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| + | '''Timeline 12''' was a timeline which came into existence when Dr. [[Emmett Brown]] accidentally traveled to [[1885]] from [[1955]]. |
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| − | '''Timeline 12''' was a timeline which came into existence when [[Marty McFly]] arrived in 1885 from [[1955]], to try to prevent the events that led to [[Emmett Brown]]'s death in '''[[Timeline 11]]''' at the hands of [[Buford Tannen]]. Since Marty chose not to race Needles upon his return to 1985, the future was changed once again, and the alternate futures Doc and Marty had experienced in '''[[Timeline 4]]''' and '''[[Timeline 5]]''' were erased by this timeline. '''Note:''' ''Two DeLoreans existed in this timeline for five days in 1885, from September 2 when Marty arrived, until September 7 when he departed for 1985.'' |
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==Events== |
==Events== |
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===[[1880s]]=== |
===[[1880s]]=== |
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*'''[[1885]]''' |
*'''[[1885]]''' |
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+ | **'''Thursday, [[January 1]]''' |
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+ | ***'''12:00 a.m.''' Emmett Brown arrives from 1955 in '''[[Timeline 11]]''' after the DeLorean was struck by [[lightning]]. The [[DeLorean time machine|DeLorean]]'s [[time circuits]] have been scrambled and shorted out by an overload caused by the lightning bolt, rendering the car useless for time travel and stranding Doc in the past. The overload also permanently damages the car's [[flying circuits]], disabling its [[Hover conversion|hover-conversion]] feature for good.<ref name="BTTF2">''[[Back to the Future Part II]]''</ref><ref name="BTTF3">''[[Back to the Future Part III]]''</ref><ref name="Clara's Story">''[[Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines]] – [[Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines 5|Issue 5: "Clara's Story"]]''</ref> |
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+ | **'''[[January]] – [[August]]''' |
| + | ***Stranded in 1885, Doc settles in [[Hill Valley]], where he sets himself up as a [[blacksmith]]. He then tries improvising methods in attempting repairs on the DeLorean, only to realize that most of the technology he needs will not be available until the next century, with suitable replacement parts not becoming available until [[1947]]. Nevertheless, Doc becomes adept at shoeing horses and repairing wagons, alongside his own experiments using the primitive technology available for the time.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | ***Marty arrives in [[Hill Valley]], and upsets Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, great-grandfather of [[Biff Tannen]], at the [[Palace Saloon]], causing Tannen to nearly hang Marty. Doc saves Marty in time. Marty informs Doc of his impending death involving Buford and his infatuation with [[Clara Clayton]]. Aware that he will fall in love with Clara and worried about changing his future, Doc decides not to pick her up, as he had already volunteered to do five days ago. He and Marty then decide to leave 1885 and go back to 1985, but Marty notes about the DeLorean's damaged fuel line, realizing that there's no way to get the car up to 88 mph without gasoline, which will not be available until next century.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| + | ***With the DeLorean's [[time circuit control microchip]] shorted out by the lightning bolt, Doc writes [[Repair instructions|detailed instructions]] (including drawing schematic diagrams) on rebuilding it with 1950s-era [[vacuum tube]]s and [[transistor]]s. He then places these in the DeLorean before burying it in the [[Delgado Mine]], where he hopes it will remain undisturbed and preserved until his younger self and Marty unearth it 70 years later.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | ***With 6 horses, Doc and Marty ride out to the cave where Marty hid the DeLorean. They attempt to get it to up 88 mph on the way back to Hill Valley, but this proved unsuccessful as Doc explains that even the fastest horses in the world can reach nowhere near that speed.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| + | ***Doc is hired by [[Buford Tannen]] to shoe Buford's [[horse]], but is not paid. After getting thrown off his horse and breaking a bottle of [[whiskey]], Buford blames Doc for the accident and demands a total of eighty dollars from him; five dollars for the whiskey and seventy-five dollars for the horse, which Buford had shot.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| + | ***Doc passes out after drinking one shot of whiskey at the 4th of July celebrations.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| + | ***There is a meeting of the townspeople over who will pick up the new schoolteacher on September 4. Doc volunteers.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| + | ***Having lived in 1885 for 8 months, Doc writes [[Doc's letter|a letter]] to be delivered personally by [[Western Union]] to [[Marty McFly]] on [[November 12]], 1955 exactly at 9:45 p.m. to the exact stretch of road he was hovering above when he was struck by lightning.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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**'''Friday, [[September 4]]''' |
