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Here are 10 villain backstories that ruined the character forever.
Honestly, we don't need funny backstories to love these pups.
Katrina was a theme in the backstories of both candidates.
Yet LGBTQ backstories never seem to get an overt nod.
Instead, the selections will include specially labeled bottles and backstories.
It's used to punctuate weighty moments and give characters backstories.
Intrigued by the biggest names in business and their backstories?
They're not just nameless thugs, but men with backstories and motives.
As for Isla and Will, I won't spoil their grim backstories.
The protagonists have dark backstories, and occupy a moral grey area.
But backstories don't account for all of those extra 45 minutes.
This summer's Seth Curry Award winners both have pretty cool backstories.
Here are some of the year's best designs and their backstories.
I mean, they're both currently single and survivors of traumatic backstories!
They had flaws and foibles, vanities and neuroses, backstories and inner lives.
There were standout sparkly looks, sweeping trains and gowns with touching backstories.
Other celestial events' names have similar backstories based in the natural world.
Berry says she and Jackman kept the material for their characters' backstories.
Those men each had their own backstories about how they became prisoners.
It will explore the backstories of America's most powerful people, including politicians.
And it really touched on all of the characters and their backstories.
That's why Vanity Fair put together a video laying out the stars' backstories.
I came up with elaborate backstories to explain why my character was brown.
But sometimes it's our curiosity about untold backstories that makes characters so rich.
One can feel backstories and past dealings looming over every interaction between characters.
Me and the girl who played Ashley (Mela Murder) figured out our backstories.
Then he told a joke about theme-park attractions with excessively convoluted backstories.
Like the rice steamer, most of the objects in James's shop have backstories.
Everyone there tried to outdo one another with his or her wild backstories.
Others would have their origins and backstories retroactively changed in continuity, or retconned.
Even some old shoots that seem definitively misogynistic by today's standards have complicated backstories.
They aren't cinematically stunning, they don't wrestle with complex relationships, or contain unexpected backstories.
There are backstories behind every little tube — 5,000 years worth of them, in fact.
They're all wearing cute outfits, and some reveal a bit about the animals' backstories.
Unspooling endless backstories is not fun—kind of like your grandpa's obsession with genealogy.
There are other aspects of diversity that are more challenging to represent without backstories.
This year features more inmates competing for attention, each with backstories and complex motivations.
The mystical, devious priestesses must have enrapturing backstories of how they came to be.
We'd slide out hefty manuals with backstories, weapon and character descriptions, and control layouts.
We're all in on onscreen villains, but their backstories don't always turn out so compelling.
From there, much clothing is sniffed, terrifying visits are made, and haunting backstories are uncovered.
He creates fresh characters in every series and their backstories will have you in tears.
This starting assumption connects back well to the idea of "cornerstone" backstories from the show.
Yes, we see abs, and butts, and bulges, but we also get personalities and backstories.
It wasn't until those faces bled into oblivion that I began to fabricate their backstories.
The great thing about these backstories is that they're not at all what you'd expect.
Even better, Candy Crush has decided to award these zany personalities with their own backstories.
It has one of the most bizarre, romantic, and possibly supernatural backstories of any attraction.
We all enjoy learning about Alcatraz and the backstories of some of the prisoners there.
The same goes for many of the minor characters who have their own tragic backstories.
Companies that combine technology, convenience and bewitching backstories have been shouldering their way to fame.
The resulting five videos feature those who had especially resonant backstories and interesting objects to show.
It often devotes time to fleshing out villains' backstories, empathetically tracing their paths to extreme ideologies.
Instead, he credits the Meisner acting technique with helping him construct the characters and their backstories.
There's always more to learn, plots to discuss, themes to debate and backstories to flesh out.
There are no twists or turns, no reversals or reveals, no complex backstories or hidden motives.
Ignoring these backstories enables society to shirk responsibility for the racial inequality that still exists today.
You might not know their backstories and relationships all that well, but you've got the basics.
For all the friction between Scott and Ingoglia, the governor and party chair have similar political backstories.
The other two initial shorts in the Backstories series are less painful but even more wildly animated.
Each bottle comes with flavor notes, vineyard backstories, and food pairing ideas to enhance your drinking experience.
Those helpful characters all have backstories which Robertson insisted be created but never inflicted on the player.
All 10 episodes, which include the racers' backstories and visits to their hometowns, are streaming on Netflix.
Cable's got one of the more convoluted backstories in the Marvel Comics universe, and that's really saying something.
I also sometimes bounce the backstories and new dialogue off my friends before releasing it to the public.
However, several women with varying disabilities and unique personal backstories proudly posed for photos in their bathing suits.
Were you thinking about backstories like that in terms of explaining where her rage and pain comes from?
Where Fosse had used the dancers as moving props, Verdon makes them into fleshed-out characters with backstories.
The expansion of character backstories and flashbacks speaks to the changes which led to the rise of Gilead.
Those tormented hero backstories that I once thought were interesting in other titles suddenly seemed predictable by comparison.
For fans of the Legend of Zelda's hotly debated timeline and backstories, this is quite an enticing development.
Park workers—the "cast," officially—have all been encouraged to come up with backstories plausible for a Batuuan.
One of the boldest strokes of "Leave No Trace" is how firmly it resists the call for backstories.
Martin's original novella is so short and action-packed there's little time to get into the characters' backstories.
Each VR helmet possessed a distinct appearance and were accompanied by handwritten notes shedding light on their backstories.
In the photoshoot, Nathan framed 10 "real" women — all with unique jobs and backstories — against a neutral background.
VFX have come a long way since 2001, and they could help tell the backstories that Warner Bros.
Thankfully, "Let's Do It Again" efficiently sets up this new universe and the backstories that come with it.
I'm very happy to see that people are having fun discovering all the little backstories of the crew.
We have 12 bakers, many with improbable backstories (like Paul, the prison governor with a "penchant for sugar craft").
