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* {{Badass Normal}}s: Defeating an interdimensional EldritchAbomination twice qualifies you as this.
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* WeaponOfChoice: A slingshot which she uses the mortally harm IT twice in the miniseries.
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* PluckyComicRelief: Never fails to bring a life, no matter how dire things get.
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* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: During one scene, he and his gang corner Beverly outside of her home where he begins to creepily fondle and caress her face. He also attempts to kiss her but Bev said her dad scared him off before he could do anything.
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* LighterAndSofter: {{Downplayed.}} He is much more comedic and entertaining than his book counterpart, Pennywise is still a pure evil, sadistic monster.
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* MeaningfulName: In the photo album scene, he can be seen somersaulting into frame before targeting theLosers.Losers, bringing sense to his name "Pennywise the Dancing Clown)
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Unlike his book or 2017 counterpart, the miniseries' Henry has no FreudianExcuse to bully and torment the children of Derry. Unlike the others, very little is known about Henry's home life or how his father treats him. The only indication that his father might be abusive is Henry's off-handed comment "My father will tan my hide!" when the teacher says he must stay an hour after school every day of the week (although just about any parent would get mad over such a thing).
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* AxCrazy: Even before Pennywise drives him crazy, Henry's idea of amusement includes attempting to carve his name into the bellies of large kids with a switchblade, attempting to put lit fire crackers down Mike's pants, and taking away Eddie's inhaler during an asthma attack.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Unlike his book or 2017 counterpart, the miniseries' Henry has no FreudianExcuse to bully and torment the children of Derry. Unlike the others, his counterparts, very little is known about Henry's home life or how his father treats him. The only indication that his father might be abusive is Henry's off-handed comment "My father will tan my hide!" when the teacher says he must stay an hour after school every day of the week (although just about any parent would get mad over such a thing).
* AxCrazy: Even before Pennywise drives him crazy, Henry's idea of amusement includes attempting to carve his name intothe bellies of large kids Ben's stomach with a switchblade, attempting to put lit fire crackers down Mike's pants, and taking away Eddie's inhaler during an asthma attack.
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* EvilLaugh: When he briefly kidnaps Stan.
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* DeadpanSnarker: On some occasions.
-->'''Pennywise (on the moon):''' "''Henry. Henry Bowers.'' (Henry looks around in a daze as Pennywise rolls his eyes) ''Up here, sharp stuff.''
-->'''Pennywise (on the moon):''' "''Henry. Henry Bowers.'' (Henry looks around in a daze as Pennywise rolls his eyes) ''Up here, sharp stuff.''
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* DiseasedBleach: Seeing It's Deadlights turned his hair white.
* TheDragon: To It in Part 2.
* TheDragon: To It in Part 2.
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!The Bowers Gang
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!!The Bowers Gang
->'''Portrayed By:''' Michael Cole (Jarred Blancard as Yound Henry Bowers), Gabe Khouth, Chris Eastman
Four bullies with a grudge against the Losers.
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* BarbaricBully
* {{Delinquents}}
* DemotedToExtra: Patrick for obvious reasons
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Victor is disturbed by Henry attempting to carve his name in Ben's stomach.
* KidsAreCruel
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Patrick Hockstetter.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Downplayed, but Victor is less barbaric than Henry.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Henry]]
!!Henry Bowers
->'''Portrayed By:''' Micheal Cole (Jarred Blancard as Young Henry Bowers)
->''"Well, whaddaya know? It's the fat boy, the Jew, and the sissy. Four eyes and the patch girl, too. Nigger, you know how to pick them: the Loser's Club."''
A violent bully who takes pleasure in taunting the Losers.
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* AbusiveParents: Only {{implied}} when Henry off-handedly says "My father will tan my hide!" when the teacher says he must stay an hour after school every day of the week.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Unlike his book or 2017 counterpart, the miniseries' Henry has no FreudianExcuse to bully and torment the children of Derry. Unlike the others, very little is known about Henry's home life or how his father treats him. The only indication that his father might be abusive is Henry's off-handed comment "My father will tan my hide!" when the teacher says he must stay an hour after school every day of the week (although just about any parent would get mad over such a thing).
* AxCrazy: Even before Pennywise drives him crazy, Henry's idea of amusement includes attempting to carve his name into the bellies of large kids with a switchblade, attempting to put lit fire crackers down Mike's pockets, and taking away Eddie's inhaler during an asthma attack.
* BarbaricBully
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Under the influence of It, not that he was that sane to begin with.]]
* TheBully: He's the most infamous bully in Derry.
* BullyBrutality: Oh yeah. One of his first scenes has trying to carve his name into Ben's stomach. [[spoiler:He gets worse under It's influence.]]
* EvilLaugh: When he briefly kidnaps Stan.
* ForTheEvulz: See AdaptationalVillainy above.
* GreaserDelinquents: He has the look of a 50s greaser.
* {{Jerkass}}
* HateSink: He has no FreudianExcuse, is a racist and misogynistic {{Jerkass}}, and relentlessly torments the Losers Club.
* KarmicDeath: Dies when he accidentally stabs himself with his won knife.
