A lot of people probably think you're exaggerating when you say you've seen the movie 50+ times with your kid, but as a parent I want to assure y'all that it's not an exaggeration. When a kid gets hooked they may watch a movie 2-5 times a day. Two weeks in and you've had it in the background 59+ times.

That’s fair but it’s revealed in the art book that Augustine is from outside the encanto so chances are there’s a trickle of people coming in

I love the fact that we're still getting theories about this movie because Matt is being forced to watch it against his will at the command of a toddler.

This theory assumes the original 25 couples were not related, but why wouldn't you escape with your sisters, brothers, cousins and their partners

"We haven't stopped" is the struggle of a parent, good luck with the rest of the movie binge watching Mat

Kinda impressive how MatPat was able to take a movie like Encanto and managed to conclude that everyone was simply a result of methodically planned out inbreeding.

The main problem with the theory is that it’s been confirmed that people have come in from outside the village. Also, there were plenty of people living there even initially that inbreeding wouldn’t happen in just 50 years, which really isn’t that long when it comes to this topic.

1:40 Casita fixed itself. Casita's "health" is determined by the general mental/emotional state of Abuela/Mirabel, so, I don't really know exactly what counts as "bad enough mental health for Casita to be cracking" vs "good enough mental health for Casita to be cracking," but I think maybe just the fact that Mirabel was, at that point, distracted by the cracks rather than focusing on her internal depression (or whatever you want to call it) may have been sufficient for the cracks to go away. But hey, that's just a theory. A film theory!

The only problem with this theory is that there’s 2 characters in the movie who speak about coming from out of town

Regarding the road and the bridge, my interpretation is that Luisa is re-arranging the town for the wedding. That's why she's moving the church to a more central location, that's why she's diverting the river and moving the bridge because she diverted the river and now it flows on a new path, thus needed her to move the existing bridge to a new location.

The 50 rule is on an already isolated community. It's shown in the movie that the village is very genetically diverse with a wide range of skin and hair types, and body shapes. The village they originated from was probably one that had excellent trade and population movement

50 years is not enough time for inbreeding to become a problem especially when a whole village is concerned unless they specifically tried to “keep it in the family” which i surely doubt is the case.

I love how mat pat is one of the nicest people ever and he starts with topics like inbreeding and cannibalism

On a random note, I'm now just mentally hearing MatPat singing "We Don't Talk About Bruno" while walking around the house planning his theories for Encanto. That just lives rent free in my head now, especially cuz MatPat's voice is *amazing.*

9:36 He's also wearing glasses, which is a trait that she cannot change. It seems more like she can undo trauma done to a body, rather than "heal every ailment a body is currently experiencing"

The way this theory gets destroyed easily when you remembered that AUGUSTINE WAS AN OUTSIDER and used to live in a city

One thing I heard is that Encanto’s plot, at least one of the early drafts, was originally going to be a “journey” set plot were the main cast would leave Encanto and into the modern world. With a show confirmed to be in the making, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if that original plot would be the basis for it, and if it is, it would be a solution to this issue.

Mirable: * is getting scolded for lying * Hernando: * just finished his spackle speed run * * panicking silently*

Jared Bush: Let’s make the characters in a isolated town so we don’t get strange questions MatPat: Are the Madrigals Inbreeding ??? Jared Bush: Oh shi-

It was confirmed on Twitter that all of their extended families live in Casita, they just didn't want to animate their entire family, so they just stuck to the main ones

The cracks were real but heal when the family bands together. When Mirabel warned the family of the cracks and they all came running in support, it fixed. We see it do exactly that, in real time, when Isabel embraces Mirabel in front of a crack in Cassita.

Mirabel, her sisters and cousins are the first generation of their family to be born within the Encanto. Presumably, there have only been one or two generations for other families in the village. Another comment mentioned how one of her family members (who married into the family) came from outside the village. But it couldn't hurt to have some more generic diversity lol

It was confirmed Julieta's gift can even heal mirbel's vision but she chooses not to seeing how its something she doesn't need to "cure so that maybe mean she can heal genetic diseases too. by jared bush

Dude im from Colombia and we had to read 100 years of solity (sorry if i fail spelling in english) twice in highschool, they made us really understand metaphors and transfond of the story, for me this movie is trying to show the cute aspects of the book, but the book is mostly about inbreeding and charging with your familys sins, it gets really wierd after rewatching the movie a lot and reading the book couple of times. Hope Mirabel dont have a pig tail tbh

Now just to make people uncomfortable, I want to do this: “Your kids are beautiful!” “Thanks! They’re outbred.”

