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Back to the Future Part III

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Back to the Future Part III	comment	All spoilers for Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II are unmarked. You Have Been Warned.Back to the Future Part III is the final part of the Back to the Future trilogy, released in 1990. It is directed by Robert Zemeckis, with the screenplay by Bob Gale.When we last left Marty at the end of Part II, he was once again stranded in 1955 after a lightning bolt hit the DeLorean with the Doc still inside it, causing him to warp somewhere in time. However, the 1985 Doc sends a letter via The Slow Path, informing Marty that he is alright and happy, living in the days of the old west. He tells Marty that he hid the DeLorean so that Marty, with the help of the younger Doc of 1955, could repair it to return home, instructing him to destroy the time machine after doing so. Marty and the 1955 Doc exhume the buried DeLorean. However as they're doing so, Marty discover Doc's 1885 tombstone, which states he was murdered by Biff's infamous great-grandfather, the outlaw Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, seven days after writing the letter. Marty disregards Doc's instructions in the letter and heads for 1885 to save him. Trapped yet again when the DeLorean fuel line is ripped upon reaching 1885 (with gasoline yet to be marketed as fuel for a long while), Marty and Doc attempt to repair the time machine before a showdown with Buford, only for Doc to fall in love with schoolteacher Clara Clayton (played by Mary Steenburgen) and wanting to stay with her in 1885.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_1078bba8	type	"Mister Sandman" Sequence
Back to the Future Part III / int_1078bba8	comment	"Mister Sandman" Sequence: The sequence introducing 1885 Hill Valley includes a small harmonica bit of the Back to the Future theme tune, when Marty is looking at the courthouse in construction.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_10de0193	type	Time-Travel Romance
Back to the Future Part III / int_10de0193	comment	Time-Travel Romance: Doc Brown unexpectedly encounters love in the Wild West with a much younger woman named Clara. They stay together and they travel through time together.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_1206d299	type	Can't Kill You, Still Need You
Back to the Future Part III / int_1206d299	comment	Can't Kill You, Still Need You: A downplayed, non-lethal variation when Marty prepares for departure to 1885. Rather than send Marty back on September 1, 1885 — the day his counterpart wrote his letter to Marty — 1955 Doc instead sets the "Destination Time" to the very next day (September 2, 1885). While it's not outright stated in the film, it can be inferred that they can't send Marty back any earlier. They need 1885 Doc to complete his preparations to seal the DeLorean in the Delgado Mine and entrust the letter to Western Union. Going back any earlier risks disrupting that chain of events, which could then jeopardize their recovery and restoration of the DeLorean 70 years later (which would leave Marty stranded in 1955 at best and set off another temporal paradox at worst). While it's not explicitly stated, Marty's biggest handicap in the final showdown with Buford is that, obviously, he can't just kill him. Apart from whatever else his impact on Hill Valley will be in the years to come, Buford needs to live long enough to continue the Tannen bloodline (and ensure Biff will eventually be born, thereby setting up his roles in the first two films). Killing Buford will only screw up the timeline worse than it already has been at this point in the Trilogy.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Back to the Future Part III / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Dean Cundey, the cinematographer for all three films, appears as the photographer who takes a picture of Marty and Doc in front of the clock face. ZZ Top is the Old West band playing during the town party in 1885 (playing an acoustic version of their song "Doubleback" from the end credits). They even do their trademark instrument spin.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_14096e32	type	With a Foot on the Bus
Back to the Future Part III / int_14096e32	comment	With a Foot on the Bus: The Doc falls in love with Clara, a woman of the Old West. He told her he was from the future, so she slapped him and took the train out of the city, while Doc and Marty tried to use a train to activate the time machine. She discovered that he had spoken the truth and ran to him, trying to catch the train and beg his pardon. In the end, only Marty returned to 1985: Doc was out of the time machine saving Clara's life, and it was destroyed after Marty returned. But that does not stop a scientist: Doc made a new time machine, built into a train powered by steam, and reunites with Marty in what is an instant from his perspective (but long enough for Doc and Clara to have started a family from theirs).
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Back to the Future Part III / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Back to the Future Part III / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: When TNT aired the movie in the 1990s, their commercial bumpers included shots of the Time Train flying away, spoiling the ending for any viewers watching the movie for the first time. The teaser trailer at the end of Part II spoiled that Marty would make it back to 1985, as he reunites with Jennifer while still wearing his cowboy clothes.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Back to the Future Part III / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Doc and Clara first meet and fall in love after he rescues her from falling into a ravine.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Back to the Future Part III / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: At the drive-in, Marty expresses concern about running into the Indians depicted on the mural when he travels back. Doc Brown assures him that, when he actually gets back, it will be empty terrain. Marty jumps into the past and lands smack in the middle actual Indians being chased on horseback. In the same scene, as Doc is doing a final rundown before Marty heads to 1885, he makes a point of saying thereâ€™s a full tank of gas in the DeLorean. No sooner does Marty enter 1885, he winds up ripping the fuel line.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_15c0289	type	Bullet Dancing
Back to the Future Part III / int_15c0289	comment	Buford being called "Mad Dog" leads to Bullet Dancing, then when Marty accidentally knocks a spittoon on him, it leads to an attempted lynching.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_165c3951	type	Prochronic Product
Back to the Future Part III / int_165c3951	comment	Prochronic Product: Doc Brown's invoked affinity for Jules Verne's prochronic oriented science fiction leads him creating quite a few things that are ahead of their time for 1885. First, a high power sniper rifle with a telescope — able to "shoot a flea off a dog's back at 500 yards", it is by about 75 years before perfection of rifling technology for common availability. He constructs a clockwork mechanism able to cook breakfast in the morning. A refrigerator machine, half the size of his shed, able to produce ice cubes — about 50 years early than the invention of freon. Shown but not discussed, there are electricity powered toys on the mockup of their plans to use the time machine pushed on tracks by a locomotive. Also, in the same film, Doc explains to Marty his prochronic creation of Presto-logs, wood logs substitutes that he chemically treated to burn hotter and longer to make the locomotive run faster than usual — these are also about 50 years earlier. This all serve to foreshadow that he later built a levitating time machine into a locomotive. Writer Bob Gale even compared Doc Brown with Leonardo Da Vinci — a genius ahead of his time. Justified, as he is a mad scientist from 1985.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_17257125	type	The Wild West
Back to the Future Part III / int_17257125	comment	The Wild West: The setting. Although the movie mines some humor from showing that there were unglamorous aspects of the period, its depiction still errs on the side of The Theme Park Version and Rule of Cool. Realistically, 1880s Californian townsfolk would be dealing with a lot more Small Town Boredom than gunslinging outlaws. Also, the California Indian Wars were definitely over by 1885, so the battle Marty witnesses between Indians and the U.S. Cavalry makes no historical sense at all.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_175a4420	type	Revolver Cylinder Spin
Back to the Future Part III / int_175a4420	comment	Revolver Cylinder Spin: Marty impresses everyone with his shooting skills at the gun seller's shooting gallery. (He learned to shoot playing arcade games at 7-11.) After he's finished, he gives the cylinder of the revolver a spin before handing it back to the salesman.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_185e498d	type	Chased by Angry Natives
Back to the Future Part III / int_185e498d	comment	Chased by Angry Natives: The arrival in 1885 is immediately followed by the DeLorean time machine being chased by Native Americans on horseback, setting the film's tone as a takeoff on The Western.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Back to the Future Part III / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: It's not impossible for a black bear to be found in southern California, as their range does extend there, but they're not desert animals.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_18baa751	type	Historical Villain Downgrade
Back to the Future Part III / int_18baa751	comment	Historical Villain Downgrade: In the previous film, it was implied 1985-A Biff had done this with Buford (based on the Biff Tannen Museum video and the downplaying of Buford's nickname "Mad Dog"). Part III explicitly confirms it between Marty and 1955 Doc's research into Buford and once Marty encounters Buford in 1885.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Back to the Future Part III / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Many times during the film's duration. Doc gets an idea to use a train to push the DeLorean to 88 miles per hour and get him and Marty... back to the future. The last lines of the film and the trilogy as a whole. Doc tells him he's already been in the future when asked if he's going back there.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_197b546a	type	Scarpia Ultimatum
Back to the Future Part III / int_197b546a	comment	Scarpia Ultimatum: Mad Dog drops this one on Doc Brown and Clara. The point is for Clara to dance with Mad Dog to get him to leave Doc alone, but it's as close to lewd as one can get in a gingham dress. Shortly afterward he suggests she have sex with him to cover Doc's debt.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Back to the Future Part III / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: When Doc Brown wakes up and spots Marty, he freaks, stumbles backward, trips on the hoverboard, and lands on his organ, delivering a fully appropriate musical tone.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_1b89151e	type	Forgotten Phlebotinum
Back to the Future Part III / int_1b89151e	comment	Forgotten Phlebotinum: Impressively averted. At the film's climax again, the hoverboard—which had been useful in the previous movie—gets reused.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_1c7a7a52	type	The Slow Path
Back to the Future Part III / int_1c7a7a52	comment	The Slow Path: The DeLorean does this—mothballed by Doc in an abandoned gold mine in 1885 so Marty can retrieve it 70 years later in 1955. Also, he has to leave a letter with Western Union to get to Marty.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_1d9099cb	type	Deadly Disc
Back to the Future Part III / int_1d9099cb	comment	Deadly Disc: It's an instance of creating a Stable Time Loop again, as the insinuation is that it's the original Frisby pie plate that inspired the phenomenon that led to the Frisbee.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
Back to the Future Part III / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Is where Buford Tannen is supposed to kill Doc.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Back to the Future Part III / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Despite explicit instructions in Doc's letter not to go back for him in 1885, Marty decides to risk further time disruption by going back anyway after stumbling upon Doc's tombstone that reveals he was killed by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen less than a week after sending the letter. When Doc sees him being hanged, he immediately engages Mad Dog to save his friend. Afterwards, he only gives a quick "I gave you explicit instructions not to come here but to go directly back to 1985," before admitting he's happy to see him.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_1f862cf	type	Dare to Be Badass
Back to the Future Part III / int_1f862cf	comment	Dare to Be Badass: The saloon regulars try to give one to Marty, saying he'll be labeled a coward for the rest of his life if he doesn't duel with Buford, though mostly because they're betting on the outcome one way or another.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Back to the Future Part III / int_1fb947b6	comment	Just Train Wrong: A shaky dance with plausibility: In Real Life, the locomotive used, Sierra No. 3, would have a hard time reaching even 65 MPH on a good day, much less 88. Like electric engines, however, steam engines have the advantage of being measured in terms of pure Tractive Effort: their limiting factor is the amount of steam pressure they can generate and how long they have to build up momentum. As the engineer says, if you get the boiler hotter than Hades and have a long stretch of straight track and are willing to risk the whole thing blowing up or flying off the tracks, it's possible — the infamous Casey Jones wreck involved an engine with nearly identical stats pushed to an 80 mph "cannonball" run while hauling a light six-car train (with some help from a downhill stretch of track). Doc Brown states that the logs he has created for Marty to throw into the stolen locomotive are made mostly out of anthracite coal. While anthracite does burn much more efficiently than wood, it can also be incredibly difficult to ignite, especially when it isn't broken into very small pieces. The engine in the film was also designed to burn wood, which allow too much or too little air draft to ignite the coal even if Marty did have the time to sit there and baby it. The filmmakers' explanation here is the "mostly" — if the logs consisted of finely-ground anthracite mixed with a firework-style oxidizer, it would be a rather effective way to force-feed the engine oxygen and fuel. Or blow it up like the test model. The last component is steam generation — you would want as much water in the tender tank as possible, but you'd also have to make sure that it didn't flood the boiler either. note High heat + Empty boiler = KABOOM!... but High Heat + too much water = Also KABOOM! + blast wave of superheated steam! Doc does mention that the boiler will catastrophically explode if it reaches a certain pressure, and during the last minute of the scene, rivets and seams are visibly failing and spewing vapor or jets of superheated water. Also, the train explicitly does retain the tender in the script (Doc commands the engineer and fireman to "uncouple the cars from the tender"). In Real Life, the tenders were often physically attached to the engine and could not be removed without significant effort anyway.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_20e6a6e7	type	It Only Works Once
Back to the Future Part III / int_20e6a6e7	comment	It Only Works Once: Mad Dog has a small gun in his hat that can only hold one bullet. When he tries to shoot Doc in the head with it, he's foiled by Marty throwing a Frisbie pie pan at him, making him miss his only shot. The plan to get the DeLorean up to 88 MPH with the train. They have only one shot, and Doc clearly states that after they pass a certain designated point, "it's the future or bust".
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Back to the Future Part III / int_221a4bf4	type	Iconic Sequel Character
Back to the Future Part III / int_221a4bf4	comment	Iconic Sequel Character: Mary Steenburgen is the only new actor of any note (other than Elisabeth Shue being The Other Darrin for Jennifer) introduced to the series for either sequel. Sheâ€™s one of the most liked in the series.invoked
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Back to the Future Part III / int_22b74f9e	type	You Talkin' to Me?
Back to the Future Part III / int_22b74f9e	comment	You Talkin' to Me?: Marty quotes the speech in 1885.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Back to the Future Part III / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: At the beginning, there are a few reminders that Marty still has his hover board from the previous film (1955 Doc tripping over it and making sure Marty brings it when he leaves 1955), only for it not to be seen or mentioned again until the climax, when Doc needs to rescue Clara on the train. Earlier in the movie, Doc uses a scale model to illustrate his plan to get the DeLorean up to 88MPH; later on, Clara comes to Doc's shop and finds the model DeLorean with "Time Machine" written on it, which makes her realize that Emmett was telling the truth about being from the future.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
Back to the Future Part III / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: Invoked when Doc and Marty hijack... uh... irreversibly borrow a locomotive.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Back to the Future Part III / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: If you're being very gentle with how old Doc must be, he still must be at least twice Clara's age. Of course, Doc paid a visit to a rejuvenation clinic in 2015 that added thirty to forty years onto his life, so it's not as unfortunate as it sounds. The novels and screenplays said Doc was 65 in 1985, and Mary Steenburgen was 36 when she played Clara.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_254bd239	type	Gasoline Lasts Forever
Back to the Future Part III / int_254bd239	comment	Gasoline Lasts Forever: The 1955 version of Doc mentions that he refilled the DeLorean's gas tanks, indicating that his counterpart in 1885 drained whatever fuel was left before putting the car into storage in the mine.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Back to the Future Part III / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Some scenes feature the California state flag, which was not adopted until 1911. In the novelization, Marty mentions movies in the presence of a ten-year-old boy who is left intrigued by the concept... and is revealed to be D. W. Griffith. However, Griffith was born in Kentucky and didn't move to California until 1907.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_25b4ad2f	type	Surprisingly Happy Ending
Back to the Future Part III / int_25b4ad2f	comment	Surprisingly Happy Ending: The film seems to be an outright Bittersweet Ending at first: Marty's back home in 1985 and changed his future for the better but the DeLorean is destroyed and Doc's forever displaced 100 years back in time... Suddenly, he and Clara show up in a time-traveling train, revealing that they're Happily Married and have kids. Though he goes back to the past soon after, at least with the time train he can visit Marty and Jennifer whenever he wants. However if the animated series were to be taken as canon, Doc Brown's family do eventually settle back in 1985 Hill Valley where they engage in more time travel hijinks.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Back to the Future Part III / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Seamus McFly is a meek man that Buford Tannen bullies and banned from coming to his favorite joint near the Clock's Square, just like their descendants George and Biff 70 years later. Buford picks up a rivalry with Marty because he initially confuses Marty with Seamus, while Biff got it with Marty when the latter defended George from him. This all leads to Marty punching the lights out of Buford (like George did to Biff) and making Buford crash into a cart of manure, while Marty made Biff crash into a track of manure twice in 1955. Both men would say "I hate manure" after each incident. This manure cart is owned by "A. Jones", clearly meant to be the direct ancestor of "D. Jones", who owns the truck in 1955. Another long-running business family in Hill Valley is the Statlers, who have a horse and cart dealership in 1885, a Studebacker dealership in 1955, and a Toyota dealership in 1985. Buford is also a malaproper like Biff, who takes an interest in stealing Doc's date at the dance, like Biff did to George in 1955, and killed his horse after being thrown off it while riding drunk (mirroring Biff crashing George's car while drunk driving in the original 1985). Both Strickland and his grandfather are figures of authority that scold Biff/Buford during a dance and are obsessed with discipline. Marty learns from Seamus that he had a great-great-grand-uncle named Martin McFly who was easily baited into fights in order to prove that he wasn't a chicken and got himself killed that way at a young age. This actually moves Marty to change his behavior so as not to repeat Martin's fate. An early version of the script even had Seamus offering Buford a job in a wagon fixing business after his defeat, repeating (predicting?) Biff's car detailing business and working for George in the improved 1985.
