I always kind of figured that Mirabel not receiving a gift was actually when she became the new keeper of the miracle because I don't think anyone other than Abuela and Mirabel could make casita do anything for them. When she had casita "flex their muscles" so to speak when saying floors, doors, drawers, she just didn't realize she was actually the one to make casita do that. Because she became the new keeper of the candle, her emotions affect the candle and the magic, which is why her anger towards abuela and the magic caused it to make casita crumble and the magic to stop.
Casita also turned the floor into a treadmill for Luisa. Granted we don't see Luisa ask it to do that, but that's complicated enough I feel it would need to be an instruction not just Casita trying to help.
@@13vatra You make a good point. However I disagree because you could see Casita doing things of that nature automatically for the whole family and doing different things for each person.
I did a "Christian" review on this very topic that explains what Mirabel's power most likely is. Give it gander if you want: th-cam.com/video/EG06ZFACKeg/w-d-xo.html
I use to agree but there is a flaw for that see Abuela has a door but no actual powers Mirabel has no powers but doesn't get a door that to me makes this theory much more plausible
According to therapists, both Bruno and Mirabel are what they refer to as the identified patient. A family is having problems and they decide this one person is the entire problem. Bad for the person picked but great for everyone else as it frees them from all responsibility for their own actions. Bruno was first to be blamed, but then he left. We need a new scapegoat so...MIRABEL! She has no gift so it's perfect. Let's blame her and Mirabel becomes the next identified patient. Ironically, they were already showing who would have been next if the family hadn't been forced to finally face their problems. Can you guess who would have been next if Mirabel had chosen to leave? "Pepa! There's a cloud!" "Pepa! Control your emotions you're ruining this perfect day!" Yes, Pepa would have been next on the chopping block being blamed for everything that goes wrong.
I believe the other term that most normal people would think of is the scapegoat because that’s what both Bruno and Mirabelle would be made into an after them Pepa
Yep. That's who I am in my family. I cook, clean, and chauffeur my 90 year old mother (1 heart attack, 2 strokes), but my mother treats me like a lazy bones who has no part in all of this.
@@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 Sounds like you should just stop taking care of her. I get why you still do since it's your mother, but maybe she needs a good scare.
This would explain my biggest issue with the house and the miracle: that Mirabel had a door at all. If she was not going to receive a gift, why did a door manifest for her in the first place? Whoever or whatever is controlling the miracle's execution was unnecessarily cruel in leading her on as a _child_ like that.
Probably because before she touches the door the miracle hasn’t given her the gift. I actually think the symbolism isn’t that she doesn’t deserve a door but that her domain is the entire house, instead of just a single room like everyone else gets.
I *LOVE* that you reference the "Not Special Special"... I have noted for a while that Mirabel's perceptions & expectations impact others, as do Abuela's.
While I do agree that Mirabel always had her powers, I disagree on the specifics. I think she been the next keeper of the miracle the whole time. The big difference is she is stronger than her abuela but her powers limited because of her emotional state. I think her door disappeared because her door was always the front door, and it had been opened for her and by her a long time ago. Casita actually listens to both Mirabel and Alma. I just think it listen more to Alma because Mirabel still sees her as the absolute authority figure of the house hold. This is why at the end when Casita crumbles it pushes Alma out while trying to help Mirabel get to the candle. This is because Mirabel at this point has finally lost all confidence in her abuela and she exerts her full control over the miracle and Casita. It would still mean she has a fairly dark gift, being she has the power to supersede her abuela and take everyone's power and it is all based on her emotional state of mind. To explain the cracks during Antonio's door celebration. It was responding to her emotions. The cracks stated when she got left put of the family picture. They healed because when she told the family about it, they believed her and made her feel included again.
Well the family was also cracking. Under Pressure shows that big sister can't ever be "soft" because that would get her out of abuela's cast role for her, eldest sister has been groomed to be clone of grandma and married to something that reminds grandma of grandpa despite that'd cause a rift between her and her cousin who is the better match. Add that the true matriarch heir was getting pushed out emotionally and to a degree physically yes casita finally broke
The idea of _Surface Pressure_ really happening makes me think of Luisa panting at the end of it. That _could_ be from singing, but it could _also_ be from going through all the activity in that sequence.
They should do a series of Bruno giving the people their predictions. And how they 'misinterpreted' them. For example the lady who's fish died. I want to know what she really was asking him at the time she got that prediction.
I think Mirabel feared Antonio getting his gift because it points out her flaws, but I think she also WANTS Antonio to get his gift because she loves her cousin and doesn't want him to go through her pain. Certainly still evidence for this theory but I think it's two-fold.
Ever since I first heard "Waiting on a Miracle" upon my initial viewing of Encanto, the song always felt personal for me. The feeling of being stuck in a rut, of wanting and hoping for more, but fearing that it will never happen.
people who say, “its mid” clearly have not been the black sheep of your family or being left out and desperately wishing for things you cant have simply because of everyones perception of you despite having done nothing wrong
My theory at the beginning of "Waiting on a Miracle" was that Mirabel actually had superspeed all along. Everything freezes or slows down, including the trails of light and the hummingbirds wings because Mirabel was moving so fast that it seemed slow/stopped in comparison to her. Her door didn't disappear, but moves around so fast that only Mirabel can see it, but doesn't know to look for it. (Note: Not a theory I subscribe to, but one that immediately popped in my head at that scene.)
Counter to this theory: we see the door dissolve slowly from the top. If her room manifested but started moving around that quickly, you would expect it to disappear in a flash as well. Unless the individual pieces of the door started moving around and somehow reassembled, I don't think this would work very well
My whole thing is when they rebuilt the house did they build her her own room. That pretty messed up if they make her live in the nursery after they built her this whole house. And even for the future what if Mirabel wants kids or a family she would still have to sleep in a child’s bedroom. I’m just a little disappointed that they didn’t show us anything in the movie that could clarify if she got her own room.
the magic house makes rooms bigger on the inside. the dimensions didn't change in the new casita and i seriously doubt each room lost the dimensions they had before it's destruction. mirabel's door may be the front door but why would casita keep her room the same size?
