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Villain Overview

You'll float too!
~ It's most famous quote, referring to causing their victims to "float".
I am eternal, child. I am the Eater of Worlds, and of children!
~ It boasting to the Losers and second famous quote.
I'll kill you all! Aha! I'll drive you crazy and I'll kill you all! I'm every nightmare you ever had, I am your worst dream come true. I'm EVERYTHING you ever were afraid of!
~ It as Pennywise to the Loser's Club.

It, also more commonly known by its favorite form as Pennywise the Dancing Clown (or simply Pennywise), is the secondary antagonist of the Stephen King mythos.

It is a horrific and malevolent cosmic entity that is billions of years old, spawned in the void of the Macroverse, which is also otherwise known as the Todash Darkness. An unknown number of centuries or even millennia ago, It came to planet Earth to feed. It lives in the sewers of the New England town Derry, awakening every twenty-seven years to prey on the town's children, feeding on their fears and using the writhing bright orange lights that comprised Its own life essence and is Its true form, known as "the Deadlights", a dangerous eldritch form of energy (which is used as a dark magical weapon by another monstrous Stephen King villain known as the Crimson King), to make them "float" before killing and devouring them.

This twisted extra-dimensional entity had a form a human could only comprehend as a giant spider, but It would almost always disguise Itself as a clown named "Pennywise the Dancing Clown" to attract children so that It could capture and kill them as they were an easier target. It could also morph into any form It wished, generally based on Its victim's fears.

Due to Its shapeshifting abilities, the true identity of the creature is never established. It seems to have no real name, gender, or identifiable species; thus the creature is only referred to as "It" by Its enemies.

It encounters a group of local Derry children collectively nicknamed the Losers' Club in 1956. It attempts to devour them, but they not only survive but manage to hurt, battle, and partially defeat It. The Losers Club grows into adults twenty-seven years later and returns to Derry after forgetting everything to battle It once again and presumably kill It. It is the sworn nemesis of Maturin the Turtle and the archenemy of the Losers' Club's very own Bill Denbrough.

In the 1990 two-part miniseries, the Pennywise form of It was portrayed by Tim Curry, who also played Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the Lord of Darkness in Legend, Wadsworth in Clue, Thaddeus E. Klang in TaleSpin, Taurus Bulba in Darkwing Duck, Hexxus in FernGully: The Last Rainforest, the Evil Manta in The Little Mermaid television series, Cardinal Richeliu in The Three Musketeers, Farley Claymore in The Shadow, Kilokahn in Super Human Samurai Syber-Squad, Drake in The Pebble and the Penguin, Dr. Anton Sevarius in Gargoyles, Long John Silver in Muppets Treasure Island, Kileem and Amok Mon Ra in the Aladdin TV show, Simon Doonan in the Titanic TV movie, Maestro Forte in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, Konk in The Pirates of Dark Water, Goblin King in Scooby Doo and the Goblin King, Slagar the Cruel in Redwall, Dr. Slicer in Recess, Ben Ravencroft in Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost, Big Brother in Johnny Bravo, the Mouse King in Barbie in the Nutcracker, Professor Calamitous in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Scarlet Fever and Nick O' Teen in Ozzy & Drix, Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck in Monk, Belial in The Legend of Atlantis, El Maléfico in ¡Mucha Luca!: The Return of El Maléfico, Von Talon in Valiant, Anatoly Cherdenko in Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, Philippe in Barbie and The Three Musketeers, Billy Flynn in Criminal Minds, and Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Other Portrayals[]

These are the actors/actresses who portrayed IT in it's many forms besides Pennywise the Clown

1990 miniseries[]

  • While taking the form of Belch Huggins It was portrayed by Chris Eastman
  • While taking the form of Stanley Uris's decapitated head It was portrayed by Richard Masur
  • As Georgie Denbrough It was portrayed by Tony Dakota.
  • As Ben's father It was portrayed by Steve Makaj.
  • As Keen It was portrayed by Tom Heaton.
  • As Kerche It was portrayed by Florence Paterson.
  • As Alvin Marsh It was portrayed by Frank C. Turner.
  • As Beverly Marsh It was portrayed by Annette O'Toole.

Appearance[]

Then the clown's face changed. And what little George Denbrough saw next was terrible enough to make his worst imaginings of the things in the basement look like sweet, angelic dreams; what he saw destroyed his sanity in one clawing stroke.
~ Stephen King on It during Its murder of Georgie.