Back to the Future Part III / int_25bc8511	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_25bc8511	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_25bc8511
Back to the Future Part III / int_26130259	type	Drunk on Milk
Back to the Future Part III / int_26130259	comment	Drunk on Milk: In a variant, Doc Brown gets rather maudlin and detached from his surroundings by sitting at the bar holding a whiskey, not drinking or even sniffing it. Just holding the glass at the bar is enough to affect him.
Back to the Future Part III / int_26130259	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_26130259	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_26130259
Back to the Future Part III / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Back to the Future Part III / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: While 1955 Doc Brown was reading the letter written by his 1985 self, Marty is fiddling around with some of his inventions like the mind-reading helmet, the automatic chess set, and looking at the burned wind-up car used in the experiment in the first film. When Doc and Clara return in the time machine train, Doc in the foreground tells Marty and Jennifer to make their future a good one. In the background, for whatever reason, the child playing Verne motions towards the camera and points to his crotch. It's been hypothesized that the child actor was trying to signal to someone (possibly director Zemeckis) that he needed to pee. When Chester (the bartender) and Joey are making the "wakeup juice", a patron watching them make it can be seen gripping his throat in disgust.
Back to the Future Part III / int_26eb6287	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_26eb6287	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_26eb6287
Back to the Future Part III / int_27adb17a	type	Train Job
Back to the Future Part III / int_27adb17a	comment	Train Job: Not your typical train robbery, either. They want to steal—err, borrow the locomotive.
Back to the Future Part III / int_27adb17a	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_27adb17a	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_27adb17a
Back to the Future Part III / int_28104b90	type	Bag of Spilling
Back to the Future Part III / int_28104b90	comment	Bag of Spilling: The DeLorean lost its flying abilities when it was struck by lightning in the last movie.
Back to the Future Part III / int_28104b90	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_28104b90	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_28104b90
Back to the Future Part III / int_28c40e81	type	Trapped in the Past
Back to the Future Part III / int_28c40e81	comment	Trapped in the Past: Doc Brown resigns himself to the fate of living in The Wild West — and he's actually quite happy about it. He even goes as far as to give Marty instructions to not pick him up. Being an inventor, though, he does manage to invent some technology of the future with the era's limited materials. He doesn't share his inventions with anyone else, as he's mindful to not risk changing history. At the end of the film, he does create another time machine out of a steam train. However, it's uncertain whether he chooses to live out the rest of his life in the past — or move back to the future, or really just travel to any era as he pleases. The ride and animated series, though, both have Doc ultimately moving back to the future.
Back to the Future Part III / int_28c40e81	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_28c40e81	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_28c40e81
Back to the Future Part III / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Back to the Future Part III / int_2a090d00	comment	"'Shot in the back by Buford Tannen over a matter of 80 dollars?!' What kind of a future do you call that?!"
Back to the Future Part III / int_2a090d00	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_2a090d00	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_2a090d00
Back to the Future Part III / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Back to the Future Part III / int_2a7b0247	comment	Could Say It, But...: Doc's caginess with regard to Marty's future.
Back to the Future Part III / int_2a7b0247	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_2a7b0247	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_2a7b0247
Back to the Future Part III / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Back to the Future Part III / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Buford Tannen absolutely terrifies the citizens of Hill Valley in 1885. When Marty calls him "Mad Dog," everybody immediately runs away or takes cover.
Back to the Future Part III / int_2ae29c0d	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_2ae29c0d	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_2ae29c0d
Back to the Future Part III / int_2b2c66c3	type	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor
Back to the Future Part III / int_2b2c66c3	comment	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Buford thinks trying to hang Marty is funny, and he breaks into a fit of chuckles after seemingly killing him during their showdown.
Back to the Future Part III / int_2b2c66c3	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_2b2c66c3	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_2b2c66c3
Back to the Future Part III / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Back to the Future Part III / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Subverted: 1955 Doc snaps awake on the couch in his living room... because the TV automatically turned on when Howdy Doody started.
Back to the Future Part III / int_2c9e262	featureApplicability	-0.3
Back to the Future Part III / int_2c9e262	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_2c9e262
Back to the Future Part III / int_2cb9b1a9	type	Cool, but Inefficient
Back to the Future Part III / int_2cb9b1a9	comment	Cool, but Inefficient: A rather literal example with Doc's ice machine. It's a massive behemoth of screaming steam valves and violently shaking pistons that takes up most of the space in his workshop, and it can only produce one ice cube at a time.
Back to the Future Part III / int_2cb9b1a9	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_2cb9b1a9	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_2cb9b1a9
Back to the Future Part III / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Back to the Future Part III / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Schoolmarm Clara is able to ride a horse, board a moving train, and climb up to the front.
Back to the Future Part III / int_2dc0d2bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_2dc0d2bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_2dc0d2bf
Back to the Future Part III / int_2e338ce4	type	The Cavalry Arrives Late
Back to the Future Part III / int_2e338ce4	comment	The Cavalry Arrives Late: Marshall Strickland's deputy and his men show up to arrest the Tannen gang for robbery almost immediately after Marty defeats Tannen in their duel.
Back to the Future Part III / int_2e338ce4	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_2e338ce4	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_2e338ce4
Back to the Future Part III / int_2f50c5bf	type	Theme Music Power-Up
Back to the Future Part III / int_2f50c5bf	comment	Theme Music Power-Up: After tricking Buford by faking his own death, Marty springs up and begins the fight in earnest with his fists and improvised bulletproof vest. The heroic Back to the Future theme covers the brief battle, stopping and restarting several times as Marty punches Tannen in the face.
Back to the Future Part III / int_2f50c5bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_2f50c5bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_2f50c5bf
Back to the Future Part III / int_2f62653b	type	Borrowed Catchphrase
Back to the Future Part III / int_2f62653b	comment	Borrowed Catchphrase: Marty and Doc briefly trade catch phrases after Doc points out the possibility that the tombstone might be for Marty now.
Back to the Future Part III / int_2f62653b	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_2f62653b	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_2f62653b
Back to the Future Part III / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
Back to the Future Part III / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: As Marty first meets Buford: Doc tells the bar patrons that people ride around in cars in the future and just run for fun (there were already some automobiles back then, but the patrons are either unaware or consider them a fad):
Back to the Future Part III / int_3149c4b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_3149c4b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_3149c4b0
Back to the Future Part III / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Back to the Future Part III / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. The nickname was invented by a newspaper reporter, for his Hair-Trigger Temper and his propensity for drooling. Buford didn't like it, and shot the reporter.
Back to the Future Part III / int_317629db	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_317629db	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_317629db
Back to the Future Part III / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Back to the Future Part III / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Buford's gang seems taken aback after seeing Buford seemingly fatally shoot an unarmed Marty.
Back to the Future Part III / int_319e4a2f	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_319e4a2f	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_319e4a2f
Back to the Future Part III / int_32e7cb8d	type	Waking Up Elsewhere
Back to the Future Part III / int_32e7cb8d	comment	Waking Up Elsewhere: Marty falls, exhausted, near the McFly ranch. While waking up, he, drowsily assumes the past several hours have been a bad dream when he finds himself comforted by his great-great-grandmother, reassuring him he's safe in 1885. The news shocks him awake and leads to a brief freakout.
Back to the Future Part III / int_32e7cb8d	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_32e7cb8d	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_32e7cb8d
Back to the Future Part III / int_3669898	type	Undertaker
Back to the Future Part III / int_3669898	comment	Undertaker: The town undertaker is seen measuring Marty up for his coffin size the day before the duel, due to the bets among the townspeople going against him.
Back to the Future Part III / int_3669898	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_3669898	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_3669898
Back to the Future Part III / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Back to the Future Part III / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Bob Gale admits during the DVD commentary that Doc probably would have realized horses wouldn't be able to pull the DeLorean up to 88 mph, but says the scene was too good to take out, also thinking it helped sum up this film's premise. Anyway, Doc wasn't trying to get them to run at 88 mph — they were moving the DeLorean from the cave to his shop. Other than being a barrier for Marty to crash into, there doesn't appear to be any reason for a group of Plains Indians and the US Cavalry to be running after another in California.
Back to the Future Part III / int_36e63b81	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_36e63b81	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_36e63b81
Back to the Future Part III / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Back to the Future Part III / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: When Mad Dog shoots Marty and he goes down, pay attention to the audio and youâ€™ll hear a metallic â€œPING!â€� Two bits back to back act as this in regards to the DeLorean's fate: After the DeLorean jumps back to 1985, the fire trails left behind seem to crumble and fall apart. Granted, half of the trail hung in mid-air... But then you factor in the fact that, as soon as the DeLorean reenters 1985 while still on the rails, it passes by a railroad crossing with the barriers down and the bells going off... Pay real close attention when Marty and Needles are about to drag race at the end, right as Marty tells Jennifer "Hold on to something." You will notice that Marty throws his truck gearshift into reverse.
Back to the Future Part III / int_381855db	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_381855db	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_381855db
Back to the Future Part III / int_38b48685	type	Born in the Wrong Century
Back to the Future Part III / int_38b48685	comment	Born in the Wrong Century: Doc wishes he lived in the Wild West. Although when that wish comes true, he still wishes the Wild West had Tylenol.
Back to the Future Part III / int_38b48685	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_38b48685	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_38b48685
Back to the Future Part III / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Back to the Future Part III / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Mary Steenburgen plays a woman who falls in love with a time-traveler, just like in Time After Time. It's also worth noting that in this film, she is a 19th century woman who falls in love with a 20th century time-traveler, the opposite of her role from Time After Time, where she was a 20th century woman who falls in love with a 19th century time-traveler. Clara even gets on a train headed for San Francisco, the setting of Time After Time. Mary Steenburgen's first role was in a Western, Goin' South, where her character was being romanced by a man played by, wait for it... Christopher Lloyd! He lost her to Jack Nicholson in that one, though. The three old-timers at the saloon are all veterans of westerns: Dub Taylor, Harry Carey, Jr. and Pat Buttram. Doc's squeal of shock against the organ is the same as the death cry of Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. After Marty finally reunites with Jennifer, she wakes up from her long, deep faint and utters "I had the worst nightmare."—at this point she thinks that the events from the last film were All Just a Dream. This line is taken directly from Adventures in Babysitting, and Elisabeth Shue (Jennifer's note second actress)'s character says it also right after coming out of a (much shorter) faint.
Back to the Future Part III / int_392372f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_392372f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_392372f9
Back to the Future Part III / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Back to the Future Part III / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: On two different occasions, when Doc is about to be shot by Tannen, he straightens his coat, stands up straight, and faces Buford down without flinching. Both times, though, he is ultimately saved by Marty's intervention.
Back to the Future Part III / int_396e1c2a	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_396e1c2a	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_396e1c2a
Back to the Future Part III / int_3b20d7f4	type	Runaway Train
Back to the Future Part III / int_3b20d7f4	comment	Runaway Train: There's one deliberately set up my Dr. Brown and Marty, as an out-of-control train is the only way to get the crippled DeLorean up to 88 mph. The point where the train goes from a controlled time-travel experiment to a runaway is when they notice Clara has snuck on board, and the train is going too fast to stop before reaching the gorge with the incomplete bridge.
Back to the Future Part III / int_3b20d7f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_3b20d7f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_3b20d7f4
Back to the Future Part III / int_3b2df269	type	Ripple Effect Indicator
Back to the Future Part III / int_3b2df269	comment	Ripple Effect Indicator: The movie truly uses this: Marty takes a photo of Doc's grave to bring with him just in case it changes. After Marty challenges Mad Dog, the grave in the photo shifts to "Clint Eastwood." Marty's true evidence Doc is in 1885 is a photo of him by the original clock tower. When he goes back, Marty is now in the photo with Doc. When Marty returns to 1985, "Clayton Ravine" is now named "Eastwood Ravine" thanks to Marty and Doc saving her and the people believing that "Clint Eastwood" (Marty's alias) drove a train into a ravine. The big one: When Marty doesn't get into his car accident, Jennifer sees the "YOU'RE FIRED" fax from the previous film turning into a blank page, meaning that future no longer exists.
Back to the Future Part III / int_3b2df269	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_3b2df269	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_3b2df269
Back to the Future Part III / int_3bce9346	type	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing
Back to the Future Part III / int_3bce9346	comment	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing: Averted. While Doc Brown took some measures to ensure that the DeLorean would not suffer too much deterioration by storing it in a dry, dark cave for seventy years, it still needs to be restored to working condition: the time travel circuitry has to be changed out with vacuum tubes, while the original tires need to be replaced with whitewall tires.
Back to the Future Part III / int_3bce9346	featureApplicability	-1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_3bce9346	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_3bce9346
Back to the Future Part III / int_3be6d35	type	Rescued from the Underworld
Back to the Future Part III / int_3be6d35	comment	Rescued from the Underworld: After a certain fashion, when Marty goes back in time for Doc, after Marty discovered that Doc would be killed in a duel in the past.
Back to the Future Part III / int_3be6d35	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_3be6d35	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_3be6d35
Back to the Future Part III / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Back to the Future Part III / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Doc's alcohol incident on the Fourth of July is mentioned but never explained.
Back to the Future Part III / int_3c0a4666	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_3c0a4666	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_3c0a4666
Back to the Future Part III / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Back to the Future Part III / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Invoked — by the end of the film, the DeLorean is a 1980s car, whose time circuits are powered by a 2015 fusion device, with jumps calculated by a computer built of 1955 vacuum tubes, running on 1885 train wheels. There's also the hover-converted, steam-powered time machine built out of a train which Doc and family later arrive in, playing it somewhat more straight.
Back to the Future Part III / int_3c5ae1a1	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_3c5ae1a1	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_3c5ae1a1
Back to the Future Part III / int_3cf10fcf	type	Click Hello
Back to the Future Part III / int_3cf10fcf	comment	Click Hello: Happens twice: first to Buford Tannen by Marshall Strickland, and shortly afterward to Doc by Buford.
Back to the Future Part III / int_3cf10fcf	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_3cf10fcf	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_3cf10fcf
Back to the Future Part III / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Back to the Future Part III / int_3d699462	comment	Marty goes from nearly getting hanged by Buford to outwitting and curb-stomping him.
Back to the Future Part III / int_3d699462	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_3d699462	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_3d699462
Back to the Future Part III / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
Back to the Future Part III / int_3eb8ba12	comment	Description Porn: Doc describes his rifle after shooting the rope off the noose which is hanging Marty's neck by Buford's henchmen:
Back to the Future Part III / int_3eb8ba12	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_3eb8ba12	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_3eb8ba12
Back to the Future Part III / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
Back to the Future Part III / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: Doc has adjusted to life in 1885 very well. Although, he did say that the Old West was his favorite time period.
Back to the Future Part III / int_3ebc57ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_3ebc57ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_3ebc57ac
Back to the Future Part III / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Back to the Future Part III / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: A steam locomotive gets its boiler supercharged to the limit of its pressure capacity and then explodes in a quite realistically violent manner after it goes hurtling off a cliff. Steam locomotives occasionally exploded spectacularly in real life, sometimes hurling pieces of themselves tremendous distances. Averted when the DeLorean is hit by a train after returning to 1985. Rather than explode in a fireball (it didn't even have any gas in it that could have ignited in such an unrealistic fashion), it more or less shattered into pieces without any pyrotechnics.
Back to the Future Part III / int_3ec7c277	featureApplicability	-1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_3ec7c277	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_3ec7c277
Back to the Future Part III / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Back to the Future Part III / int_3eed59a8	comment	Explosive Overclocking: Thanks to Doc's Presto Logs, once the train gets to 70MPH, and the boiler reaches 2000Ëš, it begins bursting apart at the seams.
