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The BFG

549 statements
107 feature instances
67 referencing feature instances

The BFG	type	TVTItem
The BFG	label	The BFG
The BFG	page	TheBFG
The BFG	comment	NO! Not that kind of BFG! Not to be confused with The Notorious B.I.G. either. The BFG is a book by Roald Dahl. "BFG" in this case stands for Big Friendly Giant, and is the name of one of the protagonists. He is a Giant, the magic mythological kind who lives in Giant Country and is the only member of his race who doesn't eat humans. The other protagonist is Sophie, a little orphan girl who the BFG kidnaps (an action he later regrets) because she catches a glimpse of him for fear that she will tell the outside world of his presence— she's terrified at first, but, once she learns he's nice, she's actually quite glad to be out of the horrible orphanage she lived in.The other nine Giants are child killers, and downright terrifying. Sophie is very nearly eaten by one (the Bloodbottler) but survives when he spits out the disgusting vegetable she's hiding in. The BFG lets Sophie in on his secret job — catching dreams from Dream Country, then mixing them up and distributing them to children (blowing them through a big trumpet). He also locks away any nightmares he finds, to make sure they don't find a way to kids by themselves.Sophie comes up with a plan to capture the other giants: Making the Queen of England dream about the Giants and also that they can be stopped by a little girl called Sophie and a friendly Giant. Thus, when she appears on the Queen's windowsill, Sophie is instantly believed (with the additional backup of a recent ring of child massacres that the Queen also dreams about on the same night that they happen). The Queen calls on the Army and the RAF to capture the Giants, which they do with the help of the BFG and Sophie.An Animated Adaptation was made by Cosgrove Hall for The Cannon Group in 1989, with its own trope page here. A new live-action adaptation by Disney directed by Steven Spielberg was released in July 2016, with its own trope page here.
The BFG	fetched	2023-10-07T09:29:31Z
The BFG	parsed	2023-10-07T09:29:31Z
The BFG	processingComment	Dropped link to HollywoodAtlas: Not a Feature - IGNORE
The BFG	processingComment	Dropped link to JackAndTheBeanstalk: Not a Feature - ITEM
The BFG	processingComment	Dropped link to OliverTwist: Not a Feature - ITEM
The BFG	processingComment	Dropped link to Simplicissimus: Not a Feature - ITEM
The BFG	processingComment	Dropped link to TheBraveLittleTailor: Not a Feature - ITEM
The BFG	processingComment	Dropped link to thebible: Not a Feature - ITEM
The BFG	isPartOf	DBTropes
The BFG / int_125a7a4e	type	Dream Weaver
The BFG / int_125a7a4e	comment	Dream Weaver: The BFG is a benign example, mixing up good dreams for the children of the world from the bottled small dreams he captures, and locking away nightmares. He's reluctant to mix up the dream for the Queen in Sophie's plan because, as it's about the horror of the giants, it's naturally a nightmare.
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The BFG / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The BFG / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: The BFG has a mild one when he accidentally catches a particularly nasty nightmare while fishing for dreams, which upsets him so much that he immediately decides to go home. He quickly gets over it by deciding to give the nightmare to one of the other giants.
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The BFG / int_149f34b6	type	Pretty Butterflies
The BFG / int_149f34b6	comment	Pretty Butterflies: As the BFG can hear animals talking, he says the only thing caterpillars talk about is who is going to be the prettiest butterfly.
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The BFG / int_16ddefda	type	Alcohol-Induced Idiocy
The BFG / int_16ddefda	comment	Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Three drunk men become the last victims of the giants when they climb over the fence surrounding the giant pit and fall in. Then they put warning signs on the fence that say "Do Not Feed The Giants" — though how this will stop any more drunken idiots from climbing the fence is anyone's guess.
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The BFG / int_1b3b48f3	type	David Versus Goliath
The BFG / int_1b3b48f3	comment	David Versus Goliath: The BFG and the humans against the evil giants.note The BFG, despite his size, is still an example of this trope, as not only is he smaller than the other 9 giants, the other giants also disown him for not following their practice of eating children.
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The BFG / int_1bfe5406	type	Masochist's Meal
The BFG / int_1bfe5406	comment	Masochist's Meal: The snozzcumber, a disgusting vegetable that tastes of frogskins and rotten fish. Since the BFG refuses to eat humans or steal from them, snozzcumbers are the only thing he can eat, since they're the only plants that grow in Giant County. At the end, the other giants are fed snozzcumbers after being trapped in a giant pit.
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The BFG / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
The BFG / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: The Malaproper BFG repeatedly mispronounces Charles Dickens as Dahl's Chickens. This is given a Shout-Out in the film version of Matilda.
