Worse headmistress; Miss Trunchbull vs Dolores Umbridge (2024)

yingyang590

East of eerie, North of normal and West of weird
  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #1

Who was the worse school headmistress?

The child tossing, iron maidening, force feeding Trunchbull?

Or the racist torturing, hem hemming Umbridge?
Worse headmistress; Miss Trunchbull vs Dolores Umbridge (2)

Yeesus

It's all cowabunga!
  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #2

they are both horrible horrible people

but dolores i absolutly abhor, annoying as feck

i hope she dies a horrible death (not the actor of course)

Da Git

Da 'Ard Boy
  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #3

Trunchbull would certainly win in a cat fight, that is for sure. Her super human strength is a little scary, tbh. That said.... Dolores scares me more because of the way she acts....freaky... very freaky...

I might prefer Trunchbull. I mean, at least with Trunchbull, it is a what you see is what you get. You kinda go in knowing what to expect and how to avoid her wrath, while Dolores is... creepy.

I take scary over creepy any day.

Martianhunter

The world is a strange place.

Super Awesome Happy Funtime

  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #4

Da Git said:

Trunchbull would certainly win in a cat fight, that is for sure. Her super human strength is a little scary, tbh. That said.... Dolores scares me more because of the way she acts....freaky... very freaky...

I might prefer Trunchbull. I mean, at least with Trunchbull, it is a what you see is what you get. You kinda go in knowing what to expect and how to avoid her wrath, while Dolores is... creepy.

I take scary over creepy any day.

I agree. Trunchable does not force children to repeatedly torture themselves using magical blood sucking pens.

M3 Lee

Cyborg Commando
  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #5

I voted Trunchbull, but only because I am(vaguely) more knowledgeable about her than the other character.

Obscure

Dream A Little Dream Of Me
  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #6

Umbridge, because her torture involved students carving their own hands open. She also didn't have a problem with using the Cruciatus on them if necessary.

Fission Battery

Adviser (CrW)

  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #7

I saw Matilda recently with my parents, it was on TV and you know what? The Trunchball is a fucking beast! She's more animal than human! The scenes with her have this tension. Knowing she's going to snap at someone, but you just never know who. Almost like the Joker, she enters the room shit is going down one way or another.

But Umbridge...... enough said. She tortured the students! It's her attitude and demeanor! That's what's really scary about her.

In a fight the Trunchbull breaks her in two, but this isn't a fight. As said above, at least with the Truncbull you know what you're going to get and if you stay in line she doesn't look your way. Umbridge doesn't give you that leisurely.

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Mad Luddite

Mayor-King
  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #8

Martianhunter said:

I agree. Trunchable does not force children to repeatedly torture themselves using magical blood sucking pens.

Trunchbull near impales a girl because she has pigtails. She also stuffs kids into an iron-maiden like device for actual insubordination.

Murazor

Shapeshifting Modster of Darkness

Super Moderator

  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #9

Trunchbull is worse, by about an inch. Umbridge's acts beyond the school paint her as an even worse person, overall, but as headmistress she is actually willing to spare her minion squad the horror, while the Trunchbull is an equal opportunity terrorizer.

Dark Lord Bob

Ambition
  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #10

Having seen Matilda ages ago:
Does Trunchbull actually allow the curriculum to get taught?

Calaveras

  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #11

Trunchbull nearly murderered a student by throwing them by their pigtails.

Umbridge just tortured.

Slayer_of_Gods

  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #12

Warhammer

  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #13

Umbridge because as bad as Trunchbull is (and good god is she evil) she at least is a lowly headteacher. Umbridge is a high ranking member of the wizard government so her evil spreads further.

Dimensionist

Grand Master of Apologism, Keeper of the Faith
  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #14

Slayer_of_Gods said:

With the Dementors, she was trying to kill a specific student for political reasons. Incidentally, I believe that same student was also the only one she tortured that way.

Trunchbull nearly murdered a student for Wearing. Fucking. Pigtails. And when students misbehave in her presence, she tosses them into an Iron Maiden equivalent.

I'm sorry, but there's really no comparison to be made here, not when it concerns who's a worse headmistress. Umbridge is a creepy, horrible teacher who abuses her authority and has a massive hate-on for the protagonist.

Trunchbull? She's basically Headmistress!Satan.

Slayer_of_Gods

  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #15

Dimensionist said:

With the Dementors, she was trying to kill a specific student for political reasons. Incidentally, I believe that same student was also the only one she tortured that way.

Trunchbull nearly murdered a student for Wearing. Fucking. Pigtails. And when students misbehave in her presence, she tosses them into an Iron Maiden equivalent.

I'm sorry, but there's really no comparison to be made here, not when it concerns who's a worse headmistress. Umbridge is a creepy, horrible teacher who abuses her authority and has a massive hate-on for the protagonist.

Trunchbull? She's basically Headmistress!Satan.

Dudley! And Harry wasn't the only student to be tortured. Lee Jordan for one.

Dimensionist

Grand Master of Apologism, Keeper of the Faith
  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #16

Slayer_of_Gods said:

The target was Harry.Worse headmistress; Miss Trunchbull vs Dolores Umbridge (18)

Slayer_of_Gods said:

And Harry wasn't the only student to be tortured. Lee Jordan for one.

Oh yeah? Alright, consider that one sentence conceded then.

Trunchbull is still way worse, though. I mean, look at their torture methodologies - cutting someone enough to draw blood vs shutting someone inside an Iron Maiden equivalent.

Horton

Not a Saber clone

Banned

  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #17

Both are shitheads.

But Trunchball. Why? Because she both does her acts on much younger kids and she doesn't just torture, she flat out tries to murder as well.

Thing that amazed me is that Trunchball actually got away with it and didn't get arrested for child abuse.

Da Git

Da 'Ard Boy
  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #18

Horton said:

Both are shitheads.

But Trunchball. Why? Because she both does her acts on much younger kids and she doesn't just torture, she flat out tries to murder as well.

Thing that amazed me is that Trunchball actually got away with it and didn't get arrested for child abuse.

There wasn't cuffs or prison bars strong enough, so they gave up. Worse headmistress; Miss Trunchbull vs Dolores Umbridge (21)

D.E.X

  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #19

The thing is as horrible as miss Trunchbull was she never killed some one.

Umbridge seemed like she was about to use the killing curse on Harry and Hermione. She later was a judge at a magical holocaust (making her likely responsible for the death and mind rape of hundreds maybe even thousands) and enjoyed it to the point she made a god damn patronus charm. This isn't even a contest.

Shadow Archon

Protoss Preserver
  • Mar 12, 2015
  • #20

I don't know which one is objectively worse, but I do know which one is the most terrifying...

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fractalman

  • Mar 14, 2015
  • #21

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