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Images and videos of the evil clown It/Pennywise from the 2017-2019 IT film duology and the 2025 prequel TV Series IT: Welcome to Derry.
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 about Pennywise. |
Past[]
The exact nature of who or what IT is is unknown, as well as where IT came from. However, what is known is that It is as a ravenous cosmic entity with eldritch attributes and the creature's true form are three potentially otherworldy light orbs called the "Deadlights." It is also implied to have eaten or destroyed other worlds prior to coming to Earth, as It calls itself the "Eater of Worlds". However, it is unknown if "worlds" refers to other planets or realities.
It eventually found Earth and realized that 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 similar to an asteroid crash. This impact caused It to go into hibernation. When It awoke, It began terrorizing the Shokopiwah, a Native American tribe that lived in the region that would later become the barrens of Derry, Maine. The natives later discovered the Ritual of Chüd and tried to imprison It inside the vase, but they never succeeded and It killed all of the ritual performers. However, the Shokopiwah were able to contain It to the western woodlands and migrated away from the area in hopes that they would be safe from It's reach.
In 1719, after the original 91 settlers signed a charter that established Derry Township as a beaver camp, It murdered them all later that year, leaving only a trail a bloody clothes leading to the well house. Because It's existence was unheard of, the murders were thought to have been the result of either a plague or a raid by Native Americans at the time.
In the 20th century, It began a 27 year cycle to feed on the townsfolk of Derry for a year before returning to hibernation, while subsequently causing chaos and mass tragedies throughout Derry by influencing and manipulating its inhabitants, whether directly or indirectly. In 1908, It caused the destruction of the Kitchener Ironworks factory during the town's annual Easter Egg Hunt, resulting in a total of 102 deaths (88 kids and 14 adults). In 1935, the Bradley Gang Massacre occured in which a gang of notorious criminals were murdered by a mob of angry townsfolk in broad daylight. In 1962, a racist cult instigated a riot that resulted in a nightclub known as The Black Spot being destroyed in an arson, causing many deaths and other disasters that happened before the series.
IT: Welcome to Derry[]
1908[]
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January 1962[]
IT takes on the form of a family driving to Portland to lure in a 12-year-old boy named Matty Clemons who was trying to run away from Derry. Matty got in the car with IT, being confused when the family drove back into Derry.
April 1962[]
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IT: Chapter One[]
October 1988[]
IT takes the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown and first appears to Georgie Denbrough and talks friendly with him to gain his trust, until it reveals its true nature when Georgie was about to get back his boat, by biting his arm clean off and dragging him into the sewers to devour him.
June 1989[]
The following year, Mike Hanlon, after 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 IT as Pennywise murdering a sheep behind plastic curtains. Stanley Uris 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 Stan turns, the woman from the painting manifests and smiles at him with her fangs, but Stan manages to run away.
Ben Hanscom is in the library researching Derry's history. From a series of articles, he learns that Derry's children have been disappearing or dying under mysterious circumstances for decades. 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 before transforming into Pennywise, then the librarian appears to ask Ben what he is doing in the basement, while IT disappears without a trace, leaving Ben totally scared. Ben is then bullied by Henry and his gang before rescued. Meanwhile, in the sewers, Patrick Hockstetter, who was separated from the rest of his friends searching for Ben, encounters some zombified 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 pops to reveal Pennywise with a bloody mouth, who immediately devours Patrick. IT again appears as Pennywise when Mike is bullied by Henry and his gang behind foliage, eating a bloody arm. It salutes him by making greetings movements with the arm.
