He also appears in another novel, Danny, the Champion of the World, in which he is introduced as a folkloric character. When he receives the nightmare, Fleshlumpeater immediately starts "thrashing about madly" and screams about Jack chasing him.

Eight are successfully shackled, but Fleshlumpeater awakes; Sophie and the BFG trick him into being tied up. While having the nightmare, he is yelling about the "spikesticking beanstalk" that Jack is using and Fleshlumpeater is squirming all over the ground like a "colossal tortured snake.

The name suggests he likes to smash maidens, but it is never confirmed it could mean he smashes them with his teeth. Since he does not eat people, he must eat the only crop which grows on his land —-- the repulsive snozzcumber, which looks like a cucumber. The BFG becomes the ball in a game of toss, as each of the other giants tries to launch him higher into the air. When the Bloodbottler, one of the other giants, enters the cave uninvited, Sophie hides in the snozzcumber; not knowing this, the BFG, in the hope that its revolting taste will drive the Bloodbottler away and thus prevent his discovering Sophie, tricks the Bloodbottler into eating the vegetable.

A TV series based on The BFG is being developed as part of Netflix's "animated series event", based on Roald Dahl's books. Singh, Anita (7 August 2010) "Roald Dahl's secret notebook reveals heartbreak over daughter's death".Sophie: The imaginative, creative, nearsighted and kind-hearted protagonist of the story who becomes a brave international heroine. When the BFG stopped catching dreams early because of a trogglehumper, or nightmare, Sophie can see that the BFG is a sensitive giant. The BFG takes her to Giant Country, where they eat snozzcumbers, go dream-catching, and stop the other giants from eating human beans. As of 2009, the novel has sold 37 million copies, with more than 1 million copies sold around the world every year. They vary their choice of destination both to avoid detection and because the humans' origins affect their taste.

Inside the jar, just below the edge of the label, Sophie could see the putting-to-sleep dream lying peacefully on the bottom, pulsing gently, sea-green like the other one, but perhaps a trifle larger. Sophie, squinting through the glare of the sun, saw several tremendous tall figures moving among the rocks about five hundred yards away.Roald Dahl Books Get New Edits—And Critics Cry Censorship: The Controversy Surrounding 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' And More". Luckily, the larger giant spits her out unnoticed and leaves in disgust, much to the BFG's and Sophie's relief. Fully convinced, she authorizes a task force to travel to the giants' homeland and secure them as they sleep.

He pretends to be a tree in a park so that he can pick off the humans that go under him or families that stop to have a picnic underneath him. Despite Roald Dahl having enjoined his publishers not to "so much as change a single comma in one of my books", in February 2023 Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Books, announced it would be re-writing portions of many of Dahl's children's novels, changing the language to, in the publisher's words, "ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed by all today. But most astonishing of all, the force of the explosions actually lifted the enormous giant clear off his feet, like a rocket.Every country that the giants had visited in the past sends thanks and gifts to the BFG and Sophie, for whom residences are built in Windsor Great Park. About Netflix - NETFLIX TO CREATE EXCLUSIVE SLATE OF ORIGINAL ANIMATED EVENT SERIES FROM THE ICONIC ROALD DAHL STORY UNIVERSE".