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* IT, a giant disgusting brain that enslaves your circadian rhythms if you get too close to IT. IT is the HiveMind for the entire planet of Camazotz, subsuming select minds within [=ITself=] and cowing the rest into fearful, blind obedience.

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* IT, a giant disgusting disembodied brain that enslaves your circadian rhythms if you get too close to IT. IT is the ''literal'' EldritchAbomination and HiveMind for that runs the entire planet of Camazotz, subsuming select any dissenting minds within [=ITself=] and cowing the rest into fearful, blind obedience.
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* [=ITs=] servant, The Man With Red Eyes, who talks about the potential enslavement of the universe in the politest terms possible and doesn't open his mouth when he talks. He actually laughs at one point, a literal case of HellIsThatNoise. Then he takes control of Charles Wallace...

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* [=ITs=] servant, The Man With Red Eyes, who talks about the potential enslavement of the universe in the politest terms possible and doesn't open his mouth when he talks. He actually laughs at one point, a literal case of HellIsThatNoise. Then he takes channels IT to take control of Charles Wallace...
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* The trailer gives us our first look at the city controlled by IT (possibly Camazots). The place may look colorful and innocent. ...[[CrapsaccharineWorld But it's not]]. On closer inspection, you notice the children are bouncing their toy balls in the most uncanny synchronization. Everybody in that village talks in sync. With the exception of the village being colorless, this follows the book all too closely...

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* The trailer gives us our first look at the city controlled by IT (possibly Camazots). Camazotz). The place may look colorful and innocent. ...innocent... [[CrapsaccharineWorld But it's not]]. On closer inspection, you notice the children are bouncing their toy balls in the most uncanny synchronization. Everybody in that village talks in sync. With the exception of the village being colorless, this follows the book all too closely...
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* Alex Murray looks like he's gone through hell while imprisoned. At one point he looks towards the camera in utter shock, [[NothingIsScarier and we don't know why.]]
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* The trailer gives us our first look at the city controlled by IT. The place may look colorful and innocent. ...[[CrapsaccharineWorld But it's not]]. On closer inspection, you notice the children are bouncing their toy balls in the most uncanny synchronization. Everybody in that village talks in sync. With the exception of the village being colorless, this follows the book all too closely...

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* The trailer gives us our first look at the city controlled by IT.IT (possibly Camazots). The place may look colorful and innocent. ...[[CrapsaccharineWorld But it's not]]. On closer inspection, you notice the children are bouncing their toy balls in the most uncanny synchronization. Everybody in that village talks in sync. With the exception of the village being colorless, this follows the book all too closely...
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[[WMG: The 2017 movie]]

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[[WMG: The 2017 2018 movie]]
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-->''The only thing that travels faster than light...is the darkness.''

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-->''The -->''"The only thing that travels faster than light...light... is the darkness.'' "''
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-->'''Charles:''' "Murder" is a most primitive word...

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-->'''Charles:''' [[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord "Murder" is a most primitive word...]]






* In the trailer, we see a village controlled by IT. The place may look colorful and innocent. ...[[CrapsaccharineWorld But it's not]]. On closer inspection, you notice the children are bouncing their toy balls in the most uncanny synchronization. Everybody in that village talks in sync, it's not even funny. With the exception of the village being colorless, this follows the book all too closely...
** Even scarier? The way the mothers look [[BreakingTheFourthWall right at the screen]] and ask "Are you lost?" It's as though IT detects that there's something or someone (the audience) intruding on ITs 'body', and in the most thinly veiled threat, understands it must be somehow removed...

