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In the end of Back to the Future, in the good alternate reality, why does Marty get his own truck? There are four adults sharing one car (the BMW) but they're all cool with letting the youngest kid have his own impractical two-seater truck thing, for what. Are they rewarding him for making their lives good; do they recognize in some unspoken way, that they owe him big? What's the story logic reason he's getting such a big reward.
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Oct 16, 2023 02:08
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My question is whether there's another Marty out there or if the Marty we see will just gradually phase into that timeline's Marty.
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Oct 16, 2023 02:41
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His father is a successful writer, George McFly can afford a Toyota 4x4.
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Oct 16, 2023 02:50
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muscles like this! posted:My question is whether there's another Marty out there or if the Marty we see will just gradually phase into that timeline's Marty. They obviously keep the other one in the attic and feed it a bucket of fish heads once a week.
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Oct 16, 2023 02:53
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Twin Pines vs. Lone Pine Marty: The Twin Pines Marty is the one we follow the entire film. The one who lived a life with a bullied and failed dad, unhappy family, Biff is an rear end in a top hat adult, etc. At the end of the movie when Marty arrives back in 1985, a 1985 where his father is a success, Doc is alive, his family is happy, Biff is a simpering coward, we watch as he watches 'himself' (Lone Pine Marty) go back in time from Lone Pine Mall. This Lone Pine Marty is going to 1955. A Marty that has had the life experiences of the Lone Pine Timeline, right? So, isn't there the real chance he's going to gently caress up the future because he's never going to hear the story about how his grandpa almost killed his dad and how his mom felt sorry for him? It'll be how his dad was this awesome two-fisted hero who fought bullies and rapists and became student class president? The man whose good friend Calvin was in the first interracial rock and roll band that ever played in Hill Valley? He's going to get back to 1985 to find a dead Doc, a lovely home, a wrecked car, and no idea what he did to change the timeline.
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Oct 16, 2023 05:28
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He had a truck in the original timeline but it was wrecked at the start of the film
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Oct 16, 2023 05:31
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that toyota pickup is rad as gently caress
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Oct 16, 2023 05:31
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It was wrecked because he was rolling coal on some libs in Volvos
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Oct 16, 2023 05:31
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in the fourth movie they reveal it was all a dream doc brown had when he hit his head on the toilet, nobody has ever traveled back in time because it's impossible
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Oct 16, 2023 05:50
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They should make all the time Martys fight
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Oct 16, 2023 05:57
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JediTalentAgent posted:Twin Pines vs. Lone Pine Marty: Whoa. And would twin pines Marty cease to exist if lone pine Marty fucks things up in the past, or are they operating on two separate time-planes?
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Oct 16, 2023 06:22
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He’s getting a car because he’s old enough to need a car. That’s how it works. The car is a sweet truck because his parents love him and have money and it’s the 80’s. They also recognize his rock star potential and that he’s way too cool for hill valley.
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Oct 16, 2023 12:53
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Marty gets special treatment because his mom wants to gently caress him OP
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Oct 16, 2023 13:03
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JediTalentAgent posted:Twin Pines vs. Lone Pine Marty: Lone pine Marty has no way to get to twin pines 1985. He would literally need to go plant another pine tree, as well as perfectly undoing what twin pines Marty is doing in 1955. In this timeline doc knows about time travel from 1955. This means the twin pines timeline no longer exists. The question is what happens to lone pine Marty in 1955. Does he fade away, erasing the lifetime of growing up in a happy family to be replaced with doppelgänger twin pines Marty? Does he live out the rest of his life in 1955? Unless he can intercept the lighting strike, he has no way to travel back to the future.
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Oct 16, 2023 13:26
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As the youngest McFly, he is spoiled. I can also imagine new money George McFly's attitude towards the two elder McFlys being "no more of my money, you're out in the real world now. Be grateful I'm willing to house you"
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Oct 16, 2023 13:28
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JediTalentAgent posted:Twin Pines vs. Lone Pine Marty:  The Management posted:Lone pine Marty has no way to get to twin pines 1985. He would literally need to go plant another pine tree, as well as perfectly undoing what twin pines Marty is doing in 1955. Lone Pine Marty knows how to drive much better (he's been borrowing the beemer since 16), so he keeps the delorean under control and doesn't smash the tree. And then he fucks up in all the places where Twin Pines Marty did good, because he's a rich kid who never had to struggle with bullies or any of the other adversities that his poor self did. He doesn't instantly fade out, because Twin Pines Marty is doing all the stuff that makes his existence secure. But if he does stuff that screws up the timeline so that the other Marty can't be born, he will see his picture start to fade out. Because both Martys require each other's existence! The Management posted:In this timeline doc knows about time travel from 1955. This means the twin pines timeline no longer exists. The question is what happens to lone pine Marty in 1955. Does he fade away, erasing the lifetime of growing up in a happy family to be replaced with doppelgänger twin pines Marty? Does he live out the rest of his life in 1955? Unless he can intercept the lighting strike, he has no way to travel back to the future. Obviously in both timelines Doc knows about time travel in 1955 -- he came up with the flux capacitor a week ago. But Marty shows up and confirms his idea, sending him on the path of being a crazy lone scientist for the next 30 years. The changing fortunes of the McFly family don't really affect him. So in both timelines, Doc can help Marty get back to the future. Probably in this timeline, he builds a contraption that attracts lightning and burns down the tower. The only question is what connection does Lone Pines Marty have with Doc? He's a rich brat, not a bullied nerd, so why is he hanging out with this crazy guy? Doc must specifically seek him out and befriend him. Because he knows that Marty will go back in time.
