8 Deleted Scenes That Almost Completely Changed Their Movies

8. Back To The Future - Time Travel Makes You Gay...?

The Back to the Future franchise is generally regarded as fun for all the family. There's nothing too risque, good triumphs evil, and any real peril can be undone with a flying car. Yes, that's what we've come to know and love - but none of that exists in this scene. Where can we get our own DeLorean to take us back in time before we saw this monstrosity?

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Featuring in the first film, in which Marty McFly travels back to the 50s and has to make sure his parents fall in love or he'll cease to exist, some movie magic was worked to cut out this moment. Going to Doc Brown for encouragement before meeting his young and attractive teenage mother, Marty expresses some concerns about "feeling up his mom", ick, and speculates if the whole experience will make him gay. Oh dear.

In a film thats supposed to be enjoyable for everyone, watching it with this scene in now might have sent the film down a far more dated path. "Taking a few liberties" with a girl, especially one's own mother, that then "screws him up permanently" by being gay isn't exactly the most politically correct way of going about things.

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