Category "back-to-the-future"

Why does Marty see another duplicate of himself when he returns?

When Marty decides to go back from 1958 to 1988 in Back to the Future, he decides to go back several minutes before the doctor is killed by the terrorists, to w

How did Doc Brown know to drop the rope in BTTF II?

In this scene from Back to the Future Part II Marty is about to be run over, but Doc saves him. How did Doc Brown know to dro

Did Doc Brown always know that Marty would end up travelling back to 1955?

Did Doc Brown always have the letter that Marty left him in 1955, and was that the reason why he was so insistent that Marty meet him at the mall? In other wo

Why do the DeLorean's effects not always start at 88 mph?

How come, the DeLorean's effects don't always start at 88 mph. For example, in Back to the Future 3 the effects started at 65 mph. Also, when Marty escaped the

How does Clara's name get on Doc's tombstone in 1885?

I've been thinking about something. At the beginning of BTTF 3, when they find Doc's tombstone, it says something about Clara's love... BUT... Clara and Doc wou

How did Marty meet Doc in 1955 after Doc has travelled to 1885?

In Back to the future II, Marty burns the almanac in the bucket and Doc's DeLorean was struck by lightning, causing doc to travel to 1885 accidentally. Then Mar

Is Rick and Morty satire/parody of Doc Brown and Marty McFly?

As the title asks, is Rick and Morty satire/parody of Doc Brown and Marty McFly of the Back to the Future franchise? Or is it a generic play on the Mad Scientis

Where did the second Marty go?

At the end of Back to the Future (1985), Marty1 comes back to 1985 from 1955 to save Doc, and seems to get there too late. He sees Marty2 disappear into the pas

How many times did Emmett Brown travel through time?

There are many clues suggesting that Emmett Brown traveled through time on multiple occasions. I was thinking about the case full of dollars from different pe

In Back to the Future, how did Marty get the timing right with the lightning strike?

So, in the first movie, presumably the Doc and Marty know exactly when the lightning will strike the clock tower. This is because Marty has the flyer with the p

Why doesn't Doc use the DeLorean in order to escape from the Libyans?

In Back to the Future, by the time Doc notices them, he's right next to the DeLorean, which even has one of the doors wide open. Couldn't he have just jumped

What is the story with the fire in Doc Brown's house?

In the opening scene of Back to the Future, a clipping from 1962 is hanging on the wall of Doc Brown's garage lab, with the headline “Brown Mansion Destro

Where does Doc get all of his money

In the first Back to the Future movie, Doc Brown seems to have a fairly large amount of money. He has his own house, a camper, a Delorean (which was a fairly ex

Why wasn't Van Halen's music in Back to the Future?

Why did the band Van Halen deny the request to use their music in Back to the Future while Edward Van Halen secretly recorded music for the movie? From USA Tod

Would the Post Office really deliver a letter decades after postage like in Back To The Future?

Not that it ruins my enjoyment of the movie, but I'm curious about the scene in BTTF2, where a postman shows up in 1955 where the Doc had been blasted back to 1

Bottle cap in Back to the Future

In Back to the Future Marty has trouble opening a glass bottle, because he assumes that the bottle can be opened by twisting off the cap, which implies to me, t

Why was the DeLorean covered by ice?

In the first time-jump, where Einstein moves 1 minute into the future on the parking lot, the DeLorean arrives covered by ice. It never happens again for the re

In BTTF, Did Marty make his first jump in the Twin Pines car park on purpose?

When Marty goes for 2nd gear at the beginning of Back to the Future, he accidentally turns on the time circuits in the DeLorean for the first time, then switche

Did Doc Brown warn Marty to never travel to 2020 or what year did he warn about?

The premise of this question is that I remember Doc Brown warning Marty to never travel to a particular year but I do not remember which year it was. There is t

How is past Marty paradox explained in the Back to the Future series?

So Marty's parents are supposed to meet after his dad gets hit by his grandpa's car. The mom and dad relive the stories about it. After Marty time travels he