Fictional narrative that explains why something is the way it is.
Plot device in superhero fiction.
1 Favreau: I love the origin story of Tony Stark in the cave.
2 It's an origin story , it's a redemption story between fathers and daughters.
3 Superman's origin story gets retold like never before in Action Comics No.
4 The remaining members closed ranks and invented a different origin story .
5 The Freakonomics origin story suggests things weren't always quite so smooth.
6 Bernard Jewry's superhero origin story fell midway between those two extremes.
7 You could describe the film as an origin story for Punch and Judy.
8 As for the box-office smash Joker, the Batman-villain origin story gets four nominations.
9 Oculus oscillates effectively from the present to an origin story set 10 years ago.
10 I haven't told you my ' origin story . ' Are you interested?
11 Do we really need another origin story of the Patriot, or even Captain America?
12 WIRED: The book has a sort of interesting origin story .
13 Miracle cure or great origin story for a Marvel villain?
14 Outside of the origin story , we don't know much else.
15 Initiation is the origin story of Sarah Palmer, a character introduced in Halo 4.
16 Toni and Candace's origin story is funnier after you've known them through four seasons.
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