No mortal knows or can know, the true form of It. The final physical form It takes is that of an enormous and hideous spider, but this is the closest the human mind can understand. What the children actually see is not Its actual form, but Its form in the physical realm. The true form of It exists in an inter-dimensional realm of eldritch energy referred to as "Deadlights", existing outside the physical world. Any living being that sees the "deadlights" would go insane almost instantly or die. Bill Denbrough comes dangerously close to seeing the deadlights and the shape behind the shape for a brief moment. He described it as an endless, crawling, hairy creature made of orange light.

Throughout the book, It is generally referred to as male, even by Itself, calling Itself "Mr. Bob Gray" and taking a male form as Pennywise the Clown. However, when confronting Its spider form, the characters find out that It is most likely female, due to Its final form in the physical realm being that of a giant female spider that was also pregnant. However, this is not Its true form, but the true form of the creature in the physical realm which is the closest representation of Its true form, as Its true form is genderless.

Personality[]

Let go. Be afraid. You all taste so much better when you're afraid.
~ It to the Losers.
Pennywise attempting to kill Stan in front of the Losers Club

It before It tries to kill Stan in front of the Losers' Club.

A pitiless, unreasonable, cowardly, and completely heartless sadist, It is a bully and monster right to Its very core.

Not only is It a deadly and dangerous predator who enjoys devouring Its prey (even and especially children, as they are easier to both trick and frighten), but It enjoys toying and "bullying" Its victims, terrifying them, tormenting them, and harassing them before finally slaughtering them as fear "floods the body and salts the meat", according to It.

It also bullies the Loser's Club verbally, namely Bill, mocking his stutter and, on top of that, the loss of his little brother, even using that sadness to take advantage of him. It possesses a sadistic sense of humor and loves to taunt Its victims, taking glee in terrifying them and torturing them. It absolutely delights in Its monstrous cruelty and evil acts, making It a cruel monster out for death and fear and not just a predator out for survival as some fans assume.

The Ritual of Chüd

The Ritual of Chüd.

It also has the character of an arrogant narcissist, allying with, caring for, and loving absolutely no one and nothing but Itself. It views Itself as above Maturin "the Turtle", calling the latter "stupid" and looking down on him for his good-hearted and supportive nature. Like all evil god-like figures, It sees humans as inferior creatures, who exist solely to be toyed with and eaten.

It is highly intelligent and is a clever and manipulative trickster, shown whilst in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown when It is more than capable of acting in a warm and friendly manner to give the prey (most notably Georgie) a false sense of security and manipulating Henry Bowers into murdering his father and the Losers. As Pennywise, It is loud, jovial, cheerful, merry, sociable, and charming towards children, politely offering them the chance to visit Its circus and eat free food. This is the closest thing to kindness in Its soul, and it is just a façade to fool Its prey so that It can kill them and devour them. Some versions are so cruel that they have a hard time keeping this façade up. Aside from this, It doesn't have so much as a shred of redeeming qualities or anything that could detract It from Its twisted and evil nature.

Ironically, despite being a horrifying creature who preys on fear, It is a true coward at heart. When Its victims have overcome their fears of It, It can be pounded into a helpless and terrified pulp. Ultimately, It is pathetic and cowardly once Its victims actually face It together. It is terrified of starving and dying, as shown in Its final moments when It becomes a blubbering wreck.

Also, for all Its bravado and an impressive medley of powers, It is also rather hedonistic and emotionally immature. It often does whatever appeals to It instantly and never seems to plan ahead or take precautions. It also has a childlike need to cause a commotion and get attention rather than get on with killing Its opponents. Its arrogance and shortsightedness are ultimately what had led to Its undoing. It felt the need to take on all the Losers together to reaffirm Its supposed invincibility rather than accept Its limitations and pick them off while they were separated.

Its greatest weakness is that It underestimates the goodness of humanity, love, and friendship, leading to Its eventual presumed demise once the Losers' Club joins together and fights It together. This is when Its cocky arrogance works against It. Even with Its powers, the Losers' Club is still able to defeat It when they work together. This also shows that It lacks proper fighting skills as the kids were able to beat It despite lacking experience for the most part.

