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* What made Doc change his mind and go to 2015 instead of 2010?
** He says right then and there that he changed his mind because he felt 30 years was a nice round number.
** This troper noticed that he didn't "change his mind" so much as had it changed for him. He wanted 25 years in the future ''before'' Marty went through time and changed history. Part of the change was informing the past Doc that he is 30 years from the future. [[
* Why would George want Biff anywhere near his wife and kids? He was a breath away from raping Lorraine the night of the dance. Even ignoring that he's still an asshole who is still physically stronger than him. He could come back anytime and get revenge.
** George punching out Biff completely changed the power dynamic between the two. In short, after George laid out Biff, Biff was his bitch.
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*** Also, since it was a 100-year jump, the longest the DeLorean had ever made (that we know about, at least), the sonic booms were far enough apart that, and this is a stretch, the gates could have been triggered manually by an operator (likely with [[Plot Induced Stupidity]]). Compare the last jump to the first one with Einstein, which was only a minute, and thus, sounded more like three firecrackers going off in quick succession.
*** Perhaps traveling through time creates local electromagnetic disturbances several seconds before the visible/audible pyrotechnics.
* So when Marty pretends to be [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] hailing from the planet [[Star Trek
** Vulcan is a Roman god, so the name would be likely to be used for a planet anyway. ''Star Wars'' came out twenty-two years after 1955. If you heard a name once, would you remember it after twenty-two years? Okay, ''maybe'' if the person who told you it was an "alien" invading your bedroom, but it's still conceivable George forgot the exact name.
*** And before anyone asks: no, the Vulcan salute wouldn't give it away, either. Leonard Nimoy drew on his Jewish background and the hand gestures used by rabbis in synagogue ceremonies to incorporate that into the character of Spock. The gesture, in other words, is common, not specific to Darth Vader from Planet Vulcan.
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*** Gale and Zemeckis say in the DVD materials for the box set that they thought of Doc as having probably worked on the Manhattan Project. If the Libyans did their homework then they would likely have heard of him, so either they sought him out and he took advantage of the opportunity or he used his credentials to his advantage and sought ''them'' ought with his hoax already in mind.
** Why does Lorraine's father (Marty's grandfather) complain that ''another'' teenager threw himself in front of the car? Has this happened before?
*** [[Rule of Funny|Yes.]] It's an [[Oh, No, Not Again]] gag.
*** I thought it was a sneaky comment about horny boys eying his daughter as she changed.
*** [[Wild Mass Guessing|This has happened before.]] Lorraine met all of her previous boyfriends because they were trying to look through her bedroom window and got hit by her father's car. This also helps explain why Lorraine is so taken with Marty: she assumes he was looking at her as she dressed (and apparently she doesn't find this creepy; maybe she even sets it up on purpose) and therefore she assumes that Marty is already attracted to her. In fact...we can further suppose that Lorraine's father suspects that this is the case. Therefore, he tends to hit these boys with his car ''on purpose'' (not too hard, mind you) as a way of saying "stop being a peeping tom". He further describes Marty as "an idiot" at the dinner table, because he thinks Marty was peeping.
** Why does the family just have Biff, who attempted to rape Lorraine, hang around and do auto detailing work for them (as asked earlier on this page)? Furthermore, why didn't they get him sent to jail?
*** It was [[The Fifties]] at the time, with different societal attitudes. Also, time heals a lot of wounds I guess (see ''[[Watchmen (
** In the new 1985, why is Dave in a suit and going to the office on a Saturday? If he has an office job that requires a suit, how come he still shares a car with his parents (as implied by his anger when Marty claims the car was wrecked)?
*** Maybe the people at his office carpool. And maybe he's working on the weekend because he has a [[Pointy-Haired Boss]].
** As asked above on this page, does George McFly eventually suffer mental breakdowns when he sees "Darth Vader" on ''[[Star Wars]]'', the Vulcan salute on ''[[
*** This question has been addressed above twice.
* [[The Power of Love]] is great and the song with that title used in the first ''Back To The Future'' is great too. But how exactly does the content of the song relate in any way to the plot of ''Back To The Future''?
