origin story

English

Noun

origin story (plural origin stories)

(narratology) An account of how a fictional character or characters became a protagonist or antagonist.
- 2022 April 5, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair‎:
  More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt […]
  adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books
- 2022 July 8, Judy Berman, “The Anarchists Is a Messy, Gripping Anarcho-Capitalist Saga”, in Time‎:
  Premiering July 10, The Anarchists […] circles loosely around these dilemmas throughout six episodes that alternate between origin story, character study, true crime, and trend report.

Translations

account of how a fictional character or characters became a protagonist or antagonist

Finnish: alkuperätarina
Hungarian: eredettörténet

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