Mirabelle did kind of get a gift though in the end, she has the gift to bring the family together, her power is the same As her grandmother's power, she is the embodiment of the candle.
What I want to know, how did they even start the tradition of a particular age is when you receive a gift? And did every one of them touch the candle before touching their door? If it was the touching of the candle and Mirabel was the only one to do so, then perhaps she really was meant to be the next keeper. Abuela didn't realize this fact at that time; after all, she doesn't have an ability either. But still, going back to the age thing, like were Bruno, Pepa, and Julieta just running around the house one day and spotted three different doors they hadn't seen before and then opened them? Is that how they received their gifts? And we see the kids and community now accepting, but would the three originals feel like freaks because of it? I'd like to see an explanation for the triplets and how it all actually started.
I think this is a good theory but I also believe even though she may have been stressed she would have hoped or even already have thought of what her powers could be to help the town. The fact that she goes through so much and understands the weight of the family I believe is a setup for her to be the next keeper of Casita. It reminds me of with great power comes great responsibility and that there might be some suffering before you reach the pinnacle of what is in store for you.
You need to rewatch Wandavision. Wanda is 100% rewriting reality within the “hex”. They even have the line, “it’s not an illusion, she is literally rewriting reality”.
The difference though, between that situation and the proposed one here is that, while Wanda is reshaping reality for *her*, she's simply imposing it on everybody else - and her power only exists within the hex. So Wanda, while she is definitely reshaping reality, is creating a *false* reality that people can break free from if they leave the hex. And, while she's controlling the actions of their bodies, she isn't controlling their minds; the people are all significantly traumatized by the experience of being forced to essentially be dolls for Wanda to play out her idealized version of things. With this theory, however, the power would be to literally reshape reality for everyone involved - not just Mirabel. So, like they say in the theory, everyone just accepts the crazy things happening because to them, it's now reality, just the way things are, as opposed to in WandaVision where everybody in that town knows that things are very, very wrong - even if they can't express that knowledge physically.
With the recent announcements of Disney sequels, I think Encanto should get one. We still don't know what caused the miracle in the first place and there's a lot of story potential there.
I bet the sequel is Mirabel's grandkid not getting a power. And being prepped their whole life to recieve the gift. Refusing the gift. Adventure time. Accepts gift. extra credit scene: La Casita has moved to a new city
@@almas4663 We know it was caused by the sacrifice, but we don't know much more. Millions of people have sacrificed themselves throughout history, why didn't they all get inter-generational superpowers?
The 'new keeper of the miracle' part makes a whole bunch of sense as well, if Pedro *is* the miracle. He gave Mirabel a gift that only winds up hurting her, and taking it away is a kindness, really. Instead, she becomes the new 'shepherd' of the family, which is really cool imo
Another thing this would help explain is the "We Don't Talk About Bruno" song sequence, and the part where Mirabel is trying to reach Bruno's room. * In the song, Mirabel is not only going through the bits with the rest of her family, but is also rapidly teleporting around Casita & the village before she makes it back to her room. * At the end of the journey up his tower she ends up swinging from literal nothing to traverse the chasm. This is because stuff was cut for time, but that doesn't change what the film shows - her throwing up the safety barrier up over some random outcropping (that can't be seen in any other shot) that is unable to actually give her the angle she needs to make the jump - but she makes it anyway.
Wait wait wait wait. So you're saying that Mirabel's gift is trauma?!?!?!?! Bc what you described so far in what I have watched is literally just a trauma response and PTSD
this sounds a lot like the power held by the character Haruhi Suzumiya, the high school girl that was so bored that she was warping reality itself to be more interesting without ever noticing it.
So ur telling me she’s basically Doctor Strange?? Also, the song where everything slows down and she sings about having a gift, my friend was watching it for the first time, and he was like “She’s literally SLOWING DOWN TIME and is still like ‘I don’t have a power!!’” 😂😂😂
Yeah I was like the whole town knows there is a Madrigal that can manifest plants, so why would they question it when plants appear in town? Like if jagged rocks, or metal spikes showed up out of nowhere they would be shocked, but spiky plants? No that's just one of Bruno's visions coming to fruition.
Honestly, this thought entered my mind when I watched the film. And you honestly explained the plot holes I thought of such as why Mirabel’s door disappeared or why no one would question reality altering.
But does she ever get a bedroom of her own?!?!? The poor girls been living in the nursery this WHOLE time!! Like... we see houses getting built so why can't mirabel have a bedroom??
This makes sense to me bc I always figured Mirabel had the same gift as Alba at the end, I just wasn't exactly sure what it was. If they both have the ability to shape reality, it makes sense Casita started breaking under the weight of thier opposing realities. If Alba created the Encanto (thier reality) when Pedro died and created the gifts in her children that way, maybe it was Mirabel's belief in Antonio that gave him his. Alba didn't know he lived animals. Mirabel did.
How would Mirabel not be aware of herself slowing time when she sings. Like how can you freeze people and then sing a whole song and not notice that while you were singing no one else moved? No one can slow time, there's no way she can just reason this away as magic.
You can adjust to pretty much anything. If she does this all the time but never effects anything, she'd just think she had some kind of mental thing. Whatever ADHD would be known as for her.
So I was right all along: Mirabel's real power is being able to turn her life into a Disney musical. Still doesn't explain All of You, though. Maybe everyone else has just gotten so used to spontaneous musical numbers that they've become second nature even without the magic.
That theory does make sense a little bit because if she really does have reality bending powers that will probably explain Bruno’s vision of Mirabel. It will also explain why he can’t figure out her vision because time is also reality and once the time is done you cannot get that time back.