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The BFG / int_20e1cb81	type	Weird World, Weird Food
The BFG / int_20e1cb81	comment	Weird World, Weird Food: The only food that grows in Giant Country is the icky-poo vegetable, the snozzcumber; and the only drink to be had is Frobscottle, which fizzes downwards instead of up, and causes rude "whizzpopping" noises from the drinker's bottom. This might explain why the giants eat humans; their homegrown stuff is too gross.
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The BFG / int_21eb1793	type	Muggles Do It Better
The BFG / int_21eb1793	comment	Muggles Do It Better: The British Army and the RAF could have easily obliterated the giants (as discussed in length by the Field Marshal and the Air Chief Marshal — tanks, machine guns, bombs, artillery, fighter jets, etc). Yet, they managed to tie them up in their sleep, commando style, without firing a shot, and still come out on top. Interestingly, despite their stupidity and contempt for the Puny Humans, the evil giants are all well aware of this — they understand that if one of them is spotted then they might all be hunted down, and according to the BFG the Fleshlumpeater has wanted to eat the Queen of England for a while, but doesn't dare risk it because she's protected by soldiers.
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The BFG / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The BFG / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The other nine giants, who all travel into the world and eat humans on a daily basis. The BFG is too polite to do this, so the other giants don’t tend to look upon him fondly.
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The BFG / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The BFG / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The Queen gives Sophie a sapphire brooch to wear. Later, she stabs the Fleshlumpeater with it to distract him from eating a soldier.
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The BFG / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
The BFG / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Both played straight and averted in the BFG's name. While the "Friendly Giant" makes sense, "Big" does not. While he is a giant, he is actually much smaller than the other giants. While he is big in comparison to humans, it makes no sense to call him big and a giant, because the other giants are the big ones.
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The BFG / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
The BFG / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: Sophie has a moment of this, just after she has been taken away by the BFG. Even though she is terrified that she is about to be eaten, she is angry when she learns that the Bonecrunching Giant will only gobble Turks.
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The BFG / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
The BFG / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: The one good giant calls himself the "Big Friendly Giant", even though he's by far the smallest of the giants (although at least the "Friendly" part is beyond question). Admittedly, calling himself "The SFG" probably wouldn't have sounded as good.
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The BFG / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The BFG / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The only human bean giants fear is the legendary Jack and his giant-killing beanstalk.
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The BFG / int_2eeb91b2	type	The Runt at the End
The BFG / int_2eeb91b2	comment	The Runt at the End: The BFG is the smallest and physically weakest of the giants. This, along with his refusal to eat humans, is why they all ostracize him.
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The BFG / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
The BFG / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: The giant named "The Big Friendly Giant" note or BFG for short, though he does have some Deadpan Snarker-ish moments.
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The BFG / int_370fcc49	type	Meaningful Appearance
The BFG / int_370fcc49	comment	Meaningful Appearance: Compare the BFG to the other giants: While the BFG looks like a friendly oversized human (with unusually large ears) the evil giants are humanoid monsters. The BFG wears a full set of clothes while the evil giants merely wear loincloths, showing how the BFG is not just nicer but also more intelligent and civilized. Unlike his fellow giants who are barefoot, the BFG wears "ridiculous sandals which for some reason had holes cut along each side, with a large hole at the end where his toes stuck out". These sandals were based on ones worn by Roald Dahl himself, who sent one of them to the illustrator Quentin Blake.
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The BFG / int_38119dcf	type	Not the Fall That Kills You
The BFG / int_38119dcf	comment	Not the Fall That Kills You…: Downplayed when Sophie is spat out of the Bloodbottler's mouth, from a height of fifty feet. Instead of hitting the stony wall of the cave, which would certainly have killed her, she hits the soft folds of the BFG's cloak hanging up, and then drops to the ground, half-stunned.
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The BFG / int_3a6a7b0a	type	Starving Artist
The BFG / int_3a6a7b0a	comment	Starving Artist: Subverted, though the BFG has to eat disgusting Snozzcumbers. Dreams that escape from dreamland are illogical, nonsensical, and some of them are nightmarish. The BFG makes dreams have beginnings, middles, and endings, thus turning them into stories for children and adults everywhere, taking great pride in his not-for-profit work.
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The BFG / int_3e823033	type	Invisible Streaker
The BFG / int_3e823033	comment	Invisible Streaker: One dream describes a boy who makes himself invisible, while he is naked in the bath. Later he puts on his dressing gown and slippers (which are still visible) and walks in the streets, scaring people, who say "A ghost! A ghost!"
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The BFG / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
The BFG / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: Although the BFG likens the Giants' eating of humans to the humans' eating of animals, it doesn't stop him tucking into ham and eggs. Even though he brings up pigs as a specific example.
