Miss Trunchbull – Matilda (Pam Ferris)
"Ahhh! School is a drag, but Trunchbull makes it a living hell. This disciplinarian (and former Olympic shot putter and hammer/javelin thrower) runs Crunchem Hall Primary like Guantanamo, hammer-throwing a student several hundred feet by the pigtails. She also forces a kid to eat a massive chocolate cake in front of the whole school (which sounds kind of fun, but Trunchbull makes it scary). Like all bullies, she gets hers in the end, fleeing in terror from Matilda’s telekinesis, but we love to hate her in the interim."