has does manage to do is leave a letter invent some technology of the future with Western Union.the era's limited materials. He doesn't share his inventions with anyone else, as he's mindful to not risk changing history. At the end of the film, he does create another time machine out of a steam train. However, it's uncertain whether he chooses to live out the rest of his life in the past -- or move back to the future, or really just travel to any era as he pleases. The [[Ride/BackToTheFutureTheRide ride]] and [[WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture animated series]], though, both have Doc ultimately moving back to the future.
* TrickedOutTime: Marty suggests in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' that they bring Clara Clayton back to the future with them -- which would remove her from 1885, where she's supposed to be have died by falling into "Clayton Ravine". Doc rejects this as a step too far -- but the filmmakers have suggested that if [[spoiler:Doc had appeared to go over the edge of the ravine when the train crashed]] Clara may have killed herself by jumping into the ravine, removing herself from the timeline and causing it to be named after her after all. The filmmakers do state that Doc himself created a Tricked Out Time situation with the Clayton Ravine in the first revision to that timeline: originally, Clara's carriage went over the ravine, resulting in the name; in the revised timeline where Doc saved her (but where Marty was never present), she committed suicide by jumping into the ravine after Doc was killed by Buford, resulting in the name. This is used to explain why both Doc and Marty know of the ravine by that name.
* TrickedOutTime: Marty suggests in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' that they bring Clara Clayton back to the future with them -- which would remove her from 1885, where she's supposed to be have died by falling into "Clayton Ravine". Doc rejects this as a step too far -- but the filmmakers have suggested that if [[spoiler:Doc had appeared to go over the edge of the ravine when the train crashed]] Clara may have killed herself by jumping into the ravine, removing herself from the timeline and causing it to be named after her after all. The filmmakers do state that Doc himself created a Tricked Out Time situation with the Clayton Ravine in the first revision to that timeline: originally, Clara's carriage went over the ravine, resulting in the name; in the revised timeline where Doc saved her (but where Marty was never present), she committed suicide by jumping into the ravine after Doc was killed by Buford, resulting in the name. This is used to explain why both Doc and Marty know of the ravine by that name.
* WakingUpElsewhere: Marty falls, exhausted, near the [=McFly=] ranch. While waking up, he, drowsily assumes the past several hours have been a bad dream when he finds himself comforted by his great-great-grandmother, [[AssuranceBackfire reassuring him he's safe in 1885]]. The news [[ThatWasNotADream shocks him awake]] and leads to a brief freakout.
* WeDontNeedRoads: Or "We Don't Need ''Rail''roads" in this case. [[spoiler:The time train Doc and his family travel in can fly like the [=DeLorean=] before it, albeit with some wings and a tail. Even its wheels fold downwards!]]
* WeDontNeedRoads: Or "We Don't Need ''Rail''roads" in this case. [[spoiler:The time train Doc and his family travel in can fly like the [=DeLorean=] before it, albeit with some wings and a tail. Even its wheels fold downwards!]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: Seamus and Maggie [=McFly=], Marty's ancestors, give Marty one of these when they call him out on taking up Tannen's challenge when he was called "yellow" instead of just walking away and being the better man. They comment "Clint" [[YouRemindMeOfX reminds them of Seamus' brother Martin who also took up a challenge and died for it]].
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** Seamus and Maggie [=McFly=], Marty's ancestors, give Marty one of these when they call him out on taking up Tannen's challenge when he was called "yellow" instead of just walking away and being the better man. They comment "Clint" [[YouRemindMeOfX reminds them of Seamus' brother Martin who also took up a challenge and died for it]].
** Seamus and Maggie [=McFly=], Marty's ancestors, give Marty one of these when they call him out on taking up Tannen's challenge when he was called "yellow" instead of just walking away and being the better man. They comment "Clint" [[YouRemindMeOfX reminds them of Seamus' brother Martin who also took up a challenge and died for it]].
