The character's new, tragic backstory was Bond's way of grafting dramatic themes from The Revenger's Tragedy onto Pitt's stage plot.

A character's memory plays a vital role for conveying backstory, as it allows a fiction-writer to bring forth information from earlier in the story or from before the beginning of the story.

Besides the obvious Americanization of the original Japanese characters ' names, some changes include a change in a character's backstory, new characters and other information that was never seen in both the anime and the manga.

Eidos rebooted the series with Tomb Raider: Legend ( 2006 ), which focuses on Lara Croft's search for Excalibur and her mother, altering the character's backstory as part of the redesign.

Something a character has done in the past will often catch up with him or her, as opposed to more traditional sitcoms, where a character's backstory is unlikely to be referenced by the story of the week.

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 ).

* 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.

Although Wuthering Heights opens with a frame story, it can be regarded as an example of in medias res as there is an encounter with a ghost and a dead character's diary prior to the launch of the backstory narrative.

As the new executive producer, Huggins toned down the violence, softened the main character's fractious relationship with his superiors, dropped a backstory concerning Hunter's family ties to the mob, and emphasized the chemistry between Hunter and McCall.

Browder put the character's direction into the hands of the writers but thought that the audience would define Mitchell through the character's actions and words and not by his backstory in the end.

The English localization of Street Fighter 2010 differs from the original Japanese release, changing the main character's identity and backstory in order to imply that he is the same Ken from the original Street Fighter, having retired from his martial arts career after winning the tournament.

As a result of discussion revolving around the possibility of the character's appearance in Street Fighter III during the game's development, EGM revisited the joke in 1997, printing an updated version of the hoax for the title while establishing a backstory and appearance for the character in the process.

Actor Matthew Fox would have some influence on the character along the way ; for example, Fox's own tattoos were incorporated into the character's backstory.

According to the character's backstory, Baptiste was signed from A. S. Monaco in October 1999.

Other suits include the " Frog Suit ," which increases the character's underwater speed and agility and improves jumping height on land, and the " Hammer Suit ," which gives Mario the appearance of the Hammer Bros. enemy and allows him to throw hammers at enemies and resist fire attacks.

In addition to following Star Trek's lead, showing the " evil " variants of the main storyline gives the writers an opportunity to show what is at stake by portraying the worst that could happen and the consequences if the protagonists fail or the importance of a character's presence.

the book gives three spells that can be invoked in his name, one of which is called The Curse of Yig ( mimicking the title of Bishop / Lovecraft's novel ), which conjures snakes depending on the character's magic rank.

At the same time it provides an open-ended die mechanic: one twenty-sided die roll, read through a bonus chart, gives the bonus to a character's skill for that attempt.

The third-person objective employs a narrator who tells a story without describing any character's thoughts, opinions, or feelings ; instead it gives an objective, unbiased point of view.

( Name in brackets gives the character's equivalent in Journey's End.

The genealogy of Phèdre gives a number of indications as to her character's destiny.

Other variations use the game's character's voices in a lighthearted or humorous message ( for example, Skies of Arcadia gives the message " We can't save the world from a CD player!

What is important to note is these films created a model for dream sequences in which a character's inner thoughts are not represented subjectively ( from the character's point of view ), but from an objective camera angle that gives the audience the impression less of a character having a dream than of being transported alongside the character into a dreamed world in which the character's actions are captured by the camera in the same way they are the films ' real fictional worlds.

Advancing gives the player a number of picks with which to buy upgrades to their character's statistics and abilities.

Bernadette Peters steps into the six-month-old revival of ' A Little Night Music ' with a transfixing performance, playing it as if she realizes her character's onstage billing -- " the one and only Desiree Armfeldt " -- is cliched hyperbole.

The story is based in part on Love's life, and involves the main character's search for her place in the world ; it was written by Stu Levy under the name D. J.

First, a player determines his or her character's ability scores, which consist of Strength, Constitution, Dexterity, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma.

In this analysis, the essence of Hamlet is the central character's changed perception of his mother as a whore because of her failure to remain faithful to Old Hamlet.

Moore's energetic comic performances as Van Dyke's character's wife, begun at age 24 ( eleven years Van Dyke's junior ), made both the actress and her signature tight capri pants extremely popular, and she became internationally famous.

Although all characters have access to magic, for practical gameplay purposes a character's magical strength is proportional to her connection to the divine.

A character's race affects his or her attributes.

Heinlein later revisited a similar theme in his 1958 story — All You Zombies —, in which the main character's interactions with sex-changed versions of himself / herself at various points in his / her life result in a bizarre version of the ontological paradox in which the character becomes his / her own mother and father.

In her early novel Dawn O ' Hara, the title character's aunt is said to have remarked, " Being an old maid was a great deal like death by drowning-a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.

However, he was not satisfied with the character's treatment in the film, feeling " that's not quite her.

Many believe that Paul's untimely end at Jeane's hands was the result of her character's trauma and was considered by many to be retribution for the rape.

Carrie Fisher, in an appearance on the UK TV show Bring Back Star Wars, said she hated her character's hairstyle ; she felt it made her face look rounder, and it took two hours every day to style.

Doillon has commented that in the original screenplay her character was written to be 14 years old, he was so impressed with Binoche's audition he changed the character's age to 17 to allow her take the role.

In his first novel, Pamela, he explored the various complexities of the title character's life, and the letters allow the reader to witness her develop and progress over time.

The plots of Daria largely concern juxtaposition between the central character's jaded, sardonic cynicism and the values / preoccupations of her suburban American hometown of Lawndale.

When the cast is forced to perform the show live, he improvises a grand speech on camera, pulls off his wig and reveals that he is actually the character's twin brother who took her place to avenge her.

Players have to manage their inventory, too, as the combined weight of the items in a character's inventory is limited by his / her / its carrying capacity.

" will be displayed on the character's viewpoint and he / she / it may not add anything more to the inventory until enough items have been discarded or consumed to bring the total weight below his / her / its carrying capacity again.

In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode that seeks to portray an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue ( see below ), or in connection to his or her actions.

Janet Maslin in her review for The New York Times comments, " Ms. Goldberg plays the character's amazement, irritation and great gift for back talk to the hilt.

Takaya's artwork is considered to be more than artistically appealing, with Takaya's skills in detailed art, shadowing, and shading allowing her to convey the character's moods and emotions without the character having any dialog at all.