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Bates Motel

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Bates Motel	label	Bates Motel
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Bates Motel	comment	Bates Motel is an American drama television series on A&E starring Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga. The series is a spiritual prequel to and, in its final season, Broad Strokes adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's iconic Psycho, and depicts Norman Bates's Sanity Slippage whilst set in modern times.The series kicks off with the sudden death of Norman's father, prompting Norman and his beloved mother Norma to set up a new life in the coastal town of White Pine Bay as owners of the eponymous motel. However, their relationship is far from stable and the town is hiding secrets of its own.Not to be confused with the 1987 made for TV Movie of the same name.
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Bates Motel / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
Bates Motel / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Every character except for Norman, Norma, Romero, Marion Crane and Sam Loomis were invented for the series.
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Bates Motel / int_118a41d5	type	Daydream Surprise
Bates Motel / int_118a41d5	comment	Daydream Surprise: Occasionally, Norman's hallucinations mostly happen at day.
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Bates Motel / int_11ad560b	type	Control Freak
Bates Motel / int_11ad560b	comment	Control Freak: Mother is trying to dominate Norman's life.
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Bates Motel / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Bates Motel / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Showrunner Carlton Cuse appears in "Dreams Die First" as the police officer who pulls Marion Crane over...because her jacket was sticking out of her trunk and covering up her license plate.
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Bates Motel / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Bates Motel / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: The show seems "fond" of this trope, between the sex slave trafficking and Norma's numerous sexual assaults.
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Bates Motel / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Bates Motel / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Certain scenes between Norman and Norma are reminiscent of a long-lived marriage as opposed to a mother-son relationship.
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Bates Motel / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Bates Motel / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: Norman's family, naturally. Some are more functional than others, but all of them have a dark side and a body count.
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Bates Motel / int_1aa30797	type	Single Woman Seeks Good Man
Bates Motel / int_1aa30797	comment	Single Woman Seeks Good Man: The main reason Norman's a Clueless Chick-Magnet to the girls of White Pine Bay. He stands out for being a nice guy who's appealingly innocent about sex. If they only knew...
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Bates Motel / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
Bates Motel / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: "Inseparables" reveals that Dr. Edwards died some time before the final season, despite the fact that Norman thought he had been talking with him for a few weeks.
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Bates Motel / int_1b8ff67c	type	Above the Influence
Bates Motel / int_1b8ff67c	comment	Above the Influence: Subverted. Norma shows up drunk at James's house after a mental breakdown and eventually tries to sleep with him. He is very reluctant and points out how wrong it would be, especially since he is a therapist. She keeps persisting though, and eventually he gives in and sleeps with her.
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Bates Motel / int_1d8f9329	type	Deadly Bath
Bates Motel / int_1d8f9329	comment	Deadly Bath: The Shower scene. Which has Sam Loomis dying instead of Marion.
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Bates Motel / int_203141e3	type	Cute and Psycho
Bates Motel / int_203141e3	comment	Cute and Psycho: Norman. Cute as a button and twice as crazy.
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Bates Motel / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Bates Motel / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Sam Loomis is not the clean-cut, noble hero who truly wanted to have a happy life with his fiancÃ© Marion Crane, but instead a lying, scumbag who's cheating on his wife with Marion for a cheap thrill. Marion Crane, as she leaves the motel with the money with no intention of ever returning it unlike in the movie, where she ends up deciding to return it before she ends up getting killed.
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Bates Motel / int_2169c95c	type	Taxidermy Is Creepy
Bates Motel / int_2169c95c	comment	Taxidermy Is Creepy: As of Season 2, Norman has begun to kill random animals and turn them into creepy figures.
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Bates Motel / int_23330a99	type	Immediate Self-Contradiction
Bates Motel / int_23330a99	comment	Immediate Self-Contradiction: At one point Norman insists that he is completely normal and fit in at school, and that his mother has nothing to worry about. Then he asks if she can give her a ride to Emma's house so he can learn some more taxidermy.
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Bates Motel / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Bates Motel / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Norman's split personality Mother actually has more time to evolve into a well-rounded character on the show than her film counterpart did.
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Bates Motel / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Bates Motel / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Norma ends up trading in her car for a new one during her mental breakdown, just like Marion did in the film. She eventually gets the car back and points out how pointless the switch was, noting that she is "not sure what [she] was trying to prove."
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Bates Motel / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Bates Motel / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Norman has a random encounter with Dr. Edwards in Season 5, but this is later strongly implied to be a hallucination and it turns out Dr. Edwards has been missing for over a year. Whether Norman had anything to do with his disappearance is never revealed.
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Bates Motel / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
Bates Motel / int_28b2f93a	comment	Season 1: Jake Abernathy
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Bates Motel / int_2a2d62a0	type	Talking Down the Suicidal
Bates Motel / int_2a2d62a0	comment	Talking Down the Suicidal: Norma talks Norman down from committing suicide in the Season 2 finale.
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Bates Motel / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Bates Motel / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Norma.
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Bates Motel / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Bates Motel / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Sheriff Romero unfortunately finds himself slowly becoming worse than the villains he fights in the series. He becomes a rogue hiding his own identity like Abernathy, he uses his connections to get what he wants like Nick Ford, he's not above manipulating others into getting his way like Bob Paris, and he kills people while covering his own hide like Norman.
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Bates Motel / int_2d8da79	type	Clueless Aesop
Bates Motel / int_2d8da79	comment	Clueless Aesop: After Norman gets taken into a mental hospital, Norma asks others how she should take in the situation. Emma advises her to forget her son and focus on herself since Norman should grow up on his own. So apparently, Norma should have fun with her own life over worrying about her own son's mental health.
