So what action triggered the ending?
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So at the end of the game, Marty vanishes. Which of the events that took place in the first episode would have led to that?
My theory: When Marty served the subpoena to his grandfather, it led to him testifying against Kid Tannen, which probably led to him getting gunned down by the mob.
Any other theories?
So at the end of the game, Marty vanishes. Which of the events that took place in the first episode would have led to that?
My theory: When Marty served the subpoena to his grandfather, it led to him testifying against Kid Tannen, which probably led to him getting gunned down by the mob.
Any other theories?
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Perhaps Artie goes into witness protection and never meets his future wife. Or, if he's already married, George McFly grows up somewhere other than Hill Valley and never meets Lorraine Baines.
Maybe Artie testifies against Kid Tannen and sends him to the slammer, and gains the same confidence that George McFly gained when he knocked out Biff in 1955. Because of this, George McFly is raised with confidence. Lorraine only seems to fall for guys who are thrust into her life by accident or fate, so Lorraine would never have any interest in this George McFly, and Marty would never be born.
Maybe Artie is intimidated by Kid Tannen and ends up lying under oath, and Kid Tannen walks, but Artie is later tried for perjury and sent to prison himself. No time for making babies when you're kept under lock and key.
Maybe Artie testifies against Kid Tannen and sends him to the slammer, and because he's the only guy in the operation with any brains, assumes control of Kid's criminal empire, and George is raised as an apprentice thug to someday take over the family business, but is killed on a street corner in his youth during a drug deal gone wrong.
But my money is on the subpoena
Well Marty was the one who figured out how to give Artie the subpoena, and it used a tape recorder which emmet shouldnt have.
OR, perhaps the chase that Marty so rudely interrupted would have resulted in one or more of Kid's gang being brought into custody which would have been the key to bringing Kid down, not Artie being the key.
But that wasn't supposed to happen, was it? Wasn't history somehow changed, resulting in the final chase scene?
EDIT: Sorry, I thought you were talking about the end when Marty was chasing. That's true, the subpoena wouldn't need to be served if Tannen had been caught.
Fact.
No, in the movies vanishing was not. The picture of marty's family slowly vanished over time. His brother was the first to go...etc. The only thing instantaneous was when the problem was fixed.
It would have made more sense for things to have been instantaneous, but then the movies could not have worked.
I think this is why Marty didn't disappear instantly in the first film, whilst he was in 1955, the time wave was travelling along the time line at quite a slow speed, due to Marty and his siblings birth looking likely. It reached the year Dave was born first, as it is an older point in time than Marty's birth.
In this case, it may have been anything from the time Marty arrived in 1931, with the changes being wrought still being avoidable up to a unknown point, therefore the timewave was moving pretty slowly away from 1931, you can still look at the picture of George Mcfly after the newspaper has changed, and Marty comments that nothing has changed, at that point, the wave hasn't reached George's birth, it's only at the end, that the wave has probably rewrote the circumstances of George's birth.
Bare in mind, this is all mostly speculation on my point.
Nice futurama reference.
No. I'm talking about the character in their own specific time period that they happen to be in. Remember in BTTF he started vanishing at the dance when some random guy cut in to dance with his mom, which in some way threw his existence into jeopardy. Also note that the picture of Marty's dad does not fade or vanish as far as we know.
Yeah, but he didn't start vanishing immediately when he originally ruined their first meeting.
Edit: That just continued the time degeneration.
I think that's the plot for episode 4 but i could be wrong, the description was vauge.