| “ | She's got this whole world where everything's better. The food, the garden, the neighbors. But it's all a trap. | „ |
| ~ Coraline to Wybie |
| “ | You're NOT my mother! | „ |
| ~ Coraline to the Other Mother, aka the Beldam |
Coraline Jones is the main protagonist of Laika's 1st full-length animated feature film Coraline, which was based on the novel of the same name by Neil Gaiman.
She was voiced by Dakota Fanning.
Background
Personality
Coraline is an 11-year-old girl who moved with her parents to a new town in Oregon at the beginning of the film. She at first does not like her new home but soon she learns to love it after her time in the Other World dimension.
Biography
She is an 11-year-old girl who comes with her parents into a new town (somewhere in Oregon in the movie), but she has only complaints to make about this change of home. The house needs to be renovated, the sky is always cloudy, the neighbors are old and eccentric (the only kid around is Wybie, who annoys her) and her parents are so busy with the moving and their jobs that Coraline is feeling alone and unhappy.
Abilities
Mental abilities
- Resourcefulness: she came self-prepared, even taking her clippers and using anything she had as a weapon.
- Intelligence: Coraline is a fast learner as she knew she could rile up the dog-bats with her flashlight and figured out how to fool the Beldam into unlocking the door for her.
- Cunning: she easily tricked the Beldam to coming to the door and unlocking it while she found the snowglobe with her parents inside.
- Argumentation: she often had arguments with her real mother and even made a valid point about her hating dirt.
Physical abilities
- Physical strength: she broke a mirror out rage and despite the Beldam overpowering her, she had some strength to slow her down.
- Speed: she was agile enough to avoid the grasshopper tractor attacking her and was able to quickly lock the door before the Beldam could bust the other one open.
History
One night, she discovers a secret door in the house, which leads to another world. This place looks exactly like her own, with two differences: everybody has buttons instead of eyes, and overall the apartment is a much better place to live in.
Coraline has lots of fun in the other world, despite the warnings of a mysterious cat (who can talk in the magical world) among other characters.
However, she soon discovers that the Other Mother does not actually love her and wishes to devour her life and trap her soul, she has already done the same thing to three other children, the Other Father and the other residents of the Other World are in fact her slaves, and all these amazing things the other world has are just a trick to lure her.
Eventually, Coraline manages to escape with Other Wybie's assistance (at the cost of his life). However, she discovers the Other Mother has kidnapped her parents. So, Coraline asks her if she could participate in a scavenger hunt of the Ghost Children as per the black cat's suggestion to win the deal.
After realizing that the Other Mother doesn't honor the bargain regardless of whether she wins the game or not, she has the Black Cat help her escape. Once the Other Mother is trapped in the Other World, Coraline then tosses the key down the well.
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Trivia
- Coraline is the first central/titular character in a Laika production to be a female, while the rest are male.