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| Caroline.
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| [[Wikipedia:Dakota Fanning|Dakota Fanning]].
 
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'''Coraline Jones''' is a curious, adventurer who lives in the Pink Palace. She moved from Pontiac, Michigan with her parents and is currently living in a old house.
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'''Coraline Jones''' is a curious adventurer who is the '''protagonist''' of all ''Coraline'' productions. She moved from Pontiac, Michigan with her parents to the [[The Pink Palace Apartments|Pink Palace Apartments]] in Ashland, Oregon. With her parents perpetually working and offering little attention to her, Coraline is incredibly bored and neglected thus decides to become an explorer of their new living location.
Coraline moves with her mother and father from her comfortable life in Pontiac, Michigan to the Pink Palace, a mostly dilapidated building in Ashland, Oregon. With her parents perpetually working on a garden catalog and paying little attention to her, Coraline feels incredibly bored and neglected and thus decides to explore their new home. She befriends Wybie Lovat, the grandson of the apartment's landlady.
 
   
 
== Plot Appearance ==
 
== Plot Appearance ==
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Coraline is the protagonist, hence the name of the movie. She has a short bob hairstyle which is parted to the side, with more hair covering the right. To complement her dark blue strands, she wears a dragonfly hairclip which is cerulean blue with pink wings. She has oval-shaped, dark brown eyes and thin lips that are the color of coral pink.
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She is shown to wear a yellow raincoat paired with yellow shin-high rain boots and loose denim jeans. This outfit is usually worn when she is outside exploring the garden.
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When Coraline is inside her house while counting the windows and doors, she is clad in a full-sleeved striped red shirt with the same blue jeans, and orange socks.
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Her night-time wear consists of an open collared, button-up pajama that is orange, covered with red and yellow polka dots. There are also matching pants. 
 
=== Movie ===
 
=== Movie ===
 
: ''An excerpt from the main article: [[Coraline (filmography)]]''
 
: ''An excerpt from the main article: [[Coraline (filmography)]]''
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It starts with Coraline Exploring outside of her home gripping a poison oak branch along the way. She then heads down the trail to the orchard to find the well using her magic dowser rod. While doing she meets Wybie who greatly annoys her as well as his cat. She then goes home and despite her wanting to do things like garden she cannot. This makes her go to her dad. He tells her to explore the house.
While exploring, Coraline finds a small door sealed off by a brick wall. That night, Coraline is awakened by a mouse and follows it to the small door where she discovers a long, dark corridor in the brick wall's place. Coraline goes through it and finds herself in the Other World, a fantastical parallel version of the Pink Palace inhabited by doppelgangers and better versions of her parents called the Other Mother and Other Father, who have black buttons for eyes. These beings prove to be warmer and more attentive than Coraline's real parents, particularly the Other Mother, who does everything she can to impress Coraline. Coraline decides to stay the night at the Other World, but when she wakes the next morning, she finds herself in her old world.
 
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While exploring, Coraline finds a small door sealed off by a brick wall. That night, Coraline is awakened by a mouse and follows it to the small door where she discovers a long, dark corridor in the brick wall's place. Coraline goes through it and finds herself in [[The Other World|the other world´]], a fantastical version of the Pink Palace inhabited by doppelgangers and better versions of her parents called the [[The Beldam (Other Mother)|other mother]] and [[Other Father|other father]], who have black buttons for eyes. These beings prove to be warmer and more attentive than Coraline's real parents, particularly the other mother, who does everything she can to impress Coraline. Coraline decides to stay the night at the other world, but when she wakes the next morning, she finds herself in her old world.
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Despite warnings of danger from her neighbors, Coraline continues to go to the other world at night to escape from the doldrums of her real life and is entertained by button-eyed "other" versions of her neighbors, including a mute other Wybie, who guides her through the other world. During her third visit, Coraline encounters a black cat from her own world that has the ability to talk in the other world, and also warns Coraline of danger. She disregards the warnings until the other mother invites her to live in the other world forever if she sews buttons over her eyes. When Coraline demands to return home, the other mother angrily reveals her true form as a monstrous witch and traps Coraline in a small room behind a mirror where she meets the ghosts of three children who had lost their eyes and souls to the other mother. With the help of the other Wybie, Coraline escapes to her own world, but finds that her parents have been kidnapped by the other mother.
   