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Bates Motel / int_33576bdb	type	The Sheriff
Bates Motel / int_33576bdb	comment	The Sheriff: Alex Romero in the first four seasons. After he is sent to prison for perjury, he is replaced by Jane Greene.
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Bates Motel / int_337a0f4	type	TrailersAlwaysLie
Bates Motel / int_337a0f4	comment	Trailers Always Lie: Most of the show's promotional commercials portray Norman as outright evil and unsympathetic instead of the Tragic Villain he really is.
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Bates Motel / int_339e22e7	type	Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds
Bates Motel / int_339e22e7	comment	Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Though the Bates family isn't exactly defenseless, White Pine Bay's many crime families are much more dangerous. However, as soon as Norma, Norman, and (especially) Dylan move into town, their very presence starts a chain reaction that... Begins with Norma and Romero killing Jake Abernathy, the leader of a criminal syndicate that dealt in sex slaves. This results in Dylan assassinating Nick Ford — the kingpin of the second marijuana cartel in White Pine Bay — in his own home. With a fire poker. This leads to civil war between the opposing Morgan cartel that ends in the deaths of its sibling leadership, Zane and Jodi.
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Bates Motel / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Bates Motel / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: When the series finally adapts the original film into the show, they removed Lila Crane Loomis, Det. Arbogast, Emma Spool, and every other character from the Psycho sequels.
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Bates Motel / int_33e48eb9	type	Hysterical Woman
Bates Motel / int_33e48eb9	comment	Hysterical Woman: Norma.
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Bates Motel / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Bates Motel / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Dylan and Emma are the only couple that receive a Relationship Upgrade.
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Bates Motel / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
Bates Motel / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: Just like in the original movie, Norman develops a split personality that takes over whenever Norma is in trouble. Afterwards, Norman can't remember what he did... but when he gets into these states he's always violent, refuses to talk to anyone, and is very, very dangerous. The personality eventually solidifies as a vicious and protective version of Norma. In addition to controlling Norman, she can also appear before him as a hallucination and speak directly to him.
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Bates Motel / int_376d8791	type	Demoted to Satellite Love Interest
Bates Motel / int_376d8791	comment	Demoted to Satellite Love Interest: When the show began Emma was once The Lancer to the Bates Family and went on many dangerous adventures with the other characters, but by the third season she became Dylan's love interest and never got much character development ever again. In the final season, she's just Dylan's faithful wife, though she gets A Day in the Limelight in the series' penultimate episode.
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Bates Motel / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Bates Motel / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Norman Bates dies via gunshot in the series finale.
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Bates Motel / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Bates Motel / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: At first sight, White Pine Bay seems like a prosperous little town, butâ€¦ The townâ€™s economy, ostensibly based on light industries like organic pig farms and artisanal cheese; is in reality based on the distribution of illegally farmed marijuana. Disputes related to the drug trade are dealt with brutally and publicly. Some of the residents, including deputy Shelby, are involved in human trafficking. The sheriff covers up and commits multiple murders.
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Bates Motel / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Bates Motel / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Subverted. Any fan of the original series knows that eventually Norman will kill Norma once she finds a lover, which does happen. Then the final season starts adapting the movie with some significant changes.
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Bates Motel / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Bates Motel / int_3dd3951e	comment	Sheriff Romero is initially more of a Cowboy Cop who is willing to bend the rules for the greater good, but becomes increasingly crooked as the series goes on. He covers up several murders for the Bates family and commits a few himself.
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Bates Motel / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Bates Motel / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When a lowlife who owes money gets run over by a truck driven by Dylan for shooting his friend Ethan just so he can get away from the debt scot-free; but killing someone from the drug ring will not erase one's debt. It will only incur someone's wrath. As a matter of fact, killing any high or moderate profile person will cause a retaliation. Just ask the lowlife who just got flattened.
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Bates Motel / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Bates Motel / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Norma is not the abusive, sadistic monster she was portrayed as in the original film, but instead a well-meaning person struggling with selfish neediness and sheltered naivetÃ©. She is trying to raise her son as best she can but her flaws lead to disappointment for herself and others. Romero, Norman's stepfather, is also not an abusive bastard like his original counterpart, but The Sheriff trying to protect his town. Downplayed with Mother. In the film, Mother didn't give any care at all towards Norman and showed no interest in his well-being. The show's version of her on the other hand actually shows much more affection for Norman and is going out of her way to protect him from getting caught, as opposed to leaving the corpses for her son to clean up on his own.
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Bates Motel / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Bates Motel / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Norman. His mother is doing everything in her power to prevent him from becoming a psycho and he is getting upset at her. In his defense, he assumes that she is trying to ruin his life.
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Bates Motel / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Bates Motel / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Norma, who suffered and endured so much for her son, is still dead at his hands. Romero is killed, having been utterly broken by Norman's madness and his own destructive and failed quest for revenge. Norman himself is dead, having utterly descended into delusion and forced his brother to kill him. This removes him as a threat to society, but, despite his mental illness, they will always remember him as a Serial Killer. The true circumstances behind the deaths of Blaire Watson, Bradley Martin, Norma Bates, Gregg Edwards, Caleb Calhoun, and Chick Hogan will never be discovered. Amid all the destruction, Dylan and Emma are still alive and well with their daughter, but they are badly scarred by the losses they've suffered and, in Dylan's case, had to inflict.