**'''Friday, [[September 4]]''' |
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+ | ***A [[train]] pulls into the [[Hill Valley Railroad Station]], carrying the new clock for the [[Hill Valley Courthouse|courthouse]] - and [[Clara Clayton]] aboard as a passenger. Doc meets her at the platform and brings her to the schoolhouse, where the two fall in love.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
| − | ***A [[train]] pulls into the [[Hill Valley Railroad Station]], carrying the new clock for the [[Hill Valley Courthouse|courthouse]] - and Clara aboard as a passenger. This gives Doc and Marty the idea of borrowing the locomotive to push the DeLorean. They fail to recognize Clara standing behind them at the platform, waiting to be picked up. With no one to meet her, she then rents two horses and a [[wagon buckboard]] from [[Joe Statler]] and then sets out to find the [[Clara's house|schoolhouse]] on her own.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | ***Doc and Marty ride out to [[Carson Spur]], near the incomplete [[Shonash Ravine]] Bridge, ultimately deciding it is the perfect stretch of level track on which to push the DeLorean up to 88 mph with the locomotive just before they reach the edge of the ravine, over which the completed bridge would then exist upon arriving back in 1985.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | ***As Doc and Marty survey the bridge, which is scheduled for completion the following year, Clara's wagon runs away after a [[snake]] spooks the horses pulling it. Doc then comes to her rescue, saving her life. It is love at first sight. Much to Marty's horror, he and Doc realize that they unknowingly altered future history, resulting in Shonash Ravine not being re-named in memory of Clara. Marty nevertheless insists on getting the DeLorean ready to get them back to the future.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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**'''Saturday, [[September 5]]''' |
**'''Saturday, [[September 5]]''' |
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| + | ***The [[Hill Valley Festival]] is held. A photographer takes a portrait of [[Doc's clock photograph|Doc posing next to the new courthouse clock]]. While Doc dances with Clara, Buford shoots Doc in the back with a [[derringer]] because he never paid Buford the eighty dollars.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | ***After fitting the DeLorean with flanged steel railroad wheels, Doc uses a makeshift [[demonstration model|model railroad]] to demonstrate to Marty the plan on getting them back to the future. Immediately after, Clara arrives, asking Doc to repair her [[telescope]], which had been damaged when it fell off the wagon during the rescue the day before. Doc, agreeing to perform the repair job without charge, becomes even more smitten with her.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | ***'''Evening.''' The [[Hill Valley Festival]] is held. Doc and Marty have [[Doc and Marty's clock photograph|a photograph]] taken, posing next to the new courthouse clock. Later on, while Doc and Clara dance, Buford Tannen arrives and attempts to shoot Doc with a [[derringer]], but Marty interferes and saves him. Buford, angered by Marty's action, calls him "[[chicken|yellow]]", challenging him to a duel on Monday morning. Aiming to prove himself to Buford that he isn't "yellow", Marty agrees to the face-off, setting it for 8 a.m. that morning.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | **'''Sunday, [[September 6]]''' |
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| − | ***'''7:00 a.m.''' Marty wakes up. After being confronted by Doc about the dangers of fighting Buford, Marty checks his photograph of the tombstone from 1955, and discovers that, although Doc's name has vanished, the tombstone itself and the date still remain.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | ***'''Evening.''' Doc and Marty haul the DeLorean out to Carson Spur, where they unload the car onto the tracks in preparation for their trip back to the future. Later that night, while an exhausted Marty sleeps, Doc tells Clara the truth and says goodbye to her, but she doesn't believe him. Both are broken-hearted: Doc heads back to town and gets a drink at the Palace Saloon, while Clara prepares to leave Hill Valley.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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**'''Monday, [[September 7]]''' |