Throughout the novel It, some events were described through Its point of view, through which It described himself as the "superior" being, with the Turtle as someone "close to his superiority" and humans as mere "toys". It described that it preferred to kill and devour children, not by nature, rather because children's fears were easier to interpret in a physical form and thus children were easier to fill with terror, which It said was akin to marinating the meat. It was continually surprised by the children's victories over It and near the end, it began to question if It was not as superior as It had once thought. However, It never believed that the individual children were strong enough to defeat It, only through "the Other" working through them as a group.

In the 2017-2019 film duology, It is even more depraved than Its original incarnation. It is not only a sadistic monster, but It rarely bothers to fake being affable towards anyone, and even when It tries to appear friendly, Its underlying creepiness still oozes through and It clearly struggles very much to act like a normal human. Instead of using Its Pennywise façade, It clearly prefers to corner and terrify Its victims before going straight for the kill. Furthermore, while It is still a coward, the remake ramps up Its more insidious side by portraying It as someone who cannot live without tormenting someone else. All of this makes It an arrogant sadist who will do anything to kill or otherwise maim others. When It is about to be defeated by the Losers, It simply and mysteriously tells them that they had all grown up, instead of insulting or snarling them, like It was proud to find worthy opponents and even took a twisted father like pride in how far they have come thraw there battles.

Cycle[]

For millions of years, It dwelt under Derry, and awaited the arrival of humans, which It somehow knew would occur. Once people settled over It's resting place, It adopted a cycle of hibernating for long periods and awoke approximately every 27 years. Its awakening was always marked by a great act of violence, and another great act of violence ends Its spree and sent It back into hibernation:

  • 1715 – 1716: It awoke.
  • 1740 – 1743: It awoke and started a 3-year reign of terror that culminated with the disappearance of over 300 settlers from Derry Township, much like the Roanoke Island mystery.
  • 1769 – 1770: It awoke again.
  • 1851: It awoke when a man named John Markson poisoned his family, and then committed suicide by eating a white-nightshade mushroom, causing an excruciating death.
  • 1876 – 1879: It awoke and went back into hibernation after a group of lumberjacks were found murdered near the Kenduskeag.
  • 1904 – 1906: It awoke when a lumberjack named Claude Heroux murdered a number of men in a bar with an axe. Heroux was promptly pursued by a mob of townsfolk and hanged. It returned to hibernation when the Kitchener Ironworks exploded, and killed 108 people, 88 of them children who were engaged in an Easter Egg Hunt.
  • 1929 – 1930: It awoke when a group of Derry citizens gunned down a group of gangsters known as the Bradley Gang. It returned to hibernation when the Maine Legion of White Decency, a Northern counterpart to the Ku Klux Klan, burned down an African-American army nightclub which was called "The Black Spot".
  • 1957 – 1958: It awoke during a great storm which flooded part of the city, and murdered George Denbrough. It then met its match when The Losers' Club forced It to return to an early hibernation when It was wounded by the young Bill Denbrough in the first Ritual of Chüd.
  • 1984 – 1985: It awoke when 3 young homophobic bullies beat up a young gay couple, Adrian Mellon and Don Hagarty, and threw Mellon off a bridge (echoing real life events in Maine). It was finally destroyed in the second Ritual of Chüd by the adult Bill Denbrough, Richie Tozier, Beverly Marsh, Eddie Kaspbrak and Ben Hanscom, though that triggered the collapse of the water tower, and flooded the town.

In the intervening periods between each pair of events, a series of child murders occurred, which were never solved. The book's surface explanation as to why those murders were never reported on the national news was that location mattered to a news story—a series of murders, no matter how gruesome, do not get reported if they happen in a small town. However, the book's implied reason for why the atrocities went unnoticed was far more sinister: It never let them.

Powers and Abilities[]

Being an interdimensional cosmic being, It was an extremely powerful entity. Although Its true form exists outside of time and space in the Macro verse, the powers demonstrated by Its earthly avatar include:

  • Photokinesis: It's true essence are the Deadlights, extradimensional orange radiance which are at once a type of magic spell as well as the being's actual form. All its abilities can be said to be a very derived form of light manipulation, but It can use the lights more directly to simply kill or drive people insane.
  • Psychic Power: It possesses an insane level of psychic power. It can steal people's souls and entrap them within the Deadlights (Its true form). It can also create psychic hurricanes capable of destroying entire towns. When battling the Losers, It created a psychic storm that devastated downtown Derry.
  • Mind Control: In addition to Its immense psychic power, It is capable of controlling the mind and actions of a person. It is implied that It controls and influences the mind of every adult in Derry or perhaps even the entire nation, as they are all ignorant of the terrible murders that take place there.
  • Possession: It also has the ability to possess people, which was shown when It possessed Mr. Keene in order to get Eddie to leave Derry.
  • Telepathy: It can read the minds of anyone he chooses to target. It often uses this to learn a victim's fears and exploit this with Its shapeshifting ability. It can also implant thoughts and projections into people's minds.
  • Physical Illusions: In addition to Its telepathy, It can also create physical illusions, such as balloons floating against the wind, making Its face appear on the moon, or the smell of popcorn and rotting corpses. It can also use this to cause a person to hallucinate. It typically uses this power along with Its shape-shifting to lure in or terrify victims.
  • Shapeshifting: It can transform into any form It pleases, whether it be the form of a person, flying leeches, zombies, a giant spider, etc. It often uses this power to take the form a victim fears most.
  • Size Alteration: In addition to Its shape-changing abilities, It is able to manipulate and alter the size of Its many forms, from big to small. For instance, when It, as Pennywise, ambushed and attacked the Losers after emerging from a projector screen, It appeared to be about five times or larger than normal.
  • Eye Color Alteration: It is capable of changing the color of Its eyes to fool Its prey, especially children. For example, when It meets Georgie, Its eyes are an evil yellow. But after introducing Itself to George, It changes Its eye color to a friendly blue. And when It is ready to attack Georgie, Its eyes revert to an evil yellow.
  • Teleportation: It can also teleport between locations in an instant. However, It has never been seen teleporting outside of the Derry City limits.
  • Partial Invisibility: This was clearly stated in several cases, most notably when the adult Beverly encounters It at the place where she used to live or when the adult Ben Hanscom encounters It in the public library. This suggests that only those who actually believe or have knowledge about Its existence are able to see It, although It can become fully visible to anybody when It is necessary or wishes to do so. One notable moment was when It helps Henry Bowers to escape from Juniper Hill, one of Henry's cellmates, and then the guard also witnesses It next to Henry.
  • Near-Invulnerability: It is not a true physical entity, so It cannot be killed or harmed by conventional means. The only known way to harm It is to perform the Ritual of Chüd, which involves Maturin and Gan (two multiversal beings) lending their psychic power to the person performing it. They both lent their power to the Losers numerous times when they faced It, giving them the power to harm It. Bill likened fighting It to "fighting smoke".
  • Immortality: Its earthly avatar has existed on Earth for thousands if not millions of years. Its true form has existed even longer in the Macroverse (a void outside of time and space that surrounds our own universe). The Ritual of Chüd is the only known way to kill the earthly avatar. However, it is heavily implied that Its true form still exists within the Macroverse and is eternal and can never truly be killed. This means that It could send another physical vessel of Itself to repeat the process on Earth again.
  • Regeneration: It can also quickly regenerate when It does receive a wound. This was shown when It instantaneously healed after being shot in the face by Bill and Richie when It chased them down Neibolt Street.
  • Dream Invasion: It is also implied that It can invade dreams, as It tells Eddie that It "will see him in his dreams" when taking the form of the leper at 29 Neibolt Street.
  • Insanity Projection: No mortal mind can perceive Its true form, even Bill when his psychic power was insanely boosted by Gan and the Turtle. Anyone who sees Its true form is driven instantly insane or drops dead from shock.
  • Chlorokineis/Flora-cide: With a touch, It can instantly cause plants to die. This is shown when Eddie (young and adult) encounters It in Its leper form. It must be distinguished from the illusions mentioned earlier as this effect persists long after Its appearance, although it does not serve any practical purposes.
  • Telekinesis: It can manipulate inanimate objects making them fall, float around, and behave supernaturally. This includes locking doors and electronic devices. It can also affect human bodies, as demonstrated when It sent Eddie flying against a wall merely with a glance in his direction.
  • Superhuman Strength: Although It is not a physical entity, It is still capable of superhuman attributes. This was shown when It could tear the heads and limbs off of children with extreme ease.
  • Superhuman Speed: Bill noted that It can move at extreme speeds, claiming that It was way faster than an "express train".
  • Superhuman Flexibility: It can also bend and twist Its many body parts beyond normal limits. This is shown when It confronted Eddie. It was seen in a fridge all twisted and contorted, and when It came out of the fridge, It easily untied Itself again.