 
Armed with a seeing stone provided by the real [[April Spink]] and [[Miriam Forcible]], Coraline returns to the other world and challenges the other mother to a game to find her missing parents and the eyes of the ghost children in the other world, agreeing to stay in the other world if she loses. Coraline uses her seeing stone to find the ghosts' eyes and outwits the twisted inhabitants of the other world guarding them, and later finds her parents trapped in a snow globe. Knowing that the other mother will never let her leave even if she wins, Coraline tricks the other mother into opening the door to the real world and escapes through it, closing the door on the other mother's hand and severing it. Coraline finds her parents safe with no memory of what had happened, and the ghost children at peace but not after they warn her that the other mother will still try to get the key from her. To keep the other mother from returning, Coraline intends to drop the key to the door between her world and the other world down a water well near her house, but the other mother's severed hand enters Coraline's world and tries to drag Coraline back to the other world. Wybie arrives and destroys the hand, and he and Coraline drop its remains and [[The Key|the key]] down the well. With her parents done with their work and able to spend time with their daughter, Coraline holds a garden party with her family and neighbors, content with her new life.
Despite warnings of danger from her neighbors, Coraline continues to go to the Other World at night to escape from the doldrums of her real life and is entertained by button-eyed "Other" versions of her neighbors, including a mute Other Wybie, who guides her through the Other World. During her third visit, Coraline encounters a black cat from her own world that has the ability to talk in the Other World, and also warns Coraline of danger. She disregards the warnings until the Other Mother invites her to live in the Other World forever if she sews buttons over her eyes. When Coraline demands to return home, the Other Mother angrily reveals her true form as a monstrous witch and traps Coraline in a small room behind a mirror where she meets the ghosts of three children who had lost their eyes and souls to the Other Mother. With the help of the Other Wybie, Coraline escapes to her own world, but finds that her parents have been kidnapped by the Other Mother.
 
   
Armed with a seeing stone provided by the real Spink and Forcible, Coraline returns to the Other World and challenges the Other Mother to a game to find her missing parents and the eyes of the ghost children in the Other World, agreeing to stay in the Other World if she loses. Coraline uses her seeing stone to find the ghosts' eyes and outwits the twisted inhabitants of the Other World guarding them, and later finds her parents trapped in a snow globe. Knowing that the Other Mother will never let her leave even if she wins, Coraline tricks the Other Mother into opening the door to the real world and escapes through it, closing the door on the Other Mother's hand and severing it. Coraline finds her parents safe with no memory of what had happened, and the ghost children at peace but not after they warn her that the Other Mother will still try to get the key from her. To keep the Other Mother from returning, Coraline intends to drop the key to the door between her world and the Other World down a water well near her house, but the Other Mother's severed hand enters Coraline's world and tries to drag Coraline back to the Other World. Wybie arrives and destroys the hand, and he and Coraline drop its remains and the key down the well. With her parents done with their work and able to spend time with their daughter, Coraline holds a garden party with her family and neighbors, content with her new life.
 
 
=== Books ===
 
=== Books ===
 
: ''An excerpt from the main article: [[Coraline (books)]]''
 
