As John Mulaney famously noted, it is weird that Doc and Marty are friends. However, Back to the Future did choose the best plot option.
While Doc and Marty’s Back to the Future friendship is famously strange, any familial link between the pair would have made the trilogy much creepier. As standup comedian John Mulaney noted in his 2015 special The Comeback Kid, Back to the Future has a pretty odd premise.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Also, Doc and Marty’s intergenerational friendship is also a little weird in retrospect. While there is a canon explanation for Doc and Marty’s Back to the Future friendship , it is still a little weird to see a teenager hanging around with a disgraced physicist who is seemingly his closest friend. However, this is the best choice that the trilogy could have made when setting up the series.
Back to the Future never points out how strange it is for these two characters to be so close when they don’t have much in common. This would have been easy to explain if the pair were relatives, but from a plot perspective, Doc couldn’t be related to Marty. As proven by six seasons of Rick and Morty, Doc and Marty’s dynamic becomes much darker and more ethically questionable when the young hero and his older mentor are related.
Doc & Marty Being Family Would Have Actually Been Worse Doc and Marty’s unlikely cross-generation friendship seems odd, but establishing that the pair were blood-related would have made the movie’s plot so much more uncomfortable. The story of Marty intervening in their relationship is already pretty weird, but Marty naively wants his parents to be happier and doesn’t know any better.
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