I think it makes more sense just to say that for the purpose of the narrative, the state of Casita is used to reflect Mirabel's own mental state. A kind of pathetic fallacy almost Not necessarily that she's directly the cause of it, in-universe
The message of the movie is that the house dieing represents that the family is falling apart because of the heavy weight of abuela's expectations, that falls apart if mirabel was controlling reality, because it ends up actually being mirabel breaking things because she's hurt which then shows that the family isn't being crushed by the weight, mirabel is just in a bad mood.
The Twilight Zone spin that no one was expecting. [element of surprise!] Looked up the episode and it'd called It's A Good Life but instead of Anthony being and undisciplined juvenile, Mirabel is an overly mature juvenile.
Fan theory: Pedro was a wizard and when he died he sacrificed himself which evoked the ancient magic keeping his family and village safe. And the children with gifts are some cross between squib and wizard since they have limited magic
What if everyone’s powers fading WAS the result of Mirabel’s anxieties shaping reality? Abuela was worried about it, which made Mirabel - always so anxious about winning her approval - worry about it.
What about, say, that + Hermione in Ravenclaw (in OotP, she tells another DA member that in "The Sorting Hat," the hat almost chose that) + Ron in Hufflepuff + (DH, when he takes out Nagini) Neville the only one actually in Gryffindor?
My theory is that mirabel did not get a gift because the miracle was already failing. Abuela was always worried and pushing and mirabel was the breaking point. The vision from Bruno had nothing to do with mirabel. It was from the perspective of abuela. Her treatment of mirabel would push the family to destruction or healing. The only reason Antonio got a gift was because of the relationships formed by mirabel. This was basically a bandaid on the damaged family until the breaking point bruno saw came to fruition. Mirabels vision had nothing to due with avuela because she needed to challenge her beliefs by connecting with her sister. This allowed her to accept the apology of abuela. These events allow the family to heal.
"What else can I do-oo? Bring it in, bring it in. Good talk! Bring it in, bring it in. I grow rows and rows of roses. Flor de mayo by the mile." You're right it is REALLY hard to not sing that song!
But if her power was banding reality and not putting a filter on reality as you said wouldn't that mean that when she changes the reality to the one where she does not receive a gift it becomes the true reality and, therefore, she now has no gift? I love your videos!!
I like to think that Mirabel's power is to become the next Abuela. The next keeper of the Miracle. She loves and cares about her family and doesn't just value them for thier gifts but who they really are. She heals their real hurts and pains that Abuela was creating from her expectations.
does this mean that mirabell can amplify everyones power? think about it, in "what else can i do" Isabella can make different types of flowers and bigger flowers than she could do in the past, all because of Mirabells power, so could she for example amplify her mums power to make it so that water she serves cures people? or make Louisa even tronger that she can move bigger and heavier things?
I thought that mirabel's gift was to feel other people's emotions which caused the song sequences and cracks. The reason she didn't receive a door was because Casita was worried she would be treated like Bruno was. Because of her power to feel what others truly feel she was also gifted control over the miracle
Hey J and Ben, will you ever been doing theories on or talk about Shadow and Bone/the grishaverse? Have either or both of you read the books or watched the show?
@@blakechow8294 Yeah there’s gotta be some theories that could be made. About the history of the different countries? Theories of the origin of the grisha? Proof about the different Saints being grisha? About the extents of grisha powers or how distant the powers of the different orders really are(Zoya in Rule of Wolves). Would be awesome to see some of their what if scenarios like they’ve done for HP as well (eg what if this person was a grisha, what if this person died, etc)
No. Abuela also has no outwardly manifesting gift. Mirabel's gift is to keep the family together and the miracle alive just like Abuela has done since Pedro's death. If Mirabel had the ability to alter reality and give herself a gift then she would have done so while singing Waiting on a Miracle. The lyrics include that she is ready, steadfast, and steady.
5:16 That's the 2nd video I've watched where this pun was made and now I hate myself (Well, the first video was a 1-year-old video about puns so it kinda of make sense but still)
Everybody keeps saying Mirabel doesn’t have a power at all, but she obviously DOES have a power, even way before the ending of the movie. I say being the next candle holder after whenever Alma finally kicks the bucket is meant to be Mirabel’s SECOND power. I mean come on, you can obviously SEE her FIRST power during the songs. Every time her family breaks into song around her, look at Mirabel’s reaction during the songs. She can actually SEE and EXPERIENCE what’s happening in the songs. It’s obvious just from how scared and freaked out she looks whenever something happens during the songs. Take the Bruno song, during the wedding day part of the song, Mirabel could SEE what happened all those years ago even though she wasn’t even born yet when it happened, yet she was seeing exactly what happened like she had been there. She even nearly got blown away by Pepa’s ‘hurricane winds’ during the song. Or everything else that happened during the song. Like how did she get from being upstairs in the nursery with Pepa and Felix to suddenly dancing with Dolores in the courtyard, to somehow being some kind of dark scary dungeon inside of Casita with Camilo, with a pit hole opening up under her that takes her to a tunnel where Pepa’s side of the family is still singing in it as they point her to the exit where everyone in the village joins in the song for some reason. Even in the end somehow her dad got roped into the song as he’s dancing and singing with the others as they set up the table for dinner. Or the Surface Pressure song, Mirabel once again looked scared and freaked out as she experiences everything that Louisa is singing about. During the song that showed exactly what happened all those years ago with the grandparents, Mirabel was clearly WATCHING everything that was happening around her as it happens, as she finally got to see for herself exactly what happened to grandpa Pedro, once again as if she had been there that fateful day decades before her actual birth happens.
What if Harry had a friend in Privet Drive, since as we know in the main story timeline, Harry's slaving away in the Dursley household day and night, not to mention fear of retaliation from Dudley's gang, ensured that the young Potter never had any friends at all in Surrey, Privet Drive, or even anywhere in the Muggle world for that matter? What if he met a cute Muggle girl who came to accept and like him for who he was as a person, not as the Dursleys constantly, continually treated and viewed him as?
