Talk:Back to the Future

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Back to the Future: The Game

I don't get the reasoning behind not including Marty and Trixie from the game in this article. They're from the Back to the Future franchise, and they're appearances aren't just passing references (Marty's accused of murdering a H*R character and Trixie is mentioned in a conversation between Max, Strong Bad, Tycho, and the Heavy). The adventure game is an official continuation of the series taking place after the Back to the Future movies, which was approved by Universal and overseen by Back to the Future co-creator Bob Gale. I fail to see how these references don't fit here. Jennifer 01:38, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

This article is about H*R referencing Back to the Future. Back to the Future referencing H*R are considered Sightings. At least that's what I know. — Ngamer01 03:22, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

I don't have a strong opinion on this one, but I would like to point out it's not as cut and dried as Ngamer01 makes it seem. On the one hand, we have to presume that the Chaps had some kind of input here—or at the very least gave their approval for their characters to be used. On the other hand, it doesn't fit on the page as neatly as a reference made on the official site does. — It's dot com 04:27, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Complicating matters is the fact that Trixie would not actually be introduced into Back to the Future until February 2011 (in "Get Tannen"), when Poker Night was released before then. I'm extremely leery about Poker Night references to anything Telltale, especially stuff that hadn't been released yet. --Jay (Gobble) 07:35, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

In my opinion, even that would still be approved by The Brothers Chaps, since the copyright holders of the characters played the game before release (since Penny Arcade posted a blog about them playing Poker Night at the Inventory before it was out to the public). The brothers chaps would have seen Trixie, Sam, Monty Muzzle, Bluster Blaster, and Flint Paper there. They could have complained about all or any of those references, or complained that they didn't want Strong Bad in a game with a character that was an advertisement for a future game (since they could have brought up Trixie's model if they had concerns because it was fairly obvious she was a model from a future game), but since all those references appeared in the final game, it's safe to say those references were all approved by the Brothers Chaps (the same goes for the characters in the PAX cartoons or the images in the Behind the Bad videos). Jennifer 06:50, 12 April 2011 (UTC)