The trilogy of Return to the future It is absolutely legendary and we have each of the tapes recorded on our retinas. However, there are details that we may overlook, since there are many references to the temporary changes produced by Marty and Doc’s continuous travels.
However, the most radical change occurred in Back to the Future 2, since Biff Tannen obtains the precious sports almanac with which he makes gold betting on sports competitions. Returning from 2015 to 1985, the two protagonists discover that Hill Valley has become a place full of crime and decay. Biff is the lord and master of the place, and he has become the richest man in the United States.
George McFly is dead, Lorraine is married against her will to Biff and everything is an absolute disaster that the couple must fix. While it is explained to us How did this alternative timeline come about?, Doc shows Marty a newspaper in which it is revealed that his self from that time has been locked up in a psychiatric facility. The future of all of them is very unflattering, but it is precisely at this moment when we can see a peculiar detail.
Pausing the tape at 54 minutes and 54 seconds, we can calmly see the publication to read that “Nixon will run for a fifth term. He promises to end the Vietnam War in 1985.” That is to say, the president of the North American country in this alternative 1985 is still Richard Nixon, who lasted much less in the White House. Here you can see the sequence.
Let us remember that Nixon was elected to office in 1969 and resigned in 1974 after being involved in the Watergate scandal. As if that were not enough, the headline also refers to the fact that The conflict in Vietnam is not over either.. In reality it was developed from 1955 to 1975, so in Back to the Future 2 It has lasted at least 10 more years and the United States would continue fighting on Asian soil.
To give an explanation for the reason that Nixon continues to sit in the Oval Office, it surely has to do with the fact that in this alternative line Watergate was never made known. Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis have never explained this, although it has been clarified through the cómic Biff to the Futurewritten by Gale, that Nixon won the presidency in 1984 and finally rejected his re-election in the 1988 elections.
Therefore, everything seems to be a simple joke to show that changes as subtle as who owns an almanac can have repercussions on political and historical levels. There are those who have wanted link the universe of Watchmen with that of Back to the Future 2, since both share the same year and the peculiarity that Nixon is in power. Besides, Watchmen It began to be published in 1986 and the futuristic film was released in 1989, so one could think of a certain influence.
Inspiration cannot be ruled out, although the theory that the Comedian roams freely around Hill Valley falls apart. If Nixon remained president in Alan Moore’s graphic novel, it was because he won the Vietnam War thanks to the intervention of Dr. Manhattan. All of this a week after his first election, something that does not happen in this 1985 version.
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