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** Think about this, Coraline want everything to be better but she never put in the effort in the real world and had the other mother do it for her in the other world. Then at the end she learned to put in the effort herself to better. Notice at the end when she grows up to make the best out of her situation the real world starts to become more colorful.
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Their first experiments with the portals involves altering the subject's DNA so that they can create portals with their mind. His DNA was also altered to allow him to speak (an earlier experiment with this turned Chell into a HeroicMime). During the testing, GlaDOS malfunctioned and starts killing everybody. The Cat escaped with a teleporter to Ashland, Oregon. The DNA altering tests were aborted and Aperture starts testing the Portal Gun as a cheaper alternative.

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Their first experiments with the portals involves altering the subject's DNA so that they can create portals with their mind. His DNA was also altered to allow him to speak (an earlier experiment with this turned Chell into a HeroicMime). During the testing, GlaDOS [=GLaDOS=] malfunctioned and starts killing everybody. The Cat escaped with a teleporter to Ashland, Oregon. The DNA altering tests were aborted and Aperture starts testing the Portal Gun as a cheaper alternative.
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She supplied her powers to Fontaine, which he marketed under the guise of "plasmids" (because irrationality is not allowed in Rapture). In exchange, he gave her the souls of the brainwashed Little Sisters (hence their glowing eyes), since she's unable to directly take children's souls by herself thanks to Wybie's great-aunt declaring the apartment off-limit to children. Her magic stays in the victim/user's body, allowing Fontaine to use the Little Sisters to extract the [[strike: magic]] ADAM from dead bodies. They are protected by Big Daddies, who were actually Ryan's enemies whose souls were taken by the Other Mother and turned into the hulking faceless monsters in BadAss diving suits we all know and love. She continued to work with Sofia Lamb ten years after Rapture went to hell, giving back the souls of some of the little girls so that Lamb could brainwash them into abducting more little girls from the surface. As for the scientists who supposedly worked on the plasmids and Little Sisters such as Suchong and Tenenbaum, let's say that they're paid or brainwashed to lie to everyone.

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She supplied her powers to Fontaine, which he marketed under the guise of "plasmids" (because irrationality is not allowed in Rapture). In exchange, he gave her the souls of the brainwashed Little Sisters (hence their glowing eyes), since she's unable to directly take children's souls by herself thanks to Wybie's great-aunt declaring the apartment off-limit to children. Her magic stays in the victim/user's body, allowing Fontaine to use the Little Sisters to extract the [[strike: magic]] ADAM from dead bodies. They are protected by Big Daddies, who were actually Ryan's enemies whose souls were taken by the Other Mother and turned into the hulking faceless monsters in BadAss badass diving suits we all know and love. She continued to work with Sofia Lamb ten years after Rapture went to hell, giving back the souls of some of the little girls so that Lamb could brainwash them into abducting more little girls from the surface. As for the scientists who supposedly worked on the plasmids and Little Sisters such as Suchong and Tenenbaum, let's say that they're paid or brainwashed to lie to everyone.
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* That's a WMG? I thought it was obvious that he likes her, and much of their interaction throughout the film is pretty standard prepubescent flirting. She does call him a stalker. None of this is subtle.
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The powers the two display are broadly similar: personal pocket dimensions, RealityWarping, dominion over lost souls, OneWingedAngel form, [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking same hair color]] and a limited capacity to influence the mortal world. The Other Mother's hand escaping through the door and Aggie's Witch Storm come to mind. Maybe Aggie simply has more power due to having ensnared more victims to feed off of or being forced to sleep for three hundred years allowed her to preserve her energy. Regardless, what if these two are connected? Maybe the Other Mother is actually Aggie's mother gone mad with grief and trying to recapture her bond only for it to go horribly wrong? Maybe the OM (when she was still alive) could also talk to the dead, was persecuted for her powers and died a violent death?

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The powers the two display are broadly similar: personal pocket dimensions, RealityWarping, dominion over lost souls, OneWingedAngel form, [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking same hair color]] and a limited capacity to influence the mortal world. The Other Mother's hand escaping through the door and Aggie's Witch Storm come to mind. Maybe Aggie simply has more power due to having ensnared more victims to feed off of or being forced to sleep for three hundred years allowed her to preserve her energy. Regardless, what if these two are connected? Maybe the Other Mother is actually Aggie's mother gone mad with grief and trying to recapture her bond only for it to go horribly wrong? Maybe the OM (when she was still alive) could also talk to the dead, was persecuted for her powers and died a violent death?death?

