/ ”What in the name of Sir Isaac H. Newton happened there?”/

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Near the very end of movie “Back to the Future II” Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) has to get the infamous sports almanac (Grays Sports Almanac: Complete Sports Statistics) back from Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) in order to prevent, stop the dystopian future from happening. The same future where Biff (Trump?!) runs the whole place! And, as we all well remember, Marty does this by using the hover board to slide along Biff’s car while he was driving, and he somehow manages to get the almanac from him but only when they are in a long, almost never-ending tunnel. Then, Biff tries to run him down as there is no where to escape from him and his massive vehicle… Then, at the very last moment, Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) drops a rope of fliers at the end of the tunnel which Marty grabs and is lifted away from Biff’s car into safety of Doc’s brilliance once more. But the real question is standing, probing our mind out:

how did Doc Brown know to drop that rope at that exact place and time?

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So, if he was hovering over Marty and Biff for the first time, wouldn’t he just float to the other side of the tunnel and wait for them to exit, not knowing anything what was happening in there in detail so he can react properly, as it not seems by the result we saw? How did Doc know Marty needed his help there, then and in that exact way – by lifting him up in the air?

We already had a hint in that direction, in multiple occasions:

Doc: Well, good luck for both of our sakes. See you in the future.

Marty: You mean the past…?

Doc: Exactly!

So, “Back to the Future Part II” from 1989 is the movie that most clearly demonstrates all the possible the dangers of time travel in general and all of that with the simple act of buying a future sports almanac. By doing that Marty McFly accidentally creates a separate timeline where:

• his dad is murdered;

• his creepy old best friend is insane;

• and his mom suddenly looks like she’s starring in porn flick.

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And this is made doubly uncomfortable due to the fact that his mom spent the entire previous film trying to have sex with him. But all of this time traveling horror takes a backseat to the part when Marty dies many, probably even uncountable times. Let’s dig in deeper now, shall we?

If you’re having difficulty remembering that exact scene where Marty dies it’s because it never explicitly happens, of course, but according to a theory we 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“. There’s 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. This very theory, actually, fixes quite well a plot-hole in the movie itself, where during the climactic chase scene, Marty is about to disappear beneath the tires of Biff’s muscle car but he got miraculously saved at the very, very last moment by Doc Brown, who probably, and due to time-traveling many times before, precisely knew when to drop a rope made of construction flags down from the flying DeLorean to carry Marty to safety and safe him from very messy death.

Biff, in turn, crashes into a truck full of manure, because shit is funny and Donald Tr… excuse me, Biff, is a terrible person.

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How Doc knew when to act?

The thing is, as we already said, Doc 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 long tunnel (more specifically, the tunnel to Toontown aka Griffith Park on Mount Hollywood Drive). The only logical explanation for Doc knowing exactly where to show up to save his friend Marty is that he already seen it happen…

Meaning:

Marty has already been killed by the Biff in an alternate timeline.

To make this matter even worse: Marty got killed many, many times… until Doc somehow managed to execute a near-perfect blind rescue from the very exit of the tunnel. If so, Doc probably witnessed our plucky time-skipping hero get crushed like a denim grape beneath the wheels of Biff’s rapistmobile a number of times, and then used his DeLorean, the same amount of times, to go back in time and prevent this tragedy from happening. At least to try, and get back, again, if he didn’t managed to accomplish his crazy, yet noble mission.

For all we now and deducted here, what we see in the film isn’t the first and only time Doc tried and managed to save Marty from being killed. God no…

So, Doc might be on his 176^th Marty-rescuing attempt, which means “Back To The Future” could be packed with dead Martys stacked all the way to the ceiling (of a tunnel) and we would never know that without this short observation. And Doc himself never tells Marty about all this heavy, hellish burden, because why torture him with all that mind-boggling knowledge from the future? No one really wanted to see a “Back To The Future” where Marty is emotionally crippled by the existential terror of his own mortality…

Marty: Hey, Doc! Where you goin’ now? Back to the future?

Doc: Nope. Already been there.

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