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Matilda

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140 feature instances
121 referencing feature instances

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Matilda	label	Matilda
Matilda	page	Matilda
Matilda	comment	A Roald Dahl book about an exceptionally clever little girl, Matilda Wormwood, who has exceptionally horrible and ignorant parents. Matilda has a love of learning and books, and her parents think she is stupid and deride her for reading while they watch mindless Soap Operas and Game Shows.The first half of the book deals with Matilda discovering how to use her intellect against her parents by playing tricks, like supergluing her father's hat to his head. The second half of the book pits her against a far more formidable enemy — Agatha Trunchbull, her school's sadistic headmistress, as well as introduces the only person to truly recognize Matilda's amazing talent, Miss Honey. Matilda ultimately has to pit her prodigious intellect (and newly discovered telekinetic powers) against the Trunchbull to liberate both the sorely oppressed children and her beloved teacher, as well as make a better life for herself.In 1996 a film adaptation was made under the direction of Danny DeVito, starring Mara Wilson (Miracle on 34th Street, Mrs. Doubtfire) in the lead and a frighteningly accurate Trunchbull in the form of Pam Ferris. Notably, the film takes place in the United States rather than England.In 2010, it was adapted into a stage musical, written by Dennis Kelly, with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin.In 2022, another film adaptation, this time of the musical, directed by Matthew Warchus and distributed by the British branch of Sony Pictures was released in the UK and onto Netflix internationally.
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Matilda / int_165d6f53	type	Punishment Box
Matilda / int_165d6f53	comment	Punishment Box: The sadistic headmistress is fond of (among other things) using the "Chokey", a closet lined with spikes, thus like an iron maiden in which there is just barely enough room to stand.
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Matilda / int_16dda55f	type	Simple Solution Won't Work
Matilda / int_16dda55f	comment	Simple Solution Won't Work: After Matilda has endured half of her first day in school seeing the outrageous tortures that Agatha Trunchbull (the school's Dean Bitterman and extreme Sadist Teacher) unleashes on the children, she asks the other students of her classroom why the heck has nobody told their parents about Trunchbull's brutality and gotten them to call the police, and she's told back that none of their parents have believed them because of how outrageous said tortures are (admittedly, probably telling someone about the school having an iron maiden (which Trunchbull affectionately calls "the Chokey") and how Trunchbull showed her rage at a girl having pigtails by grabbing her by said pigtails and using her as a Human Hammer-Throw would be a tall tale in other circumstances). The book also mentions that Trunchbull has managed to intimidate the parents who have believed their children into looking the other way. The result is that Matilda needs to fix things herself using her Psychic Powers.
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Matilda / int_1d6ab0a8	type	HowDoIShootWeb
Matilda / int_1d6ab0a8	comment	How Do I Shot Web?: It takes Matilda a good deal of self-training to gain control of her telekinetic powers enough to write with a piece of chalk.
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Matilda / int_1ee7d1e5	type	A Taste of Defeat
Matilda / int_1ee7d1e5	comment	A Taste of Defeat: Ms. Trunchbull was one of the many customers scammed by Mr. Wormwood. As shown elsewhere on this page, her getting cheated out of a large sum can hardly be called undeserved.
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Matilda / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Matilda / int_20989d05	comment	Lampshaded by Matilda, just because someone is an adult, that doesn't necessarily make them right. And specifically in the situation of Matilda's family, adults (for several reasons) may be incorrect in their decisions and can hurt their children, even if their intentions are not necessarily evil per se. You can see that the Wormwoods believe that their form of parenting is in Matilda's best interest since they see nothing wrong with the way they (and their older child Michael) were brought up and believe Matilda is just acting out.
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Matilda / int_211c82f5	type	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!
Matilda / int_211c82f5	comment	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: Miss Trunchbull threatens to punish Matilda with the buckle end of her belt.
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Matilda / int_233d181	type	Misaimed Fandom
Matilda / int_233d181	comment	Misaimed Fandom: In-universe. One of Miss Trunchbull's favorite books is Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, but for a reason contrary to Dickens's intention or virtually any reader's view: she admires the Sadist Teacher Wackford Squeers as a model for what a headteacher should be.
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Matilda / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
Matilda / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: Matilda tells her father that she's reading The Red Pony by John Steinbeck, an American author. He then says that Americans only write about filth before tearing the pages to shreds.
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Matilda / int_25b19f64	type	Cute Bookworm
Matilda / int_25b19f64	comment	Cute Bookworm: Matilda is an Adorably Precocious Child who loves reading more than anything else.
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Matilda / int_264b8f4c	type	Balloon Belly
Matilda / int_264b8f4c	comment	Balloon Belly: Some illustrations depict Bruce Bogtrotter this way after he finishes the cake. One has the buttons ready to pop off his shirt.
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Matilda / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Matilda / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Miss Honey is comely and very kind, standing in contrast to the ugly, mean Miss Trunchbull.
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Matilda / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
Matilda / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: No one can beat the Trunchbull in a physical confrontation. Matilda wins by frightening Agatha Trunchbull with the "ghost" of Magnus Honey. She had practiced this sort of heroism against her father earlier in the book.
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Matilda / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Matilda / int_2a090d00	comment	Mrs. Phelps, the local librarian, is a sweet, kindly old woman who initially tries to help the four-year-old Matilda find picture books. But when she realizes that she has a child genius on her hands, she instead starts offering her some of Western literature's greatest works. Matilda devours them all, but Mrs. Phelps never makes a big deal of it or tries to get the attention of the press, instead preferring to let the little girl read in peace. It's lampshaded by the narrator, who comments that while most people would have started kicking up a fuss, Mrs. Phelps is a sensible woman who doesn't see much need for theatrics. Mrs. Phelps also takes a practical interest in Matilda's well-being and bends the rules of the library to let her have a library card early and borrow as many books as she wants per week, as a four-year-old walking ten blocks in heavy traffic every day is a recipe for disaster.
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Matilda / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
Matilda / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: The Trunchbull is the queen of this trope, abusing the students in her school for petty squabbles in manners so shocking she would have been arrested if any parent believed what she did.
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Matilda / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Matilda / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Everyone fears the Trunchbull, and the class dreads the weekly inspection she conducts.
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Matilda / int_2d0db1a5	type	Books vs. Screens
Matilda / int_2d0db1a5	comment	Books vs. Screens: The eponymous girl's parents love to watch TV and think that, since they have television, books are pointless. Meanwhile, all the bookworms—Matilda, Miss Honey, and the librarian—think television is pointless, with Matilda going so far as to call the TV the "dreaded box". Similarly, Matilda dismisses pocket calculators as "a lump of metal".
