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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Matilda's parents verbally berate her and neglect her every need. Later in the film, it's revealed that {{spoiler|Miss Honey was raised by The Trunchbull, who wasn't any less abusive to her than she is with the students}}. In the movie, Matilda's parents have no problem leaving her at home, and they left her in the car when they got home from the hospital after driving extremely recklessly with her unrestrained in the back seat.
* [[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;
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* [[Sadist Teacher]]: The Trunchbull, arguably the queen of this trope.
* [[Shout-Out]]: to other [[Roald Dahl]] works; Matilda accidentally refers to Charles Dickens as [[The BFG|"Dahl's Chickens"]] at first, and later she shares with Miss Honey that [[The Witches|"the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of 550 times a minute".]]
** There's also a direct shout-out to Dahl's family in Miss Honey's beloved "Liccy Doll" (pronounced "lissy"). One of the producers of the film is author Roald Dahl's widow, Liccy Dahl.
** It's ''very'' hard not to see the shot of Trunchbull snorting against the window as a direct reference to the raptor doing the same thing in the then-recent ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' movie.
** In the end of the movie,
* [[Sleep Mask]]: Mrs Wormwood wears one.
* [[Smug Snake]]: The Trunchbull.
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