Back to the Future Part III / int_3eed59a8	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_3eed59a8	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_3eed59a8
Back to the Future Part III / int_3f267047	type	Voiceover Letter
Back to the Future Part III / int_3f267047	comment	Voiceover Letter: Subverted. At the end of Part II, Marty receives a letter from time-displaced Doc in 1885, and reads the first few sentences of it aloud. In Part III, the entirety of the letter is read by Doc. What makes this case different is that it's read by 1955's Doc, who won't write the letter for another 30 years, and so is reading it for the first time along with the audience.
Back to the Future Part III / int_3f267047	featureApplicability	-0.3
Back to the Future Part III / int_3f267047	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_3f267047
Back to the Future Part III / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Back to the Future Part III / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Doc saves Clara from falling into a ravine, and later rescues her again on the train.
Back to the Future Part III / int_4160410d	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_4160410d	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_4160410d
Back to the Future Part III / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Back to the Future Part III / int_4192763e	comment	Buford is also a malaproper like Biff, who takes an interest in stealing Doc's date at the dance, like Biff did to George in 1955, and killed his horse after being thrown off it while riding drunk (mirroring Biff crashing George's car while drunk driving in the original 1985).
Back to the Future Part III / int_4192763e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_4192763e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_4192763e
Back to the Future Part III / int_41c6c75d	type	Alcohol Is Gasoline
Back to the Future Part III / int_41c6c75d	comment	Alcohol Is Gasoline: Subverted. Stuck in the old west with no gasoline to power the DeLorean, Doc Brown and Marty attempt this using the strongest liquor they were able to get their hands on. However, all it accomplishes is blowing out their engine.
Back to the Future Part III / int_41c6c75d	featureApplicability	-0.3
Back to the Future Part III / int_41c6c75d	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_41c6c75d
Back to the Future Part III / int_424feb18	type	That Was Not a Dream
Back to the Future Part III / int_424feb18	comment	That Was Not a Dream: At the end of Back to the Future Part II and the beginning of this one, Marty finds the 1955 Doc literally moments after he sent the Marty from the first film back to 1985. When Marty tries to explain that he's come back from the future, the 1955 Doc faints from shock. As seen in Part III, the next morning, the 1955 Doc thinks he hallucinated the whole thing till he finds Marty, who brought him home, with him in his house, scaring Doc as Marty tries to fill him in on everything that transpired in the previous movie.
Back to the Future Part III / int_424feb18	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_424feb18	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_424feb18
Back to the Future Part III / int_438ed383	type	The Name Is Bond, James Bond
Back to the Future Part III / int_438ed383	comment	The Name Is Bond, James Bond: Maggie McFly introduces herself by saying "The name's McFly, Maggie McFly." Marty introduces himself as "Eastwood, Clint Eastwood" to both Maggie and Buford Tannen.
Back to the Future Part III / int_438ed383	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_438ed383	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_438ed383
Back to the Future Part III / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Back to the Future Part III / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Doc tells Marty in his letter that he'd set himself up as a blacksmith as a cover while attempting to fix the DeLorean. But when he realized the damage was beyond the capacity of 1885 technology, he buried the time machine so that Marty could fix it with the help of his 1955 counterpart and go back to 1985 himself, and accepted his place as a blacksmith, perfectly content to stay in 1885 because he always wanted to live in the Old West.
Back to the Future Part III / int_44606d14	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_44606d14	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_44606d14
Back to the Future Part III / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
Back to the Future Part III / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: After reading about his impending fate, Doc lampshades this trope by wishing he had just given Buford the $80. Before that, Doc told him he could just properly fix the horseshoe, but Buford already shot the horse. Doc tells him that's his problem.
Back to the Future Part III / int_44989f6f	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_44989f6f	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_44989f6f
Back to the Future Part III / int_452cda57	type	Eternally Pearly-White Teeth
Back to the Future Part III / int_452cda57	comment	Eternally Pearly-White Teeth: Averted; Buford and his gang notice and remark on Marty's white teeth.
Back to the Future Part III / int_452cda57	featureApplicability	-1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_452cda57	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_452cda57
Back to the Future Part III / int_45ce1de7	type	Drive-In Theater
Back to the Future Part III / int_45ce1de7	comment	Drive-In Theater: Doc Brown has Marty run the DeLorean Time Machine through the grounds of a drive-in to get it up to 88 MPH in order to go back in time, because in the 1880s that area was just sagebrush and empty grassland; when Marty rematerializes he won't end up crashing into a tree or a mountain.
Back to the Future Part III / int_45ce1de7	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_45ce1de7	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_45ce1de7
Back to the Future Part III / int_4631e81f	type	Badass in Distress
Back to the Future Part III / int_4631e81f	comment	Badass in Distress: Doc saves Marty from being hanged by Tannen's gang. Marty later returns the favor by preventing Doc's assassination at the town party.
Back to the Future Part III / int_4631e81f	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_4631e81f	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_4631e81f
Back to the Future Part III / int_467b8fd8	type	Cars Without Tires Are Trains
Back to the Future Part III / int_467b8fd8	comment	Cars Without Tires Are Trains: The Delorean fits perfectly onto the train tracks in 1885. In this case, it's been deliberately modified by Doc Brown with actual train wheels so that a steam locomotive could push it in order to get up to 88 miles per hour, meaning more thought was put into it than other examples.
Back to the Future Part III / int_467b8fd8	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_467b8fd8	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_467b8fd8
Back to the Future Part III / int_4797a4ce	type	Tricked Out Time
Back to the Future Part III / int_4797a4ce	comment	Tricked Out Time: Marty suggests that they bring Clara Clayton back to the future with them — which would remove her from 1885, where she's supposed to be have died by falling into "Clayton Ravine". Doc rejects this as a step too far — but the filmmakers have suggested that if Doc had appeared to go over the edge of the ravine when the train crashed Clara may have killed herself by jumping into the ravine, removing herself from the timeline and causing it to be named after her after all. The filmmakers do state that Doc himself created a Tricked Out Time situation with the Clayton Ravine in the first revision to that timeline: originally, Clara's carriage went over the ravine, resulting in the name; in the revised timeline where Doc saved her (but where Marty was never present), she committed suicide by jumping into the ravine after Doc was killed by Buford, resulting in the name. This is used to explain why both Doc and Marty know of the ravine by that name. And finally, if Doc hadn't managed to rescue her from the runaway train, she still would have fallen in, resulting in the name Clayton Ravine.
Back to the Future Part III / int_4797a4ce	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_4797a4ce	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_4797a4ce
Back to the Future Part III / int_47ae290f	type	Let's Fight Like Gentlemen
Back to the Future Part III / int_47ae290f	comment	Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Subverted in Marty's showdown with "Mad Dog" Tannen. Marty discards his gun, saying he "thought we could settle this like men." Tannen laughs and just shoots him. Of course, Marty was counting on him doing that, and is wearing a cast-iron stove hatch as an impromptu bulletproof vest.
Back to the Future Part III / int_47ae290f	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_47ae290f
Back to the Future Part III / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Back to the Future Part III / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: The movie has a race against distance, in which the protagonists much reach a certain speed before their train topples off of a bridge.
Back to the Future Part III / int_496569e8	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_496569e8	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_496569e8
Back to the Future Part III / int_49cf2258	type	Hanging Around
Back to the Future Part III / int_49cf2258	comment	Hanging Around: Buford Tannen and his gang try to hang Marty. During filming of this scene, the safety line actually snapped, so Michael J. Fox was really being strangled during the scene. It was only due to the crew realizing what had happened that Fatal Method Acting was fortunately averted.
Back to the Future Part III / int_49cf2258	featureApplicability	-1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_49cf2258	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_49cf2258
Back to the Future Part III / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Back to the Future Part III / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Strickland's ancestor has no problems levelling a double-barrelled shotgun at someone's back.
Back to the Future Part III / int_49fb5ccb	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_49fb5ccb	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_49fb5ccb
Back to the Future Part III / int_4aafd3c8	type	Fling a Light into the Future
Back to the Future Part III / int_4aafd3c8	comment	Fling a Light into the Future: Doc arranges for Marty to return to his own time from 1955 by carefully storing his DeLorean in a cave, with instructions for his 1955 counterpart on how to restore the machine to working condition.
Back to the Future Part III / int_4aafd3c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_4aafd3c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_4aafd3c8
Back to the Future Part III / int_4d97e2b9	type	Urine Trouble
Back to the Future Part III / int_4d97e2b9	comment	Urine Trouble: The first McFly born in America greets his future descendant with this trope.
Back to the Future Part III / int_4d97e2b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_4d97e2b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_4d97e2b9
Back to the Future Part III / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Back to the Future Part III / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Marty uses a Frisbie pie tin to hit Buford's hand just as he tries to shoot Doc, causing his aim to shift slightly and blow Doc's hat off instead. It's implied this event creates a Stable Time Loop leading to the modern Frisbee toy. Marty also smashed Buford in the face with an oven lid that he used as a makeshift bullet-proof vest in their duel.
Back to the Future Part III / int_4de1a4f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_4de1a4f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_4de1a4f7
Back to the Future Part III / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Back to the Future Part III / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In-universe: Marty and Doc are confused on how the photo of Doc's tombstone has been altered... but only to the extent that the tombstone is now blank. And then an undertaker takes Marty's measurements in preparation for his duel with Mad Dog tomorrow: Similarly in-universe: Doc isn't too happy that Marty decided to get into the duel with Mad Dog, since Marty let namecalling get the better of him... leading to Marty inadvertently learning what Jennifer learned last film:
Back to the Future Part III / int_4e7c4536	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_4e7c4536	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_4e7c4536
Back to the Future Part III / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Back to the Future Part III / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The one that kicks off the plot of Part III: after Marty and 1955 Doc dig the DeLorean out of the mineshaft, Marty goes to get Copernicus, who's hanging out by a tombstone◊... After changing events in 1885, the photo of Dr. Brown's tombstone only had his name erased but the tombstone remaining. If events play out as they are, Marty's alias of Clint Eastwood appears on the photo. The faithful DeLorean is absolutely pulverized by a 1985 train. Shown in four different shots, both for shock (the car is almost a character by now) and to establish the totality of its destruction.
Back to the Future Part III / int_4e7f703c	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_4e7f703c	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_4e7f703c
Back to the Future Part III / int_4fa68c72	type	Like Parent, Like Spouse
Back to the Future Part III / int_4fa68c72	comment	Like Parent, Like Spouse: The "Bobs" (Zemeckis and Gale) claim that McFly men are attracted to women who look like Lea Thompson, to explain why Marty's paternal great-great-grandmother looks so much like his mother. In addition, when you look at them, Claudia Wells (and later, Elizabeth Shue) both look a bit like Lea Thompson.
Back to the Future Part III / int_4fa68c72	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_4fa68c72	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_4fa68c72
Back to the Future Part III / int_505f6a99	type	Showdown at High Noon
Back to the Future Part III / int_505f6a99	comment	Showdown at High Noon: Zigzagged. Marty asks Buford if he wants their showdown to happen at high noon, but Buford insists that he "does [his] killing before breakfast." Ultimately, the film provides a Double Subversion of the trope when Marty refuses to take his place in the duel, but is forced to anyway. However, he still refuses to actually shoot Buford, relying instead on a Bulletproof Vest ploy.
Back to the Future Part III / int_505f6a99	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_505f6a99	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_505f6a99
Back to the Future Part III / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Back to the Future Part III / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Buford being called "Mad Dog" leads to Bullet Dancing, then when Marty accidentally knocks a spittoon on him, it leads to an attempted lynching. "'Shot in the back by Buford Tannen over a matter of 80 dollars?!' What kind of a future do you call that?!"
Back to the Future Part III / int_50b05d30	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_50b05d30	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_50b05d30
Back to the Future Part III / int_51beab21	type	Good Old Fisticuffs
Back to the Future Part III / int_51beab21	comment	Good Old Fisticuffs: Seamus may not approve of guns, but he definitely appreciates Marty's use of pugilism to take down Mad Dog. Then again, he is Oirish.
Back to the Future Part III / int_51beab21	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_51beab21	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_51beab21
Back to the Future Part III / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Back to the Future Part III / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Doc, in the saloon—subverted in that he doesn't actually touch his shot glass. When he finally does gulp it down, he passes out instantly.
Back to the Future Part III / int_52488c54	featureApplicability	-0.3
Back to the Future Part III / int_52488c54	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_52488c54
Back to the Future Part III / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Back to the Future Part III / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Lampshaded by Doc. From the first film, Doc and Marty saw the last moments of the Hill Valley clocktower in 1955, and this time, they're present for the first moments of the clocktower in 1885. After the DeLorean's first and last time-travel trips, its license plate falls off, spinning around before falling down. Similarly, the thing that gets the DeLorean back to 1985 is the very same thing that takes it out upon reentry: the front end of a train going down the tracks. In both Part I and Part III, the DeLorean can't fly, and due to a technical shortcoming needs some sort of extra help to return to 1985. In addition, both films end with a time machine flying at the camera.
Back to the Future Part III / int_5313c266	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_5313c266	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_5313c266
Back to the Future Part III / int_5320ff11	type	This Is My Name on Foreign
Back to the Future Part III / int_5320ff11	comment	This Is My Name on Foreign: 1955 Doc Brown mentions when he and Marty are looking for records of 1885 Doc Brown that his family immigrated from Germany after that in 1908 with the surname von Braun, then changed their last name when the USA entered World War I.
Back to the Future Part III / int_5320ff11	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_5320ff11	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_5320ff11
Back to the Future Part III / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
Back to the Future Part III / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: Old Universal logos appear during the opening, in honor of the 75th anniversary of Universal Pictures Film Company, Inc. and the new logo being introduced for it (all of Universal's 1990 movies had that, but this was the first). The Bobs wanted to use the old one so that all three movies shared the same logo, but the studio was insistent that their big 1990 blockbuster ushered it in.
Back to the Future Part III / int_5473668f	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_5473668f	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_5473668f
Back to the Future Part III / int_54d6f53f	type	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory
Back to the Future Part III / int_54d6f53f	comment	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: When Marty arrives in 1885 to save Future-Doc (who's Trapped in the Past), Future-Doc is aghast at his bizarre cowboy outfit and asks who dressed him like that, to which Marty says, "you did" — he means Past-Doc from 1955. The book adds the twist of Doc suddenly remembering this happening. It's an odd twist because while it's not inconsistent with how memory is shown to work in the films (e.g. does Marty come to "remember" his assertive parents?), it's also possible that this version of Doc is the same Doc who dressed him up but is just kinda scatterbrained.
Back to the Future Part III / int_54d6f53f	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_54d6f53f	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_54d6f53f
Back to the Future Part III / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Back to the Future Part III / int_55af5099	comment	Rube Goldberg Device: The ice-making machine Doc made in the Wild West. Its status as a Rube Goldberg Device is primarily due to the fact that Doc was constrained to 1885 technology. Later on in the movie, there's a downplayed breakfast machine which fries two eggs and some bacon.
Back to the Future Part III / int_55af5099	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_55af5099	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_55af5099
Back to the Future Part III / int_55eaf38d	type	Time Travel Escape
Back to the Future Part III / int_55eaf38d	comment	Time Travel Escape: Early on, Doc and Marty wind up preventing a new schoolteacher, Clara Clayton, from falling into a ravine. However, it is only after the fact that they remember this was a historical event: That know of that ravine as "Clayton Ravine" back in 1985 because she fell in. While not much more is made of this in the movie, beyond the fact that Doc uses this as yet another example of why he shouldn't have invented time travel, the point effectively becomes moot by the end of the movie where we see she decided to come along with Doc to visit Marty and Jennifer (after he completed the time train sometime in the 1890s).
Back to the Future Part III / int_55eaf38d	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_55eaf38d	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_55eaf38d
Back to the Future Part III / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Back to the Future Part III / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Okay, so they didn't have great plumbing and fluoride and water treatment plants, but people in the past weren't drinking ditch water, not if they could help it. They had wells and springs; they knew that healthy water was clear water.
Back to the Future Part III / int_56515a39	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_56515a39	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_56515a39
Back to the Future Part III / int_57650eae	type	Time Is Dangerous
Back to the Future Part III / int_57650eae	comment	Time Is Dangerous: By this movie, Doc seems to be acknowledging this. Marty's a little less sure, but both times Doc assures him that the obstacle he's seeing in the present won't be there in the destination time. Or that something that isn't there in the present will be there in the future, like the rest of the bridge (and a disel train).