Black Mirror's fourth season episode "Black Museum" is set in a tourable collection of technological artifacts with horrible backstories.
They're set roughly in the late 1980s, a world that feels genuinely removed from others' backstories and recent crimes.
The show handled it well, though, using new character backstories and flashbacks to keep the plot from feeling stale.
And yet the new television version gestures toward dark backstories of abuse and deceit, the suggestion of bodily mutilation.
They're gangsters, but their camaraderie and backstories, which reveal how they came to be so close, make them engaging.
By the time they've exhausted all the backstories, may I suggest taking a leaf out of Looney Toons' book?
They're separate moments but these are actually two characters you don't want to kill due to their tragic backstories.
While episode two of the series premieres tomorrow, the cast of characters are already grappling with some pretty complicated backstories.
The people become actual characters, and the villains have entire backstories and motivations that cannot be gleaned from the creepypasta.
How do you keep track of a show with as many characters and backstories as Orange is the New Black?
Reveries, backstories and even the idea of hosts training on other hosts all give a nod to real AI research.
We developed backstories and I even had private conversations with the actors to help build their characters and group dynamic.
Moonlighting as a journalist in the urban flâneur mode, she dug into the backstories of flower markets and gem sellers.
Without any help from Google or my fellow humans, I will attempt to identify them, their backstories, and their powers.
Is there any other show so bursting with diverse women characters, well-rounded backstories and gripping, and urgent plot lines?
As far as character backstories, we learn that white supremacist Kasey Sankey (Kelly Karbacz) and Allison have something in common.
Since you're probably binging Orange at warp speed, it's hard to remember each and every detail of these character's backstories.
To get past these gatekeepers, Terrogence's operatives gave their avatars legends, or backstories—often as Arab students at European universities.
In The Dark Crystal, it was used to quickly share backstories in a visual way, and to build fast intimacy.
Where this impeccably produced edition of PBS' "Masterpiece" truly excels, though, is in the intricate backstories for the other players.
Weil wrote an 80-page series "bible" five years ago that detailed the characters' backstories and the entire first season.
The Safdie's came up with backstories for all of the characters, with many of the details going unmentioned on screen.
Through the amalgamation of various found objects with their own separate backstories, Shrobe symbolically fuses and recombines their historical narratives.
Although some characters and backstories remain frustratingly elusive, an unexpected twist at the end suggests some answers in the sequels.
While the overarching plot might not win any awards, IO does a good job of creating backstories for your individual targets.
At these ten venerated L.A. dining spots, the food is still really good (well, mostly), but the backstories are even better.
The new projects will feature the principal characters, but also delve into the backstories and legends from the film's imaginary world.
OR: JuanGTA, a Colombian Grand Theft Auto fiend, started out by posting videos of himself narrating backstories for in-game characters.
Rather than being incoherent, he uses the superheroes and their backstories to convey a batshit America amid bitter infighting and divisions.
It was also a time before labyrinthian backstories and fan-theory-baiting Easter eggs were the norm for serialized primetime drama.
And then, the film features mystical women like the Mage, without backstories of their own but armed with plenty of powers.
It also offers a ton of mystery and intrigue, through backstories that are uncovered through lore you discover around each planet.
Despite being a franchise beloved by children and adults alike, each new Pokémon has always featured a handful of horrific backstories.
The stages of confusion and disjuncture in viewing these pieces kept me prodding further into their backstories, searching for wall labels.
"American Honey" is brazenly indifferent to backstories, and prefers to leave loose ends dangling and frayed rather than tie them up.
Some people name their Roombas and give them backstories, only to be emotionally upset when the devices break down, he said.
American Girl offers both customizable dolls as well as dolls with official backstories from all manner of ethnic, economic, and historical backgrounds.
DuVernay's direction is exceptional as she focuses on each of the kids, letting us delve into their backstories and family life equally.
I would invent elaborate backstories and work with these people — at first awkward strangers, then great friends — to pull off elaborate heists.
Every Winc delivery comes with flavor notes, vineyard backstories, and food pairing ideas that help you become a more informed wine drinker.
And on Tuesday night's episode, the personal experiences and backstories of Jane and Sutton highlight a personal side to the gun debate.
Rowling fails to create empathetic, three-dimensional portrayals of her characters of color, who are instead resigned to outdated and tragic backstories.
"Milkshake Duck" comes to define internet idols who become dizzyingly viral, only to fall just as fast due to their unpleasant backstories.
Mind-bogglingly funny, Torres knows how to make the most of his seemingly mundane premise, weaving elaborate backstories for his cursed props.
Some songs are inspired by the characters' backstories, but the best tunes are the ones that are hilarious riffs on characters' abilities.
Identifying with characters with weird backstories or magical abilities has made me view life in a much more playful and hopeful light!
Dan and his coworkers also develop fictional backstories for regulars, drawn from what they can interpret from the person's surroundings and appearance.
He calls it the r/place "atlas," and it allows users to submit backstories for each piece of art on the canvas.
The ESPN broadcast analyzed the player moves, and ABC went for viewers' heartstrings, interviewing parents of the players and uncovering their backstories.
But to change that, managers must dig into their histories, build their backstories and explain, through anecdotes, how and why they invest.
What Three Houses does to up the stakes is make all of your units feel like actual characters with personalities and backstories.
Rowland found inspiration to create educational dolls with historic backstories after a visit to Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, according to the Chicago Tribune.
For the film, the Dewaele brothers conceptualized, formed, and recorded as sixteen different fictional bands, all with totally different backstories and aesthetics.
The Furbys have highly specific backstories and personalities and customized appearances obtained through what can only be described as violent plastic surgery.
We know little about the contestants; they develop baking styles as the season goes on, but there are no tragic backstories here.
He poses with some of the recipients of the donations and gave us insight into their backstories and his thought process throughout filming.
The bad guys aren't given backstories that explain why they do what they do — they're just mean (sometimes to the point of absurdity).
While the backstories behind these protests differ, they share an opposition to Nusra's severe rule and a preference for more moderate rebel groups.
