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Back to the Future (Comic Book)

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Back to the Future (Comic Book)	comment	Back to the Future is a 25-issue comic book series from IDW Publishing that ran from October 21, 2015 (coinciding with "Back to the Future Day"note AKA the date that Doc Brown takes Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker to at the start of Back to the Future Part II) to December 13, 2017.The first volume, "Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines," tells much of the characters' respective backstories, as well as scenes from the movie series shown from a different perspective. This volume comprises two stories in each of the first four issues of the comic, with each primary story featuring a Framing Device set in the Old West, and with Issue 5 being a Nested Story.The second volume, "Continuum Conundrum," picks up five months after the end of Part III, featuring a new plot where Marty must investigate Doc's disappearance after receiving a letter from Clara, who sent the letter from 1893.Concurrently, a side series called Back to the Future: Citizen Brown ran in 2016, adapting the story of Back to the Future: The Game. This was followed by two side series: Back To The Future: Biff To The Future in 2017, which focuses on Biff's rise to power in the 1985-A timeline, and Back To The Future: Tales from the Time Train in 2017-2018, which follows up on Doc Brown immediately after Part III. A non-canon Intercontinuity Crossover side series, Transformers/Back to the Future, began running in October 2020, depicting the creation of a timeline where the Decepticons rule Hill Valley.The comic series is co-written by the film series' co-writer and creator Bob Gale. It was originally slated for a limited run, until an overwhelmingly positive fan response prompted IDW to turn it into an ongoing series.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_1078bba8	type	"Mister Sandman" Sequence
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_1078bba8	comment	"Mister Sandman" Sequence: "Time Served Part 1" sees Marty wandering through 1972 Hill Valley. Amongst other things, he witnesses an anti-Nixon rally held in the Courtyard, an ad for a $2100 Ford Pinto by the gas station (52Â¢ a gallon, naturally), eight-track players being sold at the electronics store, and Mr. Strickland leaving the movie theater with his mom, all the while complaining about The Godfather.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: When Doc introduces his time machine to the "Anti-Biff Society", Principal Strickland volunteers to use it, explaining that he almost sent a young Biff to reform school but was stopped when a "soft" teacher protested. When he arrives in the past, however, Strickland discovers that he mis-remembered the event: he was the one who "saved" Biff, back when he was a fresh-faced and idealistic new teacher. Blaming himself for Biff's descent into villainy and rise to power, Strickland becomes a recluse, shutting himself away in his house.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_14450636	type	Debut Queue
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_14450636	comment	Debut Queue: The first few issues gradually set up how everyone met each other. The first issue relates the story of how Marty met Doc. A later issue establishes that Doc buys the DeLorean from a used car classified ad. Issue 4 recounts how Marty and Jennifer reconnected as teenagers and started dating.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_181c8a41	type	Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_181c8a41	comment	Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: Doc goes back to the day Biff's parents got married and plans to use that cue to prevent the marriage so Biff won't be born, only to learn it's too late as Biff already exists at this point and his parents only got married because his grandmother didn't want people to know he was born out of wedlock.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_19b6f396	type	Alternate Timeline
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_19b6f396	comment	Alternate Timeline: Set in the timeline that would become 1985-A aka "Hell Valley" from the second movie prior to Doc and Marty's intervention. It even showcases what would've happened after 1985-A.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_1d8733d3	type	Overly Narrow Superlative
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_1d8733d3	comment	Overly Narrow Superlative: When Biff calls himself Gertrude's favorite grandson, she points out he's her only grandson.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Uncle Joey beats up Biff when he calls Marty a brat and after Biff causes Marty and Professor Irving to fall off a cliff threatens to kill Biff - and later threatens to go to the police and confess for the both of them for kidnapping - if they died from it.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: Each of Volume 1's primary stories is framed as a tale told by Doc to his young sons, during the construction of the Jules Verne Train. One of the secondary stories appears to be taken from one of Doc's voice recordings.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: In Part 5 of "Citizen Brown", as Doc and Marty drive off to return to 1986, a man runs after them saying that they won first place in the "Car of Tomorrow" contest (they stashed the DeLorean in the exhibition hall). After witnessing the car lift into the sky and disappear in a burst of flames, he stares at the sky for a second before pulling a flask out of his coat pocket and taking a healthy swig.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Needles, whose deeds in the movies included the card scam in 2015 and the car race in 1985, is much less subtle and much more openly antagonistic in this series, threatening to beat up Marty on multiple occasions and attempting to steal equipment from Doc's lab.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: If you know anything about the Ford Pinto's infamous gas tank, Marty assuming it being sold for $2100 in "Time Served Part 1" was the result of a "fire sale" comes out as unintentionally savage.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_2260cfe3	type	Like Father, Like Son
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_2260cfe3	comment	Like Father, Like Son: Played with: "Time Served Part 1" sees Marty peeping into his Grandma and Grandpa's house while in 1972, from the tree across the street even, just like his dad did in 1955. However, Marty's reason for peeping is to look for his Uncle Joey.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_229c2ec8	type	Uriah Gambit
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_229c2ec8	comment	After Biff hit it big, he met a fast-talking Hollywood director who convinced him to fund a movie studio. In reality, the director just saw him as an easy mark and strung him along to drain as much money as possible, only producing one movie (which was a low-budget box office bomb) because Biff finally started wising up and put the screws to him. Biff eventually got his revenge by convincing the director to place a bet for him in a Mafia-controlled gambling parlor, conveniently leaving out the fact that the Mafia had sworn to kill Biff or anyone placing bets on his behalf after he won too much of their money.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Combined with his connection with the government, Biff is practically untouchable.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Invoked by Marty during the "Hard Time / Time Served" arc after 1972!Biff realizes he looks an awful lot like Calvin Klein from 1955, opting on the spot to pretend he's his son, Kevin:
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: No matter what Doc and those he told about his Time Machine in the bad timeline do to prevent Biff from becoming wealthy, they always fail.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_26a9afaa	type	The New '10s
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_26a9afaa	comment	The year 2035, on the other hand, takes the Eighties Zeerust of Part II and adds Zeerust from The New '10s onto it, resulting in a strange composite Zeerust.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Doc Brown invents a different time machine from the DeLorean, one that's a refrigerator-like chamber, much like the one in the original drafts of the Back to the Future screenplay. Farmer Peabody is briefly seen in the same mental institution as Doc, being mistaken for being crazy after telling people about the "alien encounter" that was actually Marty time traveling. This had happened to him in the original screenplay for Back to the Future Part II. When Biff leaves Hollywood to return to Hill Valley, there's a sign saying he's 88 miles away from his destination.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe/Iconic Outfit: Stories about Marty (set before the movies) usually feature him wearing the "life preserver" vest. "When Marty Met Emmett" features a variation, in that it features 14-year-old Marty wearing only the red shirt and blue jeans combo from the last two movies. Volume 2 starts out with Marty wearing a hoodie and different shirts, but it brings back the vest once the main plot kicks in.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_2b278c5d	type	Loss of Identity
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_2b278c5d	comment	Loss of Identity: Not exactly, but the "Who Is Marty McFly?" arc deals with a big bit of the implications from the original series: because of the changes he made through his time traveling, Marty McFly is no longer the same Marty McFly that he was originally. One notable scene in the first issue of this arc sees Marty going through photos and videos of his life, sorting them by the degree to which he remembers them.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Despite his lack of intelligence, Biff had done many things to ensure his success (such as faking his grandmother's death certificate and sending a director who had conned him to his doom), and that is before he met the mystery man from the government.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Biff's rise to power ultimately allows him to kill George McFly, marry Lorraine, takes over Hill Valley and get Doc committed to the loony bin. Subverted in the last issue however where karma finally bites him in the ass.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_2ec219ee	type	Butterfly of Doom
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_2ec219ee	comment	Butterfly of Doom: Discussed when Marty and Doc get marooned in the Pleistocene Era, complete with a few Shout Outs to Ray Bradbury's trope-defining short story "A Sound of Thunder."