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The BFG / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
The BFG / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: The BFG is a constant malaproper ("Right as snow!" {Right as rain}, "Two rights is not making a left" {Two wrongs don't make a right}). Both these cases aren't examples of the BFG being stupid, but are because (as he has no parents) he is self-taught. Quite an impressive feat all in all, given that in the original book, he managed to teach himself to read and write from a single book — Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby. In the book, he eventually gets tuition and doesn't do this anymore. The evil Giants, however, aren't interested in such pursuits and play the trope straight ("I is now going to search the primroses!").
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The BFG / int_424feb18	type	That Was Not a Dream
The BFG / int_424feb18	comment	That Was Not a Dream: A central part of Sophie's plan to catch the man-eating giants once and for all. Since the Queen of England would never believe a story about the giants, Sophie and the BFG decide to make her dream about them; and to avert All Just a Dream, the dream includes Sophie sitting on the Queen's window sill; and as planned, Sophie is indeed there when the Queen wakes. The Queen is further convinced when she reads the newspaper about children disappearing from school dormitories that very night.
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The BFG / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
The BFG / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: The BFG reveals the location of Giant Country to humans so they can defeat the evil giants and no more children will be eaten.
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The BFG / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The BFG / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: The BFG would rather subsist on disgusting snozzcumbers than steal food from humans.
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The BFG / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The BFG / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The giants will eat children as readily as adults. True to his name, the Childchewing Giant prefers snacking on children because they're "not so tough to eat as old grandmamma."
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The BFG / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
The BFG / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: At the end, the evil giants are trapped in a deep pit and given only disgusting vegetables for food... save the one occasion three drunk men scaled the fence and fell in. The nightmares the BFG catches are literally in cans.
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The BFG / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
The BFG / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: The BFG is disdainful of humankind in general, but realizes by the end that not all humans are bad.
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The BFG / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
The BFG / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: When the Fleshlumpeater is about to devour a poor soldier, Sophie takes the pin of the brooch she's wearing and uses it to stab him in the ankle. The Fleshlumpeater howls in pain, and the BFG tricks him into thinking he's been bitten by a poisonous viper and needs to grab his leg with both hands to stop the poison going into his heart, which makes it easy to tie him up.
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The BFG / int_50ae8e55	type	Little Miss Snarker
The BFG / int_50ae8e55	comment	Little Miss Snarker: Sophie has many moments of this in her dialogue with the BFG, and sometimes in the narrative.
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The BFG / int_5123df54	type	Dramatic Sit-Down
The BFG / int_5123df54	comment	Dramatic Sit-Down: Just after the Queen's maid dropped the breakfast tray, the Queen tells her that she ought to sit down; normally it would be unthinkable for a servant to sit in the presence of the Queen.
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The BFG / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
The BFG / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Zigzagged. Despite extensive mention of "whizzpopping", it is never mentioned how or when the giants relieve themselves. As they believe that "burping is filthsome", perhaps it is not polite for them to talk about it. However, at the beginning it is mentioned that the children in Sophie's orphanage are punished if they go to the lavatory at night.
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The BFG / int_567e2f0	type	No True Scotsman
The BFG / int_567e2f0	comment	No True Scotsman: The other giants essentially disown the BFG for not eating humans, though neither party does anything to patch the ties.
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The BFG / int_5973fab5	type	Does Not Like Spam
The BFG / int_5973fab5	comment	Does Not Like Spam: The only people that giants won't eat are Greeks, because "they taste greasy". (The Greek translation of the book says that Greeks taste like olive oil.)
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The BFG / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
The BFG / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: All the Giants are terrified of only one human — the legendary Jack (see Cultural Translation for other languages). Also, it seems that Fleshlumpeater is literally scared of snakes as well: the title character at once point scares him with "the Venomsome Vindscreen Viper".
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The BFG / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
The BFG / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Slightly downplayed with the Queen of England's reaction to her nightmare about man-eating giants, finding Sophie on her window sill, the realisation of That Was Not a Dream, meeting a giant for the first time, and the BFG's demonstration of a whizzpopper. Although gasps and wide-eyed disbelief do escape her, she takes it much more calmly than her maid.
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The BFG / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The BFG / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The villainous giants: The Childchewer, the Gizzardgulper, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bloodbottler, etc.
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The BFG / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The BFG / int_65acf9db	comment	She Knows Too Much: Not quite. Sophie is snatched from her bed so she can't reveal the giants' existence to the human world.
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The BFG / int_65e9d9df	type	Fooled by the Sound
The BFG / int_65e9d9df	comment	Fooled by the Sound: Just before capturing the giants, the head of the army hears a sound like gunfire, and orders his men to turn back; but it is only the giants snoring.
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The BFG / int_66d13ab9	type	Talking in Your Dreams
The BFG / int_66d13ab9	comment	Talking in Your Dreams: Subverted in that the BFG and Sophie create a dream for the Queen of England about the man-eating giants, since she would never believe them if they simply told her. To make the "dream come true", the dream includes Sophie sitting on the Queen's window sill, which the Queen then sees in real life when she wakes.