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Matilda / int_2e39af52	type	Girlish Pigtails
Matilda / int_2e39af52	comment	Girlish Pigtails: Miss Trunchbull hates them. She first shows how horrifying she is by grabbing a girl by her pigtails and using them as a handgrip before throwing her across the schoolyard.
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Matilda / int_308ac24f	type	Fantasy-Forbidding Father
Matilda / int_308ac24f	comment	Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Matilda's parents don't understand Matilda's love of books and learning, rejecting her for it. They prefer the more mundane Michael who is being coached to take over his father's company.
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Matilda / int_31707bc	type	Time Out
Matilda / int_31707bc	comment	Time Out: Miss Trunchbull makes Nigel stand in the corner on one leg with his face to the wall, because his hands are dirty. She threatens to make him stand on his head when he tries to argue.
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Matilda / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Matilda / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Matilda's brother is taught by their father how to make lemons run better, but contributes little to the plot otherwise.
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Matilda / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
Matilda / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: Meta; Roald Dahl got the idea of a story about a boy called Billy developing telekinesis, but got writer's block and did a gender flip.
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Matilda / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Matilda / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: What Matilda's parents do to her regularly, especially her father, when he tears up Matilda's library book, simply because he envies the pleasure she gets from reading. The strong-willed Matilda refuses to be upset, and takes her revenge in increasingly cunning ways.
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Matilda / int_351e0e53	type	Dean Bitterman
Matilda / int_351e0e53	comment	Dean Bitterman: The Trunchbull is the Headmistress of Crunchem Hall, and abuses her power to harm the students and intimidate them into silence.
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Matilda / int_396d046e	type	Fun with Homophones
Matilda / int_396d046e	comment	Fun with Homophones: When testing Nigel on his spelling, Miss Trunchbull hopes to catch him out with a homophonic word; but Nigel is too smart for her.
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Matilda / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Matilda / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: At the beginning of her second meeting with Miss Honey's class, Miss Trunchbull immediately checks her drinking water for slimy creatures. She says that she is glad to see that there are none, because if they were, something exceptionally unpleasant would have happened to the whole class, including Miss Honey.
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Matilda / int_3d5c5deb	type	Flat Character
Matilda / int_3d5c5deb	comment	Flat Character: Matilda's brother, Michael. We know little about him other than him appearing to be average and having "inherited his father's love of crookery".
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Matilda / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Matilda / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Ms. Trunchbull, Ms. Honey and Mr. Honey refer(ed) to each other as Agatha, Jenny, and Magnus in private. Matilda uses it in her plan.
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Matilda / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
Matilda / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: Miss Trunchbull disappears from Crunchem Hall (to the delight of the teachers and students), so Miss Honey gets back her wages and her father's inheritance. The Wormwoods were forced to flee to Spain after Harry's illegal activities (scamming customers and fencing stolen cars) were exposed, allowing Matilda to be rid of them and live with Miss Honey instead.
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Matilda / int_41744454	type	Spelling Song
Matilda / int_41744454	comment	Spelling Song: Nigel tells Miss Trunchbull Miss Honey's song to spell "difficulty".
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Matilda / int_43463249	type	Power Loss Depression
Matilda / int_43463249	comment	Power Loss Depression: Subverted. Matilda being put in a class where she is being challenged causes her to lose her powers. But as Ms. Honey explains, it was being bored out of her skull that gave her powers, so she doesn't regret the loss because she's finally found something to occupy her brain. In the film, she keeps her powers in the end.
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Matilda / int_45554ca2	type	"I Can't Look!" Gesture
Matilda / int_45554ca2	comment	"I Can't Look!" Gesture: When Miss Trunchbull is holding Rupert by his hair, one of the children illustrated is seen covering his eyes.
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Matilda / int_46ee4d3	type	Eye Take
Matilda / int_46ee4d3	comment	Eye Take: When Matilda claims to Miss Honey that she used her telekinesis to knock over a glass of water, Miss Honey does not really believe her, but asks her to do it again. When Matilda succeeds, Miss Honey's eyes stretch so wide that you can see the whites all round.
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Matilda / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Matilda / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Harry Wormwood, once Matilda works out how to get even with him without being found out, is the butt of every joke.
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Matilda / int_4c9d226e	type	Formerly Fit
Matilda / int_4c9d226e	comment	Miss Trunchbull also falls into this, as she's Formerly Fit. She was an Olympic athlete in her youth and maintains a good deal of Stout Strength, but both age and a taste for sweets (she has a personal stash of chocolate cake made with high-quality ingredients) have filled out her figure considerably.
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Matilda / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Matilda / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: When the Wormwoods hear a creepy voice saying "hello, hello, hello" in their house, Mrs. Wormwood thinks it's a burglar, and the whole family creeps into the kitchen to investigate. Mr. Wormwood arms himself with a golf club, Mrs. Wormwood with a poker, and Michael with a table lamp. Matilda, who planted the talking parrot in the first place, joins in the act and takes the knife she has been eating with.
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Matilda / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Matilda / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: When Matilda asks Miss Honey who her cruel aunt was, Miss Honey replies: Miss Trunchbull.
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Matilda / int_4ec9e137	type	Critical Dissonance
Matilda / int_4ec9e137	comment	Critical Dissonance: In-Universe. Matilda comments that while she thinks that Mr. C. S. Lewis is a very good writer, he has one failing: there are no funny bits in his books. Judging by the number of painful entries listed on TV Tropes for his works, it would seem that many tropers do not agree with her.
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Matilda / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
Matilda / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: Matilda, big time. She's able to multiply large numbers in her head (e.g. 13 Ã— 379) in seconds. She says she likes to read just about anything. It's implied that the two reasons she wasn't in advanced placement by now were because her parents don't believe in the value of education—and, of course, The Trunchbull's dislike of young children. Once Miss Trunchbull is deposed, Matilda gets moved up to the top-level classes. Unfortunately, now that she's using her brain to the fullest, she can't use telekinesis anymore. Realizing that has her first confused, but then relieved that she's not "a miracle" anymore.