**'''Monday, [[September 7]]''' |
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| − | ***'''8:00 a.m.''' Marty has a showdown scheduled with Buford Tannen outside Palace Saloon. Marty and Doc escape through the saloon's back door when Buford spots Marty, and again calls him "yellow". Marty still decides not to face Buford, showing an incredible amount of growth from a mere day earlier, and is about to walk away when Buford and his gang get a hold of Doc and threaten to shoot him.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| + | ***'''8:16 a.m.''' Buford Tannen is arrested for murder.<ref name="The Card Game">''[[Back to the Future: The Card Game]]''</ref> |
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| − | ***A train pulled by [[Locomotive 131]] pulls into Hill Valley Station. Clara, deeply upset over losing Doc, then boards it before it departs for [[San Francisco]].<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | ***Marty decides to face Buford, who then shoots Marty in the chest. Using a trick learned from the Clint Eastwood movie ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'', Marty survives, much to Buford's surprise. Marty then throws several punches at Buford, finally knocking him face-first into a manure cart, to the delight of the townspeople.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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+ | ***'''2:00 p.m.''' Hill Valley holds a funeral for Doc.<ref name="The Card Game"/> He is buried in [[Boot Hill Cemetery]]. Clara, grief-stricken over losing him, erects a [[Doc's tombstone|headstone]] on his grave in eternal memory of him.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
| − | ***Taking one last look at the photo of the tombstone, Marty and Doc are relieved as it disappears, after having been damaged from Marty's punching Buford into it. They then head off to the railroad line to follow the train that had just departed.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | ***Meanwhile, on board the train, Clara overhears a passenger talking about the heartsick Doc; her belief restored, she stops the train and jumps off to find him. She discovers clues at the blacksmith shop and rides on horseback towards Carson Spur.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | ***Doc and Marty ride after the train which had just left Hill Valley earlier that morning. They then stop it just before it hits the switchtrack with Carson Spur, then hijack its [[Locomotive 131|locomotive]] to push the DeLorean up to 88 mph toward Shonash Ravine so they may both go back to the future. However, they discover that Clara had pursued them and had gotten aboard the train.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | ***'''9:00 a.m.''' With the help of [[Mattel hoverboard|Marty's hoverboard]], Doc manages to come to Clara's rescue on the accelerating locomotive, but they are unable to reach the DeLorean on time and are forced to stay behind as Marty departs to 1985.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | ***'''2:00 p.m.''' Doc and Clara get married.<ref>''[[Back to the Future: The Animated Series]]'' actually suggested the wedding to have occurred in [[December 15]] of the same year in the episode "[[Solar Sailors]]", but this date was more recently established in ''[[Back to the Future: The Card Game]]''.</ref> |
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| − | **'''Tuesday, [[December 1]]''' |
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| − | ***'''12:00 p.m.''' Shonash Ravine is renamed Eastwood Ravine.<ref name="The Card Game"/> |
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| − | *'''[[1886]]''' |
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| − | ***[[Jules Brown|Jules Eratosthenes Brown]] is born to Emmett Brown and Clara Clayton.<ref>conjecture from Jules being two years older than Verne, and apparently being about 9 years old when the family first leaves 1895, and conceived after his parents' marriage</ref> |
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| − | *'''[[1888]]''' |
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| − | ***[[Verne Brown|Verne Newton Brown]] is born to Emmett Brown and Clara Clayton.<ref>''[[Back to the Future: The Animated Series]] – "[[A Verne by Any Other Name]]"''</ref> |
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+ | ===[[1950s]]=== |
| − | *'''[[ |
+ | *'''[[1955]]''' |
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+ | **'''Saturday, [[November 12]]''' |
| + | ***'''9:45 p.m.''' A vehicle driven by a [[Western Union man|Western Union agent]] arrives at the entrance to [[Lyon Estates]]. The agent delivers to Marty, on time at that specified location, in the pouring rain, the letter Doc had dispatched in 1885. Discovering that Doc is alive, Marty realizes that only Doc's younger self could help him.<ref name="BTTF2"/> |
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| − | ***The [[Brown family]] attempt a trip to 1985, but fail. Doc considers abandoning his efforts to return to 1985, but Clara reveals her own desire to see the future, making Doc realize that going to the future was their shared dream, convincing him to continue his efforts. They then see [[Steam tricycle driver|a man]] driving a [[Léon Serpollet|Serpollet]] [[steam tricycle]]. Upon seeing the vehicle, Doc remembers the early experiments with steam powered automobiles, and decides to use Serpollet's innovations in his own steam engine design.<ref>''[[Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines]] – [[Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines 5|Issue 5: "Clara's Story"]]''</ref> |