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_2f62653b	type	Borrowed Catchphrase
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_2f62653b	comment	Borrowed Catchphrase: Following the lead of "Part III," several instances of Marty saying "Great Scott!" and Doc using the word "heavy."
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: There's a panel where Nixon is dancing with Lorraine and telling her Biff is a great American and Biff telling the First Lady he never thought he'd be proud at seeing Lorraine dancing with another man but Nixon is a great guy. Both women reply with "You're not married to him".
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: After Biff kills a man who tried to kill him and steal the Almanac and had killed his grandmother, Biff briefly shows remorse for having killed him, before remembering that it was out of self-defense as opposed to murder.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: The Tannen family, which is unusual for Back to the Future adaptations. Biff makes passing appearances in recaps of trilogy scenes, and briefly banters with Marty at the beginning of Volume 2, but the only story in Volume 1 that features a Tannen in a central role is "Jurassic Biff" (which features Old Biff). Most of the conflict either comes from the characters' own actions, or Needles. It isn't until Volume 2 that Griff Tannen returns as a major antagonist.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_34579385	comment	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: In Gale and Zemeckis' original BTTF FAQ (as seen on the DVD's), it's surmised that Old Biff fades away in a deleted scene because Lorraine had shot him in 1997A. In the comic, however, Lorraine actually talks Marty out of using a gun to stop Biff, telling him that George wouldn't want it. Instead, Biff gets sent back in time to 1884, where he's killed by "Mad Dog" Tannen.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_35022c20	comment	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: 1962 Doc reasons that he can always build another temporal field capacitor after destroying the original model sending a note to the past. Sure enough, by 1986, a second one is seen in storage at Doc's secret lab. Doc also has a second DeLorean stored in his secret lab. This car has a time circuit display and some of the time coils installed, but it retains the original rear engine hatch and lacks a flux capacitor, fusion chamber, and rear louvers. Subverted in the "Hard Time / Time Served" arc: after the DeLorean goes missing while Marty and Professor Irving are in 1972 (both unaware that Doc had the DeLorean return to him), both Marty and Irving toy with the idea of simply making a new time machine in case they can't find it.note While Marty initially writes off Irving's idea as not being possible, as Irving couldn't get his own time machine to work without stealing the Flux Capacitor, he mulls the idea over again after seeing an ad for a Ford Pinto.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_372027ea	type	Stalker Shrine
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_372027ea	comment	Stalker Shrine: Biff has one to Lorraine hidden in a secret underground room in his mansion. Since it's Biff, the switch to open it is hidden in a statue's breasts. Biff's second wife discovers it and promptly divorces him.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_38b48685	type	Born in the Wrong Century
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_38b48685	comment	Born in the Wrong Century: "Clara's Story" has Clara musing about how she and Emmett are like this, with Emmett fitting in better in the past, and her own desire to leave the past and visit (or live in) the future.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: He may be the most powerful man in the United States, but Biff acts like a teenager and doesn't even know simple phrases like "harassment".
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Officer Griff Tannen in the year 2035. He attempts to attack Doc and Marty with a flamethrower, but keeps getting reprimanded by some kind of computerized system in his cybernetic implants, which continually notes that it isn't the first time he's been violent with suspects. Dirty Cop: He also turns down a bribe from Doc, although the system reprimands him anyway, noting that he's been bribed (successfully) in the past.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Rather appropriately, Marty spots an add for the Trope Namer while in 1972 during the "Hard Time / Time Served" arc.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: In the last issue. The shady figure Biff aligns himself with suggested that Biff to keep his family together for the election in the hopes of presenting an "all American image" to the voters... before having them killed off by "terrorists" to gain a sympathy vote and win in a landslide. Biff doesn't hesitate at all in agreeing with the plan. Doc tricks Biff into into going back into the past of 1884 rather then 1996 as intended (Biff was looking to gain more Almanacs and make himself all powerful) and sending him into the Old West while wearing a wildly gaudy tourist outfit to draw attention to him. Doc specifically sent Biff to a day that he knew "Mad Dog" Tannen was in town, and sure enough, Biff stupidly presses his ancestor's Berserk Button, earning him a bullet to the brain. When his body reappears in the present, Doc knocks out his cronies with a electric mat when they go to check on him. The whole thing is covered up as an freak accident with a power surge. And since Biff had so many enemies, no one was willing to question how he really died.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3f0b2f50	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3f0b2f50	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3f0b2f50
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: When Marty escapes Doc's booby traps in "When Marty Met Emmett," Doc confesses that the escape was meant as such — Doc was looking for an assistant and wanted to ensure that the candidate was clever enough to escape the trap. Which itself was a secret test of characterâ€”Doc wasn't really looking for an assistant until Marty turned up and wanted to see how he would react to being offered the job. Marty's confession that he never surmised such a test and was in fact housebreaking marks him as a basically honest person despite...well, the housebreaking. A suitor who wooed Doc's mother pulled this. Doc suspected that he was after her money, but in fact he had an enormous fortune of his own and was pretending to be poor to make sure she wasn't marrying him for his money.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3f7a958b	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3f7a958b	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_3f7a958b
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: The newspaper headline (Producer Shot 5 Times in Head - Coroner Rules "Obvious Suicide").
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_40bb59d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_40bb59d0	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_40bb59d0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Biff gets killed by "Mad Dog" Tannen and all his assets go to Lorraine; along with Doc and "secret anti-Biff society", she swears to bring back the Hill Valley that people loved. However, this doesn't address all the changes Biff made to history — like Richard Nixon serving five terms, which means the Vietnam War lasted an extra decade (assuming it still hasn't ended by that point).