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Matilda / int_4fb60159	type	Do Not Do This Cool Thing
Matilda / int_4fb60159	comment	Do Not Do This Cool Thing: In-universe. At Mr. Wormwood's dealership, Harry shows Michael the tools of the trade, namely supergluing a fender on, using a two-bit drill to rewind the odometer, and putting sawdust into the pipes. Matilda is disgusted with how her dad cheats and potentially endangers lives, but Michael is impressed with the drill bit.
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Matilda / int_50eb1d8	type	Adopting the Abused
Matilda / int_50eb1d8	comment	Adopting the Abused: Matilda is raised by two neglectful parents who heavily believe in anti-intellectualism and insult her for not being more like them. Matilda's father Harry tears up a library book she borrowed because he thinks it's a waste of time. They even leave her home alone to play bingo or to go to work when she's just a kid. When Matilda starts to go to school, she strikes up a bond with her teacher Miss Honey, who actually admires her intelligence and accepts her for who she is. At the end of the book, Matilda asks if Miss Honey can adopt her, and her parents just hand her over without batting an eye.
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Matilda / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Matilda / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Matilda's mother is a plump woman who is completely self-absorbed and is generally a horrible mother. Miss Trunchbull also falls into this, as she's Formerly Fit. She was an Olympic athlete in her youth and maintains a good deal of Stout Strength, but both age and a taste for sweets (she has a personal stash of chocolate cake made with high-quality ingredients) have filled out her figure considerably.
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Matilda / int_51561f43	type	Hurricane of Euphemisms
Matilda / int_51561f43	comment	Hurricane of Euphemisms: Miss Trunchbull tends to do this when ranting about this children. When she accuses Bruce Bogtrotter of stealing her cake:
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Matilda / int_57ca867e	type	Force Feeding
Matilda / int_57ca867e	comment	Force Feeding: Involves an overweight kid who is forced to eat chocolate cake, as punishment for supposedly stealing Miss Trunchbull's cake, while the whole school watches. In other words, he is not allowed to stop eating until he has finished the whole cake, and it's HUGE too (18 inches in diameter). Even if he gets sick, he has to keep eating. It turns out to be a less-than-effective punishment, however, as the kid eventually manages to finish the cake without getting sick, and gets a standing ovation from the entire student body. Trunchbull, exasperated, smashes the cake platter over the kid's head, which still doesn't faze the kid. It's the first time in the story that we see Miss Trunchbull "lose" an encounter.
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Matilda / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
Matilda / int_598513bb	comment	Bookish and level-headed Matilda is the blue while the rest of her family is the red—her mother is vain and passionate, her father is an obnoxious sleazy car dealer and her brother is relatively less competent than her.
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Matilda / int_60ea2a89	type	Starter Villain
Matilda / int_60ea2a89	comment	Starter Villain: Mr. Wormwood serves as the antagonist for the first few chapters before the Trunchbull is introduced.
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Matilda / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Matilda / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Two-in-one: Miss Trunchbull's surname connotes "truncheon" and "bull", with the former being a bludgeon and the latter being a large aggressive animal.
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Matilda / int_614ab353	type	Witch with a Capital "B"
Matilda / int_614ab353	comment	Witch with a Capital "B": Mr Wormwood says this when his wife tells him that he should have read the label on superglue before using it.
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Matilda / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Matilda / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Miss Trunchbull is very easily angered, in particular by young children. This, combined with her tendency for violence, leads to Crunchem Hall being a horrifying place to be for teachers and students alike.
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Matilda / int_6469517a	type	Bath of Poverty
Matilda / int_6469517a	comment	Bath of Poverty: Miss Honey divulges that she doesn't have the space or money for a shower or bath in her tiny house, and must wash in the kitchen with a pot of water and a sponge.
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Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_6469517a
Matilda / int_672b0bfd	type	Polly Wants a Microphone
Matilda / int_672b0bfd	comment	Polly Wants a Microphone: Matilda meets a neighbor kid who owns a parrot that can say two phrases—"Hello" and "Rattle my bones", the latter of which is said in a creepy tone. She borrows it in exchange for a week's pocket money, then hides it in the chimney in her house. The result is that her parents tear the house apart looking for what's making the noise, ultimately fearing a ghost, and Matilda gives the neighbor kid his parrot back with her parents never figuring out what happened.
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Matilda / int_672b0bfd	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_6a79bee5	type	Nothing Nice About Sugar and Spice
Matilda / int_6a79bee5	comment	Nothing Nice About Sugar and Spice: When discussing Matilda, Miss Trunchbull believes that a bad girl is a far more dangerous creature than a bad boy.
Matilda / int_6a79bee5	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_6a79bee5	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_6a79bee5
Matilda / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Matilda / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Miss Honey is a very sweet teacher. Wormwood is a very bitter herb, and the Wormwoods (Matilda excepted) are as sleazy as they come. There's also a well-known prison in England called Wormwood Scrubs. Harry certainly belongs there. "Matilda Wormwood" has rather antiquated, fantastical, even witchy tones as a name, so it fits a child who is wise beyond her years and develops supernatural powers.
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Matilda / int_6bda9a30	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_6c287f89	type	Drama Panes
Matilda / int_6c287f89	comment	Drama Panes: Miss Honey is described as staring out of the window while she tells Matilda the sad story of her childhood.
Matilda / int_6c287f89	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_6c287f89	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_6d443a34	type	Closet Punishment
Matilda / int_6d443a34	comment	Closet Punishment: Exaggerated with the "Chokey", a closet lined with spikes and shards of glass, thus like an Iron Maiden, in which there is just barely enough room to stand. Putting children in there for even the slightest misdemeanor is a favorite torture technique of the cruel headmistress of Matilda's school.
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Matilda / int_70bdac19	type	Honest John's Dealership
Matilda / int_70bdac19	comment	Honest John's Dealership: Mr. Wormwood's secondhand car business. Matilda's dad is the stereotypical sleazy car salesman, even putting sawdust 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 make a lemon look better. At the end, it's revealed that Matilda's dad is receiving stolen cars from the mob, and it's deconstructed when the police catch on and Mr. Wormwood goes on the run.
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Matilda / int_73e51847	type	Missing the Good Stuff
Matilda / int_73e51847	comment	Missing the Good Stuff: When Miss Honey turns up to tell Mr and Mrs Wormwood about their daughter's amazing abilities on her first day at school, they are annoyed about the interruption to their television time, and Mrs Wormwood is especially ratty about Mr Wormwood turning the sound down just as one character on TV is about to propose marriage.