Bridge in middle of road explanation theory: they had a boat too tall to go under the bridge, so Luisa picked up the bridge, puts it on the road off to the side (in a way that people can still walk over it so as to not cause a roadblock) then after the bridge passes and mirabel walks up into it, Luisa puts it back

Video idea: Are the animals in Antonio's room alive? this has been bothering me since I ever watched this movie because some of the animals come from the outside but others like his jaguar don't and we don't see them when the magic is dead

2:21 Where did those flowers come from? Did they just spawn in rootless, did they come from behind? DID THEY GROW OUT OF HER FREAKING CRANIUM?!?

I feel like when casita cracks the FIRST time…. It’s a premonition. She has no “powers” however I feel like she definitely had a whole connection to casita no one else had. Casita granted her the vision of the casita damaged, Not to mention her glasses are green and Bruno’s color theme is green and his color is associated with the visions he has. But that’s just a theory lmao

I love how much Matpat goes and puts lots of his time in just one video.

I randomly love the idea that your kid will once look these videos up and sees his childhood destroyed by its own dad. :D

I'm sorry, what? It's specifically stated in the movie people are trickling in. They even obviously have different genetic traits. The tweet you posted in 3:10 only states they family lives there, and THEY haven't left, not that no one has come in. Even if no one is coming in, a population of 50 is all that's needed to prevent inbreeding, and 500 will prevent genetic drift.

This same logic should be applied to Moana. I was just rewatching it when I noticed how small and completely isolated her island is. And if you consider that her ancestors stopped traveling to different lands around the same time that Maui stole the heart, it's been about 1,000 years of the same people staying place.

Film theory idea: The tv show “A Series of Unfortunate Events”. It is tremendously packed with lore, and although it isn’t insanely popular like some of the shows you make theories on, it is so stuffed with lore.

I love how most of these theories aren't canon but with his way of explaining it he makes it sound like it was canon

Technically they are only 1 generation at-least for the Madrigals, seeing your counting Alma and the Triplets who were born before the Encanto was created, and the Grandkids are the first generation born in the Encanto area, as for the rest of the village thats its own thing... There were some adults but also some children aswell in the group when travelling.

What gets me is how the kids at the beginning didn't know Mirabel's "lack of gift". I'm fairly certain people in the village talk, or at least tell their kids the stories....I know, I know it's for us, the audience, to learn but come on.

I think the cracks in the beginning were because the rest of the family didn't include Mirabel in the photo. The family was divided, but when she mentioned it, they paid attention to her, so the house repaired itself.

i have an Enconto theory, what if Mirabell and Alma got a gift but we had just ignored it. In the movie after Antonio had gotten his gift Mirabell had STOPED TIME(or at least slowed it down) and at the end of the movie Alma had TELEPORTED Mirabell INTO A FLASH BACK. And everyone had skipped over those details probably thinking "oh ok, well thats normal"

Finally another encanto theory …. Oh ….. well I wasn’t expecting that.

About the first cracks: they reflect a broken home due to the members being treated as magical tools more than actual family. The moment following it Alma listened to her granddaughter and was willing to solve the problem she saw - that moment of trust made the cracks shallower enough to not be visible anymore for the moment Also it is revealed that there ARE people that come from out of town. Like, you do realize roads are still a thing in this timeline, right? Or you could just...hike the mountains. Which yes, is a lot of walking. But not impossible. Or Luisa could move them, which she says she can do in Surface Pressure. Heck, the kids didn't even know who the family was at first, which hints that they and their family aren't originally from there. I mean look at how diverse that place is

"No diving in today my friends, this gene pool is shallow" The writing on this dude, truly phenomenal, great job Mat!

They've only been in the Encanto long enough for *one* new generations to be born. Two if you figure there might be some teen pregnancy and pregnant women fleeing with them when their home village was raided. There's an entire village of at least 100 different families and the writers said that people do come in to the Encanto from the outside. Mirabel's dad comes from outside the Encanto. Plus the walls came down at the end of the movie and did not repair just because the magic returned. They have options. Inbreeding doesn't seem like one of them.

On the cracks appearing the first time: there’s a theory that Mirabel is somehow intricately linked to the magic, hence why she never got a door till the end of the movie. To support this, think about what took place shortly before the cracks appeared the first time: Mirabel feeling hopeless, shown by the line “am I too late for a miracle?” At the end of her song. This theme of Mirabel losing hope being tied to the cracks is shown again when Abuella starts verbally attacking Mirabel later and even during the initial dinner scene too, as Mirabel seems to be struggling to hold on to having hope but once Abuella, who always assumes Mirabel is useless or in the way due to her not having a gift, sees the prophecy, her mind automatically went to feeling dejected and hopeless.

Abuela: sings a whole verse in The Family Madrigal Also Abuela: *Mirabel! What are you doing?* Regarding the bridge, Luisa was later told after it was revealed that Mariano wanted five babies from Isabela to re-route the river. But it looks like she was already in the process of doing that during the song, since she's arranging everything else in the town for a wedding. Or, she just put that bridge there on purpose from its original spot on the river just to continue on the song as Mirabel made her way to the Casita

I love ur videos dude. U always get me at the end 😅💯thsnks bro lol

MatPat's mind is just an interesting place to be...

