History Headscratchers / BackToTheFuturePartII

*** And lets be honest. If you take a book off a guy like Biff and see the future dates on the cover whats your first thought more likely to be? "Omg its a book from the future" or one of a million variations of the above? Especially as once he flips through it he sees its the Ooh La La magazine without a sports statistic in sight.

*** And lets be honest. If you take a book off a guy like Biff and see the future dates on the cover whats yojr first thought more likely to be? "Omg its a book from the future" or one of a million variations of the above? Especially as once he flips through it he sees its the Ooh La La magazine without a sports statistic in sight.

** Biff hasn't literally taken over the city / state and overthrown its government with an army like a warlord or anything, but he is hugely wealthy, and money buys influence. He buys off the cops so that they'll turn a blind eye to his crimes and he buys off officials to get them to do things that will give advantages to him and his business. As for the federal government, the ''Biff to the Future'' comics states he accidentally saves Richard Nixon's career by buying the Washington Post and firing Woodward and Bernstein, thereby strangling the Watergate investigation in its cradle. Nixon is forever indebted to him, and as a result, Biff's rise to power is greatly expedited thanks to having President Nixon as his ally.

** For one thing, he'd be unjustly incarcerated for something he was innocent of, so they would obviously want to prevent that if they could, especially given that he was sentenced for 15 years, with Marlene being sentenced to 20 years. As Doc says, the event starts a chain reaction which completely destroys Marty's entire family. Given that his and Jennifer's relationship seemed to be on the rocks, their kids going to jail, combined with Marty losing his job, would probably spell the end of their marriage, plus his kids have to deal with having criminal records and the social stigma of being ex convicts. The novelization also implies that Marlene commits suicide after the whole ordeal. So there's a lot of harm in Marty Jr. doing jail time.

** Doc's an engineer. He likely bought the Mr. Fusion and attached it to the Delorean himself, thus neatly side-stepping any such awkward questions.

** He might have spun a story about wanting to use it to power another part of the car.

* About the Mr. Fusion- Doc uses this in lieu of plutonium to power the time machine. But this invention was intended as a home energy generator. So how did Doc convince a future mechanic to put one on his car? As we know from the movie, cars in the future still ran on gasoline as evidenced by the Texaco station we see. So wouldn't the person who put a Mr. Fusion on the Delorean question why Doc would want one if not to power the car? It's not like Doc could just say "Um...well...it's for time travel."

* About the Mr. Fusion- Doc uses this in lieu of plutonium to power the time machine. But this invention was intended as a home energy generator. So how did Doc convince a future mechanic to put one on his car? As we know from the movie. cars in the future still ran on gasoline as evidenced by the Texaco station we see. So wouldn't the person who put a Mr. Fusion on the Delorean question why Doc would want one if not to power the car? It's not like Doc could just say "Um...well...it's for time travel."

* About the Mr. Fusion- Doc uses this in lieu of plutonium to power the time machine. But this invention was intended as a home energy generator. So how did Doc convince a future mechanic to put one on his car? As we know from the movie...cars in the future still ran on gasoline as evidenced by the Texaco station we see. So wouldn't the person who put a Mr. Fusion on the Delorean question why Doc would want one if not to power the car? It's not like Doc could just say "Um...well...it's for time travel."

** He probably didn't want to lose track of Biff's whereabouts.

** With George [=McFly=] being murdered and Lorraine being stuck with three kids who she had trouble supporting, Lorraine probably married Biff so that both she and her kids could be secure (and she probably wasn't aware that it was ''Biff'' who killed her husband). Notice in ''Part II'' when Lorraine threatens to leave that Biff threatens to cut off her kids, at which point she backs down.

* Why did Marty hide in the back of Biff's car? Shouldn't he have waited until Old Biff left before he tried anything? Doc himself said that Marty should let Old Biff leave thinking he succeeded in his mission. Marty was lucky Old Biff never noticed him the whole time when he very well could have. If he had, Old Biff probably would have stuck around for longer and it would make it more difficult for Marty and Doc to succeed in their mission to steal the almanac back from young Biff.

** He seems to be the earlier version of the Marty the film follows, since he does all the same things Marty did in the first movie. Since he arrived in 1955 before Old Biff did, he probably wasn’t affected by the changes to the timeline.

*** That would require Marty getting to go inside of and see his future home, something that Doc was very adamant about him ''not'' doing, presumably because he doesn't want him finding out about the car accident that would befall him. He also specifically says he wants to avoid Marty running into his future self.