Limitations/Shortcomings[]

  • Physics: It has to obey the laws of physics, so any shape and texture It adopts must abide by the shape of Its form. If It wants to fly, It has to have wings, and if It wants to crawl through tight spaces, It has to take on a small form.

Forms Taken by It[]

Novel[]

  • Pennywise
  • Mummy (though still resembling Pennywise)
  • Werewolf
  • Gillian
  • Leper
  • Christine
  • Mrs. Kersh/Old Lady
  • Rodan/crow hybrid
  • The shark from Jaws
  • Vampire resembling Count Orlok but with razor blades in place of teeth
  • Frankenstein's Monster
  • The Crawling Eye (from the movie of the same name)
  • The Spider
  • Deadlights
  • Flying Leeches
  • Zombie Victor Criss
  • Zombie Belch Huggins

Miniseries[]

  • Pennywise the Dancing Clown
  • Captain Hanscom
  • Swamp Skeleton
  • Georgie Denbrough
  • Mummy
  • Werewolf
  • Alvin Marsh
  • Gas Station Attendant
  • Mrs. Kersh/Rotting Witch
  • Zombie Belch Huggins
  • Stan Uris' head
  • Doberman pinscher head
  • Fortune Cookies
  • Beverly Marsh
  • Deadlights
  • The Spider

Quotes[]

It (novel)[]

Float? Oh yes, indeed they do. They float! And there's cotton candy... They float. They float, they float, Georgie, and when you're down here with me, you'll float too — everything down here floats.
~ It before killing Georgie Denbrough.
Tell your friends I am the last of a dying race. The only survivor of a dying planet. I have come to rob all the women... rape all the men... and learn to do the Peppermint Twist!
~ It mocking Beverly.
The Turtle can't help you.
~ It to the children (while the celestial turtle Maturin is gone now).
You have no power. This is the power; feel the power, brat, and then speak again of how you come to kill the Eternal!
~ It to Bill Denbrough in the Macroverse.
How do you like it out here, Little Friend? Do you like it? Do you love it? Do you give it 98 points because it has a good beat and you can dance to it? Can you catch it on your tonsils and heave it left and right? Did you like meeting my friend the Turtle? I thought that stupid old f--k died years ago, and all for good he could do you, he might as well have, did you think he could help you?
~ It taunting Bill Denbrough after he met the Turtle.
Let me go! Let me go and you can have everything you've ever wanted; Money, fame, fortune, power! I can give you these things. I can bring your wife back! I can do it, only I. She'll remember nothing, just like the seven of you remember nothing. I can't give you eternal life, but I can touch you and you will live long, long lives. 200 years, 300, perhaps 500! I can make you gods of the Earth if you let me go! IF YOU LET ME GO. IF YOU LET ME-
~ It begging for Its life before the Lucky Seven deliver the final blow.
NONONONONONONONO!
~ Its last words.

It (1990 miniseries)[]

Oh yes, they float. Georgie, they float. And when you're down here with me, YOU'LL FLOAT TOO!
~ It before killing Georgie Denbrough.
Say hello to your friends, Beverly! You'll die if you try to fight us, Beverly. You'll die if you try! You'll die if you try to fight us, Beverly. You'll die if you try. You'll die if you try. You'll die if you try. You'll die if you try...
~ It to young Beverly Marsh.
I'LL KILL YOU ALL! Ha-ha! I'll drive you crazy, and I'll kill you all! I'm every nightmare you've ever had! I am your worst dream come true! I'm everything you were afraid of! RARGH!
~ It to the Losers Club.
I am eternal, child! I am the eater of worlds, and of children. And you are next!
~ It to the Losers Club while attempting to kill Stan Uris.
Take your pick... Billy, abi, abi.... Billy boy. Oh, except for the one on the end. That's already taken. Sorry.
~ It mocking Bill Denbrough at the cemetery.
What's the matter? One balloon, not enough? TRY A BUNCH!
~ It psyching out Richie at the library.
Excuse me, sir. Do you have Prince Albert in a can? You do? Well, you better let the poor guy out! Bwa-ha! Bwa-ha! Bwa-ha!
~ It to Richie Tozier.
Kiss me, fat boy!
~ It appearing to Ben Hanscom in the form of Beverly Marsh.
Silly boy! You still think you can see "me." [chuckles] You'll never see me. You'll see only what your little mind can allow. Go! Now! For if you stay, you'll lose your little mind in my deadlights. Like all the others. Like all the others.
~ Its last words to Bill Denbrough and the Losers Club.