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* WeDontNeedRoads: Or "We Don't Need ''Rail''roads" in this case. [[spoiler:The time train Doc and his family travel in can fly like the [=DeLorean=] before it, albeit with some wings and a tail. Even its wheels fold downwards!]]
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* WithAFootOnTheBus: The Doc falls in love with Clara, a woman of the far west. He told her he was from the future, so she slapped him and took the train out of the city, while Doc and Marty tried to use a train to activate the time machine. She discovered that he said the truth and run to him, trying to catch the train and beg his pardon. In the end, only Marty returned to 1985: Doc was out of the time machine saving Clara's life, and it was destroyed after Marty returned. But that does not stop a scientist: Doc made a new time machine, built into a train [[GivingRadioToTheRomans powered by steam]], and reunites with Marty in what is an instant from his perspective (but long enough for Doc and Clara to have started a family from theirs).
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: Doc constructed a giant machine with the sole purpose of creating ice cubes before the technology became common, which sounds like something one would do if they were ''trying'' to randomly change the timeline. But that's all it does, too; no ChekhovsGun here since Doc never showed any intention to make this invention public; he's well aware that doing so would be dangerous for the course of events in the history of science and technology.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: Doc constructed a giant machine with the sole purpose of creating ice cubes before the technology became common, which sounds like something one would do if they were ''trying'' to randomly change the timeline. But that's all it does, too; no ChekhovsGun here since Doc never showed any intention to make this invention public; he's well aware that doing so would be dangerous for the course of events in the history of science and technology.
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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: The 1955 Doc averts this. He specifically sends Marty back to a point in 1885 after 1985 Doc has left the letter with Western Union. As seen in the movie, they didn't do anything about it, which allowed for normal 70+ year delivery: "and the Western Union guy lost the bet!"
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* YourUniverseOrMine: Doc Brown and Clara Clayton have something like this, but the fact that Clara was supposed to have died (and survived only through Doc's [[{{Pun}} timely]] intervention) may help simplify matters. In the end, they seem to choose option C: Live sort of outside of time traveling through the past and future with their flying train.
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* ProchronicProduct: Doc Brown's invoked affinity for Jules Verne's [[TropeCodifier prochronic oriented]] science fiction leads him creating quite a few things that are ahead of their time for 1885. First, a high power sniper rifle with a telescope -- able to "''shoot a flea off a dog's back at 500 yards''", it is by about 75 years before perfection of rifling technology for common availability. He constructs a clockwork mechanism able to cook breakfast in the morning. A refrigerator machine, half the size of his shed, able to produce ice cubes -- about 50 years early than the invention of freon. Shown but not discussed, there are electricity powered toys on the mockup of their plans to use the time machine pushed on tracks by a locomotive. Also, in the same film, Doc explains to Marty his prochronic creation of Presto-logs, wood logs substitutes that he chemically treated to burn hotter and longer to make the locomotive run faster than usual -- these are also about 50 years earlier. This all serve to foreshadow that he [[spoiler:later built a levitating time machine into a locomotive.]] [[WordOfGod Writer Bob Gale]] even compared Doc Brown with Leonardo Da Vinci -- a genius ahead of his time. Justified, as he is a mad scientist from 1985.
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** Bizarrely, Maggie ''[=McFly=]'' to her in-theory not-descendant Lorraine ''Baines'', leading to fans joking that the [=McFly=] family is inbred.
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** Bizarrely, Marty's ancestor Seamus [=McFly's=] wife Maggie ''[=McFly=]'' looks identical to her in-theory not-descendant Marty's mother Lorraine ''Baines'', ''Baines'' despite, at least in-theory, not being her direct descendant, leading to fans joking that the [=McFly=] family is inbred.
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* KlatchianCoffee: After Doc passes out ([[CantHoldHisLiquor from a single shot of whiskey]]), Marty struggles to wake him up with coffee. The bartender says they'll need something stronger than that.
