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Why Does Pepa In Encanto Have Weather Powers?

2026-04-08 05:47:47

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Juliana

Pepa’s character design clues us in too– the super bright yellow of her dress makes her a representation of sunshine, and her super frazzled up hair shows us that even though she looks happy, things must be crazy for her. It’s such a visual storytelling win. The background reacts to her every time she appears. The wallpaper will start to curl up from the humidity and the doors will start to creak from the wind. It makes her power feel real and like it could happen at any moment. I’d take her crazy thunderstorms over Isabela’s perfect roses any day. They may not be perfect but they are real.

2026-04-09

Oliver

I’ve been thinking a lot about Pepa’s weather powers in ‘Encanto’. They’re an amazing metaphor for emotional turbulence, in much the same way as the rest of the family’s gifts reflect the family members themselves and the roles they play. For Pepa, the tempesty weather is because she’s an anxious person. She wears her heart on her sleeve and, just as she’s affected by other people’s emotions, so too does her weather be affected by her own. For example, she gets thunderstorms when she’s feeling anxious and clear blue skies with rainbows when she’s happy. In one scene from the film her wedding anxiety turns to a hurricane.

What I find also very interesting is how the powers of Pepa contrast with those of Julieta. Julieta has the gift of healing through her food. Most of the time it cures physical problems but sometimes it doesn’t work at all when it comes to emotional ones. So in a way Pepa’s powers must be way harder to deal with than Julieta’s. Watching her trying to make a storm go away by repeating ‘clear skies’ over and over again makes me very sad because it looks like she’s forced to act in order to make others happy.

2026-04-12

Ryder

Pepa’s magical ability to control the weather relates to the lore of Colombia, with its many climates and weather systems, including tropical coast lines and the mountainous storms of the Andes. Magical realism, which is a fundamental part of Encanto, blends fantasy and realism, and therefore a woman whose emotions change according to her mood and affects the weather in negative ways is completely realistic within the context of the film. I imagine the legendary storm gods of old with great power over the natural world, but instead of control of the great seas and landscapes, this mythological figure brings her magical powers to a domestic setting, affecting the crops of a single village, and her ‘terrible’ days causing the worst of floods.

2026-04-13

Amelia

What I get about Pepa is that her powers reveal so much about the family. Her mother, Abuela Alma, is a woman obsessed with perfection. That makes Pepa’s feelings a problem for her. Unlike Luisa’s strength or Isabela’s flowers, Pepa’s weather is uncontainable. It’s wild and unpredictable, just like feelings are. I really love Pepa and Félix’s relationship. He dances in the rain she brings and calls her “mi vida.” He doesn’t try to control her or contain her in any way. Instead, he loves her through her storms. I think that’s really magical.

2026-04-14

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