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Coraline

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95 feature instances
84 referencing feature instances

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Coraline	label	Coraline
Coraline	page	Coraline
Coraline	comment	Coraline is a 2002 horror novel written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean.Coraline Jones is a girl with loving but distracted and inattentive parents. Having recently moved into a new home without any friends around, she finds life utterly boring. Then, one afternoon, she opens a mysterious door in her house. Behind that door lies a different world where Coraline finds other versions of her parents who dote on her, spoiling her with wonderful toys and home-cooked meals. But something oddly sinister lurks just beneath the surface...A graphic novel adaptation was released in 2008, and an animated adaptation was released in 2009; tropes for the latter can be found here.
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Coraline / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
Coraline / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: Miss Spink and Miss Forcible. Coraline gets a glimpse at their former beauty during their performance in the Other World theater.
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Coraline / int_15f42962	type	Parents in Distress
Coraline / int_15f42962	comment	Parents in Distress: Coraline's parents are kidnapped by the Other Mother, and she has to challenge the Other Mother to an exploring game save them.
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Coraline / int_16dad7a7	type	It May Help You on Your Quest
Coraline / int_16dad7a7	comment	It May Help You on Your Quest: The self-bored stone, courtesy of the Misses Spink and Forcible. They're good for bad things, sometimes... Anyway, it might help... The adder stone is essential for Coraline to find the souls of the ghost children.
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Coraline / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Coraline / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Coraline tells the Cat a story of how she and her father stumbled into a wasps' nest near their old house. Her father told Coraline to run, while he stayed behind to be the one getting the majority of the bee stings.
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Coraline / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
Coraline / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: The cat, although only in the Other World.
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Coraline / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Coraline / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: "Protective coloration", anyone? The well, which Coraline uses to finish off the Other Mother's hand and seal the key to the Other World away in one go. The stone with a hole in it, which proves essential for finding the ghost children's souls.
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Coraline / int_233da103	type	Cordon Bleugh Chef
Coraline / int_233da103	comment	Cordon Bleugh Chef: Subverted — Coraline treats her dad's creations as if he's one of these, but he actually seems to be a competent chef who enjoys experimenting with complex gourmet techniques. Coraline just despises "recipes" and, as young children often do, doesn't like spices and garlic and would prefer pizza and french fries.
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Coraline / int_2673425b	type	Kid Hero
Coraline / int_2673425b	comment	Kid Hero: Coraline. Her age is unclear, but the events of the book take place during her school holidays.
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Coraline / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Coraline / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Coraline encounters the three ghost children abducted by the Other Mother prior to her arrival. Avoided with Coraline herself however, who survives the story with no worse than a skinned knee and a scratched palm.
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Coraline / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Coraline / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The Other Mother and Father might seem like the kind of parents every child wants, but they'll sew buttons into your eyes or worse if you're not careful.
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Coraline / int_281f09d0	type	Defanged Horrors
Coraline / int_281f09d0	comment	Defanged Horrors: The book is definitely scary, but it's scary in a way that kids can usually handle. It's more upsetting to adults who have children.
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Coraline / int_294df577	type	Dark World
Coraline / int_294df577	comment	Dark World: The Other World is a perfect example of this. Interestingly enough, it first tries to look like an improvement over the real world, but when Coraline rejects it, it takes a turn right down into nightmare fuel.
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Coraline / int_31cd5fe7	type	Apologetic Attacker
Coraline / int_31cd5fe7	comment	Apologetic Attacker: The Other Father, who tells Coraline he's sorry and that the Other Mother is making him attack her during their encounter in the basement.
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Coraline / int_3504dcd8	type	Perfection Is Static
Coraline / int_3504dcd8	comment	Perfection Is Static: The other crazy old man upstairs tries to persuade Coraline to stay in the Other World by promising that the Other Mother will make every day a paradise for her. Despite being only a child, Coraline is wise enough to understand that getting everything she ever wanted, all the time, would be meaningless.
