Collapse
To fade
Both terms in one sentence
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Word of God is that this was because in the bad future that was created after Biff gave himself the Sports Almanac, he gets shot by Lorraine sometime in the 1990s; Biff's collapse was supposed to be the beginning of the altered past causing him to fade out of existence.
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Deus ex Machina: Light side ending: The Mass Shadow Generator is activated, causing Malachor's gravity well to fade and the "planet" (which is really just a mass of asteroids and ship hulls held together by the Generator) to collapse.
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