History TearJerker / It2017

--->'''Bill's Dad:''' Your brother was looking very forward to this trip. [[WhamLine It was his favorite]].
--->'''Bill:''' Mine too...

** Soon after, there's a moment where "Georgie's" body lies still, and the audience is left to wonder if Bill just accidentally shot his little brother... The NightmareFuel that follows shortly afterwards is almost a relief.

--->'''Georgie''': I love you, Billy.\\
'''Bill''': I love you, too... [[spoiler: ''[DramaticGunCock]'' But you're NOT Georgie.]]

--->'''Georgie''': I lost it, Billy. Don't be mad.
--->'''Bill''': I'm not mad at you.

--->'''Bill's Dad''': Your brother was looking very forward to this trip. [[WhamLine It was his favorite]].
--->'''Bill''': Mine too...
* As Bill, Richie, and Eddie leave school to start summer break, they notice Betty Ripsom's distraught mother waiting outside the school, as if she's vainly hoping that her missing daughter will somehow come out with all the other kids. Of course, [[DeathOfAChild Betty has long since become one of Pennywise's victims.]] Remember that each child taken by IT [[AdultFear means another grieving family.]]

** Georgie being dragged into the sewer makes the entire scene so much worse. In the [[Literature/{{It}}]] book and the [[Series/It1990 mini-series]], Georgie dies from blood loss/shock from losing his arm and Pennywise leaves behind the rest of him. This means that the Denbroughs would have at least had closure that he was definitely dead and would have had a body to lay to rest and a gravesite to visit. Here, they are denied even that meager comfort and Bill is left clinging to false hope of his brother's survival.

** And the filmmakers have somehow made Georgie's death ''even worse''. [[spoiler: Pennywise bites off Georgie's arm but, unlike the book, Georgie manages to crawl away from the drain, crying for Bill the whole time. Then Pennywise's arm literally stretches out of the sewer, dragging Georgie back in to face his certain death.]] ''Damn.''

*** Not to mention the fact how Georgie probably felt during all this. Just seconds ago he was laughing and having fun, just enjoying life. [[spoiler: Then he spends his final moments crying with pain and fear.]]
** And to top it all off, as Georgie is [[spoiler: dragged down to his death]], he had this to scream:

** Add to the fact that [[spoiler: an old lady ''saw'' Georgie talking to Pennywise (though from her POV, she couldn't see who he was talking to) under the sewer opening and yet ''[[AdultsAreUseless walked away from it like nothing]]''. And when she did return to ''actually'' do something? '''When she saw the blood from Georgie's ripped off arm'''. [[SarcasmMode Welcome to Derry, everyone]]. It's rather telling that her pet ''cat'' was more concerned for Georgie than her]].
** Georgie [[spoiler: being dragged into the sewer makes the entire scene so much worse.]] In the book and the mini-series [[spoiler: Georgie dies from blood loss/shock from losing his arm and Pennywise leaves behind the rest of him. This means that the Denbroughs would have at least had closure that he was definitely dead and would have had a body to lay to rest and a gravesite to visit. Here, they are denied even that meager comfort and Bill is left clinging to false hope of his brother's survival.]]
* [[spoiler:At the very end, right before the final confrontation with Pennywise, he appears as Georgie minus the arm he ripped off. Bill's interaction with his brother is heartbreaking, conveying how much he wishes Georgie could come home, but eventually it becomes clear that Bill is very aware that it's just one more of Pennywise's tricks before he shoots Georgie with Mike's bolt gun.]]
** Adding to that scene, the part where [[spoiler: "Georgie" begins to tearfully plea that he wants to go home and his terrified reaction to Bill pointing the bolt gun at him]].

** Soon after, there's a moment where [[spoiler: "Georgie's" body lies still, and the audience is left to wonder if Bill just accidentally shot his little brother...]] The NightmareFuel that follows shortly afterwards is almost a relief.
* [[spoiler:After the gang manage to drive IT back for now, Bill finds Georgie's raincoat, confirming that Pennywise had long since killed him. Bill just about breaks down crying, falling to his knees while clutching the raincoat while his friends pile in and hug him for comfort.]]
** [[spoiler: But for Bill, while tragic, this is a healthy kind of tearjerker. As he finally gets the closure he needed and can now begin to move on with his life, too.]]

