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origin story

[ awr-i-jin stawr-ee, or-i-jin ]

noun

  1. a backstory, or established background narrative, that informs the identity and motivations of heroes and villains in a comic book or similar fictional work:

    The superhero’s origin story begins with a tragic accident that left him scarred, but also resulted in his supernatural powers.



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Origin of origin story1

First recorded in 1910–15
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The origin story Halili gave the Christian-themed magazine Relevant for a January profile makes the decision to start the podcast sound impulsive.

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Paul Dano portrayed the Riddler in the 2022 movie ‘The Batman,’ then examined the character’s origin story in a comic book series.

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Like a detective, she’s always on the lookout for contradictory gospels about Jesus’ origin story.

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The second installment in the Dionne family saga, which is a kind of origin story in which we see how Babs came to run Little Canada’s underworld, is done.

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She earned a grant from UCLA, spent a week in Rancho Cordova interviewing him and learned his immigrant story echoed her own Korean parents’ origin story.

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