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Matilda / int_77aae115	type	Hated by All
Matilda / int_77aae115	comment	Hated by All: Teachers and students alike fear Miss Trunchbull's mercurial temper and violent outbursts and she is not shown to have any friends or allies on staff or otherwise. She maintains her position entirely by inspiring terror.
Matilda / int_77aae115	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_7b2118c5	type	Bait-and-Switch Comparison
Matilda / int_7b2118c5	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comparison: At the very beginning, the narrator speaks of proud parents who are convinced their offspring can do no wrong, even digressing into what he would say about them if he were a teacher. This is followed by, "Occasionally, one comes across parents who take the opposite line, and show no interest in their children at all, and these of course are far worse than the doting ones", before describing how Mr and Mrs Wormwood view Matilda.
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Matilda / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Matilda / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Matilda's parents inexplicably hate her and refuse to believe she is any more intelligent than a lima bean, but favor her rather dim-witted brother Michael instead. Interestingly, Michael is a different kind of dumb and is nothing but pleasant to his sister (in the book, at least), if too stupid to try and help her. The book suggests at one point that Matilda's father, at least, is furious that she can get pleasure from things he cannot, specifically reading.
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Matilda / int_7caaa828	type	Hates Reading
Matilda / int_7caaa828	comment	Hates Reading: Matilda's parents and brother don't like books because they don't see the point of them. This contrasts them with Matilda, who's a bookish Child Prodigy.
Matilda / int_7caaa828	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_7caaa828	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_7caaa828
Matilda / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
Matilda / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: Ms. Trunchbull. When Bruce Bogtrotter eats an entire cake, she gets mad and tries to brain him with the serving tray and then storms off when that doesn't affect him. When she can't prove that Matilda knocked a pitcher over, she storms off and still tries to blame her.
Matilda / int_7cc8d769	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_7cc8d769	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_7cfeef98	type	Narrative Filigree
Matilda / int_7cfeef98	comment	Narrative Filigree: At the very beginning of the book, the narrator spells out several examples of the scathing teachers' reports he would write about children doted on by proud parents, eventually finishing with, "But enough of that. We have to get on."
Matilda / int_7cfeef98	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_7f95e396	type
Matilda / int_7f95e396	comment	"Reading Is Cool" Aesop: The titular protagonist gains Psychic Powers thanks to her love of reading and learning, not to mention that her TV-loving parents are shown as quite callous.
Matilda / int_7f95e396	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_7f95e396
Matilda / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Matilda / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: The chapter "Miss Honey's Cottage", which also contains Scenery Porn as the rural walk from the school to the cottage is lovingly described, Miss Honey educates Matilda on recognising types of trees, and quotes a poem by Dylan Thomas that she thinks of every time she walks towards her front door.
Matilda / int_80a247a9	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_80a247a9	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_80a247a9
Matilda / int_8163e2bb	type	Dramatic Drop
Matilda / int_8163e2bb	comment	Dramatic Drop: Mrs Wormwood drops her husband's breakfast tray, when she sees his terrible hair-dye job. When Miss Trunchbull sees her name written on the blackboard by an invisible hand, she drops the child she is holding up by the ankle.
Matilda / int_8163e2bb	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_8163e2bb	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_8163e2bb
Matilda / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Matilda / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: The Trunchbull has a tendency for going on long and passionate tirades, especially against schoolchildren whom she perceives to have "wronged" her by doing nothing but exist.
Matilda / int_823c6e3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_823c6e3e	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Matilda / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: The aggressive, intimidating Brawn Hilda Ms. Trunchball (red) and the calm, sweet and gentle Ms. Honey (blue). Bookish and level-headed Matilda is the blue while the rest of her family is the red—her mother is vain and passionate, her father is an obnoxious sleazy car dealer and her brother is relatively less competent than her. When Matilda and Ms. Honey are paired up, Matilda is the more open extroverted Plucky Girl (red) compared to Ms. Honey, who is still the quieter blue.
Matilda / int_8411ab92	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_8411ab92
Matilda / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
Matilda / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: Matilda gets left alone in the house during the day. She walks over to the library, through heavy traffic, at the age of four because there's no one watching her.
Matilda / int_84c5ec0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_84c5ec0b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_85debad9	type	Plucky Girl
Matilda / int_85debad9	comment	When Matilda and Ms. Honey are paired up, Matilda is the more open extroverted Plucky Girl (red) compared to Ms. Honey, who is still the quieter blue.
Matilda / int_85debad9	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_85debad9	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Matilda / int_874176be	comment	Matilda is being accused of something she didn't do—and this is actually what triggers her Psychic Powers in the first place.
Matilda / int_874176be	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_874176be	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_8748f851	type	Brainy Brunette
Matilda / int_8748f851	comment	Brainy Brunette: Matilda is intelligent and brown-haired.
Matilda / int_8748f851	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_8748f851	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_8748f851
Matilda / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Matilda / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Matilda terrifies Agatha Trunchbull using her telekinetic powers, making her give up the house and the money she stole from Miss Honey. In the film, the children all get revenge on her for the way she treated them.
Matilda / int_890d4ef2	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_890d4ef2	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_8d1ec905	type	Nose Nuggets
Matilda / int_8d1ec905	comment	Nose Nuggets: An anecdote is told in passing about a boy who picked his nose with superglue on his finger, with disastrous results.
Matilda / int_8d1ec905	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_8d1ec905	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
Matilda / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Child Prodigy: Matilda is 5 years old, but has been reading classical literature during her spare time, and can do mental arithmetic that even her teacher needs to work out on paper.
Matilda / int_8e20ae0d	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_8e20ae0d	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_8f37640a	type	Lies to Children
Matilda / int_8f37640a	comment	Lies to Children: Just after Matilda has shown her brilliance with numbers on her very first day of school, way beyond what is expected of her age group, her classmate Lavender asks why Matilda can do it, and she can't. Miss Honey lies through her teeth and tells her not to worry, as she will soon catch up. Surprisingly, this is averted with Matilda's parents. When Matilda innocently comments on her father's hysterical behaviour after the platinum blond incident, her mother tells her about men being generally like that, adding, "You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl."
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Matilda / int_8f663510	type	...And 99¢
Matilda / int_8f663510	comment	...And 99Â¢: One of Mr. Wormwood's less crooked tricks in his business is to sell for fifty pence below a round figure (e.g. Â£999.50 instead of Â£1000.00).
Matilda / int_8f663510	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_8f663510	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Matilda / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: When Matilda uses her powers to write a "ghostly" message from "Magnus", Trunchbull can't even speak due to her horror.
