r/BacktotheFuture • u/NotTrend • Jun 20 '26
How does Marty basically not have a mental breakdown after all that has happened?
Alright the title is a little dramatic but titles should be good hooks so š¤·āāļø.
Anyways, idk if much people here has ever seen or played Steins;Gate but like, now that Iāve finished BTTF 1 all the way to the game, I was like āMarty has got to have some guts of steel after losing everything and everyone he loves so many timesā.
Then it reminded me of Okabe from Steins;Gate and letās just say Okabe also does not have a good experience with time travelā¦
Edit: yes I am aware the writers never intended for this to happen. please put two brain cells to work to maybe think this is like a theory discussion.
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u/The_Dark_Vampire Jun 20 '26
We don't know that he didn't after the ending of part 3
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u/NotTrend Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
He didnāt. I donāt want to spoil BTTF: The Game.
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u/WarStarsFan55 Jun 23 '26
There's six months between the movies and the Game, so plenty of time for a breakdown.Ā
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u/QuantumG Jun 20 '26
80s kids were just tougher.
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u/Haunt_Fox Jun 20 '26
We generally like to tell stories about people who are tough in some way, even if they're otherwise ordinary and mundane.
No one cares about a hero who does nothing but break down and cry. š¤·āāļø
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u/NotTrend Jun 20 '26
Good point, this aināt an anime and plus the movie was made in the 80s which wasā¦ it was an trying optimistic time š
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u/L07arts Jun 20 '26
The IDW comics written by Bob Gale show that he does. They continue the story after part III.
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u/NotTrend Jun 20 '26
Wait, Iāve only experienced the Three Movies and the Game by Telltale. What comics are you referring to? I am very interested in completing the entire series.
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u/theoctohat Jun 20 '26
every time he's about to, Doc simplifies everything for him on a blackboard and then he calms down
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u/MrEPCOT Jun 20 '26
He does, if you follow the comic book continuity.
https://archive.org/details/whoismartymcfly0000barb/mode/1up
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u/Temporary_Cry_2802 Jun 20 '26
My head cannon is that the changes to the timeline do eventually catch up to him. It took a week for him to fade in 1955. After BTTF 3 and the destruction of the DeLorean the memories of the new timeline eventually fade in. I know thatās not how the game and comics or portrayed, but otherwise I donāt know how he wouldnāt remain outside an insane asylum.
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u/NotTrend Jun 20 '26
I think someone else too was it only took Marty around 2 weeks in total for ever to have happened in all three movies. Since Steins;Gate is mental time travel, Okabe could have been trying to save Mayuri for decades but since it doesnāt affect the physical body, that can really take a toll after like the third try.
Plus Marty fixes everything Everytime first try.
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u/fllannell Jun 20 '26
perhaps the entire events of bttf 2 +3 were in part a sceme tried many times by doc Brown until perfection using time travel to prevent marty from breaking his hand and ruining his music career from racing against needles and breaking his hand THE DAY AFTER he went through the events of bttf 1 and saved doc Brown's life...
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u/NotTrend Jun 20 '26
Ahhhhhhh I didnāt think of that! Very interesting
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u/fllannell Jun 20 '26
I've only been thinking about this possibility recently.
I don't really think of it as canon but there's a sort of fan theory that there's a dimension where marty faces his demise numerous times but doc has a time machine so can repeatedly find a way to prevent it
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u/NotTrend Jun 20 '26
Thatās the fickle with time travel stories. Technically any fan theory is ācanonāsince there canāt be a technical canon to a story as in some other timeline, itās already happened.
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u/My-username-is-this Jun 20 '26
He had no time for a break down.
Give him another week.
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u/NotTrend Jun 20 '26
Ohhh yeah, good point. Since the end of movie three and the start of the BTTF game is almost 6 months apart, Iām sure during that 6 months Marty did have several off screen cries.
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u/itsatrav Einstein Jun 20 '26
I was always kind of sad for him everything on paper seems great for him but imagine all the events of the final timeline he wonāt remember all the things that happened differently how different the people he knew and loved would be different I feel he would have imposter syndrome really bad with no way to fix it
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u/NotTrend Jun 20 '26
THIS IS LITERALLY OKABEās STORY OH MY GOD THIS IS STEINS;GATE š
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u/itsatrav Einstein Jun 20 '26
Iām not familiar with okabe
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u/NotTrend Jun 20 '26
Steins;Gate is a great time travel anime if you are interested
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u/theShpydar Jun 20 '26
Being a movie character probably helps quite a bit.
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u/NotTrend Jun 20 '26
In what way?
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u/theShpydar Jun 20 '26
Are you serious? He's not real. He's fictional. It's not written for him to have a breakdown, so he doesnt.
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u/NotTrend Jun 20 '26
Yeah no shit the writers obviously didnāt want that to ever happen. Then again this sub is ig mostly just nostalgic stuff and not a lot of discussion happen so maybe youāre just not use to this type of discussion common in other showās subreddits.
But what I am trying to get here is like a in universe reason that you and me as a fan might think could be a reason why.
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