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Bates Motel / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Bates Motel / int_42bc6d2b	comment	Hostage for MacGuffin: Nick Ford attempts to convince Dylan to kill Zane Morgan by kidnapping Norman.
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Bates Motel / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Bates Motel / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Sheriff Romero and Norma fake a marriage together in order to get insurance for Norman's mental hospital payments, but eventually find themselves falling in love with each other for real.
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Bates Motel / int_46d3f869	type	Family Business
Bates Motel / int_46d3f869	comment	Family Business: The Bates Motel.
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Bates Motel / int_4782e60f	type	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
Bates Motel / int_4782e60f	comment	Even though Sam Loomis was a cheating Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk, the fact that the punishment for his crimes ends up being a deadly stabbing in the shower seems a bit too much.
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Bates Motel / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Bates Motel / int_48c99e19	comment	Subverted in the final season with Marion Crane, who actually survives and leaves the Bates Motel on her own, while Sam is the one who dies in the shower scene. Although as pointed out above in Death by Adaptation, Sam eventually did end up dying in both versions of Psycho 2.
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Bates Motel / int_4a0821b4	type	Archnemesis Dad
Bates Motel / int_4a0821b4	comment	Archnemesis Dad: Romero becomes Norman's arch nemesis stepdad after marrying Norma and losing her thanks to Norman's insanity.
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Bates Motel / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Bates Motel / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Norman, Emma, Dylan.
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Bates Motel / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Bates Motel / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Dr. Edwards tells Norman that his mother has never visited him at all in the hospital while the audience clearly saw him interacting with her multiple times, which was actually all in his head. In "Inseparables," when Dylan asks the pharmacist for Dr. Edwards' address to talk with him about Norman she tells him that the doctor died a long time ago. This is despite the fact that Norman talked with Edwards in an earlier episode, meaning that he hallucinated him.
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Bates Motel / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Bates Motel / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Keith Sommers harassing Norman and Norma because the motel and house they bought was his. It's stated outright that it wasn't even their fault, the bank was the one that foreclosed on his family's house and motel. This also includes a possible helping of Never My Fault - between the day-to-day earnings of the motel and the ostensibly lucrative slave trade, just how did he lose it to the bank? He can't have been a very good businessman, and it seemed to take a lot of work to get the place presentable after the Bates moved in... Even though Sam Loomis was a cheating Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk, the fact that the punishment for his crimes ends up being a deadly stabbing in the shower seems a bit too much.
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Bates Motel / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Bates Motel / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: Cody's friends assume Norman is gay. A man in a bar assumes Norman is gay, but for a very good reason. The two have already had sex, but it was Mother who was in control.
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Bates Motel / int_5a36f8bc	type	Not His Sled
Bates Motel / int_5a36f8bc	comment	Not His Sled: It's Sam Loomis, and not Marion Crane, who gets the shower death.
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Bates Motel / int_5a60e54b	type	RedemptionEqualsLife
Bates Motel / int_5a60e54b	comment	Redemption Equals Life: Cody, who was a bad girl who caused tension between Norman and his mother, makes peace with the Bates family and friends before she moves with her family out of state. Marion Crane also makes peace with Norman before being one of the few women in his life to depart better off than before despite her misdeeds.
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Bates Motel / int_5ae357c1	type	Knight Templar Parent
Bates Motel / int_5ae357c1	comment	Knight Templar Parent: Norman's Mother personality is a darker reflection of Norma.
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Bates Motel / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
Bates Motel / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: Bradley's death is shown through Norman's perspective. Specifically, the audience sees "Mother" killing her, not him. From this point forward, scenes where "Mother" takes control alternate between showing Norman and Norma. Word of God says this was done to keep the audience sympathetic towards Norman, showing he's not in control of his actions.
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Bates Motel / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Bates Motel / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: The final season makes absolutely no attempts to hide that Norma is now dead and her corpse is being preserved in her son's basement.
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Bates Motel / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Bates Motel / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: According to Caleb, approximately a year and a half passes between seasons 4 and 5. After the skip, Dylan and Emma have a child and Romero has been in jail long enough to have been up for (and denied) parole.
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Bates Motel / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Bates Motel / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Chick was previously a villain against Dylan and his family, but ends up realizing the error of his ways and becomes a nice guy.
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Bates Motel / int_657d1ef	type	Psychotic Love Triangle
Bates Motel / int_657d1ef	comment	Psychotic Love Triangle: Norma finds herself caught between choosing her love for Sheriff Romero or her own son Norman.
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Bates Motel / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Bates Motel / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: Mother completely disregards all human life.
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Bates Motel / int_6a25c388	type	Mummies at the Dinner Table
Bates Motel / int_6a25c388	comment	Mummies at the Dinner Table: Norman takes his mother's corpse home and acts as if she's still alive.
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Bates Motel / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Bates Motel / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: In episode six, Norma reveals that she didn't kill her husband, as Dylan and some of the audience have assumed. It turns out Norman killed his father while he was in a trance and doesn't remember any of it. Norma made the death look like an accident so Norman wouldn't have to face what he'd done, and moved them away to start over and officially leave his death behind them. Viewers of the first season are left to wonder who this mysterious "B" is, who wrote to Bradley's father while they were having an affair. The second season's premiere does not hold back, immediately revealing that it's Miss Watson, whose first name is Blair. She's also sleeping with Gil, which could motivate him to kill Bradley's father.
