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Her fate in the film differed greatly from the book; the Trunchbull was traumatized by the message on the blackboard and briefly fainted. When she awakened, she lost her sanity completely, ran amok through the school, and ambushed a few of Matilda's classmates, each time thwarted by Matilda's telekinetic powers. Then the entire faculty of school children, including Bruce Bogtrotter, bombarded her with objects such as books, toys and food, most of which opened when they landed on her. The Trunchbull was pursued savagely out of the school, where she retreated into her car and hurtled out of the school, still chased by the rebellious mob of school children, and she was never seen or heard from again. She eventually followed Magnus's orders and returned Miss Honey's house and money.
 
Her fate in the film differed greatly from the book; the Trunchbull was traumatized by the message on the blackboard and briefly fainted. When she awakened, she lost her sanity completely, ran amok through the school, and ambushed a few of Matilda's classmates, each time thwarted by Matilda's telekinetic powers. Then the entire faculty of school children, including Bruce Bogtrotter, bombarded her with objects such as books, toys and food, most of which opened when they landed on her. The Trunchbull was pursued savagely out of the school, where she retreated into her car and hurtled out of the school, still chased by the rebellious mob of school children, and she was never seen or heard from again. She eventually followed Magnus's orders and returned Miss Honey's house and money.
   
== '''Trivia and chicken nuggets''' ==
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== '''Trivia''' ==
 
* The fact that Miss Trunchbull was played by [[Pam Ferris]] is ironic, as Ferris was later go on to play the headteacher Mrs Bevan in the 2009 film "Nativity".
 
* The fact that Miss Trunchbull was played by [[Pam Ferris]] is ironic, as Ferris was later go on to play the headteacher Mrs Bevan in the 2009 film "Nativity".
 
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Much too good for children!

–Miss Trunchbull

Miss Trunchbull is the primary antagonist in the novel Matilda and of its 1996 film adaptation. Ms. Trunchbull is depicted as a large woman who wears her hair in a tight, unforgiving bun. Her outfit is a bottle-green tight pantsuit adorned with a black belt with a silver buck. She is a harsh, haughty, psychopathic, extremely cruel educator, and tyrant who terrorizes children, and states that she was glad that she was never a child or had fun.

She made weekly visits to every classroom and tended to take over, but mostly Miss Honey's, probably due to her being her niece.

Life as a cruel woman

Agatha Trunchbull was the step-aunt of Jennifer Honey. After her step-sister died, Trunchbull was called in to look after her step-niece while Jennifer's father, Magnus Honey, was away at work, though unknown to her step-brother-in-law, she was actually cruel to his daughter behind his back. When Jennifer was five, her father died. Many believe the cause was a suicide, though others think Trunchbull murdered him so that she could gain his house and money.

Several years later, Miss Trunchbull became principal of Crunchem Hall. This was also the school where her niece taught at. Her idea of detention was to put children into a horrific torture device known as The Chokey, a tall narrow cupboard in a dripping pipe with jagged edges where the walls have broken glass and nails sticking out. She became strict on rules; for instance she did not allow girls to have pigtails. She also does not like boys with long hair. She once threw a girl named Amanda Thripp over the fence by her pigtails, forced a boy named Bruce Bogtrotter to eat a whole 18-inch chocolate cake after stating that he stole her own personal chocolate cake and once put a boy into a terrible fatal state by throwing him out a fifth storey window due to the fact that he was eating Liquorice Allsorts (M&Ms in the film) while she was talking to his class.

After she was sold a purposely faulty car by shoddy car seller Harry Wormwood, Miss Trunchbull took out her anger on his daughter Matilda, putting her in detention by locking her in The Chokey. Matilda later retaliated by unknowingly causing a Newt to jump onto her after the cup of water spilt and leaving her in a state of panic. Trunchbull was later driven out of the school the next day while in Miss Honey's class after she was apparently haunted by Magnus Honey's ghost, which was actually Matilda using her telekinetic powers, demanding that the Trunchbull hand over Miss Honey's house and money. Miss Trunchbull ran outside and was never seen again.

In the 1996 film, her violence towards children was somewhat mitigated, though she can be considered to be murderous towards adults, as she murdered Miss Honey's father and later threatened to kill Matilda's for selling her a defective car.

Personality she was mean

Agatha Trunchbull is malicious, pompous, wicked, haughty, dangerous, brutal, egotistical, sadistic, psychopathic, and cruel. Besides a passionate hate for children, she is also power-crazed and greedy, trying to maintain a position of power in any way she can. She is also an abusive sadist who sees violence as the best way when it comes to disciplining children and kept a vicious, makeshift torture chamber (which she called the Chokey) in her office.

In the film, she shows incredible degrees of hyper-paranoia, as she was terrified when Matilda raided her house and also mortified when she saw the portrait of Magnus, a man she probably murdered to inherit the estate, take the place of her own portrait over the fireplace.

Agatha is something of a ruthless disciplinarian who implies absurdly strict rules in her school, which include the banning of pigtails. In the film, the Trunchbull displays something of a God complex, viewing herself as a woman in absolute power (and believing that she has rights over everyone and everything). However, it is revealed that, behind her "cruel woman" facade, Agatha is shown deep down to be a very fearful person, who is terrified of ghosts and the supernatural. In the film, she is also shown to be superstitious; this is shown in one scene when Miss Honey and Matilda see Agatha getting scared of a black cat, for which Miss Honey explained that the Trunchball was "very superstitious." Even though she is a strict disciplinarian, she says piss-worm to a child's face, so she has no trouble subjecting her students to foul and inappropriate language, and instead of queuing, she orders her students to run into the school in a disorganized, stampeding crowd. Despite her athletic prowess, she also loves to stuff her face with chocolates from a box and snacks on massive portions of chocolate cake.

Behind the scenes while eating crunchy nuts

Her fate in the film differed greatly from the book; the Trunchbull was traumatized by the message on the blackboard and briefly fainted. When she awakened, she lost her sanity completely, ran amok through the school, and ambushed a few of Matilda's classmates, each time thwarted by Matilda's telekinetic powers. Then the entire faculty of school children, including Bruce Bogtrotter, bombarded her with objects such as books, toys and food, most of which opened when they landed on her. The Trunchbull was pursued savagely out of the school, where she retreated into her car and hurtled out of the school, still chased by the rebellious mob of school children, and she was never seen or heard from again. She eventually followed Magnus's orders and returned Miss Honey's house and money.

Trivia

  • The fact that Miss Trunchbull was played by Pam Ferris is ironic, as Ferris was later go on to play the headteacher Mrs Bevan in the 2009 film "Nativity".