At the end of Part 1, Marty returns to 1985 altered by his existence in 1955. Everyone recognizes him as their Marty and his life is better off than in his prime universe. In this universe there should be two Martys. But there isn't.
Switching universes does not automatically delete your doppelganger in that universe (assuming you also exist in that universe.) Case in point: In Part 2 of the series, Doc and Marty travel back in time from 2015 to 1985A, also known as Hell Valley or Bifftopia. But in this universe, Marty is away at boarding school overseas and Doc is locked in a mental institution. They do not assume the identities of this universe's Doc and Marty. When they arrive in the DeLorean, Marty is not transported overseas and Doc is not locked in a padded cell. We are left to assume that this universe's Doc and Marty are left to be just that and stay in their respective locations and states of mind. They have no knowledge of what another universe's Doc and Marty are doing in their own. We are left to deduct that the series treats our Doc and Marty (also Jennifer) as primes. They are the originals that can come, go, and alter things for better or for worse.
And yet Marty Prime assumes the Marty identity of the new 1985 timeline. Where is this universe's Marty? All others in this universe know him. They have the same wants and desires (4x4 Toyotas and Jennifer) and they occupy the same time and place. But there should be two. Marty should have woken up (in that awkward pose) next to his doppelganger. When there were two Martys in 1955, he did not assume his own identity. Likewise, though it is never shown, Jennifer may have existed twice in the 1985A universe. She was left on the porch of a house in this universe and is found on the same porch in another universe. Doc states that she will be transferred, suggesting she is a Prime. But she can't be as she is not the Jennifer from the original, unaltered universe. A different actress, sure, but the same person. She transferred universes without a DeLorean...? How?
So this altered 1985 universe has a Marty exactly like Marty Prime. We know this because we saw him. Briefly, but we saw him. Marty Prime decides to go back a few minutes earlier to warn Doc about the Libyans. Well, the wrecks the DeLorean and it refuses to start again. So he runs to the Lone Pine Mall just in time to see Doc get shot by the Libyans. But someone yells "No!" It's this universe's Marty! We then see him out run the terrorists and at 88mph, he vanishes somewhere in time.
What year he arrives is not known. Now, we know the Doc of this universe is familiar with time travel. He knew about the DeLorean and Marty and getting shot and killed on this night. Being a friend of this universe's Marty, he must also know how different George and Lorraine's life is. And by association, this Marty does not have the same problems as Marty Prime, whom this Doc befriended 30 years earlier for a week. He has been aware of this night for 30 years (he even saw part of it on video.) We would assume that he would have to send this Marty back in time in order to complete the logic. If Doc didn't send him back, then he couldn't come back. But he didn't have to do that since this is a different Marty that arrives back to the future anyway.
Here I figure Doc may have done one of two things:
1. Prepare this universe's Marty with the knowledge of how to get his parents together exactly the way the Marty Prime did so as not to affect the way this universe turns out. But here's the problem with this scenario: There would be two Martys in 1955 and that would further mess things up as they would be from different universes. This would probably freak out Marty Prime (who at this moment is unaware of the multiverse.) The other Marty may have this knowledge from Doc and just stayed out of the way. Doc packs extra plutonium rods and Marty comes back to 1985 having affected nothing and stays out of history's way. But then there would be two Martys in 1985. Marty Prime (more or less an alien) and this Marty calling it home. One does not belong here and it's Marty Prime. Doc must know this, so check this out:
2. Doc sacrifices this altered universe's Marty to time! Where or when he goes is completely unknown except by this Doc (who goes through the rest of series apparently unconcerned with the Marty he left to fend for himself in somewhere in time.) That Marty is just gone. What ever date he typed in is where that Marty went to. Suppose he went to December 25, 0000 to witness the birth of Christ? Or see the signing of the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence? Those are two dates Doc Prime typed in before settling on November 5, 1955. Or he does get sent back to 1955 and alters things another way so as to affect another outcome resulting in his return to another future in a different universe. It's hard to say. We have no idea what happened to that Marty.
Doc may. But he doesn't seem to be worried about it. He doesn't seem to be concerned that there is another DeLorean time machine that he created traveling through the multiverse potentially disrupting future events and interacting with the multiverse's doppelgangers. How do we know that the 2015 they travel to in Part 2 of the series isn't the result of the affects of this altered 1985 Marty's time travel?
Maybe that is why that year is only a mere three years away (alright, almost 4) and they are so much more technologically advanced. The DeLorean or some component thereof was discovered in the past and exploited and retro-engineered to lead the way to the technological benefit of the future. Our universe currently has no ambition for hoverboards, flying capability (or conversion) for our cars, or even tiny pizzas that become big pizzas in a second. What's up, our universe?
Worst case scenario, of course, is that the altered 1985 Marty comes to realize that his Doc sacrificed him to the expanse of time for the sake of a Marty he barely knew. That this Marty would become jaded, and therefore evil, and set about destroying every Doc in the multiverse after using his intelligence to enhance his own. With an army of Martys he has recruited from the multiverse to aide his cause in an effort to find Marty Prime and take his place.
There can be only one.
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