A woman grabs another woman by the arm and threatens to break her arm like she says she did once before.
Miss Trunchbull threatens to burn down Wormwood Motors while threatening the owner with a lawsuit over the phone.
In a flashback, Miss Trunchbull throws a boy out of a second story window. It is never stated specifically what happened to him. When Matilda asks another girl if he was OK, she replies "he lived, if that's what you mean."
Zinnia tries to pull off Harry's hat that's been superglued to his head. As they struggle in a restaurant they bump into other diners and then cause a desert tray and it's contents to go flying through the air.
The students are terrified of "the chokee" a small, cramped room where "bad" students are sent and only have room to stand while avoiding the sharp, pointy items sticking out from the walls.
Trunchbull is seen holding a boy upside down by his foot (in order to empty his pockets), and then drops him on the floor.
Trunchbull drags Matilda into the "chokee" and slams the door shut. (Kids will worry about her - but she's rescued by Miss Honey).
Trunchbull forces a boy to eat a slice of cake then makes him to eat an enormous chocolate cake all by himself. Several times throughout the scene, he looks like he will get sick. When he successfully finishes the whole thing she smashes the large glass cake plate on his head, shattering the glass, though he is unharmed.
Trunchbull, superstitious of black cats, is confronted by one. She tries to back away, but when it doesn't leave she gives it a swift kick across the yard (where it lands unharmed).
Trunchbull violently slides the student's desks across the room and into a wall as she gets all of the students to line up in front of her.
Matilda causes Trunchbull to be hit with many chalkboard erasers until she collapses (faking it) on the floor.
A woman drinks a glass of water with a newt in it, she finds this and gets scared. A girl then tips the glass of water on her and the newt leaps on her shirt and she screams and threatens the students.
Trunchbull tries to run over another student but she misses and crashes through a door.
Trunchbull is knocked on a globe by a student. A girl then causes the globe to spin around sending Trunchbull careening into a wall.
Harry pulls Matilda away from the table by grabbing her ear.
Matilda's brother throws marshmallows at her.
A girl uses her telekinesis powers to terrorize a woman at her home, she opens and closes windows and plays with her alarm clock, shifts her chair and burns one of her photographs from her wall onto her fireplace.
There are numerous scenes involving child abuse.
Miss Trunchbull uses a ball and chain (normally used in the Olympic "hammer throw") to chase after the intruders (Matilda and Miss Honey) in her home. She also uses it to smash a statue out on her lawn.
A girl is thrown by her pigtails; she flies over a spiked fence and lands in a bed of flowers. She is not harmed.
A woman throws a boy out of a second story window. He flies back in, he is unharmed.
A woman is frequently shown chasing, threatening, and/or grabbing children.
Matilda then causes food to pelt Trunchbull and the other students then join in throwing food and toilet paper rolls at her until she runs away and never returns.
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