: ''An excerpt from the main article: [[Coraline (books)]]''
The book starts when Coraline explores the house shortly after moving in, but a terrible rainstorm struck and Coraline was forced inside. Bored, she asks her father what to do. He gives her a pen and pencil. She finds fourteen doors, but the large carved door in the drawing room with the uncomfortable chairs and a large door that does not open. Coraline's mother takes a large iron key and opens the door, revealing bricks. So later the next day she walks outside, and speaks to Ms. Spink. Later, upon opening the door, she finds the same hallway she was just in, but different. She walks down it, seeing paintings with something peculiar about their eyes. Just before she figured it out, a voice calls her into the kitchen. The other mother, tall, thin, pale, long, pale fingers with long red nails, and hair slithering around like snakes, and of course large black button eyes, awaits her. She serves a delightful supper, and tells Coraline she can go upstairs and play with the rats. She walks into her room, finding living toys, and the rats come out and perform a rather creepy song. The rats then scatter and run towards the doorway, where Mr Bobo happens to be. They then dash into his clothes, apparently up to his neck, filling all the pockets, with the biggest rat dashing up and sitting on his head. Mr Bobo then invites Coraline to go watch the rats eat, but Coraline politely denies and goes out to explore.
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The book starts when Coraline explores the house shortly after moving in, but a terrible rainstorm struck and Coraline was forced inside. Bored, she asks her father what to do. He gives her a pen and pencil. She finds fourteen doors, but the large carved door in the drawing room with the uncomfortable chairs and a large door that does not open. Coraline's mother takes a large iron key and opens the door, revealing bricks. So later the next day she walks outside, and speaks to Ms. Spink. Later, upon opening the door, she finds the same hallway she was just in, but different. She walks down it, seeing paintings with something peculiar about their eyes. Just before she figured it out, a voice calls her into the kitchen. The other mother, tall, thin, pale, long, pale fingers with long red nails, and hair slithering around like snakes, and of course large black button eyes, awaits her. She serves a delightful supper, and tells Coraline she can go upstairs and play with the rats. She walks into her room, finding living toys, and the rats come out and perform a rather creepy song. The rats then scatter and run towards the doorway, where Mr. Bobo happens to be. They then dash into his clothes, apparently up to his neck, filling all the pockets, with the biggest rat dashing up and sitting on his head. Mr. Bobo then invites Coraline to go watch the rats eat, but Coraline politely denies and goes out to explore.
   
 
=== Video Game ===
 
=== Video Game ===
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== Trivia ==
 
== Trivia ==
* [[Wikipedia:Dakota Fanning|Dakota Fanning]], the voice actress of Coraline, admitted the similarities between herself and her on-screen alter ego; both were feisty young girls. Dakota Fanning claimed it was as if they grew up together. She states that she would have gone through the door to the Other world if allowed.
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* [[Wikipedia:Dakota Fanning|Dakota Fanning]], the voice actress of Coraline, admitted the similarities between herself and her on-screen alter-ego; both were feisty young girls. Dakota Fanning claimed it was as if they grew up together. She states that she would have gone through the door to the other world if allowed.
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*According to Neil Gaiman, the character's creator, the name was originated from a typo: "I had typed the name Caroline, and it came out wrong. I looked at the word Coraline, and knew it was someone's name. I wanted to know what happened to her."
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* In the [[Coraline (video game)|video game]], cheat codes can be used to have Coraline's eyes be replaced with [[Button Eyes|button eyes]].
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* Coraline is left-handed, shown when she's exploring the house at the beginning of the movie.
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* Coraline's hair isn't naturally blue. She probably dyed it at some point before moving into the Pink Palace, This can be seen because her eyebrows are brown and in her family picture with her parents, her hair is light brown, not blue.
   
 
== Quotes ==
 
== Quotes ==
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*''"Magic dowser, magic dowser...show me the well!"''
 
*''"Magic dowser, magic dowser...show me the well!"''
 
*''"It's a dowsing rod. And I don't like being stalked — not by psycho nerds or their cats!"''
 
*''"It's a dowsing rod. And I don't like being stalked — not by psycho nerds or their cats!"''
*''"I almost fell down on a well yesterday, mom."''<br />'''Mel:''' ''"Uh-huh."''<br />''"I would've died."''
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*''"I almost fell down on a well yesterday, mom. [...] I would've died."''
 
*''"I can't believe it. You and Dad get paid to write about plants, and you hate dirt."''
 
*''"I can't believe it. You and Dad get paid to write about plants, and you hate dirt."''
 
*''"One boring blue boy in a painfully boring painting. Four incredibly boring windows, and no more doors."''
 
*''"One boring blue boy in a painfully boring painting. Four incredibly boring windows, and no more doors."''
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*''"I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped."''
 
*''"I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped."''
 
*''"I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?"''
 
