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* [[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}}.
* [[Go Mad From the Isolation]]: Poor {{spoiler|Bruno}} is still {{spoiler|a nice guy, but visibly undernourished and overworked hiding in La Casita's walls for ten years. He ran away after his last prophecy showed Mirabel standing in front of La Casita and knew that it would turn Mirabel into more of a scapegoat than she already is, but didn't want to leave his family to rot. He reveals to Mirabel that he has been entertaining himself by creating soap operas starring the rats}}.
* [[Good Parents]]: Julieta and Agustín Madrigal try to mitigate the favoritism that Abuela lavishes on Isabel while isolating Mirabel, with Julieta always having words of advice and healing food for Mirabel. At a crucial moment, Agustín has a completely protective and reasonable response to finding out that {{spoiler|Mirabel unearthed a prophecy that shows her in front of a crumbling La Casita: tells her in a whisper that they need to hide it since an important dinner in a few minutes and will talk about it when they have a moment of privacy. Of course Dolores hears and opens her big mouth at the important dinner with Mariano; when Abuela tries to chide Agustín for hiding the prophecy, he calls her out by saying that he was protecting his daughter, ''like every parent should''. The blow hits Abuela, but doesn't register until Mirabel nearly dies in the climax}}.
* [[Happily Married]]: All the married couples from the Madrigal family.
* [[No Antagonist]]: This is an unusual Disney movie in that there is no outright evil villain. Abuela is certainly an antagonist, but [[Obliviously Evil]] who mends her ways {{spoiler|when she realizes that she nearly got Mirabel killed with her emotional abuse}}. While Bruno is a figure shrouded in mystery whose prophecies spelled doom and gloom, {{spoiler|we find out he's a sweet guy that happened to have a sucky gift and a big heart}}.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Agustín due to being married into the family out of love and not out of politics proves to be this, despite being accident-prone. At a crucial moment, he shows that he is not afraid of Abuela when calling her out for how she treats Maribel and expects him to throw his daughter to the wolves because {{spoiler|of the prophecy that she found}}.
* [[Only Sane Woman]]: Julieta is the only Madrigal with a gift not weighed down by it with mood swings or expectations. Granted, healing people with good food and the fact that she loves cooking helps a lot.
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