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* [[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.

* [[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}}.