BFG

Big friendly giant

BFG is an initialism with two main meanings.

In video games, particularly the Doom series, it stands for Big Fucking Gun—an extremely powerful weapon.

The term has spread to describe any oversized or overpowered weapon in gaming: I finally found the BFG.

Separately, BFG refers to Roald Dahl's Big Friendly Giant, a beloved children's book character.

Dahl

giant

Being of huge size

dreams · nightmare · witching hour

gentle

kindhearted

Naturally sympathetic and caring

caring · friendly · vegetarian · protective · lonely · misfit · outsider · pacifist · soft-spoken · humble

dreams

catching

Able to be transmitted

nightmares · wishes · sleeping · children · trumpet · net · labels · mixing · golden

weapon

DOOM

Seminal nineties shooter franchise

firearm · Quake · gaming · iconic · overpowered · plasma · energy

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Opposites
disposition/character

BFGogre

Monstrous man-eating giant

monster · villain · boogeyman · fiend · brute

size

BFGdwarf

Diminutive folkloric being

little person · pixie · imp · Tom Thumb · Thumbelina

weapon scale

BFGpea shooter

Breath-powered projectile tube

peashooter · popgun · starter pistol · BB gun · derringer

Phrases
Familiarity
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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Concrete · Rated PG