[[WMG:Only certain children can become "Other Mothers."]]
In line with some of the Beldam-reproductive-cycle [=WMGs=], each subsequent Beldam is indeed one of the children that the previous Beldam captured; in order to become the Beldam, the kidnapped child needs to embrace the Other Mother as their ''real'' mother, taking the buttons and willingly giving up all memory of their old lives, including their parents. This is why the Beldam targets children who are unhappy with their parents, since it makes it more likely that they'd be willing to completely leave their old life and families behind. The ghost children still have scraps of memories, even though the time since their death/capture have erased most of the details, and it's likely that they, like Coraline, regretted their decision to stay or didn't understand the choice they were making. Once a Beldam finds a child who's willing to accept her, she's at least partially sated and perhaps even goes into semi-complacency as they feed on the child's adoration. Of course, any kid who'd be willing to go along with this would have at least one screw loose, and as we see the Beldam's "love" culminates in her devouring the children: In an ironic twist, being "loved" by a child prevents the Beldam from draining and killing them, giving the child enough time to become warped by eldritch magic and eventually devour the Beldam, becoming the new Other Mother. This is how the Other Mother from the book/movie could both have a mother and killed her despite being a horrific inhuman monster, possibly keeping the previous Beldam alive and draining her slowly while the new Beldam got used to her new power/lured in more children. As noted above the root of Beldam has a male equivalent in Belsire, so it's entirely possible that there are male Other "Mothers" who evolved from abducted boys.
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[[WMG: The cat is [[ChroniclesOfNarnia Aslan]]]]

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[[WMG: The cat is [[ChroniclesOfNarnia [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Aslan]]]]
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The well was another portal to the other world

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The well was another portal to the other worldworld

[[WMG:The Other Mother and [[WesternAnimation/ParaNorman Agatha Prenderghast]] are somehow related.]]

The powers the two display are broadly similar: personal pocket dimensions, RealityWarping, dominion over lost souls, OneWingedAngel form, [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking same hair color]] and a limited capacity to influence the mortal world. The Other Mother's hand escaping through the door and Aggie's Witch Storm come to mind. Maybe Aggie simply has more power due to having ensnared more victims to feed off of or being forced to sleep for three hundred years allowed her to preserve her energy. Regardless, what if these two are connected? Maybe the Other Mother is actually Aggie's mother gone mad with grief and trying to recapture her bond only for it to go horribly wrong? Maybe the OM (when she was still alive) could also talk to the dead, was persecuted for her powers and died a violent death?
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Both her and Yukiyo have an obsession with Doll making. The Doll's eyes can see things most eyes shouldn't be able to see. In Beldam's case, she can see into people's houses through Dolls Eyes, and the Doll's eye Yukiyo made Mei see who is alive and dead. Both are extremely possessive of their surrogate children and even at one point mentioned or has been mentioned by someone they know to refer to their kids as dolls.

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Both her and Yukiyo have an obsession with Doll making. The Doll's eyes can see things most eyes shouldn't be able to see. In Beldam's case, she can see into people's houses through Dolls Eyes, and the Doll's eye Yukiyo made Mei see who is alive and dead. Both are extremely possessive of their surrogate children and even at one point mentioned or has been mentioned by someone they know to refer to their kids as dolls.dolls.

[[WMG: the sweet ghost girl realy DID fall down the well ]]

The well was another portal to the other world
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* the main [[ThePrincessAndTheFrog friend on the other side]]

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* the main [[ThePrincessAndTheFrog [[Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog friend on the other side]]



* [[ThePrincessAndTheFrog Dr. Facilier]]. As stated on the WMG page for that particular film. He was sucked into the Other World by his main "Friend", the Beldam, after he failed to uphold his end of the deal with her. Once he was there, she proceeded to turn him into a cat as further punishment, and he's been fighting her ever since. Plus, like Foley and the Arbiter, he's got the voice actor connection going on.

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* [[ThePrincessAndTheFrog [[Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Dr. Facilier]]. As stated on the WMG page for that particular film. He was sucked into the Other World by his main "Friend", the Beldam, after he failed to uphold his end of the deal with her. Once he was there, she proceeded to turn him into a cat as further punishment, and he's been fighting her ever since. Plus, like Foley and the Arbiter, he's got the voice actor connection going on.



[[ThePrincessAndTheFrog ...The Other Side]]

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[[ThePrincessAndTheFrog ...[[Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog ...The Other Side]]
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* The [[{{Terminator}} T-1100]].

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* The [[{{Terminator}} [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} T-1100]].
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** Then why didn't he Contract Coraline ''much'' earlier?
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* TheFarSide

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* TheFarSide
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* Nonsense, Coraline's gonna team up with [[SpiritedAway Chihiro]] and battle over-protective witches across the globe!