* KnifeNut: Carries a switchblade knife.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He calls Mike a "nigger" several times, hates Stan because he's Jewish, and hates Beverly because she's a poor girl.
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!!The Bowers Gang
->'''Portrayed By:''' Michael Cole (Jarred Blancard as Yound Henry Bowers), Gabe Khouth, Chris Eastman
Four bullies with a grudge against the Losers.
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* BarbaricBully
* {{Delinquents}}
* DemotedToExtra: Patrick for obvious reasons
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Victor is disturbed by Henry attempting to carve his name in Ben's stomach.
* KidsAreCruel
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Patrick Hockstetter.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Downplayed, but Victor is less barbaric than Henry.
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[[folder:Henry]]
!!Henry Bowers
->'''Portrayed By:''' Micheal Cole (Jarred Blancard as Young Henry Bowers)
->''"Well, whaddaya know? It's the fat boy, the Jew, and the sissy. Four eyes and the patch girl, too. Nigger, you know how to pick them: the Loser's Club."''
A violent bully who takes pleasure in taunting the Losers.
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* AbusiveParents: Only {{implied}} when Henry off-handedly says "My father will tan my hide!" when the teacher says he must stay an hour after school every day of the week.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Unlike his book or 2017 counterpart, the miniseries' Henry has no FreudianExcuse to bully and torment the children of Derry. Unlike the others, very little is known about Henry's home life or how his father treats him. The only indication that his father might be abusive is Henry's off-handed comment "My father will tan my hide!" when the teacher says he must stay an hour after school every day of the week (although just about any parent would get mad over such a thing).
* AxCrazy: Even before Pennywise drives him crazy, Henry's idea of amusement includes attempting to carve his name into the bellies of large kids with a switchblade, attempting to put lit fire crackers down Mike's pockets, and taking away Eddie's inhaler during an asthma attack.
* BarbaricBully
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Under the influence of It, not that he was that sane to begin with.]]
* TheBully: He's the most infamous bully in Derry.
* BullyBrutality: Oh yeah. One of his first scenes has trying to carve his name into Ben's stomach. [[spoiler:He gets worse under It's influence.]]
* EvilLaugh: When he briefly kidnaps Stan.
* ForTheEvulz: See AdaptationalVillainy above.
* GreaserDelinquents: He has the look of a 50s greaser.
* {{Jerkass}}
* HateSink: He has no FreudianExcuse, is a racist and misogynistic {{Jerkass}}, and relentlessly torments the Losers Club.
* KarmicDeath: Dies when he accidentally stabs himself with his won knife.
* KnifeNut: Carries a switchblade knife.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He calls Mike a "nigger" several times, hates Stan because he's Jewish, and hates Beverly because she's a poor girl.
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* HelloNerse: It's constantly mentioned that Beverly is very beautiful. The reason that she isn't part of the popular girl's clique is that she's poor and can't afford nice clothes, and she doesn't act very ladylike (hanging out exclusively with boys). Also, the richer girls are rather annoyed that they are getting upstaged in terms of looks by someone who's working-class and from the poor side of town.
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Richard Masur (Ben Heller as Young Stan Uris)
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* EvilLaugh: A very loud and bombastic one that descends into a crackle.
* EvilIsHammy: You can tell Tim Curry had the time of his life playing Pennywise.
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* LightIsNotGood: The original Pennywise costume in the miniseries was a simple looking clown with brightly colored clothing. One that most kids in the 50's associated with fun, not fear. That is precisely why Curry's clown terrified children of the 90s in [[RealLife]]. Simply because the kids did not expect that a "normal" looking clown could instill such fear in them.
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* {{Sadist}}: It loves terrifying it's victims before killing them. This is best shown in the bathroom scene when it continues taunting Beverly even as she cowers in a corner in utter fear.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: He gives off ''strong'' pedophilia vibes anytime it's on-screen. This is best show in it's scene with Georgie, especially when it tempts him cotton candy.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: He gives off ''strong'' pedophilia vibes anytime it's on-screen. This is best show in it's scene with Georgie, especially when it tempts him with promises of cotton candy. candy and balloons.
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* MadeOfEvil: Possibly. He is a demon after all.
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* LightIsNotGood: He The original Pennywise costume in the miniseries was very bright, colorful a simple looking clown with brightly colored clothing. But he's ''anything'' but good.
One that most kids in the 50's associated with fun, not fear. That is precisely why Curry's clown terrified children of the 90s in [[RealLife]]. Simply because the kids did not expect that a "normal" looking clown could instill such fear in them.
* MadeOfEvil: Possibly.He It is a demon after all.
* MadeOfEvil: Possibly.
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* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: It's generally more creepy than flat-out terrifying. That doesn't make it any less scarier.
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* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: It's Tim Curry's Pennywise is generally more creepy than flat-out terrifying. That doesn't make it any less scarier.
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* TheDreaded:
* EldritchAbomination: IT's true form in the Losers' universe is actually a "spider", or at least the closest thing the human mind can comprehend.
* EmotionEater: While It craves meat, emotions such as fear are enough to satisfy it for a while.
