Sergei Alexander Bobinski (Coraline / Ian McShane)

Description

Sergei Alexander Bobinsky is Coraline's Russian neighbor who lives in the upstairs apartment of the the Pink Palace Apartments. He owns a jumping mice circus. Coraline assumes he is crazy and Mel Jones believes that he's a drunk. The Other Bobinky is the "other" version of Mr. Bobinsky in the real world, though much neater than the real one; less of a gut, a more prigmented skin color, buttons for eyes, and a much neater mustache, and also wears navy blue ringmaster's suit complete with gold trimmings and his liquidator badge. Like the real Mr. Bobinsky, he also owns a "mouse" circus but the "mice" are actually rats disguised as jumping mice. Once the Other Mother transforms all the residents of her Other World, he is reduced to nothing but a suit filled with his performing rats and an artificial, robot-like voice being replicated by them. When Coraline lifted his hat off, the head rat attempted to escape with the eye of one of the ghost children, which was being used as a circus ball, only to be caught by the Cat. The Cat kills the rat that has the ghost eye and passes the Circus Ball over to Coraline in the front lawn of the Other Pink Palace.