Patrick Bateman
Patrick Bateman is the protagonist of Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel *American Psycho* and its film adaptation.
A wealthy Wall Street investment banker by day, he narrates increasingly graphic acts of torture and murder while obsessing over business cards, restaurant reservations, and designer clothing.
The character has become a cultural shorthand for superficial materialism masking moral emptiness, and online, for performative masculinity and sigma-male irony: He's giving Patrick Bateman vibes.
Whether Bateman actually commits his crimes or merely fantasizes them remains deliberately ambiguous.
- American PsychoSatirical slasher about materialism
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- Wall StreetAmerican finance hub
- serial killerRecurring lone murderer
- business cardPrinted contact information slip
Huey Lewis · axe · Manhattan · 1980s · power lunch · Christian Bale · narcissist · investment banker · sociopath · inner monologue · murder · Valentino · designer labels · wealthy · materialism · obsession · Ellis · mask
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