#bttf

[penny-anna]

hear me out. Dark & Back to the Future represent exactly opposite ends of the Time Travel Media Spectrum.

[the-real-nikki19]

back to the future + onion headlines

[knickynoo]

I am once again pondering the fact that Marty McFly is just such a fantastic character. Like, especially when you look at other male protagonists in the 80s, they all follow a similar trend. A lot are uber cool and suave, with the added side effect of also being a jerk. Many are popular jocks or whatever. Big flirts. Edgy and troubled or sleazy, etc.

And Marty is sort of in his own category entirely. He's cool, but he's not? He skateboards and kills it on guitar but has 2 whole friends--his girlfriend and a disgraced scientist--and crippling self-doubt and can't go a day without falling down or tripping over his own feet or nearly being killed by a car.

He's polite. He's respectful. Won't let anyone mess with the people he loves and doesn't let a moment pass by where he can thank somebody or apologize for a wrongdoing. (seriously, Marty has beautiful manners. Like, it is quite noticeable how often he says, "please," "thank you," "excuse me," or "sorry".)

His emotions are all SO BIG and he doesn't hold back on them. He gets all animated when he's excited and yells when he's scared and cries when he's sad and pulls his friend into big ol' hugs.

He literally never knows what is going on. Marty exists in the constant state of confusion. Between asking Doc to "wait a minute" every other sentence and his ever-changing, scattered thoughts, Marty is just out there trying to survive. Just slow it down, alright? He's a smart guy, but he's also got elevator music playing in his head. Really really fast elevator music.

Time means nothing to him. His watch is broken. He's racking up tardies like it's nobody's business. Stopping by the garage to look for Doc and play some guitar when he should be at school. He's got to get out of that stupid suit RIGHT THIS INSTANT even though he's got one shot at the lightning strike at the clock tower.

Marty just. Does things. There is zero impulse control. A synapse fires and Marty's brain goes "!!!" and that's that. Punch the bully who's twice your size, buy that sports almanac, just Walk Away while Doc is talking to you. Buy that sweet leather jacket. Ignore ALL instructions you're given! Marty, you need constant supervision and I love you for that.

He's just. Marty is the most character. Look at him.

They really knocked it out of the park with this guy.

[autoraton]

same as it never was.

[forecast0ctopus]

jesus christ doc!

[artsyfartsypaige]

A lil Marty collage because he is thee character of all time

[maxintime]

Made a character sheet for ma boi, always wanted to make one of these

Also this is going to be the artstyle I'm gonna be using from now on I swear this is the last change

[thelesbianthespianposts]

back to the future dash simulator

🪲 mickjaggermarryme24

Is George McFly’s son ok? I just went to one of his book signings and his son was double taking every time he saw the line. Does he not know who his dad is?

❤️ match-made-in-sp4ce

yeah lol Marty goes to my school and he’s always like that. He once blew off an invitation to get milkshakes at the diner after school bc he “couldn’t afford that”. Like honey your dad is a millionaire, you’re not fooling anyone.

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🩷 leia-organas-wife

ok but like, why is Lorraine Baines McFly kinda…

#not to be a lesbian but oh my god #holy fucking shit #not star wars

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🧶 fandom-news85

Apparently renowned Sci-fi author George McFly, is suing Lucasfilms for use of the name Darth Vader in the Star Wars trilogy (1977-1981). The author first coined the name in his first book Warnings from the Stars, published 1975.

#news #george mcfly #star wars #lucasfilms

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🥫 reagancansuckmydick

🧪 mad-scientist55

Marty is my best friend and is so much better MARTYSWEEP

🪇 dewey-louis

wait, was anyone gonna tell me the account I follow for science theories is IRL friends with George McFly’s 16 year old son???

#thats so random wtf #i thought you were so much older #ive followed you since 73 #so you’ve been on here at least 12 years #how did you two even meet?

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🎸 thisisheavyman

hi!! Im Marty McFly, im new on here. Check out hte new single my band the Pinheads released. It’s available on tape, cd and it’s gonna be on vinyl on March 17.

🌸 jenny-mercury

babe! You’re finally on here!!!

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💪 buff-tannen

incels are so dumb, if nice guys finish last then why am I, the worst guy, not getting any either?

#biff’s ramblings

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[sketchupnfries]

Happy Back to the Future day! This is my all time favorite movie, and I just love it so much. Have a Marty!

[penny-anna]

u know what we don't talk about enough

this. what does this mean?? '24 HR scientific services'?? what services? is he just for hire? is he a scientist for hire? what in the world do people hire their local disgraced nuclear physicist to do??

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[knickynoo]

I don't think we talk enough about the Western Union letter situation at the end of part II. I mean, this strange blacksmith shows up in 1885, hands over a letter, and lays out extremely detailed instructions for them to deliver it on this specific day seventy years in the future to a teenage boy standing in the middle of an empty road. He gives them a description of Marty and makes a whole big deal of them keeping the letter safe and following through with the task when the time comes.

For SEVENTY YEARS, the workers at Western Union have this letter in their possession—likely locked away somewhere. It becomes something of legend in that building. I can see new employees, in the midst of all their training, being taken to wherever The Letter is being housed so that they can be told about it.

The guy who delivers it to Marty mentions they had all placed bets on whether or not anyone would even be there to give the letter to. Could you imagine having a mysterious letter sitting around your office for seventy years and then the day finally comes where you can find out if that guy from way back when was crazy or not.

How was it that only one guy ended up making the trip with the letter?? How'd he get chosen? Were all the workers fighting to be the one picked?? I'm surprised they didn't all pile into a few cars and take a field trip out in the storm to see what would happen.

And then how did that guy just Go Back after??

Dozens of eyes eagerly set on him as he walked through the door. "Well??! Was he there?"

"Yeah, he was there."

"And?? What was the letter all about?"

"I don't know. Whole thing was weird. The kid was just standing there, soaked through from the rain. He seemed nervous. Gave him the letter and he freaked out, yelled something about the Old West, and took off running."

And that's just. It. That's all the closure they get.

I'd lose my mind.

[its-flame-art]

“wait a minute. wait a minute, Doc. ah... are you telling me that you built a time machine...out of a DeLorean?”

[synthsays]

Trans flag colored picked out that one cowboy Marty picture

[forecast0ctopus]

bttf day today……

[the-real-nikki19]

back to the future + onion headlines (part 4)

(part 1/part 2/part 3)