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Martin "Marty" McFly is a fictional character, the lead character in the Back to the Future
motion picture trilogy, played by actor Michael J. Fox in the three films and voiced by David Kaufman in the animated series.

Marty was born in 1968 in Hill Valley, California. He is the youngest of three children to George and Lorraine McFly. He has a brother Dave, sister Linda and girlfriend Jennifer Parker. His best friend is mad scientist Dr. Emmett Brown, whom Marty calls "Doc". There is a slight impression that Marty is slightly embarrassed by his family and does not spend much time at home, preferring to hang out with Doc, Jennifer or the guys in his musical band, The Pinheads.

Marty is an easy going adolescent most of the time. He is not the best student academically but his grades are fairly good, although he does have a tendency to be late for school. He plays lead guitar with The Pinheads and likes listening to Huey Lewis and the News and Eddie Van Halen. He is also a talented skateboarder.

When faced with danger, Marty is always brave and can be very resourceful and clever. His only major character flaw is his persistent desire to show others that he isn't a coward, which sometimes causes him to take unecessary risks. However, by the end of Back to the Future Part III, Marty has realized that he doesn't need to constantly prove his bravery and avoids one of the greatest tragedies in his life, a collision with a Rolls-Royce that would have ruined his ability to play the guitar.

Pre-Back to the Future

Little is known about Marty's life prior to the first Back to the Future film, except for the fact that he set the living room rug on fire when he was 8. How exactly Marty and Doc met has never been explained, although a draft script for the first film states that 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 however as it contradicts the characterizations of Marty and Doc we see in the finished film. Co-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 attracted to eccentric or mysterious neighbors.

==Back to the Future
== By the time of the first film, it is 1985 and Marty is 17 years old. On the night of October 26, 1985, Marty meets Doc at the Twin Pines Mall parking lot. Doc demonstrates his new invention - a time machine built into a DeLorean. The demonstration is interrupted by the arrival of a group of angry Libyan terrorists. The Libyans had provided Doc with the plutonium to build a nuclear weapon for them, but Doc instead used it to provide the DeLorean with the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity needed for time travel.

Marty attempts to escape from the Libyans in the DeLorean, only to find himself transported back to November 5, 1955, where he accidentally interferes with the first meeting between his future parents. Using the alias "Calvin Klein" (his teenaged mother sees the name printed on his underwear and assumes it is Marty's name), Marty meets up with the 1955 version of Doc and enlists his help. Marty must try to get his parents to fall in love, or they will never marry and Marty will never be born. This is no easy task, as his mother has a crush on him and his father is too scared to ask her out!

On the night of November 12, 1955, Marty takes his mother to the Enchantment Under The Sea dance. He and his father have agreed to a plan that will allow George to win Lorraine's heart by "saving" her from Marty's staged aggressive behavior. Unfortunately, Marty has made an enemy of high school bully Biff Tannen, and Biff shows up at the dance looking for revenge. When George comes to "rescue" Lorraine, he finds that instead of having to pretend to save her from Marty, he now has to really save her from Biff. George punches Biff, standing up to a bully for the first time in his life, and George and Lorraine fall in love.

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