History Characters / It2017

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* [[Characters/ItDuologyTheLosersClub Loser’s Club]]

* [[Characters/ItDuologyIT IT]]

* [[Characters/ItDuologyPennywiseTheDancingClown Pennywise]]

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!IT

[[folder:The Deadlights]]
!!The Deadlights
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IT's true form. Three white/orange lights.
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* BrownNote: Staring into the Deadlights will cause the person to go catatonic.
* EldritchAbomination: This is revealed to be IT's true nature. [[spoiler: IT is in reality, a trio of orange glowing lights from outer space called the Deadlights. The Deadlights arrived to Earth millions of years ago at the location that would eventually become Derry, Maine. Anyone who looks upon the Deadlights [[GoMadFromTheRevelation will go into a catatonic state]]. The Deadlights also have the ability to [[FightingAShadow create a physical avatar to feed on its prey]]. Through its avatar, the Deadlights can [[MasterOfIllusion induce hallucinations]], [[RealityWarper bend reality to its will]], read the minds of its victims, and shapeshift into whatever they fear the most.]]
* FightingAShadow: It implied that the various shapes IT takes are physical avatars created by the Deadlights so as to feed. IT showing the deadlights to Richie is presented like its head is a fanged, fleshy lens channeling their light. [[spoiler: Though its played down in that killing the physical form will kill the Deadlights too.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: They are this to the IT franchise based on how each of IT's forms (including his iconic clown form) are avatars of them.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: It has this effect on anyone unlucky enough to see them.
* GodzillaThreshold: Pennywise is shown to let them out only a little at a time -- such as when his eyes glow when meeting Mike Hanlon -- presumably because they're so powerful that they tend to break people's minds, and that could sour the meat. When forcing them on Beverly, it's in a desperate attempt to force her to be afraid of him again.
* HypnoticEyes: Look into them and you'll be in a catatonic state for who knows how long.
* LightEmUp: It is a magical light, after all, though its power seems to be more psychic than physical.
* LightIsNotGood: It is a pure, white/orange light... that also happens to be an extremely evil EldritchAbomination. They even get an upgrade in the second movie, where they go from [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine gold]] to [[HeavenlyBlue blue]].
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[[folder:Pennywise]]
!!IT
!!!Pennywise the Dancing Clown
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Time to float!"'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/BillSkarsgard
->''"I'll feast on your flesh as I feed on your fear..."''

