"origin story" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2022 April 5, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair",
          "text": "More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt[…]\nadapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books",
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          "ref": "2022 July 8, Judy Berman, “The Anarchists Is a Messy, Gripping Anarcho-Capitalist Saga”, in Time",
          "text": "Premiering July 10, The Anarchists[…]circles loosely around these dilemmas throughout six episodes that alternate between origin story, character study, true crime, and trend report.",
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          "ref": "2024 January 1, Holland Cotter, Alissa Wilkinson, Mike Hale, Salamishah Tillet, Jesse Green, “What Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2024”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "George Miller returns to direct an origin story for the character that Charlize Theron played in 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road,” with Anya Taylor-Joy in the Furiosa role.",
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        "An account of how a fictional character or characters became a protagonist or antagonist."
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        "(narratology) An account of how a fictional character or characters became a protagonist or antagonist."
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        {
          "word": "origin myth"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "account of how a fictional character or characters became a protagonist or antagonist",
          "word": "alkuperätarina"
        },
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "account of how a fictional character or characters became a protagonist or antagonist",
          "word": "eredettörténet"
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      "word": "alkuperätarina"
    },
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