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The BFG / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
The BFG / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: The other giants; they induce Mood Whiplash whenever they appear and their Child Eater habits are played very seriously.
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The BFG / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The BFG / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: All the giants have very obvious names relating to their characters (e.g. Bloodbottler, Bonecruncher, Childchewer, Fleshlumpeater, Maidmasher... and the BFG himself).
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The BFG / int_6c85d03a	type	The Hidden Hour
The BFG / int_6c85d03a	comment	The Hidden Hour: The first chapter of the book is called "The Witching Hour", during which Sophie looks out of the window, and sees the BFG.
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The BFG / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
The BFG / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: All the Giants speak in broken and mangled English, including the BFG (though he has a better grasp than the others). Also, only the bad Giants have the violent element. In the book, he eventually gets tuition and doesn't do this any more. The evil Giants, however, aren't interested in such pursuits and play the tropes pretty much straight ("I is now going to search the primroses!").
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The BFG / int_6d443a34	type	Closet Punishment
The BFG / int_6d443a34	comment	Closet Punishment: Children at the orphanage are punished for being out of bed at night by being locked in the cellar for a day and a night, without anything to eat or drink.
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The BFG / int_6d443a34	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_6d443a34
The BFG / int_6dd49338	type	Invisible President
The BFG / int_6dd49338	comment	Invisible President: Averted; the Queen is not only seen, but is a major character and plays an important role in the story, and a fairly worshipfully-written one, too. Though admittedly she's only called The Queen of England, not Queen Elizabeth II. However, she looks rather like her in Quentin Blake's extremely-stylized illustrations for the book.
The BFG / int_6dd49338	featureApplicability	-1.0
The BFG / int_6dd49338	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_6dd49338
The BFG / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
The BFG / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Good dreams are green, stable ovoids. Nightmares are thrashing red storms.
The BFG / int_735b4101	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_735b4101	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_735b4101
The BFG / int_744f2273	type	Jar of the Bizarre
The BFG / int_744f2273	comment	Jar of the Bizarre: A notable feature of the BFG's cave is the many thousands of glass bottles filling every nook and cranny. These contain the dreams which the BFG collects, although this is not revealed for several chapters after the bottles are first mentioned. Even an enemy giant's curiosity is tickled by the bottles.
The BFG / int_744f2273	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_744f2273	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_744f2273
The BFG / int_7ae40f90	type	Manly Facial Hair
The BFG / int_7ae40f90	comment	Manly Facial Hair: Played for Laughs. One of the dreams in the BFG's storage is about a little boy who is only eight years old but is already growing a splendid bushy beard, making all the other boys jealous. In keeping with Dahl's famous dislike of beards, the evil giants are all drawn with filthy and scraggly beards contributing to their disgusting appearances.
The BFG / int_7ae40f90	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_7ae40f90	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_7ae40f90
The BFG / int_7d49d74a	type	Cultural Translation
The BFG / int_7d49d74a	comment	Cultural Translation: In the Hebrew version the giants fear David (from David and Goliath) rather than Jack. In the German version the giants fear The Brave Little Tailor from Grimm's fairy tales. In the Dutch version the BFG owns a copy of Oliver Twist, rather than Nicholas Nickleby. In German the book is Simplicissimus by Grimmelshausen who the BFG calls Himmels Grausen (heaven's horror).note Grimmelshausen lived in the 17th century. Had the BFG learned from him, his language should be even weirder.
The BFG / int_7d49d74a	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_7d49d74a	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_7d49d74a
The BFG / int_7d81759e	type	Magical Land
The BFG / int_7d81759e	comment	Magical Land: Giant Country and Dream Country. The book indicates these are unexplored territories on Earth.
The BFG / int_7d81759e	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_7d81759e	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_7d81759e
The BFG / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The BFG / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Sophie righteously declares "whizzpopping" to be extremely rude; yet when the BFG demonstrates "whizzpopping" with a force akin to rocket propulsion as the result of drinking Frobscottle, she cannot contain her laughter. She also can't help but smile when the BFG talks about Jack, the only human giants fear, as she's fully aware that Jack is a fictional character.
The BFG / int_8042e814	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_8042e814	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_8042e814
The BFG / int_8163e2bb	type	Dramatic Drop
The BFG / int_8163e2bb	comment	Dramatic Drop: When Mary the maid hears that Queen dreamed about boys and girls being eaten by the giants on the same night that it actually happened, she drops the Queen's breakfast tray.
The BFG / int_8163e2bb	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_8163e2bb	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_8163e2bb
The BFG / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The BFG / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Someone getting into the Queen's bedroom past the security? Happened the same year the book was published. Twice.
