Mirabel Madrigal

Mirabel Madrigal is the protagonist of Disney's 2021 animated feature film Encanto. She is the youngest daughter of Julieta and Agustín Madrigal, who has the distinction of being the only Madrigal without a magical gift. 
==Background==
Mirabel is the youngest daughter of the family and she faces many difficulties such as occasionally being left out of her family and being the only child not blessed with a gift. Despite this, she genuinely loves her family. And when the magic is in danger of disappearing, Mirabel might be the last hope for the Madrigal family to restore the magic. She was also blamed for being the reason for the house breaking, because of a vision by her uncle Bruno that had her in it.
===Personality===
Mirabel often shows a free-spirited and optimistic demeanor, despite being the only Madrigal grandchild without a gift, she is still very much sociable and friendly to those around her. Lacking a gift of her own, she would admire her relatives (namely her mother, aunt, cousins, and sisters) and hold them in high regard. She described Isabela as graceful and perfect and Luisa as strong and the brawn of the family. Her lack of gift also does not hinder her from getting along with her relatives (sans. Isabela and Abuela), namely her parents, Julieta and Agustin, her cousin Antonio, her uncle Bruno and her elder sister Luisa. She also is very humble and honest as evident when she admits that she and her father are both accident-prone. On top of this, Mirabel appears confident, as she claims that she does not need a gift to make herself appear from her other family members and that she is just as special as everyone else within her family.
Despite seemingly living life happily without powers of her own, Mirabel is very much insecure by the fact that she could not contribute to her family the same way her relatives do. And the worst part of not having a gift for her is being shunned by her Abuela and not viewed as equal within her own family. As she cannot relate with her gifted relatives, she is lonely and felt disconnected from her family. Ultimately, her greatest wish is nothing more than to be included and be a part of family Madrigal even if she is gift-less.
During the course of the movie, in search to find answers to why the magic is dying, she is shown to be very persistent as a person, as she continually followed Luisa doing her errands and pesters her until Luisa tells the full truth and confesses her problems. The same can be said when she insisted to her Tio Bruno to hold another vision of the future, despite the latter being uncomfortable with the idea of it. The last example is when Mirabel insisted on reconciling with Isabela (albeit begrudgingly, only because it’s in Bruno’s vision), as she is also quick to rush the reconciliation process while Isabela is busy singing about her self-expression and freedom.
Yet, over the course of the movie, Mirabel discovers how much stress each of her family members are in with their expectations on their gifts and themselves which they hid through perfect facades. She was able to sympathize with her uncle Bruno on his loneliness, understanding his feelings on being outsider and decides to help him be welcomed back into their family, as she saw her uncle was a good man who had trouble with his gift. In addition, Mirabel helps her family voice their problems through compassion and helps them understand their gifts don't make them who they are, but rather themselves. This allows Mirabel to relate with her family members in ways she never thought she could do in the first place, thus allowing her to form stronger bonds with them.
While Mirabel greatly respects Abuela as both the founder of the magic and the matriarch of the Madrigal family, she is unhappy with the fact that Abuela avoided contact with her and shunned her for being gift-less. After learning of the source of the miracle dying and trying to tell Abuela how to fix it, Abuela is quick to lash out at Mirabel for ruining the family and causing misery within the household because she didn't get a gift, which greatly hurts Mirabel. Finally fed up with this treatment, Mirabel pointed out how Abuela always burdened the family with expectations, only seeing them as the gifts they possess, and how she sees the worst in Bruno (and to an extent, Mirabel), which ends with Mirabel going as far as to tell Abuela that she is the reason the magic is dying. 
After the downfall of Casita, Mirabel and Abuela have a heart-to-heart conversation, especially the reason why Abuela became the way she is, though she admitted that she lost sight of what is truly important in life which is the family, not the gifts they possessed. This allowed Mirabel to see how broken her grandmother was and forgives Abuela while lifting her spirits by telling her how she was strong she was in leading their community and raising their family despite her struggles. The two then reconciled and mended their relationship, as now Mirabel is not excluded from the family, but is seen as an equal with everyone else in her family and community.