* EldritchAbomination: IT's true form in the Losers' universe is actually a "spider", or at least the closest thing the human mind can comprehend.
* EmotionEater: While It craves meat, emotions such as fear are enough to satisfy it for a while.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: In fact, Pennywise uses his silly nature to lure children.
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* ChaoticEvil:
* ChewingTheScenery: Tim Curry clearly had way too much fun in the library scene.
* ChildEater: "I am the Eater of Worlds, and of children!"
* ChewingTheScenery: Tim Curry clearly had way too much fun in the library scene.
* ChildEater: "I am the Eater of Worlds, and of children!"
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* ForTheEvulz: Aside from needing food to survive, IT is incredibly amused by the suffering of it's victims.
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* KickTheDog: Especially when he taunts Bill over Georgie's death using a photo album.
* LackOfEmpathy: You think?
* LackOfEmpathy: You think?
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes turn a hellish orange when he bares his teeth.
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* SerialKiller: It wakes up from hibernation every 27 years to feed on children before returning back to it's slumber.
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* TheSociopath:
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm every nightmare you've ever had. I'm your worst dream come true. I'm everything you ever were afraid of!"]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm every nightmare you've ever had. I'm your worst dream come true. I'm everything you ever were afraid of!"]]
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* FacialHorror: When Pennywise get's sprayed by Eddie's inhaler, his face begins to slowly melt.
* FangsAreEvil: He is capable of producing razor sharp teeth when devouring prey.
* FauxAffablyEvil:He It was fairly nice and conversational to Georgie at first, but it was all so it could lure Georgie closer to the storm drain.drain.
* HumanoidAbomination: It's implied it is an extraterrestrial monster from another world.
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Character sheet for ''Film/It1990''. For the source material, see [[Characters/{{It}} here]].
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!IT
[[folder:Pennywise]]
!!IT
!!Pennywise the Dancing Clown
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TimCurry
A monstrous, demonic entity which has been preying on the town of Derry for at least 200 years. Every 27 years, it comes out of hibernation to cause a series of murders with children being the prime target.
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* AxCrazy: "I'll kill you! I'll drive you crazy and I'll kill you all!"
* BigBad:
* TheBully: It calls Ben "fat boy" and Eddie "wheezy".
* CatchPhrase: YOU'LL FLOAT TOO.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: He gives off ''strong'' pedophilia vibes anytime it's on-screen. This is best show in it's scene with Georgie, especially when it tempts him cotton candy.
* EvilLaugh: A very loud and bombastic one that descends into a crackle.
* EmotionEater: While It craves meat, emotions such as fear are enough to satisfy it for a while.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The film opens with it murdering a little girl.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He was fairly nice and conversational to Georgie at first, but it was all so it could lure Georgie closer to the storm drain.
* {{Jerkass}}: Even if you take away the whole child-killing MonsterClown gig, Pennywise is just a big bully.
* LargeHam: "Excuse me, sir? Do you have Prince Albert in a can? You do? We'll you better let the poor guy out! WAHA! WAHA! WAHA!"
* LaughablyEvil: It's fairly... Humorous for a child killer MonsterClown.
* MonsterClown: Arguably the most recognizable in film history.
* MysteriousPast: Unlike the source material, Pennywise is never really given a backstory, like, at all. This is why the spider scene comes right out of nowhere for many.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: It's generally more creepy than flat-out terrifying. That doesn't make it any less scarier.
* OneWingedAngel: It's spider form.
* {{Sadist}}: It loves terrifying it's victims before killing them
* WouldHurtAChild: It prefers to target children as their fears can be more easily exploited than adults.
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[[folder:The Losers Club]]
!!The Losers Club
* AbusiveParents: Bill's parents ignore him after his brother dies, Eddie's mother is ''extremely'' overprotective, Beverly's father beats her regularly.
* {{Amnesiac Hero}}es: All of them, sans Mike, forgot virtually everything about each other and their battle with It when they grew up. It's only when It resurfaces in 1985 that the memories come back, albeit slowly.
* AppropriatedAppellation: The name of the group was originally an insult from Henry Bowers.
* FiveManBand
** TheLeader: Bill Denbrough
** TheLancer: Richie Tozier
** TheSmartGuy: Stan Uris
** TheBigGuy: Ben Hanscom
** TheChick: Beverly Marsh
** TagalongKid: Eddie Kaspbrak
** TheSixthRanger: Mike Hanlon
* FiveTokenBand: The Losers' Club is a ''Seven'' Token Band. Bill stutters, Ben is overweight, Richie has glasses, Eddie has asthma, Stan is Jewish, Mike is black and Beverly is poor (she's also the only girl).
* HeroesWantRedheads: Yes, ''all'' of them have romantic intentions towards Beverly.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: An actual magical force in this universe, which allows them to channel magic and defeat IT by combining the strength of their imagination.
* ShesAllGrownUp: The Losers' Club members as adults, but especially [[HelloNurse Beverly Marsh]] and Ben Hanscom.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Beverly is the only girl in the seven man band.
* TrueCompanions: In 1958 and 1985. Aside from those years they don't spend time with each other and in fact don't even remember each other.