A mysterious evil entity which has been preying on the town of Derry for centuries. Every 27 years, it comes out of hibernation to cause a series of catastrophic disasters, the latest being a string of child murders. IT's favorite (and most iconic) form is Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Modelled on the pierrot clowns of old, he employs the clownish persona as bait for young children, luring them with jokes and offers to visit his circus, but also doubles as an effective form to scare people with coulrophobia (a fear of, well, clowns) shitless.
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* AchillesHeel: He grows stronger and "seasons" his food by preying on the worst fears of his victim, relishing their terror. When he faces an opponent [[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore who knows his tricks]] and [[FaceYourFears can't be intimidated or scared]], he becomes more vulnerable, to the point that the united Losers' Club is able to turn on him with weapons and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown absolutely tune him up]].
* AdaptationalAbomination: Downplayed. While IT was always an EldritchAbomination, here he is portrayed as much more monstrous and less capable of seeming to be anything but.
* AdaptationalBadass: Pennywise is a bit of this and AdaptationalWimp at the same time. While IT's weakness is apparently shared across all forms, and is brutally beaten and almost starved to death due to the Losers no longer being frightened by IT, It still survives an attack that would have killed Georgie, its then-current shape.
** He also fairs much better in the final battle then either of his contemporary counterparts. In the book, he is easily knocked over, beaten, and killed by the Losers out of rage after Eddie is killed. Here, he has the Losers on the run for much of it until they get the idea of using YourMindMakesItReal against him. Hell, he even managed to separate them after the Ritual of Chudd fails and would have added two more to his list of victims if it weren't for the ThePowerOfLove.
* AdaptationalDyeJob: Inverted. Pennywise's orange hair is more accurate to the book than the red hair from the TV miniseries.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Played with, as while IT is always pure evil, unlike in the miniseries and book, this version of IT doesn't even bother being AffablyEvil most of the time, and takes glee in scaring the shit out of everyone. And even when he ''does'' try to act friendly, he can hardly suppress his cravings for meat compared to his other counterparts.
* AdaptationalModesty: In the novel, IT uses a lot of sexual euphemisms to scare his victims. Such as offering Eddie a blowjob in the form of a homeless man suffering from syphilis and IT preying on Beverly's fear of her own budding sexuality. In the movies, IT doesn't do this and the man with syphilis is replaced by a man with leprosy.
* AdaptationalSexuality: Downplayed, [[spoiler: In the novel, the losers are horrified to learn that IT has been laying eggs and it's never made clear if IT had a partner in this process or reproduced asexually. In the film, there are no eggs and IT shows no signs of pregnancy.]]
* AdaptationalWimp: In the book and miniseries, IT is only vulnerable to whatever its form is, which is partly why it favors the form of a MonsterClown with no mythology of its own, rendering It NighInvulnerable as Pennywise. Here, however, Its weakness is apparently shared across all forms, rendering It vulnerable to those unafraid of It. Furthermore, the book's version of IT uses fear as seasoning but doesn't need its prey to be frightened, and could only be vanquished using the Ritual of Chüd; while the film's version of Pennywise is brutally beaten and almost starved to death due to the Losers no longer being frightened by IT. Furthermore, while this IT is still very much a Lovecraftian aberration like its book counterpart, [[spoiler: in Chapter 2 it is seemingly KilledOffForReal, unlike its literary version which apparently survived]].
* AliensAreBastards: IT is essentially an extremely malevolent, predatory being of extraterrestrial origins that came to Derry in a meteor and turned the place into Its personal hunting grounds.
* AlienBlood: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]; IT's blood appears to be standard human blood, but what makes it weird is that it floats in mid-air rather than falling.
* AndShowItToYou: [[spoiler:How he meets his ultimate fate.]]
* AnimalMotifs: Spiders. The abandoned house the Losers find him in is full of cobwebs, [[spoiler:he sprouts spider legs in the final battle]], and his tendency to let the corpses of his victims float in mid-air bears a disturbing resemblance to spiders catching prey in webs. These are likely all references to his literary counterpart taking on the form of a GiantSpider.
* AncientEvil: Has been haunting Derry for millenia.
* ArchEnemy: To the Losers Club. But in particular he is this to Bill for murdering his brother Georgie. Bill's primary goal is to kill Pennywise.
* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Played with. His renaissance costume gives him a ghostly and otherworldly appearance, but at the same time it looks very extravagant and regal, especially compared to his Tim Curry counterpart.
* AxCrazy: A sadistic, homicidal entity who kills people and eats children like candy.
* BerserkButton: [[DownplayedTrope Well, more like an "insulted" button]], but after Bill states that Pennywise's trap "isn't real" (which enables Bill and Richie to escape), Pennywise stops trying to scare Eddie, turns around to face Bill, and then responds like he's been emotionally wounded.
-->'''Pennywise:''' ''(genuinely offended)'' This isn't real enough for you, Billy?! '''''I'm''''' not real enough for you?! It was real enough for ''Georgie!''
* BewareTheSillyOnes: It's [[LaughablyEvil Pennywise]], after all. IT can be pretty surreal, outlandish, and laughable at times, but that does not stop him from being a vile, sadistic creature.
* BigBad: The source of all the mysterious wrong-doings in Derry for the past three centuries.
* BlackComedy: Despite his dark nature, Pennywise ''does'' have a sense of humor; [[JustifiedTrope after all, he ''is'' a clown]]. Being a {{Sadist}} just means that IT's humor is black as pitch, as when he mimes eating Eddie's broken arm to scare him or his KickTheDog line to Bill.
-->'''Pennywise''': This isn't real enough for you, Billy? ''I'm'' not real enough for you?\\
'''Richie''': Holy [[PrecisionFStrike shit...]]\\
'''Pennywise''': ''[gives a [[SlasherSmile ghastly grin]]]'' It was real enough for ''Georgie''! [[EvilLaugh HehehaHAHAHAHA!]]
* BondVillainStupidity: Yes, Pennywise. Keep on using the ''exact same'' scare tactics on victims who have matured and overcome the emotional traumas that have caused them. [[SarcasmMode That is NOT going to make them even *angrier* and WON'T cause them to beat you even harder]] after you mockingly pushed what has become their biggest BerserkButton.
** Similarly, take the fact that they beat you with ThePowerOfFriendship as an insult and ''insist'' on facing them as a group when they come back, even though it would be much easier to pick them off one by one.
* BreakThemByTalking: Pennywise instills fear in his victims by picking away at their deepest insecurities and making them feel insignificant against him. [[spoiler:This ends up being flipped on ''him'' in the climax of Chapter Two, where the Losers overcome their fears and completely destroy his ego, reducing him to a feeble shell of a creature that reflects what he was all along on the inside: [[PaperTiger a pathetic bully who makes himself out to be bigger than he really is.]]]]
* BrightIsNotGood: Pennywise now wears white clothing, per the book's descriptions of his "silver and orange" costume. [[spoiler:Considering his true form is the Deadlights, as in the novel, the white clothes may have been intentional to give Pennywise more light imagery.]]
* TheBully: A dark version, but at his core, he's a ruthless fearmonger who needs to be feared in order to function.
* CallingCard: Red balloons. Whenever a red balloon floats nearby, it's a telltale sign that Pennywise is near or something terrible is about to happen.
* CatchPhrase: "You'll float, too" and its variations.
** In the second film, It likes to repeat Its BadassBoast of being the "eater of worlds."
* ChildEater: Part of [=ITs=] modus operandi.
* ChildHater: He hunts the Losers' Club to the extent it seems like he just ''hates'' them. And he does, according to Creator/BillSkarsgard.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: His major weakness is belief, which can be weaponized against him. A lack of fear and standing up to him can result in Pennywise believing himself powerless, which makes it so.
* ClownSpecies: Of a sort. Pennywise definitely isn't meant to look like he's a human performer under makeup, even though it's implied the form was inspired by a real clown in Derry's past. One hint of this is that Pennywise's bulbous forehead makes his head look like a balloon, which is made clearer when it literally deflates and moves like a leaky rubber balloon in ''Chapter Two'''s climax. This suggests that in part, Pennywise is based on the ''concept'' of clowns rather than trying to look like a plausible human clown, which signifies how out-of-touch IT is as an abominable entity, and likely aids IT in scaring people.
* ColdHam: While Creator/TimCurry fully embraced being a LargeHam in [[Film/{{It|1990}} the television movie]], Bill Skarsgård's portrayal of the character seems to be based less in hamming it up and more in being creepy while remaining a bit larger-than-life. Since he's playing a MonsterClown, he can't be ''too'' serious.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Turns out that when Pennywise says "You'll float, too", he means it quite literally. His lair is revealed to have the ravaged corpses of his victims that literally float above a tower of circus props and children's belongings (some of which are implied to have been taken from his victims) in a twisted monument to his depravity.
* CorneredRattlesnake: IT prefers to run when it loses an advantage or the tables turn against it, but during the FinalBattle, when the Losers' Club beat him up, IT ultimately goes down fighting.
* TheCorrupter: Convinces Henry Bowers to murder his father and go after the Losers.
* TheCorruption: It's implied that not only is Pennywise responsible for all the child murders and disappearances in Derry, but he's also somehow (possibly indirectly) responsible for the violence, racial prejudice, and general atmosphere of apathy and uncaring that plague the town.
* CreepyCute: Given that the clown form is used to frighten coulrophobes AND draw children to it, Pennywise was bound to fit this trope. He can switch from a bucktoothed, blue eyed and soft spoken clown to yellow-eyed, fanged, screaming abomination. [[GlamourFailure Of course, this trope gets a dark twist when the latter starts to 'leak' through the former...]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Easily the most overtly sadistic version of Pennywise. Even in the novel and miniseries, he was at least nice enough to leave Georgie to bleed out, while here, he drags him into the sewer to finish him off.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor a psychopathic sense of humor.]]
* DeadlyEuphemism: Pennywise loves to tell his victims that they'll "float". And in a rather frightening twist, it turns out he means it quite literally. His lair is revealed to have the ravaged corpses of his victims that literally float above a tower of circus props and children's belongings (some of which are implied to have been taken from his victims) in a twisted monument to his depravity.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the HumanoidAbomination. Yes, Pennywise is an amorphous blob of pure unrelenting malevolence in a deformed human shape wielding unimaginable power, but that's pretty much all it's got going for it. IT's an immortal being that terrorizes Derry during its spree-killings before retreating into hibernation for 20 years, and that routine has worked for centuries. It's never needed to reflect or expand on this strategy because IT never faced any problems from its food before. Therefor, It's utterly incapable of thinking beyond what's already been proven to work, so when its prey starts banding together and putting up an effective front, IT can only double-down on its limited arsenal. Just like Nyarlathotep of the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'', [=IT=] is essentially an Outer God with a human sense of morality, making it the absolute ''[[HumansAreBastards worst]]'' of its kin because he has human sadism and cruelty. However, this also means it has a human sense of [[BondVillainStupidity overconfidence, pettiness, impatience, and anger-induced stupidity]]. Humans can die, but the fear of death allows them to adapt to survive, while Pennywise is totally blindsided by the prospect that it might actually lose.
* DirtyCoward:
** For all his bravado and intimidating theatrics, Pennywise is ultimately a pathetic coward who's far less of a threat than IT makes itself out to be to those who aren't afraid of him. In fact, when It's cornered by fearless children, Pennywise '''can''' be pounded into a helpless and terrified pulp, albeit with some effort and the right weapons.
** Even before the Losers stop being afraid of him, Pennywise is reluctant to attack them when they are in a group, opting instead to pick them off one by one. After being wounded by Bev at the Neibolt House, he slinks off rather than take on the entire group. Slashing Ben with his claws just before fleeing seems more like an attempt to get the Losers to not pursue him (or possibly just lashing out in anger), rather than an actual effort to kill anyone. Later, while trying to eat Stan in the sewer, he again flees when the other Losers arrive on scene.
* EmotionEater: Even more than flesh, Pennywise needs ''fear'' to feed on and function. This also extends to his sense of smell as the clown's reaction upon smelling a courageous prey was to shake his head in disgust. Once the Losers' Club stops being afraid of him, disposes of Henry Bowers and bands together, he's nearly helpless to fight them off.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The infamous Georgie scene quickly establishes IT's predatory nature.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Pennywise's flaw is that it overestimates itself.
** Pennywise can only focus on one victim at a time with its powers and this is how the Losers gain the upper hand in their first fight. Pennywise can't fight them all at the same time, even with IT's powers since the Losers will back each other up when one of them is attacked. Pennywise also tries to negotiate with the Losers by telling them that it will go into a 27-year hibernation after only killing Bill but all this does is anger and motivate them more.
** Kidnapping Beverly has shades of this; at that point, the Losers had fallen out, and probably would have been easy pickings. As soon as they heard that Beverly had been taken? [[BigBrotherInstinct All grudges forgotten]], and they were ready for a fight.
* EvilerThanThou: To Henry and his gang as usual. [[spoiler: Shown by how he easily he kills Patrick and then manipulates Henry to kill Victor and Belch.]]
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Being a clown, Pennywise naturally has a sense of humor. Being Pennywise, the things he finds funny are horrifying. This trait is played up in ''Chapter Two'', where Pennywise shows off a fondness for bad puns, sending a message to the Losers saying "guess [[spoiler:Stanley]] could not cut it" ([[spoiler:Stan having committed suicide by cutting his wrists]]) and changing his CatchPhrase to "time to sink" when trying to drown Beverly.
* EvilIsBigger: He's played by 6"4 Bill Skarsgard and absolutely towers over the kids he terrorizes. This is especially prominent in his scenes with Bev whose actress, Sophia Lillis, is only a shade over five feet tall, making Pennywise nearly a foot and a half taller.
* EvilIsHammy: He is full of himself and exaggerated as only a clown can be - though more contained than Tim Curry in the 1990 movie, to ensure it remains scary.
* EvilIsPetty: Pennywise isn't just a predator. He goes straight for the nastiest, most petty means he can use to hurt someone. Mocking Eddie's medical issues, mocking Ben's weight, mocking Richie's [[spoiler:being a closeted gay man]], constantly going after Bill's stutter and hitting below the belt shows what a sadistic creep he is.
* EvilLaugh: He wouldn't be a MonsterClown without one. He tends to giggle in wicked glee whenever he has a frightened child in his clutches.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Has a deep, throaty voice.
* FacialHorror: A lot of his transformations have this. Also, when showing someone the Deadlights, Pennywise's face ''opens up completely'' to reveal [[ThroatLight the lights inside his mouth]] to render Beverly into a catatonic state.
* FarmerAndTheViper: IT is a being that represents evil in its purest form and refuses to show mercy in any way.
** IT will use pity to lure in victims, as shown by how it lured in the girl with a birthmark by manipulating her sense of empathy before eating her alive.
** This is also shown by how IT behaves in disguise, IT appears to be out of place as if it never had to socialise with prey before and never developed the skills to hide in plain sight. In all pictures of IT, it sticks out like a sore thumb and most have pointed out how IT stands out with its behavior.
* FangsAreEvil: Has a truly monstrous pair of fangs in place of buck teeth - when attacking his victims, he leans his head back and they grow out of his mouth along with a few hundred friends.
* FatalFlaw: Pride, due to being a demonic being, IT is self-absorbed and refuses to comprehend anything beyond itself. IT has spent its entire existence as an apex predator and has never faced a challenge like this before and, consequently, lacks strategy because of it.
** In the climax of the first movie, Bev is kidnapped by Pennywise and it causes the losers to create a united front against IT to save her. IT, however, cannot comprehend comradery or compromise and after trying to "bargain" with the losers, Pennywise is severely beaten into submission and forced to flee deeper into the sewer to hibernate for 27 years. For the first time in Pennywise's existence, he has felt fear and cannot understand how 7 kids managed to best him.
** [[spoiler: Likewise, in ''Chapter Two'', Pennywise's need to affirm its sense of superiority and invincibility is what drives him to lure the Losers into its lair (as opposed to picking them off one at a time). [=IT=] specifically wants to kill them all while they're together, in order to prove that even those who present a united front can't stop it. This backfires horribly when the Losers begin calling out all its previous forms which no longer scare them, shattering its ego and forcing [=IT=] to assume a feeble baby-like form that they destroy.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Pennywise can ''attempt'' to put on a facade of pleasantries to lure potential victims in. The key word, however, is "attempt" as he can barely suppress his craving for human flesh long enough to put on a convincing act. Thus, more often than not, Pennywise doesn't even bother pretending. His encounter with Georgie exemplifies this perfectly. When Georgie first sees him, his eyes are a sinister shade of yellow, but he quickly changes them to a more soothing shade of blue and disarms Georgie with a joke about popcorn. Once the joke ends, he stares at Georgie in a way that can only be described as predatory, complete with him drooling, showing that underneath the clownish facade lurks something truly demonic. The little stunt creeps Georgie out so badly he nearly gets the hell out of dodge. (Alternatively, Pennywise may have deliberately kept Georgie a little nervous, since if he felt too relaxed, he'd perhaps not taste as good.)
** Plays this card again in the second film against a little girl named Victoria. When she initially backs off from him in fright, he laments that he understands and everyone shuns him and makes fun of him because he's so ugly; preying on Victoria's sympathy as she also gets made fun of for the birthmark on her cheek. As with Georgie, he breaks character to stare and drool, but unlike with Georgie, he lunges before she becomes too suspicious.
* FishEyes: Sometimes, one of Its eyes seem to be looking straight [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou into the camera]]. It is most noticeable when It opens its mouth and grows fangs, stretching its face so much that gives the effect. This is actually a trick [[http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/it-movie/news/a837557/it-bill-skarsgard-pennywise-eyes/ Bill Skarsgard learned because it would have been to expensive to add in post]].
* ForeheadOfDoom: Emphasized by his fondness for the KubrickStare. In certain shots, it looks as big as the whole rest of his face. It even "inflates" like a balloon between shots if you look closely.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Just as in the book, when Georgie first sees Pennywise in the sewers, the eyes of the clown are an evil yellow, but soon become a softer, more human blue: the eyes of Georgie's mother.
* ForTheEvulz: Sure, Pennywise kills to feed himself, therefore attempting to survive. However, seeing all the fear he likes to instill in his victims, it's pretty clear he also does it for pure, sadistic fun at the same time. His tower of ravaged corpses on top of the circus wagon in his lair is ''certainly'' not the result of a predator that just needs to survive.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou:
** One of Pennywise's eyes is always fixed on the camera, giving the impression that he can see the audience watching the movie.
** In an in-universe example similar to the photo album scene from the 1990's TV short, Pennywise hijacks a slide reel while the Losers' Club is viewing images of Derry's history in Bill's garage and gets it moving so fast that the pictures form a moving image. He then pops halfway out of the screen as a giant clown-monster and tries to attack them, but they drive him off by opening the garage shutter.
** Another in-universe example is the recurring children's TV show, which talks about how fun clowns are and advocates playing in the sewers as an acceptable pastime for children -- after all, they'll float. When convincing Henry Bowers to murder his father and go after the Losers, Pennywise himself appears in the TV show alongside his numerous victims, chanting "Kill them all!".
* GameFace: When he's ready to really fight or feed, his gums tend to slide out with multiple irregular rows of sharp fangs.
* GigglingVillain: He has a very high-pitched and pronounced giggle.
* GlamourFailure: Pennywise starts off bright and cheerful looking, but as the movie progresses, his appearance grows grimier and more decrepit, with occasional BloodFromTheMouth, as if IT is trying its best to maintain the image of a MonsterClown. At the climax in IT's lair, his eyes turn a hellish orange and look slightly bloodshot, since IT's not even trying to be subtle at this point.
