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* [[Dartboard of Hate]]: Miss Trunchbull is seen to have a dartboard on her office door covered in photos of random students. She's able to throw about a dozen darts at the thing at once and accurately hit all of the pictures.
* [[Dean Bitterman]]: The Trunchbull.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: This is the Trunchbull's M.O. Hortensia tells Matilda that when the lady caught a boy named Julius eating ''two'' M&Ms in class, the Trunchbull forced him to spit them out and threw him out the window. As Hortensia put it, "Of course he wasn't okay." She also tosses Amanda Thripp over the fence for coming to school with pigtails and attempting to explain she can't cut her hair. That's not even going into the Chokey, where you can be locked up on suspicion of doing something.
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: After Matilda telekinetically writes a message that is apparently from her deceased husband, and telekinetically reversed the thrown child to right back at her, Trunchbull is knocked out of the classroom, and looks up to find the entire student body, every single student that she had bullied since getting the job, glaring down at her with their lunchboxes before promptly pelting her with all of their lunch, causing her to leave in fear.
* [[Hair Decorations]]: In the movie, Matilda always wore a hair ribbon that she tied into a bow.
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** Also, Harry Wormwood, whose used-car company sells cars made from stolen parts - at outrageous prices - that only survive for a few miles. Because their engines are filled with ''sawdust''. And then there's how he acts around Matilda.
* [[Gentleman and a Scholar|Lady and a Scholar]]: Matilda is a genuinely sweet-natured kid, and never thinks of herself as superior for her brains. If she's asked anything intellectual, she will respond in a polite fashion. She really only dislikes people who are annoying or rude to her.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Trunchbull treats every student in the school like garbage, picking on them for little misdemeanors. She also literally kicks a cat for getting too close to her.
* [[Large Ham]]: The Trunchbull, especially in the film.
* [[Laughably Evil]]: Miss Trunchbull in the film.
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* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: In the movie, "Send Me On My Way" by Rusted Root. Watch the first few minutes of that film until the song comes up and just try not to smile, fondly remember your childhood, and then dance around crazily.
* [[Race Lift]]: Lavender. In the book she is white; in the movie she is black.
* [[Reality Ensues]]:
* [[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.▼
** 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 meant." The book itself explained that Julius was lucky that the Trunchbull had good aim, as he suffered "only" a few broken bones.
** 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.
* [[Sadist Teacher]]: The Trunchbull, arguably the queen of this trope.
* [[Sleep Mask]]: Mrs. Wormwood wears one.
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* [[Social Services Does Not Exist]]: It's not in evidence, anyway, despite all the child abuse going on.
* [[Spies in a Van]]: Matilda notices a car is always parked on the street outside their house. {{spoiler|The car turns out to belong to cops who are trying to arrest Matilda's father for selling cars with faulty car parts.}}
* [[Sticky Situation]]: Mr. Wormwood + hat + superglue= restaurant scene, much to Matilda's amusement.
* [[Straw Feminist]]: A dash of this after the Trunchbull hears the "Mrs. D, Mrs. I" mnemonic for spelling "difficulty," whereupon she demands "Why are all of these women married?"
* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: How Matilda probably felt, especially towards her family.
* [[Too Dumb To Live]]: A boy named Julius tried to eat candy while the Trunchbull was overseeing his class, when everyone in the school knows how scary she is. She caught him, made him spit out the candy, and threw him out the window. He lived, but he wasn't okay.
* [[Traumatic Superpower Awakening]]: Matilda's telekinesis first displays itself when her father rips up her library books and tries to force her to watch TV with the rest of the family.
* [[The Unfavorite]]: Matilda's parents inexplicably hate her and refuse to believe she is any more intelligent than a lima bean (though, in the movie, Matilda's mother admits that she was mean to her because she never really understood her daughter), but favor her rather dim-witted brother Michael instead.
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