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| + | ***'''10:05 p.m.''' Arriving at [[Courthouse Square]], Marty scares the young Doc by "returning" moments after Doc had sent the younger Marty back to the future. Doc utters "Great Scott!" and suddenly faints. Marty drives the unconscious Doc back to his house in [[Packard|Doc's car]].<ref name="BTTF2"/> |
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| − | ***Doc finishes his [[steam time car]] and his [[time parachute]], and tells his family that he is headed to [[2015]] to pick up the parts he needs to complete the [[Jules Verne Train]].<ref name="BTTF CC Part 2">''[[Back to the Future: Continuum Conundrum]]'' – ''[[Back to the Future 7: Continuum Conundrum Part 2|Issue 7: "Continuum Conundrum Part 2"]]''</ref> |
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| + | ***'''7:01 a.m.''' Young Doc reads the soggy old letter his future self had written 70 years in the past.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | **'''Monday, [[August 14]]''' |
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| − | ***Doc has been missing for a day, so Clara writes [[Clara's letter|a letter]] and brings it to the Western Union, as Doc had done years earlier. She leaves the note with instructions for it to be delivered to Marty at "the highest attainable level of education prior to university, on the first Monday of March, 1986".<ref name="BTTF CC Part 1">''[[Back to the Future: Continuum Conundrum]] – [[Back to the Future 6: Continuum Conundrum Part 1|Issue 6: "Continuum Conundrum Part 1"]]''</ref> |
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| + | ***Marty and Doc uncover the DeLorean with repair instructions and [[Doc's walkie talkie|his walkie talkie]] from the Delgado Mine near Boot Hill Cemetery. They discover Doc's grave and learn about Buford Tannen. They elect to photograph the headstone, as it will serve as a "ripple-effect" indicator of Marty’s success in 1885.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| + | ***Accessing the [[City Archives]] after normal closing hours, Marty and Doc discover the photograph of Doc standing in front the clock in 1885, confirming that it was indeed Doc who was shot and killed by Buford Tannen. Marty insists on going back to 1885 and rescueing him.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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+ | **'''Tuesday, [[November 15]]''' |
| + | ***Doc repairs and "soups up" the unearthed DeLorean, building a new time circuit with vacuum tubes and transistors. He also fits the DeLorean with new [[whitewall tire]]s, and installs fresh oversized [[Burgess battery|batteries]] on his and Marty's walkie talkies.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | ***'''11:00 a.m.''' Marty McFly arrives from 1885 and the DeLorean comes to a halt near a [[railroad crossing]]. However, the DeLorean is demolished soon after in head-on collision with a [[Alco S6 locomotive|diesel locomotive]] approaching the Eastwood Ravine Bridge in the opposite direction. Fortunately, Marty escapes and returns home to see everything is back to normal. He then drives over to check on [[Jennifer Parker|Jennifer]], who is still sleeping. After Marty wakes her up, the two go inside his truck and begins to drive back towards the railroad crossing where the DeLorean was destroyed.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| + | ***Marty and Doc drive to the [[Pohatchee Drive-In Theater]], which Doc had chosen as the location to send Marty back to 1885 as there were no trees in either time at that location and because it was far enough away from Hill Valley that there would be minimal risk of the DeLorean being seen.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| − | ***Displaying uncharacteristic self-restraint, Marty decides not to race Needles, and avoids crashing into a [[Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I|Rolls-Royce]], thus erasing the future experienced in '''[[Timeline 5]]'''. Jennifer surprises Marty with the fax she retrieved from 2015 in that very timeline, and as it "ripples" into a blank sheet of paper, she discovers the hidden truth about time travel, exclaiming: “It erased!”. Marty takes her to see the remains of the DeLorean.<ref name="BTTF3"/> |
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| + | ***'''10:20 a.m.''' Marty departs from 1955 to 1885.<ref name="BTTF3"/> '''This creates [[Timeline 13]], which begins at Marty's entry point of 1885 and timeline 12 fades away.''' |
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| − | *'''[[1986]]''' |
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| − | **'''Monday, [[March 3]]''' |
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| − | ***Marty is feeling depressed, as he feels that his life is boring without Doc. He doesn't want to drive his truck, so Jennifer waits for him to pick her up to go to school, but he never arrives.<ref name="BTTF CC Part 1"/> |