* GlasgowGrin: The red markings on his face run through his eyes to the corners of his mouth. The lines are too vertical to be seen as a smile normally, but Pennywise reveals the deadlights to Bev by opening his mouth along those same lines and ''peeling his entire face open''.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When confronting Mike for the first time, Pennywise's eyes glow bright orange.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The deadlights, which drive his victims to insanity.
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: Pennywise is extremely prideful and arrogant to the point where he believes himself to be the supreme being, calling himself the "Eater of Worlds". He invokes this in a last ditch effort to scare the Losers. It doesn't work.]]
* {{Gonk}}: Used to an extremely creepy effect. Pennywise looks like a giant clay figure more than an organic human being and behaves like some sort of wild animal who has only just learned how to speak English.
* HateSink: Creator/BillSkarsgard's take on [[MonsterClown Pennywise the Dancing Clown]] outdoes the original version in sheer depravity. Along with IT's crimes from the novel, IT taunts [[HopeSpot the possibility of Georgie being alive]] just to send Bill on a fruitless hunt that puts his friends in danger in the process. [[Film/ItChapterTwo 27 years later]], [[spoiler:IT also pretends to save a gay man from drowning only to devour his heart in front of his boyfriend. IT kills a young girl after promising to remove her embarrassing birthmark, and -- to further taunt Bill over his inability to save Georgie -- makes him relive it by killing another boy in front of him]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Continually exposing the Losers to the same fears forces them to overcome said fears. This leads to them beating him senseless in the first movie and [[spoiler:finally killing IT in the sequel.]]
* HornedHairdo: His hair curls up into horns at the ends, leaving no doubts as to his malevolent nature.
* HumanoidAbomination: A far more pronounced version than Tim Curry or even Stephen King's interpretations of the character. King's (as well as Curry's) Pennywise was an inhuman monster to be sure, but it could at least put a natural act as a flashy, sadistic clown with a twisted sense of humor. Bill Skarsgard's Pennywise, on the other hand, can only just ''barely'' act human at the best of times: the Pennywise in this movie is less like a shapeshifter and more like a murderous, utterly inhuman animal that skinned a clown and is wearing it like an ill-fitting suit. [[spoiler:The few glimpses we get of Bob Gray, and a few oblique hints from WordOfGod show that might be literally the case.]]
* IHaveManyNames: A shapeshifting Lovecraftian monster who has been active for many centuries, it has many different names for each of his forms, none of them really it's "true" name. "It" is as appropriate a designation as any. This is highlighted when Georgie innocently asks who he is: he seems confused for a second (as if no one ever asked before), then says he's "Pennywise the Dancing Clown", then mutters to himself "Yes, that's it", as if he ''just'' came up with a name for himself (or at least, this form) after all these centuries.
* InformedAttribute: Averted. Pennywise the Dancing Clown actually dances in this movie, but only as a last resort. He repeats it in the second.
* {{Jerkass}}: Even for a predatory monster that feeds on fear, Pennywise is a petty, cruel, vicious bully who enjoys tormenting his prey as much, if not more than the act of killing them. Special mention goes to taunting Bill about Georgie's death, mocking Ben's weight, taunting Richie about [[spoiler:being gay]], and especially [[spoiler:rubbing Stan's death in the Losers' faces.]]
* JumpScare: He's a ''master'' of these. His scariest moments include popping out of the projection screen with a terrifying, razor-toothed grin, screaming into Eddie's face as the Leper, jumping out at Richie from a coffin, and lunging at Stan as Judith, giant maw agape.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Like in the book, Pennywise gets beaten down, humiliated, terrified, reduced to sheer powerlessness, and destroyed for good by the Losers Club after [[HeroKiller killing Eddie]].]]
* KickTheDog: He does this constantly, and this is part of what allows his powers to succeed.
** His initial contact with all of the kids is intended to terrify them to "fatten them up" for his eventual feast.
** When he finally meets Bill face to face, he acts offended Bill thinks he isn't real -- before condescendingly adding he was "real enough for Georgie!"
** Convincing Henry Bowers to murder his father and go after the Losers was a ''real'' dick move, but shows that Pennywise actually is starting to show fear, and takes the Losers seriously as an opposing force, as opposed to just more prey.
** He's back to old tricks in ''Chapter Two'', opening the film by devouring Adrian Mellon in front of his boyfriend, then writing a taunting message for Mike in Adrian's blood.
** When the Losers reunite, Pennywise welcomes them home in his own inimitable fashion: [[spoiler:taunting them about Stan's suicide with fortune cookie messages that spell out "guess Stanley could not [[{{Pun}} cut]] it".]]
** In flashbacks showing individual encounters with the Losers in 1989, Pennywise tells Bill that he killed Georgie just because Bill wasn't there to protect him, harasses Ben by shapshifting into Bev's form, and using his Leper form and an illusion of Eddie's mother to psychologically torture him.
** [[spoiler:He graphically devours a boy named Dean while Bill is ForcedToWatch, just to pile more guilt onto Bill, who already blames himself for Georgie's death.]]
* KilledOffForReal: After centuries of terror and misery that he brought upon the denizens of Derry, [[spoiler: Pennywise is finally defeated for good as his clown's form's beating heart is mutually crushed by the Losers Club.]]
* KubrickStare: As expected from a sinister character played by Creator/BillSkarsgard. Pennywise frequently does these, such as in the promotional materials and when meeting Georgie.
* LackOfEmpathy: While no predator truly empathizes with their prey (they only do what they do for survival), Pennywise is defined by a sort of predatory sadism, as he enjoys breaking his victims down in every conceivable way because just devouring them wouldn't be enough.
* LampreyMouth: When he shows Beverly his Deadlights, his head simply splits open to reveal a circular mouth lined with hundreds of teeth.
* LastDitchMove: After being on the receiving end of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by the Losers, he slinks off to a sewer drain and makes one last pathetic attempt to prey on at least one of their fears, Bill's stutter, which he does by repeatedly reciting the rhyme that Bill unsuccessfully uses to help his stutter throughout the movie. [[NoSell It doesn't work]]. And just before that, after having gone through every other known form, he transforms himself into Alvin Marsh in a desperate attempt to evoke fear in Bev. [[UnstoppableRage This only managed to piss her off worse]].
-->'''IT/Alvin''': Hey, Bevy, are you still my-\\
''(Bev impales him through the mouth)''.
** Tries several in the second film, including hitting Ritchie with the Deadlights when Ritchie throws rocks at him to get him away from Mike, impales Eddie as soon as Eddie discovers his weakness, and then tries to take out the other Losers before they realize what Eddie was telling them.
* LastVillainStand: Upon being cornered by the Losers' Club in his own lair, and realizing he has a very good chance of dying, Pennywise completely unleashes his power, manifesting spider-appendages, spewing the burnt arms of Mike's dead parents from his mouth, a charred skull with tendrils (implied to be the severed head of the Headless Boy), and every illusion he can (Judith, the Leper, Bev's dad), in a final attempt to separate and crush the children. It doesn't work, but it gives him enough time -- even as he is slowly falling apart -- to escape back to hibernation.
** Again in the second film, where IT actually invokes this as a trap, making the Losers ''think'' It is doing that when really it's going to kill them all...only to get forced into the trope for real when they overcome the trap.
* LaughablyEvil: Child-eating MonsterClown or not, Pennywise is a master of BlackComedy.
* LightIsNotGood: Heavily associated with the color white (with red, orange, and silver are thrown in for good measure), but nevertheless very, very evil.
* LovecraftLite: IT is a centuries-old shapeshifting, reality-warping monster... but at his core, he's just a condescending, power-hungry jerk. Once deprived of his victims' fear, he gets beaten senseless. [[spoiler:In addition, when Pennywise's physical form is killed for good in Chapter 2, the Deadlights appear to fade as well, implying It has been destroyed for good, going from the level of an [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Outer God to a Great Old One]] instead.]]
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Absolutely adores the sounds of his victims' terror before feeding on them. Best shown when he attacks Eddie at Neibolt, where he drags it out as long as possible to make him more and more terrified, and is literally salivating by the end.
-->'''Pennywise''': Tasty, tasty, beautiful fear!
* MadnessMantra: "I am the eater of worlds!" sounds badass in a fight, but [[spoiler:when the adult Losers finally bring him down, he whimpers it frantically, over and over, as if trying to assure himself.]]
* MagicalClown: Pennywise is a very sinister version, and his actions are decidedly more supernatural than cartoonish.
* MeaningfulName: We finally get to see the "dancing" part of "Pennywise the Dancing Clown" in a rather surreal moment with Beverley.
* MonsterClown: One of the most literal examples, Pennywise is actually an ancient EldritchAbomination that turns into anything that people that encounter it most fear and [=ITs=] preferred form is a clown. Whereas in the book, IT chose the form due to the trope not having any famous weaknesses, here, it isn't bound to any form or a form's rules, and its weaknesses take the form of the kids' imaginations overruling it. [[Main/TheCoconutEffect However, the clown was too iconic to change as its default avatar.]]
** Eventually used against him by the Losers as adults--remembering It mainly as a clown allows them to force him to just be as powerful as one.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily:
** When he's in GameFace, and especially during the projector scene, when he uncorks every tooth in his "head" and attacks the Loser's Club.
** Even worse is when he shows Beverly the Deadlights. His entire head peels back, forming a massive LampreyMouth with ''hundreds'' of teeth.
* NightmareFace: Besides his aforementioned GameFace, he sports an even ''scarier'' one when he emerges from the projection screen as a giant. In this form, he sports a wide, unnaturally curled up smile (think ComicBook/TheJoker) with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. It makes for quite an effective JumpScare.
* NonIronicClown: He did manage to pull a few laughs from Georgie and convince him he was a normal circus entertainer, but it was all just to lower his suspicions and beckon him into striking distance.
* ObviouslyEvil: He really hasn't perfected how to behave like a normal clown, only just being able to convince a 6-year-old that he was friendly by changing his eyes blue, and even then, his underlying creepiness still managed to seep through. With older children he doesn't even bother with a friendly pretense and is just outright evil towards them.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: He tends to switch between an American accent and Bill Skarsgard's natural Swedish dialect (the scene where he attacks Eddie is one of the most prominent instances). Given [=ITs=] true nature, however, the inconstant voice isn't at all a problem.
* PaperTiger: Pennywise is really good at acting or looking scary, but he's only really dangerous if you’re ''actually'' afraid. He [[EmotionEater feeds on fear]] and any other emotion repels it, so if you’re not scared or even just fight through the fear, he’s really not that formidable. When the Losers overcome their fear and start beating him up, Pennywise [[DirtyCoward breaks down crying like a pathetic loser and runs away into the sewers]]. This is especially dangerous to It if It manages to anger potential prey to the point where they're too furious to be scared, as seen with Eddie and Bev in the first film's climax and Ritchie in the second.
* PartialTransformation: During the final battle in Chapter One, Pennywise transforms his arms into a set of arachnid-like appendages and tries to chase after Mike with them.
* PersonalityPowers: A somewhat subtle example, but the fact that its actually made of light makes its cheerfulness as a clown and its general insane arrogance make a lot of sense. On a more overt level, a reality warper whose powers are particularly effective at generating fear is naturally going to be a psycho.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In ''Chapter Two'', he mocks Ben's weight and [[spoiler:Richie's sexuality]].
* PowerfulButIncompetent: As a divine being able to read minds and shapeshift accordingly, IT never experienced struggle or a challenge and thus never bothered to learn how to adapt or adopt a more effective strategy than "Scare them half to death and then eat them".
** The biggest reason why IT lost the first time is that the prey never fought back or banded together in a united front. IT never realised that its powers only work on individual kids, not a collective since not all kids share the same fears, causing IT to be completely unprepared in the final fight. IT also chose Henry Bowers as an unwitting enforcer because of how The Losers feared him, not realising The Losers are now willing to stand up to Henry and how Henry is still just a teen who can be taken out by someone stronger than him.
** In the sequel, IT still refuses to treat the Losers Club as a threat and is more concerned with reestablishing its sense of dominance since IT showed weakness for the first time in its life. However, IT still believes that its strategy worked well the first time and never bothered to tailor its strategy for the now adult Losers Club.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Say it with us: "Time to float!"
* {{Pride}}: This is Pennywise's FatalFlaw. After centuries It never bothered to learn its own limitations or vulnerabilities or to take its own victims seriously. Even after establishing firmly that, possibly for the first time ever, the "food" has decided to fight back, a fairly obvious possibility when hunting sentient prey, It does absolutely nothing about the problem. It just lets them walk right up to its home, safe in the belief It can take them all with no trouble, and gets promptly [[CurbStompBattle curb stomped]] into another thirty years of hibernation.
** He lets this happen ''again'' just to prove that the first time was a fluke. [[spoiler:It wasn't.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: Takes a child-like glee in taunting his victims, accentuated by his childish voice and mannerisms. Also has a childish sense of humour.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: His costume was considered too scary-looking and gothic by many fans, but many clowns did dress like this until the 1960s.
* RealityWarper: Pennywise has vast reality-warping powers, beyond his own shape-shifting abilities. He also has perception-altering abilities (adults can walk around covered in blood that only a targeted child can see). When he grows increasingly frustrated trying to scare the captive Beverly, he tries to scare her by showing off his reality-warping powers: he dances a clown jig...not so much by dancing his body, but making the ''world dance around him'' while his head stays perfectly still.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: An illustration of Derry's founding shows Pennywise standing among the people who established the city, and before that was responsible for the disappearance of the first settlers to arrive in the area in the 17th century -- which would have been expanded upon in a deleted scene. And Pennywise is much older than that, having lain dormant for millions of years until trappers and settlers arrived.
* RegularlyScheduledEvil: Pennywise awakens from hibernation every 27 years for 12-16 months, before going back into his sleep.
* {{Sadist}}: Pennywise isn't just a predator. He genuinely enjoys attacking and murdering other beings, terrifying them to make them especially delicious to him. At Neibolt Street, he mentally tortures the Losers and when trying to prey on Eddie, makes sure to draw it out as long as possible, even miming biting his fingers to savor his "tasty, tasty, beautiful fear."
* SadisticChoice: He takes Bill hostage during the climax of ''Chapter One'' and gives the Losers a choice. If they stay he will kill and feast on them all, but if they leave he will only kill Bill, he’ll return to his hibernation and leave the rest of them alone to live happy normal lives. Downplayed as this is just an attempt to get the rest of them to leave, knowing that he can’t beat them when they aren’t afraid of him, and Richie decides to TakeAThirdOption, saving Bill and the rest of the group and defeating Pennywise.
* SerialKiller: Not only does he kill children and perpetrates mass murders between a cooling-off period of 27 years, he also keeps trophies from his victims, and considering he has been killing Derry's citizens since the town has been founded, it is not hard to think that his number of victims is in the hundreds, if not thousands.
* ShapeshifterModeLock:
** Averted, which itself makes for an AdaptationalBadass, since this was its most exploitable weakness in the source material and miniseries.
** Played straight in [[spoiler: the climax of ''Chapter Two'', when the Losers figure out they can force it into a feeble, powerless form by thinking of all the previous forms it's taken that they're no longer afraid of, especially that of a clown.]]
* SlasherSmile: Constantly wears a malevolent grin regardless of [=ITs=] current monstrousness. The most frightening example would have to be [[https://media.gq.com/photos/5d309d35f0ca01000867e607/16:9/w_2560%2Cc_limit/it-chaprter-two-final-trailer-gq-1.jpg during a certain scene in chapter 2]].
* SmugSnake: Despite IT's numerous shapeshifting abilities and professing to be the [[BadassBoast "Eater of Worlds"]], it is far less competent than it would like to think, and repeatedly lets its [[PsychopathicManchild childish impulses and emotions]] affect its strategy and nullify any advantage it might have had. This eventually leads to IT's death in Chapter 2 when it repeats its outdated tactics against the now adult Losers.
* TheSociopath: Unlike most literal monsters, he's a sentient being that amounts to a cruel, spiteful and merciless SerialKiller who relishes in his victims' terror, even joking about it. [=IT=]’s like an all-powerful force of nature that was somehow given human pettiness and cruelty.
* SquishyWizard: When the Losers are no longer afraid of him, IT loses much of his power and menace. IT can still shapeshift, regenerate, and exert minor superhuman strength (e.g. sending Mike flying with a backhand), but IT can be readily bludgeoned or stabbed to death by determined humans like any moderately dangerous animal.
* SoftSpokenSadist: In contrast to Tim Curry's bombastic, hammy portrayal, Pennywise in this film rarely raises his voice above a light, airy whisper, which only serves to emphasize how monstrous he really is underneath.
* SpidersAreScary: Invoked. He begins sprouting the legs of a spider, which book readers will recognize as the "true" form of IT, when he's cornered by the Losers and almost completely out of ways to scare them into submission.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: His eyes are a sinister shade of gold, emphasized during his meeting with Georgie as they're the first thing he sees. This probably relates to the Deadlights, [=ITs=] true form.
* TheOneThatGotAway: He clearly considers the Losers this, being the only prey to ever escape him. In ''Chapter Two'', he states that the only thing he thought about during his 27-year hibernation was them.
-->'''Pennywise:''' For 27 years, I dreamt of you... I ''craved'' you... I’ve '''''missed''''' you!
* ThroatLight: In the final act of ''Chapter One'', when IT shows Bev the Deadlights, IT opens its mouth extremely wide and lets them shine out of its throat.
* ToServeMan: Pennywise feeds on flesh during his waking cycle, and quite prefers the flesh of ''[[ChildEater children]]''.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** When Bev [[EyeScream nails IT with a metal pole through the eye]] in the Neibolt house. Its the first time IT has been injured, not just in the movie but...''[[TimeAbyss ever]]'', and IT doesn't take it well. When IT finally gets over its shock, IT rounds on the kids with the Pennywise disguise almost unraveling, half of IT's face twisted and fanged as IT's claws tear through IT's gloves. IT takes a few frantic swings at the children, letting out inhuman snarls, before slinking away to lick IT's wounds.
** At the climax of the first film, Pennywise goes from being a big n' bad tormenting monster to a stuttering, crying wreck when he's on the receiving end of the Loser's Club beating the shit out of him.
** At the climax of the second film, [[spoiler: [[SurvivalMantra he keeps repeating that he's the Eater of Worlds]] even as the Losers force him into a form where they can finally kill IT.]]
* VillainRespect: In the final battle, [[spoiler:when the Losers have him dead-to-rights and manage to do what the Shokopiwah couldn't, his last words almost sound like he's proud and he flashes a smile as he goes.]]
-->'''Pennywise:''' "You've all ... grown ... up."
* VillainSong: Has a small one in ''It: Chapter Two'' where he taunts Richie about [[spoiler: his sexuality]].
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: IT tends to take the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown, but does assume other shapes like lepers, creepy paintings, or even dead loved ones.
* VolumetricMouth: The red makeup on his face, the parts that reach up to his eyes? Those are its lips.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Pennywise's ''total'' inability to just kill the kids in favor of endlessly tormenting and needling them bites him hard in the end. Especially once they're adults and he insists on trying to fight them as a group instead of one on one.
* WolverineClaws: When ready to fight or feed, Pennywise sprouts werewolf claws that grow from beneath his gloves.
* WouldHurtAChild: IT's preferred [[ChildEater source of food]] is children. [[{{Sadist}} Especially if they're afraid]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Leper]]
!!The Leper
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/it_leper.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Do you think this will help me, Eddie?"'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JavierBotet