If that is the case, could the argument be made that the Madrigal family are demigods. Isabel produces fertility, Mirabel can shape reality, her mother is the healer, Bruno is the prophet, Luisa is the warrior, and Antonio & Pepe can control the natural state of the world (animals and weather respectively). They are like a family of Gods, similar to the Greek gods. My theory is that The Miracle is the same as the godship given to Hercules at the end of the film due as a result of his selfless sacrifice to save Megara’s soul, where Pedro is the one who sacrificed himself, and therefore his family gets The Miracle from the Gods. The only difference between Pedro and Hercules’ sacrifices is that Pedro is fundamentally mortal, thus cannot be resurrected from death. Which is why the Miracle was gifted to the family instead of resurrecting Pedro
MIRABEL LITTLE AND NOW IS CHEERY AND FUN LOVING. LUISA IS SHARING WHATS IN HER BRAIN. ISABELLA’S PLANTS FROM THE SONG ARE REAL, THEY DISAPPEARED BECAUSE HER GIFT DISAPPEARED. NO THE POND IS POWERED BY EMOTIONS.
i'm super jealous that you were able to go to wwwy festival. was it similar to warped tour or something completely different? which bands were you most excited to see? are you gonna go again this year? and as someone who still labels myself as emo (i'm almost 27), i can confirm that it's definitely not a phase
Have you done a theory about how the powers protect the village? The healer, the one that can predict probably attacks, the one that can help the crops grow for the village, the one who can hear the soldiers coming, the one who could grow the plants for food, help heal, and defense, the one who can play spy, the one that can move rocks to stop the soldiers and the one that can talk to the animals.... And Mirabelle, the next leader of the village's defense system....
That is the first clip I saw about Encanto from your channel. I don't know you talk about the theory I have or not. I think the reason that door disappeared for Mirabel is " all other kids after touching the candle touched the doorknob, so the magic goes through the door. But Mirabel after touching the candle touched herself, so her magic goes back to her. So the door disappeared. Her magic symbol like her grandmother was butterfly. I think love of family and protecting family was their magic. And Mirabel is a truly family lover and tries to protect them eventhough she is different from them because of being no magic. " Watch it carefully Mirabel touched herself after touching the candle, but other kids touched the doorknobs.
What if Cornelius Fudge had believed Harry regarding the return of Lord Voldemort? How would the course of the Wizarding World be affected? Would Umbridge never be sent to Hogwarts? How effective would the Ministry of Magic's efforts at combatting Death Eaters be? How would this affect Voldemort's own plans? Would the Weasley Twins, Fred and George, even leave Hogwarts in their fifth year without the presence of Umbridge?
I have a crazy theory that The Miracle intentionally did not gave mirabel a gift because the Miracle see's that she is capable of keeping The Miracle for the next and new generations... Yeah...
I think the sequel will revolve around the aftermath of Abeula's death and family power dynamics causing more miracle dissolving chaos and finally revealing Mirabelle's actual gift.
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What do you think? Did Mirabel have a power the whole time??
Idk I haven't watched the full vid yet
Her power was being the main character.
So, you want to turn encanto into chaos head. Or, child depending on context.
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I always kind of figured that Mirabel not receiving a gift was actually when she became the new keeper of the miracle because I don't think anyone other than Abuela and Mirabel could make casita do anything for them. When she had casita "flex their muscles" so to speak when saying floors, doors, drawers, she just didn't realize she was actually the one to make casita do that. Because she became the new keeper of the candle, her emotions affect the candle and the magic, which is why her anger towards abuela and the magic caused it to make casita crumble and the magic to stop.
Casita also turned the floor into a treadmill for Luisa. Granted we don't see Luisa ask it to do that, but that's complicated enough I feel it would need to be an instruction not just Casita trying to help.
@@13vatra You make a good point. However I disagree because you could see Casita doing things of that nature automatically for the whole family and doing different things for each person.
I did a "Christian" review on this very topic that explains what Mirabel's power most likely is. Give it gander if you want: th-cam.com/video/EG06ZFACKeg/w-d-xo.html
I use to agree but there is a flaw for that see Abuela has a door but no actual powers Mirabel has no powers but doesn't get a door that to me makes this theory much more plausible
@@13vatra good point. However we only ever see Abuela and Mirabel give casita instructions and casita automatically does it.
According to therapists, both Bruno and Mirabel are what they refer to as the identified patient. A family is having problems and they decide this one person is the entire problem. Bad for the person picked but great for everyone else as it frees them from all responsibility for their own actions. Bruno was first to be blamed, but then he left. We need a new scapegoat so...MIRABEL! She has no gift so it's perfect. Let's blame her and Mirabel becomes the next identified patient.
Ironically, they were already showing who would have been next if the family hadn't been forced to finally face their problems. Can you guess who would have been next if Mirabel had chosen to leave?
"Pepa! There's a cloud!" "Pepa! Control your emotions you're ruining this perfect day!" Yes, Pepa would have been next on the chopping block being blamed for everything that goes wrong.
interesting (Edit: I said interesting 😭 why 22 likes?)
I believe the other term that most normal people would think of is the scapegoat because that’s what both Bruno and Mirabelle would be made into an after them Pepa
Yep. That's who I am in my family. I cook, clean, and chauffeur my 90 year old mother (1 heart attack, 2 strokes), but my mother treats me like a lazy bones who has no part in all of this.
@@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 in case you need someone to tell you this, you’re worth it :))
@@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 Sounds like you should just stop taking care of her. I get why you still do since it's your mother, but maybe she needs a good scare.
This would explain my biggest issue with the house and the miracle: that Mirabel had a door at all. If she was not going to receive a gift, why did a door manifest for her in the first place? Whoever or whatever is controlling the miracle's execution was unnecessarily cruel in leading her on as a _child_ like that.
BUT Mirabel did something others did not... she touched the candle and then WIPED her hands on her dress! THEN she touched the doorknob!
@@laurfincher8137 Do we see every single ceremony?