Later, Eddie is walking back home when he passes an abandoned house on Neibolt Street, he is suddenly frightened by IT as a leper, causing Eddie to run around the courtyard of the house. Upon reaching a fence, IT transforms into Pennywise and tries to lure him with balloons but 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/Pennywise 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 it 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, IT, as Pennywise, jumps out of the coffin 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 Pennywise to turn its attention back to Eddie, who sees him exit from a refrigerator and backs away from it. Meanwhile, Bill and Richie try to go help him, but they find three doors in which the following bloody phrases are written: "Not scary at all" 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 down 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/Pennywise and Eddie meet and prevent the evil clown from devouring him. IT reveals to Bill that it was Georgie's killer, then tries to kill them. Suddenly, Beverly appears and sticks a spear into the monster's head. However, all three are cornered while IT is willing to devour them. He manages to hurt Ben and flees in anger.
August 1989[]
Henry finds a red balloon at his mailbox and a box inside it with his father's knife, sent by IT. Henry enters his house, where he finds his abusive father sleeping with the TV on. A woman with a group of children appear on the screen, encouraging Henry to murder his father under IT's influence. He does so by driving the knife into his neck and letting him bleed to death. Then the kids on TV start chanting, "Kill them all!", followed by Pennywise with an evil grin. After that, IT kidnaps Beverly after she incapacitated her sexually abusive father, Alvin Marsh. It 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 various trinkets and objects, and all of the missing children floating around it. She tries to leave the place until Pennywise appears dancing, she finds a way out, but it catches her and Beverly admits not being afraid of it. Unfortunately, IT opens its mouth, revealing the Deadlights, it's true form, 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 his head, but the children manage to push her away from him while comforting Stanley.
Finally, the gang find IT's lair: where they discover all the children that IT 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 IT as 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 murder the Losers, but the children fight it until IT catches Bill. IT gives them the option to leave and let it take Bill or have everyone die together. Bill tells them to run away, but Richie decides not to leave his best friend and runs to attack IT. All the children start beating IT with metal pipes until leaving it powerless and unable to hurt them because they no longer fear it. But IT becomes afraid of the Losers Club, as it crawls back trying to get away from them, but Bill tells IT/Pennywise that he now knows why it did not kill Beverly and declares It will starve. Before Bill can deliver the final blow, Pennywise's head begins to crack and the monster whispers: "Fear" before falling down the well, seemingly killing itself.
All of the children killed by IT 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 1989[]
One month after their first 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 come back, 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 the following morning.
IT: Chapter Two[]
2016[]
27 years later, IT resurfaces when a group of homophobic teenagers beat up and toss a gay man named Adrian Mellon off a bridge. IT then takes the form of Pennywise and 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 feigns empathy to lure a young girl named Victoria Fuller into getting closer to it under the false assumption that it'd help make a birthmark on her face disappear. To further torment an adult Bill, IT sends him a skateboard, explicitly letting him know that he 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 devours 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 IT after Henry, who had escaped from a mental institution, wounded Eddie and Mike before being killed by Richie.
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 members of the Shokopiwah tribe who had performed the ritual were immediately slaughtered by IT itself. This version of it is a combination of it's favorite form Pennywise the Dancing Clown himself and the Giant Spider as described in the book. Pennywise/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 monster 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 the Eater of Worlds, they had to make it believe that it was smaller, due to it only true control being that the fear It held over them as children. Despite of It's insistence that it was the "eater of worlds", the remaining Losers taunt and insult It until It realises they are no longer afraid of it, making him unable to psychically exist. The Losers continue to insult the mosnter repeatedly until It was forced into the form of a smaller, infantile Pennywise. IT attempts to lash out at Mike, but is too weak. 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 last cryptic 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 agony until the heart explodes into a pasty substance, finally killing It and ending its reign of terror. The form of infantile Pennywise disintegrates as the true form of It, the Deadlights, vanish into nothing, putting an end to the malevolent monster's existence and avenging the deaths of Georgie, Eddie, and all of It's victims.
After It's death, Richie tries to coerce Eddie's corpse awake. He attempts to take the body with him, but fails when It's ancient lair and the Neibolt House start to crumble and collapse in response to the malevolent creature's death. 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. Meanwhile, with It's demise, the other remaining Losers continue on with their lives in content, with Mike leaving behind Derry for good and Ben marrying Beverly.