* VictoryGuidedAmnesia: Except for Mike, all of the children completely forget their victory and spend most of the adults' portion of the novel trying to remember. [[spoiler:After their second victory, they all begin to forget again, including Mike, who takes his memory loss as a sign that It is truly and permanently dead.]]
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!The Losers Club
[[folder:Bill Denbrough]]
!!William "Bill" Denbrough (aka "Stuttering Bill"; "Big Bill")
The red-headed leader of the group, and the most self-assured member of the club. He wants to avenge the death of his younger brother, George.
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* AuthorAvatar: Became a successful horror author as an adult, and in the movie one of his books is even called ''[[Literature/TheShining The Glowing]]''. Similarities to Creator/StephenKing aside, WordOfGod says that Bill is based on Peter Straub (tall, balding redhead, stutter, etc.).
* BigGood: Can be seen as this with the absence of the Turtle in the miniseries.
* {{Determinator}}: Bill won't let anything stop him from getting justice (or revenge) for Georgie's death.
* ItsAllMyFault: He has a lot of guilt for being the one who came up with the idea of fighting and killing It and thus bringing his friends a lot of misery. He also blames himself for George's death at Its hands, because he was the one who sent George out to play.
* ItsPersonal: It murdered his little brother George.
* KnightInSourArmor: The stress of being the group's leader takes its toll on Bill over time, and he occasionally wishes he had someone to turn to for guidance.
* TheLeader: Although Mike shares this role with him when he summons them all back to Derry after IT returns.
* ParentalNeglect: After George's death, Bill's parents become increasingly distant and ignorant of him.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: He initially only wants to kill It because it killed his little brother George. He later expands it to avenge ''all'' of It's 1957-1958 victims.
* StutterStop: In key moments in his childhood. He manages to overcome the stutter completely after the first ordeal, but when the memories of it resurfaces, so does the stutter.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Bill and his wife Audra (at least in the movie, where the pony-tail and glasses he wears in the movie make him look ridiculous).
* VerbalTic: Bill's stuttering.
* YouKilledMyFather: "You killed my brother Georgie, you bastard! Let's see you now!"
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Cheats on Audra, his wife, with Beverly Marsh after they meet again as adults. ]]
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[[folder:Ben Hanscom]]
!!Benjamin "Ben" Hanscom (aka "Haystack")
A highly intelligent boy who, before joining the Losers' Club, often spent his free time reading books at the public library. He is also obese, and due to this has become a favorite victim of Henry Bowers.
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* BerserkButton: Hit Beverly Marsh in any way, and you will feel his ''wrath''. Just ask Henry.
* TheBigGuy: Physically the largest and strongest of the Losers, but not the tallest (that would be Bill).
* DisappearedDad: Mysteriously, and with little clues. IT appears as him during Ben's childhood.
** It is mentioned in the book that his father died when he was four years old. Though what he died from isn't mentioned. In the 1990 miniseries, Ben mentions his father was killed whilst fighting in Korea.
*** Doesn't IT [[Main/YouKilledMyFather take on the forms of it's victims...]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: to Beverly Marsh.
* FormerlyFat: Adult Ben is so slim that when he tells people he was obese as a child, they react with disbelief.
* MommasBoy: Ben loves his mother dearly, but fortunately for him she's nowhere near as overbearing as Eddie's mother.
* IAmBigBoned : Much of Arlene Hanscom's personal security comes from keeping her son well-fed. When a teenaged Ben confronts her about it, she tells him he's not fat, he just has big bones. A compromise is reached when she starts cooking healthier meals so Ben can still eat a lot but not gain weight.
* InSeriesNickname: Richie nicknames him "Haystack" after the wrestler Wrestling/HaystacksCalhoun.
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[[folder:Beverly Marsh]]
!!Beverly "Bev" Marsh/Rogan
The only girl in the group, she is an attractive and tomboyish redhead on whom each of the boys has a secret crush at some point during the story. She is from the poorest part of Derry, and is frequently abused by her father, Alvin, while her mother, Elfrida is out working.
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* AbusiveParents: Her father beat her on a regular basis, and is implied at one point to have [[ParentalIncest sexual feelings for her]].
* ActionGirl: She's quite good with a slingshot. [[spoiler: So she ends up being the one to deal the Losers' first blow against It, when it attacks them in the sewers of Derry.]]
* AdaptationalDyeJob: She has brown hair in the miniseries, whereas she was a redhead in the novel.
* TheChick: The only girl in the Losers' Club.
* DomesticAbuser: Beverly's husband Tom. In her first scene, she gets the call from Mike, and when Tom tries to stop her from leaving, she decides she's had enough of his shit. They fight and Tom gets the worst of it.
* HelloNerse: It's constantly mentioned that Beverly is very beautiful. The reason that she isn't part of the popular girl's clique is that she's poor and can't afford nice clothes, and she doesn't act very ladylike (hanging out exclusively with boys). Also, the richer girls are rather annoyed that they are getting upstaged in terms of looks by someone who's working-class and from the poor side of town.
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: Beverly essentially married a carbon copy of her father.
