Marty McFly

Marty McFly is the protagonist of the *Back to the Future* film trilogy, a teenager who accidentally travels through time in a DeLorean car.

The character, played by Michael J.

Fox, has become a cultural touchstone for time travel fiction.

References to Marty McFly often invoke nostalgia, 1980s pop culture, or the paradoxes of altering the past: He showed up dressed like Marty McFly for Halloween.

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