Victims[]

  • 300 settlers
  • 7 "poor" Shokopiwah Tribe members who were the attempters of the Ritual of Chüd
  • Georgie Denbrough
  • Betty Ripsom
  • Veronica Grogan
  • Patrick Hockstetter
  • Edward Corcoran
  • Matthew Clements
  • Esther Sinclair
  • Belch Huggins
  • Vic Criss
  • Bowers Gang
  • Adrian Mellon
  • Laurie Anne Winterberger
  • Victoria Fuller
  • Dean
  • John Koontz
  • Tom Rogan
  • Eddie Kaspbrak
  • Frederick Cowan

Other Media[]

Family Guy[]

In the episode "Island Adventure" of Family Guy, a fake movie trailer featured Glenn Quagmire hiding in the sewers, dressed as Pennywise and stalking women. He then requests help since he is apparently stuck in there. The title of the fake movie was "Gigg-It-y".

The Simpsons[]

In the Not IT Halloween Special, a parody of the movie where Krusto D. Clown haunts the adults of Springfield.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic[]

IT as Pennywise appeared in pony form in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic IDW comic book "The Return of Queen Chrysalis", in one of the doors in Queen Chrysalis' Castle. Fluttershy opened Its door and It appeared, and said: "Hey, George!".

Paradise P.D.[]

In the episode "Task Force", it was learned that the reason Fitz is so afraid of clowns it's because of a traumatic experience he had when he was a child. The flashback showed Fitz's childhood experience and it emulated the trailer for the 2019 It movie.

Uncle Grandpa[]

In the episode "Bezt Friends", It as Pennywise briefly appeared in Uncle Grandpa's closet, while he was looking for Pizza Steve. Pennywise was about to kill him before he closed the door on him again.

The Polar Express[]

When the Ebenezer Scrooge Puppet confronts Hero Boy in the abandoned toy car, a 1990 incarnation of a Pennywise puppet can be seen behind him.

Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled[]

During Neon Circus Grand Prix, Dr. Neo Cortex has a skin based on him as "Clown Cortex".

WOH[]

Main article: Woh

Trivia[]

  • It, alongside Randall Flagg, is regarded as the evilest and most popular of Stephen King's villains, and an immense icon in horror. In the year 2006, Wizard Magazine ranked It the 15th greatest villain of all time. A tweet jokingly suggested that they're the same entity.
  • Ironically, Bill Skarsgård was born in the same year as the original film adaptation (by Tommy Lee Wallace) of It, being 1990, and the time when the 1990 movie was released for the 2017 movie is equal to the time when It tends to wake up to cause the capture and murder of its victims, being 27 years.
  • Its favorite form, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, was designed after real-life clowns Bozo, Clarabell, and Ronald McDonald. Ironically, they all are portrayed as heroes whereas Pennywise is a villain.
    • He has a pale white clown face with funny tufts of red hair on either side of his bald head, a big clown smile painted over his mouth and he usually wears big white gloves, like the kind that the classic Disney character Mickey Mouse always wore.
    • He always held a bunch of balloons, all colors, like gorgeous ripe fruits in one hand.
    • He was wearing a baggy silk suit with great big orange button-like pom poms.
    • Pennywise the Clown

      It as Pennywise the Clown.

      The Pennywise Circus

      Pennywise Circus.

      In some depictions/variations of the novel, he wore a bright electric-blue colored tie, flopped down his front where his orange pom poms are, brown leather clown shoes with yellow laces, and on his hands were big white gloves, like the kind both Disney heroes Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck always wore.
    • In the 1990 TV miniseries, he wears a yellow baggy silk suit (with long arm sleeves colored both dark-cyan and indigo-purple, small dark-blue wrist collars, and ruffle-like bottoms of long leg sleeves having dark-cyan and indigo stripes), a black, seemingly-glittery leather vest with magenta thread pig, a three-set of neck ruffles including two white ones and one in the middle that is colored both dark-cyan and indigo, and black leather shoes.
    • Although it's also believed that It's Pennywise form was inspired by John Wayne Gacy, a serial killer who was known as "The Killer Clown" due to his public services as a clown prior to the discovery of his crimes.
  • Its nickname "Pennywise" is an actual word meaning extremely careful about the way one spends, even small amounts of money.
  • Despite It being supposedly killed at the end of the book, it's implied that It may still be alive in other books by King, such as Dream Catcher and Hearts in Atlantis.
  • It makes a cameo in another one of Stephen King's novels, The Tommyknockers, where it simply sat and waved.
  • It, primarily it's Pennywise form, was often seen as the primary reason that many people have a fear of clowns.
  • Knowing all fears, Its most known form is probably Pennywise the Clown because it represents one of the known common fears, coulrophobia (the fear of clowns).
  • It is of the same species as another Steven King villain, Dandelo. While It feeds off fear, Dandelo feeds off laughter. It is theorized that Dandelo was born from one of Its eggs since Derry is a portal to the Dark Tower.