Back to the Future Part III / int_57650eae	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_57650eae	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_57650eae
Back to the Future Part III / int_5798ba23	type	Science Cocktail
Back to the Future Part III / int_5798ba23	comment	Science Cocktail: Doc Brown has this elaborate machine in his Old West blacksmith shop. Takes up most of the room it's in. When he activates it, the thing huffs and puffs and shakes and finally, after all this ostentatious display, spits out two ice cubes. Effective for the implied humor, but also fairly realistic as creating a refrigeration unit in that time with limited materials and technology would result in a large machine.
Back to the Future Part III / int_5798ba23	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_5798ba23	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_5798ba23
Back to the Future Part III / int_58b07f3	type	Finale Title Drop
Back to the Future Part III / int_58b07f3	comment	Finale Title Drop: In the last four lines of the trilogy (the other two being Doc telling Marty and Jennifer to stand back and telling his sons to buckle up as he fires up the train):
Back to the Future Part III / int_58b07f3	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_58b07f3	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_58b07f3
Back to the Future Part III / int_58db779e	type	Letting the Air out of the Band
Back to the Future Part III / int_58db779e	comment	Letting the Air out of the Band: At the Hill Valley town festival on September 5th, 1885, Doc and Clara are dancing when Buford Tannen points a derringer pistol at Doc's back. Clara agrees to a dance with Buford in an attempt to defuse the situation, till a lecherous comment from him leads her to kick him in his shin, and he shoves her to the ground, making the band stop and Buford is about to shoot Doc before Marty intervenes by throwing a pie-tin as a frisbee at Buford. This, in turn, leads to a tense standoff between Marty and Buford where they agree to a duel before Marshall Strickland intervenes, telling them to stand down and asking the band to resume playing music.
Back to the Future Part III / int_58db779e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_58db779e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_58db779e
Back to the Future Part III / int_59166261	type	Second-Act Breakup
Back to the Future Part III / int_59166261	comment	Second-Act Breakup: Happens between Doc Brown and Old West schoolteacher Clara Clayton. Notable as it's part of a science-fiction comedy movie trilogy that doesn't normally dwell on such things; and that despite the breakup happening over a misunderstanding, no one was really at fault — it's just really hard for someone living in the Old West to believe someone who tells them he's a time-traveller from a hundred years in the future.
Back to the Future Part III / int_59166261	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_59166261	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_59166261
Back to the Future Part III / int_591c36ae	type	Gathering Steam
Back to the Future Part III / int_591c36ae	comment	Gathering Steam: In order to get the DeLorean time machine up to 88 miles per hour and return to the future, Marty and Doc "borrow" a steam locomotive. In order to get the train moving fast enough, Doc powers it with homemade Presto Logs made to raise the boiler pressure and speed up the train. Each one is set to ignite in sequence, and by the time the third log ignites, the only way to stop the train would be to run out of tracks.
Back to the Future Part III / int_591c36ae	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_591c36ae	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_591c36ae
Back to the Future Part III / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Back to the Future Part III / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Marshall Strickland doesn't arrest Tannen after he attempts to murder Marty and Doc on two different occasions. His deputy eventually does arrest Tannen for robbery (a crime he apparently considers more serious then attempted murder), but only after Marty has made it easy knocking Tannen out. Though in the deleted scene, Marshall Strickland does try to stop him from his challenge with Marty, until Tannen shoots his gun from his hand, and then shoots him in the back. No police investigate the train crash after Marty returns to 1985. He runs home, gets his truck, picks up Jennifer, avoids the drag race with Needles and heads back to the crash site, which probably took an hour at least, and no one has even looked at the ruins.
Back to the Future Part III / int_59907e4f	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_59907e4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_59907e4f
Back to the Future Part III / int_59ef66e	type	Scale Model Destruction
Back to the Future Part III / int_59ef66e	comment	Scale Model Destruction: There's a model layout made to simulate the plan to return to 1985; and again, the only thing that gets wrecked is the model steam engine... the same way they plan to sacrifice the real one.
Back to the Future Part III / int_59ef66e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_59ef66e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_59ef66e
Back to the Future Part III / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
Back to the Future Part III / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: Marty laments that it's all his fault that Doc Brown got stranded in 1885, kicking himself that it could have been avoided if he simply didn't let Biff get to him.
Back to the Future Part III / int_5ad80bf8	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_5ad80bf8	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_5ad80bf8
Back to the Future Part III / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Back to the Future Part III / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: When Marty and Doc are at the train stop looking at the map of the train and the ravine, Clara is in the background, waiting to be picked up by Doc.
Back to the Future Part III / int_5b565147	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_5b565147	featureConfidence	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_5b6e57e	type	Required Secondary Powers
Back to the Future Part III / int_5b6e57e	comment	Required Secondary Powers: Given that Doc didn't die and the DeLorean wasn't completely wrecked when it presumably crash-landed, especially with that looping time travel event, there must have been a nifty back-up system to allow it to land gently in case of an emergency.
Back to the Future Part III / int_5b6e57e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_5b6e57e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_5b6e57e
Back to the Future Part III / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
Back to the Future Part III / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: We find out Doc really Can't Hold His Liquor when he swallows a single shot of whiskey and instantly passes out—the whiskey has barely gotten in his stomach, much less into his bloodstream or brain to have any effect.
Back to the Future Part III / int_5bdf025f	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_5bdf025f	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_5bdf025f
Back to the Future Part III / int_5c2db1b3	type	Forced Dance Partner
Back to the Future Part III / int_5c2db1b3	comment	Forced Dance Partner: Buford Tannen tries to force Clara to dance with him, claiming he'll take Doc Brown's $80 debt out of her. He then tells her, holding her close, "You can do something that's worth $80, can't you?" She tells him he's underestimating her, and executes a Groin Attack to free herself.
Back to the Future Part III / int_5c2db1b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_5c2db1b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_5c2db1b3
Back to the Future Part III / int_5c81a18b	type	I Am Not My Father
Back to the Future Part III / int_5c81a18b	comment	I Am Not My Father: Marty learns from Seamus that not every McFly before him was as meek and easily bullied as Seamus and George - Seamus had a brother named Martin, who also was always eager to prove that he wasn't a chicken and got himself killed in a stupid fight for it. This moves Marty to change his behavior so as not to repeat his great-great-granduncle's fate.
Back to the Future Part III / int_5c81a18b	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_5c81a18b	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_5c81a18b
Back to the Future Part III / int_5c8ad7af	type	With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Back to the Future Part III / int_5c8ad7af	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Doc constructed a giant machine with the sole purpose of creating ice cubes before the technology became common, which sounds like something one would do if they were trying to randomly change the timeline. But that's all it does, too; no Chekhov's Gun here since Doc never showed any intention to make this invention public; he's well aware that doing so would be dangerous for the course of events in the history of science and technology.
Back to the Future Part III / int_5c8ad7af	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_5c8ad7af	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_5c8ad7af
Back to the Future Part III / int_5d6f4033	type	Agonizing Stomach Wound
Back to the Future Part III / int_5d6f4033	comment	Agonizing Stomach Wound: Discussed when Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen pulls a derringer on Doc Brown and crows that the last guy he used it on bled to death over the course of two days. In the original timeline before Marty interfered, such a fate befell Doc (they operated under the assumption that Buford would shoot him on September 7th and he would die right after, turns out Doc got shot on September 5th and took two days to die).
Back to the Future Part III / int_5d6f4033	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_5d6f4033	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_5d6f4033
Back to the Future Part III / int_5f930b19	type	Named After Somebody Famous
Back to the Future Part III / int_5f930b19	comment	Named After Somebody Famous: Jules and Verne, named after... guess who.
Back to the Future Part III / int_5f930b19	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_5f930b19	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_5f930b19
Back to the Future Part III / int_5fdd598e	type	Slipping into Stink
Back to the Future Part III / int_5fdd598e	comment	Slipping into Stink: Marty defeats Mad Dog Tannen by punching him out and causing him to fall on a manure wagon.
Back to the Future Part III / int_5fdd598e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_5fdd598e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_5fdd598e
Back to the Future Part III / int_60f92ddd	type	Oireland
Back to the Future Part III / int_60f92ddd	comment	Oireland: Seamus and Maggie McFly, complete with stereotypical (and non-existent in reality) accents.
Back to the Future Part III / int_60f92ddd	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_60f92ddd	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_60f92ddd
Back to the Future Part III / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
Back to the Future Part III / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: When Seamus asks Marty how he could travel through the Old West without a horse, boots, or even a hat, Marty answers "Well, my car—horse broke down, a bear ate my boots, and I guess I forgot my hat," prompting Maggie to ask "How can you forget a thing like your hat?!" (A bit of Truth in Television, as a hat was an integral part of a man's wardrobe at the time, especially in a sunny southern desert, where it's useful for preventing heat stroke. The Spanish word sombrero, for example, literally translates as "shade-maker.")
Back to the Future Part III / int_61b576af	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_61b576af	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_61b576af
Back to the Future Part III / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Back to the Future Part III / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: At the film's climax, Buford and his mooks capture Doc, and promise to kill him unless Marty agrees to go through with their duel. Tannen almost does kill Doc, but Marty gives himself up.
Back to the Future Part III / int_6201e8b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_6201e8b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_6201e8b0
Back to the Future Part III / int_6217c344	type	Spear Carrier
Back to the Future Part III / int_6217c344	comment	Spear Carrier: The train engineer who asks if it's a robbery.
Back to the Future Part III / int_6217c344	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_6217c344	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_6217c344
Back to the Future Part III / int_621b5533	type	Your Universe or Mine?
Back to the Future Part III / int_621b5533	comment	Your Universe or Mine?: Doc Brown and Clara Clayton have something like this, but the fact that Clara was supposed to have died (and survived only through Doc's timely intervention) may help simplify matters. In the end, they seem to choose option C: Live sort of outside of time traveling through the past and future with their flying train.
Back to the Future Part III / int_621b5533	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_621b5533	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_621b5533
Back to the Future Part III / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Back to the Future Part III / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Back in the first movie, Doc's exposition established that the genesis of the Flux Capacitor came while he was hanging a clock above his toilet. Doc slipped, banged his head, and when he came to the technology was in his head. At the beginning of this film, Marty tries to bring 1955 Doc up to speed on the events of Part II. A disbelieving Doc retreats into his bathroom. When he finally comes out, you can see the clock and toilet in the background (and Bob Gale's DVD Commentary confirms this was an intentional, subtle callback). When Needles challenges Marty to a race near the end, we are given two shots of Marty shifting gears in his truck. First, he moves the gearshift selector to the far left and up for 1st gear. Then, we see him shift again all the way right and down, for Reverse. Clara Clayton actually appears in the scene immediately before her introduction. If you pay very close attention to the background when Marty and Doc are at the train station looking at the map of the track leading to Shonash Ravine, but especially when Marty says "Doc, according to this map, there is no bridge," her presence can be inferred if you pay close attention to her hat and her dress, though her back is to the camera so we can't see her face. In the same scene, the (then-)brand new clock shows the time around 10:04, which is when it will stop in 1955. Before going to 1885, Marty complains that Clint Eastwood never wore such a ridiculous getup, and Doc doesn't know who that is. They have this conversation in a drive-in theater, in front of posters for Revenge of the Creature and Tarantula!, some of Eastwood's earliest films before he did any Western. After returning to 1985, Marty drives past a sign identifying the place as "Eastwood Ravine", showing that it was named after his 1885 persona.
Back to the Future Part III / int_62f9d08e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_62f9d08e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_62f9d08e
Back to the Future Part III / int_66805a18	type	Race for Your Love
Back to the Future Part III / int_66805a18	comment	Race for Your Love: Clara's race to get to Emmett before he leaves.
Back to the Future Part III / int_66805a18	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_66805a18	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_66805a18
Back to the Future Part III / int_66dbffe8	type	Schoolmarm
Back to the Future Part III / int_66dbffe8	comment	Schoolmarm: Clara Clayton is a schoolteacher who gets saved by Doc.
Back to the Future Part III / int_66dbffe8	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_66dbffe8	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_66dbffe8
Back to the Future Part III / int_67edaf78	type	Gargle Blaster
Back to the Future Part III / int_67edaf78	comment	Gargle Blaster: "Authentic Frontier Whiskey" is strong enough to cause the bar to smolder. Doc, who Can't Hold His Liquor anyway, downs a glass and drops like a brick at the most inconvenient time. Also, when they try to fuel the DeLorean with some of the bartender's strongest whiskey, it destroys the car's fuel injection system.
Back to the Future Part III / int_67edaf78	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_67edaf78	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_67edaf78
Back to the Future Part III / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
Back to the Future Part III / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: Buford, after seemingly killing Marty.
Back to the Future Part III / int_68068108	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_68068108	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_68068108
Back to the Future Part III / int_687c78ff	type	Railroad Tracks of Doom
Back to the Future Part III / int_687c78ff	comment	Railroad Tracks of Doom: The only viable track that could get a locomotive up to 88 miles per hour just happens to have an unfinished bridge at the end. Also seen when the DeLorean has just arrived back in 1985, during which, Marty notices the railroad crossing signal is sounding...and turns to see an incoming freight train charging towards him.
Back to the Future Part III / int_687c78ff	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_687c78ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_687c78ff
Back to the Future Part III / int_69aa26d1	type	Poison Is Corrosive
Back to the Future Part III / int_69aa26d1	comment	Poison Is Corrosive: Marty gets poured a free shot of whiskey by a bartender that wants to make sure he knows what they serve in his bar. Strong stuff all right — the bar top smokes from the overpour. Marty wisely leaves it alone. (While not billed as poison, one shot of the same whiskey puts Doc on the floor.)
Back to the Future Part III / int_69aa26d1	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_69aa26d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_69aa26d1
Back to the Future Part III / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
Back to the Future Part III / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Early in the film, Doc, confused on who "Clara" is, denies to Marty that he knows that any woman by that name and dismisses the notion of love at first sight as "utter romantic nonsense." Then the Hill Valley 1885 mayor rolls in and talks to Doc, reminding him that at a town hall meeting he agreed to meet the new schoolteacher. Doc breezes over a majority of the details, until the mayor mentions her name, "Clara Clayton," to which Doc freezes in horror and gives the same Oh, Crap! face previously used for comedy a more serious twist. When Marty is reunited with Doc, who is currently talking down Buford, they are discussing a recent shoeing job done on one of Buford's horses that, because it went afoul, Buford thinks Doc should be held responsible for. When Buford mentions the prices of the new horse and whiskey he bought that day, "$5 for the whiskey, $75 for the horse," Marty quickly does the math and whispers in shock, "That's the eighty dollars!" note (According to the tombstone Marty found, Doc was "shot in the back by Buford Tannen over a matter of eighty dollars.")
Back to the Future Part III / int_69cce3dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_69cce3dc	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_69cce3dc
Back to the Future Part III / int_6a85e9e1	type	Dub-Induced Plot Hole
Back to the Future Part III / int_6a85e9e1	comment	Dub-Induced Plot Hole: Not exactly a plot hole per se, but Doc's last line "Already been there (the future)" is sometimes dubbed to "I already am in the future." The original line is meant to be the lead-up for the Time Train's flying capability. The dubbed line turns it into a character moment, showing that whenever he can go, his heart is still in the Old West. Both versions work in their own way.
Back to the Future Part III / int_6a85e9e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_6a85e9e1	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_6a85e9e1
Back to the Future Part III / int_6bab4b2e	type	Like a Duck Takes to Water
Back to the Future Part III / int_6bab4b2e	comment	Like a Duck Takes to Water: Marty McFly travels through time back to the Old West. Despite being only a teenager who has presumably never shot a real gun before, he turns out to be an expert at quickdraw and pistol shooting (once he adjusts to the recoil) because of his familiarity with a video game from 1985. Despite being considered a crazy, dangerous nut in his own time, Doc Brown's love of the Old West made him fit in perfectly with Hill Valley in 1885. Throughout the third film, he's shown to be well-liked and on first name terms with many local townspeople, including even the Mayor and until he learned that Marty came back to prevent Buford Tannen from shooting him, Doc was quite content to simply live out the rest of his life in the past.
Back to the Future Part III / int_6bab4b2e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_6bab4b2e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_6bab4b2e
Back to the Future Part III / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Back to the Future Part III / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: In the final scene, Doc Brown and Clara are wed, and have two young sons, Jules and Verne.