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_420a8323	type	Smart Ball
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_420a8323	comment	Smart Ball: For all his stupidity, Biff manages to figure out that Doc's "refrigerator" is a time machine after seeing Doc in the photo of his parents getting married and combining it with the fact that he has the sports almanac from the future.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_420a8323	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_420a8323	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_420a8323
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_431dca9b	type	Compressed Vice
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_431dca9b	comment	Compressed Vice: Marty gets two of these back-to-back. In the "Continuum Conundrum" arc, he's developed such an addiction to time travel that he loses his ability to appreciate normalcy. The following arc, "Who is Marty McFly?" sees him undergo a delayed existential crisis about inhabiting the wrong timeline. Jennifer starts to wonder if he's making up problems at this point.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_431dca9b	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_431dca9b	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_431dca9b
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: When the initial attempt to Set Right What Once Went Wrong fails, one of Hill Valley's citizens volunteers to personally use the time machine to kill Biff when he's young and defenseless. Naturally, this is a little much for Doc.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: When Biff decides to become President, Lorraine tells him that, unless she finds Marty in one week, she'll divorce him, making it even harder for him to be elected. One week later, Biff upholds his end of the deal.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_496569e8	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_496569e8	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_496569e8
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4b47b936	type	Zeerust Canon
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4b47b936	comment	Zeerust Canon: The year 2015 is presented pretty much how it was in Part II, with all the poppy Eighties Zeerust that it entails (with the additions of The Internet, and mentions of Nirvana and Jurassic Park). The year 2035, on the other hand, takes the Eighties Zeerust of Part II and adds Zeerust from The New '10s onto it, resulting in a strange composite Zeerust.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4b47b936	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4b47b936	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4b47b936
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4bfe435c	type	Lobotomy
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4bfe435c	comment	Lobotomy: Doc 1985-A's fate.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4bfe435c	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4bfe435c	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4bfe435c
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4c554daf	type	President Evil
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4c554daf	comment	President Evil: Biff was attempting to make a gamble for presidency in the last issue set in 1986. He's killed before he can even start his campaign.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4c554daf	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4c554daf	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4c554daf
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Strickland won't take any bribes.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4e52a624	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4e52a624	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4e52a624
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: From the end of "Continuum Conundrum Part 1": In what can be considered the punchline of the "Time Served" arc, you have the following exchange from "Time Served Part 4":
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The end of Hard Times, Part 3 reveals that Joey had an accomplice: Biff Tannen.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_52a7e035	type	DoppelgÃ¤nger Gets Same Sentiment
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_52a7e035	comment	DoppelgÃ¤nger Gets Same Sentiment: Discussed in the "Who is Marty McFly?" arc. After realizing the truth about the alternate Martys (that they're actually androids), Doc shoots them to protect his Marty. He reassures the teen that what he's doing is Not What It Looks Like, appealing to his trust that he wouldn't hurt him or any timeline's version of him. This accidentally helps clear up Marty's existential crisis.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_52a7e035	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_52a7e035	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_52a7e035
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: When Marty seems apprehensive of sending Doc back to 1893, Jennifer assumes he wants to keep Doc. Marty, offended, clarifies that they need to fix Doc's amnesia first. Similarly, Jennifer accuses Marty of being mean to Doc (since he can't remember his kids), when in reality Marty is worried that the timeline may be altering (assuming that he may have come before he had them). Overall, "Continuum Conundrum" boils down to this: Marty and Jennifer assume something is wrong with the timeline when Doc appears in 1986 with amnesia. In reality, his amnesia was the result of a botched trip to 2035 to get the necessary materials to make the time train work. Doc says this verbatim in "Who is Marty McFly?" when he's forced to gun down several alternate Martys (actually highly realistic animatronics) to save the real Marty. He would never hurt any true incarnation of Marty.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_52d1f46e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_52d1f46e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_52d1f46e
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Each Volume 1 issue's primary story is bookended by Doc telling his sons that story while working on the Jules Verne Train.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5313c266	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5313c266	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5313c266
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: "Continuum Conundrum" begins five months after the end of Part III, and shows how Marty is having trouble re-adapting to everyday life after his time traveling adventures. It causes friction with everyone in his life, it alienates him from Jennifer, and he spends afternoons in the park telling kids stories about fighting Buford Tannen. Then he gets a letter from Clara saying that Doc has disappeared. "Who is Marty McFly?" doesn't so much override the happy ending as deconstruct the hell out of it, reminding us that despite the happiness of his family and their newfound financial stability, Marty still has to fill in for a version of himself he doesn't remember being and has never met.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_53c5f30e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_53c5f30e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_53c5f30e
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_547196be	type	Broad Strokes
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_547196be	comment	Broad Strokes: While the animated series (which was also created by Bob Gale, along with Robert Zemeckis) on the whole is not adapted, certain things from it are kept or referenced, most prominently Jules and Verne retaining their general personalities from that series in "Tales from the Time Train." See Continuity Nod for other nods.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_547196be	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_547196be	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_547196be
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_55b1f9a1	type	Easy Amnesia
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_55b1f9a1	comment	Easy Amnesia: Doc has this in "Continuum Conundrum," caused by Griff Tannen using some sort of cybernetics-scrambling device on him in 2035. He starts remembering more things by the end of the second issue of the arc, but it takes a blow to the head back in 2035 to completely get his mind going again.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_55b1f9a1	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_55b1f9a1	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_55b1f9a1
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_58154a14	type	Bribe Backfire
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_58154a14	comment	Bribe Backfire: When Strickland says Biff will have to repeat senior year (again), Biff tries to bribe Strickland but Strickland expels Biff for the attempted bribery.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_58154a14	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_58154a14	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_58154a14
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5a36f8bc	type	Not His Sled
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5a36f8bc	comment	Not His Sled: In the last issue, Lorraine pulls out a gun and shoots Biff; fans familiar with the franchise may think that this is the off-screen murder mentioned in the commentary for Back to the Future II, which was Gale and Zemeckis' explanation for Old Biff's mysterious deathnote Though the Bobs dated that event as some time in the 90s, and this scene happens in 1986. Unfortunately Biff had a Pocket Protector so he survives the attack.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5a36f8bc	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5a36f8bc	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5a36f8bc
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: Marty develops such a bad case of this in "Who Is Marty McFly?" that it practically reaches Catchphrase status.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5ad80bf8	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5ad80bf8	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5ad80bf8
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5f60b45a	type	In Harm's Way
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5f60b45a	comment	In Harm's Way: "Continuum Conundrum" starts in the spring of 1986, with Marty dying of boredom as he tries to readjust to his life as an Ordinary High-School Student. When Clara sends him a message indicating that Doc is missing, he's a little too eager to jump aboard the time machine again, to Jennifer's frustration.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5f60b45a	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5f60b45a	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_5f60b45a
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_60441d9	type	Future Slang
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_60441d9	comment	Future Slang: Examples abound in the second volume's depiction of 2035: "Hoverboard" is an outdated term by 2035, where the devices are called "fli-blades." "Stay crystal! I'm gonna sage the fifties!" The speaker even stops to explain to Marty and Doc that this means "call the police." Played With in the Bistro 2015 diner. Since it's supposed to be The Theme Park Version of 2015, the waiter uses an egregious amount of contemporary slang like "friend me," "Belieber," and "bae," which were all common in real life 2015 but unknown to Marty and Doc.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_60441d9	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_60441d9	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_60441d9