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Children of the Corn: Children of the Corn (Isaac Chroner & Malachai Boardman) | He Who Walks Behind the Rows
Rage: Charlie Decker | Mr. Decker
The Stand: Randall Flagg | Barry Dorgan | Bobby Terry | Harold Lauder | Julie Lawry | Lloyd Henreid | Nadine Cross | The Kid | The Rat Man | Trashcan Man | Whitney Horgan
The Long Walk: The Major | Gary Barkovitch
The Dead Zone: Greg Stillson | Frank Dodd
The Mist: Adrian Garff Mrs. Carmody | The Mist
Firestarter: Captain Hollister | Doctor Herman Pynchot | John Rainbird
Roadwork: Barton George Dawes | Sal Magliore
Cujo: Cujo | Joe Camber | Stephen Kemp
The Running Man: Damon Killian | United States of America
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: Samuel Norton | Byron Hadley | Sisters (Bogs Diamond) | Elmo Blatch
Apt Pupil: Kurt Dussander | Todd Bowden
The Body: The Cobras (John "Ace" Merrill, Richard "Eyeball" Chambers, Billy Tessio, Charlie Hogan, Vince Desjardins, Jack Mudgett & Norman "Fuzzy" Bracowicz)
Christine: Arnie Cunningham | Christine | Repperton Gang | Roland D. LeBay
Pet Sematary: Wendigo | Church | Gage Creed | Rachel Creed | Timmy Baterman
Cycle of the Werewolf: Lester Lowe
The Tailsman: Morgan Sloat
Thinner: Billy Halleck | Tadzu Lempke | Cary Rossington | Duncan Hopley | Gabe Romani | Gina Lempke | Richie Ginelli
Dolan's Cadillac: Jimmy Dolan
It: It | Bowers Gang (Belch Huggins, Henry Bowers, Marcia Fadden, Patrick Hockstetter, Peter Gordon & Vic Criss) | Alvin Marsh | Butch Bowers | Richard Macklin | Tom Rogan | Christopher Unwin | Webby Garton
Misery: Annie Wilkes
The Tommyknockers: Tommyknockers | Nancy Voss
The Dark Half: George Stark
Secret Window, Secret Garden: John Shooter
The Langoliers: Craig Toomey | Langoliers | Roger Toomey
Needful Things: Leland Gaunt | John "Ace" Merrill | Danforth Keeton III | Brian Rusk | Wilma Jerzyck | Nettie Cobb | Hugh Preist | Father Brigham (Father Meehan) | Reverend Rose
Gerald's Game: Gerald Burlingame | Moonlight Man | Tom Mahout
Dolores Claiborne: Joe St. George
Insomnia: Atropos | Crimson King
Rose Madder: Norman Daniels
The Green Mile: William Wharton | Percy Wetmore
Desperation: Tak | Sheriff Collie Entragian
The Regulators: Tak
Bag of Bones: Max Devore | Sara Tidwell | Roggete Whitmore
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: God of the Lost
Dreamcatcher: Byrus | Mr. Gray
Black House: Charles Burnside | The Crow Gorg | Mr. Munshun
From a Buick 8: The Buick
Cell: Phone Crazies | Raggedy Man
Lisey's Story: Andrew Landon | Jim Dooley | Long Boy
The Gingerbread Girl: Jim Pickering
Duma Key: Perse | Undead Victims
Under the Dome: Jim Rennie | Junior Rennie | Phil Bushey | Leatherheads
1922: Wilfred James | Henry James | Shannon Cotterie
Big Driver: Lester Norville | Ramona Norville
A Good Marriage: Robert Bob Anderson
11/22/63: Lee Harvey Oswald | Frank Dunning
In The Tall Grass: Ross Humboldt | Cal Demuth
Doctor Sleep: The True Knot (Rose the Hat, Crow Daddy, Grandpa Flick, Barry the Chink & Snakebite Andi) | Andy Hallorann
Bill Hodges Trilogy: Brady Hartsfield | Morris Bellamy
Gwendy's Button Box: Richard Farris
The Outsider: The Outsider
Fairy Tale: Gogmagog | Elden | Petra | Kellin | Hana | Red Molly | Peterkin | Christopher Polley