Back to the Future Part III / int_6d9bc945	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_6d9bc945	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_6d9bc945
Back to the Future Part III / int_6dd4006e	type	The Great Repair
Back to the Future Part III / int_6dd4006e	comment	The Great Repair: The DeLorean's gas tank ruptures and all the gasoline is lost with no way to make more. Unable to get to 88 miles per hour, they're now stranded in 1885. They have to concoct a scheme to get their damaged time machine up to the magic speed and escape.
Back to the Future Part III / int_6dd4006e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_6dd4006e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_6dd4006e
Back to the Future Part III / int_6e27397	type	Missed Him by That Much
Back to the Future Part III / int_6e27397	comment	Missed Him by That Much: When Clara realizes Doc still loves her, she bails from the train to run back to Hill Valley. However, Doc and Marty left moments earlier as when she makes it into town, the crowd is still gathered watching Buford getting arrested. Luckily for her, she finds the model showing their plan to travel back to 1985, and she takes a horse to catch up with them.
Back to the Future Part III / int_6e27397	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_6e27397	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_6e27397
Back to the Future Part III / int_70bdac19	type	Honest John's Dealership
Back to the Future Part III / int_70bdac19	comment	Honest John's Dealership: In 1885 Hill Valley, we have Honest Joe Statler's horses, "Quality horses bought and sold!" Across the three films, the Statler family owns the horse dealership in 1885, an Oldsmobile dealership in 1955, and a Toyota dealership in 1985.
Back to the Future Part III / int_70bdac19	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_70bdac19	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_70bdac19
Back to the Future Part III / int_725a8243	type	Bar Slide
Back to the Future Part III / int_725a8243	comment	Bar Slide: A saloon patron slides Marty McFly a gun right before the big showdown, in homage to a similar shot in My Darling Clementine.
Back to the Future Part III / int_725a8243	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_725a8243	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_725a8243
Back to the Future Part III / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Back to the Future Part III / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Doc pouring the alcohol into the DeLorean's gas tank right from the bottle, without making any attempt to refine or purify it. Naturally this is what leads to the fuel-injection system being destroyed which means the rest of the movie can happen. Even factoring in the time crunch he was under (which can be used to Hand Wave why they don't get gasoline from a kerosene refinery and refine it to usable levels themselves), Doc Brown still wouldn't have made a mistake like that.
Back to the Future Part III / int_7286e96d	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_7286e96d	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_7286e96d
Back to the Future Part III / int_733f4235	type	Named in the Sequel
Back to the Future Part III / int_733f4235	comment	Named in the Sequel: The name of Doc's dog in 1955 goes unmentioned in the first film, but the scene at Doc's house at the beginning reveals his name as Copernicus.
Back to the Future Part III / int_733f4235	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_733f4235	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_733f4235
Back to the Future Part III / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Back to the Future Part III / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The "super logs" that Doc uses are colored green (fast), yellow (faster) and red (fastest), and produce that same color smoke.
Back to the Future Part III / int_740f59b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_740f59b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_740f59b4
Back to the Future Part III / int_753a61d4	type	Time-Travel Tense Trouble
Back to the Future Part III / int_753a61d4	comment	And his parting words reference the Time-Travel Tense Trouble lines from the previous film.
Back to the Future Part III / int_753a61d4	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_753a61d4	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_753a61d4
Back to the Future Part III / int_769ad308	type	Hidden Weapons
Back to the Future Part III / int_769ad308	comment	Hidden Weapons: After Tannen and his men have their primary guns confiscated at the party entrance, he attempts to assassinate Doc with a tiny Derringer pistol he smuggled in under his hat.
Back to the Future Part III / int_769ad308	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_769ad308	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_769ad308
Back to the Future Part III / int_789884e6	type	Hubcap Hovercraft
Back to the Future Part III / int_789884e6	comment	Hubcap Hovercraft: The Time Train from the end of the movie can hover like the DeLorean, except it has its own thrust engines - the wheels are still, for some reason, rotated by the steam pistons in their flying position.
Back to the Future Part III / int_789884e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_789884e6	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_789884e6
Back to the Future Part III / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Back to the Future Part III / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: The only complaint Buford has about being thrown off his horse is that it caused him to "bust a perfectly good bottle of fine Kentucky red-eye (whiskey)."
Back to the Future Part III / int_78c895c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_78c895c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_78c895c8
Back to the Future Part III / int_79ba6777	type	Pocket Protector
Back to the Future Part III / int_79ba6777	comment	Pocket Protector: Marty manages to block a gunshot from Tannen by hiding a metal plate under his poncho. Justified as it was a thick metal furnace door and the gun was a 19th century pistol that probably wasnâ€™t powerful enough to pierce it.
Back to the Future Part III / int_79ba6777	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_79ba6777	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_79ba6777
Back to the Future Part III / int_7ae4d273	type	Point of No Return
Back to the Future Part III / int_7ae4d273	comment	Point of No Return: The windmill marks the point where Doc and Marty no longer have enough time to stop the train before it goes down the ravine. As Doc puts it, "once we pass this windmill, it's the future or bust."
Back to the Future Part III / int_7ae4d273	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_7ae4d273	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_7ae4d273
Back to the Future Part III / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Back to the Future Part III / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: We see the would've-been drag race that ruined Marty's life in 2015 which states that Marty was sued by the driver of a Rolls-Royce he plowed into. Here, the Rolls-Royce is shown speeding into the road and has to come audibly screeching to a stop to avoid a collision with Needles' truck. The screeching stop and resulting tire marks would show that the driver blew through a stop sign and did not give the right of way to the truck. Marty would still have gotten in trouble for racing and he still would have had to give up his dream of becoming a rock star due to breaking his hand, but the crash itself would have been found to be the Rolls-Royce drivers' fault for running a stop sign and not giving right of way.
Back to the Future Part III / int_8391b1c7	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_8391b1c7	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_8391b1c7
Back to the Future Part III / int_850258ca	type	I Know Mortal Kombat
Back to the Future Part III / int_850258ca	comment	Marty McFly travels through time back to the Old West. Despite being only a teenager who has presumably never shot a real gun before, he turns out to be an expert at quickdraw and pistol shooting (once he adjusts to the recoil) because of his familiarity with a video game from 1985.
Back to the Future Part III / int_850258ca	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_850258ca	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_850258ca
Back to the Future Part III / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Back to the Future Part III / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Doc when he saves Marty from being hanged by Buford with a long rifle: "It'll shoot the fleas off a dog's back at 500 yards, Tannen! And it's pointed straight at your head!"
Back to the Future Part III / int_86b21114	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_86b21114	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_86b21114
Back to the Future Part III / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Back to the Future Part III / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: While gasoline's component alkanes existed and were pulled out of oil wells, they weren't considered valuable until internal combustion engines were invented and were typically burned off as useless, therefore Marty and Doc wouldn't be able to get any gas for the DeLorean. It was probably unintentional on the filmaker's part, but Marty has to run from a line of Indians, then he has to dodge the US Cavalry chasing them. In the late 19th century, the Indians were under the charge of the Bureau of Indian Affairs as part of a deliberate program of gentle genocide, and any Indian who went "off the reservation" was a hunted criminal, and they were, as a group, subject to repeated massacres by settlers and the government. Steam driven locomotives didn't typically go very fast, because that risked derailment, but by the late nineteenth century, it would have been possible to drive a train up to 90 mph, though it would have been the edge of their capacity.
Back to the Future Part III / int_875615dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_875615dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_875615dd
Back to the Future Part III / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Back to the Future Part III / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: As is standard for Hollywood, Marty's Oirish ancestors' accents are the stereotypical variety in that no Irish person anywhere ever has ever spoken with such an accent.
Back to the Future Part III / int_8829dfa0	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_8829dfa0	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_8829dfa0
Back to the Future Part III / int_89833fc6	type	Accidental Time Travel
Back to the Future Part III / int_89833fc6	comment	Accidental Time Travel: The film's plot is the consequence of Doc and the DeLorean having been accidentally sent to 1885 due to a lightning strike in the previous movie. Though Doc wrote a letter to Marty asking him to forget about him and move on, Copernicus spots Doc's tombstone, Marty realizes that Doc was murdered only one week after sending the letter, and decides to go to 1885 to rescue him.
Back to the Future Part III / int_89833fc6	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_89833fc6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_8a1cd5de	type	Historical Person Punchline
Back to the Future Part III / int_8a1cd5de	comment	In the novelization, Marty mentions movies in the presence of a ten-year-old boy who is left intrigued by the concept... and is revealed to be D. W. Griffith. However, Griffith was born in Kentucky and didn't move to California until 1907.
Back to the Future Part III / int_8a1cd5de	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_8a1cd5de
Back to the Future Part III / int_8a5f1611	type	Overly Stereotypical Disguise
Back to the Future Part III / int_8a5f1611	comment	Overly Stereotypical Disguise: Marty's flamboyant cowboy attire, which he does lampshade, but (1950s) Doc insists is fine to wear (note that westerns were huge in 1955, but historical accuracy in westerns was not). Marty switches to more reasonable clothes as soon as he can.
Back to the Future Part III / int_8a5f1611	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_8a5f1611	featureConfidence	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_8c96e3bc	type	Chandelier Swing
Back to the Future Part III / int_8c96e3bc	comment	Chandelier Swing: Marty does it while trying to escape from Buford Tannen in the saloon.
Back to the Future Part III / int_8c96e3bc	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_8c96e3bc	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_8c96e3bc
Back to the Future Part III / int_8d612fe6	type	Swapped Roles
Back to the Future Part III / int_8d612fe6	comment	When it's spelled out to Marty that he may get killed if he duels Tannen tomorrow, Marty responds thusly:
Back to the Future Part III / int_8d612fe6	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
Back to the Future Part III / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: A black bear happens to be lying in the cave Marty hides the DeLorean in and chases Marty out.
Back to the Future Part III / int_8d718b9e	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_8d718b9e	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_8d718b9e
Back to the Future Part III / int_8e47b1f5	type	Kissing Discretion Shot
Back to the Future Part III / int_8e47b1f5	comment	Kissing Discretion Shot: The shot is pulled back and seasoned with a shooting star when Doc Brown and Clara Clayton kiss, probably because Christopher Lloyd was deemed too old to do so up close.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Back to the Future Part III / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Buford had killed Doc because his horse threw the shoe Doc put on, throwing him off in the process. But as Doc points out, Buford never paid him for the job, "So I say that makes us even!"
Back to the Future Part III / int_90e31482	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_91d3ab1e	type	Ominous Pipe Organ
Back to the Future Part III / int_91d3ab1e	comment	Ominous Pipe Organ: Heard in-universe when Marty confirms to Doc that he returned to 1955 even after being sent to the future. Backed up against the organ in his house in terror at Marty's apparition, Doc's groping hands just happen to play a series of dissonant and ominous chords.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_92a9442	type	Second Episode Morning
Back to the Future Part III / int_92a9442	comment	Second Episode Morning: During the movie's ending, Jennifer believes that her time in the future was a dream — until she finds the fax paper in her pocket.
Back to the Future Part III / int_92a9442	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Back to the Future Part III / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: George, Lorraine, Dave, Linda, Biff, Jennifer, Needles, and even Einstein all return for the final scenes.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_9335ac5d	type	Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold
Back to the Future Part III / int_9335ac5d	comment	Despite being considered a crazy, dangerous nut in his own time, Doc Brown's love of the Old West made him fit in perfectly with Hill Valley in 1885. Throughout the third film, he's shown to be well-liked and on first name terms with many local townspeople, including even the Mayor and until he learned that Marty came back to prevent Buford Tannen from shooting him, Doc was quite content to simply live out the rest of his life in the past.
Back to the Future Part III / int_9335ac5d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
Back to the Future Part III / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The movie has Marty go back further in time to 1885; when lightning struck the time machine, Doc Brown was left stuck in the past, but sent a letter to Marty in the present to explain where and when he was, and that he was perfectly happy. Marty enlists the 1955 Doc to repair the time machine to get him back home, but they discover Doc's gravestone from less than a week after he mailed the letter, saying he was shot by Buford Tannen. Marty travels back to 1885 to save Doc, and in the end, he alters his own future by overcoming his own ego and the taunts of others, and Doc's by saving his life and getting him a lover.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_943e7e6e	type	Cowardly Yellow
Back to the Future Part III / int_943e7e6e	comment	Cowardly Yellow: "Yellow" is used by Mad Dog to imply Marty is a coward. Marty has the same reaction to Mad Dog calling him "yellow" as he does to being called "chicken".
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Back to the Future Part III / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Back to the Future Part III / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself:
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Back to the Future Part III / int_95d67d24	type	Get Thee to a Nunnery
Back to the Future Part III / int_95d67d24	comment	Get Thee to a Nunnery: Ever wonder why Buford Tannen kept referring to Marty as "dude"? During that time period, "dude" basically meant City Mouse (hence, a "dude ranch" is a ranch for "dudes", i.e. tourists) — especially one fancily dressed, as Marty was when they first met. Considering Marty is from The '80s, it's odd that he doesn't lampshade how that word changed.
Back to the Future Part III / int_95d67d24	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_95df9d98	type	Contrasting Sequel Setting
Back to the Future Part III / int_95df9d98	comment	Contrasting Sequel Setting: The movie takes place in Hill Valley like the first two movies, but with a stronger Wild West flavor due to the year Marty and Doc have traveled to (1885).
Back to the Future Part III / int_95df9d98	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_95df9d98	featureConfidence	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_95f972d2	type	Nitro Boost
Back to the Future Part III / int_95f972d2	comment	Nitro Boost: The three chemical bricks Doc puts in the steam engine. Each one makes it rapidly accelerate, the third blows the tank!
Back to the Future Part III / int_95f972d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_95f972d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_95f972d2
Back to the Future Part III / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Back to the Future Part III / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The scene in the saloon towards the end, which you could compare to High Noon. Buford and his gang have Marty trapped, and Buford is counting down to a showdown. Doc is unconscious. Marty is visibly struggling with whether or not to fight Buford, as Seamus looks on. The telescope repair between Doc and Clara. The scene with Doc and Marty arguing about whether Doc should stay in the past or not. Both Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox are at their raw, emotional best.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Back to the Future Part III / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, an outlaw ancestor of Biff's. He kills Doc in a timeline of 1885, and Marty's plot line is preventing "Mad Dog" from killing Doc.
Back to the Future Part III / int_970c790a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_9718a22a	type	You Remind Me of X
Back to the Future Part III / int_9718a22a	comment	You Remind Me of X: Seamus and Maggie note "Clint"'s habit of taking up challenges reminds them of Seamus' brother Martin, who ended up knifed in a Bar Brawl. It seems like the McFly family by the 1980s didn't know of Martin's existence or at least Marty wasn't told about him. In any case, the reason why the information hit him so hard is that his given name is Martin. Turns out he was coincidentally named after his ancestor and his brother, as Martin Seamus McFly.
Back to the Future Part III / int_9718a22a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Back to the Future Part III / int_973d220f	comment	The plot point of the $80 reflects the same situation with Biff at the beginning of Part I, inasmuch as they both involve a Tannen with a Never My Fault mentality complaining about spilling alcohol after an accident with a means of conveyance, and demanding recompense.
Back to the Future Part III / int_973d220f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
Back to the Future Part III / int_9a1d239e	comment	After returning to 1985, Marty drives past a sign identifying the place as "Eastwood Ravine", showing that it was named after his 1885 persona.
Back to the Future Part III / int_9a1d239e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_9af54b9d	type	Double Take
Back to the Future Part III / int_9af54b9d	comment	Double Take: Played for Drama: When Marty picks up Copernicus to take him back to 1955 Doc's truck, he merely glances at the "Emmett Brown" tombstone, before practically running back to it. At the end of the movie, when Marty sees a train coming right for him.
Back to the Future Part III / int_9af54b9d	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_9af54b9d	featureConfidence	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Back to the Future Part III / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: After spending some time in The Wild West, Doc Brown totes a huge rifle, rescues (and subsequently woos) a Damsel in Distress, stands up to the local gunslinger, hijacks... er, borrows a steam locomotive, and drives it off a cliff. Marty goes from nearly getting hanged by Buford to outwitting and curb-stomping him.