Matilda / int_957e5fc2	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_957e5fc2	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
Matilda / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: Nigel Hicks and Lavender. Nigel mouths off to Miss Trunchbull while answering her questions correctly, and Lavender managed to sneak a newt into the infamous water jug and got away with it.
Matilda / int_9633f14b	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_9633f14b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Matilda / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: While Matilda's father serves as the Starter Villain for before she enters school, the resident Dean Bitterman, Agatha Trunchbull is proven to be the main threat to the school due to her rampant acts of child abuse on and off campus.
Matilda / int_970c790a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Matilda / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Miss Trunchbull is this to Miss Honey. Both of them work at Crunchem Hall, one as the headmistress and the other as a teacher. However, while Miss Trunchbull is sadistic and hates young children, Miss Honey cares deeply for the children she's put in charge of, and is kind and dedicated to educating them. It's not hard to guess who the Big Bad of the story and Matilda's mentor are, respectively.
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Matilda / int_9b853e85	type	Paper Destruction of Anger
Matilda / int_9b853e85	comment	Paper Destruction of Anger: Annoyed with Matilda having her nose in a book all the time, Mr. Wormwood spitefully tears up a book she is reading.
Matilda / int_9b853e85	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_9b853e85	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_9d61fd2c	type	Traumatic Superpower Awakening
Matilda / int_9d61fd2c	comment	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.
Matilda / int_9d61fd2c	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_9d61fd2c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_9df812ad	type	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl
Matilda / int_9df812ad	comment	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Mrs. Wormwood is tall and podgy, while Mr. Wormwood is shorter and wiry.
Matilda / int_9df812ad	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_9df812ad	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_9e99d232	type	The Series Has Left Reality
Matilda / int_9e99d232	comment	The Series Has Left Reality: The story starts in reality, until Matilda is provoked into such terrible anger that she gains telekinetic powers. Matilda and Miss Honey try to analyse these scientifically. Later, Matilda loses her powers, and again, she and Miss Honey talk about why this happened.
Matilda / int_9e99d232	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_9e99d232	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_a22ae9a5	type	Hat Damage
Matilda / int_a22ae9a5	comment	Hat Damage: Hilarity ensues when Matilda attaches Mr Wormwood's hat to his head with superglue. When the hat does not come loose by the following morning, Mrs Wormwood cuts it off his head with scissors, completely destroying the hat, and leaving Mr Wormwood with a bald white ring around his head.
Matilda / int_a22ae9a5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Matilda / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: At the end of the book, we have Harry Wormwood preparing to flee the police who are onto him and his crooked car business. Specifically, to Spain. Ms. Trunchbull. Yes, she's been humiliated in front of the class and driven out of town but that's hardly a punishment for what she'd been doing to the students. She also receives no repercussions for murdering her brother-in-law or stealing Ms. Honey's inheritance.
Matilda / int_a70223	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_a8d644f6	type	Bizarre Beverage Use
Matilda / int_a8d644f6	comment	Bizarre Beverage Use: The eponymous Child Prodigy uses her telekinesis to knock over her Sadist Teacher's glass of water.
Matilda / int_a8d644f6	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_a8d644f6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Matilda / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Roald Dahl's Signature Style. None of the teachers at Crunchem Hall challenge The Trunchbull because they are terrified of her. It is eventually discovered that Miss Honey's fears of her are particularly justified. Not a single student manages to convince their parents that The Chokey exists. It's sort of justified by Matilda's theory that the various punishments from The Trunchbull are so over-the-top that the parents simply don't believe it. Of course, it's probably Dahl's commentary on the boarding schools he attended as a child.
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Matilda / int_aa55cd25	type	Brawn Hilda
Matilda / int_aa55cd25	comment	The aggressive, intimidating Brawn Hilda Ms. Trunchball (red) and the calm, sweet and gentle Ms. Honey (blue).
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Matilda / int_aa55cd25	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_ac12cde1	type	Bully Hunter
Matilda / int_ac12cde1	comment	Bully Hunter: Matilda would often use her wits to punish bullying adults. She pranked her father at least twice (first for accusing her of cheating, then for ripping her library book), and then used her Psychic Powers to free the school (and Miss Honey) from the cruel and domineering Agatha Trunchbull.
Matilda / int_ac12cde1	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_ac12cde1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_acd7e590	type	Sticky Situation
Matilda / int_acd7e590	comment	Sticky Situation: Matilda puts superglue in her dad's hat, making him look ridiculous when he finds he can't remove it and forcing it to be clipped off, leaving a bald ring and some scraps of hat behind on his head.
Matilda / int_acd7e590	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_acd7e590	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Matilda / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Miss Trunchbull falsely accusing Matilda of putting a newt in her jug ends up triggering Matilda's powers when Matilda feels indignant rage and successfully wills the cup to turn over onto Trunchbull's lap. It also starts the chain of events that lead to Miss Honey revealing that the Trunchbull is her aunt and giving Matilda an incentive and plan to control her powers. On a lesser front, the attempt to punish Bogtrotter for stealing her cake provides the student body with its victory against her.
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Matilda / int_acf33d00	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_adb1b775	type	Foul Cafeteria Food
Matilda / int_adb1b775	comment	Foul Cafeteria Food: Lampshaded by Miss Trunchbull, when she accuses Bruce Bogtrotter of stealing her own cake, as opposed to the school food given to the children.
Matilda / int_adb1b775	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_adb1b775	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_b058881a	type	Maximum Fun Chamber
Matilda / int_b058881a	comment	Maximum Fun Chamber: The Chokey, which turns out to be a non-lethal (as far as we know) iron maiden.
Matilda / int_b058881a	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_b058881a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Matilda / int_b11ac9f5	comment	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.
Matilda / int_b11ac9f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_b11ac9f5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_b2e41ad6	type	Pitiful Worms
Matilda / int_b2e41ad6	comment	Pitiful Worms: Miss Trunchbull compares squashing children to destroying insects.
Matilda / int_b2e41ad6	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_b2e41ad6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Matilda / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Mr Wormwood boasts about how it took him less than ten minutes to work out how much profit he made on a lucrative day, only to be upstaged by Matilda who works it out in seconds. Later, when Miss Honey visits to tell him about Matilda's remarkable ability in arithmetic, he says, "What's the point of that when you can buy a calculator?"
