The game's backstory involves ' possibility energy ', which can be used by Storm Knights to achieve heroic feats.

Ike's backstory would play an important role in the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, which involves a fictional American – Canadian war, as well as in future episodes of the series, such as the season seven episode " It's Christmas in Canada ", in which Ike's biological parents take him away from the Broflovskis, and bring him back to Canada.

Star Trek author Diane Duane explored Surak's backstory from the character's own perspective, in the novel Spock's World -- which depicts Surak's initial awakening and internet-dissemination of his philosophy after leaving his job as a computer programmer in response to a nuclear explosion from a war between mining conglomerates that spreads to T ' Khut, Vulcan's " moon " ( in reality, Vulcan's smaller binary planet ).

His reasons for leaving and the fact that he stole the TARDIS are also revealed ( although other aspects of his backstory remain a mystery ).

Mutant Enemy approved the story, even though IDW did not have rights to a Buffy-only character like Halfrek, because of her importance to Spike's backstory, on the condition that the story's timing was deliberately ambiguous.

In another review of volume 17, one of Mangalife's reviewers, Michael Aronson, has a more negative comment, stating that he " comes off looking more passive and stiff in contrast Keigo Atobe ," and despite his revealed backstory, he is held back from being a likable protagonist because he remains a mystery to readers.

The novel has a range of major and minor characters, each with a backstory which, in some cases, is deliberately vague with the intent of intensifying a sense of mystery.

The final chapter concludes in the present, providing the puzzle-piece that strings together all the events and makes sense out of the backstory and their current workings searching for " phenomenons.

However, scenario writer Kazushige Nojima wanted to bring a sense of mystery to the title, and created the character to help complicate Cloud's backstory.

The narrative therefore relies on much fictional backstory, more than the novels do and ever will reveal.

The novels ' fictional backstory is told in successive revelations, flashbacks and people's memories, using tools like internal monologue, unreliable narrators, and the point of view technique.

Marc Platt's novels Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible and Lungbarrow, provide a detailed backstory for the civilisation seen in the main series.

Many of these novels and comic books concern Spike's backstory in the periods between the events shown in flashbacks in the television series.

The novelization by Mac Rauch is told through fake documents written and compiled by Reno Nevada, and further expands on the backstory of the film, including the murder of Peggy Banzai ( her twin sister Penny plays a role in the movie ) by the minions of Asian crime lord Hanoi Xan, the deaths of Buckaroo's parents in an early Jet Car accident, and at least two other fictitious novels.

Typically, the genres in which a backstory may be revealed include all entertainment media being significant in all literary works such as novels or short stories, stage or radio plays, and so also derivative media such as TV dramas and movie films.

Lucas brought to Foster the original screenplay, after which Foster fleshed out the backstory of time, place, planets, races, history and technology in such detail that it became canonical for all subsequent Star Wars novels.

Her position, ' being of both planets ' is germane and central within the next handful of novels in particular, but then again returns as a causal backstory of renewed importance in the aftermath of the change of government in the five universe years after the Ashes of Victory finale.

Among a handful of anthologies, the thirteen Honor-centered novels, and two subordinate sub-series starring some different characters, the universe first explored in On Basilisk Station has a diasporal historical background for the backstory storyline, in which mankind, over almost two millennia, migrated to systems beyond the Sol system, first in slower-than-light starships, then by increasingly efficient and effective hyperspace drive-propulsion systems.

The novels were guided by the so-called Cartmel Masterplan, which was the backstory that Doctor Who story editor Andrew Cartmel had constructed for the television series when it was cancelled and never brought to fruition.

Voyager producer Jeri Taylor wrote two novels featuring backstory for Voyager characters, and screen authors David Gerrold, D. C. Fontana, and Melinda Snodgrass have also penned books.

McCoy's backstory was later incorporated into the novels Planet of Judgment and Shadows on the Sun.

Over the years, this mythology, and in particular the fictional backstory regarding their origins, has continually changed, evolved and occasionally been retconned to explain changes in the band's line-up.

is the major, occasionally playable character of Final Fantasy Tactics who is remembered in the backstory of the game as a commoner turned both hero of the War of the Lions and Savior King of Ivalice.

The backstory of one of the surviving epistles, directed to Constantine I, recounts how the fame of Saint Anthony spread abroad and reached Emperor Constantine.

This scene was used in a deleted footage involved further backstory to the film.

The excised scenes feature Snake Plissken robbing a bank, introducing the character of Plissken and establishing a backstory.

The novel provides motivation and backstory to Snake and Hauk — both disillusioned war veterans — deepening their relationship that was only hinted at it in the film.

His backstory is that he was a bomber pilot and one day he landed at Windy Hill in 1922.

There are several deities in EverQuest who each have a certain area of responsibility and play a role in the " backstory " of the game setting.

In contrast to Tolkien, Martin does not intend to publish his private backstory notes after the series is finished.

Martin acknowledged that the screenwriters ' lack of these tools might prove a challenge for presenting the backstory in the TV adaptation, although they have other tools at their disposal.

Bryan Cogman, story editor of the TV adaptation, said that only little backstory is presented on-screen to prevent the show from collapsing under the weight of the rich backstory.

Long speeches about long-dead characters also do not make for good television, so the screenwriters pick the moments that affect the present to tell the backstory.

This backstory explains why no children are seen in the classic series Gallifrey stories and provides an explanation for the male-centric nature of Time Lord society.

This backstory is hard to reconcile with The Sound of Drums which shows the Master as a child and the Doctor's reaction to Jenny's creation through a process similar to looming in The Doctor's Daughter.

The film focused more on Michael's backstory than the original did, devoting the first half of the film to Michael's childhood.

This version, written by Stewart Stern, uses the encounter between Marlow ( Roddy McDowall ) and Kurtz ( Boris Karloff ) as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz's adopted son.

The best-known is Tom Stoppard's 1966 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead which retells many of the events of the story from the point of view of the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as well as giving them a backstory of their own.

The backstory of Kid Icarus is described in the instruction booklet: Before the events of the game, earth was ruled by the goddess, or Queen of light, Palutena, and the goddess, or Queen of darkness, Medusa.

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the only element of romance lay in the backstory of the Tin Woodman and his love Nimmie Amee, which explains his condition and does not otherwise affect the tale, and that of Gayelette and the enchantment of the Winged Monkeys ; the only other stories with such elements were The Scarecrow of Oz and Tik-Tok of Oz, both based on dramatizations, which Baum regarded warily until his readers accepted them.

In 1960, writer Jerry Siegel altered Luthor's backstory to incorporate his hair loss into his origin.

His deception is benefited by a vibrant new body with a beard and full head of red hair, as well as assuming an Australian accent as part of his fake backstory.

In many computer adventure games, and especially first-person shooters, the player character is an anonymous person with no character history or backstory.

The often unconventional playwright introduces a " real " Helen and a " phantom " Helen ( who caused the Trojan War ), and gives a backstory that makes the father of his character Theoclymenus, Proteus, a king in Egypt who had been wed to a Nereid Psamathe.