* Beverly's life is both this and NightmareFuel. She's ostracized from the school body and picked on by other girls for (supposedly) sleeping around, and her single father is sexually attracted to her, possibly already molesting her, [[spoiler:and attempts to assault her in one scene, forcing her to bludgeon him in self defense. Then Pennywise kidnaps her and imprisons her in his lair in the sewers.]]
* Ben leaving the library after his traumatizing ordeal only to be set upon by the Bowers gang. They drag him to the Kissing Bridge, leading to [[spoiler: Patrick nearly setting Ben’s hair on fire and Henry carving a ‘H’ into Ben’s stomach with his knife while Ben is restrained.]] Ben is completely helpless throughout... [[HopeSpot until some adults drive by]]. [[spoiler: Except they’re being controlled by Pennywise, causing them to ignore his cries completely.]] Anyone who has been bullied will find the scene very hard to watch.

* Eddie [[spoiler: discovering his 'medicine' is just a bunch of placebos and he was never sick. He'd been betrayed by [[MyBelovedSmother his own mother to 'protect' him from the world]], leaving him feeling very understandably betrayed]].
* At the film's end, [[spoiler: the memories the Losers have of the past events is fading and Beverly is leaving for Portland to live with her aunt. Despite going through so much together, they're going to drift apart and forget each other, despite knowing deep down they'll always be friends.]]
* A bit of Fridge Tearjerker: [[spoiler:after the Losers make their blood oath, Stanley is the first to leave. [[DrivenToSuicide He's also the first to leave 27 years later.]]]]
** Fans of the book may also note that [[spoiler: [[KilledOffForReal Eddie leaves soon afterwards]].]]
* Beverly crying in the bathroom as she cuts off her long hair, really think about it: [[spoiler: She ''knows'' her father's sexually attracted to her and she's completely sickened by it, the look on her face as she cries. Also, cutting off hair is a common way for victims to make themselves less attractive to their abusers. It's clear the filmmakers have ShownTheirWork. Now think of the real stories they must have heard to get the details right.]]

** Add to the earlier fact where Bill tries to show his dad how he believes Georgie ended up in the Barrens and his father just furiously tells him Georgie's dead (which eventually turns out to be [[spoiler:sadly [[StrawmanHasAPoint correct]]]]). [[SarcasmMode Father of the year, everybody]].

** Really, ''everything'' about Bill missing Georgie is saddening: His last talk with his brother was hugging him after making him the paper boat (along with Bill telling Georgie boats are called by feminine pronouns) and it's pretty obvious the two were very close (compared to the mini-series and books which are implied but not so discussed). There's also the fact Bill possibly [[ItsAllMyFault blames himself for Georgie's disappearance]] but as seen, he was sick that day and probably would have gotten worse had he gone out. Doesn't make it less depressing considering his obsession with finding his brother, or at least [[spoiler: finally getting the closure that he passed]].

* When Stan [[spoiler: was separated from the group in Neibolt, he's completely traumatized from what IT did to him. He was convinced that the rest of the losers left him, and he sobs "You're not my friends" to them. During this ordeal, the other losers are sobbing as well, and are all comforting Stanley, and tell him that they would never desert him.]]
** The part about them [[spoiler: not being his friends]], while certainly being more out of fear than anything else, brings back to a small but poignant scene: during Stan's Bar Mitzvah (whose rehearsal, as we have seen, has been stressful) only Richie shows up among the guests. Sure, [[spoiler: Eddie, Bev and possibly Mike are being kept home by their parents, but Ben and especially Bill aren't present.]] Seen from Stan's perspective, he doesn't have many people to cling to when in need.
** This is [[spoiler: much, MUCH worse when you factor in what Stan's trauma [[DrivenToSuicide ultimately drives him to do years later]].]]

--->'''Bill''': I could never be mad at you.

* The deleted scene showing Henry crying in pain and applying ontiment to scars on his back after having been beaten and whipped by his father. The first chance you get to truly see what the poor kid is going through.

** And to top it all off, as Georgie is dragged down to his death, he had this to scream:

--->'''Bill''': I'm not mad at you.