| NOTE: This article is specifically about his main timeline self, as his Bad Future Counterpart is Near Pure Evil. |
| “ | What are you looking at, butt-head? | „ |
| ~ Biff Tannen's most famous quote. |
| “ | Hello! Hello! Anybody home? Huh? Think, McFly! Think! | „ |
| ~ Biff when beating George McFly with his knuckles or in 2015, with Marty McFly, the top of his cane. |
| “ | Now why don't you make like a tree... and get out of here. | „ |
| ~ Biff's way of saying "leave". |
Buford "Biff" Howard Tannen is the main antagonist of the Back to the Future trilogy. His 1955 self serves as the main antagonist of Back to the Future, the central antagonist of Back to the Future Part II and the overarching antagonist of Back to the Future Part III.
He was portrayed by Thomas F. Wilson, who also voiced The Tattletale Strangler in SpongeBob SquarePants.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
In General[]
- While he had an awful relationship with his grandmother, it does not make him tragic due to his problematic behavior.
Original Timeline[]
- Biff would constantly bully George and force him to do his homework for him.
- He often made advances on Lorraine, inappropriately touching her and assaulting her despite her protests.
- He would continue bullying and taking advantage of George as an adult, having him do Biff's paperwork for him to get himself promotions in the company they both worked at.
- He crashed George's car, claiming it had a blind spot when he was driving drunk, then forces George to pay for the damage with his insurance and to pay the cleaning for the bear he spilled on his jacket. This would inadvertently ruin Marty's plans to go to the lake with Jennifer.
Revised Timeline[]
- He makes another unwanted advance on Lorraine in the school cafeteria, and when Marty defends her, he nearly starts a fight with him and only stops when the principal arrives.
- When a group of kids arrive to get a ball, Biff decides to throw the ball onto the roof of another house out of spite.
- When he sees George in a diner, he threatens him into giving whatever money he had on him. Then, after Marty trips him, he goes after him with his gang and attempts to run him over with his car.
- At the dance, he confronts Marty and has his gang deal with Marty while he attempts to rape Lorraine. He pins her down in her own car, roughly grabs her boobs, and tries to forcibly pull off her dress.
- When George stands up for Lorraine and tells Biff to leave her alone, Biff attempts to break his arm in response, and when Lorraine feebly tries to stop him, Biff laughs in amusement.
- In 2015, he mocks Marty's son about his father being a complete failure in life, unaware he was talking to Marty himself.
- After learning that Doc Brown had created a time machine, he decides to go back into the past and give the Sports Almanac to his past self to make himself rich, which would create an alternate timeline where Biff is wealthy and corrupt and murdered George McFly.
- He's shown making another unwanted advance on Lorraine, yelling at her that she'd be his wife one day.
- Upon meeting his older self, assuming he was just a regular elderly man, 1955 Biff treats him disrespectfully solely out of being ageist.
- When Marty attempts to get the almanac back, Biff attempts to run him over again with his car not caring if Marty dies.
Why He Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- Although he crosses the baseline once by sexually abusing Lorraine in her car, he massively fails the heinous standard to his own dark counterpart. Resources don't matter when the margin between heinousness is so huge.
- He is extremely comedic, with his cartoonishly domineering, awkward, and eccentric traits constantly at the forefront of his character, such as saying metaphors incorrectly and him crashing into manure more than once. In fact, nearly all of his wrongdoings are played for laughs, with his Moral Event Horizon being his only sin of his that is played to be serious.
- In the revised timeline, he appears to have mellowed out and partially redeemed himself on account of being strongly humbled, starting his own auto detailing business, working for the McFly family, and appears to be genuinely affable towards George and Marty.
Trivia[]
- His Bad Future counterpart cannot apply as his actions are far more malicious and serious.
External Links[]
- Biff Tannen on the Villains Wiki
- The Bad Future version of Biff Tannen on the Near Pure Evil Wiki
- Biff Tannen on the Wikipedia
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