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Bates Motel / int_6d089995	type	The Shrink
Bates Motel / int_6d089995	comment	The Shrink: Dr. Edwards.
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Bates Motel / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
Bates Motel / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: Shelby is offed part way into Season 1 when he tries coming after the Bates family, but his employer Abernathy is revealed to have been the true antagonist controlling him. Young is killed halfway into Season 3 when Romero decides he's had enough of him threatening his life. Caleb gets killed not even halfway into the final season when he tries to kill Norman.
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Bates Motel / int_6df8075f	type	Clueless Chick-Magnet
Bates Motel / int_6df8075f	comment	Clueless Chick-Magnet: Norman has no idea how many women find him attractive.
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Bates Motel / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Bates Motel / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Sheriff Jane Greene in the final season is played by Brooke Smith, who played the abducted girl that Clarice Starling rescued from serial killer "Buffalo Bill" in The Silence of the Lambs.
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Bates Motel / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Bates Motel / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: The ironically named episode "Unfaithful" features our main characters going out for a Christmas tree.
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Bates Motel / int_72455542	type	Adaptational Intelligence
Bates Motel / int_72455542	comment	Adaptational Intelligence: Norman is able to catch on to his own insanity and see that Mother is a bad influence on him, while his film counterpart never caught on until he was arrested.
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Bates Motel / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Bates Motel / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Thinking that Shelby had leverage against Norma because he discovered Keith Summers' belt. Even if he'd kept it in his house, it would be hard for him to convincingly explain why he had it in his possession. But the truly idiotic part happens when it comes to the boat. How hard could it be to discredit the value of it as evidence? The boat it was being kept on belonged to the victim! Just leave it there.
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Bates Motel / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
Bates Motel / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: Norma, lacking the funds or the insurance required to send Norman to the Pineview mental institution, offers to marry Romero in exchange for his insurance. While Romero refuses at first, he reconsiders, decides to marry Norma, and uses Bob Paris's money to pay for the treatment.
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Bates Motel / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Bates Motel / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: While under the influence of his split personality "Mother," Norman kills Sam Bates, Blaire Watson, Bradley Martin, Audrey Ellis, and Jim Blackwell. Of his own free will, he murders Norma Bates, Sam Loomis, and Alex Romero. Furthermore, he accidentally causes the death of Jimmy Brennen and is implicated in the disappearance of Gregg Edwards.
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Bates Motel / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Bates Motel / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The series starts with a flashback where Norman discovers his father's dead body and rushes to find Norma. When they get to the body Norman is crying his eyes out while Norma is suspiciously calm, and she starts to comfort him. Halfway through the season we get the full story: Norman killed his father himself in a fit of Tranquil Fury, only to snap back to reality with no memory of the event, leaving Norma to stage the scene to look like an accident. Her "Oh Norman..." was not meant to comfort him because his dad died; she is realizing how damaged her son really is.
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Bates Motel / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Bates Motel / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Sheriff Romero, who becomes Norman's stepfather, does not get killed alongside Norma like his counterpart in the original source material; he lives on to become Norman's Archnemesis Dad. Marion Crane doesn't die in the shower and gets to live in this version.
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Bates Motel / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Bates Motel / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Literally, two episodes or so after she had sworn revenge to her father's death, Bradley found and kill the responsible, taking a bus in order to escape. It is done so quickly, ending what looked like a season-wide plot because the actress who played her was cast to star in a big budget action film. Cody also ends up moving away after the death of her abusive father.
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Bates Motel / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Bates Motel / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: Invoked when Dylan learns that his family tree does not branch.
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Bates Motel / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Bates Motel / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Norman kills his mother in the fourth season finale. It had also been previously revealed that he killed his father.
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Bates Motel / int_7bc8c453	type	Origins Episode
Bates Motel / int_7bc8c453	comment	Origins Episode: Most of the series is this for Psycho. The first four seasons and the first four episodes of Season 5 take place prior to the show's version of the events of the film.
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Bates Motel / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Bates Motel / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Happens quite a few times between the main characters.
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Bates Motel / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Bates Motel / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The story follows our Tragic Villain Protagonist Norman Bates and his depressing struggle with his insanity.
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Bates Motel / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
Bates Motel / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Norma is an incredibly unstable, overly-emotional and psychologically abusive mother, but she may not be evil, just incredibly toxic.
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Bates Motel / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Bates Motel / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Most everyone in the cast seems to have some kind of emotional problem or the like. The Bates family, however, takes the cake in White Pines.
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Bates Motel / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Bates Motel / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Dr. Edwards.
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Bates Motel / int_85b1e741	type	Creepy Crossdresser
Bates Motel / int_85b1e741	comment	Creepy Crossdresser: Norman becomes this whenever he wears his mother's dress.
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Bates Motel / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Bates Motel / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: While the police fish the corpses of Jim Blackwell and Audrey Ellis out of the lake, they apparently do not look hard enough to find Keith Summers, Bradley Martin, and Caleb Calhoun, who are also rotting there in watery graves. Zack Shelby chases Jiao, his sex slave, into the woods near the Bates Motel with murderous intent. When he comes back seeking revenge on the Bates family, the fate of Jiao gets no further mention. Many viewers concluded that Shelby killed Jiao off-screen. It takes four seasons, but the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue of the series finally reveals that Jiao not only survived, but became a real estate agent in White Pine Bay, tasked with selling the Bates property, apparently having earned a happy ending.