* OneOfTheBoys: She hangs out with boys and is very tomboyish.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only female in the Losers Club.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:For Ben.]]
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[[folder:Eddie Kaspbrak]]
!!Edward "Eddie" Kaspbrak
A frail and asthmatic hypochondriac, who carries his inhaler with him everywhere. His father died when he was very young, and his mother is domineering and constantly worries about his health.
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* AbusiveParents: Eddie Kaspbrak's mother (even if she didn't mean it that way).
%%* BerserkButton
* ButtMonkey: He grows up as a fragile, allergic-to-everything MommasBoy. It's even worse in the movie, where he [[spoiler: never stops lving with his mother and dies a 40 year old virgin.]]
* DisappearedDad: His father left when he was very young, which probably contributed to his mother being overprotective of him.
* EmbarrassingNickname: He ''hates'' it when Richie calls him "Eddie Spaghetti".
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Thanks to one last joke from Richie.]]
* KilledOffForReal
* MommasBoy: He's squarely under his mother's thumb and likes it, until he starts to make friends and realize just how much she holds him back.
* MyBelovedSmother: Eddie's mother. His father died when Eddie was very young and Eddie himself suffered a very real and very serious case of whooping cough shortly thereafter. She spent the rest of her life terrified of being "left alone" and became overprotective.
*** Of course, [[ProperlyParanoid Derry has a long history of missing children.]]
* TagalongKid
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[[folder:Richie Tozier]]
!!Richard "Richie" Tozier (aka "Trashmouth")
Known as "Trashmouth", Richie is the Losers' most lighthearted member, always cracking jokes and doing impersonations or "Voices", which prove very powerful weapons against It. He is "too intelligent for his own good" and channels his boredom in hyper-active wisecracking, to the point of getting into trouble. His flippant remark to Henry Bowers leads to almost getting beaten up by Henry and his friends. He is the most devoted to keeping the group together as he sees seven as a magical number and believes the group should have no more, no less. In adulthood, he is a successful disc jockey in Los Angeles.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: In the miniseries, he tells Eddie that he's "better off dead than wed". HarsherInHindsight, as [[spoiler:less than 24 hours later, Eddie falls victim to IT]].
* ClassClown: A's and B's in schoolwork, but C's and D's in classroom conduct.
* DeadpanSnarker: Can be quite witty when he's not overtly hamming it up. Being a smartass is the main thing that gets him on Henry Bowers' bad side.
* TheLancer: For Bill.
* LargeHam: Even as a kid he was hammy. He's still one as an adult on his late night show.
* ManOfAThousandVoices: As an adult. As a child, he only thinks he's one.
* MouthyKid: Leads him to become a nationally-known radio host when he grows up.
* NerdGlasses: Big, thick glasses that make his eyes look huge.
* PhraseCatcher: "Beep-beep, Richie." Used by the other Losers when they think Richie is laying on the jokes or sarcasm too thick.
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[[folder:Mike Hanlon]]
!!Michael "Mike" Hanlon
The last to join the Losers. He is the only African-American in the group and lives with his parents on a large farm. He goes to a different school from the other kids due to his Baptist faith. Mike is racially persecuted by Henry Bowers, whose father holds a long-standing grudge against Mike's father. Mike meets The Losers when they help him fight back against Bowers in a massive rock fight. His father kept an album filled with photos that were important to Derry's history, including several of Pennywise the Dancing Clown. He is the only one of the Losers to stay behind in Derry (and thus the only one to retain his memory of the events of 1958) and becomes the town librarian.
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* ArchEnemy: To Henry Bowers. Henry hated Mike the most out of all the Losers. He learned it from his father Butch, who absolutely detests Mike's father Will, mainly for the fact that he's black, but also because he's simply a better farmer. Ironically due to encountering him less, Mike has actually suffered less from Henry's hands than the other Losers.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Subverted, as he survives, although Henry comes close to killing him.]]
* IChooseToStay: He never left Derry even after the rest of the Losers' Club had moved, and essentially acted as the watchman in case It ever returned. Though he didn't precisely "choose" to stay any more than the others "chose" to leave. They left because their parents moved away, he stayed because his never did. It was less choice than it was fate.
* TheSixthRanger: Joins after the others have already met each other.
* TheStoic: He is relatively unflappable when confronted by dangers.
* TokenMinority: The only black member of the Losers Club, though it seems more likely that the author was merely searching for archetypal characters likely to be outcasts, particularly in small towns--the fat kid, the wimpy kid, the Jewish kid, the rag doll, the hyperactive foureyes, the kid with the speech impediment, and the only black kid in town. Seems to fit.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Stan Uris]]
!!Stanley "Stan" Uris
The most skeptical member of the Club. He is Jewish and is persecuted by Henry Bowers for this reason. Logic, order, and cleanliness are deeply ingrained in his psyche. He relies on logic more than anything else and is the least willing to accept that It actually exists. As an adult, he becomes a partner in a large Atlanta-based accounting firm and marries Patty Blum, a teacher.
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* AgentScully: He's the one ''least'' willing to accept It's existence.
