Back To The Future MAJOR Plot Hole?
  • j7wildj7wild
    Posts: 830
    At the beginning, Doc Brown says the DeLorean Flux Capacitor runs on Plutonium.

    He fueled the DeLorean with one Plutonium canister and then Marty used it to get away from the Libyan terrorists.

    Then the car died in 1955 on the road, right after his arrival and escape from Mr. Peabody Pines Farm. and he had to push it behind the construction sign of his future home's neighborhood because he couldn't get it to start.

    Doc Brown also had to use a trailer to tow the DeLorean to the street by the Clock Tower (remember the Police Officer asking Doc what was under the tarp on the trailer?)

    So, how the heck was Marty able to start the DeLorean to drive down the street to reach the necessary speed to hit the electric wire at the same time the lighting strikes?

    The DeLorean is supposed to be dead!!
  • BennyBenny
    Posts: 1,613
    The car runs on regular gasoline j7.
    This is mentioned in one of the films in the trilogy. For someone who works in the dvd / entertainment industry a question like this is almost baffling.
    Have you never seen the other films? If not I am truly appalled.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi
    Posts: 5,837
    The FC makes the time jump possible. The car itself rides on gasoline, as Benny pointed out. What is required, however, is not plutonium but the energy generated through the nuclear fission of said plutonium. However, if the required amounts of energy can be supplied some other way, the FC can still work. Lightning is a generous supplier of energy and so the way they figured out how to make the FC work in the absence of Pu is nothing short of brilliant. ;;)
  • j7wildj7wild
    Posts: 830
    no need to bite my head off!!

    I've seen all 3 movies many many times but it's been over 10 years since I've seen the trilogy and I forgot about the car running on gasoline.

    Last night I decided to rewatch the first film and I haven't had the time to watch the other two.

    Therefore, it is natural to thing there is a plot hole; furthermore, even if I was watching the first film for the very first time, it is also natural to think there is a plot hole.

    I don't think Gasoline is mentioned in the first film and if it is, I must have missed it.

    Furthermore, even if the car does run on Gasoline, Marty was not able to restart it after it died when it arrived in 1955 and Doc had to tow it to his lab.

    We didn't see Doc repair the car starter system so still, it is technically still a plot hole!!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi
    Posts: 5,837
    To be fair, @j7, it is suggested, since Doc has the car in his 'lab', that he's handling all the required repairs during most of the film's second act. Something so trivial shouldn't be visually forced upon us when more interesting things can happen - and do happen - on screen. I don't so much see plot holes as I do the inevitable time paradox BTTF shares with The Terminator. But I give it a pass for that since the film is so enjoyable.
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