Some people: wow what a great kids movie that talks about some family problems but in the end everything becomes great! MatPat while watching Encanto with his 3 year old family member: *hold my apple juice*

Hey MatPat! The first cracks scene is real, but because Mirabell is likely the connecting agent between Casita and the Miracle, when Mirabell sees the first cracks, nd informs her family, she feels inportant and apart of her family, thus removing the cracks. Idk, found this theory somewhere, and edited it to my liking. Have fun with it!

Love ur vids man

love your channel!

I was never under the impression that no one could get in or out. The way Bruno said it came across as an excuse and the statement that their families are all in the village could have just meant that Augustine and Felix moved to the Encanto with their families. Though as I say that it occurs to me that if the mountains weren't a one way thing it wouldn't serve as much in the way of protection. And thus my headcannon is secret/magical exit/entrance.

I do want to mention that even tho there are 25 *predicted* couples, there's still a solid possibility of people getting with *other* members of the village via divorce, polyamory, cheating, you name it.

Congrats for almost 11mill subs

I absolutely LOVE how he researches things for the sake of a movie theory lol And it's awesome

I love it when Matpat turns innocuous looking cute animated movies into horror films

One big flaw in this theory: despite starting with so few people they started with large amounts of diversity. Naturally, there would of been a mix of Native and Spanish genetics, and then there was also African genetic citizens as well. This makes it so there are large amounts of dominant genes to start that would combat any defective recessive. This also might be the reason for the ununiform studies for what a stable gene pool would need to be to start. Start with a bunch of similar people the you'll need to start with more, but if you have a heavily diverse pop you can start with less. And the Encanto starts with a fairly diverse population. So, you might need to get Austin back on the program to get more variables in there to included the amount of diversity that 3 genetic regions could have. Also, this would actually be a break through in considering a unifying formula to genetic diversity of small populations. So, definitely a worth while goal if nothing else. And maybe a revisit to other movies with small and/or devastated populations like Raya, Dragon's, and even Brave (considering the lack of diversity of those small populations)... Oh god, Hiccup is inbred...

Dude went as far as making a simulation! That's dedication!

i'm literally just sipping coffee and binge watching your vids (just so know it is 2am

The whole point of Luisa is that they keep using her and her powers for trivial things. She is willing to help but is taken advantage of. Rather than build the bridge high enough to let traffic under it, they probably make her move it off and put it back everytime a boat needs to pass under it.

another example of inbreeding in isolated communities is Martha’s vineyard. the original settlers were from a small village in england that kept inbreeding. this resulted in a recessive gene for deafness being extremely common to the point where around the 1800s 1/155 people on the vineyard were deaf and in isolated pockets as many as 25%. it’s actually an interesting case study for the social model of disability because deaf people on the island weren’t considered disabled because everyone knew sign language.

Film Theory idea: Which Madrigal gift help the family most?

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It was stated pretty clearly in the movie that there ARE outsiders coming in and settling in the Encanto. Julietta married a man from the city. There was even going to be a love interest for Isabella that comes from outside the Encanto. Sorry y'all, unlike the last one you definitely missed with this.

I remember somewhere people talking about how the two husbands were actually from outside the wall, so its not a matter of no one coming in. It's just very very hard to get in. But I would love to see how everyone learns about tech beyond the mountains now. lol

Y’all awesome have a blessed day bro

0:25 very proud of myself for lifting donkey

This makes "we dont talk about bruno" a whole lot weirder... Edit: I am talking about the wedding scene, and the 5 babies scene outside of the song LOL

I’ve been forced to listen to the entire soundtrack of this movie so many times that I hear “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” in my nightmares 😅

Im on 3:46 and as soon as i looked at the cover and heard inbreeding things poeced together

Considering that Austin has split from the Theory family to do his own thing, I still hope that you'll be able to negotiate friendly collaborations sometime in the future. Honestly, Austin is who brought me into the Theory-verse, and I miss hearing his voice.

This reminds me, I've been re-thinking your "Dolores being evil" thing from a while ago and I think there's 1 thing that throws a wrench in it. Dolores' little squeaks. In a supercut video of her doing those cute little squeaks someone in the comment section said that that is something some Colombian people do when at a state of unease. Knowing that, think about each time Dolores squeaked. 1st time was telling those kids that Mirabel doesn't have a gift which is a touchy subject, 2nd time is her telling Mirabel about Luisas' twitchy eye which involves the magic fading out, an even more touchy subject. Times 3 and 4 both happen when she over hears that Mirabel found Brunos' lost vision, what it's about and her and Agustin saying to keep it on the down low. On the one hand she can't say anything about Bruno because of her mom Pepa holding a salty grudge on the guy for causing her wedding to become a mess. On the other hand Dolores is Almas' little stool pigeon and has to tell her everything of major importance. Then there's the long drawn out squeal she dose during the dinner with her being all "I must say something" and Mirabel staring at her all "Don't you bloody dare". Basically Dolores might've been under the heel of keeping up appearances like everyone else.

