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'''''Encanto''''' is a 2021 Disney film, the sixtieth work in the [[Disney Animated Canon]]. It features music created by Lin-Manuel Miranda and stars [[Stephanie Beatriz]] as the protagonist Mirabel.

* [[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. It does, however, reveal the cause of the cracks is Abuela's emotional abuse hurting everyone in the family by demanding perfection. The house falling and Mirabel nearly dying in the collapse give Abuela the wakeup call of what she's been doing}}.

 

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