After that, it was a matter of checking a few backstories and putting the other characters into the proper places in the timeline.
The film, which is available this fall, will look at their backstories and what it was like to travel under Trump's new rules.
Certainly I saw other SXSW attendees improvising backstories to tell the knights, or quizzing northmen on Jon Snow's chances of defeating the dead.
If you want to dig into its other features, it also offers character backstories, behind-the-scenes photos, bonus video content, and more.
The heroes of Black Hammer used to be comic book heroes with rich backstories and varied interpersonal lives, but now they've been retconned.
That night Dave wrote a narrative in sound that weaved in the backstories of the clients, of the workers, of the whole business.
The bible included specific details about character backstories and everything that would happen in the first season, along with ideas for future seasons.
I scripted all of the cam shows, 98 pages of chats, with commenters having their own personalities, their own backstories, their own jokes.
By the end of episode four, Preacher's overall lack of explanation and character backstories makes for several storylines that seemingly crisscross no reason.
In " Undiscovered," a Science Friday show, hosts Elah Feder and Annie Minoff delve into the backstories that explain how scientific discoveries really get made.
But the real-estate mogul, who unlike most presidents has no legal background, also focused on learning the backstories of each of the finalists.
But in this case, the suspects' backstories illustrate the root factors of the violence — and paint a deeper portrait of the country at large.
With broadcasters having to recall what you missed there isn't enough whitespace to paint backstories, create drama, and drive the players personal storylines forward.
The Netflix series ends with decades-old mysteries solved, backstories filled in, and a reunion so sweet it almost comes out of left field.
Comics fans already know the characters' backstories anyway, and straying too far from canon would feel like a slight against fans and the characters.
As Orange Is The New Black has dived deeper into the backstories of Piper's counterparts, their characters have become much more interesting than Piper's.
The series gives fictional characters dimensional backstories, all while highlighting the problems with the prison industry that Kerman and so many others experienced firsthand.
They had style, backstories that fit them comfortably as heroes or villains and, in some cases, arms that every serious fan wanted to see.
As noted, there is a sense of padding in the midsection, filling in the miniseries format with character backstories of unequal interest and strength.
That said, Westworld's writers have gone out of their way to remind us that what hosts perceive to be memories are often scripted backstories.
As the story of this small town pushes forward, new characters will be thrown into the mix, each complete with their own mysterious backstories.
But recent American tributes to Hong Kong television tend to treat the genre as if it's an exercise in heartfelt blather and tragic backstories.
Marvel tried an analogous move in the 2000s by creating the Ultimate universe, which featured modernized versions of old characters without the burdensome tangled backstories.
Given the incidence of violation in their backstories, this color motif evokes societal beliefs about violation or trauma leaving some sort of altering, indelible mark.
George R.R. Martin is a masterful fiction writer, and it gives you ample context on the characters, their backstories, and where the story is headed.
Miller has shown he has a good memory, and the relationships and backstories explored in those early flashbacks continue to haunt characters in season 3.
Peripheral players and eyewitnesses get their own detailed backstories throughout the series, and you never tire of getting to know the kids of Hanover High.
The company then makes money by providing its lyrics and annotations of the lyrics — to explain backstories, context, and hidden meanings — to companies like Spotify.
Ahead are snapshots of eight different brands, with a look at each of their backstories and a few key pieces worth falling in love with.
What's more, OITNB did not skimp on the backstories and other plot lines outside of the prison that add so much dimension to the show.
Over the last two weeks, Rachel has seemingly learned nothing about what these men dream of for the future or what tragic backstories they're hiding.
It's through this they bond over their tortured backstories, Violet having suffered the death of her sister and Theodore suffering from an obsession with death.
Hedge funds managers must engage the media to reshape their public image, explain their strategies and backstories and detail how they provide value to investors.
But he also apparently wants to apply the same "what if Gotham, but grittier" galaxy brain take to the backstories of multiple other DC characters.
He repeatedly returns to the summer of 1989 to flesh out the backstories of the now-middle-aged friends who call themselves the Losers' Club.
Others demand absolute confidentiality, which means Glantz often invents fictional backstories and fake names to seamlessly integrate them with the rest of the bridal party.
However, it does help you develop your character, learn about others' backstories, dreams, and concerns, and physically gives you a break from all the fighting.
They possess deep mythological backstories, some of which are interlaced with real-world events, but they rarely make sense when considered for even a moment.
Cartoon Network The show's ability to balance dozens of characters, conflicts, backstories, and mythologies is impressive, but Steven is the anchor of this vast world.
A lot of them go further into the backstories of the characters, and answer some questions that were kind of left open-eneded in the books.
Most VR content is around 10–15 minutes, which isn't much time to remind audiences of backstories, develop fresh plots and a riveting ending, he said.
Both items included backstories of the original owners having to twist Steve's arm to get an autograph, a practice he typically refused to take part in.
New backstories touched on everyone from the Dursleys, Harry's abhorrent legal guardians, to the Potters, whom neither Harry nor his readers have ever known much about.
It's Game of Thrones fandom writ in microcosm, with all the ridiculous prophecies, backstories, revenge plots, and theories rolled into a single, easy-to-shout catchphrase.
They're a prompt which allow the McElroys and Robinson to bounce off one another, improvising backstories for characters and conjuring running gags out of thin air.
Meanwhile, Democratic hopes for chaos on the GOP side largely failed to materialize as incumbents coasted to easy wins — though at times wins with intriguing backstories.
Some of Hollywood's biggest names have spoken out on the topic, either by sharing their own pre-fame backstories, or by encouraging equal pay for women.
Like it did with its respective Avengers heroes, Marvel has already produced each of the good guys' backstories in individual lead-ups to the blockbuster event.
That was what really inspired me: the backstories of these women and the struggles that brought all the young women to their fates, to that day.
Why Set does this is never quite clear (perhaps that's just what gods of darkness do?), as Gods of Egypt's relationships and backstories generally aren't well-established.
