"Itachi having to murder his entire clan off is just something that's so wild at such a young age."
"Meliodis had one of the craziest backstories that we've seen in a long time."
"Sable and Tom Nook were actually childhood friends."
"The trauma, guilt, and powerlessness that Ichigo feels combined to form a rich character backstory."
"Your warlock wasn't born with magical powers; they didn't learn it like a wizard. They basically stole it."
"Janna gained her power from Sailors praying to her for smooth winds to sail across the sea."
"The fact that Meruem wasn't even trying, and we got Netero's backstory in the middle of that fight, his backstory is the ultimate Chad story."
"In the movie, Salem was put into the body of a cat because he used his magic to win a mortal woman's heart."
"Knuckles is the last surviving member of the ancient Echidna tribe who... disappeared mysteriously."
"Well, as it turns out, Nick's revealed to be a synth."
"Other people were like, 'Hey, he's got a butler, who cares if his parents died.'"
"The hero of winds really was just some kid completely disconnected from any heroic Spirits or Bloodlines that came before."
"Existing in such a desolate land hardened him, and he fought with the ferocity and strength you'd expect from one of Dagon's most capable leaders."
"To understand Shank's objectives and his true power, we have to start at the very start with his origin as a Celestial Dragon."
"When Batman discovers Freeze's origin story and the truth behind his quest for vengeance, it's a very compelling, sympathetic, and heartbreaking scene."
"The theme is monumental, and how it fits Zinnia's backstory and personality is so impressive."
"There's something about Meredith Quill that's a secret to all this."
"This moment comes to us as a flashback to Reed's childhood."
"In most Souls games, our avatar comes to the world as an enigma, with very little backstory, and it is up to us to fill in the blanks."
"Every character backstory I get, it's another cool facet and opportunity for you guys to pass a ball to me, and then to me, eventually in the story, pass it back to you."
"The actual reason behind why Eins decided to become an adventurer."
"I have been many things Bran now I am as you see me and now you will understand why I could not come to you except in dreams."
"Rey's parents were nobody and Kylo just affirmed that to her."
"Wounds are why we love a character. And if when you first start out writing a story, you should show me your hero or your character's wounds."
"Twenty years ago, before he became a member of the Seven Deadly Sins..."
"For me, it was a fascinating story and a fascinating connection between Bruce's early childhood trauma and the persona that he then..."
"Near Death Wish explores Farnsworth's upbringing through his parents, keeping viewers engaged."
"He's been a main character in both Epic Mickey video games, which deal with Oswald's feelings of abandonment by Disney and his envy towards Mickey Mouse."
"Robin´s past, the genocide of her people, her lifelong run from the grasps of the world government and the loneliness and heartbreak she experienced, really hammered in what One Piece was going to be about in the long run."
"Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana Princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior."
"And the last rather unexpected answer was Mario actually having to be a plumber."
"Drow have some of the best lore in D&D, which is no surprise given that they've been developed across several novels."
"Felwinter's Lie, you now knew who the exo was, you read the name & knew the lie."
"Gabrielle is the daughter of a complicated couple, living on the borderline of poverty."
"Grandpa Nakano revealed that the name of the quintuplets' mother was Rina."
"Harley Sinn, Constance Brand, aka Harley Sinn, is the daughter of a billionaire, so you already know she's going to be trouble."
"I want Darth Maul's backstory as an open world game."
"Alright, so, the hook of 'Islands' was learning about humanity, but I did not expect such an in-depth flashback into Finn’s parents and how they met!"
"Tony Stark's been living out of... he has a daughter named Morgan."
"The Snyder cut gives Cyborg his full backstory."
"This backstory is referenced in the second case of Dual Destinies."
"If the Joker’s argument is that chaos is humanity’s true state, then it’s only appropriate for his backstory to have no stable foundation."
"He's born of tragic circumstances, his family was murdered by Thanos's minions."
"Han brags to Beckett that he was boosting av21 s when he was 10 the av21 is actually a rare hand-built land speeder that showed up in the game Star Wars Galaxies."
"Even if we didn't find out that Captain America had, like, banged Peggy Carter... he actually lost his virginity like some random chick on, like, a carrier."
"Annabeth is the daughter of Athena, not Ares."
"Moldmen backstory as one of the saddest in the lore of scorn, a class who have been modified and enslaved having no rights whatsoever."
"Gregory is an animatronic built after the crying child."
"Link wears green clothes because the original Link in the timeline, the link from Skyward Sword, received green clothes when he graduated from Knight Academy."
"Jiraiya's backstory is so good that he brought together these three stories to make the protagonist's story even better."