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* Nonsense, Coraline's gonna team up with [[SpiritedAway [[Anime/SpiritedAway Chihiro]] and battle over-protective witches across the globe!
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** Also, the look on the Other Mother when she sees the Cat being thrown at her is similar to the look on many ''Franchise/{{BioShock}}'' players' faces [[OhCrap when they see a Big Daddy charging towards them.]]
** Alternatively, The Cat is Schrodinger from ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock 2}}''. Judging by leaked audio diaries for ''[=BioShock=] 2'' DLC, cats were spliced as well for cosmetic reasons so why not splice speaking abilities into the cat? he just keeps quiet when not in rapture or in the otherworld because it would freak people out.

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** Also, the look on the Other Mother when she sees the Cat being thrown at her is similar to the look on many ''Franchise/{{BioShock}}'' ''[=BioShock=]'' players' faces [[OhCrap when they see a Big Daddy charging towards them.]]
** Alternatively, The Cat is Schrodinger from ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock 2}}''. Judging by leaked audio diaries for ''[=BioShock=] 2'' DLC, cats were spliced as well for cosmetic reasons so why not splice speaking abilities into the cat? he just keeps quiet when not in rapture Rapture or in the otherworld because it would freak people out.
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[[WMG: The Cat was a [[Franchise/BioShock Big Daddy]].]]

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[[WMG: The Cat was a [[Franchise/BioShock [[VideoGame/BioShock Big Daddy]].]]



[[WMG: Spink and Forcible are [[Franchise/BioShock Splicers.]]]]

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[[WMG: Spink and Forcible are [[Franchise/BioShock [[VideoGame/BioShock Splicers.]]]]



[[WMG: The Other Mother is an ally of [[Franchise/BioShock Rapture's elites.]]]]

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[[WMG: The Other Mother is an ally of [[Franchise/BioShock [[VideoGame/BioShock Rapture's elites.]]]]



[[WMG: The Sequel is going to be set in [[Franchise/BioShock Rapture]]]]

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[[WMG: The Sequel is going to be set in [[Franchise/BioShock [[VideoGame/BioShock Rapture]]]]
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* [[SaturdayNightLive Could it be...]] '''''{{SATAN}}!!!??!'''''

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* [[SaturdayNightLive [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Could it be...]] '''''{{SATAN}}!!!??!'''''
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* Maybe the cat is [[{{Felidae}} Francis]].

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* Maybe the cat is [[{{Felidae}} [[WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}} Francis]].
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** [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub The Other Haruhi]]
** [[{{Happiness}} The Other, other Haruhi ]]

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** [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub [[Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub The Other Haruhi]]
** [[{{Happiness}} [[VisualNovel/{{Happiness}} The Other, other Haruhi ]]
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[[WMG:The cat belongs to the herd of the [[Film/{{Nocturna}} Cat Shepherd]]]]

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[[WMG:The cat belongs to the herd of the [[Film/{{Nocturna}} [[WesternAnimation/{{Nocturna}} Cat Shepherd]]]]
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* Wrong. She's going to join [[ActorAllusion the Cat]], [[VideoGame/{{Prototype}} Alex Mercer]] and a certain [[HypercompetentSidekick Mr. Do-Everything]] and [[ModernWarfare launch a counter-attack on Ultranationalist Russia!]]

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* Wrong. She's going to join [[ActorAllusion the Cat]], [[VideoGame/{{Prototype}} Alex Mercer]] and a certain [[HypercompetentSidekick Mr. Do-Everything]] and [[ModernWarfare [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare launch a counter-attack on Ultranationalist Russia!]]



* [[ModernWarfare Sgt. Foley]]. The cat either has shapeshifting powers, or he and Foley are a part of a HiveMind. In ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'', Foley shows absolutely no fear of death during the evacuation of civilians from Washington DC because if he dies, his mind still survives as the cat is (presumably) immortal. They also have the same voice.

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* [[ModernWarfare [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Sgt. Foley]]. The cat either has shapeshifting powers, or he and Foley are a part of a HiveMind. In ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'', Foley shows absolutely no fear of death during the evacuation of civilians from Washington DC because if he dies, his mind still survives as the cat is (presumably) immortal. They also have the same voice.



[[WMG: The movie takes place in an alternate ''ModernWarfare'' universe.]]

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[[WMG: The movie takes place in an alternate ''ModernWarfare'' ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' universe.]]



** Also, judging by the easiness of acquiring military-grade weapons in ''ModernWarfare 2'', we'll assume that the glove that Coraline wants to buy is actually a shiny new [[strike:[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill AC-130 gunship]]]] ACR with M203, Silencer, Heartbeat Sensor and ACOG.
*** Which means that ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' also takes place in the ''ModernWarfare 2'' universe since Carl was able to acquire a crapton of balloons and helium tanks overnight despite being recently sued for physical assault.