* DrivenToSuicide: Stan couldn't go back and face IT again as an adult.
* LawOfInverseFertility: He and Patty are actively trying to have kids but never manage to conceive.
* TheOathBreaker: He swore to return and take down It along with the other Losers. Instead of returning to honor his vow, he offed himself. None of the others hold it against him.
* SkepticismFailure: Stan is the last of The Losers' Club members to recognize IT's existence. There is the implication that his extremely ordered, rational nature is what led him to choose suicide rather than face It again, a monster that defies rationality and natural laws.
* TheSmartGuy: The most rational of the Losers, and possibly the most intelligent. This works against him though as he finds it harder to cope with the events around him.
* StraightMan: He makes few jokes, and it's usually only in response to another character's ribbing (when Richie jokes that Stan, being a Jew, killed Christ, Stan responds, "I think that must have been my father."). He's the most serious-minded of the Losers.
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[[foldercontrol]]
!IT
[[folder:Pennywise]]
!!IT
!!Pennywise the Dancing Clown
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TimCurry
A monstrous, demonic entity which has been preying on the town of Derry for at least 200 years. Every 27 years, it comes out of hibernation to cause a series of murders with children being the prime target.
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* AxCrazy: "I'll kill you! I'll drive you crazy and I'll kill you all!"
* BigBad:
* TheBully: It calls Ben "fat boy" and Eddie "wheezy".
* CatchPhrase: YOU'LL FLOAT TOO.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: He gives off ''strong'' pedophilia vibes anytime it's on-screen. This is best show in it's scene with Georgie, especially when it tempts him cotton candy.
* EvilLaugh: A very loud and bombastic one that descends into a crackle.
* EmotionEater: While It craves meat, emotions such as fear are enough to satisfy it for a while.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The film opens with it murdering a little girl.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He was fairly nice and conversational to Georgie at first, but it was all so it could lure Georgie closer to the storm drain.
* {{Jerkass}}: Even if you take away the whole child-killing MonsterClown gig, Pennywise is just a big bully.
* LargeHam: "Excuse me, sir? Do you have Prince Albert in a can? You do? We'll you better let the poor guy out! WAHA! WAHA! WAHA!"
* LaughablyEvil: It's fairly... Humorous for a child killer MonsterClown.
* MonsterClown: Arguably the most recognizable in film history.
* MysteriousPast: Unlike the source material, Pennywise is never really given a backstory, like, at all. This is why the spider scene comes right out of nowhere for many.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: It's generally more creepy than flat-out terrifying. That doesn't make it any less scarier.
* OneWingedAngel: It's spider form.
* {{Sadist}}: It loves terrifying it's victims before killing them
* WouldHurtAChild: It prefers to target children as their fears can be more easily exploited than adults.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Losers Club]]
!!The Losers Club
* AbusiveParents: Bill's parents ignore him after his brother dies, Eddie's mother is ''extremely'' overprotective, Beverly's father beats her regularly.
* {{Amnesiac Hero}}es: All of them, sans Mike, forgot virtually everything about each other and their battle with It when they grew up. It's only when It resurfaces in 1985 that the memories come back, albeit slowly.
* AppropriatedAppellation: The name of the group was originally an insult from Henry Bowers.
* FiveManBand
** TheLeader: Bill Denbrough
** TheLancer: Richie Tozier
** TheSmartGuy: Stan Uris
** TheBigGuy: Ben Hanscom
** TheChick: Beverly Marsh
** TagalongKid: Eddie Kaspbrak
** TheSixthRanger: Mike Hanlon
* FiveTokenBand: The Losers' Club is a ''Seven'' Token Band. Bill stutters, Ben is overweight, Richie has glasses, Eddie has asthma, Stan is Jewish, Mike is black and Beverly is poor (she's also the only girl).
* HeroesWantRedheads: Yes, ''all'' of them have romantic intentions towards Beverly.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: An actual magical force in this universe, which allows them to channel magic and defeat IT by combining the strength of their imagination.
* ShesAllGrownUp: The Losers' Club members as adults, but especially [[HelloNurse Beverly Marsh]] and Ben Hanscom.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Beverly is the only girl in the seven man band.
* TrueCompanions: In 1958 and 1985. Aside from those years they don't spend time with each other and in fact don't even remember each other.
* VictoryGuidedAmnesia: Except for Mike, all of the children completely forget their victory and spend most of the adults' portion of the novel trying to remember. [[spoiler:After their second victory, they all begin to forget again, including Mike, who takes his memory loss as a sign that It is truly and permanently dead.]]
[[/folder]]
!The Losers Club
[[folder:Bill Denbrough]]
!!William "Bill" Denbrough (aka "Stuttering Bill"; "Big Bill")
The red-headed leader of the group, and the most self-assured member of the club. He wants to avenge the death of his younger brother, George.
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* AuthorAvatar: Became a successful horror author as an adult, and in the movie one of his books is even called ''[[Literature/TheShining The Glowing]]''. Similarities to Creator/StephenKing aside, WordOfGod says that Bill is based on Peter Straub (tall, balding redhead, stutter, etc.).