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Oct 16, 2023 14:04
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Chinatown posted:that toyota pickup is rad as gently caress yup. and the answer to the op is as simple as that
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Oct 16, 2023 14:16
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Toxic Mental posted:He had a truck in the original timeline but it was wrecked at the start of the film It was an old beater Chevy Nova that Biff borrowed and wrecked. I think it was the McFly family’s only car, too (in the 1985 timeline before Marty goes back in time).
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Oct 16, 2023 16:41
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JediTalentAgent posted:Twin Pines vs. Lone Pine Marty: Every time the Delorean is used it creates a new parallel timeline. This means the original McFly family from the beginning of the first movie still exists. They found Doc Brown's body in the parking lot the next morning and Marty was a missing persons case for a couple of years until George and Lorraine came to terms with it and buried an empty casket for closure. When Marty returned from the 50s, he traveled to another parallel timeline where his dad was successful and the local Marty went to the future.
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Oct 16, 2023 16:54
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The train flies in the end.
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Oct 16, 2023 16:57
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There's a new Time traveling movie that actually references Back to the Future, could be a good time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNm3VPPKEQI
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Oct 16, 2023 18:15
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Do you think that after his time travelling adventures, late 20s Marty ever played Chrono Trigger and was like "heavy"?
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Oct 16, 2023 18:27
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Marty was eventually killed
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Oct 16, 2023 19:00
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He should've let his siblings disappear, bro was a huge dorkus and his sister was a pill.
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Oct 16, 2023 19:15
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Marty was eventually killed The Future comes for us all…
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Oct 16, 2023 19:18
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marty should have boned his hot young mom imo, that's a chance you can't pass up
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Oct 16, 2023 19:20
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Bad Purchase posted:marty should have boned his hot young mom imo, that's a chance you can't pass up It'd be an infinite loop of ever weirder looking Marty's.
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Oct 16, 2023 19:23
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Bad Purchase posted:marty should have boned his hot young mom imo, that's a chance you can't pass up "we've got to get you back marty! [points directly at the screen] back to before you hosed your own mom!!"
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Oct 16, 2023 20:56
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Bad Purchase posted:marty should have boned his hot young mom imo, that's a chance you can't pass up Fry did similar and it ended up saving the universe. marty just didn't care enough about saving all existence to get down with his mom. The lame nerd.
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Oct 16, 2023 21:13
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All the McFly kids are actually adopted. This is the reason that the exact sperm-egg combinations that happened in either timeline continued to do so. Nothing about George's or Lorraine's lives would have been different enough to cause a slight alteration the moments of conception that would have resulted in totally different kids when Marty changed the timeline. But wait, what about the fading photo?! Exactly. Marty loving up the timeline simply was going to result in he and his siblings never having been in the photo together because the McFlys never would have gotten together and adopted them and eventually taken the photo. If Marty had done nothing, he wouldn't have faded from existence, only been adopted by another family and had a life that would not have resulted in him ever meeting Doc or going back in time.
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Oct 17, 2023 03:23
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Bad Purchase posted:marty should have boned his hot young mom imo, that's a chance you can't pass up That was the plot to a Chuck Palahniuk novel, Rant. In it a character discovers that if you crash your car in a certain way you can travel through time which lets him go to the past and have sex with his mom, which gives him superhuman abilities due to becoming his own father. Also other people start doing this too and begin loving around with the timeline.
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Oct 17, 2023 03:40
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:There's a new Time traveling movie that actually references Back to the Future, could be a good time kiernan shipka!
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Oct 17, 2023 03:48
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Why is it called Back to the Future when the whole franchise is set in the past? Never goes past 2015.
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Oct 17, 2023 03:52
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What did OP do in the previous timeline to deserve an answer to this question? Are we rewarding current-timeline-OP for something alternate-timeline-OP did before he made this thread?
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Oct 17, 2023 03:52
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We don't have hoverboards because Marty never got in his car accident at the end of 3.
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Oct 17, 2023 03:53
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Doc Brown went from being a small town scientist to having enough connections and means to be able to find and negotiate with terrorists to get plutonium. This is the early 80s before you had internet and Bitcoin. Another BTTF movie needs to be that prequel story of that chain of events.
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Oct 17, 2023 04:33
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super sweet best pal posted:Why is it called Back to the Future when the whole franchise is set in the past? Never goes past 2015. The movie is about him trying to go “back” to the “future”. Time is relative, and if you don’t fix your relatives in time you disappear into the Shadow Realm.
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Oct 17, 2023 16:46
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Time travel is impossible. What really occurs when the car hits 88 miles per hour is simple: a dimensional rift is opened to an alternate universe where the Big Bang occurred a few years later, so it seems he traveled to the past. (We can call this universe "universe beta", the original universe being "Universe alpha"). When he alters the timeline and goes "forward", he jumps to yet another universe (universe gamma), where all he did has had repercussions. This leaves us with an issue unaddressed in the film series. What happened to the other Marty? There should have been a Marty already in universe gamma. Is he shunted over to universe Alpha, to compensate for the mass/energy transfer of the original Marty, or does he simply cease to exist? If the latter, Marty alpha could be considered a murderer. If the former, then Marty gamma's life ends up sucking as much as Marty alpha's is improved. Also, if the latter, then universe alpha is now Martyless, and his parents spend a lot of time looking for their missing son, never knowing that he is off in another universe. Eventually they come to the sad conclusion that he is one of the numerous runaway teens, and is either a homeless drug addict somewhere, or has been murdered and is now in a shallow grave.
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Oct 17, 2023 18:57
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That's incorrect. Time travel is possible.
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Oct 17, 2023 19:39
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So in the true story that this was based off, they reached 88mph but nothing happened and he and his scientist pal were just shot up in the parking lot. He survived that but later died from radiation poisoning. So as always hollywood just had to tack on a happy ending on to what was really at it's core a very sad story.
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Oct 17, 2023 23:39
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