The BFG / int_85557b38	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_85557b38	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_85557b38
The BFG / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
The BFG / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: Compared to other giants, the BFG is a runt. The other Giants use it as a sort of nickname.
The BFG / int_88ebc539	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_88ebc539	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_88ebc539
The BFG / int_8b3ab1ce	type	Nuclear Candle
The BFG / int_8b3ab1ce	comment	Nuclear Candle: The vast cave is lit by "brilliant blinding lights which seem to come from nowhere", the nature of which is never explained.
The BFG / int_8b3ab1ce	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_8b3ab1ce	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_8b3ab1ce
The BFG / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
The BFG / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: The BFG is the only good giant, the rest are Always Chaotic Evil.
The BFG / int_8f612013	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_8f612013	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_8f612013
The BFG / int_91bab7e0	type	Monstrous Humanoid
The BFG / int_91bab7e0	comment	While the BFG looks like a friendly oversized human (with unusually large ears) the evil giants are humanoid monsters.
The BFG / int_91bab7e0	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_91bab7e0	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_91bab7e0
The BFG / int_921bd3b7	type	TheEvilGenius
The BFG / int_921bd3b7	comment	The Evil Genius: Compared to the Fleshlumpeater who is dumb enough for the BFG himself to defeat, the Bloodbottler is apparently the smartest of the bunch. In his first scene, he barges into the BFG's cave, having overheard him talking to Sophie and correctly assumes that there is a "human bean" around. Furthermore, it takes the BFG a great deal of persuasion and lies to trick the Bloodbottler into tasting a snozzcumber.
The BFG / int_921bd3b7	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_921bd3b7	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_921bd3b7
The BFG / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
The BFG / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: Giant Country is a mild example, not being on a map but being quite reachable by helicopter. The Land of Dreams is an even weirder place, but appears to be less dangerous.
The BFG / int_9bee1a7f	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_9bee1a7f	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_9bee1a7f
The BFG / int_a0eeac39	type	Odd Name Out
The BFG / int_a0eeac39	comment	Odd Name Out: Bloodbottler, Bonecruncher, Childchewer, Fleshlumpeater, Maidmasher... and The Butcher Boy. And, understandably, the BFG.
The BFG / int_a0eeac39	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_a0eeac39	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_a0eeac39
The BFG / int_a2ff4e6f	type	Single Tear
The BFG / int_a2ff4e6f	comment	Single Tear: When the BFG hears about Sophie being locked in the cellar at her orphanage, he sheds a tear that would fill a bucket, making quite a puddle.note Considering he learned English from Nicholas Nickleby, he should not have been surprised.
The BFG / int_a2ff4e6f	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_a2ff4e6f	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_a2ff4e6f
The BFG / int_a633a438	type	Really700YearsOld
The BFG / int_a633a438	comment	Really 700 Years Old: The BFG and the other giants are thousands of years old.
The BFG / int_a633a438	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_a633a438	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_a633a438
The BFG / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The BFG / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: The BFG originally made a one-chapter appearance in Dahl's previous book Danny, the Champion of the World, as a character in a bedtime story told by Danny's father.
The BFG / int_a65288e2	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_a65288e2	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_a65288e2
The BFG / int_a6a68db3	type	Humble Goal
The BFG / int_a6a68db3	comment	Humble Goal: The BFG dreams of riding on an elephant and picking peaches off trees. He gets his wish at the end when all the countries of the world send gifts to thank him and Sophie for getting rid of the giants, including an elephant.
The BFG / int_a6a68db3	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_a6a68db3	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_a6a68db3
The BFG / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The BFG / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Mrs. Clonkers, owner of the Orphanage of Fear Sophie is living in at the beginning, who imposed all sorts of petty rules on the orphans and would lock them in a rat-infested cellar as punishment for breaking them. She isn't mentioned again after Sophie tells the BFG about her, and as far as we know is still abusing the kids in her care at the end of the story. (Averted in the 1989 cartoon film, in which the Queen has her orphanage shut down and makes her the giants' keeper.)
The BFG / int_a70223	featureApplicability	-1.0
The BFG / int_a70223	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_a70223
The BFG / int_a8c462db	type	Super-Senses
The BFG / int_a8c462db	comment	Super-Senses: The BFG has super-powerful hearing, enabling him to hear ants talking to each other (although he can't understand the language), the screams of flowers as they're picked, and on clear nights, he can hear faint music coming from space.
The BFG / int_a8c462db	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_a8c462db	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_a8c462db
The BFG / int_a8cbf649	type	I Should Write a Book About This
The BFG / int_a8cbf649	comment	I Should Write a Book About This: At the very end of the story, the BFG (having become literate) tells Sophie that he's planning to write a novel about their adventures. The last line of the book is "You've just finished reading it."
