History WesternAnimation / TheBFG

* OurWormholesAreDifferent: The portal that the BFG passes through when traveling to and from Giant Country, resembles a black void with a strange, whirling haze that seems to slightly change color each time we see it.

* AnimatedMusical: The animated movie has four songs in it. They are called "Mirror, Mirror", "Whizzpopping", "Two Worlds" and "Sometimes, Secretly".

* OurWormholesAreDifferent: The "gateway" to Giant Country resembles a sandy vortex.

* ItsPronouncedTropay: Due to their severe lack of education, the Giants frequently mispronounce words in the English language; even the BFG refers to human beings as "human beans". During the climax of the film, [[spoiler:when Fleshlumpeater refers to the BFG as being more like a "human bean", the BFG defiantly corrects him]].

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The ending is changed significantly from the book. [[spoiler:For one, the Fleshlumpeater is a much bigger problem in the climax when it turns out that he wasn't among the giants tied up by the soldiers, and has to be dispatched by the BFG siccing a living nightmare on him. The BFG also returns to his home dimension with Sophie at the end, whereas in the book he decided to integrate into human society.]]

** In the book the Fleshlumpeater is the biggest and strongest of the giants, but he's also a dimwitted coward who gets taken out by an obvious trick. The animated movie makes him ''far'' more sinister, and he puts up much more of a fight before being brought down.
** Also the soldiers to some extent. In the novel, they very fearfully tie up the giants (while the military commanders wait at a safe distance) and break out into total panic when the giants wake up. Here, they go about their work rather calmly and bravely fend off the giants whom they awaken with success... [[spoiler:at least until the Fleshlumpeater arrives]].

* AnimationBump: In the animated adaptation, different characters were drawn and animated in different ways. The Queen, the Paras and the Royal Guards are drawn in a hyper-realistic, rotoscoped way, while the military commanders, the giants and even Sophie are animated in a more traditionally and cartoonish, but less detailed way. Sometimes, it can be [[UncannyValley rather jarring]] to see the Queen's comparatively stale, realistic expressions compete with the tubby, fat-nosed Field Marshall's over-the-top gesticulations, while on other occasions (like the army overpowering the giants), it's [[StylisticSuck rather genius]].

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: All the giants lack nipples and belly buttons (and presumably reproductive organs as well). This appears to be in line with the BFG's statement in the book that giants are not born.
* ArtisticLicenseSpace: In Giant country, the world according to BFG is ''ancient'', just as he is. Said world orbits two stars, one like our own sun, but the other is a bright blue stellar object -- such stars burning their mass in a hotter spectrum have ridiculously short lifespans (in comparison to other Suns like ours), and given its close proximity, it'll exhaust its hydrogen, becoming a supergiant that'll swallow up the binary yellow star and Giant country.
* AxCrazy: With his [[HairTriggerTemper short-fuse]], mood swings and sadistic delight at the thought of "crunching bones up", the Bloodbottler is, to put it lightly ... ''deranged''.

* AlienSky: Giant country has an orange sky with two suns, while dream country's is dark blue and is full of stars.

* BinarySuns: Giant country has two suns, with one being large and yellow while it's twin is smaller and green.

* DemotedToExtra: In the animated film, the giants do not feature as much as they do in the book. In the book, they are constantly being talked about and show up in many sequences.

* HellIsThatNoise: All of the other Giants make noises that fit this trope constantly, but the most notable example has to be the absolutely ''terrifying'' scream the Fleshlumpeater makes [[spoiler:when the BFG first launches a nightmare about Jack The Giant Slayer at him]].

* ItsPronouncedTropay: Due to their severe lack of education, the giants frequently mispronounce words in the English language; even the BFG refers to human beings as "human beans". During the climax of the film, [[spoiler:when Fleshlumpeater refers to the BFG as being more like a "human bean", the BFG defiantly corrects him]].

