Emmett Brown

Dr. Emmett Lathrop Brown, also known as Emmett Brown and Doc Brown, is the iconic deuteragonist of the Back To The Future series.
== Charactah Account ==
Emmett was the inventor of the DeLorean time machine. He is the world's third time traveler (after Einstein and Marty McFly), the second to travel forwards in time (after Einstein), the first human to travel forwards in time, and the second human to travel through time (after Marty).
Doc is a highly intelligent, kinky scientist who is passionate about science, but is quite bonkers, almost to be a point of being pretty insane, as he has taken part in actually stealing plutonium, and having terrorists come after him. Despite his peculiarity, Doc does care about those he's close to. He's kind, supportive, encouraging and plays as a positive mentor to Marty, to a point of actually being quite fatherly. Though Doc is incredibly shrewd and inventive, he could be absent-minded at times, and was regarded by many of Hill Valley's townsfolk as abnormal or as a crazy mad scientist. As such, he had few friends (the only known friends were his dog, Marty McFly, and Marty's girlfriend Jennifer Parker). Because of this, Doc was often seen as a loner, However, Doc cared about the people he was close to. Doc did not believe in "love at first sight" until he ended up meeting his future wife Clara Clayton in 1885, since he did not see how such a feeling worked.
As a scientist and a time traveler, he takes his job very seriously. Doc often worked through the night on his inventions and could become obsessed with little things. He would always try to use a big word rather than a small one if one is available – for example, he referred to a dance as a "rhythmic ceremonial ritual". He could also be a showoff with his knowledge, as when he saw a dinosaur tooth and identified it as a "third incisor from the apex of the dental bridge". Doc often used the phrase "Great Scott!" as an exclamation. He also liked jazz music, Jules Verne novels and Western. Green was his favorite color, one that he found soothing. Although he had a perchance to gamble, he would never use time travel for that reason. Doc did not usually drink alcoholic beverages, since he had a tendency to pass out after just one drink, especially when that drink was whiskey. He was allergic to all synthetic fabrics.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Back to the Future: The Animated Series
* Back to the Future: The Animated Series Season 2
=== Comics ===
* Back To the Future
* Back To The Future: Biff To The Future
* Back To The Future: Citizen Brown
* Back To The Future: Continuum Conundrum
* Back To The Future: Forward to the Future
* Back To The Future: Hard Time
* Back To The Future: Tales From the Time Train
* Back To The Future: The Heavy Collection
* Back To The Future: Time Served
* Back To The Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines
* Back To The Future: Who Is Marty McFly?
* Ninja High School: Indie Wars
* Super!
* Transformers/Back to the Future
=== Literature ===
* Back to the Future
* Back to the Future Part II
* Back to the Future Part III
* Back to the Future: The Story
=== Movies ===
* Back to the Future
* Back to the Future Part II
* Back to the Future Part III
=== Video Games ===
* Back to the Future
* Back to the Future Part II
* Back to the Future Part II & III
* Back to the Future Part III
* Back to the Future: The Game
* Funko Pop! Blitz
* LEGO Dimensions
* Pinball FX
* Pinball FX3
* Super Back to the Future II
== Trivia ==
* Writer Bob Gale has denied the rumor that the name Emmett Lathrop was derived by spelling the words "time" and "portal" backwards. He and Robert Zemeckis simply chose names that sounded good and were out of the ordinary, as a contrast with the common last name "Brown".
* The "L" in Emmett L. Brown's name stands for "Lathrop", it has been speculated that this may have been his mother's maiden name, although there is no evidence for this.
* The novelization and screenplays states that he is 65 in 1985, although an episode of the animated series claims he was born in 1922. In Back to the Future: The Game, Emmett is 17 in 1931, which means that he was born in 1914.
* "Christopher Lloyd says that his model for creating the character was actually the conductor Leopold Stokowski, with the hair that way, and the big, broad gestures. Doc Brown walks around like he's conducting the orchestra of the world." - Bob Gale
* In addition Albert Einstein was an influence to the character
* It has been speculated that "Doc" is supposed to be a relative of real-life scientist Wernher von Braun.
* Doc's family was presumably from the German Empire or Austria-Hungary.
* First Citizen Brown's balding and spectacled appearance in the game looked similar to Christopher Lloyd's real-life appearance as in the 2010s.
* The exterior of Doc Brown's 1955 house at the beginning of the film is actually the Gamble House in Pasadena, California.
* The interior of Doc Brown's 1955 Mansion is the Blacker House. It was built by architects Charles Greene and Henry Greene; the same architects that built the Gamble House.
* Robert Zemeckis, co-writer/director of the films, has suggested that during the early 1940s, Doc worked on the Manhattan Project (which could explained the reason why the Libyan terrorists specifically picked Doc to build them a nuclear weapon), though this is never mentioned on screen.
* In a 2002 question and answer session at USC for the DVD of Back to the Future, Zemeckis said that John Lithgow had been considered for the role of Doc Brown, but Lithgow was unavailable. Producer Neil Canton, who had recently worked with Lithgow on The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, suggested Christopher Lloyd, who had been in the film as well.
* In the 2009 documentary Looking Back to the Future, one of the features on the 2009 DVD re-release of Back to the Future, Zemeckis said that Jeff Goldblum, who had also been in Buckaroo Banzai, was the next choice if Lloyd declined the role.
* Lloyd, in the 2009 documentary, said that he had an offer for an off-Broadway theatrical production at the same time that he would be filming Back to the Future, and debated whether to appear on stage, or portraying Doc Brown.
* Doc owns a clock that is shown at the beginning of Back to the Future Part I that shows an old man in a jacket and a hat hanging on to the minute hand just like the 1955 Doc later on in the movie and also resembled Harold Lloyd (no relation) in "Safety Last".
* If one looks very closely at each time Doc is shot by the Libyans, the second time has a very obvious difference to show that he didn't really die. The first Doc (with no knowledge) gets fired upon so much, he literally balances on one foot before toppling over backwards. The second Doc (with the foresight to wear the vest) merely waves up his arms and then falls backwards using his arms for some cushion.
* Strangely enough, the first time Doc is shot by the Libyans, there is no blood at all, when it should have painted Doc's van (one could conclude he had the vest because it could have been a predestination paradox). However, one likely explanation is that when Doc first died, he was sent recoiling by the gunfire and landed on the parking lot pavement, thus any blood could have seeped there. However, the film producers likely did not want to focus on blood as that was not that crucial to the plot, only that Marty must now go back in time to warn the younger Doc. Other likely explanation is not wishing to jeopardize their overall family-friendly image of the film by risking it getting rated "PG-13" or "R".
* Christopher Lloyd got nominated for Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for Doc (BTTF1).
* The brief "Hi" that Doc and Lorraine give each other, after Lorraine follows Marty to Doc's garage (besides being the only time in any of the three films that Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson share a scene), is the only time that Doc directly interacts with any member of the McFly family, aside from Marty, on-screen. Doc did supposedly incapacitate Marty McFly, Jr. with his sleep inducer in 2015, but this occurred off-screen.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Emmett Brown at Futurepedia
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