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: Biff threatens harm on Einstein, Marty, and the rest of the McFlys unless Doc cooperates with Biff's plan for the time machine.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: After the DeLorean goes missing in 1972 during the "Hard Time / Time Served" arc, Professor Irving voices his concern that, because he and Marty went to Doc's mom's house, his brief interaction with Doc lead to him never inventing the time machine. Marty shoots this down by revealing how he almost prevented his own birth and saw his hand starting to fade. Professor Irving proceeds to freak out again, as Marty notices that nothing is fading away this time, meaning the DeLorean was taken, not erased.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_69cce3dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_69cce3dc	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_69cce3dc
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_71038217	type	Wrench Wench
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_71038217	comment	Wrench Wench: At the end of one story, Clara is seen adjusting an armature in the Jules Verne train with a wrench, and other stories imply that she had some hand in assisting Doc with the train's construction.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_71038217	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_71038217	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_71038217
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Professor Irving and Marty play catch with this in the "Hard Time" arc. Initially, Irving is the one who steals the DeLorean to solve Marty's current problem despite Marty's protests, but once they're in the past, he quickly changes his mind, and Marty is the one who insists on staying.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7286e96d	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7286e96d	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7286e96d
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Marshal Strickland was shot and killed by Buford Tannen in a Part III deleted scene, and this is confirmed by Edna Strickland in the Telltale game. In the comic, however, the marshal is still alive and well in 1893.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7453bc5b	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7453bc5b	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7453bc5b
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_784a71d0	type	Crime of Self-Defense
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_784a71d0	comment	Crime of Self-Defense: Afraid the cops won't understand he only killed Uncle Lou as an act of self-defense, Biff buys forged documents to hide the fact he killed Lou.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_784a71d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_784a71d0	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_784a71d0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7957810b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7957810b	comment	Hostage For Macguffin: Biff threatens to kill Marty unless Doc fixes up his time machine for him to use.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7957810b	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7957810b	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7957810b
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: While mainly focusing on Biff's rise to power, "Biff to the Future" also takes the time to lay out how Richard Nixon was still in office in 1985-A. After buying out The Washington Post in issue #4, Biff proceeds to fire two reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, for wanting to run a story about some kind of "water gate". With them fired, the Senate decides to cancel their hearings on the matter, thus making Biff Tannen Nixon's favorite person. In turn, Biff grows to like Nixon being president... only to be informed of the 22nd Amendmentnote limits the amount of terms a President can serve to two. As such, Biff decides to abuse the Almanac in order to drum up enough money to "convince" 38 state legislators to ratify the Constitution and repeal the 22nd Amendment. This in turn is why California legalizes gambling: after Biff pulled this stunt, no one is willing to take his bets. However, Nixon owes Biff a favor...
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_79a60aec	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_79a60aec	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_79a60aec
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_79ba6777	type	Pocket Protector
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_79ba6777	comment	Pocket Protector: Lorraine's attempt to kill Biff was foiled when a book inside of Biff's breast pocket blocked the bullet.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_79ba6777	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_79ba6777	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_79ba6777
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: While attempting to sneak into an impound lot, Marty overhears some Red Hot Chili Peppers, and concludes that it's Needles, as Needles is a huge RHCP fan. Needles was, of course, played by RHCP bassist Michael "Flea" Balzary in the trilogy itself.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7b8b3def	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7b8b3def	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7b8b3def
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Biff walked into the set of McLintock! to offer John Wayne to play his ancestor Mad Dog Tannen in his film. When Wayne rejected to play a "degenerate low-life trash" an incensed Biff tried to punch him. But instead Wayne slugs him across his face and then delivering his movie's one-liner "Pilgrim, you caused a lot of trouble this morning." Even better, the entire incident was filmed and plastered on front page newspapers with the title "Duke Puts Mad Dog Down."
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7eb73553	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7eb73553	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7eb73553
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7f38c0cd	comment	An Offer You Can't Refuse: When Biff is petitioning for Hill Valley to be rezoned for heavy industry, one of his allies tells an old lady she'll get ten bucks if she signs the petition; or a broken arm if she doesn't.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7f38c0cd	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7f38c0cd	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7f38c0cd
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: "Continuum Conundrum Part 2" suggests that Doc's current predicament resulted from the note Marty left for Doc back in 1986. In reality, it was a Red Herring.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7fbb2a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7fbb2a3	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_7fbb2a3
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: Uncle Lou says people who say money doesn't grow on trees never met a stump like Biff. At the 1956 graduation ceremony, there's a banner with a tropical setting and the line "Life's a beach. Sea you next year!".
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_83445b04	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_83445b04	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_83445b04
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8430699a	type	Alternate Universe
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8430699a	comment	Alternate Universe: Discussed by Jennifer as a possible origin point for the version of Doc they encounter that doesn't recognize them. Bob Gale says that the Citizen Brown series — and, by extension, Back to the Future: The Game — is in an alternate timeline than that of "Continuum Conundrum".
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8430699a	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8430699a	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8430699a
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8792383c	type	Censorship by Spelling
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8792383c	comment	Censorship by Spelling: Lorraine says D-U-M-B during a conversation with George in 1972 but, when George points out Marty's too asleep to understand, she outright says "dumb".
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8792383c	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8792383c	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8792383c
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In 2035, Doc and Marty hide themselves under a synthetic feritlizer truck while being chased by Griff Tannen. Unlike Biff and Buford in the movies, Griff has a car with a system that prevents the collision. During the arc's climax, Griff deactivates the system and crashes into a sewage reclamation plant.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8797239c	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8797239c	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8797239c
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Biff of 1985-A is the main lead here and the story follows what happened on that timeline after his older self from the original timeline gave him the Sports Almanac.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_898ff050	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_898ff050	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_898ff050
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_89d001bf	type	Do Wrong, Right
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_89d001bf	comment	Do Wrong, Right: When Biff claims his injury was a result of falling downstairs, his grandmother tells him to lie better.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_89d001bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_89d001bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_89d001bf
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	comment	"Who is Marty McFly?" doesn't so much override the happy ending as deconstruct the hell out of it, reminding us that despite the happiness of his family and their newfound financial stability, Marty still has to fill in for a version of himself he doesn't remember being and has never met.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8b67aba7
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8becc5c5	type	Existential Horror
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8becc5c5	comment	Existential Horror: "Who is Marty McFly?" Turns out Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory is a harsh mistress.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8becc5c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8becc5c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8becc5c5
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8c49c29e	type	Zig-Zagging Trope
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8c49c29e	comment	Which itself was a secret test of characterâ€”Doc wasn't really looking for an assistant until Marty turned up and wanted to see how he would react to being offered the job. Marty's confession that he never surmised such a test and was in fact housebreaking marks him as a basically honest person despite...well, the housebreaking.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8c49c29e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8c49c29e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8c49c29e
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Marty as of "Continuum Conundrum," since he can't handle an adventure-free life post-trilogy, becoming more withdrawn and sullen. He's still a jerk when the plot kicks in, making Jennifer give him a boost, outrunning the police in an unmarked car, and being generally impatient with the amnesiac Doc (which Jennifer eventually calls him out on).