-->''"I-I saw a leper. He was like a walking infection."''
-->--'''Eddie Kaspbrak'''

The form IT takes to scare Eddie. A diseased homeless man with leprosy.
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* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the novel, he offers Eddie a blowjob for a quarter ("Bobby does it for a dime") and doesn't really have leprosy, but advanced, untreated syphilis. In the movie he's simply a leper, and doesn't proposition poor Eddie.
* BodyHorror: Has untreated leprosy, and is covered with gangrenous sores all over his body.
* CrazyHomelessPeople: He definitely has this mood going on when he harasses Eddie.
* EyeScream: One of his eyes is essentially rotted away.
* FacialHorror: His face is just as deformed as the rest of him.
* GutturalGrowler: Speaks in a deep, raspy voice.
* LeanAndMean: He's super scrawny and looks like he's about to fall apart when he chases Eddie.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: His design was criticized as looking too zombie-like, when actual lepers really can get this bad, often losing eyes and noses.
* TheNoseless: [[DownplayedTrope Somewhat]], the cartilage from his nose mostly rotted away, revealing his nasal cavity.
* ZombiePukeAttack:
** Does this to Eddie during the final battle in ''Chapter One''. However, because Eddie has already overcome his fear of disease, all this does is piss him off.
** Does it again in ''Chapter Two'', as a last resort when [[spoiler:Eddie nearly succeeds in killing him]]. To the tune of "Angel of the Morning", no less.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Judith]]
!!Judith (The Flute Player)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flute_lady_5.png]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/TatumLee

