In a Deleted Scene, Marty McFly Makes a Homophobic Comment

Great Scott!

It ended up where?!

What if I end up going back to the future and I end up being gay?"

A custom image of Michael J. Fox’s Marty McFly from Back to the Future in front of cartoon flames

Image by Annamaria Ward

In 1985, it sadly wasn’t a big deal to make a homophobic comment in a movie.

Marty McFly is one of film’s most loved heroes.

If the deleted scene had stayed in, how we look at the character would have changed.

Custom image of Marty McFly against a lightning background

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Doc Brown and Marty McFly looking ahead with shocked expressions in Back to the Future

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Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

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Michael J. Fox