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8cb1a369	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8cb1a369	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8cb1a369
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8cbd311b	type	Good Angel, Bad Angel
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8cbd311b	comment	Good Angel, Bad Angel: Marty experiences this during "Time Served, Part 2", when he finds himself helping Uncle Joey with the robbery that got him arrested. The angel, Professor Irving, points out that Marty set out on his journey to merely find out what happened, not alter it; if Marty prevents Uncle Joey's arrest, then Marty undoes the reason he's in 1972 to begin with. The devil, Marty himself, points out that he can't let Uncle Joey throw his life away; plus, he always has to help someone in need.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8cbd311b	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8cbd311b	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8cbd311b
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Biff's biggest mistake in using the Almanac is always betting on the winner. This eventually comes back to bite him in the ass, as he ends up getting banned by every casino and gambling institution (though he's already fabulously wealthy by this point and this backfires as it leads to Biff getting Nixon to get California to legalize gambling). The smarter course of action would have been to play the long game and "lose" as often as he won (let alone not drawing the kind of attention he did out of the gate with that very first bet). But then, if he could plan ahead and think things through, he wouldn't be Biff Tannen, would he?
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8d0785d5	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8d0785d5	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8d0785d5
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Timey-Wimey Ball: In Volume 2, Marty explains to Jennifer that Clara could have sent the letter from a point before or after when they saw her with Doc at the end of Part III, since time travel is involved. If it's after, then Doc simply needs their help. If it's before, then they need to locate Doc in order to maintain the space-time continuum. A driving question in Volume 2 is whether or not the Jules Verne Train worked as a time machine. Marty and Jennifer know it did, since they saw it on October 27, 1985, but the presence of Doc with the steam tricycle time machine — as well as the ending to Volume 1 — proves that it didn't.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8d23f3a7	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8d23f3a7	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8d23f3a7
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8d612fe6	type	Swapped Roles
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8d612fe6	comment	Swapped Roles: Marty effectively becomes Doc during the "Hard Time / Time Served" arc, knowing full well that his plan to go back in time to prevent Uncle Joey's incarceration was a dumb plan, managing to rationalize that the DeLorean was stolen, not erased, and that he needs to put as much distance between himself and 1972 Doc as possible. Professor Irving even acknowledges this:
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8d612fe6	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8d612fe6	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8d612fe6
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Biff's grandmother is just like anyone in the Tannen family. The old woman is emotionally abusive towards her grandson, forcing him to drive her to Las Vegas where she spends her day with the slot machine. It is implied that she was also abusive towards her son, Kid Tannen as well, as she's the reason he joined the Mafia. Near the end of the first chapter, she was killed by a conman planning to steal Biff's Almanac. Said conman is also the first person Biff ever killed and likely the only person Biff killed that viewers wouldn't shed a tear as it was an act of self defense. After Biff hit it big, he met a fast-talking Hollywood director who convinced him to fund a movie studio. In reality, the director just saw him as an easy mark and strung him along to drain as much money as possible, only producing one movie (which was a low-budget box office bomb) because Biff finally started wising up and put the screws to him. Biff eventually got his revenge by convincing the director to place a bet for him in a Mafia-controlled gambling parlor, conveniently leaving out the fact that the Mafia had sworn to kill Biff or anyone placing bets on his behalf after he won too much of their money. Biff finally meets his end in the final issue at the hands of "Mad Dog" Tannen.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8ed5c6e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8ed5c6e4	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_8ed5c6e4
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_90f2fd8a	type	Grandfather Paradox
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_90f2fd8a	comment	Grandfather Paradox: 1985-A is firmly established as one of these. Any fan theories about Alt Doc somehow escaping the asylum and building the time machine are crushed when Prime Doc meets him and discovers that his counterpart had not only stayed in the asylum, but had been lobotomized. This means that the time machine was never built, meaning there was no way for Old Biff to give himself the almanac. Prime Doc notes that he, Marty, and the DeLorean are somehow protected by a bubble of the prime reality, and that once the bubble bursts and the timeline tries to correct itself, all of reality will end.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_90f2fd8a	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_90f2fd8a	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_90f2fd8a
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_92cca75b	type	Ret-Gone
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_92cca75b	comment	Ret-Gone: Doc opts for this as preferable to murder, going back in time to prevent the wedding of Biff's parents. Unfortunately for him, Biff was already born by then.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_92cca75b	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_92cca75b	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_92cca75b
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_95265081	type	Leeroy Jenkins
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_95265081	comment	Leeroy Jenkins: Marty's answer to escaping the police that have been summoned to Doc's secret lab by the security system? To jump into the backup DeLorean and smash past the gate. Subverted in that it works, although Jennifer calls him out for being so reckless.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_95265081	featureApplicability	-0.3
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_95265081	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_95265081
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Biff's grandmother refuses to take responsibility for her son being a criminal.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_973d220f	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_973d220f	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_973d220f
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_98995a37	type	Ridiculous Future Sequelisation
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_98995a37	comment	Ridiculous Future Sequelisation: By 2035, the cinematic adaptation of George McFly's novel A Match Made in Space is approaching Jaws 19 levels, with nine sequels and a reboot in the works.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_98995a37	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_98995a37	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_98995a37
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_98f5de00	type	Let Me Get This Straight...
