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Character Profile
Name: Emmett Brown
Series: Back to the Future (OU)
Age: Between 70 and 80
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Between the end of the 3th movie and the start of the Video Game
Background Link: Emmett Brown – Back to the Future Wiki
Abilities: None, unless you count intelligence as an ability.
Personality: Eccentric, crazy and weird- Your average mad scientist. That’s what most people think of Doc anyway, and while there is a lot more to the character, that’s not so far from the truth. His general appearance in itself is unusual: white and neglected hair, he often wears strange clothes- Either because they come from the past or future, either because he needs to protect himself from nuclear radiation. He is absent minded at times and many of his inventions end up in failure. And when he invents something that works, either it’s small and meaningless, or that’s something that can change the face of the world, like, a time machine.
But that would be for someone who does not know him at all. In fact, if you take time to know him, Doc is a very kind man who cares very much about his friends, even though he has only three (and one of them is a dog). As you can see, he doesn’t make new friends easily. It’s not like if he even tried, and most people won’t try to approach him anyway, thinking he is either mad or delusional. And when he gets to speak with someone? He speaks with technical terms; his gestures are akin to that of a conductor, and he’s overall a very expressive man. This may weird out most people.
When he’s excited? You’ll see it. When he is surprised or angered, you’ll see it as well. When he’s sad though? He’ll try to hide it, but since he might end up doing stupid things out of sadness, you’ll see it anyway. Like inventing new and weird stuff, walking atop buildings, or going to drink unhealthy quantities of alcohol.
Speaking of his friends, he’ll go to great length to help them, make them happy and quite simply improve their future (literally). He didn’t hesitate to alter the future to make sure Marty’s (his assistant and best friend) child wouldn’t end up in prison, hence ruining the future of his entire family. Similarly, he traveled through many time periods to find pictures and information about Marty’s lineage, to offer him an entire album about his family’s history as present. If there’s something he can do for his friends, he’ll do it. As long as him doing so doesn’t involve too big risks of course, such as the universe’s destruction.
Being a scientist, Doc is a very curious man. He enjoys learning about everything, mostly science, but he also likes books and music. Being who he is, Doc can be quite persistent when he wants to know something, except if it’s related to his future. Persistence is actually a word that pretty much defines him. Obsession even, and when he gets obsessed with something, nothing can get him off his obsession. He once got obsessed by time travel and for the next thirty years he never stopped thinking about it and working on a time machine, until his dream came true. His persistence takes many forms though. When he refuses to say or do something, you better have the good arguments to get him to change his mind.
Another one of Doc’s default would be, to a certain extent, hypocrisy. He speaks very often about how disrupting the space-time continuum is dangerous, yet more than anyone he disrupted it, and often ends up doing things he forbids others to do. He absolutely refused to let Marty tell him about his future, yet once he left, the first thing Doc did was to find out what it is Marty meant to tell him.
And like many scientists, Doc appears to think the end justifies the means. To a limited extent of course, nothing that could harm other people. But trading bombs against plutonium with a Libyan terrorist group isn’t exactly something someone normal would do. Of course, the bombs he gave them were fakes, but that’s still not something someone should do to get to the end of their experiment. But that’s what Doc does.
Last but not least, and it’s probably obvious by now. Doc is an absolute genius. His brain is probably the one most important thing his homeworld has. He can easily get into technology from the future; understand concepts no one else can and invent things nobody thought could exist. And one of his purposes with the time machine is to improve his understanding of humanity, of history, and maybe even discover why life exists.
Series: Back to the Future (OU)
Age: Between 70 and 80
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Between the end of the 3th movie and the start of the Video Game
Background Link: Emmett Brown – Back to the Future Wiki
Abilities: None, unless you count intelligence as an ability.
Personality: Eccentric, crazy and weird- Your average mad scientist. That’s what most people think of Doc anyway, and while there is a lot more to the character, that’s not so far from the truth. His general appearance in itself is unusual: white and neglected hair, he often wears strange clothes- Either because they come from the past or future, either because he needs to protect himself from nuclear radiation. He is absent minded at times and many of his inventions end up in failure. And when he invents something that works, either it’s small and meaningless, or that’s something that can change the face of the world, like, a time machine.
But that would be for someone who does not know him at all. In fact, if you take time to know him, Doc is a very kind man who cares very much about his friends, even though he has only three (and one of them is a dog). As you can see, he doesn’t make new friends easily. It’s not like if he even tried, and most people won’t try to approach him anyway, thinking he is either mad or delusional. And when he gets to speak with someone? He speaks with technical terms; his gestures are akin to that of a conductor, and he’s overall a very expressive man. This may weird out most people.
When he’s excited? You’ll see it. When he is surprised or angered, you’ll see it as well. When he’s sad though? He’ll try to hide it, but since he might end up doing stupid things out of sadness, you’ll see it anyway. Like inventing new and weird stuff, walking atop buildings, or going to drink unhealthy quantities of alcohol.
Speaking of his friends, he’ll go to great length to help them, make them happy and quite simply improve their future (literally). He didn’t hesitate to alter the future to make sure Marty’s (his assistant and best friend) child wouldn’t end up in prison, hence ruining the future of his entire family. Similarly, he traveled through many time periods to find pictures and information about Marty’s lineage, to offer him an entire album about his family’s history as present. If there’s something he can do for his friends, he’ll do it. As long as him doing so doesn’t involve too big risks of course, such as the universe’s destruction.
Being a scientist, Doc is a very curious man. He enjoys learning about everything, mostly science, but he also likes books and music. Being who he is, Doc can be quite persistent when he wants to know something, except if it’s related to his future. Persistence is actually a word that pretty much defines him. Obsession even, and when he gets obsessed with something, nothing can get him off his obsession. He once got obsessed by time travel and for the next thirty years he never stopped thinking about it and working on a time machine, until his dream came true. His persistence takes many forms though. When he refuses to say or do something, you better have the good arguments to get him to change his mind.
Another one of Doc’s default would be, to a certain extent, hypocrisy. He speaks very often about how disrupting the space-time continuum is dangerous, yet more than anyone he disrupted it, and often ends up doing things he forbids others to do. He absolutely refused to let Marty tell him about his future, yet once he left, the first thing Doc did was to find out what it is Marty meant to tell him.
And like many scientists, Doc appears to think the end justifies the means. To a limited extent of course, nothing that could harm other people. But trading bombs against plutonium with a Libyan terrorist group isn’t exactly something someone normal would do. Of course, the bombs he gave them were fakes, but that’s still not something someone should do to get to the end of their experiment. But that’s what Doc does.
Last but not least, and it’s probably obvious by now. Doc is an absolute genius. His brain is probably the one most important thing his homeworld has. He can easily get into technology from the future; understand concepts no one else can and invent things nobody thought could exist. And one of his purposes with the time machine is to improve his understanding of humanity, of history, and maybe even discover why life exists.