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| “ | Time to float! | „ |
| ~ It's catchphrase. |
| “ | You'll float, too. | „ |
| ~ It's second catchphrase. |
| “ | You will be. | „ |
| ~ It to Beverly after she tells it she isn't afraid of it. |
It, also known by its favorite form as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, is the titular main antagonist of Andy Muschietti‘s supernatural horror 2017-2019 remake duology of the same name and will return in the upcoming 2025 prequel television series IT: Welcome to Derry in some titular capacity, this show takes place in the 1960s and will explore the origins of It and presumably show important details like all the other events that happened in the original novel, the Macroverse and possibly Maturin and Gan. The show is planned to have 3 Seasons and 9 Episodes for the first Season and will still be released in 2025 despite the rumours of it being delayed to 2026 and with HBO Max turning into just Max fortunately, according to the current news it'll release in September 2025.
It, like the original novel counterpart and the 1990 Miniseries counterpart, is an ancient supernatural being who is a Glamour, a Shapeshifting Fear-Eater that takes the form of one's worst fears (particularly children) before feeding on them. Having terrorized the Earth for generations, it's reign of terror soon comes to an end the moment it kills Georgie Denbrough, becoming the archenemy of his older brother Bill Denbrough, who seeks to avenge Georgie's death by killing It at all costs with assistance from his friends, thus is the reason for the Losers Club's formation in the first place.
In It's Pennywise form, It was portrayed by Bill Skarsgård, who also played Richard Persson in The Crown Jewels, Willard Russell in The Devil All The Time, Kro in Eternals, the Marquis de Gramont in John Wick: Chapter 4, and Count Orlok in Nosferatu.
Other Portrayals[]
- The Leper and Mrs. Kersh/The Witch were both portrayed by Javier Botet, who also played Tristana Medeiros in the REC film series, Valak in The Conjuring franchise, KeyFace in Insidious: The Last Key, Slender Man in the 2018 film of the same name and Dracula in The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
- While taking the form of Judith, Flute Lady, it was portrayed by Tatum Lee.
- While taking the form of Georgie Denbrough, it was portrayed by Jackson Robert Scott.
- While taking the form of Alvin Marsh, it was portrayed by Stephen Bogaert.
- As Patrick Hockstetter, it was portrayed by Owen Teague.
- As Mrs. Kersh, it was portrayed by Joan Gregson.
- As Sonya Kaspbrak, it was portrayed by Molly Atkinson.
- As Betty Ripsom, it was portrayed by Katy Lunman.
- As Beverly Marsh, it was portrayed by Sophia Lillis.
- As Stanley Uris, it was portrayed by Wyatt Olef.
- As Eddie Kaspbrak, it was portrayed by Jack Dylan Grazer.
- As Bill Denbrough, it was portrayed by Jaeden Martell.
- As the Headless Boy, it was portrayed by Carter Musselman.
- As Adrian Mellon, it was portrayed by Xavier Dolan.
The following are forms that Pennywise takes that are either also portrayed by Bill Skarsgård or the actor is uncredited;
- Multiple zombies
- Mike's parents burning hands reaching out of a door.
- Decapitated heads in a fish tank
- A Pomeranian which later turns into a large aggressive dog
- Several people on a TV station who urge Henry Bowers to kill his father
- The Derry Librarian who stares at Ben.
- Several crowd and stage performers swaying back and forth
- Robert "Bob" Gray who is also portrayed by Bill Skårsgard
- Giant Bird Monster/Thunder Bird - CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery), Digital and Computer Animation
- Giant Grey Monster/Wendigo - CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery), Digital and Computer Animation
- Demonic Drider/Minotaur - CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery), Digital and Computer Animation
- Drider Pennywise - CGI, Computer and Digital Animation according to Behind The Scenes, Bill Skårsgard voiced Pennywise in a different room and that the Drider form we saw in the movie was actually a cardboard cutout chasing the actors and they then animated the Drider form after shooting that part (thanks to Dead Meat for this information)
Physical appearance[]
In contrast to it's original novel counterpart, this version of It in the movie adaptation is significantly altered. In it's Pennywise form, it instead has a silver suit similar to Italian opera clowns and orange hair. It's face has two red lines starting above the eyes streaming down the cheeks and ending at the corners of it's mouth while the nose is not genuine, but painted red. Most often, it's eyes are orange, but it can change them to appear more familiar. They also are often looking in different directions. Due to being a shapeshifter, It's appearance varies as it takes on the form of other people's greatest fears in the films.
Personality[]
In the movie adaptation, Pennywise is portrayed as even more depraved than in the original Novel and Miniseries. The character is not just a sadistic monster but also rarely attempts to feign friendliness. When Pennywise does try to appear amicable, an underlying creepiness always seeps through, making it clear that It struggles to act like a normal human. Unlike the novel, where Pennywise occasionally uses a facade, the movie version prefers to corner and terrify its victims before going in for the kill.
