Finally, Fleshlumpeater panics and flails when he is scared, but the BFG finds courage when confronting the other giants, which both pick on and intimidate him. Roald Dahl is a British author who wrote 19 well-known children's books including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. On 25 December 1989, ITV broadcast an animated film based on the book and produced by Cosgrove Hall Films on television, with David Jason providing the voice of the BFG and Amanda Root as the voice of Sophie. Being the leader of the giants, Fleshlumpeater is also the one giant who poses a problem in the plan that the BFG and Sophie devise to capture them.

Nine Man-Eating Giants: Each man-eating giant is about 50-feet-tall and proportionately broad and powerful. He also appears in another novel, Danny, the Champion of the World, in which he is introduced as a folkloric character. On his bare feet he was wearing a pair of ridiculous sandals that for some reason had holes cut along each side, with a large hole at the end where his toes stuck out. His black tongue is disgusting, looking like a slab of steak, and he finds power in intimidating the BFG. We also find out that the Fleshlumpeater has one major weakness: He's a coward (afraid of many different things), which is how Sophie and the BFG capture him.About Netflix - NETFLIX TO CREATE EXCLUSIVE SLATE OF ORIGINAL ANIMATED EVENT SERIES FROM THE ICONIC ROALD DAHL STORY UNIVERSE".

Along with all the other Giants, he is captured and bound somewhere in England, where he is fed only Snozzcumbers. This is small for a giant – the others are described as being 50 feet tall – and this could have sculpted his aesthetic sense. Imagine how Sophie felt when she first catches a glimpse of this 54-foot giant who has "piggy little eyes" and an "enormous mouth. Dahl would also sometimes pretend to be the BFG, propping a ladder against his house and pushing a bamboo cane through his children’s windows to blow happy dreams inside. They vary their choice of destination both to avoid detection and because the humans' origins affect their taste.In The BFG, more than eighty changes were made, including changing or removing references to colour in people (such as changing "Something very tall and very black and very thin" to "Something very tall and very dark and very thin", "the flashing black eyes" to "the flashing eyes", "their skins were burnt brown by the sun" to "their skins were burnt by the sun", "white as a sheet" to "still as a statue", and removing "His skin was reddish-brown"), changing "mother and father" to "parents" and "boys and girls" to "children", and changing "Esquimo" to "Inuit", "Sultan of Baghdad" to "Mayor of Baghdad", and "man-eating giants" to "human-eating giants". The BFG explains to Sophie that giants are afraid of only one person - Jack from the fairy tale ''Jack and the Beanstalk,'' where a giant is killed. Singh, Anita (7 August 2010) "Roald Dahl's secret notebook reveals heartbreak over daughter's death". Although the BFG is kind and is not going to swallow her for his midnight snack, he takes her because he knows that she would tell the other humans about seeing a giant. The Fleshlumpeater: The leader of the nine man-eating giants and the largest and most horrible of the bunch.

Having collected the BFG's dream collection, the helicopters carry the giants back to England, where they are imprisoned in a massive pit.

However, on the way home, the BFG has the idea to give Fleshlumpeater the nightmare that they had captured in a jar in the dream field. Tourists come in huge numbers to watch the giants in the pit, who are only fed snozzcumbers; they receive an unexpected welcome snack when three drunks manage to climb the safety fence one night and fall in. The book is dedicated to Dahl's late daughter, Olivia, who died of measles encephalitis at the age of seven in 1962.