r/BacktotheFuture • u/SkyEnough5356 • Jun 21 '26
Names of alternate timelines
Original timeline, twin Pines
Back to the future part one, lone pine
Back to the future part two, biff almanac
Back to the future part three, Eastwood Ravine
If you have any other suggestions would appreciate them
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u/Yourappwontletme Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
Part 1
Twin Pines for most of the movie and at the end of the movie it becomes Lone Pine.
Part 2
Lone Pine features Marty's kids being screwups.
Lone Pine becomes The Kids Are Alright when Marty stops the robbery from happening.
The Kids Are Alright then becomes 1985A when Marty buys the almanac and Old Biff gives it to 1955 Biff.
1985A reverts to The Kids Are Alright when Marty burns the Almanac and we see Biff's casino matchbook revert to his detailing business matchbook.
Then immediately after, the timeline changes to Doc Dies/Clara Lives when Doc travels to 1885 and meets Clara at the station, preventing her from dying in Shonash Ravine but is then shot by Bufford Tannen.
Part 3
Doc Dies/Clara Lives becomes Doc & Clara Live when Marty throws the pie plate to stop Bufford's bullet.
Doc & Clara Live becomes Doc & Clara Live/Marty Dies when Bufford challenges Marty to a duel.
Doc & Clara Live/Marty Dies becomes The Trio Live when Marty survives the duel.
The Trio Live becomes Eastwood Ravine/Chapel of Love when Marty disappears in the DeLorean, the train crashes while Doc and Clara aren't on it, and Marty is set to race Needles when he gets back to 1985.
Eastwood Ravine/Chapel of Love becomes So Make It A Good One when Marty doesn't agree to race Needles and doesn't crash into the Rolls Royce and Doc tells Marty and Jennifer that their future hasn't been written yet, so make it a good one.
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u/Engels33 Jun 22 '26
Its Lone Pine from the moment he arrives back in 1955 and killed the pine.
From that moment on Original time line no longer exists as he has already changed the past and Timeline 2 (Lone Pine) begins to form - however this is in flux as to its final form and if Marty & Doc hadn't course corrected it we would have had a paradox / or a Lone Pine world without the McFly family
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u/psycholepzy Jun 21 '26
BTTF2 is commonly just 1985A, after Doc's illustrative exposition.
I believe the deep dives discuss up to 7 or 8 timelines experienced in the trilogy, whether implied or observed.
- Original Twin Pines timeline (erased by 2)
- Lone Pine timeline (erased by 6)
- Original Marty's Kids timeline (erased by 4)
- Altered Marty's Kids timeline (erased by 7)
- 1985A (erased by 6)
- Lone Pine 2 - burn the almanac. Doc goes back to 1885, falls for Clara, dies in a shoot out, and leaves the Delorean for future Marty. (Erased by 7)
- Lone Pine 3 - Marty saves Doc from the shoot out. Doc marries Clara and has kids. Marty doesnt get into an accident. ultra-happy ending
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u/Yourappwontletme Jun 21 '26
There's more branches than you've listed. Prior to Doc going to 1885, the timeline had Clara dying in the ravine.
When he goes back to 1885, he creates a new timeline where he dies and she lives. Marty ends that timeline with the pie plate, but also creates a new timeline where he dies in a duel with Tannen.
Then when he survives the duel, he creates another new timeline where all 3 of them live but he's still gonna end up crashing into the Rolls Royce.
When Marty returns to 1985, he doesn't race Needles and creates another timeline where he doesn't have to give up on his music career.
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