40 Origin Stories Of Favorite Characters From Movies, TV And Video Games

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40 Origin Stories Of Favorite Characters From Movies, TV And Video Games

Sometimes there just isn’t enough time in a movie or TV show to get into a character’s backstory, and by the looks of some of these insane origin stories, that’s probably a good thing. You wouldn’t want Casper the Friendly Ghost to stop and tell Christina Ricci’s character that failing to make friends once made him attempt suicide (multiple times). 

Naw, it was probably best to have him lock it up and focus more on a lovely ending with him as Devon Sawa.

Thanos

In the comics, Thanos does the awful things he does just to impress a girl. The girl is Death who, in the MCU, is a woman in a purple robe. Thanos is totally in love with her and murders countless beings just to impress her. CRACKED.COM

Snake Plissken

Snake Plissken from Escape From New York went on a failed spy mission. In the novelization, he and his squad were supposed to be captured in WWIII and feed Russia bad intel -- but the Russians didn't fall for it. CRACKED.COM

Mason from Kong: Skull Island

In the Kong: Skull Island novelization, Mason's dad's death shaped her work. S RINING GNO FROM WAS Не always had super high standards that she failed to live up to--and, after he died, she used her photography as a way of searching for meaning. CRACKED.COM

The Gimp from Pulp Fiction

According to Tarantino, the Gimp in Pulp Fiction is just a really unlucky dude. Не says the Gimp was like a hitchhiker or somebody that they picked up seven years ago, and they trained him so he's the perfect victim. CRACKED.COM

Borg from Star Trek

According to a novelization, Star Trek's Borg were created by Voyager 6. Voyager 6 came to the Borg's planet, who sent it back - but it returned, reporting a biological infestation on Earth. This led to making them what they became. CRACKED.COM

Cliff from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Cliff from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actually might be a murderer. According to the novelization, he was accused of murdering his wife in the '60s --he claimed innocence, but nobody ever found out for sure. CRACKED.COM

30 Rock

Jenna Maroney's (from 30 Rock) real name was actually Ystrepa Grokovitz. She grew up in Toilet Cove Swamp, Florida, participating in child pageants (and also at Christmas in malls, to distract staff while her mom shoplifted). CRACKED.COM

Donkey Kong

Nintendo was denied the rights to Popeye only after Shigeru Miyamoto had designed a game around it. So he swapped Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Bluto for a generic carpenter, a princess, and the gorilla bizarrely named Donkey Kong. CRACKED.COM

Samus

40 Origin Stories Of Favorite Characters From Movies, TV And Video Games

Cubone

CUBONE IS An ADORABLE POKémon. AND IT WeARS THE SKULL OF ITS DEAD MOTHER AS A HAT. Cubone ox16 60 BASIC - Lorals Headbutt 10 Bonemerang 20x coins This attack does x damage times the number of when . whinks da deal with + win the MADE rattle | I Area - - - +10 -20 DRINKER COCK - MOTOR The exact quote from the game: It always wears the skull of its dead mother, so no one has any idea what its hidden face looks like. Originally, the game designers were going to name the creature Orphan, but they wisely

Reservoir Dogs

THeRe WeRen'T ANY ReseRVOIRS OR DOGS in ReseRVOIR DOGS. THE nAme comes FROM QUENTIN TARANTINO MOCKING A FRenCH movie. Before making movies, Tarantino worked as a video store clerk. According to one story, he pronounced French film Au Revoir Les Enfants reservoir dogs out of spite. Another version of the story has Tarantino's girlfriend saying she wants to see the film, and Tarantino snapping back, I don't want to see no Reservoir Dogs. Whichever it was, Tarantino liked the phrase. CRACKED.COM Salman Rushdie, 2012. Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

THE TeenAGe MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ARe LOVABLE GOOFBALLS. BUT THEY STARTED OUT AS TRAINED execuTioners. DMS FOR YOU TO ac TOLO OF THE MISSION FOR WHICH HAVE TRAINED THESE PAST YOU THISTRAN YEARS YOU WILL LEARN OF CITY LIFE AND HOW YOU CAME TDX NOW HAVE AM OLD YOU AND THERE is ATASK THAT WOULD DE ROAM BC TAKE ILLANC THIS LIFE NOW NO DEING MUST ASM YOU ID DO THAT WHICH SHOULD LASK THE YOU EN YOSHI ASK OF ANOTHER OF SKEN AND TO CHALL ENGO AND KILL THE TANA 2 ORDKU SAKI... THE SHREDDER! In the first issue

Superman

SUPERMAN AND LOIS LAne ARe A TimeLess Romance. AND IT'S ALL BECAUSE SHe REMINDS HIM OF HIS MOTHER. LEX LANA LUTHOR LORI LEMARIS LANG LUMA LYNAI BRAZEN HUSSY ! IT'S ONLY SURE, LARA! 'NO N THE PITCH-DARK THAT I SEE YOU BOTH TOR-EL WOULD THINK YOU GETHER UNDER ARE PRETTIER THAN I LIGHT OF THE TR AM! MOONS... LOIS LINDA LEE LI LANE CHOKE! THAT PREDICTO BE RIGHT:GROAN!ALL MY FATE HAS BEEN WE CONNECTED WITH PEC WHOSE INITIALS ARE ، Superman's mother back on Krypton was called Lara Lor-Van. His childhood girlfriend in Smallville was Lana Lang, his college sweetheart was Lori

