Martin Seamus "Marty" McFly is a fictional character in the Back to the Future trilogy.
He is portrayed by actor Michael J. Fox.
Marty also appears in the animated series, where he was voiced by David Kaufman.
In the videogame by Telltale Games, he is voiced by A.J Locascio; in addition, Fox voiced
Marty's future counterparts at the end of the game.
In 2008, Marty McFly was selected by Empire magazine as the 39th Greatest Movie Character
of All Time.
Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty McFly, but after five weeks of shooting scenes for
the first film, director Robert Zemeckis and executive producer Steven Spielberg chose
to re-cast the role to Fox.
Biography Marty was born in Hill Valley, California
in 1968 to a family of Irish descent.
Little is known about Marty's life prior to the first Back to the Future film, except
for the fact that he set fire to the living-room rug when he was 8 years old.
In 1985, Marty plays guitar with his group The Pinheads and likes listening to Huey Lewis
and the News, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Van Halen.
He is also a talented skateboarder and proven to be an excellent shot with a gun, honed
by endlessly playing shooting games such as Wild Gunman at his local 7-Eleven.
Although Marty is often accident-prone and sometimes thought to lack critical thinking
skills, he is nevertheless brave in the face of danger and can be very quick-witted and
intelligent.
He has shown some good and basic street fighting skills and often throws punches in hand-to-hand
confrontations.
He is loyal to his family and friends, regardless of whether or not he is estranged with them.
His major character flaw is his pride, which causes him to take unnecessary risks to show
others that he is not a chicken, as demonstrated at various points throughout the trilogy.
However, during a visit in 1885, when his ancestor Seamus McFly points out that his
brother, Martin, was killed in an argument when someone questioned his bravery, Marty
began to re-think his stance on what other people thought of him.
Doc even had at one point implied that Marty could possibly have a similar fate, leading
Marty to become more apprehensive of his actions.
Biff Tannen's great-grandfather, Buford, goaded Marty into a showdown, which ended with Marty
victorious over Buford.
However, the experience from this event in addition of following Seamus's examples, changed
Marty.
This was highlighted when, despite Marty's rival from school Needles's attempts, Marty
refused to race him, thus avoiding an "automobile accident" involving a Rolls-Royce.
Marty learned how to base his decisions and actions on his own terms instead of being
influenced by others, therefore changing his future for the better.
Family Marty McFly is the youngest of three children
from George McFly and Lorraine Baines-McFly.
He has a brother Dave McFly and a sister Linda McFly.
His secondary entourage consists of girlfriend Jennifer Parker and best friend Emmett Brown,
a scientist whom Marty and Jennifer call "Doc."
There is an impression that Marty is embarrassed by his family and does not spend much time
at home, preferring to hang out with Doc, Jennifer, or the guys in his band, The Pinheads.
However, Marty's relationships with his family changed after he returns from 1955, with him
no longer being estranged with his parents and his father is a successful writer in the
alternate timeline he inadvertently created.
Marty also meets his great-great paternal grandparents Seamus and Maggie, when he was
stranded in 1885.
He also meets their infant son William, Marty's great grandfather.
Through his interaction with Seamus and Maggie, Marty discovers that Seamus had a brother
named Martin, thus Marty's great-great granduncle, who died prior of the events of the third
film.
How exactly Marty and Doc met has never been explained, although a draft script for the
first film states that, in 1983, Doc turned up at Marty's garage one day and offered him
$50 a week, plus free beer and use of his record collection, to clean his garage.
This explanation is not accepted by most fans, as it contradicts the characterizations of
Marty and Doc as seen in the finished film.
Writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale say they once considered expanding on their relationship,
but decided against it, reasoning that children and adolescents are often drawn to eccentric
or mysterious neighbors.
By 2015, Marty has married his girlfriend Jennifer and they had twins, Martin "Marty"
Jr. and Marlene, who were born on April 28, 1998.
However, the events at the end of Back To The Future Part III, where Marty avoided the
race with Needles, may affect the outcome of events as seen in Part II.
Aliases Marty has had many false names through the
Back to the Future series, usually because of encountering his relatives at some point;
including Lorraine mistakenly thinking his name is Calvin Klein.
In Part I, Marty uses the alias of "Darth Vader, an extraterrestrial from the Planet
Vulcan" while wearing a radiation suit to coerce George into asking Lorraine out to
the dance.
In Part III, Marty claims to be "Clint Eastwood" when asked for a name first by Seamus McFly
and later by Buford Tannen.
He also has used the name Sonny Crockett/Harry Callahan/Michael Corleone.
Marty also posed as his son Marty Jr..
in Part II.
Since in Italy and Spain Calvin Klein was practically unknown in 1985, the alias was
changed into "Levi's Strauss", a well known logo for Italian and Spanish teens in the
1980s.
Similarly, in France the name was changed into "Pierre Cardin".
References
External links
Media related to Marty McFly at Wikimedia Commons
Marty McFly at the Internet Movie Database