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Coraline / int_3caeadf3	type	See-Thru Specs
Coraline / int_3caeadf3	comment	See-Thru Specs: The stone with the hole in it. When Coraline looks through it, she can see the souls of the ghost children glowing.
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Coraline / int_3cd3a0f1	type	Femme Fatalons
Coraline / int_3cd3a0f1	comment	Femme Fatalons: The Other Mother has these.
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Coraline / int_3d15a154	type	Muggle in Mage Custody
Coraline / int_3d15a154	comment	Muggle in Mage Custody: Coraline almost becomes a foster child of the Other Mother, who turns out to be a kind of evil witch.
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Coraline / int_3d226e02	type	Pineapple Ruins Pizza
Coraline / int_3d226e02	comment	Pineapple Ruins Pizza: One of Coraline's pet peeves is the food prepared by her father, because he always experiences weird recipes, which she refuses to eat. After defeating the Other Mother and getting her parents back, her father makes for dinner a pizza with meatballs, green pepper and pineapple. Having learned to accept her parents as they are, Coraline eats her slice of pizza - except the pineapple pieces.
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Coraline / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Coraline / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The story that Coraline writes on her dad's computer when she discovers that her parents are missing.
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Coraline / int_42d7e070	type	Face-Revealing Turn
Coraline / int_42d7e070	comment	Face-Revealing Turn: When Coraline first ventures into the Other World, the Other Mother does one of these to greet Coraline.
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Coraline / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Coraline / int_433e732f	comment	Only Smart People May Pass: If Coraline can't see past the Other Mother's illusions to find her parents and the souls of the ghost children, she'll have to stay in the Other World forever.
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Coraline / int_45ad2569	type	Vagueness Is Coming
Coraline / int_45ad2569	comment	Vagueness Is Coming: Lampshaded. When Miss Spink and Miss Forcible read Coraline's tea leaves for the first time, they warn her that she's in serious danger. She asks what that danger is, and they explain that they can't tell—the leaves are good for general predictions, but don't reveal anything about specifics.
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Coraline / int_475d592d	type	You Dirty Rat!
Coraline / int_475d592d	comment	You Dirty Rat!: The species of the rodents in Coraline's house depends on which world she's in. Good world = mice. Bad world = rats. Simple.
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Coraline / int_48463e95	type	Not the First Victim
Coraline / int_48463e95	comment	Not the First Victim: Coraline's discovery of the three ghost children reveals this, though the victims end up playing a larger role in the plot than usual for this trope.
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Coraline / int_494d83c8	type	Helping Hands
Coraline / int_494d83c8	comment	Helping Hands: The Other Mother loses her hand when Coraline closes the door on it in her final escape from the Other World, and it goes searching for the key in the real world.
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Coraline / int_4e7017f1	type	Wig, Dress, Accent
Coraline / int_4e7017f1	comment	Wig, Dress, Accent: Discussed. Coraline tells her parents a story about confusing alien abductors by wearing a wig and talking in a foreign accent.
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Coraline / int_4f828b45	type	Post-Climax Confrontation
Coraline / int_4f828b45	comment	Post-Climax Confrontation: After Coraline successfully escapes from the Other Mother and her custom dimension, her severed hand returns and attacks the former one final time in a last-ditch effort to reclaim the key that'll then allow the latter to enter the normal world, but the sequence instead ends with the severed hand getting dropped right on down into a deep hole with a boulder holding it down as well on top of that, and as an added bonus, this also even happens within the animated film adaptation near the end.
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Coraline / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Coraline / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Geez, where do you start? If the button eyes themselves aren't enough for you, try imagining the Other Mother sewing buttons into your eyes. The Other Mother's creations degenerating into horrifying monsters as Coraline rebels against her will also send a shudder up your spine.
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Coraline / int_506143c1	type	Fisher Kingdom
Coraline / int_506143c1	comment	Fisher Kingdom: Arguably, the Other World counts. After spending a night there, Coraline feels cloudy and groggy, and only after touching the adder stone — which is stated to provide protection against the Other Mother — in her pocket does she truly feel like herself again.