-->'''Richie:''' Is she hot?\\
'''Stan:''' ...no, Richie! She's not hot! Her face is all messed up.

"Judith" is the form IT takes to scare Stan. A disfigured flute player from an unnerving painting in his father's study.
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* BodyHorror: "Judith" has an extremely slender and twisted frame, taking the stylized painted image and making it real.
* CanonForeigner: This form of IT is exclusive to the film, and doesn't appear in the original book nor 1990 miniseries.
* CreepyLongFingers: She has a set of very long fingers fitting her slender and thin figure.
* FacialHorror: She has a face similar to Edvard Munch's paintings, most notably, The Scream.
* FangsAreEvil: Has a monstrous set of fangs, justified in that it is a form of IT. Stan finds this out the hard way when it starts feeding on him in the sewers.
* {{Gonk}}: In Stan's own words, "Her face is all messed up!"
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Especially when she tries to give Stan a KissOfDeath.
* LeanAndMean: Very thin, very cruel.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: After she disappears from the painting, the scene's score suddenly contains the sound of a flute...which then stops just before TheReveal, as Judith drops the flute, implying she was playing along with the score InUniverse.
* LivingDrawing: Pennywise erases the painting itself and takes the form of Judith multiple times throughout the film to terrorize and attack Stan.
* MonochromaticEyes: She has these, reflecting the art style of Amedeo Modigliani.
* ShoutOut: To the eponymous ghost in director Andres Muschietti's previous film, ''Film/{{Mama}}''. Also to Edvard Munch's famous painting, The Scream, and the Jewish painter Amedeo Modigliani, whose works gave director Muschietti a similar fear to Stan's.
* SlasherSmile: When Stan turns around to see who is behind him, he sees Judith staring and smiling at him.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: It's only (explicitly) female form IT has until the introduction of Mrs. Kersch in ''Chapter Two''.
* SpookyPainting: The painting that Rabbi Uris possesses is that of an [[UncannyValley uncanny]] thin and tall woman which It uses to scare Stan and feed on his fear.
* TheVoiceless: She lacks any speaking parts in her scenes.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Headless Boy]]
!!Headless Boy
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/egg_boy.png]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/CarterMusselman

The form IT takes to scare Ben. A headless victim of the Derry Ironworks explosion.
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* BodyHorror: His body has been burnt to a crisp, due to the explosion which blew him to bloody pieces. A close look shows his decapitated neck is smoking as the bloodied head landed in a tree.
* ChekhovsGunman: The Boy's head reappears in the final fight after only appearing as an image in Ben's history book.
* CompositeCharacter: He may have been inspired by Eddie Corcoran. Corcoran was a character from the novel and is a victim of IT during 1958 who was strangled and then decapitated while running from IT in a park. He is always AdaptedOut, presumably due to time constraints as well as due to the graphic depiction of his death.
* OffWithHisHead: The form IT takes is based off one of his victims from the Derry Ironworks explosion, whose severed head was found in a tree. The severed head itself makes an appearance as one of IT's forms during the final battle.
* TheVoiceless: Justified, on account of him being headless.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fake Georgie]]
!!Fake Georgie
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Bill, if you come with me, you'll float, too."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JacksonRobertScott

The form IT takes when confronting Bill Denbrough: Bill's younger brother, who went missing after an encounter with Pennywise in a storm drain.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Presents himself as one of Pennywise's surviving victims, but in reality he ''is'' the monster in another disguise.
* BodyHorror: In the basement scene, "Georgie" rapidly decays as he screams "You'll float, too!"
* BoomHeadshot: Bill shoots the fake Georgie in the head with Mike's bolt gun.
* BrightIsNotGood: "Georgie" still has a bright yellow raincoat, but it's lost all sense of innocence. It's also the only part of the illusion that's left untouched as the rest of the body starts rotting, making it stand out even more.
* CreepyChild: Indeed; "Georgie" certainly scared Bill in the basement scene when he ''started rotting.''
* CrocodileTears: During the final showdown with Pennywise, "Georgie" sobs that he just wants to go home, sounding legitimately scared and miserable. It's a front to get Bill to [[SchmuckBait let his guard down]], and [[NoSell it doesn't work]].
* DemonicDummy: A variation of sorts. IT as Pennywise uses Georgie's form as a ventriloquist's puppet to torment Bill in the cellar.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When we see Pennywise using him as a puppet in Bill's flooded basement to trick him into falling prey to his trap this hints that "Georgie" is nothing more than a tool the creature is using to manipulate Bill and not the actual living Georgie.
* SuddenlyShouting: When Bill meets "Georgie" in the basement, the latter repeats a MadnessMantra and ends with '''"YOU'LL FLOAT, TOO!"'''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mrs. Kersh]]
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!! Mrs. Kersh
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mrs_kersh.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"No one who dies here ever'' really ''dies!"'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:spoiler]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2021_07_21_at_122628_am.png''"TIME TO SINK!"'' [[/labelnote]]]]

->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JoanGregson

The form IT takes when confronting a now-adult Beverly upon her return to Derry.
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* BodyHorror: There are signs of decaying flesh on her chest when she talks to Beverly. [[spoiler:And then she transforms into a giant, [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Judge Doom]]-esque monster with sharp teeth and bulging eyes]].
* EvilOldFolks: She may act kind and sweet to visitors, but she is in fact another form of IT.
* FanDisservice: She is wearing no clothes when she attacks Beverly. As an old monstrous lady, mind you.
* FullFrontalAssault: Attacks Beverly while stark naked.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:CharredHands]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2021_07_20_at_112140_pm_4.png]]

The form IT takes to scare Mike, reminiscent of the fire that killed his parents.
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* BodyHorror: This form mostly consists of a series of burnt hands.
* ChekhovsGun: IT uses the hands near the end of the first movie to fend off Mike's attacks.
* TheFaceless: The only part of this form we see are the hands, and there might not even ''be'' a face.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Robert "Bob" Gray]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2021_07_21_at_120347_am.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350: ''"You haven't saved any of them."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/BillSkarsgard

