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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Pam Ferris plays an overweight, sadistic woman who acts incredibly cruel to an orphaned related-by-marriage child relative ( {{spoiler|her step-sister's daughter, Jenny Honey}}) and seems to believe that it's [[In the Blood]] when it comes to how rotten children are. Also, she is perfectly happy simply assuming how nasty children are without gaining any proof. And, really, compare these lines;
{{quote|'''Trunchbull''': The apple never rots far from the tree!
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** Ironic considering that she is ''quite'' a [[Jerkass|bitch]] herself in both roles.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: None of the teachers at Crunchem Hall challenge The Trunchbull because they are absolutely terrified of her. It is eventually discovered that Miss Honey's fears of her are particularly justified. The parents, however, don't have much of an excuse. Not a single student manages to convince their parents that The Chokey exists. It's sort of justified by Matilda's theory that the various punishments from The Trunchbull are so over-the-top that the parents simply don't believe it.
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* [[Large Ham]]: The Trunchbull, especially in the film.
* [[Laughably Evil]]: Miss Trunchbull in the film.
* [[Mama Bear]]: This is ultimately why Miss Honey continues to teach under the Trunchbull's thumb; she says that someone needs to protect the children {{spoiler|from her aunt}}. She undoes Amanda's pigtails to keep the Trunchbull from tossing Amanda over the fence again, braves a trip to the principal's office to suggest testing Matilda's intelligence by transferring her to a higher grade, and tells off Mr. Wormwood for how he doesn't seem to care about his daughter's future. All the while saying that she's not a brave person.
* [[Maximum Fun Chamber]]: The Chokey, which turns out to be a non-lethal (as far as we know) iron maiden.
* [[Mind Over Matter]]: Matilda's telekinetic powers.
* [[Mind Screw]]: In the movie, Danny DeVito plays both Matilda's (villainous) father and the ''narrator'', which creates a strange, [[No Fourth Wall|postmodern]] tone.
* [[Only Sane Woman]]: Most of the kids have been beaten down by the Trunchbull's antics. Not Matilda; while Hortensia and Lavender calmly say Trunchbull is going to go for the hammerthrow when Amanda unwittingly talks back to her, Matilda is horrified when the Trunchbull grabs Amanda by her hair and spins her around to toss her over the fence. She later tells her mother, who refuses to listen, "The principal is insane!"
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Matilda.
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: The movie expands the book with filler in most sequences (including Matilda going on a commando raid of the Trunchbull's house), significantly alters the nature and extent of Matilda's powers, gives her an age upgrade, foreshadows the authorities' interest in her parents' crimes, and turns her nice but dumb brother into a sadistic brat. None of this particularly alters the story itself though.
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* [[Race Lift]]: Lavender. In the book she is white; in the movie she is black.
* [[Reality Ensues]]:
** Matilda is horrified when she hears that the Trunchbull tossed a boy out the window for a small misdemeanor. She asked if he was okay. Hortensia lampshades, "From being thrown out the window? Of course he wasn't okay. He lived, if that's what you
** The FBI agents Bob and Bill try to break into the garage, reasoning that a judge would look the other way about them lacking a warrant if they deliver evidence. Matilda busts them; she asks if they have a search warrant. She cites that per American law, breaking into a private residence without a warrant can lead to any law officer losing their job or going to prison. Bob and Bill exchange a mild [[Oh Crap]] look before switching tactics to intimidate her by saying her dad is the one going to jail.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: This is how the Trunchbull gets away with such shocking cruelty to the students. Any parent who heard their kid tell them the principal threw them out of a window or locked them in a closed chamber with broken glass and nails jutting out of the walls for several hours would naturally assume their kid was lying.
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