Matilda / int_b707726f	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_b707726f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
Matilda / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: Sometimes your biological family are just plain terrible people and it's in your best interest to get away from them. Both the film and book ends with Matilda getting away from her parents and living with Miss Honey, who provides her with the love and support she was denied at home; this is presented as being a happy ending. It's an important counterpoint to the message that people should stick by their biological families no matter what, which can be taken sadly internalized by many kids that they should put up with abuse and mistreatment due to supposed parental love that, in too many instances, just isn't there. Lampshaded by Matilda, just because someone is an adult, that doesn't necessarily make them right. And specifically in the situation of Matilda's family, adults (for several reasons) may be incorrect in their decisions and can hurt their children, even if their intentions are not necessarily evil per se. You can see that the Wormwoods believe that their form of parenting is in Matilda's best interest since they see nothing wrong with the way they (and their older child Michael) were brought up and believe Matilda is just acting out.
Matilda / int_bbc77bb5	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_bbc77bb5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
Matilda / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: The Trunchbull is quite vocal about how much she hates children and would find excuses to give them harsh punishments.
Matilda / int_bc03c871	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_bc03c871	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Matilda / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Miss Trunchbull hates many things, but there are two things she really can't stand: pigtails and boys with long hair. Matilda is being accused of something she didn't do—and this is actually what triggers her Psychic Powers in the first place.
Matilda / int_bc74ef27	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_bc74ef27	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_bcbb5596	type	Not Afraid of You Anymore
Matilda / int_bcbb5596	comment	Not Afraid of You Anymore: A central theme of the work is that while the most dangerous bullies can and will back up their threats, this only makes it more important to stand up to them. Simple stubborn defiance can defeat what direct force cannot.
Matilda / int_bcbb5596	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_bcbb5596	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_bcbb5596
Matilda / int_c281a30c	type	Surpassed the Teacher
Matilda / int_c281a30c	comment	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, Miss Honey.
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Matilda / int_c281a30c	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_c281a30c
Matilda / int_c339d8fb	type	Genius Book Club
Matilda / int_c339d8fb	comment	Genius Book Club: Matilda has already made significant inroads into the Western Canon by the time she starts school.
Matilda / int_c339d8fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_c339d8fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_c339d8fb
Matilda / int_c514c2c4	type	Gentleman and a Scholar
Matilda / int_c514c2c4	comment	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 politely. She only dislikes people who are annoying or rude to her. The book carefully emphasizes this.
Matilda / int_c514c2c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_c514c2c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_c514c2c4
Matilda / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Matilda / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Trunchbull operates on this when it comes to dealing with children. During her lesson with Matilda's class, she punishes kids for answering math and spelling questions wrong but attempts to lash out at them for getting them right, too. She suspects they somehow choose to grow up slowly on purpose, and her idea of a perfect school is one completely unoccupied, "with no children at all."
Matilda / int_c5f0119c	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_c5f0119c	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_c5f0119c
Matilda / int_c6dd9571	type	Lost Will and Testament
Matilda / int_c6dd9571	comment	Lost Will and Testament: When Miss Honey tells Matilda her life story, she tells of how her father's will was never found, and that her cruel aunt produced a piece of paper supposedly written by her father stating that he leaves his property to her. After the aunt disappears, the real will turns up, stating that Miss Honey is the rightful heir.
Matilda / int_c6dd9571	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_c6dd9571	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_c6dd9571
Matilda / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Matilda / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Miss Trunchbull says she's glad she "never was a child", implying that she possibly didn't have a very happy childhood.
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Matilda / int_c868a42a	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_c868a42a
Matilda / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Matilda / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Hortensia claims that the Trunchbull has a canny ability to guess which kid plays a prank on her, even if she has no proof, but the ability is a No-Sell where Matilda is concerned. Trunchbull claims that Matilda put a stink bomb in her desk even though she had an alibi—being in Miss Honey's class—and also accuses the child falsely of sneaking a newt into her water jug.
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Matilda / int_ca3a6dbd	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_ca3a6dbd
Matilda / int_cd86f11f	type	Kill the Parent, Raise the Child
Matilda / int_cd86f11f	comment	Kill the Parent, Raise the Child: Magnus Honey invited his late wife's sister Agatha Trunchbull to move in with him and help raise his daughter Jenny, but the sister was cruel to the girl and eventually took over raising her full time after her brother-in-law's apparent "suicide". Even after Jenny grows up, Trunchbull continues to force her to live in a bare-bones cottage while she stays in her father's opulent house and robs her of her inheritance, and it takes a plucky six-year-old girl with telekinetic powers to set things right.
Matilda / int_cd86f11f	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_cd86f11f	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_cd86f11f
Matilda / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Matilda / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: The book is titled after its main character, Matilda Wormwood.
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Matilda / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
Matilda / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: It's not in evidence, anyway, despite all the child abuse going on. At least there's an excuse in the case of Miss Trunchbull; people are genuinely scared of her, and no one has been able to get the better of her in a fair fight.
Matilda / int_cf6541ad	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_cf6541ad	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Matilda / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: The Trunchbull deliberately uses such outlandishly cruel punishments because any parent would assume a child was making them up.
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Matilda / int_cf92fea8	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
Matilda / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: Miss Honey speculates that her father's suicide was a murder by Miss Trunchbull. Trunchbull's reaction to Matilda's staged haunting and "Magnus" accusing her of killing him seems to confirm it.
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Matilda / int_cfbd1467	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_cfbd1467
Matilda / int_d30f7e04	type	Brain Critical Mass
Matilda / int_d30f7e04	comment	Brain Critical Mass: Profoundly gifted kids the world over wish that being bored out of your mind gave you Psychic Powers.
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Matilda / int_d30f7e04	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_d30f7e04
Matilda / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Matilda / int_d45c0b86	comment	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. Not to mention her regular use of schoolchildren for practice throwing the hammer.
Matilda / int_d45c0b86	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_d45c0b86	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_d45c0b86
Matilda / int_d46f812	type	Tastes Like Friendship
Matilda / int_d46f812	comment	Tastes Like Friendship: Subverted in that while the older girl Hortensia is telling Lavender and Matilda about the Trunchbull, she is cramming crisps into her mouth, without offering them to the younger girls.
Matilda / int_d46f812	featureApplicability	-0.3
Matilda / int_d46f812	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_d46f812
Matilda / int_d7668f35	type	Evil Principal
Matilda / int_d7668f35	comment	Evil Principal: The Trunchbull practically tortures her students, and is implied to have murdered her brother-in-law, Magnus, to gain control of his assets and abused his daughter (Miss Honey) while she was in her care.