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* In The trailer gives us our first look at the trailer, we see a village city controlled by IT. The place may look colorful and innocent. ...[[CrapsaccharineWorld But it's not]]. On closer inspection, you notice the children are bouncing their toy balls in the most uncanny synchronization. Everybody in that village talks in sync, it's not even funny.sync. With the exception of the village being colorless, this follows the book all too closely...
** Even scarier? The way the mothers look [[BreakingTheFourthWall right at the screen]] and ask "Are you lost?" It's as though IT detects that there's something or someone (the audience) intruding on ITs [=ITs=] 'body', and in the most thinly veiled threat, understands it must be somehow removed...removed...
* The downright '''chilling''' delivery of the trailer's final line:
-->''The only thing that travels faster than light...is the darkness.''
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* In the trailer, we see a village controlled by IT. It may look colorful and innocent. ...[[CrapsaccharineWorld But it's not]]. On closer inspection, you notice the children are bouncing their toy boys in the most uncanny synchronization. Everybody in that village even talks in sync, it's not even funny.
** Even scarier? The way the mothers look right at the screen and ask "Are you lost?" It's as though IT detects that there's something or someone intruding on ITs 'body', and in the most thinly veiled threat, understands it must be somehow removed...

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* In the trailer, we see a village controlled by IT. It The place may look colorful and innocent. ...[[CrapsaccharineWorld But it's not]]. On closer inspection, you notice the children are bouncing their toy boys balls in the most uncanny synchronization. Everybody in that village even talks in sync, it's not even funny.
funny. With the exception of the village being colorless, this follows the book all too closely...
** Even scarier? The way the mothers look [[BreakingTheFourthWall right at the screen screen]] and ask "Are you lost?" It's as though IT detects that there's something or someone (the audience) intruding on ITs 'body', and in the most thinly veiled threat, understands it must be somehow removed...
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[[AC: The 2017 movie]]
* In the trailer, we see a village controlled by IT. It may look colorful and innocent. ...[[CrapsaccharineWorld But it's not]]. On closer inspection, you notice the children are bouncing their toy boys in the most uncanny synchronization. Everybody in that village even talks in sync, it's not even funny.
** Even scarier? The way the mothers look right at the screen and ask "Are you lost?" It's as though IT detects that there's something or someone intruding on ITs 'body', and in the most thinly veiled threat, understands it must be somehow removed...
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* The rather casual, banal way which Charles (under control of IT) explains how Camazotz deals with illness.

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* The rather casual, banal way which Charles (under control of IT) explains how Camazotz deals with illness.illness - even minor ailments such as the common cold.
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* IT, a giant disgusting brain that enslaves your circadian rhythms if you get too close to IT. IT is the HiveMind for the entire planet of Camazotz, subsuming select minds within =[ITself]= and cowing the rest into fearful, blind obedience.

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* IT, a giant disgusting brain that enslaves your circadian rhythms if you get too close to IT. IT is the HiveMind for the entire planet of Camazotz, subsuming select minds within =[ITself]= [=ITself=] and cowing the rest into fearful, blind obedience.
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* IT, a giant disgusting brain that enslaves your circadian rhythms if you get too close to IT. IT is the HiveMind for the entire planet of Camazotz, subsuming select minds within ITself and cowing the rest into fearful, blind obedience.

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* IT, a giant disgusting brain that enslaves your circadian rhythms if you get too close to IT. IT is the HiveMind for the entire planet of Camazotz, subsuming select minds within ITself =[ITself]= and cowing the rest into fearful, blind obedience.
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* IT, a giant disgusting brain that enslaves your circadian rhythms if you get close to IT. It's the HiveMind for the entire planet of Camazotz, swallowing everyone else's minds.

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* IT, a giant disgusting brain that enslaves your circadian rhythms if you get too close to IT. It's IT is the HiveMind for the entire planet of Camazotz, swallowing everyone else's minds.subsuming select minds within ITself and cowing the rest into fearful, blind obedience.
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* [=ITs=] servant, The Man With Red Eyes, who talks about the potential enslavement of the universe in the politest terms possible and doesn't open his mouth when he talks. Then he takes control of Charles Wallace.

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* [=ITs=] servant, The Man With Red Eyes, who talks about the potential enslavement of the universe in the politest terms possible and doesn't open his mouth when he talks. He actually laughs at one point, a literal case of HellIsThatNoise. Then he takes control of Charles Wallace.Wallace...
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* The fate of the boy with the ball, who is seen being tortured for [[FelonyMisdemeanor bouncing his ball out of sync with the other children]].

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* The fate of the boy with the ball, who is seen being tortured [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] for [[FelonyMisdemeanor bouncing his ball out of sync with the other children]].
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--->'''Charles''': IT sometimes calls [=ITself=] the Happiest Sadist.

