"Only if it turns out that reality is actually nothing more than a holographic illusion created by the interplay of subatomic particles on a vast two-dimensional membrane." This article covers a subject that has been deemed non-canon by either the author or the Back to the Future licensees, and thus should not be taken as a part of the "real" Back to the Future universe.

1986A was an ABC timeline and a year in the 20th century. It was created when an elderly Biff Tannen from 2015 gave his younger self from 1955 a sports almanac to make himself rich. By this year, Biff Tannen controlled Hill Valley, and the residents had come to refer to it as Hell Valley.

Events

• Date unknown: Marty McFly left his Switzerland boarding school to tour with his band. The band played in Switzerland, Austria, and Venice.^[1]
• Tuesday, February 24:
  • Biff announced his run for President of the United States, as Richard Nixon had decided not to run for a sixth term in 1988.
  • 3-D notified Biff that the German psychiatrist whom Biff had hired visited Doc Emmett Brown in the Hill Valley Insane Asylum and let him know that he had news about his condition. Biff learned that Doc used a practice performed by certain Eastern religions to shut off certain higher functions of his brain, which put him in a state similar to patients that had been lobotomized. Biff had Skinhead track down Doc's dog, Einstein, to attempt to bring him out of his mental state.
  • Lorraine Baines McFly didn't want Biff to ruin the United States as he did to Hill Valley and her family, so she shot him in the chest. However, she failed as the bullet was stopped by the book that contained the record of people that he had paid off.
• Tuesday, March 3: Biff brought Marty, Dave and Linda back to Hill Valley so that he'd have the image of a family man during his presidential run.
• April:
  • Biff noticed Doc in a photo from the wedding of Tom Tannen and Myra Benson. From that photo taken in 1936 and Gray's Sports Almanac from 2015, he deduced that Doc had invented a time machine and schemed to make himself President from its use.
• May:
  • Biff discovered that Marty McFly visited Doc at the asylum after Marty had received the letters that Doc wrote in hopes of getting him to become his assistant to make his time travel back to 1955 a reality.
• Friday, May 30:
  • Biff blackmailed Doc into using the time travel chamber, threatening to kill Marty just like he had done years before with Marty's father if Doc didn't cooperate. Biff ordered Doc to send him to June 1, 1996 so he could return with ten years worth of almanacs and business books to control the stock market, guarantee himself a winner in business, and show the country that he was a savvy businessman.
  • After Biff entered the time travel chamber, Doc enabled a remote control override to send him back to March 18, 1884 instead.
  • Four hours later, Biff reemerged with a bullet hole in his forehead, having been shot dead by his own great-grandfather in 1884.
  • Doc activated his electrified conducting mat that electrocuted Biff's gang, preventing them from killing anybody.
• Saturday, May 31: Biff was declared dead by a power surge, and Lorraine inherited his entire empire.
• June:
  • Biff Tannen was buried, and his funeral had a large turnout as the residents of Hill Valley wanted to make sure he was really dead.
  • Lorraine, Dave, Linda, and Marty McFly, along with Goldie Wilson and Doc Brown, announced that Biff's businesses would be closed, and that they would work together to make Hill Valley once again a nice place to live.

Appearances

• Back to the Future (IDW Publishing)
  • Back to the Future: Biff to the Future
    • Issue 6: "Biff to the Future: Part 6"
• Back in Time: The Unauthorized Back to the Future Chronology (Mentioned incorrectly in place of 1986G)

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