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Bates Motel / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Bates Motel / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Though Norman's illness has resulted in him murdering multiple people, an argument can be made that if he had help, he could have turned out differently. The same cannot be said of White Pine Bay's numerous crime lords, all of whom are in complete control of their decisions... decisions that have resulted in a kill-count that would put Norman's to shame.
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Bates Motel / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Bates Motel / int_898ff050	comment	Season 4: Norman Bates
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Bates Motel / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Bates Motel / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Romero becomes a very unhinged, violent madman in the final season while on his quest to gain revenge against his stepson for ruining his life. Justified, Norman killed his wife Norma.
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Bates Motel / int_8cbd311b	type	Good Angel, Bad Angel
Bates Motel / int_8cbd311b	comment	Good Angel, Bad Angel: Norman's therapist Dr. Edwards is the good voice of reason to his split personality Mother, the voice corrupting his mind.
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Bates Motel / int_8d0461e2	type	Destructive Romance
Bates Motel / int_8d0461e2	comment	Destructive Romance: Norma and Norman end up feeling this way as they not only manipulate and abuse each other but, like a vicious cycle, end up pushing away or destroying anyone else in their lives once it becomes clear that it's either "us or them". At one point, Norman even admits, "we've been horrible for each other" but neither one is ever willing to let go, despite a Hope Spot in Season 4 where Norman is institutionalized and Norma starts to genuinely fall in love with Romero while he's away. Of course, as soon as Norman finds out what's going on and she takes him back home, it becomes clear that it's never going to work between her son and her new husband and she, like always, chooses Norman and tearfully writes a letter to Romero breaking things off and returning his ring.
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Bates Motel / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Bates Motel / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: At the end of "Unconscious," "Mother" takes over Norman and kills Bradley. The fourth season premiere, "A Danger to Himself and Others," lives up to its name when Norman strangles Emma's estranged mother. Season 4's penultimate episode, "Forever", has Norman attempt a murder/suicide with his mother by carbon monoxide poisoning, only to have Romero come and attempt to save them both. Only Norman survives, having killed Norma. "Marion" ends with Sam Loomis becoming the shower scene victim and Marion getting spared. "Inseparables" ends with Norman calling the police and confessing to Sam's murder in order to save Dylan's life.
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Bates Motel / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Bates Motel / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Keith Summers, the former owner of Bates Motel, rapes Norma before she stabs him to death, and is later revealed to have been involved with Abernathy's sex slave ring. Deputy Zack Shelby keeps a sex slave in his basement, kills her, then is killed by Dylan while he's trying to kill the Bates family. Jake Abernathy a.k.a. Joe Fioretti, who runs a sex slave ring in four ports along the Oregon coast, gets shot four times by Sheriff Romero. Gil, who is killed by Bradley in the second season's premiere for killing her father. The guy whom Dylan runs over for killing his friend, Ethan Chang. Cody's father, who is pushed down the stairs by Norman after abusing Cody in front of him. Sam Loomis, who in this version took several levels in jerkass and had no redeeming character traits whatsoever.
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Bates Motel / int_90a1fbd4	type	Split-Personality Takeover
Bates Motel / int_90a1fbd4	comment	Split-Personality Takeover: Mother's ultimate evil plan is to have total control over Norman. She finally enacts a plan to take total control over Norman in the final season, growing into the true final antagonist of the series.
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Bates Motel / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Bates Motel / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Caleb gets killed by accidentally getting ran over by his former partner in crime Chick, who he crippled for life.
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Bates Motel / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Bates Motel / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: We get to see Norman vomit in school in all its glory. He later vomits again when Norma tells him that she's in love with Romero.
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Bates Motel / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Bates Motel / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Emma, openly smitten but ignored, is Betty to Norman's Archie, while popular, unattainable Bradley is his Veronica.
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Bates Motel / int_95be648c	type	Creepy Basement
Bates Motel / int_95be648c	comment	Caleb escapes from Norman's Creepy Basement and tries running straight into a car down the middle of the road for help. This results in him getting run over.
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Bates Motel / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Bates Motel / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Justified in the first few seasons, as Norma knows Norman is not well but fears that Norman would be taken away from her if he is examined. The staff of Norman's school eventually insists on taking him to therapy, and she reluctantly agrees. It only lasts a single session. The only other therapist is James Finnigan, but his selfish actions and romantic pursuits towards Norma only makes things worse. Averted in Season 4 where Norman is admitted into a mental facility and undergoes therapy sessions with Dr. Edwards. Unfortunately Norman's unwillingness to cooperate and Norma's weak incapability of staying away from him for too long causes him to get pulled out of there before any progress can be made.
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Bates Motel / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Bates Motel / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Each season has one. Season 1: Jake Abernathy Season 2: Zane Morgan Season 3: Bob Paris Season 4: Norman Bates Season 5: Mother and Alex Romero
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Bates Motel / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Bates Motel / int_973d220f	comment	This also includes a possible helping of Never My Fault - between the day-to-day earnings of the motel and the ostensibly lucrative slave trade, just how did he lose it to the bank? He can't have been a very good businessman, and it seemed to take a lot of work to get the place presentable after the Bates moved in...
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Bates Motel / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Bates Motel / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: In the final season, Romero is tracking down Norman to gain revenge against him for killing Norma, but along the way he commits multiple felonies that almost overshadows Norman's crimes.
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Bates Motel / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Bates Motel / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Norman. Seriously. Every teenage girl seems to want a piece of him for some reason.
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Bates Motel / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Bates Motel / int_9ae85487	comment	Dr. Jerk: In Season 4, Norma encounters a therapist who outright calls her a bad parent and threatens to take away her son.