That sh*t was traumatizing as a VIEWER. I can't imagine how awful it was for her... A 5 YEAR OLD
Probably because before she touches the door the miracle hasn’t given her the gift. I actually think the symbolism isn’t that she doesn’t deserve a door but that her domain is the entire house, instead of just a single room like everyone else gets.
@@cathygrandstaff1957 Interesting theory.
I *LOVE* that you reference the "Not Special Special"... I have noted for a while that Mirabel's perceptions & expectations impact others, as do Abuela's.
It's also hilarious 😆😆 poor Mirabel
While I do agree that Mirabel always had her powers, I disagree on the specifics. I think she been the next keeper of the miracle the whole time. The big difference is she is stronger than her abuela but her powers limited because of her emotional state. I think her door disappeared because her door was always the front door, and it had been opened for her and by her a long time ago. Casita actually listens to both Mirabel and Alma. I just think it listen more to Alma because Mirabel still sees her as the absolute authority figure of the house hold. This is why at the end when Casita crumbles it pushes Alma out while trying to help Mirabel get to the candle. This is because Mirabel at this point has finally lost all confidence in her abuela and she exerts her full control over the miracle and Casita. It would still mean she has a fairly dark gift, being she has the power to supersede her abuela and take everyone's power and it is all based on her emotional state of mind.
To explain the cracks during Antonio's door celebration. It was responding to her emotions. The cracks stated when she got left put of the family picture. They healed because when she told the family about it, they believed her and made her feel included again.
Well the family was also cracking. Under Pressure shows that big sister can't ever be "soft" because that would get her out of abuela's cast role for her, eldest sister has been groomed to be clone of grandma and married to something that reminds grandma of grandpa despite that'd cause a rift between her and her cousin who is the better match. Add that the true matriarch heir was getting pushed out emotionally and to a degree physically yes casita finally broke
So why didn't they start again when they stopped believing her? Maybe she'd just sorted out her thoughts enough by that point?
tbh she isnt the holder of the candle. she is it
The idea of _Surface Pressure_ really happening makes me think of Luisa panting at the end of it. That _could_ be from singing, but it could _also_ be from going through all the activity in that sequence.
I always figured her power was to have everyone break out in song, but this works too.
They should do a series of Bruno giving the people their predictions. And how they 'misinterpreted' them. For example the lady who's fish died. I want to know what she really was asking him at the time she got that prediction.
I think Mirabel feared Antonio getting his gift because it points out her flaws, but I think she also WANTS Antonio to get his gift because she loves her cousin and doesn't want him to go through her pain. Certainly still evidence for this theory but I think it's two-fold.
she quite literally manifested his powers through both anxiety and hope lol
Ever since I first heard "Waiting on a Miracle" upon my initial viewing of Encanto, the song always felt personal for me. The feeling of being stuck in a rut, of wanting and hoping for more, but fearing that it will never happen.
people who say, “its mid” clearly have not been the black sheep of your family or being left out and desperately wishing for things you cant have simply because of everyones perception of you despite having done nothing wrong
My theory at the beginning of "Waiting on a Miracle" was that Mirabel actually had superspeed all along. Everything freezes or slows down, including the trails of light and the hummingbirds wings because Mirabel was moving so fast that it seemed slow/stopped in comparison to her. Her door didn't disappear, but moves around so fast that only Mirabel can see it, but doesn't know to look for it.
(Note: Not a theory I subscribe to, but one that immediately popped in my head at that scene.)
Counter to this theory: we see the door dissolve slowly from the top. If her room manifested but started moving around that quickly, you would expect it to disappear in a flash as well. Unless the individual pieces of the door started moving around and somehow reassembled, I don't think this would work very well
Also, a humming bird reacts to her in a sequence so ye
😄interesting theory. I kind want to believe it.
It’s wild to think that this little girl is trapped inside her worst nightmare for ten years
My whole thing is when they rebuilt the house did they build her her own room. That pretty messed up if they make her live in the nursery after they built her this whole house. And even for the future what if Mirabel wants kids or a family she would still have to sleep in a child’s bedroom. I’m just a little disappointed that they didn’t show us anything in the movie that could clarify if she got her own room.
Same!!!
the magic house makes rooms bigger on the inside. the dimensions didn't change in the new casita and i seriously doubt each room lost the dimensions they had before it's destruction. mirabel's door may be the front door but why would casita keep her room the same size?
@@azanderpg1357the TOWN literally re-built the house by hand…
Mirabelle did kind of get a gift though in the end, she has the gift to bring the family together, her power is the same As her grandmother's power, she is the embodiment of the candle.
What I want to know, how did they even start the tradition of a particular age is when you receive a gift? And did every one of them touch the candle before touching their door? If it was the touching of the candle and Mirabel was the only one to do so, then perhaps she really was meant to be the next keeper. Abuela didn't realize this fact at that time; after all, she doesn't have an ability either. But still, going back to the age thing, like were Bruno, Pepa, and Julieta just running around the house one day and spotted three different doors they hadn't seen before and then opened them? Is that how they received their gifts? And we see the kids and community now accepting, but would the three originals feel like freaks because of it? I'd like to see an explanation for the triplets and how it all actually started.
this would be a good sequel/prequel.
I think Bruno foreseen it to happen
I’d assume the kids got theirs at a certain age and their rooms probably popped up. By the time Luisa was born they knew what was up
I think this is a good theory but I also believe even though she may have been stressed she would have hoped or even already have thought of what her powers could be to help the town. The fact that she goes through so much and understands the weight of the family I believe is a setup for her to be the next keeper of Casita. It reminds me of with great power comes great responsibility and that there might be some suffering before you reach the pinnacle of what is in store for you.
They made a theory about that too, it’s pretty good
Negativity Bias would overwhelm the hope, more than likely.
You need to rewatch Wandavision. Wanda is 100% rewriting reality within the “hex”. They even have the line, “it’s not an illusion, she is literally rewriting reality”.