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Coraline / int_50ae8e55	type	Little Miss Snarker
Coraline / int_50ae8e55	comment	Little Miss Snarker: Coraline tends to say things in a rather flat, deadpan tone.
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Coraline / int_5288f02	type	All Your Powers Combined
Coraline / int_5288f02	comment	All Your Powers Combined: When Coraline is fleeing the Other World for the final time, she struggles to close the door, and calls upon her parents and the ghost children whose souls she liberated for help; they're able to channel strength to her to seal the passage.
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Coraline / int_53322bef	type	New House, New Problems
Coraline / int_53322bef	comment	New House, New Problems: The book starts with Coraline and her family having moved into a new house not long ago, and it's in this new house that the door to an Other World is located.
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Coraline / int_53f86e84	type	Down the Rabbit Hole
Coraline / int_53f86e84	comment	Down the Rabbit Hole: Coraline goes through a mysterious door in her drawing room, and ends up in an alternate version of her home populated by alternate versions of the people who live there that seems too good to be true.
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Coraline / int_5527dc0c	type	Plot Coupon
Coraline / int_5527dc0c	comment	Plot Coupon: The souls of the ghost children. Coraline challenges the Other Mother to an exploring game in order to escape, with the souls as tokens that she has to produce for the Other Mother before she can be set free. If she can't find them, she'll be trapped in the Other World forever.
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Coraline / int_56b8b4f1	type	Lean and Mean
Coraline / int_56b8b4f1	comment	Lean and Mean: The Other Mother. After the first encounter, she's taller and thinner than Coraline's real mother.
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Coraline / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
Coraline / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Downplayed, as the Cat isn't necessarily mean, but it does consider itself to be automatically above any other being in the world and treats them with according superiority.
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Coraline / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Coraline / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Coraline calls the police to report her parents kidnapped, but is told to go to bed by the cop. Understandably, since she tells him her parents are stuck in a mirror and that the Other Mother wants to sew buttons into their eyes...
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Coraline / int_5cf346b1	type	Fake Better Alternate Timeline
Coraline / int_5cf346b1	comment	Fake Better Alternate Timeline: When the eponymous girl first finds the other dimension in her closet, she enjoys it — she wears the clothes she wants and there is a circus nearby. However, it then turns out to be a trap laid by the alternate parents, who want to sew buttons in her eyes and then kill her.
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Coraline / int_5dcb6101	type	Parental Love Song
Coraline / int_5dcb6101	comment	Parental Love Song: The "twitchy-witchy" song, in which Coraline's father expresses his affection for his daughter by telling her (goofily) the things he will and won't do for her.
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Coraline / int_65332328	type	Mind-Control Eyes
Coraline / int_65332328	comment	Mind-Control Eyes: Everyone in the Other World (under the Other Mother's control) has buttons for eyes. The final step in stealing a child's soul is to sew buttons into their eyes too.
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Coraline / int_6bccf2ba	type	Supreme Chef
Coraline / int_6bccf2ba	comment	Supreme Chef: The Other Mother is much better at cooking than either of Coraline's parents. When she makes a delicious lunch of roasted chicken, potatoes, and peas, Coraline mentally compares it to her mother's chicken which is always dry and tasteless, and her father's chicken which is cooked in strange recipes.
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Coraline / int_6ca72c26	type	All Take and No Give
Coraline / int_6ca72c26	comment	All Take and No Give: The Other Mother just wants something to love other than herself... and feed, dress, and take the souls of children so she can possess them completely.
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Coraline / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Coraline / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Ever and always".
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Coraline / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
Coraline / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: After Coraline finds the first soul, the Other Mother sends a roaring wind indoors to slow her down. She also has no intention of letting Coraline go, whether she wins the exploring game or not.
