Was the Marty from the future the last person from the future to disappear before Old Biff?
Even though the Marty we see in 2015 doesn't appear to have traveled to the future, he *did* travel back to 1955; in other words, he is a week older than he would be had he never time-traveled. Does this mean the changes Old Biff made in 1955 would take longer to catch up with the 2015 Marty? Could this have caused him to "see" his family in the future vanish before he himself was erased from existence? Would he have been able to "feel" his existence slipping away, just like Old Biff in that deleted scene?
u/Which_Phase_8031 — 2 months ago
What if Reagan had died of a heart attack the day after the first presidential debate in 1980?
I mean, he was a 69-year-old man in 1980, and possibly developed dementia years before the official diagnosis in 1994, so I don't think it's unreasonable to imagine that something like this could happen to him right after a presidential debate. However, if this had actually happened, who would have been elected president of the United States? How would this have affected the world from the end of the Cold War until now?
u/Which_Phase_8031 — 3 months ago
What if Marty telling Goldie Wilson that he was going to be mayor had triggered a chain reaction that led him to become President of the United States before or after 1985?
It's not exactly unreasonable to imagine Goldie Wilson's political career being largely advanced thanks to Marty's suggestion, but what if that had triggered a chain reaction that led to Goldie Wilson becoming President of the United States before or after 1985?
u/Which_Phase_8031 — 3 months ago
▲ 295 r/AlternateHistoryHub
What if the Prussian Army had prevented Frederick Trump from immigrating to the United States in 1885?
If the Prussian army had discovered and prevented Frederick Trump's escape to the United States and forced him to complete his mandatory military service, how would that have affected the world to this day?
u/Which_Phase_8031 — 3 months ago
▲ 34 r/BacktotheFuture
Have you ever noticed that the 1955 Doc might have ended up with the wheels of the DeLorean that could fly?
The 1955 Doc had to replace the wheels on the DeLorean that had been sitting in the Delgado Mine for 70 years. But that DeLorean, even though it had been struck by lightning and aged in a cave, still had technology from the future, including a flight system that seemed to be powered by those wheels the 1955 Doc had to replace. Even though that technology couldn't be fixed until long after 1955 (possibly even in the 21st century of the Back to the Future universe), it's still a technology the 1955 Doc wouldn't want lying around in 1955 or later. Therefore, I believe he must have left those hovercraft-system wheels in his lab. If he studies those wheels long enough, could he possibly figure out the flight system before traveling to the future?
u/Which_Phase_8031 — 3 months ago
What if Franz Joseph had died in 1853?
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In 1853, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria survived an assassination attempt by the Hungarian nationalist János Libényi. Had Franz Joseph died in this incident, his younger brother Ferdinand Maximilian would have become the new Emperor of Austria in his place, preventing him from becoming Emperor of the Second Mexican Empire in 1864 and extending his life beyond 1867, the year he was executed by firing squad by the forces of the Restored Mexican Republic. Maximilian was a liberal, while his older brother was a reactionary. Furthermore, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand would not have occurred, as he only became heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire after the suicide of Prince Rudolf in 1889, who was born long after 1853. In other words, World War I would have started for something else entirely. How would Europe and the world have developed in this scenario?
u/Which_Phase_8031 — 3 months ago
What if Venezuela, Brazil, and Bolivia had access to the Pacific Ocean?
The Andes Mountains exist in this scenario, stretching along the Pacific coast of Chile, Bolivia, and the Brazilian state of Acre.
u/Which_Phase_8031 — 3 months ago
A common idea people have is that Marty will eventually receive his memories from the new timeline, but how do you think that process would work? Would it be similar to the phenomenon of false memories? Or would it be like déjà vu? Another question to consider is this: Considering how time travel in Back to the Future works, it will probably take some time for Marty to "receive" these memories, but based on everything we've seen in the films, can we estimate how long it would take for that to happen? We have to remember that Marty, in theory, would have 17 years of new memories to receive, and that's without considering the possibility of him retaining the memories from the original timeline, or the possibility of them being replaced by the new memories.
u/Which_Phase_8031 — 4 months ago