* KnightOfCerebus: The other giants; they induce MoodWhiplash whenever they appear and their ChildEater habits are played very seriously.
* LargeAndInCharge: The Fleshlumpeater is the biggest and strongest of the giants, and is their unofficial leader. He's so huge he can encircle the BFG's torso with one hand.

* TheNoseKnows: The other giants can detect the BFG trying to sneak past them just by smell.
* NoTrueScotsman: The other giants essentially disown the BFG for not eating humans, though neither party does anything to patch the ties. The climax of the film makes it clear that they [[FantasticRacism don't even consider him a giant.]]

* PerpetualFrowner: The other evil giants get an EvilLaugh, but the Fleshlumpeater never smiles at all (though he is heard demonically cackling slightly after he traps Sophie).

* PlotHole: The child-eating giants [[spoiler:are trapped forever in a deep pit in London city where they are to be imprisoned for their murderous and cruel ways ... they can travel back and forth between dimensions but they can't escape a simple hole?]] Alternatively, Giant Country seems to be bridged by the [[OurWormholesAreDifferent ethereal tunnel]] seen in the opening titles, so their inter-dimensional travel may depend on this.
** But the vortex appears to be only accessible via flight (which we know the BFG can do, so we're left to conclude that the other giants can fly as well). Surely they could just fly out?

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: In Giant country, the world according to BFG is ''ancient'', just as he is. Said world orbits two stars, one like our own sun, but the other is a bright blue stellar object -- such stars burning their mass in a hotter spectrum have ridiculously short lifespans (in comparison to other Suns like ours), and given its close proximity, it'll exhaust its hydrogen, becoming a supergiant that'll swallow up the binary yellow star and Giant country.

** But the vortex appears to be only accessible via flight (which we know the BFG can do, so we're left to conclude that the other giants can fly as well), so surely they could just fly out?

* LargeAndInCharge: The Fleshlumpeater is the biggest and strongest of the giants, and is their unofficial leader.

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:A boy is eaten by Fleshlumpeater while he's having a nice dream]].

* PlotHole: The child-eating giants [[spoiler:are trapped forever in a deep pit in London city where they are to be imprisoned for their murderous and cruel ways ... they can travel back and forth between dimensions but they can't escape a simple hole?]]

* JumpScare: Tthe moment when Bloodbottler first enters the BFG's home is ''extremely'' jarring.

''The BFG'' is a 1989 animated movie made by Creator/CosgroveHall for Creator/TheCannonGroup. It is based on [[Literature/TheBFG the novel by Roald Dahl]]. It stars Creator/DavidJason as the voice of the Big Friendly Giant and Amanda Root as the voice of his human friend Sophie.

* ShoutOut: The young boy who is eaten by the Fleshlumpeater has a ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' poster in his bedroom. This also is an in-joke on the production studio, Cosgrove Hall's part, as they animated both this movie and Danger Mouse.

* BigNo: Sophie gives a particularly terrifying one when she watches the Fleslumpeater devour a sleeping boy she and BFG had just given a happy dream.

** The scene where the BFG runs/flies in front of the moon is likely one to Film/ET.

* SergeantRock: The unamed Paratrooper Sergeant.
* ShoutOut: The young boy who is eaten by the Fleshlumpeater has a ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' poster in his bedroom.

* ObviouslyEvil: The giants look even more evil in the animated movie than their physical descriptions and illustrations from the book. For instance, Fleshlumpeater is not only a towering brute, but has fanged, rotten teeth, a scarred face, barbaric regalia, and two different colored eyes - one blood-red like the other evil Giants, and one completely clouded-over suggesting that he is blind in that eye.

* AlienSky: Giant country has an orange sky with two suns, while dream country's is dark blueand is dotted with stars.

''The BFG'' is a 1987 animated movie made by Creator/CosgroveHall for Creator/TheCannonGroup. It is based on [[Literature/TheBFG the novel by Roald Dahl]]. It stars Creator/DavidJason as the voice of the Big Friendly Giant and Amanda Root as the voice of his human friend Sophie.