A Back to the Future fan theory positions the DeLorean time machine as the true hero of the story. Movie history is bursting with great time travel tales, but perhaps the most beloved of them all is Back to the Future, released in 1985 and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Michael J. Fox stars as teenage time-traveler Marty McFly in what would become his signature role, alongside Christopher Lloyd as zany inventor Dr. Emmett Brown, in what w0uld also prove to be his defining character.
Back to the Future would spawn two sequels that saw the return of most of the original cast and crew, minus Crispin Glover as Marty's dad George. While a fourth installment has been rumored many times over the years since Back to the Future Part 3, nothing has ever come of those reports, and that's arguably for the best. Back to the Future is one of the best movie trilogies out there, and even without a recent entry, has still managed to stay alive within the pop-culture consciousness.
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One way Back to the Future remains alive and kicking is in the form of a seemingly endless amount of continuing discussions about the movies, especially the original. This discussion very much includes the positing of fan theories, including one about the DeLorean time machine. This theory, posted by Reddit user GlutenFree_Paper asserts that the three major times the DeLorean stalls out on Marty during the first Back to the Future aren't an accident, and are instead the timeline itself using the vehicle to stop a potentially paradoxical event from happening.
The first time the DeLorean stalls out in Back to the Future is right after Marty arrives back in 1955. It just happens to do so right near a huge
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