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- [Dan] Back To The Future Part II is the movie that most
clearly demonstrates the dangers of time travel.
With the simple act of buying a future sports
almanac, Marty McFly accidentally creates a
timeline where his dad is murdered, his creepy,
old best friend is insane, and his mom suddenly
looks like she's starring in Backdoor Vegas MILFs ***.
This is made doubly uncomfortable due to the fact
that his mom spent the entire previous film
trying to have sex with him.
Of course, all of this time-traveling horror
takes a backseat to the part when Marty dies multiple times.
If you're having difficulty remembering that
scene, it's because it never explicitly happens,
but according to a theory I believe should be
credited to Reddit user Hootinger, Marty originally
got killed in the scene where he's
chased through a tunnel by Biff Tannen's car,
only to be saved by Doc Brown through the
necromancing magic of time travel.
Here's Why It's Not That Crazy:
There's actually more than enough subtle clues
pointing in the direction of Biff ran Marty down
in the street like a stray dog for stealing his
magic book to make us wait in the car the next
time a crazy old hermit kidnaps us through history.
First of all, this theory actually fixes a plot
hole in the movie.
During the climactic chase scene, Marty is about
to disappear beneath the tires of Biff's muscle
car but is saved at the last minute by Doc Brown,
who lowers a rope made of construction flags
from the flying DeLorean to carry Marty to safety.
Biff, in turn, crashes into a truck full of (beep),
because (beep) is funny and Biff is a terrible
person which is why literally every single movie
includes a scene where Biff gets covered in (beep).
But how did Doc know exactly where and when to
drop the rope?
He had no idea Marty was in trouble, and there's
no way he could've seen the chase while zooming
around in the sky, because Biff was chasing Marty
through a tunnel.
The only logical explanation for Doc knowing
exactly where to show up to save Marty is that
he's already seen it happen, meaning Marty has
already been killed by Biff in an alternate timeline.
Doc witnessed our plucky time-skipping hero get
crushed like a denim grape beneath the wheels of
Biff's rapistmobile, and then used the DeLorean
to go back in time and prevent the tragedy from happening.
For all we know, what we see in the film isn't
the first time Marty has been killed.
Doc might be on his 176th Marty-rescuing attempt,
which means Back To The Future Part II could be
packed with dead Martys stacked all the way to
the ceiling, and we would never know.