Agatha Trunchbull

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**Agatha Trunchbull**, more commonly known as **Ms. Trunchbull** or simply the **Trunchbull** due to her nasty disposition, is a member of the Legion of Mullac and is a recurring antagonist in the *Sean In The Vyond World* series. She was taken from the 1988 Roald Dahl novel *Matilda*, as well as its 1996 & 2022 film adaptations and 2010 musical adaptation.

## Personality

Described as spending much of her time in a "steroidal rage" by Pam Ferris herself, Trunchbull is an explosive, neurotic, paranoid, wrathful, overbearing, ill-tempered, and highly erratic thug who takes absolute delight in the amount of fear and intimidation she instills in those around her. Two of the most central aspects of Agatha Trunchbull's personality are her scorn for children and deviants, and cruelty towards the people that she believes are lesser than herself. In addition, as stated by David Leonard (one of the actors portraying her on the West End), that she is a deeply envious and competitive individual. As such, Agatha is very quarrelsome, cantankerous, ambitious and unprepared to admit defeat in most circumstances.

She is very attached to her success as an Olympic athlete for Great Britain and she considers herself to be an idol for other people to follow. She is also very bitter, bellicose, self-confident and assertive, exhibiting her dominance around the school.

Later in the book and the film, it was confirmed (or heavily implied) that Trunchbull murdered her own brother-in-law to steal his house and money after he broke a contract involving large sums of money. She spared her niece, but psychologically and physically abused her. This shows Trunchbull's avarice that may not be apparent at first glance. It is also likely that Trunchbull harbored intense envy as to Magnus' material success, which was fueled more vigorously by her vituperative nature. She also keeps of secret of being very superstitious and naive, which is a weakness that became exploited by Matilda. Despite her firmness, she orders her students to form a crowd and stampede into the school rather than walk slowly in a que, and she shouts "pissworm" in a classroom full of kids, so she has no trouble subjecting her students to swearing.

She is spiteful and petty, as she ruthlessly punished Matilda for the actions of her father, Harry Wormwood, who swindled Trunchbull and sold her a faulty automobile, and even accused Matilda of being a liar and a cheat like her father, for the sole reason of Matilda being the daughter of the criminal who tricked her (Trunchbull). Not only is this unfair, but it is also misplaced aggression, as Trunchbull chose to punish Matilda as a surrogate for her rage against Harry Wormwood, whom she could not (legally) punish herself. In Trunchbull's mind, however, this vicious spite was justified (and to a degree, it was) as her umbrage at Harry Wormwood was justifiable but not her actions in taking out her vengeance on an innocent child simply because she was Wormwood's daughter.

Miss Trunchbull is also shown to be very superstitious and has an intense fear of ghosts, black cats, and the supernatural in general. Her fear is used as a weakness for Matilda to scare her thus teaching Miss Trunchbull a lesson later on.