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Battle of Heartbreak Ridge

Heartbreak Ridge is associated with the title and backstory of the 1986 movie directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.

Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

Tiger Ace — Set in Villers-Bocage, the episode is a backstory of Kampfgruppe Lehr commander Major-General Maximillian Voss and Hauptmann Josef Schultz who is the main antagonist in the original.

Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex

An account of Geoffrey's outlaw actions and the taking of the Ramsey Abbey provides for elements of the backstory for two of Ellis Peters' "Brother Cadfael" books, The Potter's Field and The Holy Thief.

Hollywood Black Friday

Thomas Pynchon later would use some of these events as backstory in his novel Vineland.

Howling V: The Rebirth

While the plot of this film seems largely derivative of The Beast Must Die, the setting of a large castle (rather than that film's mansion) and the castle's backstory are taken from the narrative of the original The Howling novel, where it served as the backstory of a town named Dradja.

Mobro 4000

The backstory of the garbage ball in episode 1x08 of Futurama, "A Big Piece of Garbage", draws directly from this event.

Nathan Bridger

Bridger's backstory claims that he had served in the U.S. Navy for over thirty years; during which time he served with William Noyce and Manilow Crocker.

Peter and the Starcatchers

Written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, the book provides a backstory for the character Peter Pan, and serves as a prequel to J. M. Barrie's novel Peter and Wendy.

Punk Rock Holocaust

The backstory to this film is that Warped Tour head Kevin Lyman once allowed a hideously bad band called Brutal Enigma on the tour since they submitted a phony demo tape.

Queen Lurline

Lurline is therefore a fundamental ingredient in the backstory or foundation myth of Oz; and as such she recurs in various subsequent Oz books — as in Edward Einhorn's Paradox in Oz — and is at least mentioned in others — from Baum's Glinda of Oz to Dave Hardenbrook's The Unknown Witches of Oz.

Return to House on Haunted Hill

The unrated U.S. release did not contain any interviews, commentaries, or "making of" featurettes, but did include four deleted scenes; a music video for the Mushroomhead song "Simple Survival" (featured on the film's soundtrack); and about 20 minutes of in-character interviews with the leads, which recapped the film's plot or provided limited backstory.

Rumble the Bison

According to his official backstory on NBA.com, Rumble is the subject of a Native American tale that has been passed down for centuries which tells of a bison who was struck by lightning while saving his herd from a ferocious storm in the Arbuckle Mountains.

The Chaos Engine

The backstory of the game has some similarities to William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's novel, The Difference Engine, also set in an alternate history Victorian age.

The Silent Gondoliers

The tale of Luigi actually starts in Chapter III and the previous chapters I and II build up further mythology behind the name Morgenstern and the backstory of Gondolierian history.

The Way to Eden

McCoy's backstory was later incorporated into the novels Planet of Judgment and Shadows on the Sun.

Time Killers

With this in mind, it is possible his backstory was somewhat inspired from Charles Manson, who had carved a swastika into his forehead with a knife.

Victor Bergman

His backstory includes the significant detail that he is a Nobel Prize recipient.


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