Marty McFly

Martin Seamus "Marty" McFly is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Back to the Future franchise. He is a high school student who accidentally becomes a time traveler and alters history after his friend Emmett Brown invents a DeLorean time machine. Canadian actor Michael J. Fox portrays him in the film trilogy, while various actors have portrayed or voiced him in other media. In the animated series, David Kaufman voices him, and in the video game developed and published by Telltale Games, he is voiced by A. J. Locascio, while Fox makes vocal cameos as his future counterparts. Olly Dobson played him in the original stage musical adaptation (the West End production), and Casey Likes currently plays him in the Broadway production. In 2019, Empire magazine selected McFly as the 12th Greatest Movie Character of All Time. Biography Marty McFly is the Back to the Future protagonist. Born in Hill Valley, California, he is a part of the McFly family of Irish descent. Little is known about the character's life before the first Back to the Future film, except that he set fire to the living room rug when he was 8 years old (in a statement of Marty's to his future parents). Despite never explicitly being explained in the film, Bob Zemeckis confirmed that Marty met his friend Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown when he was around 14 after hearing that Brown was a dangerous lunatic. Marty wanted to go and see what it was all about for himself. He snuck into Doc's lab and was fascinated by all his inventions. When Doc caught him, he was glad to have someone interested in his work, and their friendship began.