Those tasked with manning the merchant stalls, secret workshops and cantinas have been encouraged to develop their own unique identities, including mannerisms, intricate backstories and their appearance.
As the years went on, some of McMullen's clients joined the Doll Forum online and crafted backstories for their "love dolls," complete with hometowns and fashion senses.
In this, "Nightflyers" is in stark contrast to "Game of Thrones", where the backstories of each character are endlessly unpicked to give them complicated behaviours and desires.
But Garland uses the women's backstories more abstractly, to illustrate what might push people to venture deeper and deeper into eerie, dangerous territory, against all common sense.
There's so little to him, beyond his unrepentant evil, that fans have created their own elaborate backstories, strange theories, and stranger memes to fill in the blanks.
An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour features photographs of over 200 colorants, accompanied by texts that chronicle their backstories as well as the history of the collection.
This is why Ramey Berry put names and backstories on enslaved people chronicled in her narrative, much like Winfrey's quest to make Lacks's name known to all.
Ayer works to establish those villains as gleeful fantasies of unfettered freedom, then fetters them with maudlin backstories that make them all sad, soulful, misused, and misunderstood.
While other Overwatch shorts have done a stellar job providing world-building backstories, "The Last Bastion" — as it's called — is more emotional powerhouse than plot point delivery.
That's where (if you so desire) you can get officially sorted into a Hogwarts house as well as brush up on backstories for a ton of characters.
And if ruins were porn actors, the large-scale ruins of these closed cities would be superstars; the implications of their dense, once-secret backstories are massive.
Often, someone with DID will feel like there are multiple identities inside of them, which can have their own backstories, voices, or mannerisms, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Today, HBO launched a new series of animated shorts called Backstories that illustrate personal stories from behind the scenes of its shows Game of Thrones, Barry, and Insecure.
Sometimes they have the weight of an entire country on their shoulders: Whatever the case may be, these profiles tend to reduce skaters' backstories to easily consumable morsels.
Often it's been addressed incidentally, not as the main thrust but part of the backstories of such films as Bad Day at Black Rock or The Karate Kid.
On Thursday, the network released a new series of animated shorts called Backstories, in which the creators of some of their hit shows share behind-the-scenes secrets.
But there are very few Muslim characters who aren't terrorists, who aren't even going to a mosque, who are just people with complicated backstories who do normal things.
The Little Market isn't the only site to be transparent about its do-good efforts, but it's always great to see empowering backstories behind the merch on offer.
Beyond trying to read national trends, the facts of the race suggested to political observers that Northam would be a stronger candidate — especially when evaluating the candidates' backstories.
Steeped in the lore of Star Wars, Dungeons & Dragons, and rock'n'roll history, Brooke Penrose draws detailed heroes, villains, and monsters with backstories as rowdy as their line work.
" He added, "We work really hard to recognize the backstories of people's lives, but, in the end, we still have the obligation to protect vulnerable people, especially children.
The dancers may benefit from the backstories, explained in the program notes, of sweatshops and the ravages of global capitalism, but what matters to us is the dancing.
"Frozen 2" explained a lot in terms of Anna and Elsa&aposs backstories and their parents&apos origins and revealed that their mother was one of the Northuldra.
These are some of the backstories behind why the high courts of Australia, Brazil and the United Kingdom, respectively, implemented mandatory retirement ages for their top judicial officials.
In creating this book, I wanted so desperately (and selfishly) to learn the backstories of these intrepid Arab Women on the Ground to contextualize and celebrate their work.
What's interesting is how the backstories come to the fore and how the process of learning intertwines, in some fashion, with the finished or continuing body of work.
And Handmaid's Tale season 3 has a cast of new and returning characters, all of whom have their own complex backstories and could merit their own "previously on" reels.
Across Facebook there are countless others just like Audrey — dummy accounts with partially written backstories, a small posting history, and a photo gallery of real people taking real selfies.
Now, a trio of HBO documentaries lay out the backstories of familiar sights we take for granted, as well as school us on the vibrant history of the Bronx.
Seeing the elder versions of the Big Three seems like something that would come in a series finale, not in a time jump like we've seen with their backstories.
If you watch Riverdale on CW or Netflix, you'll be familiar with the characters and their backstories, but the storyline follows the comics and diverges from the television show.
Selmers has one of the roughest backstories of anybody, while Bea's obligation to take care of her family and family's business is completely engrossing every part of her being.
Where most superhero comics could be vastly improved by removing about two-thirds of the text, Millar doesn't weigh his scripts down with long, unnecessary dialogue or elaborate backstories.
They aren't given backstories, or even personalities—at least not in the typical sense—and some have criticized the film for its lack of compelling characters and character development.
Shows like this work best when they depict the competition and become unbearable when they're just talking-head confessionals, contrived spiels and schlocky backstories that scam us into caring.
With Looking Glass, she gets to spin up some origin narratives and create backstories, like why the Red Queen (played by Helena Bonham Carter) is so obsessed with tarts.
But the show's willingness to play around with time and structure is also its Achilles' heel for as long as it keeps obfuscating essential facts about the characters' backstories.
Since then, Cameron has racked up seven more tats, all with meaningful backstories that follow her career evolution into opera, TV, animated features, and now, ready-to-wear accessories.
She actually comes with two backstories: In one life, she's Vers, a Kree "hero-warrior" living on planet Hala, which is ruled by an AI leader called the Supreme Intelligence.
These characters not only have their own backstories (Jungkook's character Shooky "loves jokes, especially ones on friends," for example) but they also act as proxies for each of the members.
DC Universe only released the first episode of its 15-episode series for review, and that pilot largely fleshes out the backstories of the characters introduced in the Titans episode.
Breaking up The Witcher into separate timelines would let her fill in the backstories of her two central female characters, Yennefer and Ciri, before they met the titular Witcher, Geralt.