"No one really knows the specifics of his origin, only that he was created by La Magra."
"Yuji's Origins were hinted at all the way back in the Shibuya Arc."
"I know as a longtime Kingdom Hearts fan, Ansem is bad news, but maybe the prequel game can show me a side of him that perhaps might explain how he went evil."
"Your parents were no one because they wanted to be no one."
"When it comes to sad Back stories nobody has anything on this man..."
"Will you join me, starving wolf? On that day, a young cub was taken from the battlefield."
"These revelations about Ruvik’s past, combined with the reveal that you are in Ruvik’s mind, put many of the unexplained enemies, locations, and cryptic audio logs from the previous eight levels into focus."
"A vital and fun part of the film could be discovering what else happened with Peter..."
"Since the release of The Little Mermaid in 1989, many fans have been wondering what happened to Ariel's mother."
"The only thing you need to know about Kamek is that he is Bowser's adoptive grandfather. Yep, really. Yeah, that's legitimately Nintendo lore."
"This is the way, as I like to say. So, Boba Fett has somehow found out that his father Jango Fett actually was a legitimate Mandalorian."
"Let's take a moment and remember before Aragorn was a would-be King, he was a ranger, ladies and gentlemen."
"The original plan for Yoshi's Island wouldn't have involved Yoshi saving Mario but rather Yoshi saving a wizard."
"It goes back to Jon Snow's heritage being this great secret."
"It is, however, at the moment incomplete as in there are vast areas of the lore that have yet to even begin being touched."
"According to his diaries, which are really just lab reports, he's been running experiments to try to combine four-legged and winged Pals but to no avail."
"This folk-hero total bard lost his eye at some point or perhaps was born with just one."
"He lost his parents and many friends at a young age due to an event known as the tragedy of Duscur."
"That Cinderella had a family, that she had a father, and that he married this awful woman is an interesting thing to me."
"That could even be like a mini series, oh my god Disney, like even if it's just all backstory of like her and Odin and like how she got like basically damned you know what I mean."
"I think we're going to get a backstory that paints Kaido as very, very similar to Luffy in many ways." - Ron Winter
"From a lore point of view, Zhongli has a vibrant story."
"The story behind your Avatar character is that they lived in Eggman-occupied territory and joined up with Sonic to take back the neighborhood."
"But with one of the best backstories in all of Marvel comics and a whole wealth of stories to choose from, we have no doubt Wiccan is going to be a major part of the MCU going forward."
"Among these twins' menagerie is a massive Wookiee with black fur. This is Black Krrsantan from the 2015 Darth Vader comics and Doctor Aphra's stories."
"Black Widow is being tormented with memories of her training to become an assassin." - Bob
"Jack himself... Jack was awesome as a protagonist. He really worked as kind of that outsider for the group. But I especially liked his storyline of not knowing where he came from and how that haunted him."
"In fact, she admits in a SpongeBob comic book that she used to rob banks."
"The Berserker was born in the northwest expanses of the Alik'r desert in the heart of Hammerfell."
"Every single naruto character has like such a bad past, like, 'Oh, every single person I know died at the age of three and I had to be raised by wolves' type of thing."
"She might see old friends from her days in the galactic Republic, competent policy makers like Elvira."
"Gyome's journey from a blind monk to the strongest hashira is a testament to his resilience and determination."
"I'm sure there's probably a story in relation to where he came from and why he's special."
"When Stellan was young, this man came to him in dreams, took him in as his own, and always said he imagined a world of perfect order."
"Spider-Man Noir: raised to believe that good could triumph over evil, despite growing up during the Great Depression."
"Hints at Cinder's backstory and the reason for her motivation."
"Anakin Skywalker had once been a slave on Tattoine, but was discovered by Kwi Gon Jinn who after learning that the child had been conceived by the force, came to believe he the chosen one."
"I'm more excited about her backstory just to see like how they twisted it cuz I'm very confident in my speculation"
"This explains why Vision has some of Wanda's memories."
"Even Uncle Scrooge has a story, and he has his reasons."
"It all started with a hapless Lombax named Ratchet."
"The Batman takes place in our caped crusader's younger days."
"Uncover the mysterious origin of Apollo Justice in Ace Attorney for Nintendo 3DS!"
"You'd get the Sandman, that's what happens. William Baker, aka Flint Marco, was your regular run-of-the-mill petty criminal just trying to make his way in the world."
"Alfred has had a very interesting history... he's been a soldier all depends on the type of stories that they're telling."
"The most famous candy maker in the world, Willy Wonka, is getting a prequel movie that explains how he became the cream of the crop."
"Mewtwo's origin story was covered in the first Pokemon movie."