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Coraline / int_7d81759e	type	Magical Land
Coraline / int_7d81759e	comment	Magical Land: The Other World is an alternate version of Coraline's house with magical animate toys, talking cats, and child-kidnapping monsters with buttons for eyes.
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Coraline / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
Coraline / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: This seems to be the case with Coraline. The illustration for the first chapter makes her look like a teenager, but the story she writes on her father's computer is the work of an eight-year-old, maximum.
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Coraline / int_806b07e7	type	Black Eyes of Evil
Coraline / int_806b07e7	comment	Black Eyes of Evil: Black button eyes of evil.
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Coraline / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Coraline / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: After her parents disappear, Coraline remarks to Miss Spink and Miss Forcible that she thinks she's become a "single-child family".
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Coraline / int_8370a793	type	Mature Work, Child Protagonists
Coraline / int_8370a793	comment	Mature Work, Child Protagonists: Inverted. The book was written for children, but evokes a vastly different reaction between the intended audience and the grown-ups who read it. Kids, Gaiman found out, see it as a child protagonist cleverly using their wits to escape danger. Grown-ups see a child left on her own in mortal peril.
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Coraline / int_838343d6	type	Fairy Tale
Coraline / int_838343d6	comment	Fairy Tale: The book is one of Neil Gaiman's own invention — the simply told tale of a little girl who ventures into a mysterious realm and faces down terrifying monsters with her wits and determination. To top it off, the Other Mother is implied to be one of the fair folk, as is one of the ghost children, who has wings.
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Coraline / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Coraline / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: The Other Mother is heavily implied to be one of these. She loves to play games, which is a common trait of the fair folk, and her scheme of luring away human children to her otherworldly realm is reminiscent of changeling myths. Her other name, the beldam, is a synonym for witch, but might be a play on words related to a poem about a fairy that lures knights to her hill and sucks the life out of them. "Belle dame" is homophonous, and it's French for "beautiful lady", and "step-mother" for that matter. And if we know anything about fairy tales.... One of the ghost children is also a fairy. That stone-with-a-hole-in-it? That's a self-bored stone, which according to Celtic Mythology tradition allows you to see through faerie illusions.
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Coraline / int_85debad9	type	Plucky Girl
Coraline / int_85debad9	comment	Plucky Girl: Coraline faces down all the horrors the Other Mother can throw at her but never once whines or gives up.
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Coraline / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
Coraline / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: Gaiman cites this as the reason the story is, ironically, scarier for grown-ups than for children. The themes go over children's heads, so they read it as an adventure story with some creepy monsters, delivering familiar Aesops such as "Be brave" and "Be Careful What You Wish For." Adults, on the other hand, get the message, "If you neglect your children, they might be kidnapped, mutilated, and murdered by somebody who pretends to be you."
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Coraline / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
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Coraline / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Coraline / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The passageway between the worlds turns out to be one of these towards the end. As Coraline makes her final escape, she touches the sides and discovers it's fleshy and covered in downy fur. Some steps later she touches it again and finds it hot and wet "as if she'd put her hand in someone's mouth".
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Coraline / int_8ee823b6	type	Knife-Throwing Act
Coraline / int_8ee823b6	comment	Knife-Throwing Act: The Other Misses Spink and Forcible perform this with Coraline as their audience "volunteer".
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Coraline / int_90984c54	type	Glamour Failure
Coraline / int_90984c54	comment	Glamour Failure: The Other Mother doesn't show up in mirrors. When Coraline asks her why, she simply replies that mirrors can't be trusted. The Other World itself begins to suffer this as Coraline finds each of the Ghost Children's souls — as the Other Mother grows angrier and starts losing her hold on the place, it fades and flattens into something resembling a child's drawing, with no depth or color.
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Coraline / int_95be648c	type	Creepy Basement
Coraline / int_95be648c	comment	Creepy Basement: CREEPY? Try absolutely terrifying. It's got the horribly mutated Other Father creature in it, and he comes this close to catching Coraline before she can escape.