Despite being a coward, the movie adaptations emphasize its insidious nature, depicting Pennywise as a creature that cannot live without tormenting others. This portrayal highlights It as an arrogant sadist, willing to do anything to inflict pain and suffering. When faced with defeat by the Losers Club, Pennywise does not snarl or insult them. Instead, it cryptically acknowledges that they have grown up, which could either be a grudging respect for its worthy opponents or a sarcastic insult, masking its anger at being defeated.
Pennywise's behavior underscores its inability to function without causing torment, and its arrogance only adds to its terrifying persona. This version of Pennywise is not just a creature that feeds on fear but one that revels in the suffering it causes, making it an even more chilling villain.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Cosmic Entity Physiology: Being an extra trans-dimensional cosmic entity, It was an extremely powerful entity. The powers demonstrated by Its physical avatar include:
- The Deadlights: Its true form are the Deadlights, extradimensional orange radiance. It can use the Deadlights to make its victims float and can steal people's souls and entrap them within the lights. This also includes Lumokinesis, Ergokinesis, Parafrosýnikinesis and Eldritch Sorcery (credits to The Evil Wiki).
- Lower-Tier Omnipotence: Pennywise is stated to be able to manipulate realities and almost do anything although it's level of Omnipotence is not at the absolute highest and there are entities stronger then It. Its power is equal to Maturin and only surpassed by Gan.
- Superhuman Strength: Being a cosmic entity, It was endowed with incredible superhuman strength.
- Superhuman Speed: It possesses the ability to move at superhuman speeds.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: As a cosmic entity, It cannot be harmed or killed by conventional means. It is highly resistant to physical damage, and normal bullets and weapons cannot scratch him.
- Superhuman Agility: It is incredibly agile and able to change direction immediately while moving at super speed.
- Superhuman Stamina: To be added
- Superhuman Reflexes: As a cosmic entity, Pennywise's reaction time is augmented, allowing him to react to far faster than normal human beings.
- Superhuman Senses: To be added
- Accelerated Regenerative Healing Factor: Pennywise's body naturally regenerate when he does receive a wound.
- Shapeshifting: It can change his physical appearance at will, with his main form being "Pennywise the Dancing Clown". He often uses this power to take the form a victim fears most.
- Reality Manipulation: As well as creating physical illusions, It can also supposedly influence reality in many ways.
- Immortality: As a cosmic entity, It has an infinite lifespan and has the potential to live forever. Its earthly avatar has existed on Earth for centuries.
- Size Alteration: It can increase the size of his physical body, being able to manipulate and alter the size of Its many forms.
- Teleportation: It can also teleport between locations in an instant, instantly appearing anywhere he chooses.
- Chlorokinesis: With a touch, It can instantly cause plants to die.
- Invisibility: It cannot be visibly perceived by ordinary human beings. Only those who actually believe or have knowledge about Its existence are able to see him.
- Mind Control/Possession: It can put his victims in its control. He can manipulate the minds of other individuals to get them to do what he wants them to do.
- Insanity Projection: No mortal mind can perceive Its true form. Anyone who sees Its true form is driven instantly insane or drops dead from shock.
- Dream Manipulation: It has the ability to invade and manipulate a person's dreams.
- Telepathy: It has the ability to read the minds of anyone he chooses to target. It often uses this to learn a victim's fears.
- Illusions: Its powers also allow It to cast illusions in the minds of others, such as balloons floating against the wind or making his face appear on the moon.
- Telekinesis: It has the power of telekinetic. He can manipulate inanimate objects making them fall, float around, and behave supernaturally.
Abilities[]
- Superhuman Intelligence: It is gifted with intelligence as It is an ancient entity that crashed into Earth billions of years ago and got even more cunning by haunting the place which would later become the barrens of Derry,Maine. Since It's being doing this for a very long It is very smart and can deceive people very easily.
- Disguise Mastery: It can disguise itself as its victims.
- Master Tactician & Strategist: It finds the most opportune locations to isolate and devour victims. It is cunning enough to frequently separate the Losers, which makes them more susceptible to the creature's power. It is also able to determine a target's specific fear and orchestrate their encounter to induce the greatest level of fear. It also uses telepathy to deduce a target's insecurities and fears, then use them to overwhelm them with grief and dread.
- Combat Proficiency: To be added
- Stealth: It can be stealth motivation by hiding.
- Deception: Despite the creature's creepy appearance, it is able to endear or emotionally blackmail children into approaching, until revealing a scarier form to induce maximum terror.
- Sharp Teeth and Claws: It can use its teeth to bite people and claws to slash.
Weaknesses[]
- Maturin: The World Turtle, being a cosmic entity of goodness and creation, is the antithesis to It, yet its powers eclipse the malevolent creature, thus people under the turtle's protection have significantly higher resistance to Pennywise's influence.