*''"I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?"''
*''"She's got this whole world where everything's better. The food, the garden, the''neighbors,''but it's all a trap."''
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*''"She's got this whole world where everything's better. The food, the garden, the neighbors, but it's all a trap."''
 
*''"But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?"''
 
*''"But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?"''
 
*''"Of course you don't understand. You're just a bad copy she made of the crazy old man upstairs."''
 
*''"Of course you don't understand. You're just a bad copy she made of the crazy old man upstairs."''
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Coraline jones-

Alias: Caroline
Age: 11 years
Gender Female
Status: Alive
Voiced by: Dakota Fanning.
Appearances: Movie
Books
Video game.[

Coraline Jones is a curious adventurer who is the protagonist of all Coraline productions. She moved from Pontiac, Michigan with her parents to the Pink Palace Apartments in Ashland, Oregon. With her parents perpetually working and offering little attention to her, Coraline is incredibly bored and neglected thus decides to become an explorer of their new living location.

Plot Appearance

Coraline is the protagonist, hence the name of the movie. She has a short bob hairstyle which is parted to the side, with more hair covering the right. To complement her dark blue strands, she wears a dragonfly hairclip which is cerulean blue with pink wings. She has oval-shaped, dark brown eyes and thin lips that are the color of coral pink.

She is shown to wear a yellow raincoat paired with yellow shin-high rain boots and loose denim jeans. This outfit is usually worn when she is outside exploring the garden.

When Coraline is inside her house while counting the windows and doors, she is clad in a full-sleeved striped red shirt with the same blue jeans, and orange socks.

Her night-time wear consists of an open collared, button-up pajama that is orange, covered with red and yellow polka dots. There are also matching pants. 

Movie

An excerpt from the main article: Coraline (filmography)

It starts with Coraline Exploring outside of her home gripping a poison oak branch along the way. She then heads down the trail to the orchard to find the well using her magic dowser rod. While doing she meets Wybie who greatly annoys her as well as his cat. She then goes home and despite her wanting to do things like garden she cannot. This makes her go to her dad. He tells her to explore the house.

While exploring, Coraline finds a small door sealed off by a brick wall. That night, Coraline is awakened by a mouse and follows it to the small door where she discovers a long, dark corridor in the brick wall's place. Coraline goes through it and finds herself in the other world´, a fantastical version of the Pink Palace inhabited by doppelgangers and better versions of her parents called the other mother and other father, who have black buttons for eyes. These beings prove to be warmer and more attentive than Coraline's real parents, particularly the other mother, who does everything she can to impress Coraline. Coraline decides to stay the night at the other world, but when she wakes the next morning, she finds herself in her old world.

Despite warnings of danger from her neighbors, Coraline continues to go to the other world at night to escape from the doldrums of her real life and is entertained by button-eyed "other" versions of her neighbors, including a mute other Wybie, who guides her through the other world. During her third visit, Coraline encounters a black cat from her own world that has the ability to talk in the other world, and also warns Coraline of danger. She disregards the warnings until the other mother invites her to live in the other world forever if she sews buttons over her eyes. When Coraline demands to return home, the other mother angrily reveals her true form as a monstrous witch and traps Coraline in a small room behind a mirror where she meets the ghosts of three children who had lost their eyes and souls to the other mother. With the help of the other Wybie, Coraline escapes to her own world, but finds that her parents have been kidnapped by the other mother.

Armed with a seeing stone provided by the real April Spink and Miriam Forcible, Coraline returns to the other world and challenges the other mother to a game to find her missing parents and the eyes of the ghost children in the other world, agreeing to stay in the other world if she loses. Coraline uses her seeing stone to find the ghosts' eyes and outwits the twisted inhabitants of the other world guarding them, and later finds her parents trapped in a snow globe. Knowing that the other mother will never let her leave even if she wins, Coraline tricks the other mother into opening the door to the real world and escapes through it, closing the door on the other mother's hand and severing it. Coraline finds her parents safe with no memory of what had happened, and the ghost children at peace but not after they warn her that the other mother will still try to get the key from her. To keep the other mother from returning, Coraline intends to drop the key to the door between her world and the other world down a water well near her house, but the other mother's severed hand enters Coraline's world and tries to drag Coraline back to the other world. Wybie arrives and destroys the hand, and he and Coraline drop its remains and the key down the well. With her parents done with their work and able to spend time with their daughter, Coraline holds a garden party with her family and neighbors, content with her new life.

