Lorraine Baines McFly

Lorraine Baines McFly Biographical information Date of birth 1938 Age (1885) Not yet born Age (1955) 17 Age (1985) 47 Age (2015) 77 Age (2045) 107 Physical description Gender Female Hair color Dark Brown (in 1955/1985), Blonde/grey (in 2015) Eye color Brown Behind-the-scenes information Played by Lea Thompson Voiced by Aimee Miles (2010 video game)
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"On Marty's right [at the dinner table] was dear old Mom, who was once very attractive and bright. Now, at forty-seven, she was overweight, drank more than was good for her and had more food on her plate than anyone else."

—From Back to the Future by George Gipe (quote, page 34)

"Your father kissed me for the very first time on that dance floor."

—Lorraine to Marty and Linda

"Biff! Leave him ALONE! Let him go! Let him go!"

—Lorraine furiously trying help George McFly, by attempting to pry an attacking Biff off the latter.

Lorraine Baines McFly is the mother of Dave, Linda and Marty McFly and the wife of George McFly. Lorraine liked the attention of boys when she was in school, and lots of them were attracted to her, including both George McFly and Biff Tannen. Lorraine was not afraid to get what she wanted and often parked in cars with them. Lorraine could stand up for herself and the people she cared about, yet despite this she liked her men to be strong and able to protect her. She liked thinking back to the "old days", often telling the story of how she met and fell in love with George. Lorraine liked to play tennis with her husband and they have been tennis club champions for the past six years by 1985. Lorraine's best friends at school were Betty and Babs, and she could often be found in Lou's Cafe gossiping with them.

Biography

Lorraine, aged 17, in 1955

Lorraine Baines was born in 1938 in Hill Valley, California, the eldest child of Sam and Stella Baines. She had five younger siblings: Milton (born 1943), Sally (born 1949), Toby (born 1951), Joey (born 1954), and Ellen (born 1956). She eventually married George McFly and they had three children: Dave, Linda and Marty.

When Lorraine was in elementary school, she witnessed Biff Tannen punching George McFly, and told a teacher, Miss Hodges, about it. She threatened to send him to a military school in Idaho, but a young teacher named Stanford S. Strickland intervened. He believed that Biff could be reached with understanding and guidance, but he was proven wrong and later became a very hardened and strict discipliner.

Little else is known about Lorraine's life prior to 1955. What is known is that she had been smoking and drinking for a while, and had "parked" in cars with several boys. As such, George was probably not her first boyfriend.

Original history

Lorraine, aged 47, in 1985 before the history was changed

Lorraine originally met George on November 5, 1955 when her father almost ran him over with his car. She felt sorry for him, before falling in love with him. They had their first date a week later at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance at school. Lorraine and George married and had three kids, Dave, Linda and Marty. By 1985, she was depressed at how her husband could not stand up for her or himself and had also turned to tobacco smoking and drinking alcoholic beverages on an everyday habit. She would always tell her children not to park in cars with members of the opposite sex, under the false pretense that she never did that when she was their age.

Altered history

George and Lorraine before the kiss.

Her life changed in 1955 when "Calvin Klein" showed up in town. Unaware it was her future son Marty, who had traveled back in time in the DeLorean time machine and had accidentally interfered with her first meeting with George, as Marty had pushed George out of the way of her father's car and George ran away with his bike. She developed a crush on him. Marty knew he had to get his parents together to prevent himself, as well as his elder siblings, from being erased from existence.

"He's a dream!"