- Gan: also known as The Other and is The Creator of The Macroverse, Gan is the one who created Maturin and Pennywise. So Gan could easily defeat or erase Pennywise and gave protection to The Losers' Club during the two Ritual of Chüd events alongside Maturin.
- Fearlessness: If a target isn't afraid, It is either incapable or unwilling to consume them. Also, the entity's powers become weaker, and can even force It back into hibernation before appetites are sated.
- Groups: The Losers Club were able to overwhelm It, since they all had different fears that It had to shape-shift into, therefore a form that scares one, doesn't scare another, allowing them to counterattack.
- Ritual of Chud: Also fueled by the might of Maturin and Gan, the ritual can gradually reduce Pennywise's power until making the creature so weak, It becomes vulnerable to death. The end may not be a permanent death due to the creature's abstract existence, but killing it on Earth removes It from corporeal reality, until another breach in the universe could allow It to return.
Biography[]
| “ | My grandfather thinks this town is cursed. He said that all the bad things that happened in this town are because of one thing. An evil thing that feeds off the people of Derry. | „ |
| ~ Mike Hanlon about It. |
Like the novel, It was part of the disasters that occurred every 27 years in the very town of Derry. It was presented as a ravenous cosmic entity with eldritch attributes and the arch-nemesis of Maturin and Gan.
Past[]
It was a Cosmic Entity from The Macroverse, a void that transcends space and time. Alongside It's residence there were two other entities Maturin also called The Turtle,an protector who was kind but did not like to involve himself in any conflicts and the creator of the void itself Gan also called The Other who's much more powerful then his creations. It and Maturin would later become enemies, Gan also became It's enemy as It's malevolent nature was utterly despicable. It got out of the Macroverse at some point and later went searching for prey to feed on, since it's a Glamour and its main sustenance is fear. It would travel to many Planets and presumably kill the inhabitants living there and destroy the said Planets (this is not confirmed but implied since It did call itself "The Eater of Worlds"). It finally found Earth and immediately thought of crashing into Earth since humans had much more complex imaginations then any other species it has ever seen before. It landed on Earth in a fiery asteroid causing a cataclysmic event. This impact caused It to go into hibernation only for It to awaken after 27 years. When It awoke (the following is from the flashback scenes from IT Chapter Two), It begins terrorising the natives that lived in a place that would later become the barrens of Derry,Maine. The Natives would later discover The Ritual of Chüd and tried to imprison It inside the cauldron. But it never succeeded and It would kill all the performers there. From there in marked a 27 year cycle that would cause a lot of chaos and terrorism in Derry,Maine like the murder of the 300 Settlers of The Derry Company and the Kitchener Ironworks Masscare which involved an Easter Egg Hunt at The Black Spot which left a head of a boy's in a tree and killed many adults and kids leaving a totally of 102 deaths (88 kids and 14 adults) and the riot in the Black Spot which led to more deaths.
IT: Welcome to Derry []
It will appear in the prequel television series Welcome To Derry where it will take place in the 1960's, 27 years before the events of It: Chapter One. The story will also explore the origin story of Pennywise The Dancing Clown and will have 3 Seasons and 9 Episodes for the first Season (which are presumably 1 hour long). Unfortunately it has been pushed back to 2026, but thankfully it's been confirmed to release this year 2025 despite HBO Max turning into just Max, according to the latest news it will release in September 2025.
IT Chapter One []
October 1988[]
It first appears to Georgie and talks friendly with him to gain his trust, until it reveals it's true colors when Georgie was about to get back his boat, by ripping off his arm and dragging him into the sewers to finish him.
June 1989[]
Mike, escaping from Henry Bowers' gang runs off into an alley and as he walks through a locked door, he hears screaming and pounding. The door opens a little and several burned hands start to come out alongside the cries for help from Mike's parents (who died in a fire when Mike was little). A little later, the hands were hidden and the screaming stopped, but suddenly the door swings open and Mike watches Pennywise murdering a sheep behind plastic curtains. Stanley is in a synagogue studying for his bar mitzvah. As he walks through the rabbi's office, he observes a painting showing a woman with a deformed face in the style of Amedeo Modigliani. The paint falls off, and when Stan picks it up, the woman is no longer there. When Stanley turns, the woman from the painting manifests as the woman and smiles at him with her fangs, but Stanley manages to run away.
Ben is in the library looking for Derry's story. From a series of articles, he learns that Derry's children have been disappearing under mysterious circumstances for centuries. The book contains a representation of Pennywise and the head of a missing boy in a tree. After observing a red balloon floating towards the library corridor, Ben follows it only to discover an Easter egg that begins to follow the trail down the hall to the basement. When Ben goes down to the basement, he is suddenly chased by It, turned into a headless boy, then the librarian appears to ask Ben what he is doing in the basement, while It disappears without a trace, leaving Ben totally scared.
