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* [[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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* [[Good Parents]]: Julieta and Agustín Madrigal try to mitigate the favoritism that Abuela lavishes on Isabela 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 there's an important dinner in a few minutes and they 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, and it ends up being inadvertently a plot point. Mirabel notices the cracks around the same time that Abuela arranges a marriage for Isabela, and {{spoiler|Isabela eventually reveals that she doesn't want to marry the guy despite him being a good match and smitten with her}}.
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▲** 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.}} * [[Misplaced Retribution]]:
** Isabela tends to blame Mirabel for things going wrong, because Mirabel is the only one who doesn't have powers in the family and Abuela encourages this mindset. Case in point: the dinner with Mariano goes wrong {{spoiler|because of Dolores opening her big mouth at the worst time about Mirabel finding a prophecy of her standing in front of the crumbling La Casita}}. When Mirabel tries to go to talk to her older sister, {{spoiler|hoping to subvert this fate and trusting Bruno's new prophecy that hugging Isabela will fix the cracks in La Casita, Isabela tells Mirabel it was her fault that the dinner went wrong. After at first trying to be the better person, Mirabel loses her temper and calls out Isabela for her spoiled attitude, saying that of ''course'' the golden child of the family that Abuela loves unconditionally must have ''such'' a terrible life. And one ruined dinner doesn't mean she'll be single forever, as Mariano would still marry her due to being the "perfect" Madrigal. Isabela then blurts out she doesn't want to marry Mariano. There's a {{Beat}}, as it sinks in for both sisters that Isabela was really angry about the expectations that she has to fill to maintain her golden child status, with Mirabel being an easy scapegoat, and she didn't realize she was miserable until the fight with Mirabel. She then creates new plants out of this rage, that allow her proper catharsis since they aren't neat flowers, and she lets go of her unreasonable anger towards Mirabel}}.
** Just as Isabela and Mirabel {{spoiler|patch things up}}, Abuela comes across them reconciling {{spoiler|while Isabela is covered in different types of colored pollen}}, and starts yelling at Mirabel for being a bad influence on Isabela and causing trouble with {{spoiler|the prophecy of Mirabel causing La Casita's fall being inevitable}}. This is despite the fact that it wasn't Mirabel who disrupted the dinner-- Dolores did with her big mouth and Mirabel was trying to rush the dinner to ensure that Dolores wouldn't blab about {{spoiler|the prophecy she found}}. Isabela has a silent [[Jerkass Realization]] on seeing how she's been treating her little sister and learned it from Abuela, and Mirabel ''snaps''. She calls out Abuela for putting impossible standards not just on her but on everyone in the family, how it led to Bruno running away {{spoiler|and living malnourished in the walls}}. No matter how much Mirabel would try, she would never please her grandmother and would always be a target of her scorn. {{spoiler|Abuela comes to realize that Mirabel is right, that her standards were causing the cracks in the wall, when the house collapses around them}}.
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