In Coraline's movie adaptation, the Other Mother makes button-eyed dolls as a way of luring her targets to the Other World.

Selick’s script also saddles Coraline with a goth-nerd sidekick, Wybie (Bailey), a figure of eventual dramatic importance but questionable comic value. The film is on surer footing once Coraline ...

Wybie is introduced with his eyes covered, foreshadowing his place in the Other World. When Coraline meets Wybie in the real world, he's wearing a mask that mirrors Other Wybie, who completely ...

Being an only child with no friends, Coraline quickly grows bored. The only person in the neighborhood who’s her age is a strange boy named Wybie. Coraline decides he’s too geeky and talkative ...

Being called Caroline bothered Coraline, so it's fixed in the Other World. Wybie Lovat is Coraline's mildly annoying neighbor ...

Coraline herself is getting multiple figures, including one of her dressed in her starry shirt with her black cat Wybie by her side ... at San Diego Comic-Con when Coraline author Neil Gaiman ...

It turns out it's a juicy clue for the "Coraline" website. Hint: "Jerk wad" is what Coraline calls Wybie (the lil' nappy-headed punk who's always pestering her) before she chucks her boot at him.

referring to the character of Wybie. Jones explains the thought process behind creating Coraline’s personality and how it all anchored on accurately depicting a 12-year-old girl, flaws and all.

Not only is Henry Selick's charming "Coraline" a terrific children's story ... There’s a small, talkative boy Wybie Lovat (Robert Bailey Jr.), a scruffy cat, two aging British actresses ...