...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
The BFG
- 549 statements
- 107 feature instances
- 68 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. | |
The BFG / int_125a7a4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_125a7a4e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_125a7a4e | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_1439161f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_1439161f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_1439161f | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_149f34b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_149f34b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_149f34b6 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_16ddefda | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_16ddefda | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_16ddefda | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_1b3b48f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_1b3b48f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_1b3b48f3 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_1bfe5406 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_1bfe5406 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_1bfe5406 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_1e7487cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_1e7487cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_1e7487cd | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_20e1cb81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_20e1cb81 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_20e1cb81 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_21eb1793 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_21eb1793 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_21eb1793 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_22071825 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_22071825 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_22071825 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_22cf536c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_22cf536c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_22cf536c | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_23781532 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
The BFG / int_23781532 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_23781532 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_23be181a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_23be181a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_23be181a | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_295087bf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_295087bf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_295087bf | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_2ae29c0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_2ae29c0d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_2ae29c0d | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_2eeb91b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_2eeb91b2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_2eeb91b2 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_36c64123 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_36c64123 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_36c64123 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_370fcc49 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_370fcc49 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_370fcc49 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_38119dcf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_38119dcf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_38119dcf | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_3a6a7b0a | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
The BFG / int_3a6a7b0a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_3a6a7b0a | |
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!" | |
The BFG / int_3e823033 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_3e823033 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_3e823033 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_401d4116 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_401d4116 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_401d4116 | |
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!"). | |
The BFG / int_4192763e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_4192763e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_4192763e | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_424feb18 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_424feb18 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_424feb18 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_440d1d0b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_440d1d0b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_440d1d0b | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_44fc28e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_44fc28e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_44fc28e8 | |
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." | |
The BFG / int_479d4e5a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_479d4e5a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_479d4e5a | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_485eb589 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_485eb589 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_485eb589 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_4ac8b81f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_4ac8b81f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_4ac8b81f | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_4de1a4f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_4de1a4f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_4de1a4f7 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_50ae8e55 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_50ae8e55 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_50ae8e55 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_5123df54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_5123df54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_5123df54 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_54bb502b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_54bb502b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_54bb502b | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_567e2f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_567e2f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_567e2f0 | |
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.) | |
The BFG / int_5973fab5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_5973fab5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_5973fab5 | |
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". | |
The BFG / int_5beef860 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_5beef860 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_5beef860 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_5f146203 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_5f146203 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_5f146203 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_60fa92ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_60fa92ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_60fa92ac | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_65acf9db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_65acf9db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_65acf9db | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_65e9d9df | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_65e9d9df | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_65e9d9df | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_66d13ab9 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
The BFG / int_66d13ab9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_66d13ab9 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_6a47a1e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_6a47a1e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_6a47a1e2 | |
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). | |
The BFG / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_6bda9a30 | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_6c85d03a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_6c85d03a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_6c85d03a | |
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!"). | |
The BFG / int_6cdc784f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The BFG / int_6cdc784f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The BFG | hasFeature |
The BFG / int_6cdc784f | |
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. | |
The BFG / int_6d443a34 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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 |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.