Chapter 23: Musical Madness
Tropes That Appear In This Chapter:
- A Day in the Limelight: This chapter is all about Dolores' daughter Sofia.
- Anachronism Stew: Diego paraphrases JFK's famous inaugural address during his "meeting" with his clones.Diego: ...Ask not what the Encanto can do for us, but how we can prank the Encanto!
- At the Opera Tonight: Sofia's room manifests as an Opera House.
- Emotion Bomb:
- Sofia sings a melancholy song after reading the Downer Ending in a book. Unfortunately, her gift accidentally pushes these feelings onto the rest of the house, including Casita, causing all of the Madrigals to wake up ugly-crying.
- After Sofia accidentally gets hit a ball the triplets were playing with, she sings a song that causes Diego to go into an all-out brawl with his clones.
- Sofia gives an "incredibly loud G7 high note" when she sees a bee land on her nose. This results in whipping the entire town into a panic.
- Emotional Powers: It's here that we find out that Sofia's magical singing are empathic in nature; when she sings, whatever she is feeling is pushed onto others.
- Generation Xerox: Mirabel compares Sofia's gift to her Abuela Pepa.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Sofia has this reaction whenever her gift unintentionally provokes negative results.