Odie

ODIE IS GARFIELD'S GOOFY, DIM-WITTED DOG FRIEND. AND He's Been ABANDONED. WHAT'S YOUR DOG'S NAME? ODIE B-10 E 1678 PAWS INC AS Rights Reserved ODIE... A DOG NAMED ODIE... Odie originally belonged to Lyman, Garfield's owner's roommate. Over time, Lyman just disappeared. But Odie remained. The official explanation is that Lyman joined the Peace Corps. CRACKED.COM http://garfield. wikia.com/wikil.yman

P.J. Sparkles

WHAT CHILD WOULDN'T LOVE P.J. SPARKLES? THeY'D BeTTeR LOVE HeR, OR CHILDREN WILL SUFFER. The doll comes packaged with an animated movie in which P.J. Sparkles is the savior of Twinkle Town, a town inhabited by lost children who wished on a star. As long as children love P.J., Twinkle Town will be a happy, sparkly, bright place. But if they don't, P.J. will fade away, and Twinkle Town will be plunged into darkness forever. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/gZdC0Fvlo3U

Sonic

TO From the beginning, Sonic was a somewhat cynical attempt to create a brand ambassador to rival Mario. SONIC THE HEDGEHOG SEGA They wanted a character that kids felt like they already knew, so they combined Felix the Cat and Mickey Mouse, then painted him blue to match the Sega logo. And they almost called him Mr. Needlemouse. GRACKED.COM

Pikmin

Mario walked so that Pikmin could... scuttle. CA are GIRDA СЯЯРМ GIRPA X Super Mario 128 was a bizarre demo designed to show that the GameCube could render 128 Marios in a single environment. That rapid object generation is the basis for the now-classic Pikmin army. CRACKED.COM

Pac-Man

Legend has it that 26-year-old designer Toru Iwatani came up with Pac-Man when he removed the first slice from a pizza pie. And our old pal Scott Pilgrim was right: the name was changed because the original Puckman was just begging for vandalism. CRACKED.COM

Little Mac

Little Mac had to be little because two thirds of the screen was needed for the player to focus on the larger, more intricate opponents. 3 2:58 POINTS: 4770 Rounos TKO And his name was indeed a play on the newly popular Big Mac. CRACKED.COM

Mario

40 Origin Stories Of Favorite Characters From Movies, TV And Video Games

Cable from Deadpool 2

Cable from Deadpool 2 is the son of Cyclops and Jean Grey (well, kind of). His mom's name is Madelyne Pryor, and she was a clone of Jean Grey (one of several, apparently) and also Cyclops' wife at the time. CRACKED.COM

Coma the Doof Warrior from Mad Max: Fury Road

Coma the Doof Warrior from Mad Max: Fury Road has a truly horrific backstory. He's been blind since birth, and he wears a mask that's actually the skin of his mother's face (who was murdered). CRACKED.COM

Dr. Robotnik

Sonic the Hedgehog's Dr. Robotnik was originally a human-egg hybrid. Не suffered a lab accident that bathed him and a rotten egg in a nearby fridge in chaos energy, turning him into a mutant in which human and egg combined. CRACKED.COM

Batman

In the Golden Age Comics version of Batman's origin story, his mom wasn't shot. She died of the heart attack she got after seeing Joe Chill shoot her husband -- who tried to prevent Chill from stealing her necklace. CRACKED.COM

The Dursleys from Harry Potter

The Dursleys (from Harry Potter) kind of bonded over a battered sausage. When Vernon told Petunia he wouldn't hold her sister being a witch against her, she jumped on him in gratitude so hard that he dropped his battered sausage. CRACKED.COM

Rogue One

Jyn Erso's (from Rogue One) father and Oson Krennic were basically BFFs. They were really close Ф and, when Krennic saw little Jyn for the first time, he happily told her dad She looks just like you! CRACKED.COM

Maz Kanata

Maz Kanata from The Force Awakens has a very long history as a pirate. Kanata has been alive for over 1,000 years, and she's both had a long stint as a pirate and has operated her extremely weird bar for a century. CRACKED.COM

Black Widow

In the Captain America: Civil War novelization, Natasha's backstory is super bleak. At one point, she and dozens of other girls were left in the tundra, two weeks' worth of walking from home, with enough supplies for one of them. CRACKED.COM