—Lorraine Baines about Calvin Klein (Marty)

After finding out that Lorraine wanted a man who would stand up for her and protect her, these being qualities which George lacked, he came up with a plan where he would pretend to take advantage of Lorraine at the Dance, and the wimpy George would "rescue" her from him. Marty was shocked when he found that Lorraine liked parking in cars with boys as, in 1985, Lorraine had told him that she found it terrible when girls did so. Lorraine noticed that Marty was nervous and told him not to be in the situation of dating. Lorraine then kisses him incestuously, much to Marty's shock. However, Lorraine stops kissing him on the sudden realization that the kiss somehow felt wrong (though completely unaware to her, they are mother and son) Lorraine said that doesn't make any sense and Marty clarifies her reasons of the kiss feeling wrong, assuring her that his feelings for her are purely platonic. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, Biff Tannen showed up instead and tried to force his affection on Lorraine. George arrived and rescued her by standing up to Biff for the first time in his life. After initially being overpowered, he became angry when he saw a laughing Biff knock Lorraine to the ground when she tried to help him. An enraged George bashed Biff in the face, knocking him out, and Lorraine fell in love with the newly-confident George. They kissed for the first time that night and history was back on track. By 1985, she was much healthier and happier than she had been in the original 1985.

The future

Lorraine, aged 77, in 2015

By 2015, Lorraine was still happily married to George after more than 50 years. The couple have now retired and appear to be quite wealthy, possibly due to George's writing career taking off after 1985. Like most mothers, Lorraine still worried about her children even when they were adults and left home. By 2015, Marty was stuck in a dead-end job at CusCo and was having marriage problems with his wife Jennifer, and Lorraine wanted to make sure everything was okay.

As much as she loved her son though, she felt that his life could have turned out much better and wondered to her granddaughter Marlene if Jennifer married Marty because she felt sorry for him. Ironically, this was why she fell in love with and married George in the unaltered timeline. She blamed a car accident on October 27, 1985 for making Marty's life the way it was, as he broke his hand in the accident and was left unable to play the guitar again.

1985A

Lorraine Baines McFly, aged 47, in 1985A clothing and breast implants.

A third version of Lorraine was created in an alternate 1985 after Biff Tannen had received a sports almanac on November 12, 1955 from his 2015 self (who had "borrowed" the time machine to deliver it to his younger counterpart), and had become rich from betting on sports events. Biff had secretly murdered George on March 15, 1973, though the exact circumstances are not revealed. Biff and Lorraine married soon thereafter, and a likely theory assumed is that Lorraine only married him because he could provide for her children. (Ironically, in 1955, Lorraine told off Biff by saying she would never marry him, not even if he had a million dollars. However, her transition later in life from a carefree teenager to a destitute widow with children caused her to rethink that.)

By 1985, Lorraine was still unaware that it was Biff who had murdered George. The marriage was a living hell. Lorraine missed George every day and was often verbally and physically abused by Biff. She was usually alone as her children were sent to boarding schools, and she was living mostly by herself on the 27th floor of their casino hotel, built on top of the Courthouse, and had succumbed to alcoholism to cope with the stress, as she had in the original timeline. Lorraine also had breast implants, which Biff had forced her into getting. Lorraine had tried on numerous occasions to leave Biff, but stayed with him purely so her children would not suffer. Biff often threatened to cut them off or to withdraw his immense political clout, forcing the kids to own up to their own lives and/or get thrown in jail with their scrapes with the law.

In 1986, Marty, who had been in Switzerland, returned to Hill Valley, and was contacted by Dr. Emmett Brown. Using a prototype time machine, they enacted a plan to trick Biff into causing his own demise. Now that Biff's reign of terror was finally over, Lorraine and the other citizens of Hill Valley hoped for a brighter future.

Luckily, Marty and Doc went back to 1955 and stopped Biff from using the almanac, with Marty burning the book so that the 1985A timeline would never happen in the first place. When Marty managed to avoid the car accident in 1985, the future of the entire McFly family became a lot happier.

1986F

A version of Lorraine is heard but not seen in Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 2: Get Tannen!, during yet another compromised timeline which the Tannens reign supreme. Marty at first fails to convince her and her husband that he is indeed their son, as, in that timeline, he was run out of town. After Marty convinces Lorraine of a facet of his childhood, she accepts him as Marty and implores her handicapped husband to admit Marty to the McFly residence. The McFly residence, like most houses in Hill Valley, have heavy home security systems and have seen better days. Like the 1985A of the films, this Hill Valley is in a state of anarchy, with the Tannen Crime Family, which includes Biff and two new brothers as well as a never-jailed Kid Tannen, as the de facto leadership. However, lacking the future gambling knowledge of 1985A, Biff Tannen is poorer and appears to not be much better off than most of the frightened natives of the poverty-blighted high-crime community, save for his crime connections. Biff is also less bold, but still vicious. Biff enacts his revenge on George by way of a severe mafia beating rather than outright murder, but does not pine for Lorraine in this timeline, as he accepts that Lorraine married George, albeit in a twisted way.