Short Stories
Cain Rose Up: Curt Garrish
The Mangler: Bill Gartley | The Mangler
The Boogeyman: The Boogeyman
Trucks: Westway Refrigerated Truck | Bulldozer
The Ledge: Cressner
Jerusalem's Lot: Philip Boone | James Boon | The Worm
Quitter's Inc.: Mr. Donatti | Quitters Inc.
The Crate: Crate Beast
Crouch End: The Children | The Goat with a Thousand Young
The Monkey: The Monkey
The Raft: Lake Blob
Word Processor of the Gods: Richard Hagstrom | Roger Hagstrom
Gramma: Gramma Bruckner
The Night Flier: Dwight Renfield
Low Men in Yellow Coats: Harry Doolin
Blind Willie: Raymond Fiegler
Why We're In Vietnam: Ronnie Malenfant
Lunch at the Gotham Café: Guy

Films
The Shining: Overlook Hotel (Lloyd, Lorraine Massey & Hotel Caretaker) | Jack Torrance
Creepshow: Creepshow Creep | Crate Beast | Nathan Grantham | Richard Vickers | Upson Pratt | Wilma Northrup
Cat's Eye: Cressner | Mr. Donatti | Quitters Inc. | Troll
Maximum Overdrive: Bubba Hendershot | Camp Loman | Happy Toyz Truck | Ice Cream Truck | M274 Mule | Vending Machine
A Return to Salem`s Lot: Judge Axle
Creepshow 2: Creepshow Creep | Creepshow Bullies | Lake Blob | Sam Whitemoon | The HitchHiker
Sleepwalkers: Charles Brady | Mary Brady | Sleepwalkers
Pet Sematary 2: Gus Gilbert | Renee Hallow | Clyde Parker | Zowie
The Mangler Trilogy: Bill Gartley | The Mangler | Lin Sue | The Mangler Virus
The Rage: Carrie 2: Rachel Lang | Mark Bing
Creepshow 3: Creepshow Creep | Rachel
The Dark Tower: Randall Flagg
It: Part One: It | Bowers Gang (Henry Bowers, Vic Criss | Belch Huggins & Patrick Hockstetter)
Pet Sematary (2019): Ellie Creed
It: Part Two: It | Henry Bowers | Tom Rogan
Doctor Sleep: The True Knot (Rose the Hat, Crow Daddy, Grandpa Flick, Barry the Chink & Snakebite Andi) | Overlook Hotel (Jack Torrance, Hotel Caretaker & Lorraine Massey)
The Boogeyman: Boogeyman

TV Series
The Stand: Randall Flagg | Harold Lauder | Julie Lawry | Nadine Cross | The Rat Woman | Trashcan Man
The Shining: Overlook Hotel | Jack Torrance | Hotel Caretaker | Lorraine Massey
Storm of the Century: André Linoge
Rose Red: Professor Joyce Reardon | Ellen Rimbauer
Under the Dome: Big Jim Rennie | Junior Rennie | Phil Bushey | The Kinship (Christine Price & Dawn Sinclair-Barbara)

Other
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: Ellen Rimbauer

See Also
The Dark Tower Villains

           Terrordrome Villains

Terrordrome: Rise of Boogeymen
Jason Voorhees (Undead) (Classic) | Freddy Krueger | Michael Myers | Ghostface | Chucky | Leatherface | Pinhead | Candyman | Tall Man | Matt Cordell | Pumpkinhead | Herbert West

Terrordrome: Reign of The Legends
Frankenstein | Dracula | Mr. Hyde | Bloody Mary | Spring Heeled Jack | Wendigo | White Lady | Invisible Man | Neverman | T.H.I.S

Cutscenes only
Djinn | Xenomorph | Predator

Others
Pennywise | Deadites | Zombie Dwarves | Pamela Voorhees

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