Killmonger's "you killed my father, prepare to die" Inigo Montoya routine seemed so familiar from other tragic-hero backstories that the reveal of his motivations initially left me fairly dubious.
We read these names and get a chill down our spine because of the terrible weight that comes with knowing their backstories — stories about abuse, sexual harassment, and sexual assault.
These are the biggest revelations from our hour-long conversation with Falconer, including the symbolism of Liv's (Carla Gugino) robes, the ghosts' backstories, and the potential for a second season.
Matarazzo also gets us pumped for the next season, explaining that there's going to a be a lot of exposition that fills in the lore and backstories of Stranger Things.
There are also excursions into specific stories about players who squandered, or won, fortunes at the table, with colorful backstories and nicknames (the latter only adding to the "Goodfellas" vibe).
"Most people from my high school also have very traumatic backstories, and that background has permeating effects, making it very tough for students to bounce back," Asemani tells Poets & Quants.
It doesn't get bogged down in the convoluted mythology of Star Wars—"the character backstories, spaceship designs, or any of the boring stuff that turns normal people off," says Herring.
You will literally never run out of characters who can have their backstories told as ever bleaker, ever more downtrodden tales full of ironic takes on man's inhumanity to man.
They might have backstories, stats, and some pre-determined quirks, but it's up to the players to bring them to life, by injecting their own personas and choices into those avatars.
Without the historical context to help shape characters and their storylines, Tripp created the backstories through imaging various facts about these girls – from their dream home locations to their favorite scents.
With DJ-R3X spinning exclusive tunes, the bar's hyperdrive failing from time to time (requiring guest support to get it going again), and weird drink backstories, it's kind of a wonderland.
"But [as writers and artists,] you're trying to figure out what any number of these characters are like and what they've become based on their backstories and their perspectives," Remender explained.
The internet has made it easy to feast on myth, lore,  backstories, and more More importantly, in the internet age, it's easier than ever to gorge on this sort of data.
But as the novel developed it became clear that I needed to focus on a select few, and spread their backstories over a course of years rather than days or weeks.
In 2249.94, as bitcoin rose in value to be worth several hundred dollars, many developers launched their own alternative cryptocurrencies, and ones that came with interesting backstories often grabbed media attention.
He wrote a spec script and an 80-page series bible five years ago that detailed the character backstories and the entire first season, and also included details for future seasons.
While the new version has a whole lineup of supporting characters whose backstories are yet to be revealed, the remake is transforming some of the key players from the original series.
While Saitama is pretty laid back, the other characters he encounters, whether they're friends or enemies, tend to be extreme caricatures of anime characters with driven, single-minded purposes and deep backstories.
The Underworld film franchise has, in little more than a decade, revolutionised the action horror genre with its next-level fight sequences, captivating conflict plots, forbidden romance storylines and intriguing, immersive backstories.
With each date featured on the show (now in its eighth season) you hear people's backstories, and you find out why, for some people, going on a date is a huge milestone.
As Eleanor gets to know her neighbors, they all get backstories and personalities which subvert stereotypes and add endless humor to what could've been a boring old dichotomy of good and evil.
We speculate that this casting bump indicates a shift towards backstories on This Is Us and will focus on how Kate, Randall, and Kevin became the complicated, beloved characters they are today.
Audience Score: 49% The live-action remake about the elephant with big ears who learns how to fly was not a hit with viewers, despite having a few new backstories and characters.
She wants to know the backstories of each fighter, enamored by what it must take to send someone down a career path where they get punched in the face for a living.
Schmidt Hissrich dug deep into Sapkowski's collection of short stories and novels in order to craft the scripts, and found that the backstories of Ciri and Yennefer didn't get enough limelight upfront.
The turn-based strategy game has an enormous roster of heroes to collect, several with very involved backstories, and it can feel as though there are a million menus and sub-menus.
Even when stripped of their political and social context, Bowers's portraits are visually arresting in their color, composition, and symbolism, but they pack a real punch when paired with their subjects' backstories.
Cassara provides his characters with detailed backstories as he skillfully portrays the harrowing effects of AIDS on a community that was systematically dismissed and under-served by the city of New York.
Alongside these traits, characters are given backstories, often with bleak humor, like the "abandoned child" who, rather than being searched for by its parents, was simply cloned anew from the relevant person-vat.
This push into comics, like the recent K/DA League music video that mixed K-pop with e-sports, could be the boost in popularity League needs to get its immense backstories seen.
Longtime fans may see more of it coming back in the future, as the Star Wars film franchise continues to delve into the backstories of characters like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Boba Fett.
Overwatch is a great example here: the characters are empty enough that players can concoct elaborate romances between characters, or backstories, but it's only possible because Blizzard makes them feel like actual people.
She is an exhaustive researcher, chronicler, and writer; the fully conceived, extensively worked out backstories she's created for her subjects give their poses of ennui, repose, or patrician melancholy a vast emotional range.
The most fleshed-out characters, the ones Link's tasked with bringing into his quest, are filled with emotions and have their own backstories that tie into Link's attempt to remember his own past.
Writers Luke Davies and David Michôd tweak the novel's chronology and trim scenes and backstories, allowing the characters we do meet to have greater impact whether they're in one episode or all six.
The result: Fans are now more invested in these "characters" and their backstories, travails and occasional feuds and flare-ups than they were at any point in my 26 seasons covering the league.
Nearly musical, the episode is a quartet of childhood backstories of the female characters, pinpointing the origins of their sexual feelings and their creative drive, which is to say, their relationship to Dick.
Snyder's initial cut was 214 minutes long and contained dozens of scenes that fleshed out characters' backstories, developed the mythos of the world in which "Justice League" was set and teased upcoming films.
Mooshwalks are socks with ears and faces, socks that have names, backstories and personalities, socks that don't look like any particular animal, but are a hybrid of dogs and cats, birds and pigs.
The third is an epic within an epic, a nearly six-hour spy movie in which Piel de Lava play secret agents, each of whom gets a lengthy section devoted to their respective backstories.
