Encanto is the latest Disney movie to join in on the tradition of sprinkling Easter Eggs throughout. Here's every Disney reference in Encanto.

Warning! This post contains spoilers for Encanto!

Disney’s animated family adventure Encanto tells both an enchanting original story while simultaneously making extensive reference to the studio's long cinematic history in a series of knowing Easter eggs. While the movie certainly doesn't rely on past Disney films, Encanto definitely has an understanding of its heritage. As a result, eagle-eyed viewers can spot sly winks and nods throughout.

In the main Encanto narrative, the magical Madrigals learn to overcome generational trauma through the help of their only powerless daughter. The family, headed by Abuela Alma, all have magical gifts that allow them to help their family and their community in some way. Alma’s daughters Pepa and Julieta each have three children who also have inherited gifts, including the youngest family member, Pepa’s 5-year-old son Antonio. Mirabel, the youngest granddaughter, is the only family member to never receive a special gift from their Casita. Mirabel is also the first person in the family to recognize that something is wrong with the family’s miracle, which grants the entire family their magical gifts. Longing to be useful to her family even without a gift, Mirabel sets out to save the family’s miracle. In doing so, she discovers her long-lost uncle Bruno, and a prophecy that suggests that the fate of the family lies in her hands.

Encanto is the first Disney movie set in Colombia and features a lot of references to Colombian culture and history. Additionally, as the 60th addition to the Disney family, Encanto embraces the Disney canon by sprinkling in a few fun Easter eggs and references that longtime fans might enjoy. Here are all of the references to Disney movies in Encanto.

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Isabela’s Vine Swing and Rapunzel’s Hair Swing

Isabela is Mirabel’s older sister whose power is to spontaneously create beautiful plants. As the oldest sister, she is considered the most beautiful and perfect of the Madrigal family. In the scene where the family is getting ready for Antonio’s gift ceremony, Isabela swings down gracefully on a vine which she sits on like a swing. This moment is likely a reference to Rapunzel from the movie Tangled. Rapunzel, who had long, magical hair, would often swing gracefully on her own hair in a similar manner. The way Isabela swings on her vine is practically identical to Rapunzel when she swings down on her hair to meet Eugene. Mirabel also compares Isabela to a princess, which works because both Rapunzel and Isabela feel trapped in their lives.

Bruno’s “Let It Go” Reference, Complete With Music

In 2013, it was hard to escape the hit song “Let It Go” from the movie Frozen. Popular with little girls everywhere, it helped Frozen become a pop culture phenomenon even outside of the Disney Princess lineup. Pepa, similar to Frozen’s Elsa, has powers that can control the weather. She can make it rain or snow and everything in between, solely based on her mood. In the song “All Of You”, when Bruno returns to the family, he apologizes to Pepa for ruining her wedding by explaining that what she thought was a prophecy of rain was just an observation that she, who controls the weather, looked nervous. Encouraging her to use her power to its full potential, he says “Let it in, let it out, let it rain, let it snow, let it go”. When he says the lyric “let it go,” the opening notes to Elsa’s hit “Let It Go” play in the background. This is a reference to both Pepa and Elsa being able to control the snow.

Hidden Mickeys Including Isabela's Cactus

Hidden Mickeys are little Mickey Mouse-shaped Easter Eggs that are often hidden in the background in Disney movies. They are usually any three, round shapes that come together to form Mickey’s head and ears. Sometimes, they’re really hard to spot, like the one that appears next to Mirabel’s parents during the song “Waiting On A Miracle.” You have to pause the frame at just the right moment to then see a Mickey in the magic that is glistening around the family. Another possible Mickey is the cactus that Isabela creates when she is trying to kick Mirabel out of her room after revealing that she didn’t want to be perfect all the time. The cactus, while misshapen, is made up of a round base with two smaller “ears” coming out of the top of it, forming the familiar Mickey shape.

Luisa’s Dancing Donkey’s and Kristoff’s Singing Reindeer

Luisa, who has the gift of super strength, is the strongest member of the Madrigal family and the strongest person in the entire town. She is also the first person in the family whose power starts to fade when the miracle is in trouble. When Mirabel follows her on her daily duties to ask about the fading miracle, Luisa is carrying several donkeys for the people in the town. It’s then that Luisa sings the song “Surface Pressure” about how difficult it is to carry all of the family burdens. In the sequence, she also does a pop-style dance with the donkeys backing her up. This moment is similar to Kristoff and his singing reindeer in Frozen II’s “Lost In The Woods.” Just like the reindeer in Kristoff’s song, the donkeys move in a humanoid way, defying the fact that they’re just regular donkeys outside of the fantasy.

Alan Tudyk as the Voice of Antonio’s Toucan Friend

When Antonio gets his gift, the first animal he talks to is a toucan that lands on his arm. The toucan also ventures into Bruno’s tower with Mirabel when she goes to find the last vision. That toucan is voiced by none other than Alan Tudyk, who has become a frequent voice for all kinds of Disney characters and creatures. He voiced the Duke of Weselton from Frozen, as well as Duke Weasleton from Zootopia, who was a parody of the previous character. He has also voiced various creatures such as Moana’s chicken friend Hei Hei and Tuk Tuk from Raya and the Last Dragon. Encanto is Tudyk's 10th Disney film. The next film he will be working on with Disney is Peter Pan & Wendy, which is set to release in 2022.