Matilda / int_d7668f35	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_d7668f35	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_d7668f35
Matilda / int_db2b02bf	type	Horrible Housing
Matilda / int_db2b02bf	comment	Horrible Housing: Her Evil Aunt's Financial Abuse forces Miss Honey to rent a farmer's shed. It has no furnishings, appliances, or running water, and even the farmer thought it was unfit for habitation, but Miss Honey takes pride in keeping it (and herself) as neat as possible.
Matilda / int_db2b02bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_db2b02bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_db2b02bf
Matilda / int_dc292b90	type	Ear Ache
Matilda / int_dc292b90	comment	Ear Ache: Ear torture is just one of the many ways Miss Trunchbull is sadistic with the children in her care. Most notably, she lifts Eric Ink into the air by his ears. Miss Trunchbull casually dismisses Miss Honey's protests, affirming that little boys' ears are stuck very firmly to the sides of their heads. This is exaggerated in the film of the musical, where the boy's ears stretch considerably. Hortensia mentions that Miss Trunchbull grabs her by one ear when escorting her to the Chokey.
Matilda / int_dc292b90	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_dc292b90	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_dc292b90
Matilda / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Matilda / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Mrs. Phelps, the local librarian, is a sweet, kindly old woman who initially tries to help the four-year-old Matilda find picture books. But when she realizes that she has a child genius on her hands, she instead starts offering her some of Western literature's greatest works. Matilda devours them all, but Mrs. Phelps never makes a big deal of it or tries to get the attention of the press, instead preferring to let the little girl read in peace. It's lampshaded by the narrator, who comments that while most people would have started kicking up a fuss, Mrs. Phelps is a sensible woman who doesn't see much need for theatrics. Mrs. Phelps also takes a practical interest in Matilda's well-being and bends the rules of the library to let her have a library card early and borrow as many books as she wants per week, as a four-year-old walking ten blocks in heavy traffic every day is a recipe for disaster.
Matilda / int_dca70c44	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_dca70c44	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_dca70c44
Matilda / int_e24b100d	type	Dramatic TV Shut-Off
Matilda / int_e24b100d	comment	Dramatic TV Shut-Off: When Miss Honey turns up to tell Matilda's parents about Matilda's amazing skills, Mr Wormwood protests that they are right in the middle of watching one of their favourite programmes. Surprised that he values "some rotten TV programme" over his daughter's future, Miss Honey tells him to switch it off and listen to her. He compromises by turning off the sound, to Mrs Wormwood's fury, as one of the characters on the TV is about to propose marriage.
Matilda / int_e24b100d	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_e24b100d	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_e24b100d
Matilda / int_e34fc3c2	type	Poverty Food
Matilda / int_e34fc3c2	comment	Poverty Food: While visiting Miss Honey's house, Matilda sees her using margarine. This, along with the routine Miss Honey explains to Matilda in the Bath of Poverty entry, causes Matilda to conclude that Miss Honey must be poor.
Matilda / int_e34fc3c2	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_e34fc3c2	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_e34fc3c2
Matilda / int_e5206db8	type	Brains Versus Brawn
Matilda / int_e5206db8	comment	Brains Versus Brawn: Badass Bookworm and Adorably Precocious Child Matilda uses her wit and intelligence against The Trunchbull, who tends to use physical aggression, intimidation and brute force to assert her dominance over the school.
Matilda / int_e5206db8	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_e5206db8	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_e5206db8
Matilda / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Matilda / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Matilda does this when she discovers her father's shady practices at his car dealership.
Matilda / int_e52a0409	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_e52a0409	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_e52a0409
Matilda / int_e94ff7e2	type	Financial Abuse
Matilda / int_e94ff7e2	comment	Financial Abuse: Miss Honey reveals that Miss Trunchbull forced her to surrender her wages for ten years, to pay back for all the "clothes, books and food" that the dear aunt Trunchbull paid for, receiving one pound a week as allowance and not allowed to keep her inheritance. Matilda quickly intuits that it was a means of keeping Miss Honey at home to cook and keep house, though it didn't work when Miss Honey found a farmers' shed she could rent for 10 pence a week, and she suggests that Miss Honey draw unemployment money or hire a lawyer. In the end, following Miss Trunchbull's banishment, Miss Honey learns she's the official owner of her father's house and has access to her savings.
Matilda / int_e94ff7e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_e94ff7e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_e94ff7e2
Matilda / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Matilda / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When Trunchbull accuses Matilda of spilling the water with the newt on her, Matilda simply replies that she hasn't moved from her seat the entire time. It was Matilda... exploiting her newfound Mind over Matter powers, which had just been awakened from a previous false accusation against her.
Matilda / int_e9e35e8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_e9e35e8f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Matilda / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Agatha Trunchbull, when she's not harming children. 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.
Matilda / int_eb8ec7c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_eb8ec7c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_eb8ec7c8
Matilda / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
Matilda / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: Mr and Mrs Wormwood do this when Miss Honey turns up at their house to tell them of Matilda's brilliance, calling her Miss Hunky, Miss Hawkes, and Miss Harris.
Matilda / int_edeafb2e	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_edeafb2e	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_edeafb2e
Matilda / int_f090ca85	type	Painful Adhesive Removal
Matilda / int_f090ca85	comment	Painful Adhesive Removal: Matilda gets revenge on her father by putting superglue in his favorite porkpie hat, which he doesn't realize until he's already put it on his head. It ends up being too painful for his wife to remove right away, forcing him to sleep in his hat before they cut it off the next day (which leaves him with a horrible haircut).
Matilda / int_f090ca85	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_f090ca85	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_f090ca85
Matilda / int_f1e837cc	type	Mind over Matter
Matilda / int_f1e837cc	comment	Mind over Matter: Matilda develops telekinetic powers, which she believes are a manifestation of her unflexed intellectual potential, as she is not challenged by her current level of education and her mind has to do something with its power if it isn't going to be tested by schooling.
Matilda / int_f1e837cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_f1e837cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_f1e837cc
Matilda / int_f5988a03	type	Teachers Out of School
Matilda / int_f5988a03	comment	Teachers Out of School: Matilda wonders whether anybody thinks about a teacher's life outside of school, when Miss Honey invites her to her cottage. As they walk there, Matilda is surprised that Miss Honey lives in a very rural spot, and is astonished to discover that her cottage is tiny, and incredibly basic, with no running water, electricity, or even a bed.
