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* [[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 in a closed chamber with broken glass and nails jutting out of the walls for several hours would naturally assume their kid was lying.
* [[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, the Wormwoods, after giving up Matilda to be adopted by Ms. Honey, make their getaway to Guam. In another movie produced by Danny DeVito and staring him and his wife, Rhea Pearlman, ''[[The Ratings Game]]'', it has the wayward ship (with the Nielsen Ratings families on board) traveling to Guam. It also shows the Wormwoods' stupidity since Guam is a U.S. Territory. Needless to say, even if they made it to Guam, the Law still catches up to them.
* [[Sleep Mask]]: Mrs. Wormwood wears one.
* [[Smug Snake]]: The Trunchbull.
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