Luisa Fights Cerberus Like Hercules During 'Surface Pressure'

Luisa’s super strength is reminiscent of another Disney hero, the titular character from 1997’s Hercules. When Luisa sings the song “Surface Pressure” she compares herself to the Hercules of legend, wondering if he ever wanted to quit. The Hercules shown in the sequence is not the iconic Disney hero, however, like that hero, she faces off against Cerberus, the legendary three-headed dog that guards Hades. She also carries a sword and shield that are very similar to the ones that Hercules often uses.

Bruno Has The Boot Plant From Wall-E

Bruno’s power to see the future makes the family misunderstand him as unlucky or a bearer of bad news only. To protect Mirabel from being ostracized the way he has been, Bruno decides to leave the family when he sees a vision of Mirabel having something to do with the fate of the family’s magic. When Mirabel finds him living in the walls of their Casita ten years later, he has a little room where he’s been living by himself the entire time. In his room, there are things that he’s collected to either entertain himself or make himself more comfortable while keeping out of the family’s way. One of those things is a boot on the shelf behind him that has a small green plant growing out of it, just like the plant from Wall-E. In Wall-E, humans have been living on a ship called the Axiom for 700 years, and cannot return to Earth until an EVE bot finds signs of vegetation on Earth. Wall-E and EVE find the boot, which is growing a small plant, and they must get the plant to the Axiom so that the humans know it's time to come home. Similarly, Mirabel finding Bruno signals that it's time for him to come home.

Camilo Seems to Greet a Younger Mama Coco

Encanto is the second Disney movie about a Latino family. The first was Coco, a story about a young man from a family who hates music, who travels to the world of the dead to find out who his great-great-grandfather was so that he can receive his blessing to play music. Coco, his great-grandmother, was the daughter of a musician who her mother mistakenly believed abandoned their family. Though Coco is set in Mexico and Encanto is set in Colombia, a nearly 1,200-mile distance, Camilo seems to greet a woman who looks a lot like a younger Mama Coco when the family is welcoming guests for Antonio’s ceremony. This could be a reference to both movies dealing with the generational trauma that is healed by each movie’s young protagonist. Miguel, like Mirabel, helps the family move past the earliest tragedy that left scars on the family’s matriarch.

"The Family Madrigal" opening sequence was inspired by "Belle"

Beauty and the Beast opens with a musical sequence that provides a lot of information in a short amount of time, giving the audience a lot of backstory on the setting and characters in the movie, especially Belle. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the songs for Encanto, took inspiration from the Beauty and the Beast opening for the song “The Family Madrigal.” In the song, Mirabel gives a brief history of her family and introduces all of the powers that her family members have. Through the song, we also quickly learn that Mirabel is the only Madrigal without a gift and that though she pretends not to be bothered by it, she feels left out. This functions exactly like the song “Belle”, which introduces the main character, the main antagonist, and gives the audience at least some idea of what the problem of the film will be.

Mulan Decides to Go to War – Mirabel Decides to Save the Miracle

The moment when Mirabel hears Abuela Alma asking her late husband, Abuelo Pedro, for help saving their miracle, she makes a decision that she must be the one to save the miracle. This moment is almost exactly like the moment when Mulan decides that she needs to go to war in the place of her father. Just like in Mulan’s sequence, Mirabel makes her decision after nightfall and immediately rushes into action. Also like Mulan, who realizes that she has no idea how to be a man or fight in a war, Mirabel realizes that she has no idea how to save a miracle or even where to begin. Both characters also go on to become unlikely heroes by showing the people around them different ways to be strong.

Doors Lining Up Like in Monsters, Inc.

Luisa's song, which is full of references to both Disney and other culturally significant things, has a moment in which a lot of colorful doors line up one after another in front of her. Doors are important in Encanto, as each family member has a special door that glows with markings in reference to their special powers. Doors are also important in the movie Monsters, Inc. The monsters in the movie have a machine that moves doors to each scarer's station. Each door leads to a kid's room and turns into a portal for the monsters to go through when the door is plugged in. Luisa knocks down a line-up of doors, which looks similar to the line-up of doors that are being pulled around on a conveyer in Monsters, Inc.

Hidden Bruno in "We Don't Talk About Bruno"

Before Mirabel actually meets her uncle Bruno again for the first time in ten years, she is warned by her family not to talk about Bruno. Her Tia Pepa, Tio Felix, cousins Camilo and Dolores, and older sister Isabela all sing about the scary predictions that Bruno made that later came true in "We Don't Talk About Bruno." However, during Dolores's part, she hints to Mirabel that she can hear Bruno, revealing that he is still in the house. While she's singing to Mirabel, Bruno can be seen dancing on the balcony behind them. While he's just a small, shadowy figure, it's also a nice piece of foreshadowing that, just as Dolores hints, Bruno has never left the Casita. It also foreshadows the reveal that Bruno isn't a villain and will soon return to the family, highlighting Encanto's theme of healing family rifts to heal generational trauma.

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