We also get the barest of backstories for most of the crew (and for a few of them, none at all), which means there's less opportunity for sentimentality than another film might have attempted.
While cool electric skateboards and kid lemonade stands that come with well placed emotional backstories are the show's primary focus, let's not forget the array of fashion brands that have paraded through the tank.
Like the rest of the shorts — which include the backstories of everyone from Mei to Bastion — it's an absolutely gorgeous, glittering, colorful film that's surprisingly emotional and full of wonderful Easter eggs for fans.
The quality blends offered by Winc are handpicked by wine gurus based on your mom's individual taste and shipped right to her front door along with flavor notes, vineyard backstories, and food pairing ideas.
"We need more Black writers telling our stories and writers of other ethnic persuasions who dig deeper into the background and backstories of the black, Asian, and Latin characters they create," he told me.
A dozen amateur bakers offer pleasant backstories (and do their best to maintain stiff upper lips) while toiling over mixers and ovens in a tent at the "Downton Abbey"-esque Welford Park in Berkshire.
We all create backstories for our characters and imagine them in different situations in their previous lives, and for me she's always trying to get herself out of trouble, or out of sticky situations.
I wrote these backstories for them and there are details in the film that I'm not sure if people will consciously pick up on, but subconsciously, I think it makes the characters feel real.
After all, the tragically tangled backstories of Burzum's Varg Vikernes and Mayhem founder Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth had already been obsessively romanticized in documentaries and books, including the one that gives Åkerlund's movie its name.
There's a reason soap operas are able to maintain loyal viewers over decades: Many center around a large family, or a group of friends in a small town, with interweaving lives and intricate backstories.
Here was a blue moon moment where a negro-they-know got past the gauntlet, while the housing crisis and double-digit joblessness succeeded in invisibilizing many African-Americans with similar backstories as the Obamas.
The studio is known for bringing together characters with conflicting desires and vivid personalities that unfurl over the course of an adventure, and letting you dig deeper into those characters' backstories than most developers allow.
The number of gay characters in comics has risen steadily in recent years, both through the introduction of new LGBT figures and by adding to backstories of established stars to reveal a gay back story.
In Westworld, however, the main characters are robots whose personalities and backstories are reprogrammed with the touch of a button, and the well-choreographed shootouts and horrifying tortures are cleaned up and reset each day.
These heroes, their movies, and their backstories are all thrown higgledy-piggledy into a story that somehow finds coherence, mainly thanks to the film's firm commitment to its own riotous subversion of the superhero game.
And so I think there's a way in which it's very hard for me to encounter the world without also imagining what people's backstories are that bring them to a moment or to a decision.
Allegorically driven through 12 divine characters whose backstories are lyrically rendered in the gallery guide, the show plumbs the depths of Black history, fantasy, and mythology to propose a radical vision of resilience and transformative power.
The script is laced with double meanings—depending on the man, "You're hysterical" can be a compliment or a cruel dismissal—but Breckon and Randall had kept the text spare, wary of guys devising elaborate backstories.
The majority of the season largely revolves around these specific challenges, often featuring flashback backstories to flesh out the characters; toward the end, it goes deeper into a larger world of privilege, revenge, and blind trust.
"Creating a television property means we'll be able to move fans from laptops to living rooms and engage completely new audiences while building backstories and expanding on Doc's universe," Beahm wrote to me in an email.
The makers of Toy Story 4 could never hope to create a character as beloved and mythologically loaded as Sheriff Woody and Buzz Lightyear, who each come with full backstories and three films' worth of psychological dimension.
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Creek drops by Manfred's trailer to apologize about her dad, have a beer, and tell us her life story as well as the backstories for everyone who is going to be a leading player in the series.
And that's largely due to the way Berlanti and his primary co-producers, Geoff Johns and Akiva Goldsman, treat the team's 1980s origin story as a cornerstone superhero comics text, up there with Batman and Superman's backstories.
And he found a lot more like them: Across Facebook there are countless others just like Audrey — dummy accounts with partially written backstories, a small posting history, and a photo gallery of real people taking real selfies.
Happiness is so close to being enjoyable, but because it throws viewers into scenes without explanation, and delays getting into characters' backstories until the near end, there isn't much opportunity to engage with and love these characters.
In fact, many of the players I spoke to come from a strong roleplaying background, prompting them to develop backstories for their characters even in games like Battlegrounds in which there is very little narrative grist available.
Contestants are given wholesome backstories—one of them pretty accurately self-describes as the meeting point between Bob Ross and Mr. Rogers—and are often shown helping one another complete a crafting challenge in a time crunch.
But outside of the themes that emerge on awards season's biggest red carpet, a couple of actresses had the same idea in mind when it came to their dresses' backstories, by gravitating toward sustainable, eco-friendly numbers.
Bausch's interpretation is in deep conversation with the work's history, traditions, and themes, but there is more than enough space to appreciate (and find enormous joy in) this performance without knowing any of its backstories and contexts.
For a brewer, it asked people "would you ever"-style questions, and a hair-care client changed its packaging to reflect GoodQues' research showing that customers care about companies' backstories and how they follow sustainable business practices.
A few things about the 2018 reboot are objectively better: Ally and Jackson have depth and complex backstories, whereas the leads in a lot of the old versions feel like archetypes—the hapless drunk; the naïve ingénue.
The project relies heavily on public input, such as through open call events where people can share the backstories of their own nameplates and have them photographed — often by notable artists, including Azikiwe Mohammed and Naima Green.
This POPWWP prophecy is separated from Azor Ahai because different people use different phrases, they have different backstories, and the jury is split on whether these two legends speak of the same person or two entirely separate heroes.
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I'm a relatively new Bachelor franchise viewer, but every time I watch the first episode of the season, when the contestants are unveiled and their backstories revealed, I always wonder the same thing: How did they get here?
I'm the kind of person who thinks about tabletop roleplaying games a lot, and while I enjoy the rules, the monsters, and the complicated backstories of evil villains, the thing that really gets me excited is designing space.
