Marty McFly's First Timeline Shift Back to the Future Completely Inverted Time Travel's Oldest Paradox

In one of his first scenes, Back to the future reverses the most famous time travel paradox when Marty meets his father, George McFly. Back to the futureThe franchise's timeline is confusing, but its most egregious complications only arrive in the sequels to the hit 1985 sci-fi comedy. Back to the future is the fairly straightforward story of Marty McFly using Doc Brown's souped-up DeLorean to travel through time and improve the lives of his parents, George and Lorraine. Put Back to the futureIn the end, everything seems to have been fixed by Marty.

However, Doc and Marty won't have an easy time getting to that point. The pair face constant problems, from George's general cowardice to Lorraine's inconvenient crush on her future son, Marty. The first of these problems occurs when Marty arrives in 1955 and seeks out the younger version of his father, George McFly. Marty's arrival triggers a clever subversion of what is known as the Grandfather Paradox. A time travel problem helpfully explained by Espaço.comThe Grandfather Paradox refers to a logic problem in which a time traveler kills his grandfather in the past, preventing his own birth.

Marty McFly turned the grandfather paradox on his head by saving George from being hit by a car

Marty saving George from a car accident revealed a famous time travel paradox

Instead of killing grandfather before he was conceived, Marty saves his father's life before Marty himself is conceived in Back to the future. In an interesting riff on this premise, Marty is also to blame for his father's near-death experience, as George runs away from him and heads into traffic because he's scared of Marty. Back to the futureThe many clever details pay off throughout the trilogy's complicated and complex story, but this scene provides one of the franchise's earliest examples of turning sci-fi conventions on their head to offer viewers something new.

Marty saves George from being hit by a car after George runs away from him and gets into the car's path. Ironically, the effect was the same as the Grandfather Paradox, as Marty was almost never conceived due to his intervention in George's childhood. Back to the future cleverly actualizes this threat through a photo of Marty that disappears whenever he alters the timeline enough to prevent his own conception. Back to the futureGeorge McFly needs a lot of training from Marty before he can save his own future, which means Marty is repeatedly at risk of accidental self-annihilation.

Marty saving George had the same effect that the grandfather paradox would have

Marty's luck didn't improve despite him saving George

Marty saving George from being hit by a car isn't enough to ensure his own conception later on, but it's the start of Marty changing his father's luck. In Back to the futureIn Marty's ending, Marty has set things right in 1955 and his mother and father are now happier, more stable, and free from the machinations of their high school bully, Biff. Back to the future part II then sees Marty and Doc travel to the future and then return to 1955 again to solve some new problems, ensuring the Back to the future the films never become too repetitive.

Source: Espaço.com