Sephiroth was listed at the top of IGN's " Final Fantasy VII: Top 10 Characters " list, with writer Dave Smith calling him the " heavyweight champion of Final Fantasy villains ," and praising his appearance and backstory.

GamesRadar stated that Dirge of Cerberus focused on developing Vincent due to his lack of backstory in Final Fantasy VII, and regarded the mobile phone spin-off as " Vincent fanservice instead of FFVII canon.

With Zack's conceptual backstory in place for Final Fantasy VII, the staff decided to use Compilation of Final Fantasy VII to expand upon his character.

Zack's character and backstory is expanded upon throughout the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII.

Zack is the protagonist of Crisis Core, a prequel to Final Fantasy VII, which deals primarily with Zack's backstory.

Vincent was chosen as the game's protagonist due to the scope for expanding his backstory, which was left very vague in Final Fantasy VII.

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 Kimera and their involvement with the backstory of Earth: Final Conflict is still a source of significant debate among fans of the series.

The title contains " backstory on ... the villains and NPC's " found throughout the Fighting Fantasy series.

Some have thought Lolotte is a sister of Genesta, Malicia and Titania, and related to Edgar, but this was not the case according to references in King's Quest VII, and the backstory notes printed in various official hint guides which state she is not actually related to any of the noble family of Etheria ( or Genesta ); Edgar states in KQ7 that he knew somehow he wasn't related to her, and Oberon calls her an " evil faerie " and gives no direct ties to himself or Titania, nor does Titania give any indication of her having any connection to Lolotte.

Director Yoshinori Kitase was in charge of the cutscene in which Vincent joins the party, while scenario writer Kazushige Nojima wrote his backstory.

Later, Vincent finds Lucrecia inside a cave, and his backstory is partly revealed.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 1982 novel Friday, a more conventional adventure story ( borrowing a character and backstory from the earlier short story Gulf, also containing suggestions of connection to The Puppet Masters ) continued a Heinlein theme of expecting what he saw as the continued disintegration of Earth's society, to the point where the title character is strongly encouraged to seek a new life off-planet.

Little backstory is given regarding the early life of Martok, except for a brief history sketched by himself in the Deep Space Nine episode " Once More Unto the Breach ".

Maureen, born on July 4, 1882, recounts her girlhood in Kansas City, young adulthood, discovery that her family is a member of the long-lived Howard Families ( whose backstory is revealed in Methuselah's Children ), marriage to Brian Smith, another member of that family, and her life until her accidental " death " in 1982.

The backstory of Quidditch is mentioned only in passing in the main Harry Potter books.

McClure's character is most developed in " A Fish Called Selma ", which provides a more in-depth look into his private life and backstory.

During this episode, some of the unpleasant backstory of Ro's original childhood is revealed.

When Elektra's backstory was revealed, her older brother's name is Orestez Natchios, and their family dog is named Agamemnon.

* A planet called Ariadne is mentioned in the backstory of the 2002-2006 game series Xenosaga.

The series is a retooled version of the 1988 series Good Morning, Miss Bliss, which was itself later folded into the backstory of Saved by the Bell.

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.

In it ( and the early part of Sailor Moon ), she goes by the pseudonym, short for " Venus ", and is given personal backstory.

In the anime, Minako is given a slightly different backstory, having spent some of her time as Sailor V in England, where she met a young Interpol officer named Katarina who taught her English and acted as a big sister, and a young man called Alan, with whom she fell in love.

The character's backstory gives her ties to Buffy's boyfriend Angel ( David Boreanaz ), and it is gradually established over the course of Buffy and Angel.

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.

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.

After writing the second and third drafts of Empire Strikes Back in which the point was introduced, Lucas reviewed the new backstory he had created: Anakin Skywalker had been Obi-Wan Kenobi's brilliant student and had a child named Luke, but was swayed to the dark side by Emperor Palpatine ( who became a Sith and not simply a politician ).