===Physical appearance===
Mirabel is a 15-year-old Colombian girl with a 5'2" height, curly chin-length black hair, thick eyebrows, hazel eyes, and visible dark shade of freckles on her nose and cheeks. She wears light green round-framed glasses, blue earrings, and has a mochila bag that she carries around when going out.
Her attire consists of a white blouse with frills at the neck with black trimming and colorful butterfly stitching on it, along with her name stitched on in the middle of her dress. She wears a long teal skirt with colorful butterfly prints on it with an indigo petticoat and white bloomers, and sandals with pink linking on them and black ribbons around her ankles. Mirabel's skirt has many drawings stitched on it, like butterflies, flowers, a little version of herself, some even representing her relatives, like a candle (for Abuela), a little basket of food (for Julieta), a chameleon (for Camilo), musical notes (for Dolores) and the same for the rest of her family. At night, she wears a white ankle-length nightgown with a green ribbon attached to the top. 
===Powers and abilities===
Mirabel has no magical powers, unlike the rest of her family. However, she does have a stronger affinity with the Casa Madrigal than most of her family; she communicates with the house (or Casita) like it is a real person and Casita responds to her prompts and helps with her daily routine. Mirabel is skilled in sewing, having embroidered her own clothes and made a stuffed jaguar for her cousin, Antonio. She is also quite nimble and quick on her feet, displaying skills similar to parkour to navigate through difficult areas.
==Disney Parks==
For a limited time in December 2021, guests could meet Mirabel at Disney California Adventure. She is a face character. It is unknown if she will be added permanently.
==Gallery==
==Trivia==
*The reason why Mirabel didn’t get a magical gift was intentionally left unexplained in the film because the directors felt it was unnecessary since it was not the point of the film and believed that "she is who she needs to be for a very good reason."
*Mirabel is not only the fourth Disney animated protagonist to wear glasses (after Milo Thatch, Chicken Little, and Lewis Robinson), but the first female protagonist to do so.
**Mirabel's glasses are an important part of her design, with production designer Lorelay Bove stating that "one of the film's main themes is perspective — how different points of view can affect a relationship — and having our main character wear glasses was an intentional choice to reinforce that theme."
**Initially, during the "Vanellope and the Princesses" sequence in Ralph Breaks the Internet, Snow White was to reveal she was actually nearsighted and needed glasses. There was even some merchandise portraying Snow White wearing glasses, but, for some reason, this trait was dropped.
*The name Mirabel means "wonderful".
**The "Mira" in Mirabel's name comes from the Spanish word mirar, which means "to look". This was an intentional choice for thematic relevance.
*Early in production, the character's name was Mariana. Another early name choice for the character was Beatriz, which is coincidentally the surname of Mirabel's voice actress.
**Many Latin American viewers believe that Mirabel's name was meant to be Maribel, as Mirabel is not an actual Spanish name and would be a very uncommon name in Colombia.
*Mirabel is the second human female protagonist from the Disney Animated Canon to debut in 2021, after Raya from Raya and the Last Dragon.
**This marked the first time in history that two human female protagonists from two different Walt Disney Animation Studios films debuted in the same year.
*Her voice actress, Stephanie Beatriz, starred in the 2021 Warner Bros. live-action movie adaptation of In the Heights with Lin-Manuel Miranda where Beatriz played the character of Carla. Conversely, Miranda himself wrote the songs for Encanto with In the Heights (also featuring Miranda's contribution to the film based on the musical) being released the same year as Encanto.
*Mirabel is the first Disney female protagonist to have a number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. She achieved this after "We Don't Talk About Bruno" peaked at number one on said chart.
*Mirabel sweats when she's nervous. At her gift ceremony, she can be seen wiping the sweat off of her hands just before she touches the doorknob. And during the climax of the movie, due to chasing Bruno in the walls of Casita, she sweats. Bruno even says that she's "very sweaty" as he's grabbing her hand to prevent her from falling.
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