Considering how little their backstories have been developed — and especially taking into account how much Drax's storyline in the first movie is about Thanos, something the second movie largely dropped — killing them off would feel abrupt and pointless.
A handful of people and websites have seized on little coughing spurts, highly edited videos and made-up backstories to push theories that Clinton is feeble, has suffered from seizures and has a secret doctor always at her side.
Bungie's new shooter, which takes a far more hands-on approach to narrative storytelling and world-building this time around, now includes lengthy written backstories to each of its rare "exotic" weapons, which represent the pinnacle of players' feverish collectathon impulses.
Ken Kesey's 1962 breakout novel about a guy named Randle McMurphy who lies his way into a mental institution and a mute Native American patient nicknamed Chief Broom is full of characters with rich backstories waiting to be fleshed out.
One can certainly argue that the likes of the Kingpin from Daredevil, Killgrave from Jessica Jones, and even Dorothy Underwood from Agent Carter should be contenders despite being on TV. They're all well-acted, intimidating, and have intriguing, complicated backstories.
Most would take on the colored mantles of the original Rangers, in red, black, blue, yellow, and pink, but other colors — green, white, and "Titanium" — showed up as well, and frequently brought with them new powers and plot-driving backstories.
I think what people are going to love are not only the heartfelt backstories in this show, showing how these animals made their way from shelters all over the country, but seeing how vibrant and energetic and wonderful these animals are.
Ginny's pitching motion is a little too deliberate; the characters' backstories are ushered in too quickly; it has yet to truly explore how Ginny's race influences her experiences in this world; and it occasionally falls into stereotypes of its genre.
Avoiding the tedious backstories gives the game more time to focus on less familiar characters like Mr. Negative or Tombstone, providing players with new enemies to face that they haven't already seen in countless video games, comics, and films over the years.
Rather, it's the patients' emotional backstories — like the 22-year-old girl from St. Louis who tears up getting dressed each morning, trying to yank a pair of jeans over the massive mystery lump on her lower back — that really reels you in.
We also learned that CBS All Access will be adding Short Treks, a series of short-form episodes that debut monthly alongside the main show and expand the backstories of characters like Saru and Tilly as well as the Trek universe at large.
And last, but certainly not least ... It's a testament to how great Game of Thrones is at giving you a compelling ensemble with rich subplots and backstories that one of the shows' most longed-for, epic battles is between two minor characters.
It establishes character backstories and motivations seemingly at random, it introduces major plot points shortly before they are resolved, and it sends Jyn on a journey from "reluctant passenger in the narrative" to "daring leader" seemingly over the course of a single scene.
Because the backstories are often told from the periphery, players are forced to put their heads together online to piece together fragments of what feels like an ancient religious text if it were written by a fantasy geek on a bad acid trip.
Over a video chat, Elliott told me that he thinks of the player a bit like an actor on a stage, making interpretive choices about a character's movements, feelings, inflections, or invented backstories—but never diverging from the event of the play.
Throughout the series, Whiteley and producers Chelsea Yarnell and Arielle Kilker profile the Navarro team as a whole while paying special attention to head coach Monica Aldama and the backstories of Navarro cheerleaders Jerry, Morgan, LaDarius, Lexi, and cheerleading sensation Gabi Butler.
Or Lexi… Not only are they people that are fun to watch when they're competing on the mat, but they also have great backstories… It's very instinctual: I just like these people, I don't know why, but I keep going back to them.
The Refrigerator Monologues is a book for all the Gwen Stacys and Alexandra DeWitts, the Elektras and the Barbara Gordons, the Maria Castles and Big Bardas: all of the comic book women whose deaths form the tragic backstories for the men in their lives.
More specifically, series creators the Duffer brothers (who share writing credit on four of season three's eight episodes) seem to care a lot about their characters, but not enough to give them meaningful relationships and backstories that don't feel a bit pasted-on and rote.
It foregoes lengthy exposition and backstories, and while that makes for a disjointed narrative structure, it allows for a fast-paced story told mainly through scares and monsters and plenty of gunfights and Idris Elba asking Jake if the animals in his world still speak.
Mogelson uses last names to evoke a range of nationalities and ethnicities—Karzowsky, Papadopolous, Kahananui, Sanchez—though showcasing seems to be enough for him, as they don't really get backstories and their ethnicities don't have much bearing on their senses of themselves or each other.
It knows exactly what worked about the main game and serves it up on a psuedo-rougelite platter, allowing you to enter a "simulation" of the Transtar corporation's Pytheas moonbase as five different characters, all with their own strengths, weaknesses, and rich backstories to explore.
The show served as a way to explore the backstories of Marvel Universe characters like Howard Stark and supervillain Madame Masque (known on the show as Whitney Frost) while tying into present-day events featured on ABC's companion comic book drama, Marvel's Agents of SHIELD.
Similarly, Love Is Blind throws a bunch of successful reality TV formulas into the blender: a bit of The Bachelor (with the dating and sharing of backstories), some 90 Day Fiancé (the moving in together), and a dash of Say Yes to the Dress.
The Handmaid's Tale's first season hit many of the book's plot points, but it also directly depicted the backstories of various characters whose tales were only hinted at in the book, as well as checked in with American refugees living in Canada, having fled their homeland.
Mystical miracle soups, ancient ancestral secrets passed down for generations and generations, tall tales of monks and priests and Egyptian queens: These kinds of farfetched backstories, whether based in truth or not at all (difficult to confirm, either way), are what best-selling products are made of.
That said, over the past six months, Bungie has experimented like never before in trying out new formats, like the Gambit-focused Season of the Drifter, and trying to tell a more cohesive narrative with unlockable cutscenes and elaborate backstories to the more popular loot items.
What's more, in the 1954, 1976 and 2018 versions, the female leads are all established entertainers in their own right, with legions of fans and complicated backstories well-known to millions, which adds an intentional layer of subtext to the story we see playing out on screen.