*** That would require Marty getting to go inside of and see his future home, something that Doc was very adamant about him ''not'' doing, presumably because he doesn't want him finding out about the car accident that would befall him.

** Also: let's be blunt: Jennifer isn't a very well-written or clearly defined character. She's setup in the second film as being a little vain and overly obsessed with the romance of her and Marty's relationship (asking Doc about the wedding and her wedding-dress and such), maybe the thought of her teenage self seeing herself as an old woman with grey hair and wrinkles was genuinely ''disturbing'' for her, hence shrieking 'I'M OLD!!!' before collapsing.

** Given that this is the weird, zany future of hover-boards, nineteen ''Jaws'' sequels, lawyers banned from the justice system, incredibly powerful anti-aging treatments, instant dry-cook pizzas, and so many other unlikely-bordering-on-impossible things, it's entirely possible that Halloween has somehow been banned or otherwise disappeared to the point where it's no longer celebrated between 1985 and 2015. Furthermore, there were also no Halloween decorations up in 1985, despite the scenes set there taking place even closer to Halloween (October 25 to 27). So it seems that Hill Valley apparently started waiting until the last minute to put up Halloween decorations even before the present setting of the films.

** Given that this is the weird, zany future of hover-boards, nineteen ''Jaws'' sequels, lawyers banned from the justice system, incredibly powerful anti-aging treatments, instant dry-cook pizzas, and so many other unlikely-bordering-on-impossible things, it's entirely possible that Halloween has somehow been banned or otherwise disappeared to the point where it's no longer celebrated between 1985 and 2015. Furthermore, there were also no Halloween decorations up in 1985, despite the scenes set there taking place even closer to Halloween (October 25 to 27). So if Hill Valley had a problem with waiting a long time to put up Halloween decorations, it was something that can't be blamed on future practices.

** Given that this is the weird, zany future of hover-boards, nineteen ''Jaws'' sequels, lawyers banned from the justice system, incredibly powerful anti-aging treatments, instant dry-cook pizzas, and so many other unlikely-bordering-on-impossible things, it's entirely possible that Halloween has somehow been banned or otherwise disappeared to the point where it's no longer celebrated between 1985 and 2015. Furthermore, there were also no Halloween decorations up in 1985, despite the scenes set there taking place even closer to Halloween (October 25 to 27). So it seems that Hill Valley waiting a long time to put up Halloween decorations wasn’t something that started in the future.

** Presumably he was more competent at his job than Marty, who's a washed up loser, and Needles, who's a troublemaking bully, and was promoted through the ranks faster. He also is in a managerial line of work, while Marty is implied to be a dead end grunt.

* Why is Mr. Fujitsu 5 years younger than Needles and Marty (the video call information bit at the bottom of the screen lists his age as 42, whereas Needles is 47, the same age as Marty) if he's the CEO? Was he some kind of child prodigy or something?
** The information only lists his occupation as supervisor and it seems unlikely that a CEO would concern himself with the firing of presumably low level employees. As for why he's in a higher position than Marty and Needles despite being younger than them, presumably he was more competent at his job than Marty, who's a washed up loser, and Needles, who's a troublemaking bully, and was promoted through the ranks faster. He also is in a managerial line of work, while Marty is implied to be a dead end grunt.
*** Well the company ''is'' named after him, which seems to imply he's the CEO.
*** The company is called [=CusCo=], so it's not named after him. There is a real life information and communications technology company called Fujitsu, but the characters do not work for it and its name is not derived from a surname, being a shortened form of its full name "Fuji Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing". The filmmakers later expressed regret for choosing it as the character’s name, admitting it to be a case of AsLongAsItSoundsForeign and that naming the character by that name would be akin to naming another character “Mr. General Motors.” The video call information also gives his occupation as simply "supervisor", not CEO. Given that Needles says to Marty, “See you at the plant tomorrow”, it seems that the company has many locations and Fujitsu is just the supervisor at the one that Marty and Needles work at. So he has the authority to fire those working under him, but he’s presumably not particularly high up in the corporate hierarchy.

** Also, RuleOfFunny: the joke is that Doc believes he needs a disguise because his appearance has been altered so drastically that Marty would not recognise him, only for it to turn out that despite all the treatments he's been through, he looks exactly the same as he ever did. Doc is being pointlessly over-cautious (and somewhat lacking in self-awareness).