It then appears when Mike is bullied by Henry Bowers and his gang behind trees, eating a bloody arm. It salutes him by making greetings movements with the arm. Mike is pursued by Patrick Hockstetter in the sewers. The latter, separated from the rest of his friends, gets lost and meets some demonic-looking children who make him run, but he reaches a dead end. A red balloon appears before him with the phrase: "I love Derry", when it explodes reveals It, as Pennywise, with a bloody mouth. It immediately brutally murders Patrick.
Later, Eddie is walking back home when he passes an abandoned house on Neibolt Street, he is suddenly frightened by a leper, causing Eddie to run around the courtyard of the house. Upon reaching a fence, It tries to lure him with balloons but a horrified Eddie runs under the fence and escapes. It then attacked Beverly from the bathroom, by making voices of some children coming from the bathroom and when she goes to observe, the strands of her hair come out of the bathroom and hold her by the neck before a source of blood shoots out of the washbasin and stains the entire bathroom. Bill is sleeping inside his house when he sees Georgie running to the basement. Surprised, he enters the basement, which is flooded. Georgie appears and invites Bill to join him saying, "We all float here." Georgie repeats the words "You'll float too" until he screams and decomposes. So, It emerges from the water and tries to catch Bill, but he runs back upstairs.
The children go to Bill's garage where they observe Derry's map through a projector. They discover that all the sewers in the town are attached to the Neibolt Street house, where they believe It lives. The projector then begins to show images of Bill and Georgie with their parents, but with Pennywise's face appearing above their mother. Mike kicks the projector in order to turn it off, but he continues to display images until Pennywise (with a giant size and a very terrifying and disturbing smile) comes off the screen and tries to attack them. But they manage to get out of the garage before the creature can harm them.
The Losers Club goes to the Neibolt house to confront It. It first attacks Eddie, again in the form of the leper, causing Eddie to fall in the kitchen of the house, breaking his arm in the process. Meanwhile, Bill and Richie try to help him but Richie finds a door, revealing a room full of clown dolls. Richie observes a coffin where he finds a doll of himself. After closing the coffin, Pennywise jumps out of it and utters the phrase, "Beep-beep, Richie", before attempting to attack him, but Richie manages to flee the room with the help of Bill, causing It to turn its attention back to Eddie, who sees it exit from a refrigerator and backs away from him. Meanwhile, Bill and Richie try to go help him, but they find three doors in which the following bloody phrases are written: "Not scary" in the first, "Scary" in the second and "Very scary" in the third. They open the first door, revealing a girl with no legs. After this Richie panics, but Bill tries to calm him by saying that none of it's real, when they open the second door they discover the clear hallway and hear Eddie's screams in the kitchen asking for help and they run to help him. They get to where It and Eddie meet and prevent the clown from murdering him. The creature reveals to Bill that it was Georgie's killer, then tries to kill them. Suddenly, Beverly appears and sticks a spear into It's head. However, all three are cornered while It is willing to murder them. It manages to hurt Ben and runs away from the building in anger.
August[]
Henry finds a red balloon in his mailbox. Inside, he finds a box with his father's knife, sent by It. Henry enters his house, where he finds his father sleeping with the television on. A woman with children (all victims of It) appears on the screen, prompting Henry to kill his father. He does so by driving the knife into his neck and letting him bleed to death. Then the kids on TV start singing, "Kill them all! Kill them all! Kill them all!" being followed by Pennywise with a macabre smile. After that, It kidnaps Beverly after she incapacitated her father. He then writes on the wall with blood: "You die if you try". Bill, entering Beverly's house, realizes that It kidnapped Beverly, so he decides to repair his friendship with Richie, Eddie, Stanley, Ben, and Mike to rescue her.
Beverly wakes up in the sewer and observes a mountain of objects and all the children killed by It floating. She tries to leave the place until It appears dancing, she finds a way out, but the creature catches her and Beverly admits not being afraid of him. Unfortunately, It opens its mouth, revealing the Deadlights inside (if heard correctly, people can be heard screaming "Help!" "Help!") and this causes Beverly to go into a kind of trance. As the Losers walk down the sewers, Stanley is attacked by It in the guise of the misshapen woman. She bites her head, but the children manage to push her away from him while comforting a traumatized Stanley.
Finally, the children find It's lair: where they discover all the children that It once murdered floating in daylight under some kind of trance. The group finds Beverly floating and throws her down while Ben kisses her to free her from the trance. Bill watches Georgie emerge from the shadows. Georgie tells Bill that he missed him and that he was waiting for him to come and rescue him. Bill hugs his brother, but he knows he really isn't Georgie and shoots him in the head with Mike's nail gun. Georgie's body writhes on the floor until it becomes Pennywise. The creature attempts to kill all seven children, but the children fight it until It catches Bill. It gives them the option to leave and let it murder Bill or have everyone die together. Bill tells them to run away, but Richie decides not to leave his best friend and runs against It to attack the creature. All the children start beating It (it also fights with them transforming itself into their worst nightmares) with metal things until leaving it powerless and unable to hurt them because they no longer fear it. But It becomes scared of the Losers Club itself, as it crawls back trying to get away from them, but Bill tells Pennywise that he now knows why it did not kill Beverly and declares it will starve. Before Bill can deliver the final blow, the head of a badly wounded It begins to crack and the creature whispers: "Fear" before jumping down the well, seemingly killing itself.
