Line #16 Recap/FilmRerollBackToTheFuturePartII


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: [[NotAsYouKnowThem Pictured:]] [[TookALevelInJerkass Doc Brown]][[note]] Art by [[http://imgur.com/a/Immh2 @2TheBrian]]]][[/note]]
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4	->''In the Film Reroll’s first ever episode, we play through [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII Back to the Future 2]]. [[GoneHorriblyWrong It all goes horribly, horribly wrong.]]''
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6	Episode 1 of Podcast/FilmReroll. Based on [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII the 1989 movie.]]
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8	The eccentric inventor Doctor Emmett Brown has picked up his young friends, Marty [=McFly=] and his girlfriend Jennifer Parker, in his time-travelling Delorean to save their son from going to jail. However, there are many obstacles waiting for them in the far off future of 2015, including an unpleasant GrumpyOldMan, a gang of dangerous delinquents, and a black hole threatening to destroy all of creation...
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10	This was the only Film Reroll episode to be set during the same year it was released until 2019's [[Recap/FilmRerollBladeRunner Blade Runner]].
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12	Starring Kara Strait[[note]] credited as “Pitr Strait” [[/note]] as Marty [=McFly=], Jon Miller as Doctor Emmett Brown, Jocelyn "Joz" Vammer as Jennifer Parker and Paulo Quiros as the Dungeon Master.
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14	Followed by [[Recap/FilmRerollRaidersOfTheLostArk Raiders Of The Lost Ark.]]
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16	'''WARNING: Everything found below is a WalkingSpoiler. You have been warned!!!'''
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19	!!Tropes:
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21	* ApocalypseHow: The universe is destroyed by all the paradoxes.
22	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Joz's FishOutOfWater roleplaying of Jennifer leads Kara to joke that despite the movie making it look like she's out of Marty's league, he's actually the one "pity-dating this dumb girl".
23	* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: When it's mentioned that the Delorean arrived in 2015 at night, only for it to suddenly become day, everyone just assumed there was a TimeSkip in the movie; in reality, they arrived during a ''rain storm'', that ended almost instantaneously after Doc parked.
24	* ChangedMyJumper: Defied: Marty and Jennifer simply go around in 2015 wearing their 80's clothes, figuring that fashion is cyclical and that they must have gotten some retro appeal by now.
25	* CrackOhMyBack: As part of the gong show of Doc tasering Marty Jr. into unconciousness, when tasks with leaving the scene with him before the cops show up, a botched Strength roll results in Doc throwing out his back, which sticks with Jon for the rest of the movie.
26	* DeathByAdaptation: Doc Brown dies after being sucked into a black hole, and the rest of the Universe follows when the paradoxes pile up.
27	* DisasterDominoes: When people interact with their AlternateSelf, a paradox is created. This tends to lead to more interactions, creating more and worse paradoxes...
28	* DisneyDeath:
29	** At one point, it seems like the two young Jennifers have been erased from time, but they were merely teleported a few minutes into the future. They still don't make it through the campaign alive.
30	** Jon Miller ''hopes'' that this has happened to his character, only to be informed that no, Doc Brown has been KilledOffForReal.
31	* DownerEnding: The very last Paradox roll results in the entire universe being destroyed.
32	* HopeSpot:
33	** Doc and Marty have stopped the latter's son from going to jail, and Doc has also figured out a way to get rid of the black hole and managed to get the earliest Jennifer out of the closet. Then he gets sucked into it, and everything gets worse.
34	** At the very end of the campaign Marty and Jennifer are seconds away from escaping with their lives and the universe intact when the final paradox roll is triggered.
35	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The first effect of the paradoxes is that the past and future versions of Jennifer forget everything that happened the last 20 minutes. [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse later,]] when the past and slightly-more-past Jennifer lose the last 24 hours of their memory, [[OhCrap including their knowledge of which one is which.]]
36	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The episode was released in 2015, the same year the future portion of Film/BackToTheFuturePartII takes place in.
37	* MediumAwareness:
38	** Doc Brown says that the [=DeLorean=]'s ability to fly is a new upgrade "for this movie."
39	** The characters are also aware of the Dungeon Master's existence, though they refer to him as "{{God}}."
40	* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Is in full effect. It's bad when the time travelers talk to themselves from another time, and even worse if they touch. Most of the paradoxes are caused by the characters not obeying this rule.
41	* NoodleIncident: According to the newspaper, Marty Jr. has been jailed for "shenanigans."
42	* NotWhatItLooksLike: Joz-as-Jennifer lying that Marty is a great inventor briefly causes Paulo and the others to assume Joz never saw the ''Back to the Future'' films.
43	* OffTheRails: Things ''impressively'' start quickly falling apart once the group enters 2015: Doc accidentally causes some time paradoxes [[KickTheDog and repeatedly tazes Marty Jr. into potential brain damage]], Jennifer tries to kill Old Biff and causes ''further'' paradoxes [[TooDumbToLive by going to Old Marty’s house]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and Marty tries to steal the Almanac]]. By the end of the campaign, [[RealityBreakingParadox the universe is destroyed]].
44	* TheOtherDarrin: Marty tells Jennifer that she looks different, creating an InUniverse LampshadeHanging of the actress switch in the actual movies.
45	* PointOfDivergence: Because Doc never bothered to knock Jennifer out once she's in the Delorean[[note]]since she saw the Delorean arrive, and Doc was trying to make sure she didn't tell anyone about it being a time machine; no one at the table remembered that Doc did this[[/note]], she winds up being one of the key architects [[TimeCrash for the end of the universe]].
46	* StaticStunGun: A taser is used to great and hilarious effect by Jon/Doc Brown to subdue Marty Jr.
47	* StealingTheCredit: Joz Vammer as Jennifer tries to fish for information about her and Marty's future by telling Old Biff that Marty is a great inventor, hoping for him to respond in a way that tells her what Old Marty really does. The other players don't immediately catch on and think Joz genuinely thinks that Jennifer thinks that Marty is a great inventor, and speculate that Marty has been showing Jennifer Doc's inventions and claimed to have built them himself.
48	* TemporalParadox: Thanks to Jon/Doc Brown and Jocelyn/Jennifer. Mostly because of NeverTheSelvesShallMeet.
49	* TemptingFate: “I’m trying to keep the game quick.”
50	* TimeyWimeyBall: It's almost self-explanatory that a campaign based on a "Back to the Future" movie will have one of these. At one point, there are three Martys and ''four'' Jennifers running around at the same time. (This is actually ''very'' bad, since time travelers meeting themselves has a high risk of causing paradoxes.)
51	* TotalPartyKill: A bit of an understatement, as ''literally'' the entire universe is destroyed.
52	* WhatTheHellHero:
53	** Joz and Kara are ''mortified'' with Jon repeatedly having Marty Jr. tazed by Doc.
54	** Kara holds nothing back in making her frustration clear over [[TooDumbToLive Jennifer helping end the universe]].
55	--->'''Kara''': ''Fuck you, Jennifer.''

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