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--->'''Charles''': IT sometimes calls [=ITself=] the Happiest Sadist.{{Sadist}}.
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--->'''Charles''':IT sometimes calls ITself the Happiest Sadist.

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--->'''Charles''':IT --->'''Charles''': IT sometimes calls ITself [=ITself=] the Happiest Sadist.
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** And it's rammed home exactly what the kids are dealing with when Charles lets slip how IT thinks of itself:
--->'''Charles''':IT sometimes calls ITself the Happiest Sadist.
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-->'''Calvin:''' You mean they're [literally] put to sleep while they have a cold, or that they're murdered?
-->'''Charles:''' "Murder" is a most primitive word...
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-->''Charles:''We let no-one suffer. It is so much kinder to simply annihilate anyone who is ill. Nobody has weeks and weeks of runny noses and sore throats. Rather then endure such discomfort, they are simply put to sleep.

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-->''Charles:''We -->'''Charles:''' We let no-one suffer. It is so much kinder to simply annihilate anyone who is ill. Nobody has weeks and weeks of runny noses and sore throats. Rather then endure such discomfort, they are simply put to sleep.

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* The Black Thing

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* The Black ThingThing - the grandaddy EldritchAbomination.


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* The rather casual, banal way which Charles (under control of IT) explains how Camazotz deals with illness.
-->''Charles:''We let no-one suffer. It is so much kinder to simply annihilate anyone who is ill. Nobody has weeks and weeks of runny noses and sore throats. Rather then endure such discomfort, they are simply put to sleep.

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* IT, a giant disgusting brain that enslaves your circadian rhythms if you get close to IT. It's the HiveMind for the entire planet of Camazotz, swallowing everyone else's minds.

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* IT, a giant disgusting brain that enslaves your circadian rhythms if you get close to IT. It's the HiveMind for the entire planet of Camazotz, swallowing everyone else's minds. minds.
** An actual nightmare: all roads lead to IT.


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* Tessering: what does ''nothingness'' actually feel like?
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* At one point, the kids are accidentally transported to a ''[[EldrichLocation two-dimensional]]'' planet for a few seconds. It nearly kills them.

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* At one point, the kids are accidentally transported to a ''[[EldrichLocation ''[[EldritchLocation two-dimensional]]'' planet for a few seconds. It nearly kills them.

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Eliminted the Mitochondritis entry; that beings in Wind in the Door.


* At one point, the kids are accidentally transported to a ''two-dimensional'' planet for a few seconds. It nearly kills them.

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* At one point, the kids are accidentally transported to a ''two-dimensional'' ''[[EldrichLocation two-dimensional]]'' planet for a few seconds. It nearly kills them.



* Mitochondritis is caused by sentient microbes on which your mitochondria depend choosing to stop worshiping God. Or something like that.
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* Mitochondritis is caused by sentient microbes on which your mitochondria depend choosing to stop worshiping God. Or something like that.
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* The fate of the boy with the ball, who is seen being tortured for [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous bouncing his ball out of sync with the other children]].

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* The fate of the boy with the ball, who is seen being tortured for [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous [[FelonyMisdemeanor bouncing his ball out of sync with the other children]].

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* The Black Thing, and IT as the HiveMind for the entire planet of Camazotz, swallowing everyone else's minds.

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* The Black Thing, and IT as Thing
* IT, a giant disgusting brain that enslaves your circadian rhythms if you get close to IT. It's
the HiveMind for the entire planet of Camazotz, swallowing everyone else's minds.



* The Man With Red Eyes taking control of Charles.

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* [=ITs=] servant, The Man With Red Eyes taking Eyes, who talks about the potential enslavement of the universe in the politest terms possible and doesn't open his mouth when he talks. Then he takes control of Charles.Charles Wallace.
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* The Black Thing, and IT as the HiveMind for the entire planet of Camazotz, swallowing everyone else's minds.
* At one point, the kids are accidentally transported to a ''two-dimensional'' planet for a few seconds. It nearly kills them.
* The Man With Red Eyes taking control of Charles.
* The fate of the boy with the ball, who is seen being tortured for [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous bouncing his ball out of sync with the other children]].
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