TIMELINE-24
PODD
c. 1943
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
On this Earth, the human experiments of Josef Mengele resulted in the creation of thousands of superhumans with amazing mental and/or physical powers. Two of these supermen – Tevye Chaim and Lazar Mann – grew up to become the heroic Super Jew and the villainous Laser Wolf, respectively.
FINAL NOTES
I’d love to send all the neo-Nazis of our world to this one – they wouldn’t stand a chance there.
"Up, up and oy vey!"
VIZ TOP TIPS! - PARENTS. Impress your children by showing them a floppy disk and telling them it’s a 3D model of a save icon.
TIMELINE-25
PODD
November 4, 1955 (?)
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
You know all those other versions of Doc Brown and Marty that were glimpsed at/implied to have existed/presumed to have done their own mucking with the timestream but whose adventures were never actually followed within the main story of the Back to the Future films? Well, this timeline is the result of one of those counterparts’ escapades through history.
Suffice it to say, this world’s 1985, 2015, and who knows how many other eras, are very different from the ones seen in the BTTF Trilogy.
FINAL NOTES
I guess time travel in the BTTF Universe actually does create parallel, co-existing timelines after all.
TIMELINE-A
PODD
13,000,000,000+ BCE
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
Other than being composed primarily of antimatter rather than matter, this reality is 110% identical to Timeline-1.
FINAL NOTES
There's no point in visiting this timeline. Besides, all those antiprotons and antielectrons are bound to react dangerously with all the protons and electrons that make up your body.
DuracellEnergizer said:
TIMELINE-A
What happened to the numbers only rule?
DuracellEnergizer said:
You know all those other versions of Doc Brown and Marty that were glimpsed at/implied to have existed/presumed to have done their own mucking with the timestream but whose adventures were never actually followed within the main story of the Back to the Future films?
No, I don't.
I guess time travel in the BTTF Universe actually does create parallel, co-existing timelines after all.
What noooooooooooooooooooooo
RicOlie_2 said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
TIMELINE-A
What happened to the numbers only rule?
That was in another Timeline.
RicOlie_2 said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
TIMELINE-A
What happened to the numbers only rule?
Ahem ...
DuracellEnergizer said:
6. "Lettered" timelines are permitted, but DuracellEnergizer has dibs on "TIMELINE-A" and "TIMELINE-M", so you can't use 'em (or create any of your own until they are out of the way)
I feel like switching to lettered timelines right now because there are already twenty-six numbered timelines, and I feel like it'd make a nice contrast if there were another twenty-six representing each letter in the alphabet.
After Timeline-Z rolls around, we can all return to the numbering scheme.
timdiggerm said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
You know all those other versions of Doc Brown and Marty that were glimpsed at/implied to have existed/presumed to have done their own mucking with the timestream but whose adventures were never actually followed within the main story of the Back to the Future films?
No, I don't.
Alright, let's see if I can make myself clear on this one ...
Remember at the end of the first BTTF, in the new timeline where the Libyans gun down the Doc without killing him? Well, the Marty of that timeline ends up going off on his own trip into the past, leaving the Marty of the original timeline, who now exists within the new timeline, to take his place.
Now, the million dollar question is this: where did that other Marty go? He must have also gone backward in time to 1955 and mucked with the timestream. What affect did he have on history, though, and what kind of timeline(s) did he end up creating? We never see this happen in the movies, but it must have happened, or time travel just doesn't make any sense in the BTTF Universe (well, it already makes no sense, but anyway).
TIMELINE-B
PODD
500,000 BCE
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
On this Earth, all humans – even women – sport thick facial hair.
FINAL NOTES
Bingowings would probably love this world.
TIMELINE-C
PODD
500,000 BCE
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
On this Earth, no humans – not even men – sport any facial hair whatsoever.
FINAL NOTES
Bingowings would probably hate this world.
There was that Timeline where everyone had blonde stubble...
brought about with a bit of help from my old beard...
DuracellEnergizer said:
timdiggerm said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
You know all those other versions of Doc Brown and Marty that were glimpsed at/implied to have existed/presumed to have done their own mucking with the timestream but whose adventures were never actually followed within the main story of the Back to the Future films?
No, I don't.
Alright, let's see if I can make myself clear on this one ...
