Norman Bates is a historical figure.
 He  has  an alter, Mother, who takes from the form of his abusive mother, and later victim, Norma, who in his daily life runs the Bates Motel
== Television ===== Bates Motel (film) ===In the 1987 television spin-off movie and series pilot Bates Motel, Norman is never released from the institution after his first incarceration

