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** Watching your husband die in front of you, as he futilely tries to protect you and your infant kids. More so that despite Abuela telling it as a take of great heroism, {{spoiler|the ending reveals that this event was traumatic for Abuela and shaped her worldview about the miracle}}.

** Among the many fears that Luisa sings about in "Surface Pressure," she's terrified that losing her gifts will mean not just losing her worth, but also the ability to protect people in her family. She sings about how she needs to protect Mirabel from everything.

* [[Big Brother Instinct|Big Sister Instinct]]: Deconstructed with Luisa in "Surface Pressure". She lies to Mirabel, her little sister, that she's feeling fine and not worried about the magic, while her eye twitches. Mirabel gives her space to vent about the pressure to always perform, and how she has to literally hold up the family's weight.

* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Dolores has a few moments of this, being catty and outing to the neighborhood kids that Mirabel has no gifts. She tells Mirabel that she heard nothing wrong and that she's crazy for talking about cracks in the wall, and smirks when telling Isabel that the man courting her wants five children, hinting that it's a lie. {{spoiler|Some of this may be attributed to her resentment that Isabel is entering an arranged marriage with the man that she loves and Bruno predicted this when she was a child, but it was still bitchy of her to out the prophecy that Mirabel is standing in front of a crumbling La Casita at said dinner. Unlike Abuela, Dolores doesn't apologize to Mirabel for her indirect bullying}}.

* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: While Mirabel doesn't say this outright, she has an annoyed expression whenever an outsider expresses sympathy or tries to make her feel better about having powers. Granted, the neighborhood kids are [[Innocently Insensitive]] about the fact that she has no gifts, and a local florist gives her a basket on the house called "The Not Special Special" in an attempt to make Mirabel feel better about her failed ceremony.

* [[Generational Trauma]]: ''Encanto'' puts this on full display for most of the movie. Abuela Alma witnessed bandits murdering her husband who attempted to protect her and their triplets, along with a group of refugees. When the miracle happened-- an ever-burning candle caused the mountains to rise and dispel the bandits while creating a safe haven for the survivors, and giving magic to Abuela's children-- Abuela became convinced that the best way to respect the miracle was to make her children useful. Unknowingly, her demand for perfectionism and rigidity causes her to alienate her powerless granddaughter Mirabel who tearfully pinpoints at her [[Rage Breaking Point]] that she will ''never'' be good enough for Abuela. That's not even going into how she inadvertently turned her son Bruno into the town's pariah {{spoiler|who opts to hide in la Casita walls to mend the cracks and protect Mirabel from one of his prophecies}}, has driven her other granddaughter Luisa to a near-breakdown with how Luisa feels she needs to literally carry the house's burdens on her back, and treats Isabela as the golden child who must never get her hands dirty despite an affinity for plants. It takes {{spoiler|la Casita crumbling as Mirabel finally calls out Abuela for her toxicity for Abuela to acknowledge the trauma of seeing her husband die in front of her and reconcile with her granddaughter after a dazed Mirabel wanders from the rubble}}.