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Coraline / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Coraline / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The Other Mother. She's the real power behind the Other World, and it's her schemes that drive the plot.
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Coraline / int_99c36bb5	type	Ironic Nursery Tune
Coraline / int_99c36bb5	comment	Ironic Nursery Tune: The creepy chants sung by the rats, of which there are three, each creepier than the last. Sadly, all of them are absent from the film. The last one goes:
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Coraline / int_9aa3d869	type	Creative Sterility
Coraline / int_9aa3d869	comment	Creative Sterility: The Other Mother suffers from this, and it's actually a major plot point. She can't make anything new, only copies of things that exist in the real world, so Coraline wonders why she would have a snow globe on the mantel when the real one has nothing on it.
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Coraline / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Coraline / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Every inhabitant of the Other World is one for their real-life selves, but the Other Mother is the big one, since she created all the rest and is the Big Bad.
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Coraline / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
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Coraline / int_a61fcc3b	type	No Need for Names
Coraline / int_a61fcc3b	comment	No Need for Names: The cat is only ever known as "the cat". According to him, cats don't have names, and they don't need them because unlike humans, they know who they are.
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Coraline / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Coraline / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Played with. Miss Spink and Miss Forcible read Coraline's tea leaves and see that there's trouble, and give her the hagstone, while Mr. Bobo sends her a message that warns of danger. They seem to be only mildly perturbed, though. Coraline is unable to convey to the old ladies that her parents have gone missing, let alone the rest of it, and when she calls the police the policeman indulgently says she's just had a nightmare. Still, the hagstone helps.
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Coraline / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Coraline / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Miss Spink, Miss Forcible, and Mr. Bobo mistakenly call Coraline "Caroline", despite her repeatedly correcting them. Meanwhile, their Other World counterparts always call her by her correct name.
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Coraline / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Coraline / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Almost everyone Coraline meets on her first visit to the Other World says "for ever and always" at some point.
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Coraline / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
Coraline / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: The Other Mother, in a way, as she's an evil alternate version of Coraline's real mother.
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Coraline / int_b0a0108d	type	All Up to You
Coraline / int_b0a0108d	comment	All Up to You: Coraline tries to tell Miss Spink and Miss Forcible that her parents are missing but they don't seem to hear her, and the police think she's describing a bad dream. If she wants to get her parents back she has to do it all herself.
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Coraline / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Coraline / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: What happened to the ghost children, and what nearly happens to Coraline — the Other Mother fed on their love, removing their eyes so they would be imprisoned in her world forever, possessing them so completely that they lose their sense of identity and their consciousness is tossed aside. They're Not Quite Dead, referring to themselves as dried husks, and can't move on to the next life until someone saves their souls.
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Coraline / int_b58642b1	type	Trapped in Another World
Coraline / int_b58642b1	comment	Trapped in Another World: Near the end, the Other Mother. As for the ghost children, they're stuck there until Coraline can find their souls.
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Coraline / int_bb03c099	type	Cool Gate
Coraline / int_bb03c099	comment	Cool Gate: The wooden door leading to the Other World.
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Coraline / int_bba8939	type	Cats Are Snarkers
Coraline / int_bba8939	comment	Cats Are Snarkers: As befits its superior attitude, the Cat has a very smart aleck-y attitude.
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Coraline / int_bd5e8cd9	type	Urban Fantasy
Coraline / int_bd5e8cd9	comment	Urban Fantasy: In an ordinary house, behind an ordinary door, there's an Other World inhabited by a witch/faerie and her servants who scheme to lure children away from their families and trap their souls forever.
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Coraline / int_bd6b86df	type	Impossible Task
Coraline / int_bd6b86df	comment	Impossible Task: Coraline has to find all three ghost souls to win the "game" the Other Mother agrees to play with her. Oh, and her missing parents, who are also lost in the Other World.
