10 Movie Heroes Who Made Everything Worse

As tremendously entertaining as the Back to the Future movies are, they're also yet further categorical proof that time travel is an abjectly awful idea in reality, damn-near guaranteed to escape the clutches of its inventor.

Though everything eventually worked out for the Flux Capacitor's creator Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) and his young charge Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), the sheer fact that time travel now exists and cannot be put back in the bottle, so to speak, has horrendous implications for the world.

Beyond the fact that owning the tech will make Doc a huge target, how long will it be before the government intervenes, confiscates his tech, and attempts to weaponise it?

It's tough to believe that a man as scattershot and eccentric as Doc Brown would be able to put up much of a fight against the FBI or any sufficiently motivated individuals.

While Doc did initially seem quite committed to destroying the DeLorean due to its dangerous potential, he ultimately backtracked by building the time-traveling locomotive seen at the end of the third film, in turn leaving himself and the space-time continuum hugely vulnerable.

We love you, Doc, but the power of time travel is simply too dangerous to be left in the hands of one kooky old scientist - or really anyone, honestly.