Yeah she’s forcing the reality she’s writing on to the people in the town(not really intentionally/maliciously but she is)
The difference though, between that situation and the proposed one here is that, while Wanda is reshaping reality for *her*, she's simply imposing it on everybody else - and her power only exists within the hex. So Wanda, while she is definitely reshaping reality, is creating a *false* reality that people can break free from if they leave the hex. And, while she's controlling the actions of their bodies, she isn't controlling their minds; the people are all significantly traumatized by the experience of being forced to essentially be dolls for Wanda to play out her idealized version of things. With this theory, however, the power would be to literally reshape reality for everyone involved - not just Mirabel. So, like they say in the theory, everyone just accepts the crazy things happening because to them, it's now reality, just the way things are, as opposed to in WandaVision where everybody in that town knows that things are very, very wrong - even if they can't express that knowledge physically.
@@chaosandwildflowers782 tldr: you can escape wanda's hex but you can't escape Mirabel's reality
With the recent announcements of Disney sequels, I think Encanto should get one. We still don't know what caused the miracle in the first place and there's a lot of story potential there.
We actually know. Mirable's granfather's sacrifice did
I’d prefer an anthology series. The story itself is told, but I’d love to see tidbits of what the family does afterwards.
I bet the sequel is Mirabel's grandkid not getting a power. And being prepped their whole life to recieve the gift. Refusing the gift. Adventure time. Accepts gift. extra credit scene: La Casita has moved to a new city
@@almas4663 We know it was caused by the sacrifice, but we don't know much more. Millions of people have sacrificed themselves throughout history, why didn't they all get inter-generational superpowers?
@@tannerman46 You don't ask such questions in a fictional story.
what is scarier is,
even when she alters reality on those songs,
no one even thinks that something is wrong.
The 'new keeper of the miracle' part makes a whole bunch of sense as well, if Pedro *is* the miracle. He gave Mirabel a gift that only winds up hurting her, and taking it away is a kindness, really. Instead, she becomes the new 'shepherd' of the family, which is really cool imo
That actually makes sense, given the fact that Bruno's visions about Mirabel were open to interpretation.
Another thing this would help explain is the "We Don't Talk About Bruno" song sequence, and the part where Mirabel is trying to reach Bruno's room.
* In the song, Mirabel is not only going through the bits with the rest of her family, but is also rapidly teleporting around Casita & the village before she makes it back to her room.
* At the end of the journey up his tower she ends up swinging from literal nothing to traverse the chasm. This is because stuff was cut for time, but that doesn't change what the film shows - her throwing up the safety barrier up over some random outcropping (that can't be seen in any other shot) that is unable to actually give her the angle she needs to make the jump - but she makes it anyway.
Wait wait wait wait. So you're saying that Mirabel's gift is trauma?!?!?!?! Bc what you described so far in what I have watched is literally just a trauma response and PTSD
😨 youre right 💀💀
this sounds a lot like the power held by the character Haruhi Suzumiya, the high school girl that was so bored that she was warping reality itself to be more interesting without ever noticing it.
So ur telling me she’s basically Doctor Strange??
Also, the song where everything slows down and she sings about having a gift, my friend was watching it for the first time, and he was like “She’s literally SLOWING DOWN TIME and is still like ‘I don’t have a power!!’” 😂😂😂
Isabella's song sequence are all things that can actually be happening
Yeah I was like the whole town knows there is a Madrigal that can manifest plants, so why would they question it when plants appear in town? Like if jagged rocks, or metal spikes showed up out of nowhere they would be shocked, but spiky plants? No that's just one of Bruno's visions coming to fruition.
@@pantsonparade Yeah that was normal.
Honestly, this thought entered my mind when I watched the film. And you honestly explained the plot holes I thought of such as why Mirabel’s door disappeared or why no one would question reality altering.
Bringing back the old logo I see👏🏼just waiting for “THESE SOCKS ARE AMAZING!” now lol
But does she ever get a bedroom of her own?!?!? The poor girls been living in the nursery this WHOLE time!! Like... we see houses getting built so why can't mirabel have a bedroom??
This makes sense to me bc I always figured Mirabel had the same gift as Alba at the end, I just wasn't exactly sure what it was. If they both have the ability to shape reality, it makes sense Casita started breaking under the weight of thier opposing realities. If Alba created the Encanto (thier reality) when Pedro died and created the gifts in her children that way, maybe it was Mirabel's belief in Antonio that gave him his. Alba didn't know he lived animals. Mirabel did.
How would Mirabel not be aware of herself slowing time when she sings. Like how can you freeze people and then sing a whole song and not notice that while you were singing no one else moved? No one can slow time, there's no way she can just reason this away as magic.
Maybe she is dialga would make lots of sense
You can adjust to pretty much anything. If she does this all the time but never effects anything, she'd just think she had some kind of mental thing. Whatever ADHD would be known as for her.
So I was right all along: Mirabel's real power is being able to turn her life into a Disney musical. Still doesn't explain All of You, though. Maybe everyone else has just gotten so used to spontaneous musical numbers that they've become second nature even without the magic.
If Mirabel's gift warps reality, wouldn't she lose that power when she instantly manifests a reality where she doesn't get a gift.
That theory does make sense a little bit because if she really does have reality bending powers that will probably explain Bruno’s vision of Mirabel. It will also explain why he can’t figure out her vision because time is also reality and once the time is done you cannot get that time back.
Surface Pressure is 100% the best song.
Well, if Mirabel's door actually was a regular entrance, then what was behind it? What was Mirabel's magic room?
those socks were amazing
I think it makes more sense just to say that for the purpose of the narrative, the state of Casita is used to reflect Mirabel's own mental state. A kind of pathetic fallacy almost
Not necessarily that she's directly the cause of it, in-universe
The message of the movie is that the house dieing represents that the family is falling apart because of the heavy weight of abuela's expectations, that falls apart if mirabel was controlling reality, because it ends up actually being mirabel breaking things because she's hurt which then shows that the family isn't being crushed by the weight, mirabel is just in a bad mood.