All of the children killed by Pennywise begin to float down as Bill finds Georgie's waterproof jacket. He realizes that his younger brother really is dead and cries while his friends hug him to comfort him for his loss.
September[]
1 month later after their eventual triumph against It, Beverly informs the group of a vision she had while catatonic, where she saw them fighting It as adults. The Losers form a blood oath that if this evil that is It should ever revive, they will return to Derry in 27 years and destroy it once and for all. After the other Losers depart one by one, Beverly tells Bill that she is moving to live with her aunt in Portland, Oregon the following morning.
IT Chapter Two []
27 years later, It resurfaces when a group of homophobic teenagers beat up and toss a gay man named Adrian Mellon off the bridge. It then slaughters Adrian in front of his lover before presumably using his blood to write a message to Mike about his return. As such, It wasted no time in hunting the children of Derry, such as when it uses empathy to lure a young girl named Victoria into getting closer to it under the false assumption that it'd help make the birthmark on her face disappear. To further torment an adult Bill, It sends him a skateboard, explicitly letting him know that it was going to go after a young boy named Dean next. Realizing that Dean was heading to the carnival, Bill chases after him into the hall of mirrors. Unfortunately, It gets the upper hand and gruesomely kills the young boy in front of him. Horrified to have lost another young boy after Georgie, Bill decides to head to the Neibolt house to personally kill the creature after Henry wounds Mike and Eddie.
After each member of the Losers Club went down their own quests to retrieve artifacts from their pasts to complete the Ritual of Chud, the ritual seems to work when it traps Its Deadlights inside of the vase, but it goes awry. A giant spider-like version of Pennywise emerges, revealing that the 7 members of the original natives known as the Shokopiwah tribe who had performed the ritual were immediately slaughtered by It itself. This version of it is a combination of it's default form Pennywise the Dancing Clown itself and the Giant Spider as described in the book. It then warps the Losers Club into different nightmarish scenarios, but they inevitably overcome their fears. It traps Richie in its Deadlights, forcing Eddie to grab the pole Beverly gave him earlier and attacks the creature with it under the belief that it could kill it. Unfortunately, It impales Eddie with one of its spider-like appendages, swings him around like a ragdoll, and tosses him, leaving him with a large wound in his abdomen.
This one-act proves to be its undoing, however, when the Losers Club realize that in order to defeat It, they had to make it believe that it was smaller, due to it's only true control being that fear it held over them as children. Despite of its insistence that it was the "eater of worlds", the remaining Losers taunt and insult until it realises they are no longer afraid of it, making it unable to psychically exist. The Losers continue to insult the creature repeatedly until It was forced into a smaller, infantile form. It attempts to lash out at Mike, but is too weakened. To It's horror, Mike reaches into its chest and grabs its beating heart. It tries to grab it to no avail and is left crying like a baby, It's final words being "Look at you… you've all grown up!" with weak laughter. The Losers each mutually take a hold of the heart and crush it slowly. It reacts in pain until the heart explodes into a pasty substance, finally killing it and ending its reign of terror. Its body disintegrates as the Deadlights vanish which erases it from existence, implying heavily that the Deadlights were revealed to be It's true form. With IT's death, everything IT caused have been avenged.
After It's death, Richie tries to coerce Eddie's corpse awake, not accepting that he was truly gone till near the film's end after jumping into the lake with his partners. He attempts to take the body with him, but fails when It's lair and the Neibolt house start to crumble and collapse in response to IT's demise. The Losers are forced to leave Eddie's body in It's lair and the Neibolt house collapses on itself, sinking into a hole in the ground. After Richie accepts Eddie's death, he writes "R+E" on this fence shortly later in memory of his best friend.
Differences[]
Much like the 1990 miniseries, It is depicted as not having eggs implying that it was the only creature of this caliber to exist (unless the book implied that It asexually reproduces). Also, unlike the novel where Derry is nearly destroyed immediately following the supposed death of it, the Neibolt house is the only casualty. It also does not enlist Tom Rogan with abducting Bill's wife Audrey as both characters had minimal appearances. It also manipulates Henry into murdering his father while speaking through some hostess while he never used someone in the book nor miniseries to make Henry end his father's life.