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Bates Motel / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Bates Motel / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Norman's Split Personality Mother is treated as the overarching villain of the series.
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Bates Motel / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Bates Motel / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Bradley shows she's quite competent with a gun and more than willing to use it.
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Bates Motel / int_9c5e78d0	type	Kill the Cutie
Bates Motel / int_9c5e78d0	comment	Kill the Cutie: Mother murders Bradley.
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Bates Motel / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Bates Motel / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Emma's father owns a taxidermy shop. There are some significant shots of the stuffed animals and Norman can't help but eye them which foreshadows how Norman will eventually get into taxidermy. Emma straight up states how traumatizing it must be "to be totally into a guy who turns out to be a monster" to Norman. At the end of the final episode of the first season, we see Miss Watson is wearing a necklace that says 'B'—which is the initial of the woman with whom Bradley's father was having an affair. "This road will ruin our lives!" Said by Norma in the second season's premiere. When Remo and Dylan discuss why Gil hates Jerry Martin so much in the second season's premiere, Remo claims that Miss 'Blair' Watson is the daughter of the drug family - which becomes a key storyline as the second season progresses.
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Bates Motel / int_9f00986d	type	Gut Punch
Bates Motel / int_9f00986d	comment	Gut Punch: The rape scene in the first episode.
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Bates Motel / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Bates Motel / int_a03b1d9f	comment	Failure Hero: All of Norma's attempts to help her son were All for Nothing due to her death.
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Bates Motel / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Bates Motel / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: This is the note on which the episode "Marion" ends: Norman stabs Sam Loomis to death in the shower, and his first immediate action following is to ask aloud to himself "Oh Mother... what have I done..."
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Bates Motel / int_a1d48853	type	Stupid Crooks
Bates Motel / int_a1d48853	comment	Season 2: Zane Morgan
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Bates Motel / int_a1e5faab	type	Doomed by Canon
Bates Motel / int_a1e5faab	comment	Doomed by Canon: Norma, and whichever man she eventually ends up with, were doomed from the start. While Norma does meet her end, her new husband does not perish alongside her. Subverted in the final season with Marion Crane, who actually survives and leaves the Bates Motel on her own, while Sam is the one who dies in the shower scene. Although as pointed out above in Death by Adaptation, Sam eventually did end up dying in both versions of Psycho 2.
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Bates Motel / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Bates Motel / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Paris is shot by Romero while in the middle of giving him "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Chick is also killed by Romero in the middle of a speech.
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Bates Motel / int_a3509d95	type	The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
Bates Motel / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": In "The Deal," Emma mentions that the password to the WiFi at the Bates Motel is "MOTHER, all caps."
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Bates Motel / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Bates Motel / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Marion Crane completely gets away with stealing $40,000 and committing vandalism. Though, depending on how you see it, she may come across as sympathetic.
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Bates Motel / int_a91a3b48	type	Gollum Made Me Do It
Bates Motel / int_a91a3b48	comment	Gollum Made Me Do It: Norman thinks his mother is really doing "bad things."
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Bates Motel / int_a9645365	type	Man Hug
Bates Motel / int_a9645365	comment	Man Hug: Norman and Dylan have done this a few times, notably after Norma runs off in Season Three. Dylan and Caleb, too.
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Bates Motel / int_ad9559e6	type	Arc Villain
Bates Motel / int_ad9559e6	comment	Arc Villain: The show gets a new Big Bad every season.
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Bates Motel / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
Bates Motel / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: Whereas Psycho took place in California in The '50s, the series takes place in Oregon in The New '10s.
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Bates Motel / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Bates Motel / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: White Pine Bay apparently has several, even before the Bates Family moves in. There's certainly a reason why everyone is so well off in the small town. From what the audience sees, many people in the town seem to be in some illegal business ranging from drug trafficking, selling young girls as sex slaves, or running guns across the border to Canada.
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Bates Motel / int_b03634f8	type	Right Through His Pants
Bates Motel / int_b03634f8	comment	Right Through His Pants: When Norman walks in on Keith Summers raping Norma, he knocks him out. Summers collapses with his jeans around his ankles, but his boxer briefs pulled up.
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Bates Motel / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
Bates Motel / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: Norman, who finds himself being a Reluctant Psycho desperately trying to conquer his insanity.
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Bates Motel / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Bates Motel / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Caleb escapes from Norman's Creepy Basement and tries running straight into a car down the middle of the road for help. This results in him getting run over. Sam Loomis breaks into Room 1 of the Bates Motel at night without paying Norman at all, planning to permanently squat there, and immediately takes a shower in the room assuming nobody will see him. This results in the character getting killed in the shower.
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Bates Motel / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Bates Motel / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: You only get one guess at who is the biggest perpetrator of this trope. Norma will do anything to keep Norman by her side. She gets angry whenever she believes Norman has abandoned her and continually tells Norman that it's just the two of them against the world.
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Bates Motel / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Bates Motel / int_b77808f2	comment	Zack Shelby chases Jiao, his sex slave, into the woods near the Bates Motel with murderous intent. When he comes back seeking revenge on the Bates family, the fate of Jiao gets no further mention. Many viewers concluded that Shelby killed Jiao off-screen. It takes four seasons, but the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue of the series finally reveals that Jiao not only survived, but became a real estate agent in White Pine Bay, tasked with selling the Bates property, apparently having earned a happy ending.
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Bates Motel / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Bates Motel / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Norma tends to think this way.
