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 SUPERHERO
 "DIDI VOLTA PARA O FUTURO" ("BACK TO THE FUTURE" sort of...)

 Date: 1991

Note: The title of the comic is a play on words. The Brazilian name for "Back to the Future" would be De Volta para o Futuro, but the name of the hero in this popular series is named Didi.

This comic is basically a straight translation of the BTTF saga into the world of Didi.

Doc Brown is replaced by Zac Brown and Marty by Didi Mocofly. The major changes are the names (Biff Tannen is Dede Tannen) to popular characters' names from Brazil, and the story itself is simplified. The Flux Capacitor is a Flux Helmet and Zac needs to find another one in 1955. So they go to a Costume Party (not the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance) and they find a Rocketeer helmet and put into the Delorean and so Didi goes back to the future. The part II (all the three stories are at the comic) they go the future but they got to go back to fix some stuff in 1955. Zac accidentaly turnes on the Flux Helmet and goes to 1885, leaving the Delorean and Didi in 1955. The other Zac (from 1955) finds a box that says don't open until 1955. They open it and it has another Flux Helmet. Didi goes to 1885 to get Zac and the go back to 1985.

 Didi Volta Para o Futuro
 COMIC

 SUPERHERO
 "FLASH"

 Issue: 92
Date: July 1994

The phrase "Hello, anybody home, McFly?" is used by Flash's girlfriend.

 DC Comics
 COMIC

 STRIP
 "GARFIELD"
 In the Garfield Annual of 1996, there is a strip where Garfield goes to sleep and wakes up in fifty years. He later realises it's all a dream. The strip is titled "Nap to the Future".  Garfield
 COMIC

 SUPERHERO
 "IMPULSE"

 Issue: 3
Date: June 1995

Impulse's guardian, Max Mercury, calls him "Future Boy" a direct reference to Doc's nickname for Marty.

 DC Comics
 COMIC

 PARODY/SATIRE
 "MAD Magazine"

 Issue 260

On the cover is a picture of Doc with the mind-reading device on his head. Marty is standing alongside, hitchhiking - holding a sign with 1985 written on it. Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman is driving the DeLorean past.

Inside is a parody of BTTF entitled "Bleak for the Future."


Issue 295

Parody of Part II entitled "Bleak for the Future, Part II"


Issue 321

Included in the magazine's parody of Groundhog Day, Doc and Marty can be seen in the festival. Marty: "Bill Murray better be careful. I messed with time in three movies and lived to regret it." Doc: "What are you saying? You made it back didn't you?" Marty: "Yeah, but my career never did."

This must have been before Michael J Fox successfully returned to TV in "Spin City" (1996) - his movie career not quite as successful as he might have hoped.


Super Special 136, April 1999

In the spoof of Steven Spielberg's Hook, titled "Hooked," Stinkerbell and Peter are flying through a sky crowded with characters from other movies - The Rocketeer, Superman, E.T., Mary Poppins and Doc & Marty in the De Lorean. In fact, Marty has one foot in the Delorean and on foot on a hoverboard!


July 1999

During the magazine's parody of "Quantum Leap" (1989) (called here "Quandry Heap"), we can see the DeLorean in the sky. Marty and Doc are inside. A bumper sticker reads I BREAK FOR THE FUTURE!

 DC Comics
 COMIC

 STRIP
 "THE MODERN WORLD"
 In this strip, by Tom Tomorrow, President George W. Bush is seen in a flying DeLorean.  The Modern World
 COMIC

 SUPERHERO
 "TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES"

 "TMNT meet Archie" - Spring 1990

In "Green Legs and Gams," Cudley takes the turtles to Earth of a different dimension.

Cudley and Donatello's explanation of how they've been transported to another universe is similar to Doc Brown's explanation of the alternate reality.


"TMNT 3" (Comic Adaption of the film) - 1993

The turtles have to travel back in time to Japan, 1593 via a magic scepter in order to rescue their friend April and a small village from Lord Norinaga.

DON: "We know the past and present are interchangeable."
RAPH: "We do?"
LEO: "Sure, Michael J. Fox said so. Remember?"
SPLINTER: "I believe that was said by the professor with the white hair ... it was on cable!"

NOTE: Although this conversation didn't appear in the motion picture itself, it did appear in the book. Of coarse it may or may not have been in the original screenplay.


Issue #42-#44 - March - May, 1993

"The Future Shark Trilogy" introduced an invention known as a Time-Slip Generator that exists in the same future the TMNT saw in issue 7. The Time-Slip was an invention by the Donatello of that timeline who invented it solely for the purpose of visiting the past. However, during an attack by a mutated shark known as Armaggon and the Shredder, the Generator was stolen, and Future Leo and Mike were kidnapped. Future Don whipped up a second Time-Slip in order to bring the Teenaged Turtles from the '90s into the future to help defeat the two, as well as the Rat King and a cyborg cat known as Verminator X.

Vermnator X may very well have been a spoof of Griff from Back to the Future 2. Both have bionic implants in their bodies that make them much stronger than they were before.


Issue #55-#57 - April - June, 1994

In "Terracide", The Future Turtles and their younger selves set out to avenge their friends, as well as save the universe from an invasion.

While having reflecting on the Mutanimals' death which was a result of the altered timeline, Future Don said "The repercussions could be enormous." similar to Doc's "The consequences could be disastrous!"

NOTE: In certain scenes, the characters themselves used the term "went back to the future" the same way Marty and Doc would say they were returning to their own time.

Future Don's remote control for the time machine was shattered, leaving him and Raph stuck 100 years in the past (Just like the scene when the DeLoreon was destoryed in BTTF 3, leaving Doc stuck 100 years in the past)

 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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 ADVENTURE
 "TURMA DU MONICA" ("MONICA AND FRIENDS")

 "De Volta para a Historinha" ("Back to the Fairy Tale") - 1990

In this long running comic book series from Brazil by Mauricio de Souza (published by Editora Globo), one of the characters goes back in time to the 60s. The stand-out homage is in the title of this issue.

Because the artwork has changed in the comic book over its 40 year run, the character from the 1990 issue encounters his friends in the 60s looking like they were drawn way back when!

 Turma Du Monica

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