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_98f5de00	comment	Let Me Get This Straight...: Marty's reaction upon learning the only reason he's back in Hill Valley is to help Biff become President.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_98f5de00	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_98f5de00	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_98f5de00
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_99242b47	type	DarkerAndGrittier
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_99242b47	comment	Darker and Grittier: Given the nature of Biff's influence slowly transforming Hill Valley into a Wretched Hive, this has to be one of the darkest, most depressing entries in the entire BTTF franchise. It ends on a high note, though.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_99242b47	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_99242b47	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_99242b47
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Ronald Reagan (an actor at the time) gives Biff some friendly advice to give up the Hollywood life and use his money to make something more meaningful in his life. Biff takes his advice to become the corrupt mayor of Hill Valley. The Hill Valley Telegraph's editor sold the newspaper to the Washington Post so Biff wouldn't be able to buy it. It eventually leads Biff to buy the Washington post and kill the story that'd ruin Richard Nixon. Biff and Nixon become friends as a result and Biff uses his influence to repeal the two-term limit, explaining how Nixon got four terms and could run for a fifth one.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_99ddfcec	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_99ddfcec	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_99ddfcec
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Professor Irving to Doc Brown, until he's redeemed. Then they're just counterparts.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The farmer who was attempting to "breed pine trees" is committed in the same mental institution as Doc in the last issue. The film features a headline saying Nixon seeks a fifth term. In this comic, Biff wants to become President after Nixon's fifth term ends.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_9e09fbd7	type	New-Age Retro Hippie
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_9e09fbd7	comment	New-Age Retro Hippie: Professor Irving is forced to hitch a ride with a group of them in their Hippie Van during the "Time Served" arc, to his abject horror. They're quite friendly to him and even offer him pot brownies.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_9e09fbd7	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_9e09fbd7	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_9e09fbd7
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: "Clara's Story" has this. It goes from the story about Clara's past and upbringing, to a scene of Doc and Clara reflecting on their new life together in 1880's Hill Valley, to another flashback (or flash-forward?) to Doc's horrific experiences in 1985-A, back to Clara and Doc on the porch as she tells him that she's pregnant and they're going to be a family.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_a4c37cbe	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_a4c37cbe	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_a4c37cbe
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Jennifer Parker gets a much larger role in the comics than she ever did in the films, now serving as Marty's voice of reason.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_a65288e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_a65288e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_a65288e2
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_a806691d	comment	Casanova Wannabe: Needles, who tries "flirting" with Jennifer (in front of his own girlfriend, no less). It fails, naturally.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_a806691d	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_a806691d	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_a806691d
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_aadcbbe4	type	Close-Enough Timeline
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_aadcbbe4	comment	That storyline also explores the horror of living in a Close-Enough Timeline when Marty discovers he does not have the same memories as Jennifer of their first dates.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_aadcbbe4	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_aadcbbe4	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_aadcbbe4
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: In "Time Served, Part 4", Joey knocks out Biff, saying that somebody should have done that to him a long time ago so he'd have some sense knocked into him, apparently unaware that George had done that back in 1955. In the "Continuum Conundrum" arc, an amnesiac Doc is mistaken for a terrorist along with Marty and insists, "I would never embroil myself with terrorists!"
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ab5eea65	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ab5eea65	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ab5eea65
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ab9311f0	type	Closer to Earth
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ab9311f0	comment	Closer to Earth: Jennifer gets a slightly larger role in which she serves as Marty's often-frustrated voice of reason. It's played back and forth with Clara and Doc. While Doc remains his daffy self, has some classic Forgotten Anniversary shenanigans and admits that his future time-travel plans will be safer with Clara there to "supervise" him, she's ultimately the one who's most eager to explore the time continuum, while he is happy to settle down in the Wild West.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ab9311f0	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ab9311f0	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ab9311f0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ace24b2c	type	Halfway Plot Switch
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ace24b2c	comment	Halfway Plot Switch: A rather bizarre instance of this being played straight, then subverted: the "Who is Marty McFly?" arc starts with Marty dealing with how his memories no longer mesh with the timeline after having altered it. Then Professor Irving becomes involved, convincing Marty that he's about to fade from existence due to not being the Marty of the current timeline. However, this turns out to have been a trick to get Marty to get Doc to come back to 1986, so he can steal the flux capacitor for his own time machine. And then a rampage of Marty robots appear. And then Irving returns, from 1997 to be exact, to try and fix things... by getting rid of Marty and Doc (first by dumping them in prehistoric times, then by taking them to 1997 and then locking them in a room full of Marty and Doc robots). Then, after escaping, Marty has the revelation that winds up bringing the whole arc back to the beginning: it's the choices you make that define who you are, nothing else. Marty's choices made him Marty. And it's up for Irving to make the choices that make him Irving. And this is done by going back to 1986 (with 1997 Irving in hot pursuit) to force 1986 Irving to make some new changes to his life. Needless to say, this arc went places.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ace24b2c	featureApplicability	-0.3
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ace24b2c	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ace24b2c
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ad459d78	type	Write Back to the Future
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ad459d78	comment	Write Back to the Future: Clara in 1893 does this to send a letter to Marty in 1986. Marty later tries this himself by leaving a note in Doc's secret lab, reasoning that Doc might see it at some point in the future.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ad459d78	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ad459d78	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ad459d78
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: As it happens, the $85,000 that Uncle Joey supposedly helped steal in 1972 from Doc's mom and was buried in the woods was actually stolen by Doc; he didn't trust the person his mom was dating and decided to hide her nest egg. But when it turned out her suitor was secretly rich, Doc decided "$85,000 [was] significantly less relevant to Mother's well-being", and dug it up not too long after hiding it to use for his time machine endeavors. In other words, Uncle Joey took the fall for a robbery that netted no money.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_aed65980	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_aed65980	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_aed65980
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_afaf31e4	type	Box Office Bomb
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_afaf31e4	comment	Box Office Bomb: In-universe. Biff's first and only film Dreams of a Madman sunk big time. This is mainly due to the film being made as a last ditch effort to recover Biff's movie studio's finances, and that Biff's sleazy movie producer Bernie Kessoff had wasted their millions of dollars for himself.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_afaf31e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_afaf31e4	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_afaf31e4
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: Marty has no time for Doc's use of the word "borrowed" to describe his casual lifting of the Brown family fortune to fund his time machine.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b09c818	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b09c818	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b09c818
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b2ad812d	type	So What Do We Do Now?
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b2ad812d	comment	So What Do We Do Now?: "Continuum Conundrum" starts in the spring of 1986, when Marty is suffering severe adventure withdrawal after the events of the series. When he learns that Doc has mysteriously vanished and needs to be tracked down, he doesn't even bother to hide his excitement.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b2ad812d	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b2ad812d	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b2ad812d
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: Doc faked insanity so he could perform his experiments without people bothering him.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b4fce1ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b4fce1ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b4fce1ab
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Biff Tannen is a callous, ridiculously unqualified, corrupt beyond parody, Upper-Class Twit and former realty mogul running for president. "Seriously? The American people would never elect someone like that. It impossible!"
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_bb0b2739	type	Nested Story
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_bb0b2739	comment	Nested Story: "Clara's Story" in Issue 5 is a double example of this, interrupting the Jules Verne Train's first attempt at time travel so that Clara can tell her story, and interrupting that story with Doc's story about 1985-A and his arrival in the Old West.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_bb0b2739	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_bb0b2739	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_bb0b2739
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Doc tricks Biff into into going back into the past of 1884 rather then 1996 as intended (Biff was looking to gain more Almanacs and make himself all powerful) and sending him into the Old West while wearing a wildly gaudy tourist outfit to draw attention to him. Doc specifically sent Biff to a day that he knew "Mad Dog" Tannen was in town, and sure enough, Biff stupidly presses his ancestor's Berserk Button, earning him a bullet to the brain. When his body reappears in the present, Doc knocks out his cronies with a electric mat when they go to check on him. The whole thing is covered up as an freak accident with a power surge. And since Biff had so many enemies, no one was willing to question how he really died.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_be8f3491	type	The Theme Park Version
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_be8f3491	comment	The Theme Park Version: The Bistro 2015 restaurant in the year 2035 is to the The New '10snote That is, a combination of Real Life New Tens as well as Part II's New Tens as the Cafe '80s was to The '80s. This includes a waiter dressed as a hipster using gratuitous amounts of New Tens slang.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_be8f3491	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_be8f3491	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_be8f3491
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c10da874	comment	The year 2015 is presented pretty much how it was in Part II, with all the poppy Eighties Zeerust that it entails (with the additions of The Internet, and mentions of Nirvana and Jurassic Park).
