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* [[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 Isabela 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 Isabela 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}}.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Thanks to Abuela refusing to see that she's a toxic grandparent, {{spoiler|Mirabel calls her out, and this snapped family bond causes La Casita to collapse and the miracle to end. Mirabel then wanders off in a daze after she spent La Casita's last moments trying to rescue the candle, worrying her family to no end and filling Abuela with remorseful guilt. Abuela tracks her down, apologizes to Mirabel for the way she treated her granddaughter, and relates the real story of how her husband died. Bruno then reveals himself for the first time in a decade, thinking that Abuela is attacking Mirabel, and is surprised when a remorseful Abuela hugs him instead. He mends ties with his family slowly, though that's going to be a long road regarding his mental health. The neighbors help rebuild La Casita out of thanks for all the help the Madrigals gave them over the years, and the magic returns when Mirabel adds the doorknob as a finishing touch. Abuela promises to be less overbearing, as Isabela tells Mariano that Dolores likes him, setting the two up instead.}}
* [[Condescending Compassion]]: If a character isn't dismissive towards Maribel for being ordinary, expect this trope instead:
** Mirabel tries to dissuade the kids when they keep asking what her gifts are, and running away from them. Dolores and Abuela drop the bomb that Mirabel never got a gift, as Mirabel is trying to be more tactful. The kids then say insensitively that Mirabel must be so sad and they feel bad for her. Mirabel tells them there is no shame in being ordinary when she is a Madrigal, while hiding her annoyance.
** The local florist delivers a gift to Mirabel since it's time for the next ceremony, and he was worried that she would be reminded of her own botched ceremony where her door disappeared. She appreciates the gesture, but not how he reveals that he called it "The Not-Special Special" because there is "nothing special" about her. Mirabel tucks it into the nursery before trying to help with the ceremony preparations.
** [[Played for Drama]] and justified with the way that Luisa treats Mirabel before and during "Surface Pressure," when she tries to lie that nothing is wrong. Most of the song features her leaping into danger or rescuing Mirabel from dire situations, and singing how she doesn't know who or what she would be if she couldn't use her powers. Part of it is that Mirabel is the youngest sister and has no gift to protect her, but Luisa makes it clear she'd be terrified if there was a day that she wouldn't be able to rescue Mirabel from grave danger. Sure enough, {{spoiler|her fears come to life in the climax when La Casita collapses with Mirabel inside it, and Luisa can't activate her waning powers to rescue her.}}
* [[Disposable Fiancé]]: Reconstructed with Mariano. He seems nice enough while being smitten with Isabela, and most of the villagers would be thrilled to marry a Madrigal given their powers, but Abuela is arranging the match while making it look like it's Isabela's choice. They've only spent time together during formal events, under strict parental supervision. As a result, Isabela doesn't really know him, apart from what Dolores tells her, he might be more in love with the idea of Isabela rather than the reality, and Dolores may be trolling her when saying Mariano wants five kids {{spoiler|because ''she'' is in love with Mariano and Bruno said the love of her life would be in love with someone else}}. Eventually, Isabela realizes that {{spoiler|she was never given a choice about the matter because defying Abuela's will was never an option, and that she doesn't want to marry Mariano. She gains the courage to turn him down after the villagers rebuild La Casita, but tells him it's [[Nothing Personal]] while saying that Dolores likes him. Dolores takes the opportunity to properly introduce herself to Mariano, and he at least seems willing to get to know Isabela's cousin.}}
* [[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.
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** 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.
* [[Rashomon Style]]: Three different characters recall Pepa's wedding: Pepa herself, her husband Felix, and {{spoiler|Bruno}}. Felix starts to wax poetically about how it was the perfect day and his wife was so beautiful. Pepa interrupts to remind Felix that it's her story, and reveals that she was working hard to make sure the weather was perfect. Bruno then told her, "It looks like rain," causing her to freak out and cause a thunderstorm. She got mad at Bruno and believed he did it on purpose to mess with his sister. {{spoiler|Bruno reveals that while Pepa's account was true, she got the intentions wrong: he saw that she was a bundle of nerves and thought a little joke would lighten up the situation}}.
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: A reconstructed example with Bruno's predictions. He became the pariah because all his predictions came true, and they were negative stuff like the priest going bald or a woman's goldfish in a bowl dying. Pepa holds a grudge against Bruno for saying, "It looks like rain" to her on her wedding day, causing her to freak out from nerves and bring in a thunderstorm. {{spoiler|When we actually meet Bruno, he explains he never meant to hurt anyone and was only joking to Pepa to help her get over her nerves}}. Many of his predictions were actually inevitable due to human nature: people go bald over time, and keeping a goldfish in a bowl that small will kill it. While Bruno {{spoiler|spends ten years mending the cracks in La Casita, after seeing the prophecy that Mirabel would be standing in front of the falling house, he only delays the inevitable blowout when Abuela yells at Mirabel for cheering Isabela up after the disastrous dinner with Mariano, and Mirabel can no longer tolerate her grandmother's bullying}}. Mirabel does try to subvert this prophecy by {{spoiler|asking Bruno to cast one that will provide the answer on how to fix the cracks: while she isn't thrilled that it involves making up with Isabela, who has always been a bully to Mirabel and the perfect child, she agrees to at least try}}. The reason why Mirabel's actions don't fix the cracks is because {{spoiler|Abuela steamrolls her attempts to let Isabela try something for herself rather than conform to perfection
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