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{{quote| '''Marty McFly:''' "Are you telling me you built a time machine... [[Pimped-Out Car|out of a DeLorean]]?!"<br />
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* [[Once an Episode]]: All films have Marty being chased by a Tannen, a Tannen covered in manure, Marty thinking it was [[All Just a Dream]], a estabilishing shot of Hill Valley...
* [[Our Time Machine Is Different]] because it is a car, and a cool one at that.
* [[The Peeping Tom]]: In ''Back to the Future'', the then-teenage George McFly spies on his future wife, Lorraine, from a tree next to her window. This becomes a crucial plot point as this is the point where Marty alters history. When George falls out of the tree, Marty pushes him out of the way of an oncoming car...accidentally preventing his parents' original meeting.
** He even says, "I'm more of a peeping tom." in the Telltale games.
* [[Pimped-Out Car]]: Doc made a time machine out a car, and later a train, not to mention the flying abilities.
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* [[Balls of Steel]]: There is a clang when Marty punches Griff in the groin. Subverted in which he feels the blow.
* [[Batter Up]]: Griff, attacking Marty in 2015 with his baseball bat, even says the phrase.
* [[Binocular Shot]]: When Marty uses binoculars at the dance in 1955 and later when the
* [[Biting the Hand Humor]]: "[[Jaws (Film)|Shark still looks fake.]]"
* [[Book and Switch]]: Biff hides a girly magazine inside the dust jacket of the sports almanac, which Marty mistakes for the real thing. An earlier scene in 2015 established the dust jacket for the purpose of this scene.
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* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Compared to Part 1. And. '''HOW.'''
* [[Defictionalization]]: Marty Jr's hat became an actual piece of merchandise. Sadly, there is no sign of hoverboards yet.
** Mattel
** In 2008, Nike released 1000 pairs of (rather pricey) "Air McFly/Nike Mag" sneakers. And in 2011, they released [http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-09-09/nike-launches-back-to-the-future-trainers 1500 more.] The '11 versions light up. But, neither version self-laces, though.
* [[The Easy Way or The Hard Way]]: Directly quoted.
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* [[Hesitation Equals Dishonesty]]: At the end of the first film, Doc lies about Marty and Jennifer not being "assholes in the future." When the scene was reshot for the start of the second film, Doc hesitates before answering their question.
* [[I Hate Past Me]]: Old Biff isn't all that thrilled to be giving ''anything'' to the idiotic, amoral, young Biff, but is willing to do so because then ''he'll'' be rich in the future. {{spoiler|[[Temporal Paradox|This backlashes in the form of him vanishing, implying that Biff-A died (possibly being murdered) before 2015.]]}}
** This was confirmed in the Making Of tape bundled with the original VHS release as well as the 2002/2009 BTTF III DVD/2010 DVD Bonus Disc "
* [[I Have to Wash My Hair]]: Said by Lorraine in 1955 when Biff "invites" her to the dance with him.
* [[I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday]]: Marty, when he returns to 1955. Doc mentions that he ''was'' there yesterday. In fact, it was approximately a week earlier.
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: [[Word of God]] says the 1985-A Biff was inspired by [[Donald Trump]]. The portrait in Biff's office was even based on one of Trump.
* [[No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me]]: Parodied.
* [[No
* [[Not
* [[Off to Boarding School]]: The alternate Marty in 1985-A.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: "Wallet Guy."
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* [[Product Placement]]: Most are for "future" products. Mattel hasn't gotten around to making hoverboards...yet. The futuristic Pepsi glass makes it look awfully good, though.
* [[Prop Recycling]]: All of the futuristic cars were recycled from other films.
* [[Putting On the Reich]]: S.S.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: The concept of an altered "[[Bad Future|bad present]]" where George McFly was murdered came about due to Crispin Glover's refusal to take part in the sequel.
* [[The Red Stapler]]: We're still waiting for our hoverboards... ones that really work, that is. (See Defictionalization, above.)
** [http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-08/nike-patents-mcfly-self-lacing-shoes-future
* [[Ridiculous Future Inflation]]: Doc gives Marty $50 for a bottle of Pepsi.
** However, this is later subverted when Old Biff steps out of the taxi, and the driver charges him $174.50 for the ride. While this is still expensive relative to the time of the movie's release, it suggests that a future taxi ride only costs three sodas.
