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What is a backstory?

What is a backstory? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The previous life and experiences of a person, especially a character in a dramatic work, but also a real-life person.
  2. A fictitious account of a person's history designed to conceal their actual history and motives; a cover story.
  3. A prequel.
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Considering his backstory, though, this kind of publicity may not be too harmful.
Trevor had a thing with her sister and got her pregnant, so there's a big backstory there.
As it is a crime drama, the home scene is used for comic relief and only slightly to reveal backstory about one of the main characters.
This was first written as the backstory to a character I was playing in a roleplaying game, and it ended up taking on a life of its own.
Everyone liked this guy better than the guy in the film, so I gave him the backstory and jettisoned the other guy so I had a new villain.
This is perhaps the best written of the three films, giving each character a solid backstory.

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