The BFG / int_a8cbf649	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_a8cbf649	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_a8cbf649
The BFG / int_aa7dc8ce	type	Luke Nounverber
The BFG / int_aa7dc8ce	comment	Luke Nounverber: Not counting the BFG himself, all but one of the giants have this type of name: Fleshlumpeater, Bloodbottler, Gizzardgulper, etc. The only exception is one called the Butcher Boy.
The BFG / int_aa7dc8ce	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_aa7dc8ce	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_aa7dc8ce
The BFG / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
The BFG / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: In the book, Sophie and the BFG stay in Windsor Great Park in the end.
The BFG / int_add931af	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_add931af	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_add931af
The BFG / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The BFG / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: While Sophie at first doesn't like the idea of giving the Queen a nightmare of giants eating children, she and the BFG agree that it has to be done if they want to save everyone from being eaten by the giants once and for all.
The BFG / int_b17f6a27	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_b17f6a27	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_b17f6a27
The BFG / int_b2e5a4f3	type	Virtuous Vegetarianism
The BFG / int_b2e5a4f3	comment	Virtuous Vegetarianism: BFG's diet consists primarily of snozzcumbers, a cucumber-like vegetable, and he is the only good giant in the setting. All the other giants are evil, and eat children.
The BFG / int_b2e5a4f3	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_b2e5a4f3	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_b2e5a4f3
The BFG / int_b6844837	type	Evil Is Bigger
The BFG / int_b6844837	comment	Evil Is Bigger: Subverted by the BFG himself, but played straight in that his murderous neighbours are much larger than he is.
The BFG / int_b6844837	featureApplicability	-0.3
The BFG / int_b6844837	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_b6844837
The BFG / int_bbcdd673	type	One-Gender Race
The BFG / int_bbcdd673	comment	One-Gender Race: The Giants are exclusively male and simply come into being. The Giant race is pretty small, actually — there's only 10 of them.
The BFG / int_bbcdd673	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_bbcdd673	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_bbcdd673
The BFG / int_bbd981ee	type	Child Eater
The BFG / int_bbd981ee	comment	Child Eater: One of the giants is named "Childchewer", although all the giants probably don’t care about the age of the humans they eat.
The BFG / int_bbd981ee	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_bbd981ee	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_bbd981ee
The BFG / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
The BFG / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: All the giants eat humans except for the BFG.
The BFG / int_bd8b2b0b	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_bd8b2b0b	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_bd8b2b0b
The BFG / int_c368c3ea	type	Spoonerism
The BFG / int_c368c3ea	comment	Spoonerism: Among the many ways the BFG speaks a bit funny: when Sophie is sitting right inside his super-sensitive ear, he says "your voice is sounding like tunder and thrumpets!".
The BFG / int_c368c3ea	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_c368c3ea	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_c368c3ea
The BFG / int_c4835ce7	type	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
The BFG / int_c4835ce7	comment	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: Even though they bully him and beat him up regularly, the BFG insists that the other giants would never actually threaten his life. Giants is never killing their own kind; only humans is. In fact, the BFG claims that humans are the only species on the planet that kill their own kind.note In fact, many animal species slay their own kind (some of them will even eat their own offspring, depending on when they come across them). The real difference is, as far as we can tell, humanity is the only species to feel regret when it happens. At least threatened to be averted at the end. When trapped in the pit, the Fleshlumpeater says that if they can't guzzle human beans, they will guzzle him. Whether it was an idle threat that they ultimately wouldn't have followed through on, or they were so furious that they would have, is unknown (but would you really put your trust in those nine bloodthirsty brutes?).
The BFG / int_c4835ce7	featureApplicability	-1.0
The BFG / int_c4835ce7	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_c4835ce7
The BFG / int_c55630df	type	Large Runt
The BFG / int_c55630df	comment	Large Runt: Despite his name, the BFG is the smallest of the giants, and often bullied for it. Of cource, he is four times the size of a regular human...
The BFG / int_c55630df	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_c55630df	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_c55630df
The BFG / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
The BFG / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Used by one of the British pilots to understand where Giant Land is located; he turns to the blank page at the back of the atlas and explains it must be there. Of course, in this world, The Cuckoolander Was Right.
The BFG / int_c5f0119c	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_c5f0119c	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_c5f0119c
The BFG / int_c70907c7	type	The Butcher
The BFG / int_c70907c7	comment	The Butcher: One of the giants is named "Butcher Boy".
The BFG / int_c70907c7	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_c70907c7	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_c70907c7
The BFG / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
The BFG / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: The Fleshlumpeater is the biggest and strongest of the giants, and is their unofficial leader.
The BFG / int_c7f294da	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_c7f294da	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_c7f294da
The BFG / int_c8bea4ec	type	My Species Doth Protest Too Much
The BFG / int_c8bea4ec	comment	My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Giants are a race of violent, evil brutes who grind their teeth with human bones, especially children's. The BFG is the only good member of the race and is horrified at his cohorts' brutality and anthropophagy, which the other giants disown him for.