Also, its true form (in the 2017 and 2019 films of It) is three rotating orbs of concentrated energy rather than anything remotely resembling a mass of orange crawling lights or an arachnid. Although, It takes on the shape of a drider, this is not it's true form and instead, a form that is best equipped to deal with an attack from multiple opponents. It also dies for good this time, and there is no implication suggesting he may be still alive. Bill Skarsgård added new layers to the personality of the creature, explaining that It got a thrill from being defeated and experiencing fear, and believed the creature subconsciously wanted to be killed or to cease existing. In that respect, It won. However, it is debatable if this is canon or not and if Andy Muschietti also shared this interpretation. If it is true, it only applies to the recent continuity and not the miniseries or the novel.
Relationships[]
† means they are dead, †? means their fate is unknown.
Allies[]
- Henry Bowers † - Pawn
Enemies[]
- Gan - Creator and old main Arch-nemesis
- Maturin - Old main Arch-nemesis
- The Losers Club: - New Arch-nemesis
- William “Bill” Denbrough - First Arch-nemesis, first killer and attempted victim
- Beverly "Bev" Marsh - Second Arch-nemesis, captured victim, second killer and attempted victim
- Benjamin "Ben" Hanscom - Third Arch-nemesis, lover, third killer and attempted victim
- Edward "Eddie" Kaspbrak - Fourth Arch-nemesis, injured victim, attempted killer and victim
- Michael "Mike" Hanlon - Fifth Arch-nemesis, fourth killer and attempted victim
- Richard "Richie" Tozier - Sixth Arch-nemesis, contracted victim, final killer and attempted victim
- Stanley "Stan" Uris - Seventh Arch-nemesis and attempted victim later enforced suicide victim.
- Georgie Denbrough † - False ally, first victim and form
- Patrick Hockstetter † - Victim and form
- Eddie Corcoran † - Victim
- Betty Ripsom † - Victim
- Adrian Mellon † - Victim
- Don Hagarty
- Victoria "Vicky" Fuller † - Victim
- Dean † - Victim
- Numerous other victims it has killed over the years, The Derry Company and Kitchener Ironworks Easter Egg Hunt Participants † - Victims
- Numerous Children who it has killed over the years and brought them to his lair, prior to Georgie † - Victims
- The Natives/Shokopiwah Tribe † - Victims
- Derry, Maine Citizens - Victims
- Unknown Planets and it's Inhabitants †? - Victims possibly, implied
Forms Taken by It[]
IT Chapter One[]
- Pennywise the Dancing Clown
- Librarian (possibly)
- Headless Burned boy
- Judith/Flute Lady/The Lady in the Painting
- The Leper
- Blood in the drain
- Zombie kids
- Burned arms
- Werewolf hands and jaws
- A mummy's head
- Alvin Marsh head
- Zombie Georgie Denbrough
- Georgie Denbrough
- Spider limbs
- Zombie Betty Ripsom (upper half and part of the zombie kids)
- The Parade Clown (possibly)
- Zombie Eddie Kasprak in a mattress
- Richie Tozier Doll
- True Form: The Deadlights
IT Chapter Two[]
- Pennywise the Dancing Clown
- Zombie Patrick Hockstetter
- Mrs. Kersh/The Witch
- Robert "Bob" Gray
- Zombie Adrian Mellon
- Paul Bunyan statue
- Zombie kid arms
- Leper
- Mrs. Kasprak
- Crowd Members
- Demonic Beverly Marsh
- Creepy Bill
- Pomeranian/Demon Hound
- Zombie Betty Ripsom (lower half)
- Zombie Georgie Denbrough
- Fortune Cookies
- Zombie heads in the fish tanks
- Spider Stan head
- Giant Bird Monster/Thunder Bird
- Grey Monster/Wendigo
- Demonic Drider/Minotaur
- Wolf
- Drider Pennywise
- True Form: The Deadlights
Quotes[]
IT (2017) (also called IT Chapter One on-screen or retroactively)[]
| “ | Hiya, Georgie. What a nice boat. Do you want it back? | „ |
| ~ Pennywise meets Georgie Denbrough. |
| “ | You look like a nice boy. I bet you have a lot of friends. | „ |
| ~ Pennywise to Georgie. |
| “ | Where is he? | „ |
| ~ Pennywise says to Georgie as to where his brother is. |
| “ | I bet I can cheer him up! I'll give him a balloon. Do you want a balloon too, Georgie? | „ |
| ~ Pennywise to Georgie. |
| “ | Well, I'm Pennywise, the dancing clown. "Pennywise?". "Yes?", "Meet Georgie". "Georgie, meet Pennywise". Now we aren't strangers, are we? | „ |
| ~ Pennywise introduces himself to Georgie. |
| “ | Pennywise: Oh, a storm blew me away. Blew the whole circus away. [laughs] Can you smell the circus, Georgie? There's peanuts, cotton candy, hot dogs, and... Georgie: Popcorn? Pennywise: POPCORN! Is that your favorite? Georgie: Uh-huh. Pennywise: Mine too! [laughs] Because they pop! Pop, pop! Pop, pop! Pop, pop, pop! [both laugh] |
