Lighter than they received.
One problem with letting any of them straight out on the streets, is that London to a brick, Bobby's father comes after him/her/them, or sends someone real after them.
He would likely be the type...middle-easterner.They no like-ee somebody takes out No1 Angelic can-do-no-wrong POS son.
the big problem for giving Marty a significant pass, is that this whole thing turned on his weakness. He had an alternative avenue for dealing with this worthless creep, than involving two car-loads of other teens and destroying their lives (such as they actually had lives to destroy anyway, which is questionable)
the keys were him and Lisa , and their relationship.
Lisa determined, perhaps correctly or maybe only half-correctly, that Marty's mistreatment of her originated from Bobby, and his powerful hold and undoubtedly foul influence on Bobby. Only with Bobby gone, could Marty be free to be the man he really was, and also just as importantly, to be truly HER'S.
It should have occurred to her, to simply tell Marty that Bobby had to go , as in, go as his friend, not go out of the world...maybe it did occur to her to do just that, but she was afraid of demanding Marty simply choose between them, as she would have rightly feared she might not like which way he chose.
Marty many times in his life, had railed about needing Bobby out of his life, he had demanded that his parents even re-locate so he could break free of him.
It is bizarre that at least in a pack situation, Marty found the courage, or maybe the rage, to butcher Bobby..more than once he had even found the courage to retaliate directly for Bobby's physical bullying of him...
Yet, maybe partly because thge guy lives on opposite side of street to him, he lacks the courage or will to just look him in the eye , and blow him off.
He would even have had the diametric support of Bobby's father--he despises Marty, almost everything about him,he strongly believes that it is Marty, and his directionless surfer beach culture American teen lifestyle, which is a negative influence on Bobby,(he either has no clue who and what his son is, or else accepts his "quirks" as normal) and wants the friendship ended anyway.
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