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c10da874	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c10da874	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c10da874
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c181a846	type	Dies Differently in Adaptation
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: In "Citizen Brown", 1986-A Edna has a brainwashed Biff set up some bombs to blow up Doc's lab; Biff, being...well, Biff, hangs onto the ticking time bombs and they end up blowing him and Edna sky high as Marty and Doc escape. In the original Telltale game, the two of them, along with the 1986-A versions of everyone else, are simply erased from existence and replaced with their final timeline versions once Marty corrects the timeline and keeps Doc from marrying Edna.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c181a846	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c181a846	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c181a846
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: Played with: Despite wanting to know why Uncle Joey was arrested in the "Hard Time" arc, Marty shoots down the idea of using time travel to figure it out... only to head to Doc's garage instead when Jennifer suggests going to the library; Marty clarifies that he doesn't want to use the DeLorean, he just wants to talk to Doc about it. It's only when Doc warns Marty to stay away from Uncle Joey that he decides to go to the library instead.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c2299d6e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c2299d6e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c2299d6e
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: When Doc plans to go back to the time Strickland tried and failed to convince a Principal to send Biff to a reform school, Strickland is concerned that Doc might be mistrusted by being near a school. Not only Strickland faces that treatment, he also remembers that the Principal was the one who tried to send Biff away and it was him who convinced her not to do so. Biff always looked up to his ancestor, Buford Tannen, and saw him as a hero instead of an outlaw. He ends up dying to Buford after getting sent back in time to 1884.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c335b9ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c335b9ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c335b9ec
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: 1985-A Biff meets his end ironically at the hands of his ancestor Mad Dog Tannen while trying to get a photo of him and making the mistake of calling him by his nickname, resulting in getting shot in the head. This was all a plan of Doc's naturally. When Lorraine shoots Biff and a Pocket Protector saves his life, he says she should've aimed for his head.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c3585f4a	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c3585f4a	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c3585f4a
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c614edde	type	Another Story for Another Time
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c614edde	comment	Another Story for Another Time: Doc tells Marty that his mom kept $85,000 in cash at home because, after The Wall Street Crash, she stopped trusting financial institutions. Doc also says she didn't trust safes either but that was another story.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c614edde	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c614edde	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c614edde
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When Biff is told Doc is somewhere "between catatonia and suspended animation", Biff thinks Doc became a cartoon cat and asks if he's Sylvester or Tom.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: In Citizen Brown Issues 1 and 2, Marty uses the alias "Don Corleone" when in 1931, but in Issue 3 he tells First Citizen Brown that he went by "Michael Corleone" instead.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ca95473c	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ca95473c	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ca95473c
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_cb6b1aba	type	Held Back in School
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_cb6b1aba	comment	Held Back in School: Biff was already repeating his senior year at Hill Valley High. Strickland then informs him he's being held back again due to not attending class or completing any assigned work. In this altered timeline, Biff gets expelled after trying to bribe him.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_cb6b1aba	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_cb6b1aba	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_cb6b1aba
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_cbd2bfa3	type	Glory Days
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_cbd2bfa3	comment	Glory Days: It's hinted in "Continuum Conundrum" that Marty sees his time traveling days as this. He even has a brief conversation with Biff (of all people) on the subject.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_cbd2bfa3	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_cbd2bfa3	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_cbd2bfa3
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_cc8b2fd	type	Ascended Fridge Horror
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_cc8b2fd	comment	Ascended Fridge Horror: "Biff to the Future"'s fourth issue mainly focuses on one particular detail about 1985-A. Namely, how the hell Nixon could still be in office.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_cc8b2fd	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_cc8b2fd	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_cc8b2fd
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ccfe1fc7	type	Have We Met Yet?
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ccfe1fc7	comment	Have We Met Yet?: Ultimately, "Continuum Conundrum" boils down to a matter of perspective. Marty and Jennifer's side of the story is a sequel to the end of Part III, since this is the first time they've seen Doc since the train flew away. From Doc's perspective, however, it's an interquel — the train still needs a few parts in order to work properly, and the end of Part III hasn't happened for him yet; as far as he is concerned, this is his first meeting with Marty and Jennifer after being stranded in the Old West.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ccfe1fc7	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ccfe1fc7	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ccfe1fc7
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: In the main comic, it's revealed that Joey Baines was in prison for his role in Biff's attempt to steal $85,000 from Doc's mother in 1972. In 1972-A, Biff was too rich to bother with that money but Joey was still in prison. Lorraine says it was for doing drugs.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d243518d	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d243518d	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d243518d
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Marty's reaction upon finding out that Doc "borrowed" his mother's nest egg to fund the time machine project.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d41832cc	type	Written by the Winners
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: Biff is able to rewrite history to make his great-grandfather a hero who saved Hill Valley instead of the outlaw he is.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d41832cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d41832cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d41832cc
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Biff's grandmother claimed she would raise Biff better than her no good son. Some parent figure she become.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d52d28b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d52d28b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d52d28b6
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: Biff makes George one after marrying Lorainne. He gets rid of all photos of George and Dave later says that Biff refuses to even acknowledge George's existence.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d558b013	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d558b013	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d558b013
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Biff is one of Richard Nixon's best friends.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_da3043c5	type	Fake Ultimate Hero
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_da3043c5	comment	Fake Ultimate Hero: Biff not only makes himself to look like a national hero, he also rewrote history to make his ancestor one as well.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_da3043c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_da3043c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_da3043c5
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_dc8ecfda	type	Futureshadowing
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_dc8ecfda	comment	Futureshadowing: "Time Served Part 1" sees a four-year old Marty run after Uncle Joey, after the latter angrily leaves the Baines' house. Joey turns around and stops Marty from running into the street, as there's "bad drivers" out there, and he doesn't want him to get hit.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_dc8ecfda	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_dc8ecfda	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_dc8ecfda
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: While researching Biff's family history , Doc comes across information about Buford Tannen. This seems to just be an acknowledgement of the character, but in the last issue, Doc tricks Biff into going back in time to encounter his ancestor and get shot by him.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_dcbe8a6e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_dcbe8a6e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_dcbe8a6e
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_de10dda2	type	Caught on Tape
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_de10dda2	comment	Caught on Tape: Strickland suggests recording Biff confessing to the murder of George McFly but Dave claims Biff is too smart for that and doesn't even acknowledge George ever existed.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_de10dda2	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_de10dda2	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_de10dda2
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3	type	Bad Future
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3	comment	Bad Future: ...which likewise makes it this as well.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_df582b0b	comment	Continuity Snarl: For whatever reason, in the last issue of "Biff to the Future" (which takes place in 1986-A), while Doc Brown is still in the mental hospital, he was not lobotomized as he was in the main comic series (Issue 5: "Clara's Story"). Although it wasn't actually shown/mentioned in the movie, Lorraine ended up shooting and killing Biff sometime in the 1990s. Here, Lorraine shoots Biff in 1986, her attempt to kill him fails, and Biff ends up being killed by Mad Dog Tannen after being sent back to the old west. After Strickland's Heroic BSoD (see below), an anti-Biff society member stated Strickland was "on leave from school" even though, by that point in time, Hill Valley High School would've burnt down four years prior as mentioned in BTTF Part II. It could've been another school though.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_df582b0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_df582b0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_df582b0b
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e1721fd1	type	Antiquated Linguistics
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e1721fd1	comment	Antiquated Linguistics: Clara's letter to Marty in "Continuum Conundrum" uses antiquated turns of phrases and formal wordings of the 19th century. Notable is that she is shown to be speaking more normally when interacting with Doc.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e1721fd1	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e1721fd1	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e1721fd1
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Deconstructed. In "Continuum Conundrum," Jennifer calls Marty out for relying on these, even in situations where it's not in their best interests. Marty doesn't always understand her concerns, though, due to his Indy Ploys working out just fine during the trilogy.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e35ab565	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e35ab565	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e35ab565
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: "Peer Pressure" features Marty playing Wild Gunman at 7-11, and mentioning how cheap life was in the Old West.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e3c36782	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e3c36782	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e3c36782
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: 1958 George angrily tells Doc that it is not called "sci-fi." The proper term is "science fiction."