* BigGood: Can be seen as this with the absence of the Turtle in the miniseries.
* {{Determinator}}: Bill won't let anything stop him from getting justice (or revenge) for Georgie's death.
* ItsAllMyFault: He has a lot of guilt for being the one who came up with the idea of fighting and killing It and thus bringing his friends a lot of misery. He also blames himself for George's death at Its hands, because he was the one who sent George out to play.
* ItsPersonal: It murdered his little brother George.
* KnightInSourArmor: The stress of being the group's leader takes its toll on Bill over time, and he occasionally wishes he had someone to turn to for guidance.
* TheLeader: Although Mike shares this role with him when he summons them all back to Derry after IT returns.
* ParentalNeglect: After George's death, Bill's parents become increasingly distant and ignorant of him.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: He initially only wants to kill It because it killed his little brother George. He later expands it to avenge ''all'' of It's 1957-1958 victims.
* StutterStop: In key moments in his childhood. He manages to overcome the stutter completely after the first ordeal, but when the memories of it resurfaces, so does the stutter.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Bill and his wife Audra (at least in the movie, where the pony-tail and glasses he wears in the movie make him look ridiculous).
* VerbalTic: Bill's stuttering.
* YouKilledMyFather: "You killed my brother Georgie, you bastard! Let's see you now!"
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Cheats on Audra, his wife, with Beverly Marsh after they meet again as adults. ]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ben Hanscom]]
!!Benjamin "Ben" Hanscom (aka "Haystack")
A highly intelligent boy who, before joining the Losers' Club, often spent his free time reading books at the public library. He is also obese, and due to this has become a favorite victim of Henry Bowers.
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* BerserkButton: Hit Beverly Marsh in any way, and you will feel his ''wrath''. Just ask Henry.
* TheBigGuy: Physically the largest and strongest of the Losers, but not the tallest (that would be Bill).
* DisappearedDad: Mysteriously, and with little clues. IT appears as him during Ben's childhood.
** It is mentioned in the book that his father died when he was four years old. Though what he died from isn't mentioned. In the 1990 miniseries, Ben mentions his father was killed whilst fighting in Korea.
*** Doesn't IT [[Main/YouKilledMyFather take on the forms of it's victims...]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: to Beverly Marsh.
* FormerlyFat: Adult Ben is so slim that when he tells people he was obese as a child, they react with disbelief.
* MommasBoy: Ben loves his mother dearly, but fortunately for him she's nowhere near as overbearing as Eddie's mother.
* IAmBigBoned : Much of Arlene Hanscom's personal security comes from keeping her son well-fed. When a teenaged Ben confronts her about it, she tells him he's not fat, he just has big bones. A compromise is reached when she starts cooking healthier meals so Ben can still eat a lot but not gain weight.
* InSeriesNickname: Richie nicknames him "Haystack" after the wrestler Wrestling/HaystacksCalhoun.
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[[folder:Beverly Marsh]]
!!Beverly "Bev" Marsh/Rogan
The only girl in the group, she is an attractive and tomboyish redhead on whom each of the boys has a secret crush at some point during the story. She is from the poorest part of Derry, and is frequently abused by her father, Alvin, while her mother, Elfrida is out working.
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* AbusiveParents: Her father beat her on a regular basis, and is implied at one point to have [[ParentalIncest sexual feelings for her]].
* ActionGirl: She's quite good with a slingshot. [[spoiler: So she ends up being the one to deal the Losers' first blow against It, when it attacks them in the sewers of Derry.]]
* AdaptationalDyeJob: She has brown hair in the miniseries, whereas she was a redhead in the novel.
* TheChick: The only girl in the Losers' Club.
* DomesticAbuser: Beverly's husband Tom. In her first scene, she gets the call from Mike, and when Tom tries to stop her from leaving, she decides she's had enough of his shit. They fight and Tom gets the worst of it.
* HelloNerse: It's constantly mentioned that Beverly is very beautiful. The reason that she isn't part of the popular girl's clique is that she's poor and can't afford nice clothes, and she doesn't act very ladylike (hanging out exclusively with boys). Also, the richer girls are rather annoyed that they are getting upstaged in terms of looks by someone who's working-class and from the poor side of town.
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: Beverly essentially married a carbon copy of her father.
* OneOfTheBoys: She hangs out with boys and is very tomboyish.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only female in the Losers Club.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:For Ben.]]
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[[folder:Eddie Kaspbrak]]
!!Edward "Eddie" Kaspbrak
A frail and asthmatic hypochondriac, who carries his inhaler with him everywhere. His father died when he was very young, and his mother is domineering and constantly worries about his health.
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* AbusiveParents: Eddie Kaspbrak's mother (even if she didn't mean it that way).
%%* BerserkButton
* ButtMonkey: He grows up as a fragile, allergic-to-everything MommasBoy. It's even worse in the movie, where he [[spoiler: never stops lving with his mother and dies a 40 year old virgin.]]
* DisappearedDad: His father left when he was very young, which probably contributed to his mother being overprotective of him.
* EmbarrassingNickname: He ''hates'' it when Richie calls him "Eddie Spaghetti".