Back to the Future Part III / int_9bcd82c0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Back to the Future Part III / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: The Bobs consider III as such for Doc. The first two movies deal with fixing Marty's past, present, and future, with Doc as more of a supporting character, but III deals with saving Doc, and a primary focus is on the budding romance of Doc and Clara. Needless to say, Christopher Lloyd was delighted to play a heroic Western role and the romantic lead in such a big movie, opportunities he rarely had as a character actor.
Back to the Future Part III / int_9c8701b5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Back to the Future Part III / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The scene that introduces Clara sees Doc grab her from an out-of-control vehicle before it crashes into the ravine. In short, this scene is Doc and Clara doing a dry run of the climax. 1955 Doc accidentally steps on the hoverboard from the shock of seeing Marty again. In the climax, Marty passes it to 1985 Doc to save him and Clara while they're hanging from the speeding train. Doc says it's a pity that there will be nobody near to watch the locomotive falling into Shonash Ravine. He ends doing it himself after failing to board the DeLorean. During the beginning of the final showdown with Buford, pay close to attention to not only how Marty moves, but how he removes his gun belt. He's moving carefully and deliberately; his hand's even inside the poncho, as if it's holding on to something. Marty's trying to hide that he's wearing a homemade bulletproof vest under the poncho.
Back to the Future Part III / int_9d12bbc1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Back to the Future Part III / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Buford gets thwacked across the face with a two-handed swing of a solid iron boiler plate and then immediately gets back up and keeps fighting.
Back to the Future Part III / int_9d17b859	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_9d17b859	featureConfidence	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_a22ae9a5	type	Hat Damage
Back to the Future Part III / int_a22ae9a5	comment	Hat Damage: Buford Tannen holds Doc at gunpoint and Marty hits the gun with a thrown pie plate the moment he pulls the trigger. Doc's hat gets a neat bullethole right in the center and is knocked off his head, but he is uninjured. Played completely serious.
Back to the Future Part III / int_a22ae9a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_a22ae9a5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Back to the Future Part III / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: One of the reasons why the scene where Buford shoots Marshal Strickland was removed. The producers thought it was too depressing, and after doing it, it didn't seem right that Buford does not die. They were worried it would make audiences want Marty to kill Buford, and he can't, because Buford needs to live long enough to extend the Tannen family line. In 1985-A in Part II, Buford was explicitly identified as Biff's great-grandfather, meaning Marty couldn't risk killing him; and having the film's teenage protagonist kill another person, no matter how evil that person was, would have been too dark for the mostly lighthearted time travel comedy. This leaves a minor plot-hole in the scene when Buford is arrested by Marshal Strickland's deputy instead of by Strickland himself. However, even if the scene were kept, it's possible Biff would have been born regardless because Part II does show that he lives with his grandmother Gertrude in 1955, who is implied to possibly either be Buford's child or married to one of his. The whole train scene at the climax swings wildly between scary, heartwarming, and awesome. Then, when Marty makes it back to 1985, we see a sign for "Eastwood Ravine," and it looks like the DeLorean has triggered the grade crossing gates at the end of the bridge — both funny moments. A few seconds later, he is nearly killed by a modern diesel train that destroys the DeLorean — one of the most iconic cars in cinematic history — and Marty realizes that this strands his best friend in the past. And then Doc shows up in an even cooler ride... with his new family.
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Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_a4c37cbe
Back to the Future Part III / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
Back to the Future Part III / int_a5f0752f	comment	Rule of Drama: Steam trains didn't have cords that passengers could pull to stop the train, but it does make for a good dramatic moment where Clara can hop out of the train and run back to town. It also serves to delay the train so Doc and Marty can still hijack it.
Back to the Future Part III / int_a5f0752f	featureApplicability	1.0
Back to the Future Part III / int_a5f0752f	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_a5f0752f
Back to the Future Part III / int_a632f7fa	type	Cool Train
Back to the Future Part III / int_a632f7fa	comment	Cool Train: The Time-Traveling Hover-Train at the end.
Back to the Future Part III / int_a632f7fa	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Back to the Future Part III / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Marty punches Tannen three times, sending the man crashing into the tombstone and averting the future where either he or Doc ends up dead. It takes a fourth punch, however, to put the man in a pile of manure and end the fight.
Back to the Future Part III / int_a6cda066	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Back to the Future Part III / int_a70223	comment	One of the reasons why the scene where Buford shoots Marshal Strickland was removed. The producers thought it was too depressing, and after doing it, it didn't seem right that Buford does not die. They were worried it would make audiences want Marty to kill Buford, and he can't, because Buford needs to live long enough to extend the Tannen family line. In 1985-A in Part II, Buford was explicitly identified as Biff's great-grandfather, meaning Marty couldn't risk killing him; and having the film's teenage protagonist kill another person, no matter how evil that person was, would have been too dark for the mostly lighthearted time travel comedy. This leaves a minor plot-hole in the scene when Buford is arrested by Marshal Strickland's deputy instead of by Strickland himself. However, even if the scene were kept, it's possible Biff would have been born regardless because Part II does show that he lives with his grandmother Gertrude in 1955, who is implied to possibly either be Buford's child or married to one of his.
Back to the Future Part III / int_a70223	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
Back to the Future Part III / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: Subverted. Marty and Doc both assume that Doc will be shot on Monday, September 7, 1885, because that's when the tombstone says he dies and they work under the assumption that they have until Monday to figure out a plan to get back. Turns out he actually got shot on Saturday, September 5 in the original timeline, and didn't succumb to his wound for another two days. The gunshot wound thankfully doesn't even happen once Marty intervenes in the timeline thanks to a Frisbee pie pan.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Back to the Future Part III / int_a8559a9f	comment	The last component is steam generation — you would want as much water in the tender tank as possible, but you'd also have to make sure that it didn't flood the boiler either. note High heat + Empty boiler = KABOOM!... but High Heat + too much water = Also KABOOM! + blast wave of superheated steam! Doc does mention that the boiler will catastrophically explode if it reaches a certain pressure, and during the last minute of the scene, rivets and seams are visibly failing and spewing vapor or jets of superheated water. Also, the train explicitly does retain the tender in the script (Doc commands the engineer and fireman to "uncouple the cars from the tender"). In Real Life, the tenders were often physically attached to the engine and could not be removed without significant effort anyway.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Back to the Future Part III / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Doc and Clara, though Doc's skeptical before they meet when Marty says that this happened with him and Jennifer. This happened even in the timeline when Marty didn't go back to save Doc, such that a few days after meeting him, she put "his beloved Clara" on his tombstone.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_a9645365	type	Man Hug
Back to the Future Part III / int_a9645365	comment	Man Hug: Doc hugs Marty when the latter turns up in 1885.
Back to the Future Part III / int_a9645365	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Back to the Future Part III / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Doc's absentminded scientist character proves a formidable foe (and an ace sharpshooter) to a gang of bandits in an Old West town.
Back to the Future Part III / int_a9de87d2	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Back to the Future Part III / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The history book Marty reads about Buford Tannen in 1955 uses slurs for Native Americans and Chinese Americans.
Back to the Future Part III / int_aabe2fb	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Back to the Future Part III / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Marty travels into the past and the Indians painted on the wall become real Indians riding straight for him. The look on Doc's face when Buford comes to shoot him on Saturday, and he realizes that just because he died in the original timeline on Monday doesn't mean that's when he got shot. This is lampshaded by Buford by explaining that his derringer, due to its small size and ability to only carry one shot, doesn't kill instantly. Similarly, when Marty tells Doc that the fuel line on the DeLorean was ruptured. Doc tells him that the car always ran on gasoline to get it up to 88 miles per hour — the Mr. Fusion powers the flux capacitor — and there ain't no refined gasoline until the following century. When it's spelled out to Marty that he may get killed if he duels Tannen tomorrow, Marty responds thusly: Another Doc reaction after he and Marty save Clara Clayton from falling into the ravine; Marty reveals that the ravine was supposedly named after a schoolteacher who fell into the ravine 100 years ago, where Marty and Doc are presently stuck in. Doc is horrified that once again, they have inadvertently meddled into historical events. Doc stares horrified after "Mad Dog" Tannen shoots and apparently kills Marty. Marty has a huge one near the end when he sees a modern train coming right at the DeLorean, with him still inside. He just manages to get out before it's smashed to smithereens.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_ad459d78	type	Write Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part III / int_ad459d78	comment	Write Back to the Future: Doc's letter to Marty. He leaves it in the care of Western Union with specific instructions to deliver it at the time and place he disappeared in 1955.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
Back to the Future Part III / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: Zig-Zagged by Doc, who upon being thrust into 1885 is perfectly fine with settling down to live the rest of his days as a blacksmith, and gives Marty instructions to recover the DeLorean and go back to 1985 without him. However, this changes when they learn that Doc will be killed within the same year. Marty travels to save Doc in 1885, and they prepare to get back to 1985 until Doc sacrifices himself to save Clara, leaving him stuck for good in 1885. Then they build a steam powered, time-traveling train for their own use sometime in the 1890s.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_aeec99a9	type	Immediate Sequel
Back to the Future Part III / int_aeec99a9	comment	Immediate Sequel: Even discounting having the end of Part II as the opening of Part III, II ended just after 10:04PM on November 12, 1955. III begins at 7AM the following morning after Doc wakes up.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Back to the Future Part III / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Buford uses the same one as his great-grandson when he sees Clara: "Lookie what we have here."
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Back to the Future Part III / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
Back to the Future Part III / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: As Doc Brown put it best, "We're going to hijack... borrow... the locomotive..."
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Back to the Future Part III / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Back to the Future Part III / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: For the third time in as many films, Marty gets knocked out by a physical blow, though this is the first time he wakes up in a room with someone who isn't his mother.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_b2c508ed	type	Young Gun
Back to the Future Part III / int_b2c508ed	comment	Young Gun: Marty is given a free gun by the gun salesman in preparation for his duel with Mad Dog Tannen (with the catch being he'll take it back if/when Marty loses). After playing around with it (even wearing it in public), Marty makes a point of discarding the gun when confronting Mad Dog on Monday. After all, he has the improvised bulletproof vest. Afterwards he gives it to Seamus, who plans to pawn it for another hat.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Back to the Future Part III / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Averted, when "Mad Dog" Tannen shoots at Marty... er, Clint Eastwood, in the saloon, he shoots six times, making him dance. Later, when he gets the spittoon dumped on him, he tries to shoot Marty but the gun clicks on four empty chambers.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_b3f0fc91	type	Track Trouble
Back to the Future Part III / int_b3f0fc91	comment	Track Trouble: Since gasoline isn't a readily available fuel, the Time Machine needs to be accelerated to 88 mph by a steam locomotive. However, the spur that's used leads to a half-completed bridge across Shonash Ravine.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Back to the Future Part III / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Seamus McFly talks about his deceased brother, Martin, who also suffered from a Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"! mentality, which got him killed via bowie knife in the chest. Marty himself almost became this and was called out on it by his ancestors and Doc Brown.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_b5959fa1	type	Hereditary Hairstyle
Back to the Future Part III / int_b5959fa1	comment	Hereditary Hairstyle: Repeatedly averted. Maggie and Seamus are redheaded Irish, and Maggie is curly-haired, unlike their modern day descendants. Buford is dark-haired unlike blond-haired Biff and Griff, and in a case clearly Played for Laughs, the bald Strickland's Identical Ancestor has long, flowing straight hair.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_b62ea95	type	Doomed New Clothes
Back to the Future Part III / int_b62ea95	comment	Doomed New Clothes: Marty is given a "Western" outfit and a new pair of cowboy boots by Doc in. A bear eats the boots. Similarly, his ancestor gives him a new hat, only to have it lost and probably trampled by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen's horse. The outfit gets torn up as Buford drags Marty down the street.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_b6af057e	type	Double Vision
Back to the Future Part III / int_b6af057e	comment	Double Vision: This effect was used to allow Marty to talk to his ancestor, also played by Michael J. Fox. Keep a lookout for the shot in which the baby is handed off; its mother walks in front of the camera at just the right moment needed to see it actually change hands, but it is done pretty seamlessly and is hard to notice if you aren't looking for it.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_b7b66a89	type	Fantastic Romance
Back to the Future Part III / int_b7b66a89	comment	Fantastic Romance: The movie has Doc and Marty stuck in The Wild West, where Doc falls in love with a local woman after saving her from a runaway carriage (she had died in their original timeline). At the end, he takes her with him to explore time together in a new time machine. Marty's happy ending is that he and Jennifer are reunited and their future is whatever they make it.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Back to the Future Part III / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: While George, Lorraine, and Biff had pivotal roles in the first two films, here they only make brief appearances at the end. Justified in that the majority of the film takes place decades before any of them were even born.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Back to the Future Part III / int_baa2bf80	comment	Amplified Animal Aptitude: Doc's 1955 dog Copernicus seems to be at an almost human level of intelligence at times. For starters, after Doc finishes reading the letter that his future self wrote to Marty, Copernicus seems to be rather sad about Doc being Trapped in the Past. In addition, Copernicus is the one who discovers Doc's tombstone, and he seems to realize what it says.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_bb2fa590	type	Fool for Love
Back to the Future Part III / int_bb2fa590	comment	Fool for Love: Whenever he spends time with Clara, Doc turns into a lovestruck babbler.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
Back to the Future Part III / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: The photograph of Doc's tombstone accurately predicts that he will die on Monday, September 7, 1885 by Buford shooting him in the back over a matter of $80 if history continues on the same course. Doc and Marty fail to realize that just because he dies on Monday does not mean he gets shot on Monday, hence Doc's surprise when Buford shows up to shoot him on Saturday is quite genuine. (Because Buford's guns are all confiscated to enter the dance, he sneaks in a small but effective pistol that would kill when fired — but thanks to the small calibre ammo, it would take three days for the victim to expire.) Another one when Doc tells Marty in his letter to return to 1985 and destroy the the time machine. He didn't have to. A diesel train did.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Back to the Future Part III / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: "He's an asshole!"
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Back to the Future Part III / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Back to the Future Part III / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Do not call Buford Tannen "Mad Dog." It's clear that this button has been around for a while, as the moment Marty calls him "Mad Dog," every single patron and bartender hides or silently runs away. Though if he kills anyone who utters it, it does make you wonder how that nickname got around publicly.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_bcfc7495	type	Cowboy Episode
Back to the Future Part III / int_bcfc7495	comment	Cowboy Episode: 1885 Hill Valley is a fairly stereotypical Western setting and the film's secondary climax is a gun duel between Marty and local outlaw Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. Justified, since it's southern California in 1885.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_bd88000	type	High-Speed Hijack
Back to the Future Part III / int_bd88000	comment	High-Speed Hijack: Doc and Marty hijack the train from horseback with the intent of using the locomotive to push the out-of-gas DeLorean to the requisite 88 mph.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_bda2a088	type	Did They or Didn't They?
Back to the Future Part III / int_bda2a088	comment	Did They or Didn't They?: Doc takes Clara to the dance and then takes her home. All is shown is a kiss but later Clara claims he "took advantage of her". Although, given the era the kiss might qualify as "taking advantage".