The human form of Pennywise, who gruesomely turns into the clown himself.
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* HumanoidAbomination: Even without the clown makeup, Pennywise doesn't seem entirely human.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor a psychopathic sense of humor]] even in human form.
* EvilOldFolks: He is definitely this in human form, and may actually be even creepier ''without'' the makeup.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: This is the real face of the man who inspired it. It's also heavily implied in both movies that Bob Gray was Pennywise's favorite victim.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Paul Bunyan Statue]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2021_07_21_at_122857_am.png]]

The form IT takes in an attempt to kill Richie, and one of the most destructive.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: One of the largest forms IT takes in either of the films.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Richie manages to survive this attack simply by believing it wasn't happening.
* LivingStatue: A rather dark interpretation of this trope.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Paul Bunyan of course, though this version is more monstrous than most.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Beverly Marsh]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2021_07_21_at_124905_am_7.png]]

The second form IT takes to scare or at least traumatise Ben.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first she seems like Beverly, but it turns out to be just another form of IT.
* HumanoidAbomination: Becomes this when her head lights itself on fire, showing that she's definitely not human.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Final Form]]
!!Spiderwise
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/it2.PNG]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I can smell the stink of your fear!"'']]
->''[[AGodAmI "I AM THE EATER OF WORLDS!"]]''
The last incarnation of IT, a half-Pennywise, half-spider hybrid.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the novel, Pennywise's true form, or at least as far as human understanding goes, was a giant spider. Here, it’s a mashup of Pennywise and a spider, and appears to be less of a "true form" and more a form taken to kill the Losers more easily.
* AnimalisticAbomination: IT's giant spider form is glimpsed during Bill's vision of IT's battles with the Shokopiwah -- sporting multiple glowing yellow eyes. In the vision IT also takes on the form of a giant bird. The form IT takes to fight the Losers at the end is a mashup of this and IT's Pennywise form.
* AdaptedOut: The part where it's revealed that the Spider is pregnant with eggs is omitted entirely.
* BreathWeapon: In this form, It can use the deadlights in a manner much like a breath weapon, rapidly opening its mouth and shooting a beam of catatonia-inducing light at a selected target.
* EvilIsBigger: It is ''gigantic'' in this form. It's easily twenty feet tall and wide, and Pennywise's head alone is bigger than a person.
* FinalBoss: It’s the last obstacle in the duology.
* GenderFlip: The part about IT laying eggs had been AdaptedOut, which could mean the Spider is indeed male like Pennywise.
* GiantSpider: It’s a truly enormous arachnid with Pennywise’s upper body attached.
* LampreyMouth: IT can turn its spider-like limbs into eel-like tendrils with lamprey mouths on the end.
* LoadBearingBoss: It's death causes the impact crater, cistern, and Neibolt house to implode.
* OneWingedAngel: Pennywise's most dangerous and horrific form.
* ShapeshifterSwanSong: IT shuffles through its previous forms uncontrollably as the Losers start TalkingTheMonsterToDeath.
* SpidersAreScary: And just to make it more personally scary for the Losers, this spider keeps [[MonsterClown Pennywise's face]] rather than go full arachnid.
* SpiderPeople: In this form, half of Pennywise turns into a spider.
[[/folder]]

!The Losers' Club

[[folder:In General]]
!!The Losers' Club
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/losers_club.jpg]]
[-[[caption-width-right:350:'''Stan:''' The thing about being a loser is... you don't have anything to lose.[[note]]From left to right: Eddie, Bill, Mike, Stan, Bev, Ben and Richie.[[/note]]]]-]
->'''Bill:''' We like hanging with you.\\
'''Bev:''' Thanks.\\
'''Bill:''' You shouldn't thank us too much, hanging with us makes you a loser, too.\\
'''Bev:''' I can take that.

Seven young outcast kids in Derry, who band together to take down IT.
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* AbusiveParents: Eddie's mother is extremely overbearing and overprotective, and Beverly's father has sexual feelings towards and attempts to rape her. Subverted with Bill's parents as deleted scenes show they do spend time with him, just not on screen. PlayedWith with Mike's grandfather, who is harsh but is more of a case of GoodIsNotNice. Richie, Stan, and Ben are implied to have healthy relationships with their family.
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the novel, they're stated to all live in different places as adults; Bill in England, Beverly in Chicago, Ben in Nebraska, Eddie in New York City, Richie in Los Angeles, and Stan in Atlanta. In ''It: Chapter 2'', however, where they live is shifted around; Richie lives in Chicago instead of L.A., Bill lives in L.A., Beverly and Eddie both live in New York City, and Ben lives in upstate New York, but Stan still lives in Atlanta.
** Richie is also a stand-up comedian instead of a DJ, and Eddie is a risk analyst as opposed to a limo driver.
* BandOfBrothers: Mixed with TrueCompanions, The Losers Club ultimately band together under circumstance. Even when they break up during their DarkestHour at Pennywise's house, they still band together to take him down when Bev is kidnapped.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: In the Bill, Bev, & Ben LoveTriangle, Bill is the [[BrainyBrunette the leader]], Ben is the [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold blond]] [[TheSmartGuy smart guy]], and Beverly is the [[FieryRedhead fighter]].
* BigBrotherInstinct / BigSisterInstinct: They are all very protective of each other, and will stop at nothing to keep each other safe.
* BloodBrothers: At the end of the first movie, when all seven cut their palms and vow to return if IT ever comes back.
* BreakingTheFellowship: After their first confrontation with IT at Neibolt, everyone sans Bill and Beverly are all freaked out and have a falling out, being apart for a whole month. When Pennywise kidnaps Beverly, Bill rallies them back together to save her.
* ClusterFBomb: They all have pretty foul mouths, but Richie leads by a mile. Eddie can rival him when panicking.
* FireForgedFriendship: Bill, Richie, Eddie, and Stan were friends before, but played straight with the addition of Ben, Bev, and Mike.
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: The end of the first movie, with Beverly moving away and the implication that the whole group is beginning to forget what happened. Downplayed in the sequel; [[spoiler:the surviving members go their separate ways after defeating IT for good, but unlike in the book they retain their memories and it's implied that they'll stay friends.]]
* FiveManBand: The gang largely falls into these archetypes:
** Bill is [[TheHero the leader]] of the gang both ideologically and tactically.
** Richie is TheLancer, who is a {{Foil}} to Bill and is critical of his plans.
** Mike is TheBigGuy, the group's muscle. He shares this role with Beverly.
** Ben is TheSmartGuy, an expert on Derry's history.
** Beverly is TheChick, being the group's sole female member, though she's also BadassAdorable. She also classifies as TheBigGuy due to being one of the toughest of the group.
** Stan and Eddie are both TheSixthRanger, as they [[TheDragAlong are involved begrudgingly]].
* FiveTokenBand: Seven token actually, with Bill's stutter, Ben's weight, Beverly's femininity, Richie's [[spoiler: sexuality]], Eddie's asthma, Stan's religion, and Mike being African-American.
* FriendlessBackground: Bev, Mike, and Ben are implied to have this prior to joining the gang. Subverted with Richie, Ed, Bill, and Stan who are by no means popular, but have buddies at school.
* KidHero: They're all around thirteen years old during the events of the first film.
* KidHeroAllGrownUp: In the second film, which takes place twenty-seven years later when they're all around forty.
* LaserGuidedKarma: A positive variant. In the 27 years following their first battle with IT, [[spoiler: most of them become fairly successful and wealthy.]]
* LoveTriangle: There's one between Bill, Ben and Beverly, Ben is attracted to Beverly but she was more interested in Bill, who's more focused on rescuing Georgie to act on his crush on her. [[spoiler: Until she realised that Ben wrote the love poem for her, and grew to reciprocate it. In ''Chapter 2'' she finally gets together with Ben in her adulthood.]]
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Enables them to defend themselves against IT and ultimately [[spoiler: defeat IT]].
%%* TrueCompanions
* TookALevelInBadass: By necessity, all of them go from being Pennywise's potential victims who are scared shitless of him, to being the only people that can even stand a chance of defeating the monster.
* VictoryGuidedAmnesia: With the exception of [[spoiler:Mike]], they all forget both IT and each other once they move away from Derry. Averted at the end of ''Chapter Two''; unlike the book, they retain their memories after defeating IT for good and it's implied that the surviving members remain friends.
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[[folder:Bill]]
!!William "Bill" Denbrough
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"If we stick together, all of us... we'll win."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JaedenMartell (child), Creator/JamesMcAvoy (adult)

