Mr. Bobinsky

Sergei Alexander Bobinsky (Russian: Сергей Александр Бобинский, Sergey Aleksandr Bobinskiy), otherwise known as Mr. B or as he prefers it Mr. Bobinsky, is a major character of the stop-motion film, Coraline. He is Coraline Jones's Russian neighbor who lives in the upstairs flat of the Pink Palace Apartments. He owns a jumping mice circus; Coraline assumes he is crazy and her mother believes that he's a drunk.
Mr. Bobinsky lives in the top flat of the Pink Palace Apartments and once trained as a gymnast, (explaining the flexibility he shows in the film) and lives on a steady diet of beets, which he once offered to Coraline with the claim that it'll make her strong. Mel Jones believes him to be drunk, and Coraline instead believes him crazy when he mentions his mouse circus, but later calls him eccentric instead.
He was voiced by , who also portrayed Septon Ray in the Game of Thrones series, King Brahmwell in Jack the Giant Slayer and Winston in the John Wick franchise.
==Appearance==
Mr. Bobinsky is a blue-skinned, extremely tall, Russian man; while not explained in the film, his blue skin is due to his constant time outside in the damp and cold weather. Despite his mostly blue complexion, his nose and chin are tinted violet. His body shape is inconsistent; while he is tall and mostly skinny, he has a noticeably large stomach. His body is also disproportionate, as his eyes and mouth are much smaller than the other aspects of his face. In addition, he wears an orange, terribly stained wife-beater, shorts, and black marching boots. He has a long, untamed moustache, hairy shoulders and armpits, bushy eyebrows, and a hairy area below the navel.
==Personality==
Just like Coraline later says, Mr. Bobinsky is more eccentric rather than crazy and drunk. He is bold and truthful with his words, quite ignorant of what people would think of him when he says such things. He is always positive, generous and kind, despite being a little bit north of normal.
==Trivia==
*Mr. Bobinsky's voice is the first to be heard in the film, and he is the second character to appear (the first being the Other Mother, although not fully revealed).
*The flag that Mr. Bobinski has hanging in front of his flat is the Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation.
*Coraline believes that Mr. Bobinski is a drunk. However, his agility and sense of balance suggest that this is unlikely.
*Mr. Bobinsky wears the liquidator medal: a real life medal awarded to the who were called upon to deal with the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union, at the site of the event. This might explain Mr. Bobinski's odd appearance (blue skin, sparse hair) and behavior (eating raw beets, etc).
**This may also mean that Mr. Bobinsky may have helped clean up the town of Pripyat after the Chernobyl disaster.
**This would also imply that Mr. B. immigrated to the United States from living in the Soviet Union (which is also suggested by his somewhat broken English).
*Henry Selick has stated that Mr. Bobinsky's skin is blue because he's outside all the time, in the cold and damp weather, wearing only a sleeveless shirt and short pants; the cold causes his skin to turn blue. 
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