Books

An excerpt from the main article: Coraline (books)

The book starts when Coraline explores the house shortly after moving in, but a terrible rainstorm struck and Coraline was forced inside. Bored, she asks her father what to do. He gives her a pen and pencil. She finds fourteen doors, but the large carved door in the drawing room with the uncomfortable chairs and a large door that does not open. Coraline's mother takes a large iron key and opens the door, revealing bricks. So later the next day she walks outside, and speaks to Ms. Spink. Later, upon opening the door, she finds the same hallway she was just in, but different. She walks down it, seeing paintings with something peculiar about their eyes. Just before she figured it out, a voice calls her into the kitchen. The other mother, tall, thin, pale, long, pale fingers with long red nails, and hair slithering around like snakes, and of course large black button eyes, awaits her. She serves a delightful supper, and tells Coraline she can go upstairs and play with the rats. She walks into her room, finding living toys, and the rats come out and perform a rather creepy song. The rats then scatter and run towards the doorway, where Mr. Bobo happens to be. They then dash into his clothes, apparently up to his neck, filling all the pockets, with the biggest rat dashing up and sitting on his head. Mr. Bobo then invites Coraline to go watch the rats eat, but Coraline politely denies and goes out to explore.

Video Game

An excerpt from the main article: Coraline (video game)
This section requires expanding with knowledge derived from the video game. 

Personality

Coraline is an eleven-year-old girl with a large personality. She is seen as a snarky, rebellious, adventurous, curious, and creative girl for her age. She is also a quick thinker and witty. Coraline can get aggravated by adults, and people not taking her seriously because of her young age and outgoing demeanor. But her biggest issue is people pronouncing her name wrong, when they confuse it with Caroline. Coraline is also very skeptical of what adults tell her, especially her parents since it is implied that they, mostly her mother, would always break their promises to her and would not listen to her.

Trivia

  • Dakota Fanning, the voice actress of Coraline, admitted the similarities between herself and her on-screen alter-ego; both were feisty young girls. Dakota Fanning claimed it was as if they grew up together. She states that she would have gone through the door to the other world if allowed.
  • According to Neil Gaiman, the character's creator, the name was originated from a typo: "I had typed the name Caroline, and it came out wrong. I looked at the word Coraline, and knew it was someone's name. I wanted to know what happened to her."
  • In the video game, cheat codes can be used to have Coraline's eyes be replaced with button eyes.
  • Coraline is left-handed, shown when she's exploring the house at the beginning of the movie.
  • Coraline's hair isn't naturally blue. She probably dyed it at some point before moving into the Pink Palace, This can be seen because her eyebrows are brown and in her family picture with her parents, her hair is light brown, not blue.

Quotes

These quotes are all said in chronological order.

  • "I'm an explorer."
  • "Magic dowser, magic dowser...show me the well!"
  • "It's a dowsing rod. And I don't like being stalked — not by psycho nerds or their cats!"
  • "I almost fell down on a well yesterday, mom. [...] I would've died."
  • "I can't believe it. You and Dad get paid to write about plants, and you hate dirt."
  • "One boring blue boy in a painfully boring painting. Four incredibly boring windows, and no more doors."
  • "You're not my mother!"
  • "I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped."
  • "I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?"
  • "She's got this whole world where everything's better. The food, the garden, the neighbors, but it's all a trap."
  • "But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?"
  • "Of course you don't understand. You're just a bad copy she made of the crazy old man upstairs."
  • "I don't want your love. I don't want anything from you."
  • "You have a very funny way of showing it."
  • "Oh, my twitchy-witchy girl, I think you are so nice. I give you bowls of porridge and I give you bowls of ice cream, I give you lots of kisses with lots of hugs, but I never give you sandwiches, grease, and worms, and mung...beans."