* [[Ridiculous Future Sequelisation]]: A holographic advertisement for ''Jaws 19'', directed by Max Spielberg, with the tagline: "This time it's really,
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]:
{{quote| '''Biff:''' "I OWN the police!"}}
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** Absolutely [[Truth in Television]]: DeLoreans feature a fiberglass body overlaid with relatively thin sheet metal (which would sometimes crack during manufacturing). Some of the crash tests show an unbelievable amount of crumpling when hitting a solid wall, so the Doc is quite accurate with his observation.
** Cars were generally made a lot more durable before the modern safety systems like automatic brakes and air bags were invented. Nowadays cars are designed to crumple on impact to absorb some of the kinetic energy and rely on the bags to protect the passengers, when back in the 1950's they tried to simply endure such hits.
*** It would be more accurate to credit the reduction in brute strength in car bodies to computerized engineering aids, that allow the designers to accurately simulate the loads any given piece will experience. Before widespread computer use in design, rough estimates with extremely generous margins (on the order of 200-300%) were used. The notion that a car should try to absorb an impact to protect its
* [[Time Travel Tense Trouble]]:
{{quote| '''Doc:''' ''(after Marty realises that he's responsible for Biff's actions)'' "Well, it's all in the past."<br />
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* [[You Just Had to Say It]]: Just after Marty warns Doc not to get struck by lightning at the end of the movie, he does.
* [[You Killed My Father]]: {{spoiler|Biff-A murdered George-A.}}
* [[Zeerust]]/
** Ironically, some of their predictions actually came pretty close. Things like 16:9 flat-screen TVs with the ability to watch multiple shows at once don't sound too crazy in a world with [http://www.google.com/tv/ Google TV]. Hell, think about Marty Jr watching about eight shows at once, then ask yourself: how many tabs do you have open in your browser right now?
*** Also, it's all subverted by the fact that
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* [[Drive-In Theater]]: Featured in a [[Played for Laughs]] scene before Marty leaves for 1885.
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: Doc, in the saloon - subverted in that he doesn't actually touch his shot glass. When he finally does gulp it down, he [[Drunk On Milk|passes out instantly]].
* [[Dub Induced Plot Hole]]: Not exactly a plot hole per
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Buford 'Mad Dog' tannen.
* [[Eternally Pearly
* [[Everything's Worse With Bears]]
* [[Explosive Overclocking]]: The train, near the end.
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'''Doc:''' "It's a science experiment!" }}
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: A non-standard example for a time-travel story; the fuel line being punctured by rough terrain leads to the complex plot of getting the DeLorean up to time-travel velocity. [[Fridge Logic|One would think]] that packing an extra can of gasoline for a trip to pre-petroleum times would be a no-brainer, but 1955 Doc is not as [[Genre Savvy]] about time travel as his 1985 counterpart.
** The Doc didn't intend to go to 1885; he was in the
** People do get confused into thinking it was the Indians because Marty pulls an arrow out of the bodywork immediately before noticing the dripping fuel under the car.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: 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 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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* [[Rescued From Purgatory]]: After a certain fashion when Marty goes back for Doc.
* [[Rescue Romance]]: Doc and Clara.
* [[Schizo
* [[Schoolmarm]]: Clara Clayton.
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: "You got a backdoor to this place?" "Yeah, it's in the back."
* [[Shoot the Rope]]: Doc does this with a personally-modified lever-action rifle to save Marty from a hanging.
* [[Shout
** Marty's authentic 1885 outfit (the one he wears after the goofy pink one) is a nod to The Man With No Name, appropriate given Marty's alias.
** Well, it's a [[Shout Out]] to ''[[A Fistfulof Dollars]]'' and the climax with the "bullet-proof" protection - [[Foreshadowing|foreshadowed]] in ''II''.
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''(indicates Doc's 1885 grave with his flashlight)'' }}
* [[Young Gun]]: Marty; subverted.
* [[You Talkin' to Me?]]: Marty quotes the speech in 1885.
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** We meet George's family in the novel, and it is implied he is an only child.
** Biff is confirmed to be an only child in the Telltale game, {{spoiler|which ends up foreshadowing the existence of Biff's brothers Cliff and Riff in an alternate timeline where Kid Tannen never went to jail.}}
* [[Politically
** Part 1: '''Lou:''' "A colored mayor, that'll be the day."
** Also in Part 1, one of Biff's gang calls one of the band's members a "spook", which is a largely forgotten racial epithet for a black person.
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