The BFG / int_c8bea4ec	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_c8bea4ec	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_c8bea4ec
The BFG / int_ca6e3245	type	Picked Flowers Are Dead
The BFG / int_ca6e3245	comment	Picked Flowers Are Dead: The Big Friendly Giant comments that since he can hear the voices of plants, anytime somebody picks a flower, he can hear the plant screaming as though somebody were having their arm twisted off. Sophie wonders whether she'll ever be able to pick flowers again.
The BFG / int_ca6e3245	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_ca6e3245	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_ca6e3245
The BFG / int_cacbab76	type	Wake Up Fighting
The BFG / int_cacbab76	comment	Wake Up Fighting: Justified. When the Fleshlumpeater has a terrible nightmare given to him by the BFG, his flailing limbs accidentally hit two of the other sleeping giants, who then wake up and pound him with their fists and feet, causing the wretched Fleshlumpeater to wake up, and start fighting back; and soon all nine giants have the most almighty free-for-all.
The BFG / int_cacbab76	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_cacbab76	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_cacbab76
The BFG / int_ce1d78bc	type	Foreign Queasine
The BFG / int_ce1d78bc	comment	Foreign Queasine: Snozzcumbers, which tastes absolutely repulsive. As he refuses to eat humans, or steal their vegetables, it's the only thing that the BFG can eat, as it is the only thing that grows in Giant Country.
The BFG / int_ce1d78bc	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_ce1d78bc	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_ce1d78bc
The BFG / int_cfd52068	type	Evil Orphanage Lady
The BFG / int_cfd52068	comment	Evil Orphanage Lady: Mrs. Clonkers is this to a tee.
The BFG / int_cfd52068	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_cfd52068	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_cfd52068
The BFG / int_d229ed6	type	Hobbling the Giant
The BFG / int_d229ed6	comment	Hobbling the Giant: Sophie sticks the pin of her brooch into the Fleshlumpeater's ankle, to incapacitate him when he is about to eat a soldier.
The BFG / int_d229ed6	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_d229ed6	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_d229ed6
The BFG / int_d4055b8b	type	Square-Cube Law
The BFG / int_d4055b8b	comment	Square-Cube Law: A subtle example in the book. When the BFG is visiting the queen, the butler reasons that, since the BFG is four times as tall as a human, he'll need four times the food when they go to cook breakfast for him. This turns out to be far from sufficient, as he's four times the size in every dimention, not just height—the 4x breakfast they serve him gets eaten in one bite, and trying to feed him as much as he actually needs ends up emptying the kitchen.
The BFG / int_d4055b8b	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_d4055b8b	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_d4055b8b
The BFG / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
The BFG / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: There is an entire chapter dedicated to a drink that makes one fart (or rather, "make a Whizzpopper")... in pretty epic proportions. The BFG even does one in front of the Queen, who takes it quite amusingly well under the circumstances ("I prefer the bagpipes.")
The BFG / int_d442f9d1	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_d442f9d1	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_d442f9d1
The BFG / int_d5dc7c27	type	Pajama-Clad Hero
The BFG / int_d5dc7c27	comment	Pajama-Clad Hero: Sophie spends most of the book in her nightdress. She gets a proper dress from the Queen later.
The BFG / int_d5dc7c27	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_d5dc7c27	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_d5dc7c27
The BFG / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
The BFG / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "Whizzpoppers" sounds much less crude, right?
The BFG / int_d848560f	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_d848560f	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_d848560f
The BFG / int_d90ab0d2	type	Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head
The BFG / int_d90ab0d2	comment	Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head: When the Bloodbottler unleashes a string of insults to the BFG, he finishes with a meaningless one.
The BFG / int_d90ab0d2	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_d90ab0d2	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_d90ab0d2
The BFG / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
The BFG / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: The BFG first appeared in Danny, the Champion of the World, an earlier book by Dahl, in a bedtime story told by Danny's father.
The BFG / int_d9ee7048	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_d9ee7048	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_d9ee7048
The BFG / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The BFG / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The Queen, who is implied to be Queen Elizabeth II. Roald Dahl loves his Queen.
The BFG / int_dca70c44	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_dca70c44	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_dca70c44
The BFG / int_dd963bd3	type	Our Giants Are Bigger
The BFG / int_dd963bd3	comment	Our Giants Are Bigger: ...except BFG himself, who's considerably smaller than the others.
The BFG / int_dd963bd3	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_dd963bd3	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_dd963bd3
The BFG / int_defe4ffd	type	Container Cling
The BFG / int_defe4ffd	comment	Container Cling: Subverted when the BFG's cave is invaded by the man-eating Bloodbottler giant, and Sophie hides behind a snozzcumber (a giant foul-tasting vegetable). When she realises that the snozzcumber would not hide her if the Bloodbottler picked it up, she hides inside it. The Bloodbottler does indeed pick it up, and bites a huge hunk off it, while Sophie is still inside.
