The Beldam (also known as The Other Mother) is the main antagonist of Neil Gaiman's 2002 dark fantasy novel Coraline and its 2009 film adaptation of the same name.
She was voiced by Teri Hatcher in the film.
What Makes Her A Shonen Villain?[]
- Villainous: She's an evil entity who attracts children to a world where everything's better but this is just a trap that she uses to later kill them and trap their souls.
- Powerful/Skillful: She has near-omnipotent power over the Other World, being able to change it to her liking.
- Power-Hungry: She wants to have power over her victims.
- Pursues a Big-End Goal: She has the goal of keeping her own existence by consuming her victims' flesh and souls.
- Arrogant: For her, children are nothing but pets or objects to discard when they bore her.
- Intelligent: She's really intelligent since she could easily manipulate her victims and earn their trust.
- Cold-Hearted/Ruthless: She's perfectly fine with punishing her own sapient creations for helping Coraline. She even forced the Other Father to attack Coraline who he genuinely loved.
- Short-Tempered: She lost all her temper in her final confrontation with Coraline, even acting like a savage predator.
- Psychopathic: How else could someone who kidnaps children to kill them and put their souls in a fate-worse than death be called?
- Sadistic: She's extremely sadistic in how she tortures her victims.
- Is a Dark Lord: She's the ruler of the other world who did many horrible things.
External Links[]
- The Beldam on the Villains Wiki
- The Beldam on the Pure Evil Wikl
- The Beldam on the Coraline Wiki
- The Beldam on the Ultimate Evil Wiki