CHARACTER PROFILE: Sergei Alexander Bobinski

"Mr. B's not drunk, Mom, he's just... Eccentric!"

- Coraline Jones

Description: 

• Mr. Bobinski is the retired russian circus preformer who live on the flat above the Jones'. He's believed to be a little bit crazy and claims to be training his "jumping mouse circus." His mice are what lead Coraline through the door at night into this parallel world of better things.

Voice Actor:

•  Ian McShane

Archetype:

•  Mentor/Mediator: Bobinski sort of, like Miss Spink & Forcible, plays a mentor as well, but through the information provided through his jumping mice. At one point he mentions that "the jumping mice say don't go through tiny door." So since he's really just translating the advice given by the jumping  mice I would classify him as a mediator as well.

 "Mr. Bobinsky is wearing the Russian Hero Medal for Service at the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster on April 26, 1986. Which reads on the front "Participant in the clean-up campaign" The "4A3C" indicates "Chernobilskaya Nuclear Power Plant." This medal is unique as it is the only medal in the world awarded for participation in a nuclear clean up. That might explain his skin complexion and odd behavior."