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Coraline / int_bf927e82	type	Non-Human Sidekick
Coraline / int_bf927e82	comment	Non-Human Sidekick: The cat. It accompanies Coraline on each of her forays into the Other World, providing enigmatic advice and support.
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Coraline / int_c25a3f85	type	Reading Tea Leaves
Coraline / int_c25a3f85	comment	Reading Tea Leaves: Spink and Forcible insist on reading Coraline's tea leaves, and discover an omen of doom in them.
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Coraline / int_c728ea66	type	Fear Is Normal
Coraline / int_c728ea66	comment	Fear Is Normal: At one point, Coraline remembers her father telling her that true bravery is doing something despite one's fear, such as when he braved a wasps' nest to retrieve something.
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Coraline / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Coraline / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: At the beginning of chapter 8, the illustration shows a mess of toys, including a Pikachu's head.
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Coraline / int_c8db76f6	type	And You Were There
Coraline / int_c8db76f6	comment	And You Were There: Everyone in the Other World is (deliberately) based on someone Coraline knows in the mortal world. Except the Cat, that is.
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Coraline / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Coraline / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Excellently evoked for a lot of the scares. As Coraline explores the Other World, its uncanny dissimilarities to the real world pile up until the tension has been ratcheted as high as it can go.
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Coraline / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Coraline / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: Coraline, starring Coraline.
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Coraline / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Coraline / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: While Coraline is looking for the third ghost child's soul, she realizes that the Other Mother can't actually create anything — she can generate illusions and facsimiles of things in the real world, but they're just copies...which makes Coraline ask herself: what's the point of that snow globe on the mantel?
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Coraline / int_d66c4f39	comment	Matricide: Played with. The Other Mother put her mother to the grave, "And when I caught her trying to crawl out, I put her back in". Does that mean she died either time? Is she dead now?
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Coraline / int_dd3d1f69	type	Wicked Witch
Coraline / int_dd3d1f69	comment	Wicked Witch: The Other Mother is a supernatural creature who uses illusions to kidnap innocent children and trap their souls forever.
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Coraline / int_dfb675b	comment	Dangerously Garish Environment: The Other World is very colourful, with bright clothes on the people, flowers, and so on, but it's run by demon-like creatures who want to trap and eventually kill Coraline. Unlike in the movie, the world doesn't become less colourful when it starts to disintegrate, but instead it becomes less defined, and is described as looking like a 2D drawing.
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Coraline / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Coraline / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: The novel describes the Other Mother using various bits of spidery imagery; she's made into a full-blown spider lady in the film.
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Coraline / int_e2f1ae4b	comment	You Won't Feel a Thing!: At one point, the Other Parents tell Coraline this when they try to convince her to let them sew the buttons on her eyes. Coraline doesn't believe them for an instant, as whenever adults say that something won't hurt, it always hurts very much.
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Coraline / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: The Other Mother tells Coraline she shouldn't listen to ghosts because they don't exist and everyone knows ghosts are liars.
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Coraline / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Coraline / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The Other Mother swears on her right hand she'll let Coraline go if she wins their game. Technically speaking, by having her right hand follow Coraline after the Other Mother breaks her word, she's keeping up her end of the bargain.
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Coraline / int_eae91ec6	comment	Real Fake Door: This is the normal state of the door to the Other World, as it originally led to another part of the house, but got blocked off in the process of dividing the house into flats.
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Coraline / int_eaf83237	type	The Grotesque
Coraline / int_eaf83237	comment	The Grotesque: The transformed Other Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, and by the end, what's left of the Other Father, each being melted barely-humanoid abominations of their former selves.
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Coraline / int_ee1bd506	comment	Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: Coraline is bored in the week before school and just has to go through the mysterious door... She nearly dies because of it. And three other kids in her position actually did die.
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Coraline / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": The illusion the Other Mother shows Coraline of her parents coming home from a holiday to try and make her think her parents are happier without her and it's eased their minds to think Coraline will be with her more loving Other Mother instead. Coraline actually doubts whether it's true or not...for about ten seconds.
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