The Twilight Zone spin that no one was expecting. [element of surprise!] Looked up the episode and it'd called It's A Good Life but instead of Anthony being and undisciplined juvenile, Mirabel is an overly mature juvenile.
Mirabel is the encanto version of a squib.
Fan theory: Pedro was a wizard and when he died he sacrificed himself which evoked the ancient magic keeping his family and village safe. And the children with gifts are some cross between squib and wizard since they have limited magic
Mirabel the reality bender? (informs the SCP!)
What if everyone’s powers fading WAS the result of Mirabel’s anxieties shaping reality? Abuela was worried about it, which made Mirabel - always so anxious about winning her approval - worry about it.
Well, this theory proves it... Disney needs Lin Miranda to write an Encanto sequel series. 🏤🕯👍
Guys, Harry as Slytherin was the best thing ever, plz more like that
What about, say, that + Hermione in Ravenclaw (in OotP, she tells another DA member that in "The Sorting Hat," the hat almost chose that) + Ron in Hufflepuff + (DH, when he takes out Nagini) Neville the only one actually in Gryffindor?
My theory is that mirabel did not get a gift because the miracle was already failing. Abuela was always worried and pushing and mirabel was the breaking point. The vision from Bruno had nothing to do with mirabel. It was from the perspective of abuela. Her treatment of mirabel would push the family to destruction or healing. The only reason Antonio got a gift was because of the relationships formed by mirabel. This was basically a bandaid on the damaged family until the breaking point bruno saw came to fruition. Mirabels vision had nothing to due with avuela because she needed to challenge her beliefs by connecting with her sister. This allowed her to accept the apology of abuela. These events allow the family to heal.
"What else can I do-oo?
Bring it in, bring it in. Good talk! Bring it in, bring it in.
I grow rows and rows of roses. Flor de mayo by the mile."
You're right it is REALLY hard to not sing that song!
Me and my daughter watched Encanto this morning and it looks like we will have to watch it tomorrow too with this video in mind ❤️
But if her power was banding reality and not putting a filter on reality as you said wouldn't that mean that when she changes the reality to the one where she does not receive a gift it becomes the true reality and, therefore, she now has no gift?
I love your videos!!
You can't run past tents. You can only ran.
I like to think that Mirabel's power is to become the next Abuela. The next keeper of the Miracle. She loves and cares about her family and doesn't just value them for thier gifts but who they really are. She heals their real hurts and pains that Abuela was creating from her expectations.
does this mean that mirabell can amplify everyones power? think about it, in "what else can i do" Isabella can make different types of flowers and bigger flowers than she could do in the past, all because of Mirabells power, so could she for example amplify her mums power to make it so that water she serves cures people? or make Louisa even tronger that she can move bigger and heavier things?
Day 58 of asking the SuperCarlinBrothers to please bring back Google Auto Fill videos!!!
I dont think this is working, bud
YES PLEASE-
@@ArtistTics its really not lol
I literally liked this video the moment Ben made the camping is in tents pun. Thank you for this.
Surface Pressure was indeed an amazing song, but all the songs in Encanto were bangers!
Gotta say that those shoes Ben was wearing from the "When We Were Young" concert are awesome. They would fit right in with Casita.
That's a cool theory and I totally agree about Mirabel's door being the front door.
I thought that mirabel's gift was to feel other people's emotions which caused the song sequences and cracks. The reason she didn't receive a door was because Casita was worried she would be treated like Bruno was. Because of her power to feel what others truly feel she was also gifted control over the miracle
I absolutely love the song surface pressure, it speaks the most to me
I love Encanto! I wish Lego would release more Encanto minifigures & sets!
Ben for Kvothe! J for Elodin!🧙🏻♂️🗡️
I'm still going with Mirabels gift was to reunite the family after the family fell apart primarily due to Mirabel not having a gift.
This is one of the best interpretations I’ve ever heard!!
Hey J and Ben, will you ever been doing theories on or talk about Shadow and Bone/the grishaverse? Have either or both of you read the books or watched the show?
I would be so excited to see that!I wonder what theories would be derived from the books!
@@blakechow8294 Yeah there’s gotta be some theories that could be made. About the history of the different countries? Theories of the origin of the grisha? Proof about the different Saints being grisha? About the extents of grisha powers or how distant the powers of the different orders really are(Zoya in Rule of Wolves).
Would be awesome to see some of their what if scenarios like they’ve done for HP as well (eg what if this person was a grisha, what if this person died, etc)
I still wonder how tf she freezes time which I'm assuming didn't happen but then she noticed the cracks and was somehow still outside
The idea of this power reminds me of the movie Sphere and is an existential nightmare.
By that theory I want to see a Death Battle of Wanda vs Mirabel.
neglected mom wanting kids 🤝 neglected child wanting someone to love her unconditionally
I’m kinda surprised you guys haven’t talked about A Strange World yet
No. Abuela also has no outwardly manifesting gift. Mirabel's gift is to keep the family together and the miracle alive just like Abuela has done since Pedro's death. If Mirabel had the ability to alter reality and give herself a gift then she would have done so while singing Waiting on a Miracle. The lyrics include that she is ready, steadfast, and steady.
I always enjoy these theory’s from you guys. No matter on what subject
I AM SOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!
Well now I’m intrigued!!
Enjoy!
This is genius!! I don't think is was written this way intentionally, but it fits nicely :D
5:16 That's the 2nd video I've watched where this pun was made and now I hate myself (Well, the first video was a 1-year-old video about puns so it kinda of make sense but still)
Reminds me of how the og green lantern thought he was weak to wood… so he willed himself into being weak to wood
I Loved Encanto, it reminded me so much of my Family...(minus the Magical powers...lol)
I know for a fact that I have had this theory before, it's awesome that somebody else thought the same as me!