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* KlatchianCoffee: After Doc passes out ([[CantHoldHisLiquor from a single shot of whiskey]]), Marty struggles to wake him up with coffee. The bartender says they'll need something stronger than that. The mix is so strong that Doc runs out of the bar to get water out of the horse through while still unconscious.
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* Mundaneutility: Marty uses the hoverboard as a footrest when he falls asleep in Doc's armchair.
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* Mundaneutility: MundaneUtility: Marty uses the hoverboard as a footrest when he falls asleep in Doc's armchair.
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* RuleOfDrama: Steam trains didn't have cords that passengers could pull to stop the train, but it ''does'' make for a good dramatic moment where Clara can hop out of the train and run back to town. It also serves to delay the train so Doc and Marty an still hijack it.
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* RuleOfDrama: Steam trains didn't have cords that passengers could pull to stop the train, but it ''does'' make for a good dramatic moment where Clara can hop out of the train and run back to town. It also serves to delay the train so Doc and Marty an can still hijack it.
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* WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens: The Doc's train at the end has a bunch of spinny things on it.
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* CowboyEpisode: 1885 Hill Valley is a fairly stereotypical Western setting and the film's secondary climax is a gun duel between Marty and local outlaw Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen.
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* CowboyEpisode: 1885 Hill Valley is a fairly stereotypical Western setting and the film's secondary climax is a gun duel between Marty and local outlaw Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. Justified, since it's southern California in 1885.
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* HiddenDepths: Schoolmarm Clara is able to ride a horse, board a moving train, and climb up to the front.
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* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: For some reason, the coal tender on the train is packed with wooden logs. Maybe to save some cash, maybe so Clara could clamber over something cleaner than a pile of coal.
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* RuleOfDrama: Steam trains didn't have cords that passengers could pull to stop the train, but it ''does'' make for a good dramatic moment where Clara can hop out of the train and run back to town. It also serves to delay the train so Doc and Marty an still hijack it.
* RuleOfThree: Marty punches Tannen three times, sending the man crashing into the tombstone and averting the future where either he or Doc ends up dead. It takes a fourth punch, however, to put the man in a pile of manure and end the fight.
* RuleOfThree: Marty punches Tannen three times, sending the man crashing into the tombstone and averting the future where either he or Doc ends up dead. It takes a fourth punch, however, to put the man in a pile of manure and end the fight.
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** Steam driven locomotives didn't typically go very fast, because that risked derailment, but by the late nineteenth century, it would have been possible to drive a train up to 90 mph, though it would have been the edge of their capacity.
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* EurekaMoment: Meta example. In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdDJxKXgdYY DVD Featurette]], Bob Gale reveals this was the origin of the Doc Brown/Clara romance. He and Zemeckis both felt going into the final film that they had done all they could with Marty and his Family and that they needed to focus more on Doc. Trying to figure out how they could do that was what led the idea of Doc Brown finding love in the Old West.
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** Meta example. In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdDJxKXgdYY DVD Featurette]], Bob Gale reveals this was the origin of the Doc Brown/Clara romance. He and Zemeckis both felt going into the final film that they had done all they could with Marty and his Family and that they needed to focus more on Doc. Trying to figure out how they could do that was what led the idea of Doc Brown finding love in the OldWest.West.
** Marty realizes that he doesn't have to care what other people think, he can just be his own man.
-->'''Marty:''' [pointing out the window to Tannen] He's an asshole! I don't care what he thinks! And I don't care what anybody else thinks, either!
** Meta example. In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdDJxKXgdYY DVD Featurette]], Bob Gale reveals this was the origin of the Doc Brown/Clara romance. He and Zemeckis both felt going into the final film that they had done all they could with Marty and his Family and that they needed to focus more on Doc. Trying to figure out how they could do that was what led the idea of Doc Brown finding love in the Old
** Marty realizes that he doesn't have to care what other people think, he can just be his own man.
-->'''Marty:''' [pointing out the window to Tannen] He's an asshole! I don't care what he thinks! And I don't care what anybody else thinks, either!