The leader of the Losers, he has a bad stutter. His younger brother George was taken by IT, and this drives him to hunt down and kill IT. As an adult, Bill is a mystery novelist married to Audra Phillips, a movie star.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the book, adult Bill is described as bald and slightly paunchy. In the movie, he's played by Creator/JamesMcAvoy.
* AdultFear: In the second film, Bill is inside a carnival attraction, surrounded by mirrors when he spots a kid wandering around on his own. Bill ends up catching up to the kid, only to slam face first into a glass wall, separating him from the kid...and then they turn around to see Pennywise about to break the glass down and kill the kid.
* TheAllAmericanBoy: Stutter aside, he fits this archetype pretty well with his do-good attitude, riding his bike around Derry, and protectiveness of Georgie.
* AllLovingHero: Bill doesn't say or do anything remotely hateful throughout the film. He's consistently looking out for his friends and family, and going out of his way to be kind. [[ItMakesSenseInContext He even apologizes to a hamster]].
* AmbiguousSituation: His marriage to Audra, thanks to her being DemotedToExtra. Her only scene sees the two of them fighting, but it's never clarified if their marriage is actually failing or simply strained. Bill also [[spoiler: doesn't seem to be wearing a wedding ring in the epilogue]], but it's never highlighted in the scene, in contrast to the emphasis placed on [[spoiler: Beverly taking off her wedding ring]] in the beginning.
* BerserkButton: When the others use the fact that it's summer to bail on helping him look for Georgie.
-->-- '''Bill:''' If you guys say it's summer one more fffffucking time
* BigBrotherInstinct: His motivation throughout the film is to bring Georgie home. They had a very loving relationship. He refuses to believe Georgie's dead, despite what his dad and Richie tell him otherwise. Even though they're right.
** He carries this trait into adulthood, being extremely protective of the other Losers and Dean, a little boy who reminds him very much so of Georgie. [[spoiler:Pennywise obviously uses this against him, and it ends just as badly as the first time.]]
* BigGood: Riles up the group to defeat Pennywise and has nothing but benevolent goals throughout the film.
* BigNo: He gets in a few when [[spoiler:Eddie is impaled]] in the climax of ''Chapter Two''.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts". Which also helps with his stutter.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: So much so that Pennywise uses it against him. This is his entire motive throughout the first film, and again in ''Chapter Two'' with his attempts [[spoiler: to save Dean]].
* {{Determinator}}: Will stop at nothing to find Georgie, even willing to face Pennywise himself.
* DoggedNiceGuy: [[spoiler:With Bev in the sequel. Though Ben is also a NiceGuy and Bill has no hard feelings.]]
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Beverly eventually chooses Ben, but that doesn't interfere with their friendship at all. Not to mention he's already married.]]
* FriendToAllChildren: Bill definitely loved his younger brother Georgie, and ''Chapter Two'' shows him [[spoiler:going out of his way to protect another little boy named Dean to make amends for not being able to save Georgie. He tries to save him in a mirror hall at the carnival, but unfortunately Pennywise traps and devours Dean as Bill is ForcedToWatch and helpless to do anything else. This motivates Bill to go back to Neibolt and finally destroy IT once and for all.]]
* HasAType: His wife Audra is a redhead with more than a passing resemblance to Beverly.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Has a mutual crush on Beverly.
* HeroicBSOD: He could be seen as suffering from one throughout the film. Especially with his constant denial of Georgie's death.
* HeroicSacrifice: Averted twice.
** At the end of the first movie, Pennywise offers to spare the other Losers in exchange for Bill, to which he totally accepts and tells his friends to leave. They reject his offer and choose to fight It instead.
** In the second movie, [[spoiler:he tries to save Dean by telling Pennywise to TakeMeInstead since he's there now unlike when Georgie died, but It ignores the now-40-year-old's request and kills the boy anyway.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:When he realizes Beverly and Ben have embraced their feelings for one another, Bill accepts it and does nothing but wish them the best, even if Beverly is likely the true love of his life, married or no.]]
* InnocentlyInsensitive: His "Georgie is still alive" conspiracy theories don't go over well with his parents.
* InsistentTerminology: Insists that Georgie is missing, not dead. Everyone else knows this not to be the case.
* ItsAllMyFault:
** Bill's determination to find his brother and flat out denial that he's really dead seems to stem from the fact he was unable to protect or be there for Georgie when he left out in the rain despite the fact he couldn't go (being sick and all).
** ''Chapter Two'' reveals that [[spoiler:Bill faked being sick because he didn't want to play outside that day, adding an extra layer of guilt.]]
* TheLeader: The unofficial leader of the Losers' Club. While he's not the most assertive, the others tend to defer to his decisions and viewpoints.
* LoyaltyMission: Bill's entire motivation to find and destroy Pennywise is driven by his love and devotion for Georgie and wanting to bring him home.
* MadnessMantra: "He thrusts his fists against the post, and still insists he sees the ghost", a passage to help his stutter that he repeats several times throughout the film.
* MagneticHero: It's stated that ''everyone'' in the club loves him (more accurately he'd be their true north on a compass), and that they all gravitate towards him in times of peril.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:He wasn't outside with Georgie that day because he faked being sick since he didn't want to play with Georgie in the rain. He never forgave himself for not being there when Georgie was taken by Pennywise.]]
* NiceGuy: He's clearly protective of and loves his little brother, cares deeply about his friends, and will face unfathomable horrors to rescue those who matter to him.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lampshaded by Richie, when Bill declares his intent to enter the Neibolt house, and doesn't stutter once. Though, when he returns as an adult his stutter is more prominent as the memories become more clear.
* ParentalFavoritism: While it's never outright stated, it's heavily implied that Bill believes his parents favored Georgie, and wished he was the one who died.
* ParentalNeglect: After Georgie goes missing. His mother is ''nowhere'' to be seen and the only scene Bill has with his father is his father telling him to accept that Georgie's dead.
** Though in deleted scenes he does get some interaction with his parents. In an alternate ending it does seem like he gets some closure with them.
* PlayingSick: [[spoiler:''Chapter Two'' reveals that he was actually faking being sick the day Georgie died because he didn't want to play outside.]]
* ReplacementGoldfish: A subplot in ''Chapter Two'' involves Bill trying to convince a young boy to get out of Derry after the boy implies that he's been encountering signs of Pennywise, with Bill clearly seeing [[MyGreatestFailure shades of Georgie]] in the kid. [[spoiler: It doesn't go much better for the new kid than it did for Georgie.]]
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Manly Man to Georgie's Sensitive Guy.
* ShutUpHannibal: He fights against Pennywise's mental torture and says yes, he was a wonderful big brother. [[spoiler:One day of not wanting to play outside with the kid in the rain does ''not'' mean he wasn't, and it doesn't mean he got Georgie killed.]]
* SpeechImpediment: His stutter, which is what makes him a target for the bullies.
* StutterStop: While it never fully goes away, the only time it truly stopped was when they went to Neibolt the first time. He loses the stutter in adulthood, but [[spoiler:it starts to come back once he returns to Derry.]]
* TheUnfavorite: Becomes this in shades, with his parents almost exclusively thinking about Georgie and him basically fading into the background. However, this is probably due more to their grief than any actual favoritism they held.
** The only conversation Bill has with his father is when he tells Bill that Georgie's dead, and his mother is nowhere to be seen.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ben]]
!!Benjamin "Ben" Hanscom
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Derry is not like any town I've been in before. People die or disappear, six times the national average. And that's just grown ups. Kids are worse. Way, way worse."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JeremyRayTaylor (child), Creator/JayRyan (adult)

A new, overweight and lonely kid who joins the Losers after an encounter with school bully Henry Bowers and fills them in on the town's dark history. Has a crush on Beverly Marsh. As an adult, Ben is an architect living in New York State.
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* AdaptationalCurves: Inverted. Ben, in the books, is very overweight to the point of it being potentially dangerous. Here, he's a little pudgy but you could easily see him growing out of it as he gets older, as he does in the books. Indeed, come the second film, he has; see FormerlyFat below.
* AdaptedOut: It's unclear what his family situation in the film is. In the book his father has died and he and his mother moved in with relatives in Derry, but there's no indication if this is the case in the movie.
* BadassBookworm: He is the smartest of the group, being the one to notice the pattern of missing children and locate It's well hideout. Combat wise, he attacks Bowers with a rock for calling Bev a slut, and during the final battle, he is the 2nd of the group to attack it, charging and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling It through its back.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He holds Bev in high regard, because she warned him about Henry Bowers.
* BerserkButton: Does not take it well when Henry Bowers calls Beverly a slut and claims to have had sex with her. Henry, meet rock.
* BuriedAlive: Almost becomes his fate in the climax of ''Chapter Two'', as Pennywise traps him in the clubhouse he built for the Losers as it rapidly fills with dirt.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: He has a crush on Beverly as a child, [[spoiler: and ultimately ends up with her 27 years later.]]
* CommonalityConnection: He and Beverly bond over their taste in music and, albeit secretly, poetry.
* CompositeCharacter: Takes the role as the group's historian off of Mike, but only in the first film. [[DecompositeCharacter Mike takes up becoming the group's historian after he chooses to stay.]]
* DyingAlone: One of his biggest fears, which Pennywise exploits to torment him.
* EatingLunchAlone: A variant, but the librarian comments on how its strange that he's spending his summer by himself in the library rather than with friends.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When we're re-introduced to him as an adult in ''Chapter Two'', he's shown confidently presenting a building to a group of investors via video link, talking about knocking down walls to make the space more welcoming before the camera cuts to a wide shot of him alone in a big empty house. Thus we know that Ben is a down-to-earth NiceGuy who is still desperately lonely for all his wealth and success.
* FatBestFriend: He is the only one of the gang that's overweight.
* FormerlyFat: With a ton of diet and exercise, he lost his gut as he grew up.
* GuiltyPleasure: Likes Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock, and even has a poster of them in his room.
* HauntedHouseHistorian: States he read up on Derry's history due to spending a lot of time alone in the library.
* TheHeart: Highlighted in ''Chapter Two''. Ben is instrumental in keeping the group together, and repeatedly tells the others to at least hear Mike out when they threaten to bail.
* HeIsAllGrownUp: He grew up to be ''extremely'' good looking, which does not go unnoticed by the other Losers. Or Pennywise.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Has an extremely obvious crush on Beverly.
* HiddenDepths: Ben is socially awkward and shy, but loves poetry and music. He's also one of the kindest, sweetest boys alive, and is incredibly talented and creative. The Losers' clubhouse is designed and built by him.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Loves boy bands and poetry.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: As a child, he doesn't try to move between Bill and Beverly, despite his love for her. As an adult, he seems ready to allow the same. [[spoiler:It turns out in the end that Beverly realizes she'll be happiest with him.]]
* LonerTurnedFriend: Seemingly the trend in the Losers' Club, but Ben goes from an asocial library member to a [[TrueCompanions true companion]] to the gang.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Especially when Bev is around. The first time he saw her, he dropped the miniature building he was holding and uses a New Kids On The Block song as a 'witty' way of getting her to stay.
* MadeOfIron: Gets slashed by Henry, tumbles over a bridge down a hill, slashed by Pennywise, and helps combat the monster, yet is still walking just fine by the end. After he was wounded by Pennywise during the fight in the Wellhouse, he doesn't even seem to notice the large lacerations across his stomach.
-->'''Richie:''' (referring to Ben's wound) And look at this motherfucker! He's leaking Hamburger Helper!
* MrFanservice: The adult Ben is easily the most attractive of the Losers, with ''Chapter Two'' even giving an extended look at his well-defined abs ([[FanDisservice albeit]] [[spoiler:with Pennywise sadistically carving a taunting message into his stomach]]).
* NewTransferStudent: Hence his FriendlessBackground, and the reason why everyone calls him "The New Kid".
* NiceGuy: Ben is gentle, sensitive, kind, and warm as a boy. As an adult, even as a wealthy and famous architect, he maintains these attributes. He even brings it to his job, wanting a friendly, comforting feel to the buildings he designs.
* PungeonMaster: In his attempts at flirting with Bev.
* ScarsAreForever: Is left with an "H" scar on his stomach, from when Henry tried to carve his name into him.
* TheSmartGuy: Acts as the group's de-facto historian, but only in ''Chapter One''.
* TookALevelInBadass: Timid, shy, chubby little Ben becomes as stalwart a fighter against Pennywise as anyone else, and as an adult he's one of the most physically capable of the group.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Fascinated by Derry's morbid history, and keeps a conspiracy theory-esque, wall-to-wall flowchart analyzing it.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:Beverly chooses him when they're adults, reciprocating his feelings.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Beverly]]
!!Beverly Marsh
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I want to run towards something, not away."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/SophiaLillis (child), Creator/JessicaChastain (adult)

