Questions tagged [back-to-the-future]
Back to the Future is the first film (1985) in a trilogy of time travel movies that branched out into an animated TV series, theme rides and video games. This tag can also be used to refer to the Back to the Future franchise as a whole.
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Is the time machine that Paracelsus uses powered by a flux capacitor?
In the first episode of the fifth season of Warehouse 13, Paracelsus uses H.G. wells's time machine, and by connecting several artefacts to it, he can actually travel through time, rather than just ...
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In Back to the Future, did kids really wear their pants inside out in 2015?
In Back to the Future Part 2, when they are in 2015 Doc tells Marty:
Pull out your pants pockets. All kids in the future wear their pants inside-out.
I was wondering, is this actually true in-...
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Why didn't Doc Brown send Marty to the future before sending him back to 1885?
After the thunder sent Doc Brown back to 1885, and after Marty received the letter, why didn't the 1955 Doc send him back to the future (either 1985 or 2015) to completely repair the Time Machine and ...
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Does Biff retain any knowledge of the DeLorean at the end of the Back To The Future trilogy?
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At the start of BttF1 we have Biff, who is a bully and dominates George McFly. Lets call this one Biff-1-original. We never see Biff-1-original again, his behaviour and character is ...
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Where is Marty from the alternate timeline Where George McFly is an author that Marty makes at the end of Part 1?
Think about it: Marty goes back to 1955 in Part 1 and helps his parents fall in love again.
Well, when Marty went back to 1985 he created an alternate timeline where his parents are rich. There are ...
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Does Doc Brown sabotage himself in Back to the Future 2?
Back in 1955, Doc Emmet Brown is spotted by his past self as he is working on the cable in the park, at which point, the latter asks the unrecognizable white-haired man to "be a pal and hand my ...
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What was the plutonium for, that was stolen at the start of The Amazing Spider-Man 2?
At the start of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 there is a stolen van with plutonium that bears a passing resemblance (grey, van shaped) to the one Doc Brown has in Back To The Future.
I had assumed the van ...
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At the end of the first Back to the Future movie, how come Marty can witness the original events happening then wake up to visit an alternate family?
At the end of the first Back to the Future movie, Marty comes back ten minutes early, and sees the events from the start of the movie playing out (him running to the DeLorean and going back to 1955). ...
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Were there any DeLoreans remaining after the end of BTTF3?
We saw that there were two DeLoreans in BTTF. One got destroyed by lightning (which was found in the shaft by Marty and repaired by 1955 Doc, but permanently destroyed later) but the other one was ...
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Was the Doc Brown who's picking up Marty and Jennifer, from 1985, from 2015, or from another year?
At the end of the first Back to the Future film, we see Doc Brown picking up Marty and Jennifer in 1985 to come rescue their kids in 2015.
I've always assumed him to be a 1985-ish Doc, who had ...
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Does Back To The Future ever directly (visually) contradict itself?
This question is inspired by my answer here.
In that answer, I speculate that there is only ever a single timeline, and thus, a single Marty. In other words, if we could "freeze" the camera ...
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What happened to Marty in the altered timeline created by his original trip to 1955?
In the first Back to the Future movie, there is an "original" timeline from 1955 to 1985 which includes the events described by Marty's mother about the way George and Lorraine fell in love. ...
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How does Biff come back to the original time line? [duplicate]
If Biff takes the time machine and goes back in time to deliver the Almanac to young Biff, how does old Biff return to his original time line if in the future he altered he became rich? Wouldn't he ...
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1955: When Marty couldn't use the time circuits anymore was the car still actually driveable?
If Marty wanted to and threw caution to the wind could he have driven the Delorean around as a regular car somehow bypassing the time circuits in 1955 to get to Doc's house once he had his number from ...
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Were the crucial parts of the time machine left at the scene by Marty?
At the end of Back to the Future 3 we see the DeLorean getting hit by a train in 1985, seemingly wrecking it beyond repair.
Looking at the scattered parts we actually see the time circuits and flux ...
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