Birdo

BIRDO IS A RECURRING CHARACTER in MANY NINTENDO GAmes. AND SHe's A CROSSDRESSER. which roughly translates to: [MEDIUM WEIGHT CLASS It appears to be Yoshi's girlfriend, but is actually his boyfriend!? Не participates in the race with eggs! When the pink, bow-wearing dinosaur first showed up in Super Mario Bros. 2, the instruction booklet claimed, Не thinks he is a girl and he spits eggs from his mouth. He'd rather be called 'Birdetta.''' In fact, the Japanese booklet even uses the word omoikomu for thinks, which more accurately translates to wrongly believes. CRACKED.COM http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/birdo.shtml

Pop, Goes The Weasel

POP, Goes THE WEASEL IS A nuRSeRY RHYME. AND IT'S ABOUT BEING SO POOR YOU PAWN YOUR SUIT. HOCK YOUR.. WIGS LOCKETS FALSE TEETH WITH GOLD FILLINGS 25% Pop is a Cockney slang term meaning to pawn something (that is, sell it at a pawn shop) while weasel translates to coat. See, no matter how poor a London man was back in the day, he was expected to own a suit in order to dress nicely on Sunday. The trick was to pawn that suit on Monday and then buy it back before Sunday. CRACKED.COM Albert Jack, 2009. Pop Goes

Hello Kitty

HELLO KITTY HAS Been ADORABLY FeLine FOR 40 YEARS. BUT SHe's пот A CAT. ELLO KITTY suburbs of London with her nts and twin sister Mimmy, who is friend. Her hobbies include okies and making new friends. he always says, you can never have ny friends! TREAM An anthropologist working on a Hello Kitty retrospective was sternly corrected by Sanrio, when she assumed Hello Kitty is a cat. She isn't. She's a little girl who lives outside of London. She has a twin sister, and is in the third grade. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2736392/ CRACKED.COM Sanrio-shocker-Company-reveals-Hello-Kitty-not-actually-cat.html

Rainbow Brite

RAINBOW BRITE IS ADORABLE AND SWEET. AND SHe CAN commit MURDER WITH HeR RAINBOW. The Beginning of Rainbowland tells the story of how Rainbow Brite started out as Wisp, a human toddler on a quest to save an unnamed planet. In the final confrontation, she shoots a rainbow beam out of her chest, which wraps around the bad guy and crushes him into oblivion. The movie is recommended for ages 3-8. CRACKED.COM http://www.rainbowbrite.net/collect/videos/beginning.html

Cabbage Patch Kids

CABBAGE PATCH KIDS weRe THE MUST-HAVE TOY OF THE 1980s. AND IF THEY WeRen'T BOUGHT, THeY'D Become SLAVES. According to a 1984 Christmas special, storybooks, and songs, Cabbage Patch Kids were hatched out of actual cabbages. Those who weren't adopted by eager consumers would be kidnapped by Lavender McDade, who would then force them to work in her gold mine. CRACKED.COM https://news google.com/newspapers ?nid=1291&dat=19860519&id= eNSzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S/WDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2753,6912605&hl=en

Transformers

GOBOTS ARe JUST LIKE TRANSFORMERS. EXCEPT THAT THEY HAVE HUMANOID BRAINS. According to the Challenge of the GoBots animated series, a humanoid race called the GoBings lived on a planet that was devastated by war. The survivors sought help from The Last Engineer, who transplanted their brains into robot bodies. Renegades and Guardians alike became immortal metal beings, destined to battle until the end of time. CRACKED.COM http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139769/

Casper the Friendly Ghost

CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST SURE IS A HAPPY LITTLE SPOOK. BUT in HIS eARLY YEARS не WAS SUICIDAL. HowtoWin YE FRIENDS and Love YE PEOPLE In his first appearance, Casper repeatedly tries to make friends and fails. Не becomes so despondent that he tries to commit suicide by lying on the railroad tracks. Most of his early cartoons and comic books follow the same formula. Не tries to off himself by jumping off a cliff, tying a rock around himself and jumping into the ocean, and so on. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/tw7AipHHBXE

The Team Fortress Spy

b ya The Team Fortress Spy is a glitch that never went away. A bug in the graphics caused some enemies to render as teammates. They pulled the old it's a feature, not a bug, and developed it into its own wildcard class. CRACKED.COM

Link

He'ScolledLink because: He'Sthe link betweentime periodsin The Legendof zeldo He's the link betweenthe ployer and the game The Triforce was originally 3computerchips that neededtobelinked CRACKED.COM

Solid Snake

Solid Snake is a blatant ripoff of Escape From New York's Snake Plissken. But John Carpenter thinks Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima is a nice guy, so he didn't sue him into oblivion. CRACKED.COM

Kirby’s Dream Land

Kirby's relatively unimaginative round body was supposed to be a temporary placeholder. Nintendo KIRBY'S DREAM LAND Nintendo® - - ABOUT KA GAME BOY But, like a kid who found a stray puppy, designer Masahiro Sakurai fell in love with it after naming it. His original name - and a great name for a puppy - was Popopo. CRACKED.COM

Mortal Kombat

It's no coincidence that Johnny Cage is a cocky pretty boy movie star who can do a split. Mortal Kombat was designed to be a vehicle for Jean-Claude Van Damme. CRACKED.COM

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