Everybody keeps saying Mirabel doesn’t have a power at all, but she obviously DOES have a power, even way before the ending of the movie. I say being the next candle holder after whenever Alma finally kicks the bucket is meant to be Mirabel’s SECOND power.
I mean come on, you can obviously SEE her FIRST power during the songs. Every time her family breaks into song around her, look at Mirabel’s reaction during the songs. She can actually SEE and EXPERIENCE what’s happening in the songs. It’s obvious just from how scared and freaked out she looks whenever something happens during the songs.
Take the Bruno song, during the wedding day part of the song, Mirabel could SEE what happened all those years ago even though she wasn’t even born yet when it happened, yet she was seeing exactly what happened like she had been there. She even nearly got blown away by Pepa’s ‘hurricane winds’ during the song.
Or everything else that happened during the song. Like how did she get from being upstairs in the nursery with Pepa and Felix to suddenly dancing with Dolores in the courtyard, to somehow being some kind of dark scary dungeon inside of Casita with Camilo, with a pit hole opening up under her that takes her to a tunnel where Pepa’s side of the family is still singing in it as they point her to the exit where everyone in the village joins in the song for some reason. Even in the end somehow her dad got roped into the song as he’s dancing and singing with the others as they set up the table for dinner.
Or the Surface Pressure song, Mirabel once again looked scared and freaked out as she experiences everything that Louisa is singing about.
During the song that showed exactly what happened all those years ago with the grandparents, Mirabel was clearly WATCHING everything that was happening around her as it happens, as she finally got to see for herself exactly what happened to grandpa Pedro, once again as if she had been there that fateful day decades before her actual birth happens.
You're not the only one using hellofresh some of my familiar close ones even use the similar hello fresh as you do 12:06
What if Harry had a friend in Privet Drive, since as we know in the main story timeline, Harry's slaving away in the Dursley household day and night, not to mention fear of retaliation from Dudley's gang, ensured that the young Potter never had any friends at all in Surrey, Privet Drive, or even anywhere in the Muggle world for that matter? What if he met a cute Muggle girl who came to accept and like him for who he was as a person, not as the Dursleys constantly, continually treated and viewed him as?
reverse lily and snape ⁉️⁉️
why is this on an encanto video?
If that is the case, could the argument be made that the Madrigal family are demigods. Isabel produces fertility, Mirabel can shape reality, her mother is the healer, Bruno is the prophet, Luisa is the warrior, and Antonio & Pepe can control the natural state of the world (animals and weather respectively). They are like a family of Gods, similar to the Greek gods. My theory is that The Miracle is the same as the godship given to Hercules at the end of the film due as a result of his selfless sacrifice to save Megara’s soul, where Pedro is the one who sacrificed himself, and therefore his family gets The Miracle from the Gods. The only difference between Pedro and Hercules’ sacrifices is that Pedro is fundamentally mortal, thus cannot be resurrected from death. Which is why the Miracle was gifted to the family instead of resurrecting Pedro
Your theories are the best!
the title says film theory
my brain: MATPAT SCB COLLAB
@clickonmyprofile450 you aren't them bruh
MIRABEL LITTLE AND NOW IS CHEERY AND FUN LOVING. LUISA IS SHARING WHATS IN HER BRAIN. ISABELLA’S PLANTS FROM THE SONG ARE REAL, THEY DISAPPEARED BECAUSE HER GIFT DISAPPEARED. NO THE POND IS POWERED BY EMOTIONS.
We definitely need an Encanto 2, where Mirabel is old and is the new Abuela, and there is a newer generation of children.
i'm super jealous that you were able to go to wwwy festival. was it similar to warped tour or something completely different? which bands were you most excited to see? are you gonna go again this year? and as someone who still labels myself as emo (i'm almost 27), i can confirm that it's definitely not a phase
Have you done a theory about how the powers protect the village? The healer, the one that can predict probably attacks, the one that can help the crops grow for the village, the one who can hear the soldiers coming, the one who could grow the plants for food, help heal, and defense, the one who can play spy, the one that can move rocks to stop the soldiers and the one that can talk to the animals.... And Mirabelle, the next leader of the village's defense system....
That's funny, I got a Spotify ad on this video. What a coincidence!
That is the first clip I saw about Encanto from your channel. I don't know you talk about the theory I have or not. I think the reason that door disappeared for Mirabel is " all other kids after touching the candle touched the doorknob, so the magic goes through the door. But Mirabel after touching the candle touched herself, so her magic goes back to her. So the door disappeared. Her magic symbol like her grandmother was butterfly. I think love of family and protecting family was their magic. And Mirabel is a truly family lover and tries to protect them eventhough she is different from them because of being no magic. " Watch it carefully Mirabel touched herself after touching the candle, but other kids touched the doorknobs.
Can I just say, I’m so jealous of him rn. I wanted to go to that festival sooooooooo bad
Counter argument; what if it’s less that Mirabel has reality-warping-powers, and more that she is the physical embodiment of the miracle
The house cracked because Mirabel was cracking. Ahe didn't know she was the next to guard the candle, the "Encanto".
What if Cornelius Fudge had believed Harry regarding the return of Lord Voldemort? How would the course of the Wizarding World be affected? Would Umbridge never be sent to Hogwarts? How effective would the Ministry of Magic's efforts at combatting Death Eaters be? How would this affect Voldemort's own plans? Would the Weasley Twins, Fred and George, even leave Hogwarts in their fifth year without the presence of Umbridge?
another harry potter comment? am i gonna have to rewatch this vid for an hp reference?
I have a crazy theory that The Miracle intentionally did not gave mirabel a gift because the Miracle see's that she is capable of keeping The Miracle for the next and new generations... Yeah...
I haven’t watched the video yet but my prediction:
Mirabel is an obscurus
We also went to the When We We’re Young festival! It was incredible!
Yay more Encanto!!! ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
I think the sequel will revolve around the aftermath of Abeula's death and family power dynamics causing more miracle dissolving chaos and finally revealing Mirabelle's actual gift.