Little Boy (film) James, his loving father, which begins from the very moment he is born when his father cradles him in his arms and notices how small he is. When Pepper asks a doctor if he has dwarfism, the doctor tells him, "For now, Pepper, let's just say you're a 'little boy'," this expression would become Pepper's nickname. He would learn to despise those two words and always make a problem when someone would call out his nickname. However, when World War II begins, Pepper's older brother is declared ineligible for military service because of flat feet and his father joins in
Little Boy Blue but the rhyme may be much older. It may be alluded to in Shakespeare's King Lear (III, vi) when Edgar, masquerading as Mad Tom, says: <poem>Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepheard? And for one blast of thy minikin mouth It has been argued that Little Boy Blue was intended to represent Cardinal Wolsey, who was the son of an Ipswich butcher, who may have acted as a hayward to his father's livestock, but there is no corroborative evidence to support this assertion. Boy Blue, until issue 81, was one of the main characters of the long-running comic book series "Fables".