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e563bf09	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e563bf09	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e563bf09
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Biff's trait of mangling metaphors is exaggerated in this series, to the point where a good 90% of his dialog contains some form of malapropism.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e5e6640b	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e5e6640b	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e5e6640b
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e5f8ceac	type	Army of The Ages
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e5f8ceac	comment	Army of The Ages: Doc witnesses one of these during his vision of the Temporal Cold War, with modern soldiers fighting soldiers from the Roman Empire, and flying saucers dropping bombs.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e5f8ceac	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e5f8ceac	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e5f8ceac
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e6291d05	type	Percussive Maintenance
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e6291d05	comment	Percussive Maintenance: While attempting to operate the stolen time machine, Old Biff smacks the time circuits with the brass fist on the top of his cane. This results in a glitch that sends him back to the dinosaur era.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e6291d05	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e6291d05	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e6291d05
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: Any character from the original trilogy, if they appear, will say one of their catchphrases at least once. Pretty much no one is exempt.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e6b5d22f	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e6b5d22f	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e6b5d22f
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e780f603	type	Clone Angst
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e780f603	comment	Clone Angst: Unable to figure out what happened to the version of himself who grew up in the Lone Pines timeline, Marty feels incredible guilt at the thought that he may have stolen his life, wondering if that means he's not the "real" Marty. At the same time, he's terrified that he may fade from existence if the timeline irons itself out. It gets far worse when he meets a whole series of what appear to be vengeful displaced iterations of himself from other timelines. Fortunately, they turn out to be lifelike animatronics.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e780f603	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e780f603	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e780f603
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e8b295de	type	PlayedWith
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With in the Bistro 2015 diner. Since it's supposed to be The Theme Park Version of 2015, the waiter uses an egregious amount of contemporary slang like "friend me," "Belieber," and "bae," which were all common in real life 2015 but unknown to Marty and Doc.
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e8b295de	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e8b295de	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e8b295de
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e9e2c54d	type	You Already Changed the Past
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_e9e2c54d	comment	You Already Changed the Past: The "Time Served" arc has this be implied. The item that winds up kicking off Marty's eventual journey to 1972 was a painting with the top portion ripped off being mailed to Joey in 1986. This painting was from Doc's mom's house, and was one of the things stolen when Joey and Marty robbed it. After Marty makes off with the painting, a confrontation with Biff results in the head being ripped off (the part Marty and Professor Irving keep). As Marty and Irving discuss: Similarly, when Professor Irving goes to encounter Doc at his garage in "Part 1", he comments to himself that the area around the garage is lacking its security measures. When Irving goes into the garage and makes his presence known to Doc, he quietly comments to himself that he needs to install a security system.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ea35fda5	type	Bastard Bastard
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ea35fda5	comment	Bastard Bastard: It turns out Biff's parents are not married until after he was born.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: 1962 Doc's vision of the temporal arms race. He ultimately can't decide if he dreamed it or if it was something that actually happened that was erased by multiple paradoxes, but comes to the conclusion that it really does not matter — he's not going to give his time travel research to the government.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: He also turns down a bribe from Doc, although the system reprimands him anyway, noting that he's been bribed (successfully) in the past.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: Kind of. To celebrate IDW's reboot of Rom Spaceknight (as part of their new Hasbro Comic Universe and the Revolution crossover), issue 10 featured a special cover with ROM flying past the DeLorean◊ (many other IDW titles had special covers that month with ROM).
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	Anti-Climax: Subversion: Part 4 of "Continuum Conundrum" sees Officer Griff Tannen approach Doc's secret lab, armed with a flamethrower. Part 5 opens with him being "shut down" for using an unauthorized weapon. It takes the entirety of the issue for him to override it and actually enter the lab, giving Doc enough time to explain to Marty what happened the last time he was in 2035.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_f09a2e19	type	Time Travel for Fun and Profit
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_f09a2e19	comment	Time Travel for Fun and Profit: Biff not only became rich thanks to his future self giving him the sports almanac, he also plans to go to the future to expand his wealth through the stock market and convince voters he's a reliable President.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Professor Irving is even worse than Doc Brown.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Professor Irving, after plotting to steal the Flux Capacitor, taking advantage of Marty's anxiety by sending multiple animatronic Marty doubles after him, convincing him that he may fade out of existence and that Doc doesn't care what happens to him, dropping Marty and Doc in the Pleistocene Era and leaving them to die, and finally attempting to kill them with robot clones of themselves. Ultimately Marty pities him because unlike them he's had to deal with the trauma of time travel alone, and by the end of the arc he's basically one of the gang, bonding with Doc over mutual scientific interest and failure to understand women. To be fair, it's a younger version of himself who has yet to make these bad decisions.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_f4bd2a7b	type	Forgotten Anniversary
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_f4bd2a7b	comment	Forgotten Anniversary: The plot of Issue 18, in which Doc deals with this problem exactly the way you'd expect.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	A suitor who wooed Doc's mother pulled this. Doc suspected that he was after her money, but in fact he had an enormous fortune of his own and was pretending to be poor to make sure she wasn't marrying him for his money.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_f6d6a1c2	type	Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now?
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_f6d6a1c2	comment	Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now?: When Marty tries to ask people about what Uncle Joey went to prison for, Uncle Toby, Aunt Sally, and a cop ask if Marty should be in school when he calls them. Doc also asks the question but, by then, Marty has the excuse of it being 4 pm.
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Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_f9adfcdf	type	Enemies List
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_f9adfcdf	comment	Enemies List: Richard Nixon suggests Biff should keep that kind of list. Biff likes the idea but would need a whole library to keep track of his enemies and Nixon says the both of them would.
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