They have not been there long enough and there was enough people fleeing the village that I think that it hasn’t happened.

I loved this info

My favorite theory for Encanto is that Mirabel did get a gift, it was to form the world around her. At first when she got her gift she was worried she didn’t get one so she thought about it so it happened. Like how in the part where Casita cracks, she was afraid of that happening so it did. When everyone came out of the ceremony in Antonio’s room she was afraid that no one would believe her thought it might of been her imagination so no one believed her.

9:40 Something else to consider is how Julieta can heal Agustin & Mirabel's injuries, but they still need glasses

This actually works really well with my analysis that the breaking point for the house WAS the marriage, because Isa didn't love Mariano and Casita would not stand for the next generation of Madrigals to be raised in a loveless marriage. It had to be arranged carefully to hold off inbreeding, but it wouldn't be an emotionally healthy environment for children; so Casita just hit reboot on the whole thing to prevent generational disaster.

1:18 she picked up the road

7:09 who is stalking this poor soul

1:33 My headcanon is that when Mirabel saw the cracks Bruno started patching up the wall cracks and this gesture is what allows casita to magically fix the remaining cracks. Casita was relieved that Bruno was helping the family so that temporarily strengthened the magic.

Film Theory: Mirabell actually did get a gift, time manipulation, and we see it used many times throughout the film.

One of the best best

I read One Hundred Years of Solitude last year because I heard about it through this video. It has become one of my favorite books, and I strongly recommend it.

It's actually said by one of the creators that Julieta can cure everything, even her husband and daughter's eyesight, but she gives them a choice.

The cracks were real they were an extension of meribel feeling like she wasn’t a part of the family for the first time and her “power” as the “patron” effected the house when she tells everyone what has happened she forgets those feeling and the damage is restored. Patron in the concept of warlocks as she is the next replacement for the candle so too is she tied to the magic of the house.

I just love that you give a meme at the end of every disney video🤣😂

He makes a Lot of good points!!

It takes 3 generations to minimize genetic defects. Granted it’s always best to outsource genes, but still. They seem to have sufficient people so as long as they are careful it should be fine. Not to mention, natural mutations generally occur. While mutations occur in very small changes every generation, it’s still there.

hey I love your videos can you do a theory about a new movie coming up on July 15th called Zombies 3

This has nothing to do with this theory but I’ve been thinking about my own theory: My theory was that maybe Mirabel just wasn’t a Madrigal at all biologically… it’s been said that Augustin was from out of town and Abuela didn’t immediately like him and it took a while for her to finally accept him, then in the movie Mirabel says in the opening song “My dad married Julieta” which it might just be to make the song sound better OR it’s because Julieta isn’t her biological mom, since she’s the youngest he couldn’t have had her before he met Julieta but maybe he had an affair, she forgave him but they kept it from the rest of the family, Abuela had a hard time accepting him already so they knew if they told the family, there’s no way Augustin and maybe even Mirabel could live with them anymore so they lied about it and kept Mirabel. One thing I found weird was why Julieta treated Mirabel almost better than her other children, I can up with this: Julieta feels bad for Mirabel because she knows why she doesn’t have powers but she kept it a secret from her, her whole life and let her feel “not special” The only other thing I don’t really have an explanation for is how Mirabel knew Julieta wasn’t her biological mom? My best guess for that is maybe it was to make the doing sound better but she didn’t know it was actually true, kinda like a subconscious thing? Idk, that one’s more difficult to come up with an explanation for

I read 100 years for school, and I never put together the similarities to Encanto. Mind blown. (very weird book, had to keep a google doc of all the characters cause there’s so many and they all have the same name basically)

You forget to mention the Amish in America when talking about close relations. There have been studies done on them and the odd genetic quirks and diseases that afflict them. I also remember reading about a family in the Appalachian mountains that was so inbred that their skin developed an odd blue pigmentation.

I have been thinking about this forever

Hey could you do an episode about the Essex Serpent when the last episode drops?

Welcome back Matpat. I was highly looking forward to more of my favourite things being ruined

1:13 she doesnt pick the bridge, that just a random piece of stones., the question is.... was she lying on the floor, with that stones on top of her, waiting for mirabel?

Nice video

1:47 No it was Brno

I just love how his son just tortures Mat to watch animated movies for a million times.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who wondered how each generation panned out for these Colombians- I mean, they literally surrounded a small group of people in a wall!