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Abuela worried about the magic. So she begged me to look into the future. See what it meant. And I saw the magic in danger, our house breaking, and then I saw you. But the vision was different. It...it would change and there was no one answer, no clear fate. Like your future was undecided, but I knew how it was gonna look, I knew what everyone would think because I'm Bruno and everyone always assumes the worst. So...
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~ Bruno explained why he left.
Bruno Madrigal is the deuteragonist of Disney's 60th animated feature film, Encanto.
He is the only son of Pedro and Alma Madrigal, the youngest triplet brother of Julieta and Pepa Madrigal, and the uncle of Mirabel Madrigal. An estranged member of the Madrigal Family, he has the ability to witness visions of future events. Due to his predictions' unpredictable nature, he is generally shunned by the rest of his family except his older sister Julieta.
He is voiced by John Leguizamo, who also voiced Sid in the Ice Age franchise, and portrayed Luigi in the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie.
Bruno is a dark-skinned 50-year-old man with unkempt overgrown black hair, a light goatee, and maroon eyes. He wears a hooded green ruana with hourglass patterns on it over a reddish-brown undershirt, trousers, and patterned sandals. When he uses his precognitive powers, his irises glow bright green.
History
Bruno is the youngest of the Madrigal triplets, after his older sisters Julieta and Pepa, born to Pedro and Alma Madrigal. The Madrigals and other villagers were forced to leave their home due to civil war and, after Pedro sacrificed his life to protect them from a group of oncoming conquerors, were granted a miracle of the "Encanto" magic, which also provided them a magical Casita to live in.
As Bruno and his sisters grew up, they were granted "gifts" in the form of magical powers, with Bruno receiving the ability of predicting the future via rituals. However, this gift would prove to be problematic for him, as his visions were perceived to cause bad luck, most notably with Pepa's wedding, where he jokingly told her that it "looked like rain" (due to her nervous sweating), causing to her overthink his statement and accidentally create a hurricane which ravaged the town.
Bruno's sisters would go on to marry and have children, with Julieta giving birth to Mirabel Madrigal. However, during her gift ceremony, Mirabel was denied a magical gift. Fearing this to be an omen for future misfortune, Alma requested Bruno to predict the future, and he received a vision of Mirabel seemingly being the cause of the Encanto's downfall.
Knowing how everyone would react since they always assumes the worst in him, Bruno feared that the family would assume the worst of Mirabel if they found out, so to protect Mirabel, he shatters the vision in his tower and hid away within the Casita's walls, where he would befriend the rats living their and set up residence behind Julieta's kitchen.
Years Later
Ten years later, Alma and a now 15-year-old Mirabel separately discover cracks in the Casita, which Bruno would covertly fix from behind the walls. Striving to prove herself by saving the Encanto, Mirabel ventures into Bruno's tower for answers, where she discovers Bruno's shattered vision of her causing the Casita's destruction. Following a mishap in which the entire family finds out about the vision and shuns her for its implications (despite saying that she isn't doing anything), its pieces were recovered by Bruno's rats. Mirabel follows them into the walls, where she finally meets her uncle for the first time.
As Mirabel learns about Bruno's background and current life, she hatches the idea to create another vision to find out how to save the Encanto. They proceed with the ritual, and the resulting vision apparently depicts Mirabel saving the Encanto by reconciling with her older sister Isabela (who's proposal with her betrothed Mariano was accidentally ruined in the aforementioned mishap). Mirabel comes to an angered Isabela to apologize, only to indirectly allow her to break into her true personality, as the two seemingly fix the Casita.
However, Alma angrily bursts in and scolds Mirabel for how she has been "sabotaging" the family's status with her quest all because she wasn't given a gift. This leads to Mirabel concluding from her experience with Isabela (and her similar experience with her other older sister Luisa) that the Encanto's damage was actually being caused because no one will ever be good enough for Alma (and how she only saw the worst in Bruno). Her ensuing beratement of Alma results in the Encanto being undone, and thereby the Casita crumbling to the ground. Bruno secretly escapes from the destruction, but he and the rest of the family lose their magic gifts.
Later, after Mirabel and Alma reconcile at the river where Pedro died, Bruno barges in to tell the latter that Mirabel wasn't the cause of the Casita's ruination and decides to take the blame, only for her to joyously embrace him, much to his confusion. The two bring him back to the Casita's wreckage, where they allow him to reunite with Julieta and Pepa, and he and the rest of the family go on to manually rebuild the Casita with the townspeople's, which results in the Encanto being restored and them regaining their powers.
Trivia
In the film's early stages, Bruno was originally named Oscar Madrigal, but was renamed by its composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, to fit the "Bruno-no-no-no-no" part of his song "We Don't Talk About Bruno".
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