This gave him a backstory in which he was a young shepherd who becomes the Champion, one of the world's first superheroes in ancient Canaan, over 5, 000 years ago.

Another message of the plot deals with the backstory of the post-apocalyptic world: specifically, that it was not the electronics-destroying electromagnetic pulses, nor the destruction of major cities, nor the release of various bio-engineered plagues that actually destroyed society: rather, it was the hypersurvivalists themselves, those who maintained stockpiles of weapons and ammunition and who preyed on humanitarian workers and other forces of order.

In the January 31, 1953, episode " Cavalcade ," Doc Adams ' backstory is revealed: His real name is Calvin Moore, educated in Boston, and he practiced as a doctor for a year in Richmond, Virginia where he fell in love with a beautiful young woman who was also being courted by a wealthy young man named Roger Beauregard.

Leifer, who wrote or co-wrote a number of episodes for the show, has said only some elements of the backstory of the character -- that she and Seinfeld had dated and have remained good friends since the relationship ended -- relate to her.

The first Silurians introduced are depicted as prehistoric and scientifically advanced sentient humanoids who predate the dawn of man ; in their fictional backstory, the Silurians went into self-induced hibernation to survive what they predicted to be a large geological upheaval caused by the Earth capturing the Moon.

* At the end of the manga, Rex Racer is portrayed driving the Mach 5 — a scene that may have inspired the backstory of the car in the live-action film, in which it originally belonged to Rex who relinquished ownership to his younger brother, Speed.

The immediate backstory is introduced via a comic book that tells the story of a young boy called Robert who is the sole survivor of a helicopter crash in " the Gap " ( the name applied to the Outback at the time of the game ).

The Tin Woodman of Oz provides backstory for Oz itself ; it was not always a fairyland, and became one by being enchanted by the Fairy Queen Lurline, who left a fairy behind to rule it.

One of the repeated references in Zork's backstory was to the ancient king Entharion the Wise and the legendary blade Grueslayer, which he used to directly fight grues in combat ; this feat would not be repeated until the interactive fiction / RPG hybrid Beyond Zork, which allows a player who has advanced sufficiently in level and acquired certain items to boldly walk into the dark and kill grues that attack.

* Ichabod Crane, as a fictional character, is involved in the backstory of the DC villain Scarecrow, who as a youth was taunted with the character's name.

For instance, the rhinos also seem to have a Western culture, but no backstory is given of Rataxes, who also denies his native roots.

* This episode establishes Data's backstory, with Data finding out who created him ( Dr. Noonien Soong ) and discovering his evil brother, Lore, and the Crystalline Entity.

* The short story Occupation: Warrior, published in 1959, provides the backstory of the Monitor Corps ' Commander Dermod, who appears in some of the books.

With the heavy line-up changes in the early-to-mid 2000s which left only two of the original members remaining, The Aquabats eventually phased the Aquabania elements out of their backstory, reestablishing themselves as a group of freelance superheroes of indeterminate origin who travel the countryside, fighting evil and " destroying boredom ".

According to the backstory presented at that time, Pearl killed Dr. Forrester ( after he had re-attained adulthood following his transformation into a 2001-esque Space Baby ), then vowed to " avenge his death " by continuing his experiments on Mike and the Bots ; she had herself cryogenically frozen until the year 2525 ( probably a reference to the 1960s song " In the Year 2525 ") and became the leader of the Planet of the Apes-like apes who now dominated Earth, at which point she ( apparently ) somehow drew the Satellite of Love's crew back to the ship so that she could send them bad movies.

Unlike Miyagi, Han is a practitioner of kung fu who uses fire cupping in lieu of Miyagi's pain suppression technique, and elements of his backstory differ from Miyagi's, such as the circumstances surrounding his wife's and son's deaths.

During gameplay, Cortana provides backstory and tactical information to the player, who assumes the role of the Master Chief.

The conversations in the scene supply the play's backstory, indicating that Welborn and Allworth are both members of the local gentry who have fallen victim to the financial manipulations of Sir Giles Overreach.