Remember at the end of the first BTTF, in the new timeline where the Libyans gun down the Doc without killing him? Well, the Marty of that timeline ends up going off on his own trip into the past, leaving the Marty of the original timeline, who now exists within the new timeline, to take his place.
Now, the million dollar question is this: where did that other Marty go? He must have also gone backward in time to 1955 and mucked with the timestream. What affect did he have on history, though, and what kind of timeline(s) did he end up creating? We never see this happen in the movies, but it must have happened, or time travel just doesn't make any sense in the BTTF Universe (well, it already makes no sense, but anyway).
What do you mean? It's the same Marty! He goes back in time to 1955, has a bunch of adventures involving his parents, tries to give Doc a note saying the Libyans will kill him because he just saw Doc get shot. No problem.
Bingowings said:
There was that Timeline where everyone had blonde stubble...
brought about with a bit of help from my old beard...
Alright, I'll classify this Earth as Timeline-D. But you better start doin' your own work for you from now on, boyo!
timdiggerm said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
timdiggerm said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
You know all those other versions of Doc Brown and Marty that were glimpsed at/implied to have existed/presumed to have done their own mucking with the timestream but whose adventures were never actually followed within the main story of the Back to the Future films?
No, I don't.
Alright, let's see if I can make myself clear on this one ...
Remember at the end of the first BTTF, in the new timeline where the Libyans gun down the Doc without killing him? Well, the Marty of that timeline ends up going off on his own trip into the past, leaving the Marty of the original timeline, who now exists within the new timeline, to take his place.
Now, the million dollar question is this: where did that other Marty go? He must have also gone backward in time to 1955 and mucked with the timestream. What affect did he have on history, though, and what kind of timeline(s) did he end up creating? We never see this happen in the movies, but it must have happened, or time travel just doesn't make any sense in the BTTF Universe (well, it already makes no sense, but anyway).
What do you mean? It's the same Marty! He goes back in time to 1955, has a bunch of adventures involving his parents, tries to give Doc a note saying the Libyans will kill him because he just saw Doc get shot. No problem.
But in one timeline Doc gets shot and dies while in another he wears a bulletproof vest and survives ...
Ah, whatever -- I don't want to discuss the nausea-inducing migraine that is the time travel mechanics of BTTF; this is all supposed to be in goofy fun, anyway.
TIMELINE-E
PODD
?
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
In this reality, alternate timelines do not exist, therefore this timeline does not exist.
FINAL NOTES
Visit this Earth at your own peril -- you may find that you may never be able to leave (or enter, for that matter; it's all very confusing).
DuracellEnergizer said:But in one timeline Doc gets shot and dies while in another he wears a bulletproof vest and survives ...
We don't see him die at the start of BTTF, we only see him shot. The vest reveal takes place after Marty has gone back to 1955 and after he's returned from 1955 LOL. It's possible that the Doc had the vest all along and the whole thing is just a closed time loop.
VIZ TOP TIPS! - PARENTS. Impress your children by showing them a floppy disk and telling them it’s a 3D model of a save icon.
But BTTF doesn't show any indication of taking place within an immutable timeline. In fact, the movies go out of their way to show that they take place in anything but an immutable timeline.
Ah, shucks, this is starting to get out of hand ...
TIMELINE-F
PODD
February 20, 2014
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
On this Earth, it is forbidden to discuss the time travel mechanics of Back to the Future in Internet threads that don't explicitly deal with the Back to the Future films. To prevent the accidental reading of such forbidden discussions, technological hats designed to disable the visual parts of the brain upon exposure to such discussions have been invented and surgically grafted onto all persons who have regular Internet access.
FINAL NOTES
Stop talking about time travel in BTTF!
Me love this thread veddy much.
Don’t do drugs, unless you’re with me.
Ryan McAvoy said:
DuracellEnergizer said:But in one timeline Doc gets shot and dies while in another he wears a bulletproof vest and survives ...
We don't see him die at the start of BTTF, we only see him shot. The vest reveal takes place after Marty has gone back to 1955 and after he's returned from 1955 LOL. It's possible that the Doc had the vest all along and the whole thing is just a closed time loop.
The Lone Pine Mall wants a word with you.
