Yeah, the Professor is a bit frustrated…it’s the start of a new World War, and his side’s secret weapon has a pretty significant defect. Just like the last two times. It’s like that always has to happen, and you always have to start that sort of conflict off on the wrong foot.

Gregory was just a little bit too optimistic, there – he failed to fully grasp that Biff currently occupies a completely different character slot within the team structure. He might still have some residual knowledge, born from experience, of athletic activity, but he currently simply isn’t the kind of character to make much use of it. As should have been obvious from his appearance – after all, what good is muscle memory if you don’t have the muscles to run with it?

To hammer the point home, Biff’s current character slot comes with asthma attached, which used to be the go-to condition for partially disabling this sort of character in the eighties, and still serves that role today from time to time. One of the advantages of that particular condition, in writing terms, is that you can have it affect the character when it suits you and ignore it when it doesn’t, since the audience won’t really be capable to keep track of it.

By the way, Biff is probably also allergic to peanuts in his current form – because that was, for some reason, also a go-to condition for this character type in the eighties. XD

More on Thursday.