"The Elric brothers are technically uncles to the seven homunculi as they are actually related by blood."
"With Thor in a slump, he runs into his mother as he and Rocket are looking for the ether in the past."
"Sly Cooper comes from a long line of history's greatest raccoons."
"The final sequence of these flashbacks is beautifully haunting and it all ties back to the moment the last of Beatrice's innocence was taken from her."
"Mawile's jaws have a pretty interesting backstory behind them."
"All eight characters in Octopath Traveler have their own unique backstories, NPCs, and special abilities."
"It's reflective of how Davos taught the Doctor about all the people who died for him."
"Survivor's guilt is a common issue among demon slayers."
"His backstory is played out with believable drama."
"This is the story of how Django Fett became the most recognizable face in the galaxy."
"The reason everyone went to Tatooine was because Vader would never go back there, making it the perfect place to hide."
"Empathy. We know he is a disgruntled ex-employee who put everything he had into his life's work."
"Cal was actually the adoptive father of Lorgar and abused the [__] out of his son."
"Rehuman Sukuna is actually a character based on Japanese legends."
"Luffy's dream could be related to freedom, wanting to free all people so everyone would be free in the world."
"Kang: 'Eons ago, a variant of myself lived on Earth in the 31st Century.'"
"Subject 002 an experiment gone wrong the young lady looks like she has been through a lot."
"Clifford was said to be a puppy when Emily Elizabeth got him."
"Rhaegar lived with the weight of what happened on the day he was born."
"Some believe that Vanessa is actually Ursula's true form that Ursula is actually a mermaid but she appears as this octopus creature because it's actually a punishment from a crime in her past..."
"Army of monsters coming to kill us? Just a second, I have to establish my backstory."
"Anyway, Disney's Odin was the son of Boer, a great king of Asgard. Odin had several brothers, but they all died in the many wars Asgard fought in to keep the nine realms of Yggdrasil safe."
"It's a must-read story for anyone who liked Arthas back in Warcraft 3 and wants to know all the dirty details."
"The romance in Cyberpunk 2077 should have been treated the same way that V's backstory is."
"The choices Sakamo made when he was alive, and he is proud to be his son."
"Evil Morty's evil backstory... he truly was just another Morty who got tired of the status quo."
"Maybe Agatha is like, 'Yo, you're the first witch to pop back up since Salem.'"
"Lois and Clark on the Kent farm, designed to be an homage to their early encounter."
"Former tribunalist of the 14th Legion of the Garlean Empire. These days, however, one might say that I'm something of a free agent."
"Rocio Valentine is a Colombian girl, she was actually born in Medellin, Colombia."
"Old Loki's backstory was fascinating and sad."
"What did you do to get sentenced?" asked the reader.
"In this ending, if you decide to give in to Arden, he takes you to the base in chapter 13 where the crystal was being held, and he gives exposition on both Arden's origins and the star scourge origins."
"Katos had turned the pain of his memories into hatred."
"Abbott's perfect companion: In issue number 360 of Doctor Who Magazine, Russell T Davies revealed in an interview that Paul Abbott had at one point written a script for a series that revealed something astounding about Rose Tyler's history."
"My father was a lot of things, few of them good, but he started out smuggling moonshine."
"Childhood events shape things. Ask about a positive and negative event."
"Especially like we got the backstory of villains... I'm hoping that it happens in this arc."
"Lady Sinestra, basically Deathwing's ex and the mother of Nefarian and Onyxia."
"I'd really like to see what Goku went through for training to get to where he got to. I think that would be pretty interesting."
"Yo, this [expletive] gave me away, that was her backstory."
"Carpenter did confirm that he and Kurt Russell laid out their own internal origin story for McCready."
"A real cutscene about when Gabriel decided to become Hawk moth."
"If there's one thing new players are especially prone to doing it's making a super dark backstory."
"Jonathan Crane was a professor who taught psychology and his methods were kind of intense."
"Blanca's story in Street Fighter 5: the inclusion of dolls may seem pretty random at first but according to Yoshinori Ono, there is a reason for all of this."
"Jiren is a scarred and traumatized figure, a person whose past is what motivated him to be great but also an anchor on his emotions preventing him from truly becoming a great person."
"Most storytellers and actors, they want to understand where their characters came from."
"How did Hector end up using a wheelchair? 'Nacho switches Hector's heart medication.'"
"Nate and Elena have a lovely beach home and a teenage daughter, Cassie."
"Marine's past, I think, is probably one of the hardest ones of the main force."
"I wanted more of the eighth doctor and how he was half human, that stuff was awesome!"