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Back to the Future Part III / int_bda3b88e	type	Sudden Soundtrack Stop
Back to the Future Part III / int_bda3b88e	comment	Sudden Soundtrack Stop: The swelling, heroic Back to the Future theme stops and restarts more than once to accentuate Marty pummeling "Mad Dog" Tannen during their final fight.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
Back to the Future Part III / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Marty earns the respect of many 1885 citizens for standing up against Buford during the dance.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_be8cb2da	type	Missing Episode
Back to the Future Part III / int_be8cb2da	comment	Missing Episode: In-Universe, as Marty is doing research on Mad Dog Tannen, he learns that precise records concerning his kills were not kept due to him shooting a reporter who printed an unfavorable story about him in 1884.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
Back to the Future Part III / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: Both Jennifer and Doc, who we see falling into dead faints during Part II, wake up from their faints in Part III. Doc faints from the shock of seeing Marty (whom he had just sent away in the time machine) reappearing behind him at the end of Part II, and wakes up hours later the next morning at the beginning of Part III. Jennifer faints from the shock of encountering her future self in the middle of Part II. Accurate to Doc's predictions in Part II, Jennifer stays unconscious for a very long while due to the severity of the shock she experienced: she is placed on her house's front porch swing early on in the night soon after passing out, and it is already almost noon the next day by the time she finally wakes up from her faint in Part III, meaning that she stays totally out cold for more than half a day. Upon awakening, she assumes the events that caused her to faint to have all been a nightmare, since, from her perspective, coming face-to-face with her future self is the last thing she remembers right before waking up on the porch swing, as though it happened only a second ago.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_bfc73a49	type	Shoot the Rope
Back to the Future Part III / int_bfc73a49	comment	Shoot the Rope: Doc severs the rope with a personally-modified lever-action rifle to save Marty from a hanging.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_c2b9c505	type	Strangled by the Red String
Back to the Future Part III / int_c2b9c505	comment	Strangled by the Red String: In-Universe, the film discusses this in regards to Doc and Clara's relationship. After going back to 1885, Marty shows Doc a picture of his future tombstone, which contains a mention of "his beloved Clara", though Doc doesn't know who she is, even though he's supposed to be killed in three days. After finding out who Clara is and that he's supposed to be meeting her Doc and Marty discuss it. Marty believes it's possible, but Doc, being a man of science, refuses.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Back to the Future Part III / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: In 1985-A, Biff idolizes Clint Eastwood. In 1885, Buford thinks the name is utterly ridiculous and doesn't hesitate to call "Eastwood" a yellow-belly and kill him on sight. When Marty is preparing to go back in time at a movie theater, he is afraid that he'll crash into the painting of a group of Native Americans ("Indians") underneath the screen. Doc reassures him that when he goes back in time, the theater won't have been built yet and they won't be there. As soon as he arrives in 1885 however, he nearly crashes into a group of very real Natives who just happen to be riding through the area at the time. A train helped get the DeLorean back to 1985. Another train destroyed it.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_c3e6e3c4	type	Moonwalk Dance
Back to the Future Part III / int_c3e6e3c4	comment	Moonwalk Dance: Marty is forced to dance while Buford shoots at his feet. He confuses the 19th century cowboy by performing the moonwalk, even singing part of "Billie Jean" under his breath.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Back to the Future Part III / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: The opening cast roll ends with "and Lea Thompson".
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Back to the Future Part III / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Back to the Future Part III / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: Doc decides the consequences caused by the time machine aren't worth keeping it around. That said, he builds a steampunk, flying time traveling train eventually. He tells Marty that he did so because he didn't want him to worry about him, and he had to come back for Einstein. And also, because he had a souvenir for him - a framed copy of their photo from the clocktower ceremony.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_c4454787	type	You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost
Back to the Future Part III / int_c4454787	comment	You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost: Said verbatim by Doc Brown.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_c4784d89	type	Network Sign Off
Back to the Future Part III / int_c4784d89	comment	Network Sign Off: Inverted with Doc waking up when the TV starts broadcasting for the day with Howdy Doody.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_c4b0faae	type	Can't Hold His Liquor
Back to the Future Part III / int_c4b0faae	comment	Can't Hold His Liquor: Doc passes out after a single shot of whiskey; the bartender then quotes the trope name verbatim. And before passing out from drinking said glass of whiskey, he manages to get plastered just by holding it under his nose. Ironically in the script, he actually can hold his liquor, and then passed out as Marty comes to get him.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_c547cd6d	type	Bulletproof Vest
Back to the Future Part III / int_c547cd6d	comment	Bulletproof Vest: Marty hides a stove door under his shirt just in case, and being Genre Savvy, acts out a scene from A Fistful of Dollars with Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
Back to the Future Part III / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: Doc accidentally blurting out to Marty that he'll be in an accident that ruins his life because he was called a "chicken" that was briefly mentioned in Part II.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_c66b3e9c	type	Fashions Never Change
Back to the Future Part III / int_c66b3e9c	comment	Fashions Never Change: Spoofed: 1955!Doc assumes the outfit he got for Marty to wear in 1885 is era-appropriate, only once he is in 1885, he is repeatedly mocked for his attire before he changes it.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Back to the Future Part III / int_c75df49a	comment	Marty's authentic 1885 outfit (the one he wears after the goofy pink one) is a Shout-Out to A Fistful of Dollars (appropriate given Marty's alias), as is the climax with the "bullet-proof" protection—foreshadowed in Part II. He also says "Go ahead, make my day."
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Back to the Future Part III / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
Back to the Future Part III / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: "We may have to blast!" Cut to Doc using dynamite to blast into the Delgado gold mine. This little gem from trying to find where to get the car up to 88 mph.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_c8c6a43c	type	Fly-at-the-Camera Ending
Back to the Future Part III / int_c8c6a43c	comment	Fly-at-the-Camera Ending: The movie ends with Doc's train aiming at the camera after Doc and his family bid Marty and Jennifer farewell. As a Call-Back, the ending shot references the ending of the first movie.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Back to the Future Part III / int_c9868780	comment	Playing Possum: Marty fakes his death when Buford Tannen shoots him, wearing a make-shift bullet-proof vest — foreshadowed in the second movie in the Clint Eastwood scene on the TV in the hot-tub scene.
Back to the Future Part III / int_c9868780	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Back to the Future Part III / int_c9868780
Back to the Future Part III / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
Back to the Future Part III / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: Downplayed Trope as he is not exceptionally able or intelligent by any means, but Stubble for Buford. He corrects Buford's malaproperisms, keeps the gang's agenda, helps Buford count, and guesses that the group should run away when the deputies show up (even if it's way too late).
Back to the Future Part III / int_cdd676a3	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_ce4f133d	type	Gun Twirling
Back to the Future Part III / int_ce4f133d	comment	Gun Twirling: Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen enjoys this little bit of showboating before his climatic Showdown at Eight O'Clock with Clint Eastwood, twirling his revolver forward, then twirling it back to smoothly replace it in its holster.
Back to the Future Part III / int_ce4f133d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Back to the Future Part III / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Unlike Part II, which dealt with a hellscape 1985 being brought about by Marty's recklessness, this is (in spirit) a pure Western. The only dark aspects of the plot center around Mad Dog Tannen, and the destruction of the DeLorean.
Back to the Future Part III / int_ce6555f0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_cf7bd78d	type	Steampunk
Back to the Future Part III / int_cf7bd78d	comment	Steampunk: Doc's custom sniper rifle, the time train from the end, as well as Doc's refrigerator in the blacksmith shop. The sheer size and complexity of the refrigerator, along with the difficulty of getting a conventional steam locomotive up to eighty-eight miles per hour (easily done with an internal combustion engine), illustrate more "realistic" applications of Steampunk tech. The time train at the end throws all realism out the window, but Doc once said, "If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything." As mentioned in Reality Is Unrealistic, there were already ice factories in 1885 that ran on steam power.
Back to the Future Part III / int_cf7bd78d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Back to the Future Part III / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Clara doesn't believe Doc when he tells her the truth about the time machine, taking it for a ridiculous lie intended to mock her before breaking up with her. She only realizes all was true when she overhears two folks at the train talking about how heartbroken Doc was in the bar afterwards, and then when she finds the time machine model in his blacksmith shop. The old bar patrons laugh off Doc's claims of having come from the future and how life is in 1985, taking it for the ramblings of a man gone insane with grief (and they're none too sympathetic).
Back to the Future Part III / int_cf92fea8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
Back to the Future Part III / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: The first we see of Doc in 1885, he is sporting one, while being armed with a modified lever-action rifle in order to save Marty from being lynched.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Back to the Future Part III / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Meta example. In the DVD Featurette, Bob Gale reveals this was the origin of the Doc Brown/Clara romance. He and Zemeckis both felt going into the final film that they had done all they could with Marty and his Family and that they needed to focus more on Doc. Trying to figure out how they could do that was what led the idea of Doc Brown finding love in the Old West. Marty realizes that he doesn't have to care what other people think, he can just be his own man.
Back to the Future Part III / int_d129e13e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_d14ed2c9	type	WTH, Costuming Department?
Back to the Future Part III / int_d14ed2c9	comment	WTH, Costuming Department?: Justified and invoked In-Universe, as Marty's outfit was supplied by Doc Brown based on the crappy westerns of the day and he got his hat from a similarly clueless Seamus.
Back to the Future Part III / int_d14ed2c9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_d1b4f0ef	type	Everybody Lives
Back to the Future Part III / int_d1b4f0ef	comment	Everybody Lives: There was a deleted scene showing Marshall Strickland being murdered by Buford Tannen, though the scene was cut explicitly because of this trope (Buford would have surely been hanged for killing a lawman, but according to the plot he had to live in order to keep the Tannen bloodline going).
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Back to the Future Part III / int_d1da2c36	type	Played for Drama
Back to the Future Part III / int_d1da2c36	comment	Played for Drama: When Marty picks up Copernicus to take him back to 1955 Doc's truck, he merely glances at the "Emmett Brown" tombstone, before practically running back to it.
Back to the Future Part III / int_d1da2c36	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
Back to the Future Part III / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: Again, the new timeline has barely changed toward the end, except that the ravine the train is supposed to cross over is originally called "Shonash Ravine" but was supposedly called "Clayton Ravine" after Clara fell in it (which Marty and Doc stopped from happening). After the train crashes into the ravine and Marty goes home at the end, the DeLorean rolls along the tracks and past a sign that says "Eastwood Ravine." Marty was going by Clint Eastwood in 1885, so "Clint Eastwood" fell into the ravine instead.
Back to the Future Part III / int_d243518d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Back to the Future Part III / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Seamus and Maggie McFly, Marty's ancestors, give Marty one of these when they call him out on taking up Tannen's challenge when he was called "yellow" instead of just walking away and being the better man. They comment "Clint" reminds them of Seamus' brother Martin who also took up a challenge and died for it. Doc also calls Marty out for actually going through with Tannen's challenge, while accidentally blurting out his future accident mentioned in Part II.
Back to the Future Part III / int_d39e327f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Back to the Future Part III / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Mad Dog sneers at Strickland for pointing a gun at a man's back, but that's exactly what he does to Doc a few seconds later.
Back to the Future Part III / int_d52d28b6	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_d5316706	type	Prematurely Marked Grave
Back to the Future Part III / int_d5316706	comment	Prematurely Marked Grave: After Buford's challenge to Marty for a duel, the photograph of Doc's grave changed to that of Clint Eastwood (who Marty named himself while in 1885). Later on, Marty saw a similar (nameless) grave at the undertaker and before the duel with Buford, one of the undertakers prematurely sized him up for a coffin.
Back to the Future Part III / int_d5316706	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_d59d71c1	type	Light Gun Game
Back to the Future Part III / int_d59d71c1	comment	In Pt II, Marty shows off his skills with a Light Gun Game in front of two kids, who call it a "baby's toy". In Pt III, when a gun salesman is pestering Marty to try out his skills with an actual revolver at a shooting gallery, he says "even a baby can handle this weapon."
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Back to the Future Part III / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Back to the Future Part III / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The Indians' reaction to the DeLorean when Marty arrives in 1885. True, they are being chased by the US Cavalry and one of the Indians hits the DeLorean with an arrow, but you would think at least a few of them would stop dead, especially since they just saw the DeLorean appear out of thin air in a flash of light.
Back to the Future Part III / int_d99a228f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Back to the Future Part III / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: This is the reaction the three members of Bufordâ€™s gang have after his duel with Marty and the deputy sheriff showing up to arrest him.
Back to the Future Part III / int_d9cf40fa	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_da317ca7	type	Temporal Duplication
Back to the Future Part III / int_da317ca7	comment	Temporal Duplication: Thanks to this movie there's a brief period in 1955 with four versions of the same DeLorean time machine; the one from the first movie, the one Old Biff stole to give his past self the sports almanac, the one used by Doc and Marty to Set Right What Once Went Wrong, and the one taking The Slow Path in the Delgado Mine for 70 years.note That is, in hindsight. Fans have spent years debating whether the mine DeLorean existed at that point, or if it only showed up after Doc was struck by lightning and the ripple effect kicked in. Throughout the 1885 sequence, there are two DeLoreans present: the one that Doc has stored in the mine, and its 70-years-older counterpart with vacuum tubes that Marty used to time travel from 1955.
Back to the Future Part III / int_da317ca7	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_da4f8f0	type	The Blacksmith
Back to the Future Part III / int_da4f8f0	comment	The Blacksmith: Doc sets himself up as one when trying to repair the DeLorean until giving up and hiding it in the Delgado Mine. By the time Marty comes to 1885 to rescue Doc, he's still operating as a blacksmith.
Back to the Future Part III / int_da4f8f0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_db3b401e	type	Cattle Punk
Back to the Future Part III / int_db3b401e	comment	Cattle Punk: Doc builds a refrigerator, a sniper rifle, and chemicals capable of pushing a steam locomotive over 88 MPH with materials available in 1885 Hill Valley. He can't repair the DeLorean, though he manages to turn another locomotive into a Steampunk time machine years later.
Back to the Future Part III / int_db3b401e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Back to the Future Part III / int_dbb414ed	comment	Hand Wave: Lea Thompson, who plays Marty's mother Lorraine Baines-McFly throughout the trilogy, plays his paternal great-great-grandmother Maggie McFly in Part III. The real explanation was that neither Robert Zemeckis nor Bob Gale could bear making a BTTF movie without her, and the In-Universe explanation is that all McFly men are genetically predisposed to be attracted to women who look like Lea Thompson.
Back to the Future Part III / int_dbb414ed	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_dbb60771	type	Just Keep Driving
Back to the Future Part III / int_dbb60771	comment	Just Keep Driving: At the end the DeLorean is destroyed by an oncoming train on the tracks as it arrives in the present. It doesn't even stop, just keeps going.
Back to the Future Part III / int_dbb60771	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
Back to the Future Part III / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: An odd example, considering you don't actually hear the words to the song, but the first song played at the hoedown is an uptempo version of "Nearer, My God, to Thee" of Titanic infamy. The song is traditionally very somber, so it's odd to hear such a positive version.
Back to the Future Part III / int_dbfd6b8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_dc4a43ea	type	Screw Your Ultimatum!
Back to the Future Part III / int_dc4a43ea	comment	Screw Your Ultimatum!: Marty gets challenged to a duel by Buford Tannen. He accepts, but eventually realizes from the photograph of Doc's tombstone that he will die from the duel. Trapped in the local saloon by Buford and his gang, he gets a count to ten to come outside and duel. The patrons also try to tell Marty to fight, but Marty eventually refuses. Instead he comes out unarmed and asks Buford to "settle this like men". Buford shoots him, and it turns out Marty is wearing an iron stove door under his shirt as makeshift body armor. Cue No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
Back to the Future Part III / int_dc4a43ea	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_ddc6244b	type	Emergency Refuelling
Back to the Future Part III / int_ddc6244b	comment	Emergency Refuelling: Doc and Marty have to figure out an alternate means of propulsion when Marty gets the gas line cut in the DeLorean on arrival to the Old West.
Back to the Future Part III / int_ddc6244b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_e1721fd1	type	Antiquated Linguistics
Back to the Future Part III / int_e1721fd1	comment	Antiquated Linguistics: Characters from 1885 use archaic language, which leads into a Subverted Catchphrase joke about "Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!" becoming "nobody calls me yellow". On the DVD Commentary, screenwriter Robert Gale says he turned to Mark Twain's writings to attempt the American vernacular of the period.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_e4157ffd	type	May It Never Happen Again
Back to the Future Part III / int_e4157ffd	comment	May It Never Happen Again: After Marty had come back to 1985 from the Wild West, the Delorean time machine was hit by a train and broke into a million pieces. Marty couldn't fix it due to the fact that time traveling is dangerous. It also meant that the time machine could never be used again.
Back to the Future Part III / int_e4157ffd	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Back to the Future Part III / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: While the basic time travel visual effect remains unchanged, it has also been tweaked for the final film. The effect now takes longer to build up and is more chaotic. This could be justified in-universe between the more primitive 1955 Time Circuit repairs and the DeLorean now being 70 years older and struggling to keep up.
Back to the Future Part III / int_e43c66bd	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_e45ba18a	type	Settle It Without Weapons
Back to the Future Part III / int_e45ba18a	comment	Settle It Without Weapons: When Marty is duelling Beauford Tannen, he drops his gun and asks if they can settle it like men. Beauford just shoots him, which Marty was counting on - he'd improvised a bulletproof vest out of an oven door.
