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Norma Bates (née Spool or Calhoun, also known simply as Mrs. Bates) is a fictional character created by American author Robert Bloch in his 1959 thriller novel Psycho. She is the deceased mother and victim of serial killer Norman Bates, who had recreated her in his mind as a murderous alternate personality.
After Norman's father died, Norman and his mother lived alone together "as if there was no one else in the world" until Norman was a teenager, when his mother met Joe Considine (Chet Rudolph in Psycho IV: The Beginning) and planned to marry. Considine eventually convinced Norma to open a motel.
Norma Bates (nee Spool) was the domineering mother of Norman Bates. After Norman murdered her, he developed a murderous split personality based on her.
Nov 18, 2019 · As explained at length by a psychiatrist in Psycho 's conclusion, Norman isn't simply putting on his deceased mother's clothes and killing people, he has an entire second persona in which he truly believes himself to be his mother.
Norma Louise Bates (née Calhoun) was the resilient, beautiful and mercurial mother of Norman Bates and Dylan Massett. She was emotionally complex and, as a single mother, utterly devoted to her son.
After finding the corpses of the teenage boy and Toomey Mary panicked and called Norman as his mother, as well as dressing up in a Mother costume and grabbing a butcher knife, to confront Norman and save him.
Norma Bates is the fictional counterpart to Augusta Gein, murderer Ed Gein's mother; a domineering, fanatical woman who preached to her sons about the innate immorality of the world and her belief that all women (apart from herself) were evil and instruments of the devil.
Aug 28, 2019 · Both Gein and Norman carried out their killings in rural areas. They also had oppressive mothers who they created shrines for, and they each wore women's clothes. Gein was eventually convicted of murdering two women and exhuming a number of bodies from graves.
Norma Bates is the overarching antagonist of the Psycho franchise. She is the abusive mother of Norman Bates, and would influence her son's development into a serial killer.
Norma Bates was the domineering mother of Norman Bates. After Norman murdered her, he developed a tenet of his personality that was based on her, which led him to murder. At the age of twenty, Norma gave birth to her son, Norman.
