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* [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen God Save Us from the Trunchbull!]]
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* NormalFishInATinyPond: Miss Honey theorizes this was the source of Matilda's telekinesis; she was so intelligent for her age, with nothing left to challenge her in her grade she had enough mental brainpower to project invisible forces. When she's moved up to a more advanced classroom, she receives more a more challenging curriculum to contend with, meaning she doesn't have spare mental power left.
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* MindOverMatter: 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.
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* MindOverMatter: 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.
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* MindOverMatter: Matilda develops telekinetic powers, which she believes MissingTheGoodStuff: 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 a manifestation of her unflexed intellectual potential, as she is not challenged by her current level of education annoyed about the interruption to their television time, and her mind has Mrs Wormwood is especially ratty about Mr Wormwood turning the sound down just as one character on TV is about to do something with its power if it isn't going to be tested by schooling.propose marriage.
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* MaliciousMisnaming: 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.
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* KickTheDog: 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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* TimeOut: 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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* KillTheParentRaiseTheChild: [[spoiler: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 [[NeverSuicide 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]].
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* LostWillAndTestament: 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. [[spoiler: After the aunt disappears, the real will turns up, stating that Miss Honey is the rightful heir.]]