„ |
| ~ Pennywise to Georgie. |
| “ | Oh! Without your boat? You don't wanna lose it, Georgie. Bill's gonna kill you! Here. Take it. Take it Georgie! | „ |
| ~ Pennywise luring in Georgie. |
| “ | Where ya going, Eds? If you lived here you'd be home by now. Come join the clown, Eds. You'll float down here. We all float down here! Yes, we do! | „ |
| ~ Pennywise to Eddie Kaspbrak. |
| “ | Beep-beep, Richie. | „ |
| ~ Pennywise before attacking Richie Tozier. |
| “ | Tasty, tasty, beautiful fear. | „ |
| ~ Pennywise before nearly devouring Eddie. |
| “ | This isn't real enough for you, Billy? I'm not real enough for you? It was real enough for Georgie. | „ |
| ~ Pennywise while chasing the Lucky Seven in the Neibolt house. |
| “ | No, I'll take him. I'll take all of you! And I'll feast on your flesh as I feed on your fear. Or you just leave us be. I'll take him, only him. Then, I will have my long rest, and you will all live to grow and thrive and lead happy lives until old age takes you back to the weeds. | „ |
| ~ Pennywise bargaining the Losers Club with Bill life. |
| “ | He thrusts his hands against the post...and still insists he sees the ghost. He thrusts his hands against the p-p-p-p-p-p-post. | „ |
| ~ Pennywise cowardly backing away from the Losers Club, as he recites Bills poem. |
| “ | Fear... | „ |
| ~ Pennywise before his first defeat. |
IT Chapter Two[]
| “ | Guess Stanley couldn't cut it. | „ |
| ~ It's message to the Losers in fortune cookies. |
| “ | Why? Because you weren't there, Billy. | „ |
| ~ It tormenting Bill on Georgie's death. |
| “ | Kiss me, fat boy! | „ |
| ~ Pennywise to Ben. |
| “ | I know what you are! A madman. | „ |
| ~ It to Mike. |
| “ | Come out and play! | „ |
| ~ It to the Losers. |
| “ | I can smell the stink of your fear! | „ |
| ~ It to the Losers. |
| “ | I know your secret! Your dirty, little, secret! I know your secret! YOUR DIRTY, LITTLE, SECRET! Should I tell them Richie? | „ |
| ~ It taunting Richie. |
| “ | Did it work, Mikey? Did it work? Tell them why your silly little ritual didn't work! Tell them it's all just a... What's the word, Eds? Gazebo? | „ |
| ~ It taunting the losers after they do the Ritual of Chüd. |
| “ | Come back and play! COME BACK AND PLAY WITH THE CLOWN! | „ |
| ~ It to Richie. |
| “ | You filthy little children! | „ |
| ~ It to the Losers. |
| “ | Die is what you do! | „ |
| ~ It to the Losers. |
| “ | Pennywise: You haven't changed anything yet. You haven't changed the future. You haven't saved any of them. Close your eyes, Bev. Beverly: F*** YOU! Pennywise: If you don't believe, close them, AND SEE. |
„ |
| ~ It taunting Beverly Marsh. |
| “ | You actually thought I could like someone as fat and gross and disgusting like you? No matter how many stupid poems (voice turns demonic) YOU WRITE!! | „ |
| ~ It disguised as Beverly Marsh mocking Ben. |
| “ | YOUR HAIR IS WINTER FIRE!! (laughs sadistically) JANUARY EMBERS!! MY HEART BURNS THERE TOO!! | „ |
| ~ It while chasing Ben in the form of Beverly Marsh with a burning head. |
| “ | Not going to be there for him, either? | „ |
| ~ It's message to Bill about Dean. |
| “ | You lied, and I died! | „ |
| ~ Pennywise tormenting Bill in the form of Georgie. |
| “ | Oh, Mikey, you never showed them the fourth side, did you? Didn't want them to know what actually happened to the poor Shokopiwah? Yum, nyum, nyum, nyum! | „ |
| ~ It telling the Losers why the Ritual of Chüd failed. |
| “ | For 27 years... I dreamt of you... [chuckles] I craved you. Oh, I've missed you! [cackles] Waiting, for this very moment... TIME TO FLOAT! | „ |
| ~ It after he came back from his cooling-off period and taunting the Losers Club while he takes it's drider form. |
| “ | I AM THE EATER OF WORLDS! | „ |
| ~ It boasting. |
| “ | Look at you... you're all... grown-up... | „ |
| ~ It's last words before his heart is crushed by the remaining Losers, causing it to disintegrate and avenging all of its victims including Georgie. |
Other Media[]
Hazbin Hotel[]
It, as Pennywise, was featured along with other horror icons in the Halloween sale promotion for Vivziepop's Hazbin Hotel. In the Pilot Epsiode in 2019, It as Pennywise in Vivziepop's art style is seen in the top right corner.
