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* SuspiciousltSpecificDenial: 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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* SuspiciousltSpecificDenial: SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: 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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Splitting My Name Is Not Durwood. Bad examples are being removed.


* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Or Caroline, either.
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* SuspiciousltSpecificDenial: 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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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Coraline in the Other World (eventually and temporarily.) As for the ghost children, they're stuck there until Coraline can find their souls.

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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Coraline in the Other World (eventually and temporarily.) temporarily). As for the ghost children, they're stuck there until Coraline can find their souls.
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* ParentsInDistress: [[spoiler:Coraline's parents are kidnapped by the Other Mother and she has to challenge the Other Mother to save them.]]
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* AdultFear: Gaiman cites this as the reason the story is, ironically, scarier for grown-ups than for children. The {{Adult Fear}}s go over children's heads, so they read it as an adventure story with some creepy monsters, delivering familiar {{Aesop}}s such as "Be brave" and "BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor." Adults, on the other hand, get the message, "If you neglect your children, they might be [[spoiler: kidnapped, mutilated, and murdered by somebody who pretends to be you]]."
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Crosswicking from You Wont Feel A Thing.

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* YouWontFeelAThing: 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.
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Inaccurate (and the real thing is even sweeter and more Papa-Wolf worthy)


* PapaWolf: Coraline tells the Cat a story of how she and her father stumbled into some bees, her father grabbed Coraline and ran for it, making sure she was protected from the bees, and got the majority of the bee stings.

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* PapaWolf: Coraline tells the Cat a story of how she and her father stumbled into some bees, her father grabbed told Coraline and ran for it, making sure she was protected from to run, while he stayed behind to be the bees, and got one getting the majority of the bee stings.
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tropes from the movie were present on the book page


* CartoonCheese: Straight and averted: cheese in the real world is realistic in shape and size, and is different colours. In the other world cheese comes only in massive wheels and is full of holes.



* HartmanHips: It's a mother thing.
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the Namespace thing changing


* BlackEyesOfEvil:[[spoiler: Black ''button'' eyes of evil.]]

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* * BlackEyesOfEvil:[[spoiler: Black ''button'' eyes of evil.]]



* XMeetsY: ''StephenKing'' meets ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.

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* XMeetsY: ''StephenKing'' ''Creator/StephenKing'' meets ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.
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* CatsAreMean: Downplayed, merely a great DeadpanSnarker.

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* CatsAreMean: Downplayed, merely a great DeadpanSnarker.a...
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* CatsAreMean: Subverted. [[DeadpanSnarker Kind of]].

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* CatsAreMean: Subverted. [[DeadpanSnarker Kind of]].Downplayed, merely a great DeadpanSnarker.
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TheFilmOfTheBook was released in February 6 2009, under the [[Film/{{Coraline}} same name]].

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TheFilmOfTheBook was released in February 6 2009, under the [[Film/{{Coraline}} [[WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}} same name]].
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* KnifeThrowingAct: The Other Miss Spink and Forcible preform this with Coraline.

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* KnifeThrowingAct: The Other Miss Spink and Forcible preform perform this with Coraline.
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* XMeetsY: ''StephenKing'' meets ''AliceInWonderland''.

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* XMeetsY: ''StephenKing'' meets ''AliceInWonderland''.''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.
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* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass

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* OnlySmartPeopleMayPassOnlySmartPeopleMayPass: If Coraline doesn't find her parents and the souls of the ghost children, she has to stay in the Other World.
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* MindControlEyes

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* MindControlEyesMindControlEyes: Everyone in the Other World (under the Other Mother's control) has buttons for eyes.
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* ImpossibleTask

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* ImpossibleTaskImpossibleTask: Coraline has to find all 3 ghost souls to win the "game" the Other Mother agreed to play with her. Oh, and her missing parents, who are also lost in the Other World.
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* DownTheRabbitHole

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* DownTheRabbitHoleDownTheRabbitHole: Perfectly sums it up.
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* DarkWorld

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* DarkWorldDarkWorld: The Other World is a perfect example of this.
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* CuriosityIsACrapshoot

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* CuriosityIsACrapshootCuriosityIsACrapshoot: Coraline just ''had'' to go through the door...
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* CatsAreSnarkers

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* CatsAreSnarkersCatsAreSnarkers: The Cat has a very smart aleck-y attitude.
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* AndYouWereThere

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* AndYouWereThereAndYouWereThere: Everyone in the Other World. Except the Cat, that is.
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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Coraline in the Other World (eventually.)

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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Coraline in the Other World (eventually.)(eventually and temporarily.) As for the ghost children, they're stuck there until Coraline can find their souls.
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* CharacterTitle

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* CharacterTitleCharacterTitle: Coraline, starring Coraline.



* CoolGate

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* CoolGateCoolGate: The wooden door leading to the Other World.



* EyeScream

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* EyeScreamEyeScream: The Other Mother wishes to sew buttons into Coraline's eyes. She's done it to other children before Coraline, as well.



* HelpingHands

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* HelpingHandsHelpingHands: The Other Mother loses her hand, which goes looking for the key to the door.



* KnifeThrowingAct

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* KnifeThrowingActKnifeThrowingAct: The Other Miss Spink and Forcible preform this with Coraline.



* MagicalLand

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* MagicalLandMagicalLand: The Other World.



* SeeThruSpecs

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* SeeThruSpecsSeeThruSpecs: The stone with the hole in it.



* TrappedInAnotherWorld

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* TrappedInAnotherWorldTrappedInAnotherWorld: Coraline in the Other World (eventually.)
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: There are quite a few people shocked that this book was written for children. It actually grew out of bedtime stories Neil Gaiman was telling his [[NightmareFetishist daughter]]. He was delighted to learn that she was "a miniature [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Wednesday Addams.]]"
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* VagueAge: 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.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: There are quite a few people shocked that this book was written for children. It actually grew out of bedtime stories Neil Gaiman was telling his daughter. He was delighted to learn that she was "a miniature [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Wednesday Addams.]]"

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: There are quite a few people shocked that this book was written for children. It actually grew out of bedtime stories Neil Gaiman was telling his daughter.[[NightmareFetishist daughter]]. He was delighted to learn that she was "a miniature [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Wednesday Addams.]]"
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: There are quite a few people shocked that this book was written for children. It actually grew out of bedtime stories Neil Gaiman was telling his daughter. He was delighted to learn that she was "a miniature [[TheAddamsFamily Wednesday Addams.]]"

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: There are quite a few people shocked that this book was written for children. It actually grew out of bedtime stories Neil Gaiman was telling his daughter. He was delighted to learn that she was "a miniature [[TheAddamsFamily [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Wednesday Addams.]]"
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: It's even the tagline for TheMovie, as pictured above.

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: It's even the tagline for TheMovie, as pictured above.TheMovie.

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