Norma Bates (Bates Motel)

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Evil-doer
Full Name	Norma Louise Bates (nee Calhoun)
Alias	Mrs. Bates The Whore Mrs. Romero
Origin	Bates Motel
Occupation	Motel owner Businesswoman
Powers / Skills	Manipulation
Hobby	Being with her son.
Goals	To run the motel. Stay close with her son.
Crimes	Murder Psychological abuse Negligence Accessory to Murder
Type of Villain	Affable Protagonist

“	We're like the same person.	„
	~ Norma to her son, Norman.

Norma Louise Bates (born Norma Calhoun) is the main character along with her son Norman Bates in 2013 television series Bates Motel. She serves as one of the two protagonists of the show along with her son Norman. She is based off of her original incarnation of the same name.

Although a well-intentioned woman who did love her two sons, and not nearly as ruthless as her original counterpart, she was still a manipulative mother who missed at and refused opportunities to get Norman the help that he needed out of her overprotective nature-thus making her inadvertently responsible for her son's killings, especially since she knew what he was capable of.

She is portrayed by Vera Farmiga.

Biography

Backstory

Norma Calhoun was second child of her abusive father Ray and scared mother Frances who grew up with her older brother named Caleb Calhoun. As a child, her father would beat Norma and Caleb which left them scars. Frances was sedated most of the time and often locked Caleb and Norman in a room for a couple of days when depressed. Norma and Caleb often has consensual sex with each other, but when Norma wanted to stop, Caleb resorted to raping her from time to time, resulting in her being pregnant with her first child, Dylan. She never told Ray out of fear that he would kill Caleb. The raping continued till Caleb moved out of the house.

She later married John Massett who become her first husband. Dylan never found out about his biological father and always thought John was his. Years later Norma had an affair with and abusive alcoholic, Sam Bates, which caused the marriage to dissolve, so she left John with Dylan. She later had Norman with Sam.

Sam was an extremely violent man, who often went into drunken rages and even threatened to kill them when Norman was a child and raped Norma once when the two of them tried to leave him but couldn't find Dylan. Dylan would later leave the family out of animosity towards Norma for always feeling like she favored Norman more than him.

Plot

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Gallery

Norma's preserved body.

Norma's corpse.

Trivia

• In the novel and films, Norman Bates was Norma's only child.  Also, Norma had a sister named Emma Spool rather than a brother in the film series.
• Like her original counterpart, Norma is killed by Norman and her death looks like a suicide. But unlike her original counterpart, she dies from carbon monoxide poisoning in Norman's attempt to kill them both-as opposed to her and husband having their ice tea poisoned by Norman in the original novel and film series.
• The show is set in modern day and retcons much of what was established in the original films. Farmiga's performance differs greatly from Olivia Hussey's in Psycho IV, with her being much more sympathetic and a lot less caustic and spiteful than the original interpretation. She is no less an overbearing mother however and is seen to have an unhealthy sexual interest in her son.