I love knowing exactly where this mall is. For some reason I still get really excited about things like this even though I've grown up in LA.
A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em
DuracellEnergizer said:
But BTTF doesn't show any indication of taking place within an immutable timeline. In fact, the movies go out of their way to show that they take place in anything but an immutable timeline.
Ah, shucks, this is starting to get out of hand ...
TIMELINE-F
PODD
February 20, 2014
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
On this Earth, it is forbidden to discuss the time travel mechanics of Back to the Future in Internet threads that don't explicitly deal with the Back to the Future films. To prevent the accidental reading of such forbidden discussions, technological hats designed to disable the visual parts of the brain upon exposure to such discussions have been invented and surgically grafted onto all persons who have regular Internet access.
FINAL NOTES
Stop talking about time travel in BTTF!
So are we in that timeline then?
bkev said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
DuracellEnergizer said:But in one timeline Doc gets shot and dies while in another he wears a bulletproof vest and survives ...
We don't see him die at the start of BTTF, we only see him shot. The vest reveal takes place after Marty has gone back to 1955 and after he's returned from 1955 LOL. It's possible that the Doc had the vest all along and the whole thing is just a closed time loop.
The Lone Pine Mall wants a word with you.
I love knowing exactly where this mall is. For some reason I still get really excited about things like this even though I've grown up in LA.
^ Cool beans. I don't think I ever noticed that before :-)
Accidentally stepping into a movie/TV location is a strange feeling all right. Almost like somebody walking on your grave. Had that odd feeling a few times, including going shopping here in London a few years ago...
...it was only after 30 minutes or so that I realised I was in the kind of dank dystopian London glimpsed in 'Resurrection of the Daleks'...
It's all clean, upmarket and buzzing with shoppers now (It was a semi-derelict wasteland when that episode was filmed). Many, many films have shot there (Shad Thames) before and after the regeneration.
VIZ TOP TIPS! - PARENTS. Impress your children by showing them a floppy disk and telling them it’s a 3D model of a save icon.
Ryan McAvoy said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
But BTTF doesn't show any indication of taking place within an immutable timeline. In fact, the movies go out of their way to show that they take place in anything but an immutable timeline.
Ah, shucks, this is starting to get out of hand ...
TIMELINE-F
PODD
February 20, 2014
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
On this Earth, it is forbidden to discuss the time travel mechanics of Back to the Future in Internet threads that don't explicitly deal with the Back to the Future films. To prevent the accidental reading of such forbidden discussions, technological hats designed to disable the visual parts of the brain upon exposure to such discussions have been invented and surgically grafted onto all persons who have regular Internet access.
FINAL NOTES
Stop talking about time travel in BTTF!
So are we in that timeline then?
No, but serendipity has ways of working her dark magic ...
TIMELINE-G
PODD
44 BBY
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
On this Tatooine, Gringo shot first.
FINAL NOTES
I wonder what bantha tacos taste like.
TIMELINE-H
PODD
October 14, 1994
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare made a bigger impact on the box office in this timeline than in our universe, leading Heather Langenkamp to become a big A-list actress. As a direct result of this, Ms. Langenkamp’s image was plastered everywhere, and – as a direct result of that – my counterpart on this Earth came to loathe her with a passion.
FINAL NOTES
My counterpart is a total dumbass.
TIMELINE-I
PODD
13,000,000,000 BCE
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
A universe where H. P. Lovecraft was never born and the Great Old Ones are real.
Suffice it to say, Cthulhu eventually left R’lyeh to drown the Earth in an orgy of madness and the Great Olds in general awoke from their aeons of slumber, fracturing the fabric of existence itself in the process.
FINAL NOTES
S. T. Joshi is in love with this universe and wants to marry it (or at least be the mother to its blasphemous hybrid offspring).
TIMELINE-J
PODD
66,000,000 BCE
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
The ancestors of the primates failed to survive the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, leading equines to become the dominant lifeforms on Earth.
FINAL NOTES
I wonder if “human” is a synonym for “idiot” in this universe. Of course, humans never evolved on this Earth, so I suppose it’s unlikely.
TIMELINE-K
PODD
?
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
Red Forman is God in this universe.
FINAL NOTES
The Eleventh Commandment: “You shall have no other god’s foot in your ass before mine”.