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** Also, judging by the easiness of acquiring military-grade weapons in ''ModernWarfare 2'', ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'', we'll assume that the glove that Coraline wants to buy is actually a shiny new [[strike:[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill AC-130 gunship]]]] ACR with M203, Silencer, Heartbeat Sensor and ACOG.
*** Which means that ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' also takes place in the ''ModernWarfare 2'' ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'' universe since Carl was able to acquire a crapton of balloons and helium tanks overnight despite being recently sued for physical assault.



[[WMG: The Other Mother is [[ModernWarfare Makarov]].]]

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[[WMG: The Other Mother is [[ModernWarfare [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Makarov]].]]



[[WMG: Movie! Mr. B was [[ModernWarfare Zakhaev's]] former co-worker.]]

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[[WMG: Movie! Mr. B was [[ModernWarfare [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Zakhaev's]] former co-worker.]]
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[[WMG: The vampire Scotties are the precursors to [[Series/DoctorWho Weeping Angels]][[note]][[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Weeping_Angel_291.jpg]].[[/note]]

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[[WMG: The vampire Scotties are the precursors to [[Series/DoctorWho Weeping Angels]][[note]][[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Weeping_Angel_291.jpg]].[[/note]][[/note]]]]
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* [[{{IT}} A being from the Macroverse.]] She's a giant female spider that uses illusions to seduce and ensnare children. They all float in the mirror'.

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* [[{{IT}} [[Literature/{{IT}} A being from the Macroverse.]] She's a giant female spider that uses illusions to seduce and ensnare children. They all float in the mirror'.



[[WMG: The Beldam is related to the monster in [[{{It}} Stephen King's It]]]]

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[[WMG: The Beldam is related to the monster in [[{{It}} [[Literature/{{It}} Stephen King's It]]]]



[[WMG: The Beldam is not just related to {{It}} She is her Goody Two Shoes sister.]]

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[[WMG: The Beldam is not just related to {{It}} Literature/{{It}} She is her Goody Two Shoes sister.]]
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[[WMG: The house and the Other World have something to do with HouseOfLeaves.]]

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[[WMG: The house and the Other World have something to do with HouseOfLeaves.''Literature/HouseOfLeaves''.]]
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The Beldam was just a dummy BigBad.

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The Beldam was just a dummy BigBad.BigBad.
[[WMG: Other Mother is an ancestor of the [[{{Literature/Another}} Fujioka Family.]]]]
Both her and Yukiyo have an obsession with Doll making. The Doll's eyes can see things most eyes shouldn't be able to see. In Beldam's case, she can see into people's houses through Dolls Eyes, and the Doll's eye Yukiyo made Mei see who is alive and dead. Both are extremely possessive of their surrogate children and even at one point mentioned or has been mentioned by someone they know to refer to their kids as dolls.
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* Coraline is going to team up with [[TheThiefOfAlways Harvey Swick]], and Bod, and they'll [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]] with the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense.

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* Coraline is going to team up with [[TheThiefOfAlways [[Literature/TheThiefOfAlways Harvey Swick]], and Bod, and they'll [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]] with the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense.
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*The Cat is Dream'a cat form. He slips between dimensions at will, as the Endless can do. He can't talk in reality because The Endless conform to people's expectations and people think cats can't talk. The Other Mother's realm is trippy and unreal, so it fits that a cat can talk. When he refers to "the game" he and the Other Mother's play, he really means his attempts to get her back in the Dreaming or destroy her, as he did with the other escaped dreams. She was smarter than the others and escaped to pocket universe with its own rules, limiting Dream's influence. We all know what a stickler for the rules Morpheus is, so he's waiting her out.
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[[WMG: Coraline took the cat in.]]
Pretty self explanatory.



* Not to mention that Bobinski is blue... perhaps a relative of Sith's?

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* Not to mention that Bobinski is blue... perhaps a relative of Sith's?Sith's?

[[WMG: [[TheDogWasTheMastermind The cat was the mastermind]].]]
The Beldam was just a dummy BigBad.
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* What if the cat is an incubator?
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The Cat has Sissel's trademark ability of passing through and travelling through objects.

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The Cat has Sissel's trademark ability of passing through and travelling through objects.objects.
* Not to mention that Bobinski is blue... perhaps a relative of Sith's?
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* Well, with Keith David as the mentor figure, I don't think we can rule out [[MassEffect3 a Reaper/Reaper construct and Indoctrination Theory]]. (Which would make the ghost children Catalysts, I guess.)

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