Back to the Future Part III / int_e45ba18a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_e4616e62	type	Not so Dire
Back to the Future Part III / int_e4616e62	comment	Not so Dire: Deconstructed first: Upon noticing the fuel line on the DeLorean was ripped, Marty is nonplussed at best. It's only after he casually informs Doc of the problem, thinking it's not one, that it's made clear it's the worst thing that could've happened; as with the plutonium (or lack of it) issue in 1955, gasoline was a very rare commodity in 1885, and once again Doc and Marty have to scramble for an alternative solution to get the DeLorean in time-traveling order. Played straight a few scenes later when the optimal route to get the DeLorean to speed leads to the ravine and its unfinished bridge; Marty thinks that's a problem, but Doc reminds him to think "4th-dimensionally" and that as long as they can get the car to 88 before reaching the end, Marty will arrive on the finished bridge in 1985.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_e4d079c1	type	Greek Chorus
Back to the Future Part III / int_e4d079c1	comment	Greek Chorus: invokedWord of God describes the three old-timers, played by western veterans Dub Taylor, Harry Carey Jr., and Pat Buttram, who hang out at the 1885 saloon as this. They comment on how Marty and his actions are being perceived by the average townsman (although unlike many examples, they let Marty hear them).
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Back to the Future Part III / int_e5a6888c	type	Quick Draw
Back to the Future Part III / int_e5a6888c	comment	Quick Draw: Marty is challenged to a 19th Century shooting range and manages to shoot every single target — before this point, he'd probably never used a real gun in his life. His first shot goes completely wild because he wasn't prepared for the kick and he was being made to use his left hand, but he does absolutely perfect on his second attempt after switching.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_e699f77e	type	Borrowed Without Permission
Back to the Future Part III / int_e699f77e	comment	Borrowed Without Permission: When Doc explains to Marty his plan to use a train to push the Delorean to the speed necessary for time travel, he puts it like this: "We're going to hijack... borrow... the locomotive.."
Back to the Future Part III / int_e699f77e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
Back to the Future Part III / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: The Browns were originally known as the Von Brauns until the First World War, when Doc's father changed the family name to Brown.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_e9e2c54d	type	You Already Changed the Past
Back to the Future Part III / int_e9e2c54d	comment	You Already Changed the Past: The 1955 Doc averts this. He specifically sends Marty back to a point in 1885 after 1985 Doc has left the letter with Western Union. As seen in the movie, they didn't do anything about it, which allowed for normal 70+ year delivery: "and the Western Union guy lost the bet!"
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Back to the Future Part III / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Back to the Future Part III / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Doc's tombstone in 1955 stated he died on Monday September 7th, 1885. As Doc learned at the ceremony for the clocktower on Saturday September 5th, that didn't mean he was shot the same day:
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Back to the Future Part III / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Back to the Future Part III / int_ea85d6ea	comment	Jennifer faints from the shock of encountering her future self in the middle of Part II. Accurate to Doc's predictions in Part II, Jennifer stays unconscious for a very long while due to the severity of the shock she experienced: she is placed on her house's front porch swing early on in the night soon after passing out, and it is already almost noon the next day by the time she finally wakes up from her faint in Part III, meaning that she stays totally out cold for more than half a day. Upon awakening, she assumes the events that caused her to faint to have all been a nightmare, since, from her perspective, coming face-to-face with her future self is the last thing she remembers right before waking up on the porch swing, as though it happened only a second ago.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_ea9b44a4	type	Klatchian Coffee
Back to the Future Part III / int_ea9b44a4	comment	Klatchian Coffee: After Doc passes out (from a single shot of whiskey), Marty struggles to wake him up with coffee. The bartender says they'll need something stronger than that. The mix is so strong that Doc runs out of the bar to get water out of the horse through while still unconscious.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Back to the Future Part III / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Marty defeats Buford Just in Time to stop him executing Doc; meanwhile, Doc swoops in Just in Time to save Marty from getting hanged AND Clara from falling. Lampshaded by Marty: "Why do we have to cut these things so damn close?"
Back to the Future Part III / int_eb81c601	featureApplicability	1.0
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Back to the Future Part III / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Back to the Future Part III / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: In a variant, Marty accelerates up to 90 mph in a drive-in movie theater. He speeds towards a mural depicting the background landscape with an Indian raid. He hits 88 mph, and from the perspective of the viewers, jumping back to 1885, the car is suddenly now racing towards a landscape of actual Indians being chased on horseback by a cavalry charge.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_eeb86ce6	type	Good Samaritan
Back to the Future Part III / int_eeb86ce6	comment	Good Samaritan: Seamus McFly extends a lot of generosity to Marty, even going so far as to give him a hat.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_efa2d938	type	Homage Shot
Back to the Future Part III / int_efa2d938	comment	Homage Shot: Doc's idiosyncratic way of dancing in 1885 is stated in the commentary to be an homage to My Darling Clementine. There is also a careful reproduction of another shot from that film: a gun being slid down a bar toward the camera, in deep focus.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_efe04722	type	Dances and Balls
Back to the Future Part III / int_efe04722	comment	Dances and Balls: The dance at the party to celebrate the building of the Clock Tower, where Marty discovers that Doc can dance.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Back to the Future Part III / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Marty uses the hoverboard as a footrest when he falls asleep in Doc's armchair.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Back to the Future Part III / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Clara can be seen in the background when Doc and Marty are discussing their plan to use a train to push the DeLorean up to 88 miles per hour.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
Back to the Future Part III / int_f06b07ff	comment	Similarly in-universe: Doc isn't too happy that Marty decided to get into the duel with Mad Dog, since Marty let namecalling get the better of him... leading to Marty inadvertently learning what Jennifer learned last film:
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Back to the Future Part III / int_f07ec9fd	type	Sequel Snark
Back to the Future Part III / int_f07ec9fd	comment	Sequel Snark: The movie marquee in the background also lists three sequels, as a Take That! from the writers against the complaint that Hollywood was making too many sequels at the time, visually showing this was always the case in the industry.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_f08e7a13	type	Clothespin Nose Plug
Back to the Future Part III / int_f08e7a13	comment	Clothespin Nose Plug: After Doc passes out from a single shot of whiskey, the bartender whips up his wake-up juice, which contains several spicy ingredients, including Tabasco sauce and cayenne pepper, so he has Marty stick a clothespin on Doc's nose before pouring the wake-up juice into his mouth. It doesn't help dull the taste, as it immediately causes Doc to run, screaming, to the horse trough and dunk his entire head in. And this is just the reflex action caused by the smell and taste, after which he passes out again. The bartender says it takes about 10 minutes to really start working.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_f0fe7e80	type	But Now I Must Go
Back to the Future Part III / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: Doc Brown tells to Clara that he has to leave her and the town. He explains the reason to her, but she doesn't believe him (and thinks he got too obsessed with science fiction). This breaks his heart, but things get better for both of them since the parting doesn't stick. Marty finally returns to the year 1985, but without Doc, who remained back in the year 1885 to save Clara Clayton. Before he can dwell on it, Doc appears in his newly created steam locomotive time machine, to let Marty and Jennifer know he was alright... and introduce them to his new family: his wife Clara, and their two sons, Jules and Verne. Doc also leaves Marty with a copy of the photo they took together, back in 1885, as a parting gift. Then bids him and his girlfriend farewell.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
Back to the Future Part III / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: The DeLorean is sadly a shadow of its former self in this film. The lightning that struck it in Part II destroyed its flying capabilities, it's become worn down from sitting in a cave for 70 years, which causes the fuel line to tear up after one use and empties the gas tank, and the fuel injector gets blown off when Doc and Marty try to use alcohol as a substitute for gasoline. In the end, it has to be pushed by a train to reach the velocity needed to travel through time and it's completely totaled by another train within minutes of landing in 1985.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_f355be61	type	Get Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part III / int_f355be61	comment	Get Back to the Future: A variation. The actual time machine part isn't broken — no need to harness lightning — but the car is broken in a way that can't be fixed in the time they are in, and since the time travel requires reaching a specific high speed...
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Back to the Future Part III / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Back to the Future Part III / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: 1955 Doc makes it clear that he doesn't hold Marty at fault for (eventually) winding up in 1885. 1885 Doc's initially not happy that Marty disregarded his explicit orders to return to 1985 instead of coming back to get him. But he's so delighted to be reunited with this Partner in Time that he can't stay mad at Marty for too long. And of course, once Doc learns what Marty and his 1955 counterpart discovered about his impending death, he's glad Marty disobeyed orders.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_f604f64b	type	Dude, She's Like in a Coma
Back to the Future Part III / int_f604f64b	comment	Dude, She's Like in a Coma: A sweet rather than creepy instance. When Marty gets back to 1985, he sets out to Jennifer's house to check if she's all right after what she experienced in Part II, and finds her still lying limp on her porch swing, right where he and Doc last left her. His attempts to wake her up fail, indicating that she's not sleeping, but is instead still deeply passed out in the same faint that she fell into in 2015 in Part II. He kisses her on the lips, and she happens to wake up from her faint in that moment, and begins to instinctively kiss him back. This could also count as a Reunion Kiss.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_f6b1ac42	type	Tim Taylor Technology
Back to the Future Part III / int_f6b1ac42	comment	Tim Taylor Technology: Doc's solution to getting a steam locomotive to reach 88 mph is some pyrotechnically-treated wood that brutally overclocks the boiler. You can guess how it ends. Since he deliberately ran the engine off an unfinished bridge, he knew the overclocking wasn't going to be the worst problem.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_f8a82c75	type	I Always Wanted to Say That
Back to the Future Part III / int_f8a82c75	comment	I Always Wanted to Say That: After hijacking a steam locomotive, Doc Brown blows the engine's whistle, saying, "I've wanted to do that all my life!" There's a Shout-Out to this in Robert Zemeckis' The Polar Express where the boy protagonist does the same thing and says the same line. Earlier in the movie, Doc and Marty are discussing how to catch up to that train on a short timeframe. Doc is more familiar with the local area than Marty (or at least, more familiar with traveling around it with 19th-century technology), so he points out that they will have to "cut 'em off at Coyote Pass!" This does not receive an explicit remark, but considering that Doc is explicitly stated to be a fan of the Old West several times in the series, maybe Zemeckis just figured it wasn't needed.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_f8b8f119	type	We Don't Need Roads
Back to the Future Part III / int_f8b8f119	comment	We Don't Need Roads: Or "We Don't Need Railroads" in this case. The time train Doc and his family travel in can fly like the DeLorean before it, albeit with some wings and a tail. Even its wheels fold downwards!
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Back to the Future Part III / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Back to the Future Part III / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When Tannen counts to ten while calling out Marty...er Clint, when he reaches ten, he visibly flinches. He was expecting Eastwood would ambush him from inside the saloon, because that's what he would have done.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Back to the Future Part III / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Marty, suspecting Tannen would shoot him regardless, puts on an improvised bulletproof vest, lets Tannen take a shot at him, and plays possum for long enough for the outlaw to get close. Once the gun battle turns into a fistfight, the two are much more evenly matched.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Back to the Future Part III / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: The three fireplace-sized logs that Doc gives to Marty would not be sufficient to run a steam locomotive for a mile or more. This example overlaps with Just Train Wrong, because the idea behind a steam locomotive is to produce a steady, even source of heat and raise the water/steam temperature incrementally. Since there's such a large volume of fluid a significant, but short burst of heat probably wouldn't be sufficient to raise the pressure in any significant way. Not only that, but such a dramatic means of powering the train wasn't even necessary. Some trains of the late-19th century were more than capable of achieving the speeds required by the DeLorean under the normal capabilities of their boilers, and on properly built and maintained track. However, whether the class of locomotive shown or the underlying track would have supported / survived this effort tends to bring us back to this trope.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_fc299bf1	type	Hideous Hangover Cure
Back to the Future Part III / int_fc299bf1	comment	Hideous Hangover Cure: The "Wake-Up Juice" is an actual legit drink, the Bull Shot, a variant on the well-known Bloody Mary. The drink used in the film is actually a combination of two Bull Shot variations (Bull Shot, Bull Shot #4). It consists of one ounce of club soda, two ounces of beef broth, one ounce of tomato juice, one teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce, quarter of a teaspoon of lemon juice, three dashes of Tabasco-Habanero sauce, and some dried garlic. It immediately causes the Doc to holler and rush to the nearby water trough without waking up. Explanation? "That's just a reflex reaction. He won't be awake for another 10 minutes." Doc does wake up a few minutes later, with a headache.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Back to the Future Part III / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Doc Brown is an intelligent, altruistic scientist who spends the entire series trying to do what's right, help his friends better their lives, and who wouldn't hurt a fly. However, the moment he sees Mad Dog and his friends trying to lynch Marty, he promptly shoots the rope and then takes aim right at Tannen's head. He's fully prepared to drop the hammer on him if that's what it takes to save Marty, and Tannen doesn't try to push it. Also a definite case of Let's Get Dangerous!.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_fdad3753	type	When Things Spin, Science Happens
Back to the Future Part III / int_fdad3753	comment	When Things Spin, Science Happens: The Doc's train at the end has a bunch of spinny things on it.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Back to the Future Part III / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: As Marty first enters the saloon, the bartender asks him what he wants to drink. When he says "ice water", the bartender laughs him off, adding "Water? You want water, you better dunk your head in the horse trough out back.". Afterwards, when Doc takes Marty to his 1885 home, there's a massive machine that takes the two of them to operate, which produces a single cube of ice, which makes Marty realize it's a refrigerator. And much later, after being fed the "wake-up juice", Doc hurries to the horse trough, dunking his head into it.
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Back to the Future Part III / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Back to the Future Part III / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Based on the existence of Jules and Verne, it obviously took the Doc several years to build the Time Train and return to 1985. This is reflected in Clara's costuming. While she spends the rest of the film wearing 1880s fashions, the scene at the end has her wearing an 1890s-styled dress. Compare the sleeves to the sleeves of every dress she appeared in previously.
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Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Nitro Boost / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Nostalgia Filter / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Nothing but Hits / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Oireland / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Ominous Pipe Organ / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Once per Episode / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	1-Dimensional Thinking / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Orphaned Reference / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Other Common Music Video Concepts / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Our Time Machine Is Different / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Outdated Outfit / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Overly Stereotypical Disguise / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Peggy Sue / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Place of Power / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Playing Possum / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Please Select New City Name / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Point of No Return / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Poison Is Corrosive / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Prematurely Marked Grave / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Prochronic Product / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Prophecy Twist / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Punch Spin Gape / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Put on a Prison Bus / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Race Against the Clock / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Race for Your Love / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Railroad Tracks of Doom / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Rescue Romance / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Revolver Cylinder Spin / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Revolvers Are Just Better / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Road Apples / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Role Swap Plot / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Rube Goldberg Device / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Runaway Train / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Scale Model Destruction / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Schoolmarm / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Science Cocktail / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Screw Your Ultimatum! / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Sequel Snark / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Set Right What Once Went Wrong / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Settle It Without Weapons / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Shaped Like Itself / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Shoot the Rope / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Shout-Out Theme Naming / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Showdown at High Noon / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Shrug of God / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Slipping into Stink / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Spared by the Cut / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Sting / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Strong Family Resemblance / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Sudden Soundtrack Stop / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Surprisingly Happy Ending / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Tear Dryer / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Temporal Duplication / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	That Was Not a Dream / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	The Alleged Car / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	The Blacksmith / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	The Cavalry Arrives Late / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	The Constant / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	The End / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	The Great Repair / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	The Gunfighter Wannabe / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	The Man They Couldn't Hang / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	The Name Is Bond, James Bond / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	The Seven Western Plots / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	The Von Trope Family / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	The Wild West / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Tim Taylor Technology / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Time-Travel Romance / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Time Travel Tales / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Time-Traveler's Baby / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Tinkle in the Eye / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Track Trouble / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Tragic Time Traveler / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Train Job / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Trapped in the Past / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Tricked Out Time / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	U.S. Marshal / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Undertaker / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Urine Trouble / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Voiceover Letter / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Waking Up Elsewhere / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	What a Drag / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Which Me? / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"? / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	You Already Changed the Past / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	You Remind Me of X / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	You Talkin' to Me? / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Young Gun / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Your Universe or Mine? / int_9799ebfe
backtothefuturepartiii	sameAs	Back to the Future Part III
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Scarpia Ultimatum / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Second-Act Breakup / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	Time Travel Escape / int_9799ebfe
Back to the Future Part III	hasFeature	With a Foot on the Bus / int_9799ebfe

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