

What this meant for Needles is unclear, although his causing Marty to get fired in 2015 may not come to pass - bearing in mind that the words "YOU'RE FIRED!!!" on the fax sent to Marty by Mr. Needles and his gang took off and were nearly the ones to hit the Rolls Royce, but they barely evaded an accident themselves through evasive steering. This time, however, Marty had learned from one of his family members not to lose his judgment because of name-calling and avoided the drag race by pretending to go through with it, thereby preventing the accident and changing the future. Just after Marty's return from 1885 to 1985, Needles (seen at age 17) met up with Marty and Jennifer at the point where he proposed the race along with his friends. It is also possible that Needles knew that Fujitsu would fire him if he went through with the crime, that he bribed him to keep his job. Since Fujitsu had monitored the transaction, and quickly fired Marty, he certainly would have fired anyone else involved in the scam. However, it is also possible Needles was smirking because of his supreme confidence in pulling off the scam, which may mean that Needles got his comeuppance by Mr. Whether Needles himself faced any consequences is unknown he seemed to be smirking as he hung up, indicating that he set Marty up. Fujitsu, was monitoring the entire transaction and fired Marty on the spot. Marty was hesitant at first, but went along with it when Needles called him " chicken".

Needles was attempting to convince Marty to join in on an illegal scam - which involved the use of Marty's CusCo credit card - to make more money. īy 2015, Needles and Marty had begun working together at a plant, with Needles possibly being in a higher position than Marty (similar to George and Biff in the first film). It was not known to Jennifer until they returned to 1985, however, that the race had been Needles' idea.
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The Rolls-Royce driver ended up pressing charges against Marty, who had broken his hand in the accident and would later give up on his music. Marty ended up crashing into a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I. On October 27, 1985, Needles was indirectly responsible for ruining Marty's life by manipulating him into racing their trucks. Non-canon or disputable information ends here. The clerk told Needles to either buy something or leave the store, whereupon Needles picked up a bag of Snacky Chips and threw it into the clerk's face, telling him to hold it for him while he browsed the store.Īfter Needles had finished harassing Marty and Jennifer, he picked up the bag of chips and threw it in the clerk's face once again, saying that he had changed his mind about buying the chips due to the cholesterol content. In 1984, Marty met Jennifer at Hill Valley's 7-Eleven and was going to ask her on a date when Needles interrupted them. This furthered Needles' grudge against Marty.


Needles overheard this and started his own band. Since Needles couldn't play his guitar and he was a showoff, Lee and Paul told Marty they didn't want him in the band. In 1979, Needles moved to Hill Valley from Bakersville, and bought his way into The Pinheads with his mother's money. Needles was born on August 6, 1968, and was raised in Bakersville to an unnamed father and mother Note: The following section is considered non-canon or is disputed in canonicity. Unlike Biff Tannen, who typically bullied Marty's father George into getting what he wanted, Needles appeared more of a rival to Marty who could goad and manipulate Marty into doing foolish things by calling him " chicken".Īccording to Needles' video telephone datafile in 2015, he lived at 88 Oriole Road A6TB-9 with his family. Needles (typically referred to as just Needles) was an acquaintance of Marty McFly and his girlfriend Jennifer Parker, though likely not a friend. He was supposed to be seventeen, wasn't he? They were all seniors in high school, weren't they? Then why did she keep seeing everybody the way they were in the dream?" -From Back to the Future Part III by Craig Shaw Gardner (quote, page 208)ĭouglas J. Sometimes Marty wondered if Needles ever left the office." -From Back to the Future Part II by Craig Shaw Gardner (quote, page 86) " Jennifer looked closer, and saw Needles behind the wheel - only now he was seventeen years old, not middle-aged like he he had been in the dream from the future. From the row of vidmemos behind him, Marty could tell the other man was still at his station at work. That was his home address not that Needles was ever home.
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Needles smiled his gap-toothed grin as his head and shoulders filled the rest of the video display and his identification code flashed on: NEEDLES, DOUGLAS J. " Hey, the big "M"! How's it hanging, McFly?" -Needles " He picked up the remote control and banished the art channel painting to the corner of the screen.