Morgan said one of the fun things about being the "Fast" screenwriter is that, during every movie, he'll make the rounds to all the trailers and talk to the talent about their characters and brainstorm their backstories and what they could be doing in the future.
But over the past few years cool, aspirational brands — Hims vitamins, Madewell tote bags, Glossier skin care — have been marketed with the same aesthetic of homey comfort, with retro photography, adorable founder backstories, or Instagram memes about staying home surrounded with your candles on a Friday night.
Low-grade horror rustles up its fears from nowhere, inventing cheap curses or doltish backstories, but the writer and director of this film, Babak Anvari, grounds it in his own experience of growing up in Tehran, and grates the nerves of his characters against the abrasively real.
It features tonally different movements with distinct sorts of stories (the boys on the beach, almost anonymous; the men with backstories on the boat; the lone man in the sky), and the sum of those movements is what makes the film really feel like a whole.
In the book, Tess is a great character and the central piece of the show, but there's all these other characters and worlds and backstories, and I thought we could build out a series that could be funny, dramatic, sad, sexy, it could be all those things in one.
Backstories are laid out, with characters' deep psychoses revealed and shown to be rooted in myriad traumas — Shinji witnessing the death of his mother and his father subsequently abandoning him, Asuka similarly watching her mother succumb to mental illness and suicide, Rei realizing she's completely disposable as a pilot.
But with a world this populated with memorable players, backstories to explore, and six seasons of "tits and dragons" to draw from, it would be a huge waste not to dip into some of the narratives baked into the crust of the main action like a Frey pie.
Covers featuring Muhammad Ali as Saint Sebastian (1968) and Andy Warhol drowning in a Campbell's soup can (1969) are among the most famous examples, but one of the more interesting backstories describes the creation and reception of a December 1963 cover depicting boxer Sonny Liston in a Santa hat.
Still, I'm glad the Night King is coming, and I dearly hope we get an entire hour devoted to his backstory in the final season, similar to how Lost devoted a couple of episodes to the backstories of important characters in its mythology in its own final season.
After all of that, Captain Marvel is in the unenviable position of having to introduce a new character to the MCU, lay out her origin story, tie her in with the current MCU timeline, create backstories for several previously established characters, and set up even more significant elements for Avengers: Endgame.
Still, "Beauty" rolls along like a well-oiled machine, augmented by new music, fleshed-out backstories for the principals and Josh Gad's scene-stealing turn as the toadying LeFou, whose much-ballyhooed gayness -- an overblown controversy if there ever was one -- is played with a combination of sweetness and subtlety.
Warhammer 40K was initially a game about faceless hordes of enemies which evolved to include named heroes with elaborate backstories and, finally, nearly demigod level heroes like the recently returned (with shiny new miniature and crazy rules) Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines—the poster boys for Games Workshop's most iconic franchise.
There were several mysteries that were introduced throughout the first season of Netflix's The Umbrella Academy, but while many of them were left unanswered (damn those finale cliffhangers!), fans did get a little more insight into each of the siblings' backstories to help further demonstrate how they ultimately became the adults they are today.
That series has struggled to find a storytelling foothold ever since the end of its first season, and a significant part of that struggle is rooted in how it abandoned its season one premise — a time-traveling Ichabod Crane solving paranormal cases with a modern police officer (Beharie) — in favor of lengthy dives into turgid backstories and monster hunting.
The props set up backstories and plot details well before audiences get anywhere near a headset or backpack computer, and by the time guests are ushered into the gear-up rooms — designed to echo train cars, decked out in wood and soft overhead lighting — it's tough to shake the feeling that you're doing more than stepping into a virtual reality experience.
When it first began, it was a place for J.K. Rowling to publish her notes and backstories that didn't make it into the Harry Potter books, as well as a more interactive experience for fans to get sorted, explore Hogwarts, and make their way through each of the chapters like a video game, casting spells, brewing potions, and dueling other users.
There's so many technical elements that you're rushing to try to accomplish that it's very rare to be able to spend day after day sitting around a table, reading through the scenes and discussing what's going on in the scenes and the backstories of the characters, and trying to understand how the themes of the play emerge in the scene.
There are at least two layers of backstories, one involving a brutalized woman who willfully plunges in her car to an icy death in front of her young teenage son, and one set nine years earlier in the town of Bergen, where another alcoholic detective (Val Kilmer, in a truly strange performance) is working on another case, dissolute and distressed.
But all of these films are all short, clocking in at 20 or 30 minutes, which means that Reeder and crew do not have that much time to fully flesh out characters, their backstories, location specifics, or what it truly means to inhabit a teen girl body today — especially with the onslaught of social mobile communication on top of all the usual extreme feelings.
Working from a 20-page outline by LaMarque and Parks, the actors then created their own backstories and dialogue—which was mostly important for Trimbur and Wu, as their chemistry had to be believable enough that they would not only be seen as in a loving relationship, but still flawed enough for Trimbur's character to be committed despite not being open with the woman she's about to marry.
Storage overall has not been an easy area to tackle for a lot of reasons: on top of the usual issues of needing to ensure that movers — the face and engine of your business (and in Clutter's case, W2'd employees) — are responsible and good at their jobs, the cargo can be unexpectedly large or fragile, and the movement of it might be tied up in all kinds of backstories that make getting from A to B and eventually back to the owner again very complicated.
What's more, these various musical reinventions went along with corresponding fantastical characters for Bowie to inhabit (with backstories, too!): the Laughing Gnome, the Man Who Sold the World, the Starman and/or Ziggy Stardust (whom Bowie casually murdered in "Rock & Roll Suicide"), Aladdin Sane, the Jean Genie, the Thin White Duke, Jareth the Goblin King (technically, Jareth is a film role, from 1986's Labyrinth, which even more than 1976's iconic The Man Who Fell to Earth or 1983's Catherine Deneuve feature The Hunger stands as Bowie's absolute triumph as an actor).

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