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* [[Butt Monkey]]: Harry Wormwood, once Matilda works out how to get even with him without being found out.
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: The Trunchbull deliberately uses such outlandishly cruel punishments because any parent [[Refuge in Audacity|would assume a child was making them up.]]
* [[Child
* [[Child Prodigy]]: Matilda.
* [[Cute Bookworm]]: Matilda loves reading more than anything else.
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* [[Honest John's Dealership]]: Mr. Wormwood's secondhand car business. Matilda's dad is the stereotypical sleazy car salesman, even putting sand in the oil so that the engine will burn out and they have to come back and buy a new car. The book contains a scene in which Mr. Wormwood teaches Michael the tricks to making a lemon look better.
* [[Hot Teacher]]: Miss Honey.
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: Matilda undergoes this.
* [[Jerkass]]:
** Agatha Trunchbull.
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* [[Sticky Situation]]: Mr Wormwood + hat + superglue
* [[Surpassed the Teacher]]: It is clear from very early on in the book that Matilda has intellectual capabilities that are certainly beyond that of her teacher, Ms. Honey.
* [[Tiny Guy, Huge Girl]]: Mrs. Wormwood is tall and podgy, while Mr. Wormwood is shorter and wiry.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Mr. Wormwood's approach to selling cars. He intentionally rigs the cars to break down after a few miles thinking that his costumers will return to the dealership that sold them the crappy cars in the first place to throw their money away on one crappy car after another. It never occurs to him that his dealership might get a negative reputation and eventually receive no business at all because everyone knows that he cars are little more than spray-painted junk.
* [[Traumatic Superpower Awakening]]: Matilda's telekinesis first appears when she grows uncontrollably angry over being (loudly and violently) accused of something she did not do.
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