Space Jam: A New Legacy[]
In the 2021 Warner Bros. hybrid film Space Jam: A New Legacy, the sequel of the 1996 Warner Bros. hybrid film Space Jam, It, as Pennywise, appears alongside other villains from other Warner Bros. properties, such as Agent Smith, Lord Voldemort, the 1989 incarnation of Joker, and the Wicked Witch of the West, made a cameo as one of the speculators of Al-G Rhythm's basketball game.
It has been reported that Chuck Lines would be playing the role of Pennywise. [1]
Notable Victims killed directly/indirectly with the use of Henry.[]
Directly[]
- Georgie Denbrough - Arm bitten off and dragged in the sewer to be eaten.
- Betty Ripsom
- Patrick Hockstetter - Eaten after cornering him in the sewer.
- Eddie Corcoran
- Adrian Mellon - Heart chewed out.
- Vicky - Face mauled.
- Dean - Gruesomely mauled in the mirror with his blood splatter seen.
- Shokopiwah Tribe - Murdered in both Its awakening and in The Ritual of Chüd where it tricked the Shokopiwah Tribe into thinking they captured It.
- Eddie Kaspbrak - Stabbed in the chest with It’s tentacle.
Indirectly from possessing Henry[]
- Oscar “Butch” Bowers - Ordered; stabbed in the neck by Henry Bowers.
- Reginald "Belch" Huggins - Throat slit by Henry Bowers (body seen/deleted scene only)
- Victor "Vic" Criss - Throat slit by Henry Bowers (body seen/deleted scene only)
- Asylum Meaner Nurse - Throat slit by Henry Bowers with blood leaking on his suit and faint.
- John Koontz †? - Presumably killed by Henry Bowers (off-screen/debatable) or likely just knocked out.
Trivia[]
- Despite of the ancient supernatural curse having no gender, the characters and audio description narrator use "he", "his" and "him", when referring Pennywise as a male.
- IT: Welcome to Derry was reportedly thought to be released in 2026 but it's been confirmed it'll still release this year 2025 despite HBO Max turning into Max thankfully.
- This is the only version of Robert "Bob" Gray to be portrayed by the same actor who portrayed It, as in the Miniseries Tim Curry didn't portray Robert "Bob" Gray as the character was absent in the Miniseries and the novel never describes Gray's appearance and the only version of Robert "Bob" Gray to be visually shown (both in the picture and on-screen).
- Robert Gray is actually a real person. Robert Gray was an American Merchant sea captain who was responsible for the connection with two trading voyages to North Pacific coast of North America. He was born in May 10 1755 and died in July 1806. This is probably why Stephen King calls him Robert "Bob" Gray to avoid confusion.
- Bill Skårsgard's brother Alexander Skårsgard also portrayed Walter Padick/Randall Flagg in The 2020 Stand Miniseries ironically.
- 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 Pennywise tends to wake up to cause the capture and murder of his victims, being 27 years.
- Though CGI was used in some scenes, Bill Skarsgård was actually able to move his eyes in different directions in some scenes at the behest of Andy Muschietti. At first, it was uncertain if he was able to achieve this effect on his own, yet Skarsgård assured he could do it. The purpose of this was to add to an already unsettling and disturbing look to Pennywise.
- This version of It is arguably more dark, cruel, scary, and sadistic than that of it's book and miniseries counterparts, being that Georgie's death actually has detail to it, as it bites and rips his arm off before dragging him into the sewer. This is not to mention the way it plays with its victims, such as when it mimics the Losers Club with visions of their worst tragedies and fears and controlling Henry Bowers into killing his father, and when Bill helplessly watches It devour Dean in front of him as a dark homage to Georgie's death.
- This is the only version of It to be confirmed dead at the end, as its Novel and Miniseries counterparts' fates are left ambiguous.
- This version of It in Its Pennywise form is the current icon of the Pure Evil Wiki.
- Although clearly an "Entertainingly Detestable" Villain, Pennywise is for some reason on The Hate Sinks Wiki and the current icon of the " Mature" template in that wiki.
- Outside of Villains Wiki and FANDOM, It is always called Pennywise due to it being more easy to remember and infamous, this applies to all three versions of Pennywise.
- In the OST for IT Chapter Two, Pennywise is listed alongside Benjamin Wallfisch in the soundtrack "Dirty Little Secret".
- This is the only version of Pennywise in canon media to have a villain song of his own.
- The red markings on Its lips to its eyes are similar to how horns looks like, possibly being a reference to how It is called The Devil in the Novel, the Miniseries and in the remakes
- A user on YouTube also pointed the red markings are actually Its lips since whenever it opens to reveal it mouths, the red markings acted perfectly as Its lips, probably because that was Muschietti's plan.
External Links[]
- It on the Pure Evil Wiki
