topiarest.blogg.se - Back to the future 2 biff

Chances are, since no one else saw it, he probably reasoned away with "probably just a weird-looking helicopter". Sure, it would have thrown Biff immediately afterwards, but it's not like he got that good a look at it before it disappeared, and it took him another thirty years to join the dots together. The human mind is actually pretty good at wiping away 'inconsistencies'.

An unidentified flying object? People tend to look at you funny when you bring those up.Obviously everything by that point was already wrapped up with Biff's storyline, but it is a minor plot hole. But the next time we see this version of Biff (which is chronologically one day later from his POV), he's acting totally normal and doesn't seem to have remembered the flying car at all. Biff sees the DeLorean take off and vanish into thin air, and is clearly baffled and disturbed by this.

While Biff may not literally own the city, it seems he is at least attempting to do so.

The dad from that family that lived in Marty's house yells that they are not going to sell, no matter how much the "company" (which must be BiffCO) terrorizes them.

The Tank was mannned by HVPD in SWAT gear, probably to make sure the bikers didn't get too out of control and/or damage the town/hotel.

Plus, we saw that he has armed thugs riding on tank in plain view patrolling around his hotel.

Biff managed to build a massive hotel-casino AND a toxic-waste reclamation plant in a residential area.

Nixon is forever indebted to him, and as a result, Biff's rise to power is greatly expedited thanks to having President Nixon as his ally. As for the federal government, the Biff to the Future comics states he accidentally saves Richard Nixon's career by buying the Washington Post and firing Woodward and Bernstein, thereby strangling the Watergate investigation in its cradle. He buys off the cops so that they'll turn a blind eye to his crimes and he buys off officials to get them to do things that will give advantages to him and his business.

Biff hasn't literally taken over the city / state and overthrown its government with an army like a warlord or anything, but he is hugely wealthy, and money buys influence.

How did Biff get SO powerful in 1985-A? Even if he was the richest person in the world it doesn't seem like he would be able to take over the whole city (or maybe even the whole state) without the federal government stepping in.