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| − | ***In history class, the [[Western Union]] [[Western Union man (1986)|delivery man]] delivers [[Clara's letter|a letter]] to Marty that Clara wrote in [[1893]] with instructions to deliver the note to Martin McFly, at the highest level of education before university. The letter states that Doc went into the future and never came back, so Marty and his girlfriend, [[Jennifer Parker]], head to [[Doc's garage]] for clues.<ref name="BTTF CC Part 1"/> |
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| − | ***Jennifer realizes that Marty never saw the [[DeLorean time machine]] until the [[World's first temporal displacement|temporal experiment]] at the [[Twin Pines Mall]], so they both realize that Doc must have a [[Doc's secret lab|second lab]]. They ask [[Goldie Wilson Jr.]], who works at the records office, for information and find out Doc has a garage registered under his birth name, Von Braun.<ref name="BTTF CC Part 1"/> |
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| − | ***When they get there, they see a [[second DeLorean time machine|another DeLorean]], which has not been modified for time travel, and Marty absent-mindedly turns on [[temporal field generator Mk II|a machine]] that he doesn't recognize. However, they don't find a [[flux capacitor]], and don't recognize anything else that would be useful for time travel.<ref name="BTTF CC Part 1"/> |
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| − | ***At approximately '''8:20 pm''': Marty writes [[Marty's letter (March 1986)|a note]], and leaves it in a [[canister]] for Doc to pick up in the future.<ref name="BTTF CC Part 1"/> |
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| − | ***'''12:34 p.m.''' The single "[[Chapel O' Love (song)|Chapel O' Love]]" by Marty and [[The Pinheads]] reaches #11 on the charts, becoming the band's first big hit.<ref name="The Card Game"/> |
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| − | *'''[[2015]]''' |
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| − | **'''Thursday, [[October 29]]''' |
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| − | ***'''3:20 a.m.''' [[Marlene McFly]] goes on her first concert tour.<ref name="The Card Game"/> |
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| − | *'''[[2035]]''' |
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| − | **'''Wednesday, [[May 2]]'''<ref name="BTTF CC Part 3">''[[Back to the Future: Continuum Conundrum]] – [[Back to the Future 8: Continuum Conundrum Part 3|Issue 8: "Continuum Conundrum Part 3"]]''</ref> |
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| − | ***Due to the [[19th century]] parts Doc was forced to use, he arrives in 2035 instead of 2015. Making his way to his secret lab, Doc discovers Marty's letter and is confused, since he's not in trouble.<ref name="BTTF CC Part 5">''[[Back to the Future: Continuum Conundrum]]'' – ''[[Back to the Future 10: Continuum Conundrum Part 5|Issue 10: "Continuum Conundrum Part 5"]]''</ref> |
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| − | ***When Doc tries to take money out of the bank, they believe him to be a clone as his age doesn't match what it should for someone who is supposed to be twenty years older than Doc was in 2015.<ref name="BTTF CC Part 5"/> |
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| − | ***Making his way back to the steam time car, Doc puts on the diving suit and intends to travel back to 2015. However, Officer [[Griff Tannen]] shoots an electric charge at Doc, intending to disable his implants. However, as Doc doesn't have any, he suffers amnesia. Confused, Doc reaches into his pocket and pulls out Marty's letter. Not knowing what else to do, he drives the steam time car to 1986, at the time and place mentioned in the note. '''This creates [[Timeline 13]], which begins at Doc's entry point in 1986 and timeline 12 fades away.'''<ref name="BTTF CC Part 5"/> |
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| − | *''[[Back to the Future: Continuum Conundrum]]'' revealed that Doc had accidentally traveled to [[2035]] in his [[steam time car]] before he finished the [[Jules Verne Train]], and only was able to return to [[1893]] with the help of Marty and Jennifer's counterparts from [[1986]]. Because Doc visited 1986 before he visited 1985 at the end of ''[[Back to the Future Part III]]'', Doc would not have shown up with [[Brown family|his family]] in this timeline. |
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==Appearances== |
==Appearances== |
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| − | *''[[Back to the Future |
+ | *''[[Back to the Future trilogy]]'' |
| − | *''[[Back to the Future |
+ | **''[[Back to the Future Part II]]'' |
| − | **''[[Back to the Future |
+ | **''[[Back to the Future Part III]]'' |
==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 09:31, 10 May 2020
Timeline 12 was a timeline which came into existence when Dr. Emmett Brown accidentally traveled to 1885 from 1955.