1986G

A version of Lorraine from a dystopian alternate timeline was seen in Back to the Future: The Game episodes "Citizen Brown" and "Double Visions".

Lorraine while driving her "car".

Marty met her while she was driving into the Courthouse Square and then spoke, learning much about the fate of their family in this timeline in the process. He subsequently described her as "gray".

She said that it was because of George's interfering nature. She was polishing the statue of Citizen Brown in Courthouse Square. She was annoyed by being watched by George's surveillance cameras because she was hiding alcohol which was forbidden.

Behind the scenes

• In a scene cut from the final version of Back to the Future Part II, Biff vanishes in 2015 after he returns in the time machine following his delivery of the fateful Grays Sports Almanac to his 1955 counterpart. It is speculated by Kirk Cameron in The Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy that Biff is shot and killed by Lorraine "sometime in the mid 1990s" (presumably with the murder weapon used to kill George), thereby erasing his existence come 2015. This was suggested by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, although not mentioned in the film itself. In the finished film, as soon as the 2015 Biff disembarks from the DeLorean, he suddenly clutches his chest in pain and doubles over, breaking off the top of his cane, then staggers away and slumps to the ground behind another parked car — although due to Zemeckis and Gale's suggestion, Biff appeared to have the same symptoms as Marty when he was fading from existence in the first film.

Relatives

• Harold McFly (medieval ancestor-in-law)
• Jennivere McFly (medieval ancestor-in-law)
• Martin McFly (great-granduncle-in-law)
• Seamus McFly (great-grandfather-in-law)
• Maggie McFly (great-grandmother-in-law)
• Pee Wee McFly (fifth-cousin-twice-removed-in-law)
• William McFly (grandfather-in-law)
• Arthur McFly (father-in-law)
• Sylvia McFly (mother-in-law)
• Sam Baines (father)
• Stella Baines (mother)
• Milton Baines (brother)
• Sally Baines (sister)
• Toby Baines (brother)
• Joey Baines (brother)
• Ellen Baines (sister)
• George McFly (husband)
• Dave McFly (son)
• Linda McFly (daughter)
• Marty McFly (son)
• Jennifer Parker (daughter-in-law)
• Marlene McFly (granddaughter)
• Marty McFly Jr. (grandson)
• Marta McFly (great-great-granddaughter)
• Biff Tannen (husband in alternate universe)

Appearances

• Back to the Future
• Back to the Future Part II
• Back to the Future Part III
• Back to the Future novelizations
• Back to the Future: The Story
• Back to the Future (video game)
• Back to the Future: The Pinball
• Super Back to the Future Part II
• Back to the Future: The Card Game (Mentioned only)
• Back to the Future: The Game
  • Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 1: It's About Time (Heard only)
  • Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 2: Get Tannen! (Heard only)
  • Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 3: Citizen Brown
  • Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 4: Double Vision

• Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines
  • Issue 3: "In Search of Calvin Marty Klein"
• Back to the Future: Continuum Conundrum
  • Issue 6: "Continuum Conundrum Part 1"
  • Issue 11: "Continuum Conundrum Part 6"
• Back to the Future: Who Is Marty McFly?
  • Issue 12: "How Needles Got Here"
• Back to the Future: Citizen Brown
  • Issue 2: "Get Tannen!"
  • Issue 3: "Citizen Brown"
  • Issue 4: "Double Visions"
  • Issue 5: "OUTATIME" (Heard only)
• Back to the Future: Biff to the Future
  • Issue 1: "Biff to the Future Part 1"