Talk:Norman Bates

message: Can someone throw on a spoiler alert or remove the endings of the sequels?  Sideburnstate 16:59, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Wikipedia does not subscribe to the avoidance of spoilers since it contains encyclopedic information. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 22:39, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Spoiler alert

message: According to the Ed Gein page, the author of the novel that Psycho is based on claims that Norman Bates was not based on Ed Gein. Can anyone investigate? --Shinyplasticbag 05:06, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ed Gein 

message: I made some changes to this section; he tries to kill his wife with the knife, and only sets the house on fire after he lets her go. The movie ends before she gives birth, with a hint that "Mother" is still present, just waiting to get out, so I cut out the line about him being free of her. (And burning down a house doesn't cure mental illness.) --VAcharon 19:10, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Psycho IV

message: "Triquel" is not yet a generally accepted English word.  (A Google search, limited to English-language pages, finds only about 2000 hits, very few of which refer to "the third in a sequence".)  I removed it.
207.31.229.4 17:47, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: triquel

message: "The film implies that Bates' mother suffered from schizophrenia and passed the illness onto him."
Does it use that terminology?  Schizophrenia is not a multiple personality disorder so it wouldn't be accurate  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.100.7.33 (talk) 12:50, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not only that, but I'm not sure where that comes from. I don't remember any implication that he inherited any mental illness from his mother. I could be wrong, but I'm 90% certain. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 22:42, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Schizophrenia

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Bateshower.jpg

message: Where does the 	December 21, 2003 date of death originate from?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.155.215.28 (talk) 04:37, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Death

message: Does Norman Bates have a middle name? This page seems to imply that his middle name is Francis but does not give a source. 80.121.9.129 (talk) 23:08, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle name? 

message: There is an issue with the very last part of the film section of the article. It mentions that in the film Bates makes Crane his first victim, but that's not true. It's hinted to in the movie (from second to last scene) that two other girls had gone missing recently from the area, alluding to the previous two murders mentioned in the book. For that reason, I'm deleting those lines. Pyrotics (talk) 21:22, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and someone has put that back. I'm also deleting it. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 22:44, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Differences Between Film and Novel 

message: In Psycho II, Norman says to Mary that he was 12 when his mother went mad and poisoned her, while in Psycho IV, he says he was 15 when he poisoned his mother. Is there any trustful source that tells of Norman's age throughout the Psycho movies?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deane Shafortock (talk • contribs) 13:58, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norman's age 

message: Hey
It says on Norman Bates' page that the character was "inspired by serial killer Ed Gein". However on Ed Gein's page it says "With fewer than three murders attributed, Gein does not meet the traditional definition of a serial killer."
Can someone fix this please?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.111.93.58 (talk) 03:53, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Fix what? A serial murder is a connection of murders committed by the same person. What the Gein article is trying to say is "traditional" meaning that most (not all) have more than 3 murders, but even then that is subjective rather than objective. Nothing needs fixing. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 22:53, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ed Gein was not a Serial Killer 

message: There needs to be a distinction between the two different tv series, both called 'Bates Motel'.
Also, I need to inform one of the previous posters that wikipedia, does not believe in spoiler alerts, and will continue to reveal spoilers without warning.
Thepoodlechef (talk) 09:28, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree on the distinction and I fixed it. I still don't like the Bates Motel (film) title and think Wikipedia needs to change that. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 22:58, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Bates Motel" 

message: I have inserted an unreferenced section tag for obvious reasons. One problem is that the section ramble on about Norman but does not indicate what version of Norman the section is talking about. Is it the Psycho film or the Bates Motel or something else? MagnoliaSouth (talk) 23:30, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreferenced section 

message: In the original Psycho, Norman said that his father died when he was five (or six as he said in Psycho IV: The Beginning). But in Psycho III, Tracy Venable said to Norman "Emma Spool killed your father in a jealous rage and kidnapped you when you were just a baby". So was he an infant when his father died or five/six years old? If he was five/six, then Venable must have meant "child" when she said "baby". Not "infant". 31.48.251.160 (talk) 20:34, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baby/Infant or child? 

message: The page says Danganronpa: Kirigiri is a licensed novel.   I do not believe this is accurate. 2601:144:202:5590:35FF:780A:3C54:6BEA (talk) 03:20, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Danganronpa: Kirigiri 

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message: as in "bad guy against good guy," and protagonist does not mean "pro," as in good guy against bad guy. protagonist refers to the plot driver, and Norman drives the plot soibangla (talk) 04:39, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  in a story, antagonist does not mean "anti"