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Thanks to one last joke from Richie.]]
* KilledOffForReal
* MommasBoy: He's squarely under his mother's thumb and likes it, until he starts to make friends and realize just how much she holds him back.
* MyBelovedSmother: Eddie's mother. His father died when Eddie was very young and Eddie himself suffered a very real and very serious case of whooping cough shortly thereafter. She spent the rest of her life terrified of being "left alone" and became overprotective.
*** Of course, [[ProperlyParanoid Derry has a long history of missing children.]]
* TagalongKid
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[[folder:Richie Tozier]]
!!Richard "Richie" Tozier (aka "Trashmouth")
Known as "Trashmouth", Richie is the Losers' most lighthearted member, always cracking jokes and doing impersonations or "Voices", which prove very powerful weapons against It. He is "too intelligent for his own good" and channels his boredom in hyper-active wisecracking, to the point of getting into trouble. His flippant remark to Henry Bowers leads to almost getting beaten up by Henry and his friends. He is the most devoted to keeping the group together as he sees seven as a magical number and believes the group should have no more, no less. In adulthood, he is a successful disc jockey in Los Angeles.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: In the miniseries, he tells Eddie that he's "better off dead than wed". HarsherInHindsight, as [[spoiler:less than 24 hours later, Eddie falls victim to IT]].
* ClassClown: A's and B's in schoolwork, but C's and D's in classroom conduct.
* DeadpanSnarker: Can be quite witty when he's not overtly hamming it up. Being a smartass is the main thing that gets him on Henry Bowers' bad side.
* TheLancer: For Bill.
* LargeHam: Even as a kid he was hammy. He's still one as an adult on his late night show.
* ManOfAThousandVoices: As an adult. As a child, he only thinks he's one.
* MouthyKid: Leads him to become a nationally-known radio host when he grows up.
* NerdGlasses: Big, thick glasses that make his eyes look huge.
* PhraseCatcher: "Beep-beep, Richie." Used by the other Losers when they think Richie is laying on the jokes or sarcasm too thick.
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[[folder:Mike Hanlon]]
!!Michael "Mike" Hanlon
The last to join the Losers. He is the only African-American in the group and lives with his parents on a large farm. He goes to a different school from the other kids due to his Baptist faith. Mike is racially persecuted by Henry Bowers, whose father holds a long-standing grudge against Mike's father. Mike meets The Losers when they help him fight back against Bowers in a massive rock fight. His father kept an album filled with photos that were important to Derry's history, including several of Pennywise the Dancing Clown. He is the only one of the Losers to stay behind in Derry (and thus the only one to retain his memory of the events of 1958) and becomes the town librarian.
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* ArchEnemy: To Henry Bowers. Henry hated Mike the most out of all the Losers. He learned it from his father Butch, who absolutely detests Mike's father Will, mainly for the fact that he's black, but also because he's simply a better farmer. Ironically due to encountering him less, Mike has actually suffered less from Henry's hands than the other Losers.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Subverted, as he survives, although Henry comes close to killing him.]]
* IChooseToStay: He never left Derry even after the rest of the Losers' Club had moved, and essentially acted as the watchman in case It ever returned. Though he didn't precisely "choose" to stay any more than the others "chose" to leave. They left because their parents moved away, he stayed because his never did. It was less choice than it was fate.
* TheSixthRanger: Joins after the others have already met each other.
* TheStoic: He is relatively unflappable when confronted by dangers.
* TokenMinority: The only black member of the Losers Club, though it seems more likely that the author was merely searching for archetypal characters likely to be outcasts, particularly in small towns--the fat kid, the wimpy kid, the Jewish kid, the rag doll, the hyperactive foureyes, the kid with the speech impediment, and the only black kid in town. Seems to fit.
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[[folder:Stan Uris]]
!!Stanley "Stan" Uris
The most skeptical member of the Club. He is Jewish and is persecuted by Henry Bowers for this reason. Logic, order, and cleanliness are deeply ingrained in his psyche. He relies on logic more than anything else and is the least willing to accept that It actually exists. As an adult, he becomes a partner in a large Atlanta-based accounting firm and marries Patty Blum, a teacher.
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* AgentScully: He's the one ''least'' willing to accept It's existence.
* DrivenToSuicide: Stan couldn't go back and face IT again as an adult.
* LawOfInverseFertility: He and Patty are actively trying to have kids but never manage to conceive.
* TheOathBreaker: He swore to return and take down It along with the other Losers. Instead of returning to honor his vow, he offed himself. None of the others hold it against him.
* SkepticismFailure: Stan is the last of The Losers' Club members to recognize IT's existence. There is the implication that his extremely ordered, rational nature is what led him to choose suicide rather than face It again, a monster that defies rationality and natural laws.
* TheSmartGuy: The most rational of the Losers, and possibly the most intelligent. This works against him though as he finds it harder to cope with the events around him.
* StraightMan: He makes few jokes, and it's usually only in response to another character's ribbing (when Richie jokes that Stan, being a Jew, killed Christ, Stan responds, "I think that must have been my father."). He's the most serious-minded of the Losers.
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