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* Here's something I've always wondered, and I'm surprised it's never been mentioned yet. Why does 1955 Doc have such a colossal freak-out at the end of [[Btt F 2]]/beginning of [[Btt F 3]] upon seeing Marty again right after sending the past Marty back to 1985? He knows all about the time machine by this point, so why would seeing another future version of Marty cause him to go into shock, pass out, and then act in denial of Marty's existance until he shows him the letter from his future self?
** He had just spent a whole week wrapped up in that scheme, only for it to come to naught (as far as he can see) the very ''moment'' it had succeeded. Anyone would be tempted to be in denial after that. Besides, Doc is an excitable fellow.
* After the time machine was destroyed in ''Part III'', one would think that eventually someone would come by to see if there were any bodies in the rubble, and to clean up the scene. The problem is, there are several parts of the time machine that were either unique to it (the flux capacitor and time circuits) or were borrowed future technology (Mr. Fusion and the destroyed flying circuits). Does it stand to reason that someone may have found, say, the Mr. Fusion device, and reverse-engineered it to become the "new" creator of the Mr. Fusion? Kind of like what happened in [[The Terminator]] or ''[[Star Trek IV:
** Marty and Jennifer probably picked up the most important pieces before they left the scene.
** What are the odds of someone who would know what to do with such an elaborate kind of mechanism chancing to come across the rubble before it was cleared? Or that the pieces would be in any condition to help them?
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* Why are we 5 years out from the events of the 2nd film and still without hoverboard and flying cars? Seriously, Mattel needs to step it up.
** [http://gizmodo.com/5549271/a-real-working-hoverboard-exists We're getting there.]
** We destabilised the space-time continuum when fax machines fell out of popularity. Without the amazing development of having a fax machine in your cupboard, scientists have been unable to replicate the technology for flying cars, hoverboards, self-lacing shoes, and self-drying clothes. Some suspect this to be an conspiracy on the part of moviegoers in order to prevent the making of fifteen more ''[[Jaws (
*** Well then said fax machines must have prevented the advent of such technologies as cell phones, which are surprisingly absent from BTTF's 2015. Either that, or in five years none of us will use them anymore.
**** Yeah, if it depicted the now modern world accurately then everyone wouldn't be driving in flying cars but instead constantly yapping on their cell phones in ordinary ones. Which to be fair is no less dangerous.
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*** It can't have waited a few hours though?
*** Doc might have got himself locked into a '[[San Dimas Time]]' way of thinking (i.e. the clock is always ticking and I have to get this done right away!); perhaps not rational, seeing as [[San Dimas Time]] doesn't seem to operate in the BTTF universe, but he's perhaps running on adrenaline a bit given the nature of the crisis and not really thinking straight.
*** Doc's watch is set to the precise 10/21/2015 time, and he's calculated all the events down to the moment. Remember when he looks at his watch [[Right
* I know I know, [[Berserk Button]] and probably not thinking straight, but Marty is still a [[What an Idiot!|massive idiot]] for letting Griff get to him from being called ''chicken'' in 2015. The insult was meant for Marty Jr., so why does Marty even care? Or could he be taking the insult as a means of saying "nobody calls ''my son'' chicken!" ?
** Pride is rarely rational. A personal example: When I was in drama club in high school I was never comfortable playing buffoonish, doltish, or silly characters because I had a very hard time separating myself from the character I was portraying. So when the audience would laugh at something I did on stage it felt like they were actually laughing at ''me'' rather than at the buffoonish character I was portraying. No matter how many times the cold and logical side of my brain told me that they were laughing at my character and not at me, it took me a long time to learn how to get over my pride and stop taking their laughter personally. The same thing is probably going on with Marty. Even though he knows Griff is technically insulting Marty Jr., Marty Sr.'s pride causes him to take it personally all the same.
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