Jennifer is 17, a black-clad, metal-pierced, acid-tongued, death-obsessed, tattoo-inked, self-mutilating yet poetically inclined cactus of an outsider, at odds with her schoolmates, her self-delusively sunny mother ( Carol Kane ), her cipher of a stepfather ( Michael McKean ), and her aging hippie of a father ( John Goodman ).
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"Psycho II " introduced the character of Norman's aunt Emma Spool, and in that film both the audience of " Psycho II " and Norman Bates were led to believe she was Norman's real mother . ( Indeed, a few recent sources still refer to her as Norman's real mother . ) In " Psycho III ", it was revealed she only delusively believed she was Norman's mother, and furthermore Spool had been in a love triangle with Norman's father and mother and that she had killed Norman's father.
