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Patrick's profile confuses me.
Besides the obvious lack of scans, there are other things about the profile that bother me. Bateman doesn't actually own multiple handguns; he uses a revolver once in the novel, and some random glock in the movie. Which brings me to my biggest gripe with the profile.
Which canon are we using?
Currently, Bateman's profile seems to be a mix-and-match of his novel and movie counterparts, which causes a really big problem. Mary Harron confirms that Bateman does kill everyone in the movie, but the novel, which came before it, potrays all of Bateman's murders as hallucinations that he experiences due to him wishing for a more exciting life due to his lack of an identity and obsession with material worth, so he likely wouldn't have all the "skilled serial killer" stuff on his profile if we take the novel as the real canon.
Abilities stuff
Weapon Mastery- Should straight up just be removed. We give weapon mastery to characters who actually use their weapons in a fight, and Bateman is a madman who attacks vulnerable people stealthily.
Corrosive Inducement - In the novel, Patrick uses acid to loosen a woman's... let's go with hymen, yeah.
Weaknesses
Standard human weaknesses - Remove this. It's true, but really unnecessary, and it's weird how many profiles for human characters have this listed as a weakness.
Psychopath - Pretty straightforward. I mean, "psycho" is literally in the title of his novel/movie/what-have-you.
Junkie - In the novel, Patrick and his colleagues are depicted consuming a plethora of drugs, with cocaine being Pat's favorite.
Hallucinations - Bateman is potrayed as constantly experiencing visual and audio hallucinations, such as when he mistook some colleague for another co-worker despite talking to them for twenty minutes, or when an ATM machine told him to feed it a stray cat.
That should be about it.
Besides the obvious lack of scans, there are other things about the profile that bother me. Bateman doesn't actually own multiple handguns; he uses a revolver once in the novel, and some random glock in the movie. Which brings me to my biggest gripe with the profile.
Which canon are we using?
Currently, Bateman's profile seems to be a mix-and-match of his novel and movie counterparts, which causes a really big problem. Mary Harron confirms that Bateman does kill everyone in the movie, but the novel, which came before it, potrays all of Bateman's murders as hallucinations that he experiences due to him wishing for a more exciting life due to his lack of an identity and obsession with material worth, so he likely wouldn't have all the "skilled serial killer" stuff on his profile if we take the novel as the real canon.
Abilities stuff
Weapon Mastery- Should straight up just be removed. We give weapon mastery to characters who actually use their weapons in a fight, and Bateman is a madman who attacks vulnerable people stealthily.
Corrosive Inducement - In the novel, Patrick uses acid to loosen a woman's... let's go with hymen, yeah.
Weaknesses
Standard human weaknesses - Remove this. It's true, but really unnecessary, and it's weird how many profiles for human characters have this listed as a weakness.
Psychopath - Pretty straightforward. I mean, "psycho" is literally in the title of his novel/movie/what-have-you.
Junkie - In the novel, Patrick and his colleagues are depicted consuming a plethora of drugs, with cocaine being Pat's favorite.
Hallucinations - Bateman is potrayed as constantly experiencing visual and audio hallucinations, such as when he mistook some colleague for another co-worker despite talking to them for twenty minutes, or when an ATM machine told him to feed it a stray cat.
That should be about it.
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