Matilda / int_f5988a03	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_f5988a03	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_f5988a03
Matilda / int_f76eaaff	type	Entertainment Above Their Age
Matilda / int_f76eaaff	comment	Entertainment Above Their Age: When the eponymous brainy, five-year-old girl reads all the kids' books in the library, she starts reading adult books, including Nicholas Nickleby.
Matilda / int_f76eaaff	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_f76eaaff	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_f76eaaff
Matilda / int_f8961fd8	type	Fashion-Victim Villain
Matilda / int_f8961fd8	comment	Fashion-Victim Villain: In-universe example. Mr. Wormwood wears bright green/yellow checked suits and pork pie hats. He thinks they make him look dashing.
Matilda / int_f8961fd8	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_f8961fd8	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_f8961fd8
Matilda / int_fa9b0b5c	type	Informed Poverty
Matilda / int_fa9b0b5c	comment	Informed Poverty: Averted. When Matilda is invited to Miss Honey's cottage, it is clear that Miss Honey is very poor indeed: the tiny house has no running water, and only a camping stove; and the "sitting room" is completely bare apart from three boxes to serve as furniture. Miss Honey mentions having no bed or bath. Matilda realizes at once that something is wrong, and asks if she is paid very badly, which Miss Honey denies. Matilda then suggests that Miss Honey prefers a very simple and basic lifestyle; Miss Honey then tells her the sad story of why she is so poor.
Matilda / int_fa9b0b5c	featureApplicability	-1.0
Matilda / int_fa9b0b5c	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_fa9b0b5c
Matilda / int_fb6666b4	type	The Comedy Drop
Matilda / int_fb6666b4	comment	The Comedy Drop: the giant-like headmistress Miss Trunchbull has a habit of holding children aloft when they do not know the answer to a question. She holds Rupert by his hair, telling him that she'll let him go when he says the right answer; and true to her word, she opens her hand and lets him fall. In a later scene, she holds Wilfred up by his ankle, but then drops him in shock when she sees something that terrifies her.
Matilda / int_fb6666b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_fb6666b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_fb6666b4
Matilda / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Matilda / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When Mr Wormood demands a mirror to see his platinum blond hair, his wife hands him a powder compact. Mr Wormwood seizes it and spills most of the powder, and Mrs Wormwood then berates him for spilling her best Elizabeth Arden face powder.
Matilda / int_fbd285b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_fbd285b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_fbd285b7
Matilda / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Matilda / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Matilda is one of the nicest children you could wish to meet—as long as you don't make her mad.
Matilda / int_fccd06b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_fccd06b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_fccd06b6
Matilda / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Matilda / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: Matilda's female friends are named Lavender and Hortensia, which are both plants.
Matilda / int_fd94c4ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_fd94c4ac	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_ff2a7f07	type	Daytime Drama Queen
Matilda / int_ff2a7f07	comment	Daytime Drama Queen: Matilda's parents are addicted to television, which is shown as one of their many character flaws. When Miss Honey goes to visit them at home, there's an American soap opera on, and Mrs. Wormwood in particular objects to being interrupted when "Willard is just about to propose to Angelica!"
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Matilda / int_name	type	ItemName
Matilda / int_name	comment
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Matilda / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda	hasFeature	Adaptation for Child Performers / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Adopting the Abused / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Age Lift / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	...And 99¢ / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Angry Item Tapping / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Artistic License â€“ Education / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Bald of Evil / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Bath of Poverty / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Bizarre Beverage Use / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Book Smart / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Books vs. Screens / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Brain Critical Mass / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Brainy Baby / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Brainy Brunette / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Breather Episode / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Catchphrase Insult / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Child Abuse Is a Special Kind of Evil / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Child Prodigy / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Children's Literature / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Closet Punishment / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Corporal Punishment / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Dark Horse Sibling / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Daytime Drama Queen / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Dean Bitterman / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Death by Childbirth / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Destination Defenestration / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Dies Differently in Adaptation / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off! / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Drama Panes / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Dramatic Drop / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Dramatic TV Shut-Off / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Ear Ache / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Emotional Powers / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Entertainment Above Their Age / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Evil Principal / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Evil Teacher / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Eye Take / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Fantasy-Forbidding Father / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Female Misogynist / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Films of the 2020s / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Foul Cafeteria Food / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Fun with Homophones / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Gender Flip / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Genius Book Club / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Gentleman and a Scholar / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Girlish Pigtails / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Good with Numbers / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Grade Skipper / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Halfway Plot Switch / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Hard Truth Aesop / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Hat Damage / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Hates Reading / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Haunting the Guilty / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Hilariously Abusive Childhood / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Honest John's Dealership / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Horrible Housing / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Hot Teacher / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Human Hammer-Throw / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Hurricane of Euphemisms / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	"I Can't Look!" Gesture / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Insufferable Imbecile / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Kids Punishing Parents / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Kill the Parent, Raise the Child / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Lies to Children / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Limerick / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Lost Will and Testament / int_14600393
Matilda	seeAlso	Matilda
Matilda	hasFeature	Maximum Fun Chamber / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Mirror Reveal / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Missing the Good Stuff / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Named by the Adaptation / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Narrative Filigree / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Never Suicide / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	No Full Name Given / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Nose Nuggets / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Nothing Nice About Sugar and Spice / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	On a Scale from One to Ten / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Out of Focus / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Painful Adhesive Removal / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Paper Destruction of Anger / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Pent-Up Power Peril / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Pitiful Worms / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Poverty Food / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Power Loss Depression / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Power-Strain Blackout / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Protagonist Title / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Psychic Children / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Psychic Stories / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Psychologist Teacher / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Punishment Box / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Radish Cure / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Real Men Have Short Hair / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Room 101 / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Run for the Border / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Sexist Used Car Salesman / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Signature Line / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Sneaking Snacks / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Space Whale Aesop / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Spell My Name with a "The" / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Spelling Song / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Starter Villain / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Super-Intelligence / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Surpassed the Teacher / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Tastes Like Friendship / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Teachers Out of School / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Technology Marches On / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	The Comedy Drop / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	The Series Has Left Reality / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Time Out / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Too Kinky to Torture / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Town Girls / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Traumatic Haircut / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Traumatic Superpower Awakening / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Unstable Powered Child / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Wicked Stepmother / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Witch with a Capital "B" / int_14600393
Matilda	hasFeature	Cute Bookworm / int_14600393

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