"Suddenly, her past life memory flooded into her. She was a high schooler in Japan, a disgusted shut-in gamer."
"The idea of Luke going into exile is actually an idea thought up by George Lucas."
"Now I need to tell you some things before I give you my proposal. The first thing is what Naruto has inside him."
"Chronopolis is a research institute built by Balthazar who is a character from Chrono Trigger."
"Hodor is going to hold a door somewhere, and this will have something to do with how he became mentally stunted and named himself Hodor."
"Kanjaku would inhabit the body of Naruto Shikamo where he would create the cursed womb's death's paintings."
"Marceline is said to be terrified of pigs because when she was a little girl she fell into a pig pen and got repeatedly licked by them."
"They knew that Naruto was never dealt a fair-handed life from the moment he was born."
"Earlier we talked about Syndrome being a super but what if he was the child of two supers?"
"It actually is the case that reverse flash was a fan of regular flash and reverse flash was in the 25th century. He's like yeah, I want to be flash dawg, hung out with him, went sideways [ __ ], went sideways real quick."
"Chemic was the main caretaker of Bowser when he was an infant and still continues to serve Bowser to this very day."
"Now, everybody knows that April O'Neil is the Channel 6 TV news reporter, and she's like totally best buds with the Ninja Turtles. But what everybody might not know is how April turned into the Catwoman from Channel 6."
"Eddie Brock, once an upcoming journalist on the brink of national success, when life decided to just spit all over him one day."
"This backstory shows that even when he's got a crazy disadvantage he won't stay complacent when he sees this [ __ ] it even makes that stupid line more like a fot tequila and an ass kicking sounds less forced because it's a reference to the bar scene after the fight."
"But gave fans a sense of how Han became the character we all know and love."
"...he is the younger brother of Bihan who was the original Sub-Zero in the first Mortal Combat game."
"He wears a mask of scarred tissue as a result of being burned alive by the parents of the children that he killed."
"I think that makes for really cool unique backstories for a person to build a character from."
"Hopefully, this kind of gave you a little bit of insight into what I think about when dealing with the story elements of a character."
"Grimace's backstory is so complex. It really is. I mean, he has a family and everything."
"Quen is said to be the last of her kind, the last of her species."
"His childhood was a lonely one, growing up a strange and quiet child in an isolated seaside town."
"This movie just made me feel so many emotions, where you will cry over Rocket's backstory that's absolutely tragic."
"Brook had to be on his ship alone with the corpses of his crewmates for decades... that was crazy."
"This music and learning more about her past is so well done, it's got me borderline emotional."
"Natasha Romanov has never had her own story, and Black Widow finally delivers in a way that'll make you wish she wasn't gone."
"It's just such a cute story, but I do think that when we're looking at the character backstories, there's a lot of depth there as well."
"Dr. Manhattan's real name is Jon Osterman, who was born in 1929, and whose father was a watchmaker."
"Zuko's great grandfather on his mother's side was actually the Avatar."
"The fact that Grogu was trained at the Jedi Temple at the same time Anakin was, is mind-blowing."
"Six dots on Krillin's forehead are from incense burns from his time trained to be a monk at Orin Temple."
"While Bastian was a thief, he was orphaned as a child and despised the life he was living in order to survive."
"Grimmjow chooses not to heal the scarring so that it serves as a reminder of his feud with Ichigo."
"Learning how Buggy ended up with his powers is actually really hilarious."
"Learning how Buggy ended up with his powers, and it's actually really hilarious."
"Usually the most interesting backstories are the ones given for the villains."
"I did enjoy getting background about Lydia which is essentially what the book is about."
"Why would we do that? Because this way we finally deliver a backstory for Nagini, which is something that people have been asking for."
"We finally knew who Goku's mother was, and it went some way to explaining the good nature within Kakarot."
"I was born in the darkness, raised in it."
"Before becoming a villain, Poopypants was a calm-minded, intelligent scientist determined to create inventions to solve the world's problems."
"Spike, our main protagonist, and his devastating backstory with Julia and Vicious."
"Now Han Solo explains that Luke Skywalker went missing because he was sad that one of the Jedis he was training turned evil and joined the dark side, that was Kylo Ren."
"I liked it, I enjoyed learning about Princess's past and kind of just more about her in general."
"I'd like to know your backstory, Mr. Ghost Pirate Man."
"I love that they just explored his past."
"There was once a vampire known as Venitas, who was despised by his own kind."
"What if I told you that Yamoshi's story and the history of Cumber both intertwine and connected into one story?"
"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will likely focus more on Rocket's origins."
"There were some great humor, there was also some great backstory in building out for the character of Book."