Match, Skinhead and 3-D are the secondary antagonists of Universal Pictures' Back to the Future franchise.
They were members of Biff Tannen's gang. They earned their nicknames from characteristic traits, for Match was he chewed on a broomstick, for Skinhead a crewcut, and for 3-D he was always wearing a pair of 3-D glasses.
Match was portrayed by Billy Zane, who also portrayed Hughie Warriner in Dead Calm, The Collector in Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight, Ansem in Kingdom Hearts, and Cal Hockley in Titanic. Skinhead was portrayed by J. J. Cohen. 3-D was portrayed by Casey Siemaszko, who also played Billy Tessio in Stand By Me and Curley in Of Mice and Men and also voiced Johnny Sindacco in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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Back to the Future[]
1955[]
Match, Skinhead and 3-D entered Lou's Café (along with Biff), where Biff confronted George McFly, and asked if he did his homework. They also encountered Marty McFly (who had accidentally travelled back in time on Doc Emmett Brown's Delorean Time Machine while escaping from The Libyan Terrorist). Biff warned George not to return to the café. Along with Biff, Match, Skinhead and 3-D left the café, and they drove off in Biff's '46 Ford convertible.
Skateboard Chase[]
When Marty knocked out Biff at the café, he also knocked out Match, Skinhead and 3-D, before running out.
Match was in Biff's car when he and his buddies chased Marty. Like them, he was also covered in manure after the car crashed into a manure truck.
Enchantment Under the Sea Dance[]
Match was present at this ball and locked Marty up with 3-D and Skinhead in the Starlighters car who are having a smoke break in the car. After Skinhead and 3-D offended the band, the musicians chased the three bullies away and freed Marty and one of the band members accidentally injures his hand in the process.
Original 1985[]
Match was most likely working with Biff and George McFly at the same company.
Back to the Future Part II[]
Alternate 1985[]
Match, Skinhead and 3-D worked as bodyguards at Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise. In this alternate timeline, Match also wore a white cowboy hat, Skinhead's crewcut is now gray, and 3-D trades his 3-D glasses for a pair of aviators, albeit with red and blue lenses, similar to 3-D glasses.
When Biff attempts to kill Marty, after discovering that he knows about the sports almanac, Match, 3-D and Skinhead chased him. Marty loses them in a fire escape.
Back to 1955[]
When Marty returned to 1955 to save the timeline, Match was seen (along with Biff, Skinhead and 3-D) at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. Biff ordered them to look for "Calvin Klein" (the name Marty used on his first trip to 1955).
After Marty retrieves the almanac, he runs into the three (who assume that he is his past self). Although Marty loses them, the bullies chase Marty into the gymnasium, where they spot Marty's "other" self on stage at the dance. They believe it's the same person (though Match wonders how he managed to change his clothes so fast), and they get ready to jump him when he gets off stage. To save his other self (and to prevent a time paradox), Marty climbs up into the rafters and drops a set of sandbags on them, knocking them out. It can be presumed that Match, alongside Skinhead and 3-D, regained consciousness shortly afterwards only to find out that Marty had already left.
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Trivia[]
- Billy Zane, who played Match, would go onto play Cal Hockley, who has many similar traits to Biff, as both are misogynistic bullies that want to marry somebody by force.
- J. J. Cohen also played the role of one of the boys in Needles' gang in Back to the Future Part III, albeit with long hair.
- Cohen was also the original choice for Biff, when Eric Stoltz was cast as Marty McFly. However, Cohen was not intimidating enough to bully Stoltz, so, he was instead cast as one of Biff's goons.
- Their nicknames are only given in the films' novels, screenplays, and credits.
- The Bifforrific timeline is the only present day timeline where they are seen. It's unknown what is their current relationship with Biff by 1985, by given how George learned to stand up for himself, it's possible they stopped picking on him like Biff and/or left Biff due to seeing the pathetic bully he was.
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