the geeky, nervous 11-year-old grandson of Coraline's landlady. Wybie is a character introduced for the film adaptation so that the viewer "wouldn't have a girl walking around, occasionally talking to herself."[7] Though Coraline finds him creepy and regularly insults him, the two end up becoming friends. The Other Wybie has been rendered incapable of speech by the Other Mother, as she thought Coraline would prefer him that way.