Doc

Doc, whose full name is Dr. Emmett Brown, is the eccentric inventor who creates the DeLorean time machine in Back to the Future. He guides Marty McFly through accidental trips across 1885, 1955, 1985, and 2015 while trying to repair damage to history.

Doc: identity and story role

Enthusiastic, brilliant, theatrical, absent-minded, and ethically concerned about changing time, Doc approaches impossible problems with scientific optimism. His abilities are engineering, physics, electronics, improvisation, and building inventions such as the flux capacitor, time circuits, and later a time-traveling train.

Doc's relationships and major turning points

Marty is his closest friend and partner, while Clara Clayton becomes his wife and Jules and Verne his family beyond the original laboratory life.