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Bates Motel / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Bates Motel / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Insult Norma in front of Norman, just try it.
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Bates Motel / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
Bates Motel / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: If one were not aware of the premise of the show, one might think Norman and Norma are lovers from some of the commercials. This is not unintentional. They relate to each other in a way more appropriate for a married couple than a parent and child. Despite the fact that Norman is almost an adult, throughout the series the two holds hands, he helps her get dressed, they kiss on the lips, sleep in the same bed and spoon together. They become intensely jealous whenever the other becomes involved with another romantic interest, manipulate each others emotions to get their way and generally exhibit an unhealthy, all-consuming codependency.
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Bates Motel / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Bates Motel / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Miss Watson before her death. Her known lovers include Gil, Jerry Martin, a stoner named Kyle, and Norman.
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Bates Motel / int_c0afd51a	type	Evil Cripple
Bates Motel / int_c0afd51a	comment	Evil Cripple: Chick, a morally ambiguous gun runner, ends up crippled for life by Caleb.
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Bates Motel / int_c1967d3e	type	Retro Universe
Bates Motel / int_c1967d3e	comment	Retro Universe: While the show is set in modern times (an early shot of Norman has him listening to an iPod), it does have some nuances, characteristics and feel of the 1950s and 60s, particularly the fashion and cars. If it weren't for the technology, it could almost be any time in the last 50 years.
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Bates Motel / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Bates Motel / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Nicola Peltz as Bradley Martin. The show seems to try to get around it by having her wear dark sunglasses at all times when she's supposed to be mourning her father's death, and then by turning her into an emotionless head case - before finally putting her on a bus.
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Bates Motel / int_c23525d4	type	Character Title
Bates Motel / int_c23525d4	comment	Character Title: "Caleb" (2.03); "Norma Louise" (3.06); "Norman" (4.10); and "Marion" (5.06).
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Bates Motel / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Bates Motel / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Norman is worried about his mother's mental state.
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Bates Motel / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Bates Motel / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Gil is shot in the head while being seduced by Bradley. Chick is shot dead by Romero when he finds him under the Bates house's basement.
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Bates Motel / int_c5060c86	type	Present Day
Bates Motel / int_c5060c86	comment	Present Day: The biggest update.
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Bates Motel / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
Bates Motel / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Season 1: Officer Shelby holds the title of villain for only half a season before getting killed and having his real boss Abernathy show up to demonstrate how much better of a villain he is in comparison. Season 2: Nick Ford acts like he's the big cheese in the drug trade just because he has a ton of wealth and valuable possessions while the Morgan Drug Trade is mostly made up of street punks, but he's not as powerful as them since he gets taken out easily by Dylan in his own house. Season 3: Young thinks that he's going to replace Romero as the new Sheriff of town and rubs it in his face constantly. But when he mocks Romero about how he can kill him anytime he wants Romero murders him once he realizes that he's more than just a nuisance. Season 4: Rebecca Hamilton thinks that she can form an alliance with Romero to steal Bob Paris's laundered money, but he turns her down for Norma and the DEA busts her, forcing her to give in to their demands when they use her to arrest Romero.
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Bates Motel / int_c6c5ce4	type	Bedlam House
Bates Motel / int_c6c5ce4	comment	Bedlam House: The fourth season begins with Norman being sent to the county psych ward. As the hospital has suffered from budget cuts, it is in such poor condition that it becomes a modern version of this trope. Averted in the previous season, where Norma goes to great lengths to get Norman into a much more ethical, realistic, and expensive facility with genuinely helpful professionals.
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Bates Motel / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Bates Motel / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To other films of Hitchcock's. Sam Loomis's wife is a charming blonde named Madeleine. Norman plays a vinyl record of Doris Day's signature song, "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)."
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Bates Motel / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Bates Motel / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: And how. Turns out, however, Norman isn't the only one to have them. Despite the distance he tries to create with Norma, Dylan can't get past his issues with his mother either.
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Bates Motel / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Bates Motel / int_cbe687ab	comment	Season 3: Bob Paris
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Bates Motel / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Bates Motel / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Norma eventually dies by her own son's hands. Caleb gets ran over by Chick. Sam Loomis dies in the shower. Chick gets shot dead while Romero investigates the Bates house looking for Norman.
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Bates Motel / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
Bates Motel / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: Psycho was so groundbreaking and iconic because of its unprecedented Halfway Plot Switches that viewers would never see coming. Bates Motel, on the other hand, is a Tragedy precisely because viewers know exactly what's going to happen.
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Bates Motel / int_d22a7df2	type	Troubled, but Cute
Bates Motel / int_d22a7df2	comment	Troubled, but Cute: Both Norman and Dylan qualify for Mr. Fanservice, but they also have lots of emotional issues.
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Bates Motel / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
Bates Motel / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Occurs during Romero's meeting with Jake Abernathy in the first season finale:
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Bates Motel / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Bates Motel / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Marion Crane, originally a blonde white woman, is played by Rihanna.
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Bates Motel / int_d93c5989	type	Stepford Suburbia
Bates Motel / int_d93c5989	comment	Stepford Suburbia: Though updated to fit into a modern setting, White Pine Bay fits the bill as it is a seemingly quiet, little seaside village that just so happens to have a local economy dependent on manufacturing marijuana.
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Bates Motel / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Bates Motel / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Gender-Inverted as Norman and Dylan are more attracted to morally ambiguous girls.
