Talk:Emmett Brown

message: Marty not only saw Clara as a distraction, but was worried they had terribly altered history by saving her (she was supposed to fall of the cliff, which in the future [1985] the cliff had been named for her). Should this be added? --Wack'd About Wiki 16:18, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Um, actually it was Doc who was paranoid over saving Clara. Marty was like, "So they don't name the ravine after her, so what?" Glickmam 06:50, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marty's Vision of Clara 

message: When was this canonically established in the movies?  The only clue I've seen is in the animated series, which places his birth year in 1922 (as it said that Doc was 4 in 1926 when he became "Daredevil Brown")  (EmiOfBrie 01:54, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Doc's Birth Year?

message: Could they have put a worse picture of Doc on this page?
I agree, you used the picture of him right after he got shot with a bullet-proof vest on, which obviously doesn't look like Doc as much. Just look at more common pictures of Doc.
*I've captioned two pictures I believe to be better. Feel free to revert if not satisfied. Lucius Hofmann 01:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doc's Picture 

message: Doctor Emmett Brown → Emmett Brown … Rationale: Usually, a person's title is not in the page's title. Sure, he is a doctor, but how many other pages are like this? -Platypus Man | Talk 04:33, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move 

message: Where is it ever mentioned that Doc is a Democrat? marbeh raglaim 16:43, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fictional United States Democrat? 

message: This paragraph "Doc presumably remembered, but kept this memory secret from the "new" Marty of the positively altered timeline until the "original" Marty returned to the altered 1985." is pure speculation. Before the first jump the events were as though Marty had never been in 1955 so this discounts the idea that the Doc knew Marty before he was born in the first time-line (If you consider there are two in part 1 pre-jump and post-jump). This is a matter for interpretation though so I'll leave it open for discussion but the article shouldn't be used to propose ideas. Dnel (talk) 16:51, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  How Doc met Marty 

message: In the paragraph "He is also known for his inability to understand a figure-of-speech, a notable example is when Marty tells him that the situation sounds "heavy" (meaning that it sounds difficult)", the only time Doc misunderstood the word "heavy" is in 1955 which suggests more his misunderstanding of 1985 colloquialisms not his misunderstanding of figures-of-speech, the 1985 Doc had no difficulty understanding Marty using this term, so I will remove this paragraph as I believe it is in error.Dnel (talk) 16:54, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Docs misunderstanding of figure-of-speach 

message: Time traveler?: Yes Brando26000 (talk) 22:59, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standard Procedure? 

message: Chris Lloyd also recorded new scenes for a slot machine, especially notable as they were written and directed by Bob Gale. I don't know what actually happens in the scenes or if they even have any storyline elements but maybe someone else does....  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.208.192.93 (talk) 15:44, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Back to the Future Video Slots 

message: It should count because despite being in a different media, uses Christopher Lloyd for Doc and Bob Gale in the team for the game! Only lacks Fox due to his poor health and Zemeckis due to film commitments.
(The plot also continues six months after BTTF 3 in 1986!)
The trailers give SOME of the story away, gamers keep your eyes out after the 22nd December 2010 when the game releases to add to the section!
Story points in the trailer:
*Marty will end up in 1914.
*Marty will meet a young Doc his age (17).
*Old Doc will be trapped in jail for some unknown reason.
Sam Timmins (talk) 18:12, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "Emmett was born on November 15, 1924 to Mr. Brown and Sarah Lathrop".  According to this, it means that Doc is 61 in 1985.  He didn't look like a 61 years old guy?  In fact, Lloyd was 46 at that time; a 15 years difference!  That's why I believe that any information not coming from the movies is junk. -- Lyverbe (talk) 21:54, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  No '''BTTF The Game''' [by Telltale Games] information?! 

message: If Doc was indeed born in 1914 as the article suggests (although it seems some sources place his birth in the 1920's), his birth name would have been Emmett Von Braun, since as Doc notes in BTTF3, the family name was changed to Brown because of World War I. The US entered WWI in 1917, when Emmett would have been 3 years of age. --JamesReyes (talk) 13:29, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth Name 

message: * Oppose: I fail to see why it should be part of the article's title.  I believe a redirect is enough and adequate. -- Lyverbe (talk) 18:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It occurred to me, but that currently redirects to the dab Dr Brown, so it would involve a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC claim that doesn't seem likely to succeed. --BDD (talk) 16:16, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: The infobox mentions 1888 as one of the years Doc has canonically visited. The year doesn't appear anywhere else in the article, and since many years were visited in the cartoon series that go unmentioned in the infobox, then where does that information come from? I suppose it's from a novelization or background information by Gale & Zemeckis about what year Doc calls home by the time he's built the hovertrain and goes to pay Marty a last visit in 1985 (though I doubt that he pretty much reverse-engineered both time travel and hovercraft technology with 1880s frontier-town resources within but three years, so I guess that Doc has lived his 30 extra years he's been given by rejuvenation therapies in 2015 and it's now 1915 for him, rather). In any case, it should be noted what source material that information comes from. --2003:56:6D1B:C671:A1D7:27D:834F:358D (talk) 02:10, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point.  I don't know where that year comes from either. -- Lyverbe (talk) 11:21, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  1888? 

message: I saw that the words are written on this article:
"Marty convinces the 1955 Doc that he has returned by showing him the letter he received from the 1885 Doc. Doc describes where the disabled DeLorean is hidden, and instructs Marty to return directly to 1985, to avoid "unnecessary time travel". However, the accidental discovery of the 1885 Doc's tombstone reveals that Doc was shot days after he wrote the letter, which convinces Marty and the 1955 Doc that Marty must attempt to rescue him." 
The 1955 Doc didn't go to 1885 with Marty using the DeLorean time machine, Is this untrue? pbp  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.191.185.252 (talk) 14:54, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  BTW