Crossword clues for backstory
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1990, from background story.
Wiktionary
n. The previous life and experiences of a character in a dramatic work.
Wikipedia
A backstory, background story, back-story, or background is a set of events invented for a plot, presented as preceding and leading up to that plot. It is a literary device of a narrative history all chronologically earlier than the narrative of primary interest.
It is the history of characters and other elements that underlie the situation existing at the main narrative's start. Even a purely historical work selectively reveals backstory to the audience.
Usage examples of "backstory".
His costume and hairstyle has changed, and pieces of his backstory have been altered over the years as well.
I simply had a backstory which existed to flesh me out as a mildly interesting subsidiary character.
But to counter some of the criticism, we have encouraged more Chewie backstories in comics and other publishing since his death.
In hundreds of comicbook adventures over the nextthree decades, Barks added intriguing new characters and dense backstory to theformerly one-note Disney property, creating a rich Benday-dot cosmos.