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Bates Motel / int_db6f4a5c	type	Parents Walk In at the Worst Time
Bates Motel / int_db6f4a5c	comment	Parents Walk In at the Worst Time: Subverted in "The Man in Number 9," in which Norman is in bed with Bradley. Norma walks in and cheerfully asks him how he's doing. Only then is it shown that the whole sex scene was a fantasy sequence and Norman's been alone in bed the whole time.
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Bates Motel / int_dd608032	type	Hell Hotel
Bates Motel / int_dd608032	comment	Hell Hotel: Even before the Bates family's arrival, the Seafarer Motel still fit this trope as it was used by the previous owner as a brothel with sex slaves. As the Bates Motel, it bears witness to the dysfunction and madness of the Bates family, and a number of deaths take place on its premises. Afterwards, the hotel still stands and is put up for sale, waiting for new owners.
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Bates Motel / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
Bates Motel / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: Anyone who stays alone with Norman doesn't fare well.
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Bates Motel / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
Bates Motel / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: For Norman, of course.
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Bates Motel / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Bates Motel / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Norma Bates is fiercely protective of Norman. Overprotective.
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Bates Motel / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Bates Motel / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Norman has a literal one inside his mind named Juno.
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Bates Motel / int_e3da6e6c	comment	Deus Angst Machina: Norma and Norman.
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Bates Motel / int_e4965307	comment	Sheriff Romero, who becomes Norman's stepfather, does not get killed alongside Norma like his counterpart in the original source material; he lives on to become Norman's Archnemesis Dad.
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Bates Motel / int_e557f57d	type	Intended Audience Reaction
Bates Motel / int_e557f57d	comment	Intended Audience Reaction: Sam Loomis was meant to be seen as a total asshole because he's meant to be a counterpart, though more jerkish and self-centered than truly malicious and abusive, to Norman's abusive father, who was also named Sam and who Norman killed right before the show started, thus having Mother convince him to kill Sam in the shower scene and signifying a point of no return for the young man.
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Bates Motel / int_e5700c89	type	Reluctant Psycho
Bates Motel / int_e5700c89	comment	Reluctant Psycho: Norman expresses no desire to be an unhinged monster. To a certain extent Norma as well, but her desire to protect her son results in her going to such extremes.
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Bates Motel / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Bates Motel / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Sam Loomis is so despicable of a human being that he makes every other character look good in comparison. He's a lying, womanizing, bald-faced liar who thinks of himself as a noble guy, but really he's a Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk.
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Bates Motel / int_e85e99ee	type	It Meant Something to Me
Bates Motel / int_e85e99ee	comment	It Meant Something to Me: Norman is crushed when he finds out that the night he spent with Bradley was just a one-time thing, and she wasn't interested in a real relationship.
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Bates Motel / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
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Bates Motel / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Bates Motel / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: In the first three season finales, Romero guns down that season's Big Bad. He's on his way to do this again in the Season 4 finale, but his plans are foiled when he is arrested.
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Bates Motel / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Bates Motel / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Norma has gone through absolute hell trying to protect Norman and help him conquer his Sanity Slippage, but ends up murdered by his hand in the end.
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Bates Motel / int_ec40626	type	Love Martyr
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Bates Motel / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
Bates Motel / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: Sam Loomis's girlfriend Marion Crane is split into Marion, Sam's lover, and Madeleine, his wife. Marion keeps the name and her role in the plot, while Madeleine has Marion's original appearance and is the one Norman becomes obsessed with.
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Bates Motel / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Bates Motel / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: While it is forced by the circumstance of Norman threatening him, Dylan killing Norman spares him from the horrors of being imprisoned, institutionalized and utterly dehumanized by those who judge him. Furthermore, it save Norman from the pain of living on with everything too.
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Bates Motel / int_f662da7a	type	Revenge Romance
Bates Motel / int_f662da7a	comment	Revenge Romance: There are a number of times throughout the series where it seems like Norma and Norman are doing this to each other. In one notable example in the second season, Norma's failing attempts to control her son's social life and his deliberate emotional withdrawal from her over learning she's been hiding aspects of his condition from him boil over to the point where she actually storms off in the middle of the night to have sex with a man named George she previously didn't show much interest in. Whether it's to get revenge on Norman for pushing her away or to actually make him jealous are open to interpretation.
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Bates Motel / int_f682ee6e	type	Villainous Mother-Son Duo
Bates Motel / int_f682ee6e	comment	Villainous Mother-Son Duo: Played with. As the whole series serves as a Start of Darkness for Norman Bates, his unusually codependent relationship with his mother Norma is the main focus. However, while the Bates become embroiled in several illegal activities in the town in order to survive, Norman's real Corrupter is his Split Personality "Mother", especially following Norma's death.
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Bates Motel / int_f6ef4ff9	type	Break-In Threat
Bates Motel / int_f6ef4ff9	comment	Break-In Threat: After Norma kicks Jake Abernathy out of the motel, Abernathy breaks into her house when she's out and leaves Shelby's corpse on her bed.
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Bates Motel / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
Bates Motel / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: Chick was a very humorous, if not bizarre, comic relief who brought some lighthearted moments in an otherwise dark show. However, he's killed off in the eighth episode of the final season to bring back the spotlight on Norman's dramatic life.
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Bates Motel / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Bradley. At least at first...
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Bates Motel / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Bates Motel / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Keeping with the movie, Norman is nice and quiet. He doesn't look like he'd put up much of a fight but he becomes quite scary when he sees his mother in trouble.
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Bates Motel / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: Norma and Alex, Norman and Emma, Dylan and Emma. With 1 and 3, they do.
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