1. Marty McFly is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Back to the Future franchise.
51 Facts About Marty McFly
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Marty McFly is a high school student living in the fictional town of Hill Valley, California, who accidentally becomes a time traveler and alters history after his scientist friend Emmett Brown invents a DeLorean time machine.
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Marty McFly was created by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale.
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Marty McFly was named one of the greatest movie characters of all time by Empire.
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Gale stated that Marty McFly was named after a production assistant on Used Cars because it seemed like a "good, all-American name".
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Marty McFly was characterized as a "streetwise video pirate", but Zemeckis said that Universal Pictures refused to make a film with a video pirate as the protagonist.
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Eric Stoltz was eventually cast as Marty McFly and used method acting, insisting that the film crew call him "Marty McFly" outside of filming.
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Marty McFly's presence changed the atmosphere on set and he had a good rapport with Lloyd.
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That served the film because Marty McFly's supposed to be disoriented.
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Marty McFly wanted to incorporate all of the mannerisms of his favorite guitarists, including "a Pete Townshend windmill, and Jimi Hendrix behind the back, and a Chuck Berry duck walk".
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Marty McFly is the Back to the Future protagonist, who is raised in Hill Valley, California, a fictional town set in 1985.
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Marty McFly is a confident teenager who attends high school and dreams of becoming a rock star.
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Marty McFly is the youngest of three children of George McFly and Lorraine Baines-McFly.
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Marty McFly has a brother, Dave McFly, and a sister, Linda McFly.
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Marty McFly's girlfriend is Jennifer Parker and his best friend is Emmett Brown, a scientist Marty McFly and Jennifer call "Doc".
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Marty McFly was curious, so he snuck into Doc's lab and was fascinated by his inventions.
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In Back to the Future, Marty McFly is shown to be disappointed by his family, particularly his wimpish father and alcoholic mother.
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Marty McFly enjoys playing electric guitar with his group The Pinheads and plays "The Power of Love" at a Battle of the Bands audition as his favorite band is Huey Lewis and the News.
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Marty McFly is a talented skateboarder, often clinging onto the back of vehicles to gain extra speed when he is late for school.
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Marty McFly proves to be an excellent pistol shot, a skill he has honed by playing shooting games such as Wild Gunman.
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Marty McFly eventually learns a valuable lesson about choosing to walk away from a fight and refuses a driving race challenge that could have caused his death.
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Marty McFly frequently uses pop culture references, particularly when adopting aliases throughout the Back to the Future series.
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Marty McFly uses the alias "Darth Vader, an extraterrestrial from the Planet Vulcan", thereby confusing Star Wars with Star Trek, while wearing a radiation suit to attempt to coerce George into asking Lorraine out to the dance.
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In Back to the Future, Marty McFly's clothing reflects the fashion of 1985.
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Marty McFly wears a pair of Levi's jeans, paired with a buttoned shirt, a denim jacket with a puffer jacket on top and a pair of Nike Bruin shoes.
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Marty McFly's updated look features wearable technology, including a self-drying bomber jacket combined with jeans that have pockets worn on the outside and sneakers with automatic self-lacing technology.
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In 1985, eccentric scientist Emmett "Doc" Brown invites Marty McFly to join him at the Twin Pines Mall, where he shows him a time machine that he has invented out of a DeLorean.
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Marty McFly concocts a plan with George in which he will rescue Lorraine from Marty McFly's advances while they are parked in a car during the night of the dance in order to win her affections.
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At the dance, Marty McFly joins the band on stage and plays guitar, which results in George and Lorraine making their first kiss.
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Marty McFly arrives at the Hill Valley clocktower in time to complete Doc Brown's plan to send him back to the future by using a lightning strike as a power source for the DeLorean.
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Marty McFly discovers that Doc Brown is still alive having worn a bulletproof vest after Marty warned him about his fate in 1955.
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Marty McFly refuses Griff's offer and gets into a hoverboard dash, resulting in Griff and his crew getting arrested instead of Marty McFly Jr.
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When Marty McFly returns to 1985, he discovers that Hill Valley is a dystopia, with Biff becoming extraordinarily rich and corrupt.
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Marty McFly had forcefully married Marty's mother, Lorraine, and secretly murdered Marty's father.
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Marty McFly legalized gambling in the process, becoming known as the "Luckiest Man on Earth".
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Marty McFly immediately receives a letter from Doc Brown, written on September 1,1885, which informs him that he has traveled back in time.
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Marty McFly then seeks the help of the 1955 version of Doc Brown.
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Marty McFly finds the 1955 version of Doc Brown and informs him of the previous events.
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Marty McFly decides to travel back to 1885 in the DeLorean in an effort to save Doc Brown.
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Marty McFly discovers that Doc Brown has made a new life as a blacksmith.
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Marty McFly is rescued by Doc Brown while being hung from a noose by Tannen.
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Marty McFly appears alongside Doc Brown in the video game, Funko Fusion.
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Marty McFly subsequently filed a patent in 2008 for a working prototype of the film prop designed by Tiffany Beers.
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Marty McFly was listed as one of the ten greatest sci-fi movie characters of all time by Olly Dyche of MovieWeb, who described him as "an incredibly cool character" with "enough charm to make anyone swoon".
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Club said that it was difficult to imagine anyone as perfect as Fox in the role of Marty McFly and described him as "small and squinty and breezily charismatic".
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Critics have paid tribute to a sequence in Back to the Future in which Marty takes to the stage at the high school dance, grabs a red Gibson ES-345 and leads a version of Chuck Berry's song "Johnny B Goode" in front of a crowd of 1950s teenagers.
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Marty McFly has been influential in popular culture and he has often been referenced in other media.
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Marty McFly was the inspiration for the naming of the English band McFly.
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The Daily Dot reported in 2018 that Marty McFly had become an internet meme, in particular a scene in which he plays heavy rock at the school dance in 1955 and the teenagers fail to appreciate his music.
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Marty McFly is horrified to discover that Marty is portrayed by Stoltz in Back to the Future instead of Fox.
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Marty McFly won a Saturn Award for Best Actor in 1985 for the film.