Events
1880s
- 1885
- Thursday, January 1
- 12:00 a.m. Emmett Brown arrives from 1955 in Timeline 11 after the DeLorean was struck by lightning. The DeLorean's time circuits have been scrambled and shorted out by an overload caused by the lightning bolt, rendering the car useless for time travel and stranding Doc in the past. The overload also permanently damages the car's flying circuits, disabling its hover-conversion feature for good.[1][2][3]
- January – August
- Stranded in 1885, Doc settles in Hill Valley, where he sets himself up as a blacksmith. He then tries improvising methods in attempting repairs on the DeLorean, only to realize that most of the technology he needs will not be available until the next century, with suitable replacement parts not becoming available until 1947. Nevertheless, Doc becomes adept at shoeing horses and repairing wagons, alongside his own experiments using the primitive technology available for the time.[2]
- With the DeLorean's time circuit control microchip shorted out by the lightning bolt, Doc writes detailed instructions (including drawing schematic diagrams) on rebuilding it with 1950s-era vacuum tubes and transistors. He then places these in the DeLorean before burying it in the Delgado Mine, where he hopes it will remain undisturbed and preserved until his younger self and Marty unearth it 70 years later.[2]
- Doc is hired by Buford Tannen to shoe Buford's horse, but is not paid. After getting thrown off his horse and breaking a bottle of whiskey, Buford blames Doc for the accident and demands a total of eighty dollars from him; five dollars for the whiskey and seventy-five dollars for the horse, which Buford had shot.[2]
- Saturday, July 4
- Doc passes out after drinking one shot of whiskey at the 4th of July celebrations.[2]
- Saturday, August 29
- There is a meeting of the townspeople over who will pick up the new schoolteacher on September 4. Doc volunteers.[2]
- Tuesday, September 1
- Having lived in 1885 for 8 months, Doc writes a letter to be delivered personally by Western Union to Marty McFly on November 12, 1955 exactly at 9:45 p.m. to the exact stretch of road he was hovering above when he was struck by lightning.[2]
- Friday, September 4
- A train pulls into the Hill Valley Railroad Station, carrying the new clock for the courthouse - and Clara Clayton aboard as a passenger. Doc meets her at the platform and brings her to the schoolhouse, where the two fall in love.[2]
- Saturday, September 5
- The Hill Valley Festival is held. A photographer takes a portrait of Doc posing next to the new courthouse clock. While Doc dances with Clara, Buford shoots Doc in the back with a derringer because he never paid Buford the eighty dollars.[2]
- Monday, September 7
- Tuesday, September 8
- 2:00 p.m. Hill Valley holds a funeral for Doc.[4] He is buried in Boot Hill Cemetery. Clara, grief-stricken over losing him, erects a headstone on his grave in eternal memory of him.[2]
- Thursday, January 1
1950s
- 1955
- Saturday, November 12
- 9:45 p.m. A vehicle driven by a Western Union agent arrives at the entrance to Lyon Estates. The agent delivers to Marty, on time at that specified location, in the pouring rain, the letter Doc had dispatched in 1885. Discovering that Doc is alive, Marty realizes that only Doc's younger self could help him.[1]
- 10:05 p.m. Arriving at Courthouse Square, Marty scares the young Doc by "returning" moments after Doc had sent the younger Marty back to the future. Doc utters "Great Scott!" and suddenly faints. Marty drives the unconscious Doc back to his house in Doc's car.[1]
- Sunday, November 13
- 7:01 a.m. Young Doc reads the soggy old letter his future self had written 70 years in the past.[2]
- Monday, November 14
- Marty and Doc uncover the DeLorean with repair instructions and his walkie talkie from the Delgado Mine near Boot Hill Cemetery. They discover Doc's grave and learn about Buford Tannen. They elect to photograph the headstone, as it will serve as a "ripple-effect" indicator of Marty’s success in 1885.[2]
- Accessing the City Archives after normal closing hours, Marty and Doc discover the photograph of Doc standing in front the clock in 1885, confirming that it was indeed Doc who was shot and killed by Buford Tannen. Marty insists on going back to 1885 and rescueing him.[2]
- Tuesday, November 15
- Doc repairs and "soups up" the unearthed DeLorean, building a new time circuit with vacuum tubes and transistors. He also fits the DeLorean with new whitewall tires, and installs fresh oversized batteries on his and Marty's walkie talkies.[2]
- Wednesday, November 16
- Marty and Doc drive to the Pohatchee Drive-In Theater, which Doc had chosen as the location to send Marty back to 1885 as there were no trees in either time at that location and because it was far enough away from Hill Valley that there would be minimal risk of the DeLorean being seen.[2]
- 10:20 a.m. Marty departs from 1955 to 1885.[2] This creates Timeline 13, which begins at Marty's entry point of 1885 and timeline 12 fades away.
- Saturday, November 12