Coco Rivera

Socorro "Coco" Rivera, also known as Mamá Coco, is the titular overarching protagonist of Pixar's 19th full-length animated feature film Coco. 
She is the daughter of Imelda and Héctor Rivera, as well as the great-grandmother of Miguel Rivera. She is also the mother of Elena Rivera and wife of Julio Rivera. Coco was crucial in preventing her father Héctor from being faded into obscurity within the Land of the Dead because she was the only one among the entire Rivera family who remembers him the most, given how Imelda had literally ripped part of their memory about him out via a family picture, which her daughter still kept even in the present day.
She was voiced by the late Ana Ofelia Murguía.
== Biography ==
Socorro "Coco" Rivera was born in the year of 1918 to Héctor and Imelda Rivera. When Coco was a child, her father, Héctor often sings her favorite song "Remember Me", a lullaby that was made specifically for her. One day, in the mid-1920s, Héctor decided to go on a musical tour with his childhood best friend, Ernesto de la Cruz, leaving Coco and Imelda behind. Unfortunately, Héctor never returned home, which caused a strained relationship with Imelda, declaring that music was forbidden while she tore off Héctor's head off the family portrait. Needing to support her daughter, Imelda turned to shoemaking, teaching Coco who grew up to be an adult how to make them. She later met and married Julio, with Imelda teaching the man how to make shoes and later on, Coco began teaching her daughters in turn. As their family grew and were taught how to make shoes, the Rivera family became a successful shoe-making business, all while carrying the taboo on music, with Coco's daughter, Elena Rivera being the most vocal and passionate member about it. Unknown to the family, Coco still loved music, as well as her father, never forgetting about him. 
After the death of her parents, the elderly Coco was losing her memories and always misguided her great-grandson, Miguel, for her late husband and can't even recognize her daughter, much to Elena's sadness. Because of her health, she's often taken care of by Miguel and Elena. However, Coco often spends time with her great-grandson, listening to what he's been doing and still tries her hardest to remember her father. Unfortunately, her health gets only worse as time goes on, with her slowly forgetting Héctor, with the man being on the verge of the "final death". But Miguel manages to stop this just on time, when he returns with Héctor's guitar and plays the same lullaby that her father played when she was young. After the lullaby between her and Miguel, Coco turns to see Elena crying tears of joy. Finally recognizing her daughter, Coco asks her what is wrong, with Elena reassuring her mama that it is nothing.
Coco then fondly tells Miguel of how Héctor sang the song, "Rememeber Me" when she was young. After hearing from Miguel that Héctor truly loved her, Coco is motivated to reveal her father's identity, showing Miguel and the family the letters and poems he sent to her, along with the torn section of his face from the family portrait, saving her father from the final death, while granting him the rightful recognition that was stolen from Ernesto. Not only that, but it also allowed the family to finally lift the ban of music. 
Following the next year, before the next Dia de Los Muertos, Coco had tragically passed away from old age and as a result, her photo is placed on the ofrenda, along with the rest of the deceased Rivera members. Abuelita is saddened by the death of her mother, but she is comforted by Miguel, as the two smiles at her picture. In her honor, Enrique and Luisa (Miguel's parents) names their newborn daughter, Socorro. She eventually reunited with all of her family in the Land of the Dead, including her father, following them visited to the Land of the Living. After all, Coco standing to her daughter, which they watched Miguel, Rosa, and Abel performed the songs to the family, much to their honor and happiness.
==Trivia==
*Coco was born in 1918 and died in 2018, meaning she passed at 100 years old.
**This indicates that the film itself mainly took place within the same year as it was originally released.
*The reason why Miguel is so close to Mamá Coco is revealed in a book called Coco: A Story of Music, Shoes, and Family. When Miguel was a baby, Coco sang to him, despite music being banned. So in the end, while Ernesto may had inspired his dream, it was ultimately Coco who began the boy's passion for music.
**This further cements Miguel's idolization towards Ernesto as being overall vapid, especially given how much of a fraudster the latter was as a performer himself.
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