The BFG / int_defe4ffd	featureApplicability	-0.3
The BFG / int_defe4ffd	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_defe4ffd
The BFG / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The BFG / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The design of the bad giants are from the Badfort Gang of Uncle, another book illustrated by Quentin.
The BFG / int_e5421161	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_e5421161	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_e5421161
The BFG / int_e699f77e	type	Borrowed Without Permission
The BFG / int_e699f77e	comment	Borrowed Without Permission: At one point, the giant explains the reason he knows how to write is because he has a book by Charles Dickens which he borrowed from a human boy. When asked how long he's had it for, he responds "Only about eighty years. Soon I shall be putting it back."
The BFG / int_e699f77e	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_e699f77e	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_e699f77e
The BFG / int_e9327f58	type	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
The BFG / int_e9327f58	comment	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: The one kind of human that no giant will ever eat are ones from Greece, because they taste too greasy.
The BFG / int_e9327f58	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_e9327f58	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_e9327f58
The BFG / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
The BFG / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: When Sophie reads the labels on the dream bottles, many of them include the dreamer waking up to being told breakfast is ready, or that they will be late for school.
The BFG / int_ea85d6ea	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_ea85d6ea	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_ea85d6ea
The BFG / int_ed98f038	type	Wall Crawl
The BFG / int_ed98f038	comment	Wall Crawl: One of the dreams collected by the BFG is about a boy inventing suction boots, enabling him to walk up the wall and across the ceiling. When the boy's sister comes in and yells at him, he says that he told her she was driving him up the wall, and now she has done it.
The BFG / int_ed98f038	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_ed98f038	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_ed98f038
The BFG / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
The BFG / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: The BFG is first mentioned as one of Danny's father's stories in Danny, the Champion of the World, written six years earlier.
The BFG / int_f0089082	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_f0089082	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_f0089082
The BFG / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The BFG / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: When the BFG asks Sophie about human drinks similar to Frobscottle, she mentions that there is one called Coke and another one called Pepsi.
The BFG / int_f511ea9b	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_f511ea9b	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_f511ea9b
The BFG / int_f9f488b8	type	Vegetarian Carnivore
The BFG / int_f9f488b8	comment	Vegetarian Carnivore: Presumably, the BFG could eat humans if he wanted to, but since he won't, he has to subsist on snozzcumbers instead.
The BFG / int_f9f488b8	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_f9f488b8	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_f9f488b8
The BFG / int_name	type	ItemName
The BFG / int_name	comment
The BFG / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
The BFG / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
The BFG	hasFeature	The BFG / int_name
The BFG / int_name	itemName	The BFG

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The BFG	hasFeature	Adopting the Abused / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Blind Without 'Em / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Borrowed Without Permission / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Catapult Nightmare / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Catchphrase Insult / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Child Abuse Is a Special Kind of Evil / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Child Eater / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Children's Literature / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Container Cling / int_d326f6bf
CosgroveHall	seeAlso	The BFG
The BFG	hasFeature	Crosses the Line Twice / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Dissonant Serenity / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Dramatic Drop / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Dramatic Sit-Down / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Dream Episode / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Dream Weaver / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Eats Babies / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Evil Orphanage Lady / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Falling Chandelier of Doom / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Fartillery / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Food End / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Fooled by the Sound / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Gassy Gastronomy / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Giant's Droplet, Human's Shower / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Giant's Knife; Human's Greatsword / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Hobbling the Giant / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	I Should Write a Book About This / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Invasion of the Baby Snatchers / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Invisible Streaker / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	It Tastes Like Feet / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Jar of the Bizarre / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Large Runt / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Little Miss Snarker / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Lost World / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Magical Land / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Masochist's Meal / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	My Species Doth Protest Too Much / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Narrator All Along / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Nightmare Sequence / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	No True Scotsman / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Nobody Poops / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Ocular Gushers / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	One-Gender Race / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Orphanage of Fear / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Our Giants Are Bigger / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Patriotic Fervor / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Perfectly Cromulent Word / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Picked Flowers Are Dead / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Picky People Eater / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Pretty Butterflies / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Reluctant Monster / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Single Tear / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Square-Cube Law / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Super-Hearing / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Talking in Your Dreams / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	That Was Not a Dream / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	The Butcher / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	The Hidden Hour / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Token Heroic Orc / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Vegetarian Carnivore / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Virtuous Vegetarianism / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Wake Up Fighting / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Wall Crawl / int_d326f6bf
The BFG	hasFeature	Weird World, Weird Food / int_d326f6bf

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