History Franchise / BackToTheFuture

* ''Theatre/BackToTheFutureTheMusical'' (2020) - [[/index]]the ScreenToStageAdaptation of the first film.[[index]]

* ''Back to the Future: TheMusical'' (2020) - [[/index]]the ScreenToStageAdaptation of the first film.[[index]]

** Plenty from Pepsi, to the point it's amazing they didn't try to work it into Part 3. For a really good example, watch the scene between Marty and George just after the "Darth Vader" scene... notice that Michael J. Fox ''never'' completely covers the logo of his Pepsi bottle. Also, the writers had to fight to keep the "give me a Tab" gag in the first movie, because Pepsi didn't want Marty mentioning another company's soda. The futuristic Pepsi glass in ''Part II'' makes it look awfully good, though

* RemovedAchillesHeel: Initially, the first version of the [=DeLorean=] required literal plutonium to generate enough electricity to power the time circuits while the [[TheAllegedCar car stalls on Marty at very inopportune times]]. A later trip to 2015 where Doc got the hover conversion for the [=DeLorean=] also had him buy a Mr. Fusion energy converter, allowing him to simply use trash instead of plutonium, the stalling issue is apparently fixed (as Marty or Doc seem to have no more problems revving it up to life) and the hover circuits allows it to travel anywhere without road issues {[[BagOfSpilling At least until the third movie, where the hover circuits got fried and brought back the road issue]]). Eventually the [[CoolTrain Time Train]] simply used steam.

** In the first movie ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', Marty cause Biff to crash into a manure truck and dump the contents on his convertible.
** In the second movie ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', Marty manages it again, this time distracting Biff long enough to get the Almanac back that he once more crashes into a manure truck. The ''same'' one from the first movie to boot. Meaning in the context of the 50's timeline, it happened ''twice in one week''.
** In the third movie ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', Marty defeats Mad Dog Tannen by punching him out and causing him to fall on a manure wagon.
* SnowballLie: Doc and Marty are the undisputed masters of using this technique to preserve their cover.
* TheSociopath: Biff is likely this.

->''[[Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews ♫ So take me away,\\

* EverybodyLives: Throughout all three films, no one dies and stays dead. In the first movie, Doc is killed by Libyan terrorists, but in the next timeline, he survives the encounter by wearing a bulletproof vest. In ''Part II'', George is murdered in an alternate timeline, but the original timeline is restored by the end of the movie. This even applies to the villains: the fate of every Tannen is to end up in a pile of manure, and the fate of the Libyans is unclear. However, ''Part III'' would have averted this trope if it had kept the DeletedScene in which Marshal Strickland was murdered. And if you really want to be a pedant, you could always point out that everyone from 1885 is dead in 1985.

* ''Back to the Future'' (2020) - [[/index]]TheMusical based on the first film.[[index]]

!!Tropes? Where we're going, we don't ''need'' tropes!

** Also in the first film, one of Buford's henchmen uses a racial slur towards one of the Starlighters after he confronts them for sticking Marty in the trunk of his car.

* PlayingGertrude: Creator/LeaThompson is just nine ''days'' older than her onscreen son Creator/MichaelJFox. Creator/CrispinGlover is actually three years ''younger'' than Fox, and Creator/ThomasFWilson is just two years older than Fox. This trope is played straight when it comes to scenes in 1985. But it becomes averted once we go back in time to 1955, where Thompson, Glover, and Wilson are playing their characters at or around Marty's age.

An extraordinarily successful 1980s (and a 1990 instalment) trilogy of TimeTravel {{movies}} starring Creator/MichaelJFox and Creator/ChristopherLloyd (with an [[WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture animated]] SpinOff series) which has received several {{homage}}s. They combined FishOutOfWater comedy with high-stakes drama, making deft use of threatened TemporalParadox.

** At least as far as ''Part I'' and ''II'' are concerned, every time a [=McFly=] (or two) goes to the local diner, a Tannen is sure to be there with his cronies to cause grief along for the victim.

** Inverted with Doc, he seemed to fit in better in 1885 and was a respected member of the community, as opposed to the crazed crackpot rep he had in 1985.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: And plenty of it.

* RemovedAchillesHeel: Initially, the first version of the [=DeLorean=] required literal plutonium to generate enough electricity to power the time circuits. A later trip to 2015 where Doc got the hover conversion for the [=DeLorean=] also had him buy an energy converter, allowing him to simply use trash instead of plutonium and the hovering allows it to travel anywhere without road issues. {[[BagOfSpilling At least until the third movie, where the hover circuits got fried and brought back the road issue]].) Eventually the [[CoolTrain Time Train]] simply used steam.

%%* OddFriendship: Marty and Doc.

* StockSoundEffects: BTTF ''loves'' Castle Thunder, especially in the first two installments. It appears literally dozens of times, mixed in different ways, during the big [[RaceAgainstTheClock Clock Tower Finale]].

%%* TechnicolorScience: The lightning bolt.

%%* TimeTravel: Of course.

* ExtyYearsFromNow: Thirty years in the past; thirty years in the future; then a hundred years in the past.

* HighConcept: One of the average film critic's examples -- normally on the level of "Young man goes back in time and {{Grandfather Paradox}}es himself, has to play cupid to his own parents."

->''♫ So take me away,\\

[[Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews But you'd better promise me, I'll be back in time!]] ♫''

[[Music/HueyLewisAndTheNew But you'd better promise me, I'll be back in time!]] ♫''

But you'd better promise me, I'll be back in time! ♫''

->''♫ So take me away\\

->'''Marty:''' Hey, Doc! Where you going now? Back to the future?\\
'''Doc Brown:''' Nope; already been there!

'''Doc Brown:''' Nope, already been there!

** Biff thinks pointing out his malapropisms is about as funny as a screen door on a battleship![[note]]Screen door on a submarine, you dork![[/note]]

* WritersCannotDoMath: A stock DMC [=DeLorean=] only got about 130 horsepower. It would go 0-60 in about a day and a half. That, of course, is before you dump a fusion reactor in the back seat, with the requisite lead shielding to keep everyone inside from dying of a radiation overdose, easily doubling the weight of the car. So the notion that the car ''ever'' got up to 88 mph is hilarious.

->''"IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit."''

* {{Fanfare}}: Creator/AlanSilvestri was basically told to make the score epic after his initial music didn't impress Spielberg. So Silvestri made a triumphant and bombastic theme.

** Biff thinks pointing out his malapropisms is about as funny as a screen door on a battleship!

* OddFriendship: Marty and Doc.

* TechnicolorScience: The lightning bolt.

* TimeTravel: Of course.

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* ActorAllusion: According to his driver's license, Marty [=McFly=] shares a birthdate with his actor, Creator/MichaelJFox ([[DawsonCasting though seven years later]], being June 9, 1968, instead of June 9, 1961).[[invoked]]

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