He grabs the hand off her neck but the hand attacks his face, causing him to stumble off his motorbike and nearly fall down into the well. While using a dowsing rodshe plucked from a bush in the garden, attempting to find a well nearby, she meets the landlady's grandson, Wyborne "Wybie" Lovat, and the feral Black Cat who follows him around. The Beldam is the main antagonist of Laika’s 1st full-length animated feature film Coraline. Though she has no qualms in relishing in savagery, the Beldam chooses to maintain her charisma by disparaging her victims in a sweet and motherly tone and an extremely condescending and sarcastic manner. She finds her more warm and attentive than her real mother and eventually meets the rest of the button-eyed duplicates of her neighbors, including the Other Wybie, who is mute. She is very good at cooking and sewing and is eager to play rough and daring games with her victims. The Other Wybie is the only Other inhabitant that is completely sympathetic to Coraline and shows no willingness, even when coerced, to harm her.However, as the magic of the Other World fades away as the Other Mother loses her powers and becomes more and more like her real self, so do the inhabitants of the Other World. Wybie arrives in his motorbike and blares the horn, stopping the hand in its track. Because of this, the Beldam harbors immense hatred towards the Cat and desires to rid all cats, which she refers to as "vermin", from the Other World.Despite the Cat's attempts, the Beldam retrieves the button-eyed ragdoll she used to lure the Sweet Ghost Girl and modifies it to resemble Coraline (its unknown why she didn't do the same for Wybie).

This is because without Coraline, she'd starve to death.Perhaps her most distinctive trait is her "love". Through this, the Beldam was able to spy on their lives to find out what was wrong with it.Once she had an overall idea on what her victim lacked in the real world, the Beldam modified the Other World into becoming a whimsical copy of the victim's real world, including its inhabitants, who also have button eyes and are entirely composed of sawdust. In the garden, Coraline is prompted by the cat to challenge the Other Mother, as "her kind of thing loves games and challenges." During the game, Coraline notices that the Other Wybie's clothing are hung on the flagpole of one of the Others' apartments, hinting that the Other Mother has killed him for helping Coraline previously escape into the real world.The Cat ultimately helps her in finding the real eye as the moon is completely covered by the shadow of the button as the Other World disintegrates into a blank void. The Other Mother tries to convince Coraline to stay, but Coraline refuses and is locked within a small space behind a mirror as punishment.In the small dark closet space, she meets three ghost children. Entertained by the Other World's glamour, her victims would be offered the chance to stay here forever, under the condition that a pair of buttons will be sewn over their eyes. None of the Beldam's past victims are related to Coraline whatsoever, forcing Coraline, along with the Cat, to fight the Beldam herself. Inside, Coraline meets the ghosts of the Beldam's previous victims, who recount their stories and plead her to find their real eyes.Coraline tearfully promises to find their real eyes moments before the Other Wybie drags her out of the chamber, whose mouth is stitched into a horrific grin by the Beldam for failing to smile. Her black hair seems to move by itself, her skin is paper-white, and her nails are long and red.

Whilst the Other Mother vomits out the black button key that she swallowed previously, Coraline finds her parents trapped inside a snow globe sitting on the mantle piece and grabs it. Coraline manages to smother the hand with her towel but the hand rips it apart as Wybie crawls out of the well and smashes it into pieces with a rock just in time.They throw it together into the depths of the well and cover the well with a lid, ultimately sealing the Other Mother's fate. The rats are the only creations that can leave the Other World since they use less of their "life energy" due to their smaller size. The children are dressed in clothes from different periods and one seems to have wings. The Other Mother agrees and they both swear on their right hands.Coraline searches through the Other World and overcomes the Other Mother's obstacles by using her wits and Miss Spink's lucky stone (the protection the cat referred to) to find the marble-like souls of the ghost children. They were all eventually killed (inadvertently) by Coraline when she played the game in finding the eyes of the ghost children.Cartoon characters Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community.Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat.https://cartooncharacters.fandom.com/wiki/The_Beldam_(Coraline)?oldid=11027. The doll element is not included in the novel canon and the Beldam lures her victims immediately by sending out her rats, indicating her impatient nature.Afterwards, the Beldam imprisoned their souls in a dark chamber behind a mirror and relied upon their "soul energy" to survive, which she often drained. They do not return the next day, and the black cat wakes her and takes her to a mirror in her hallway, through which she can see her trapped parents. It is unknown why the Other Mother cannot escape the Other World despite not being made out of sawdust.Once the Other inhabitants are done doing the Other Mother's biddings, she "recycles" them for her next victim. She tries to leave the Other World in a non-suspicious manner but the Beldam already knows this and blocks all the exits to the real world. As the Cat escapes back to the real world, the Other Mother tries to hunt down Coraline like prey in the spiderweb but fails as Coraline quickly enters the door and into the passageway inside that leads to the real world.