Is Edna being set up as the villain for the overall game? *Spoilers*
I just bought the season pass on PSN and have also been watching gameplay walkthroughs of the episodes so far. During my viewings, I'm starting to piece together the potential, yet possibly obvious idea that Edna might end up being the main villain for the game overall, not just Episodes 3 and 4. Here's why I think this: there's the fact that Einstein keeps attacking her. Remember back in Episode 1 when Doc said Einstein never does that unless "it was for good reason". Good reason would probably mean if the person in question was and/or was up to no good. This might sound weird but maybe o'll Einie has some weird precognitive sense that Edna's a no-good snob who'd stop at nothing to keep things in check....even if it eventually lead to doing something like, say, stealing the DeLorean for her own crazy and control freak-esque ends!
What do you guys think of this possibility? Also, if you have any other clues that support this theory, I'd love to hear em!
What do you guys think of this possibility? Also, if you have any other clues that support this theory, I'd love to hear em!
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I doubt that, lol.
I'm calling it now. Giant Junior-possessed voodoo Einstein.
It's the only logical answer.
And we still have no clue as to episode 5. The top bets are edna and griff but as mentioned, telltale could have a twist up their sleeves?
The Tannens were never really serious villains in the films. They were just losers with big egos. Marty could have avoided fights with them if he didn't get so upset when people called him chicken.
Edna on the other hand is made into a cartoon villain by the time she's older. All she needs is a twirly mustache and a cape.
If either this or the soup kitchen guy aren't the main villains, I'm going to be very disappointed.
Well, I don't think your Season 3 finale antagonist is necessarily the entire season's true antagonist. He is responsible for Max's... err... development in the finale, but he didn't have to do anything with the Devil's Toybox showing up (Max finding the Future Vision binoculars) to create the season's main plot. Heck, he was against everything Max did with his psychic powers!
Part I: Biff gets in the way when Marty tries to introduce George to Lorraine and get him to ask her to the dance. Biff also messes up the plan of George saving the day (he does anyhow but thats not the point).
Part II; Biff steals the time machine, abuses lorraine and tries to kill Marty.
Part III: Buford initially kills doc and tries to kill Marty twice
still think the tannens arent villains?
In part I, he's just a typical loser who's a high school bully. He doesn't really care about Marty or George he's just concerned with himself. Part II shows what happens when such a loser artificially gets a lot of money. In part III, yea buford is an outlaw and more of a typical villain character, but he's just a stock old west outlaw type , and Marty could have avoided a fight with him anyway.
My concern with how Edna is portrayed is that she's straight out of a comic book. There've been a lot of cranks like Edna around, but how many of them would actually go to the extreme of creating a society based on taking away people's free will? How many would even have the vision or capability to do that? I know she married Doc Brown, but I don't even understand how she'd be able to convince him. No matter how love-smitten he was, he was always a free spirit.
Wow, I'm actually convincing people that the villain is that guy? I'm glad some people have finally realised that all evidence points towards the soup kitchen guy and his notorious ways.
I feel like we should give him a name for the time being. 'Soup Kitchen Guy' doesn't sound like a very good villain name.
He sort of looks like a 'Roger'...
And also, if people had tried to talk to him, Marty replies, "I better not, don't want to mess up his timeline."
I find that funny, cause Marty didn't have a problem messing up his Grandfather's, Young Doc's, Edna's, and Tannen's Timeline by talking to them.
He did all that to save doc, they're willing to compromise the timeline if they have to but they dont go out of their way for it.
1986A- In the original timeline, Edna is a lonely old bat who yells at strangers with a megaphone for breaking rules either set in print or set by herself. She hoards EVERY SINGLE ISSUE of the Hill Valley Telegraph ever published. She doesn't question why the shoe brought by Marty McFly is decades younger or question how Marty found it. All she apparently eats is tea and candy.
1986B- In the alternate timeline, Edna is married to Doc and co-runner of Hill Valley: A Perfect Place to Live. She looks better. Her and Doc have been "happily married" for almost fifty years. Not so! All the rules in Hill Valley were probably written by her. She bullies her husband in ways I don't even want to think about. The mere sight of a dog turns her into a screaming banshee. Let's also not forget that she added a little something to the Citizen Plus Program that made "Plusi" her obeying slaves with absolutely no free will.
Edna goes crazy in any timeline.
"Liberal ends"? Edna?! Do you know what "liberal" means? She's got to be the least liberal character in the game!
Sorry, lol. I couldn't find a better word to describe her actions and behavior thus far. What would you describe her as without using profanity? How about "crazy and control freak-esque", perhaps?
conservative
(BTW, I'm not trying to start any political arguments, so please don't take it that way. I'm just stating that, by the definition of the word "liberal", Edna is very, VERY much not.)
Very few people are extreme liberals or extreme conservatives , any logical political system would need a mixture of both (it's just up to interpretation how to balance them) but the society we see is extreme conservatism
In the game, Edna not only supports enforcing morals, but also environmental regulations -- making every citizen put their waste in the proper recycling receptacle, having pride in a environmentally-neutral self-sustaining city.
She's modeled after 1930s-era Progressives who wanted to use government to create a better society in every aspect, and supported things that would be on opposite political sides today like prohibition, social safety nets, a command economy.
Not Theodore Roosevelt Progressives (as a certain Mr. Beck argues) this came later. The beliefs were inherited from people like William Jennings Bryan, who also was on both sides of the fence. He championed poor farmers, called out the greed of corporations, and wanted to nationalize railroads but argued against evolution and in favor of temperance. Bryan was considered to have radical, dangerous views for his time, not conservative at all. Also look up Christian Socialism..
You can't make a comparison to today's politics....