Norman is the TDD psychopath.
He has figures in G1, G2, and G3.
His name certainly comes from Norman Bates, the main character in the 1960 classic Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho.
The character Norman Bates was based on real-life serial killer Ed Gein.
Ed Gein was also the inspiration for a number of other famous fictional serial killers including Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and Buffalo Bill (Silence of the Lambs).
So Norman is kind of like an amalgamation of all the classic horror "slasher film" killers.
His G3 version even starts to take on Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) more than the others.
Norman has a second G3 sculpt that came with his truck in the Dude Rides series. The green figure came with the regular truck, and the rarer blue figure came with the deluxe truck. This sculpt has the hockey mask of the earlier G3 Norman, plus what looks like a scuba mask, plus a bit of a Sturgeon-style fin on the top of his head. Plus his hands and feet now have some webbing.
I don't really get it. I guess he's just been underwater so long, he's turning into a fish!
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