->''"I never felt like a loser when I was with you."''

A tomboyish, mature redhead who joins the Losers. She has a terrible home life, with a father who is implied to be sexually attracted to her. As an adult, Beverly is a fashion designer in Manhattan and in an abusive relationship with her husband, Tom Rogan.
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* AbusiveParents: Her single father is creepy and incestuous, and tries to rape her in one scene.
* ActionGirl: Beverly is a total badass who doesn't hesitate to get into a scrap. To list: She was the first to chunk a rock at Henry Bowers to get him off of Mike; when her father tries to rape her, she kicks him in the nuts, then in the face, before ducking into the bathroom and cracking his skull open with the lid of the toilet's tank; lastly, she was the first one to hurt It via impaling it through the face with a piece of rusty fence, made It desperate by no longer fearing him, and during the fight in the cistern she did the most damage to It, culminating with shoving a piece of rebar down It's throat.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Her book counterpart never has prophetic nightmares of the Losers' deaths.
* AdaptationalBadass: Movie!Bev loses all fear of IT after fighting off her abusive father and is the one who does the most physical damage to IT along with [[spoiler:Eddie]]; in the book she was tough and good with a slingshot, but was ultimately still just a scared kid with no real fighting ability.
* AdaptationalModesty: Zig-zagged. Bev herself is less sexual in the films, and does not have the other Losers have sex with her after defeating It as children. However, her fears of sexuality and puberty are played more overtly.
* AfraidOfBlood: As in the book, the form IT first takes to scare her is a geyser of blood erupting from her bathroom sink. Taken even further in the second movie, when she's [[spoiler: trapped in a DrowningPit that fills with blood from floor to ceiling.]]
* AttemptedRape: Her father tries to violently rape her, but she fights him off, and hits him over the head with the toilet lid which knocks him out. [[spoiler: In ''Chapter Two'', her husband attempts to rape her after she tells him she’s going back to Derry to meet up with old friends, believing she’s lying and going out to cheat on him. Much like her father before him, this does not end well for him as Bev is able to kick him off and bash him over the head with a mirror, buying her enough time to get out]].
* BadassBystander: There is no indication she even knew Mike before she and the Losers save him, but she doesn't even hesitate to pick up a good size rock and crack Henry Bowers in the head with it, grabbing another and preparing the throw it to cover Mike's escape.
* BadassInDistress: When Pennywise kidnaps her, she doesn't cry, scream, or wallow in self pity. Instead, she tries to find a way out of the sewers, and tells Pennywise (her kidnapper), that ''she's not afraid of him''.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The Losers including her and not judging her for her reputation catches her completely off-guard. As she says, "I never felt like a loser when I was hanging out with you."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Beverly is about as sweet and nice as they come, but if you try to hurt one of her friends or attempt to rape her? Odds are it won't end well for you.
* BigDamnKiss: Twice, with Ben (which snaps her out of her Deadlights-induced catatonia), and with Bill before she moves away in the end. She gets another one with each of them in ''Chapter Two''.
* BladeonAStick: Her go to weapon against Pennywise is a spear-like fence post, and she gives one to Eddie as adults saying it kills monsters.
* BoomHeadshot: Downplayed. She is a fan of doing this. Every fight she is in, she always goes for her opponent's head in some way: She hit Henry Bowers and Reginald Huggins in the head with rocks during the fight at the creek; she stabs It through the face with a rust fence during the Loser's first fight against it; she kicks her father in the face then breaks a toilet tank lid upside his head when he tries to rape her; then, during the battle in the cistern, she shoves a piece of rebar down It's throat when it morphs into her father as an attempt to scare her.
* BoyishShortHair: Beverly has long hair at the beginning of the movie, but cuts her hair short out of disgust at her father, who laments that she looks like a boy.
* BrokenBird: As an adult, she's trapped in an abusive relationship [[spoiler:and haunted by visions of the Losers' deaths]], not to mention deeply scarred by her childhood experiences.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Why she smokes.
* CelebrityResemblance: PlayedForLaughs in-universe. Richie about her: "Who invited Creator/MollyRingwald into the group?" With her short, shaggy red hair, Sophia Lillis does look a lot like a teenage Molly Ringwald.
* CharacterTics: Smoking when she's nervous or scared.
* CoolLoser: Has way better social graces than the rest of the Losers Club, though her working-class background and unjustified promiscuous reputation makes her a target for the AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse, and subject to sexual harassment from students and adults alike.
* CulturedBadass: She loves poetry as much as Ben does, and she's the toughest of the Losers.
* CuteBruiser: She's cute and has a gentle nature, but she doesn't hesitate to chuck rocks at Henry Bowers and his gang, drive a fence post through Pennywise's head when he attacks her friends, or crack her father over the head with a toilet tank lid when he attempts to rape her.
* DamselInDistress: At the end of the first film, she's kidnapped by Pennywise and imprisoned in his lair. [[BadassInDistress Her kidnapping doesn't undercut any of her badassery]], and she manages to inflict more damage to IT than any of the other Losers. In fact, her kidnapping was triggered by the fact that Bev simply ''didn't fear'' IT so IT couldn't prey upon her.
* TheDogBitesBack: She fights back against her abusive husband when he tries to prevent her from returning to Derry, ultimately knocking him out to escape.
* DomesticAbuse: As an adult, she's married to a man much like her father, who abuses her both physically and mentally.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Has a vision of the Loser's Club as adults returning to the sewer to fight IT once more, setting up the second chapter. ''Chapter Two'' reveals that she's been having visions of their deaths for the last thirty years, including [[spoiler:Stan's suicide]].
* DudeMagnet: She attracts all the Losers Club members and many other men in the story, including some disturbing men.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After enduring years of abuse at the hands of both her father and her husband, she [[spoiler:ends up with sweet, devoted Ben.]]
* EmbarrassingNickname: The AlphaBitch calls her "Beaver-ly".
* EmptyEyes: After she sees the deadlights, her eyes roll into the back of her head.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Bev's introduced smoking in the restroom and brushing off bullying by the other girls, showing her to be a tomboy. Her next scene has her warning Ben about Bowers and his gang before signing his yearbook, establishing her [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]] traits.
* FieryRedhead: An outgoing, fiery girl with red hair.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Seeing the deadlights drives her to catatonia. Subverted, as she snaps out of it after being kissed by Ben.
* GoodBadGirl: She's a smoker and a known troublemaker by the neighborhood, but she's actually quite a cool person.
* HeroicBSOD: She has a break down after her father ''sniffs her hair'', and she cuts it all off in the bathroom.
* HypnotizeThePrincess: A variant occurs when after being captured by Pennywise, she tries to escape but gets caught by him. Pennywise tries to scare her but fails, so he uses his deadlights to put her in a state of catatonia.
* ImportantHaircut: She starts off with having long hair, but when her father lusts over it, she cuts it all off in disgust to make herself look unappealing to him.
* InsaneTrollLogic: A lot of the "Beverly is a slut" arguments are based on this, as she herself points out.
* TheLancer: Is the second most active in trying to take the fight to Pennywise. Also has shades of TheHeart and TheBigGuy.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Her relationships with most of the Losers - Richie, in particular, in ''Chapter Two'' - is this. Unfortunately, this results in her father wrongfully assuming that she is doing less-than-innocent things with them in the forests and the quarry.
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: As an adult, Bev married Tom Rogan, who, like her father, is a sexist, abusive, vile piece of work who treats her like his personal property. [[spoiler:Thankfully, she ends up getting away from this relationship, and ends up with the genuinely loving and good-hearted Ben.]]
* LittleMissBadass: She kicks an overwhelming amount of ass throughout the film, considering she's only about twelve years old.
* LonerTurnedFriend: She's introduced smoking alone in the bathroom and being taunted by bullies, but she's very appreciative of the Losers' kindness and teams up with them.
* MissingMom: Her mother died when she was young in what is strongly implied to be suicide. Her father uses this to manipulate her into [[{{Squick}} wearing her mothers perfume, amongst other things]].
* MustHaveNicotine: A more disturbing example of this trope, since she's only 13 and still has a strong nicotine craving.
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: It's stated that the Losers don't believe the "Beverly is a slut" rumors as they get to know her, and they are visibly angered when Bowers and Mrs. K make comments about how she really gets around.
* NiceGirl: Bev is very friendly as evidenced when she helps Ben avoid Henry Bowers and signing his yearbook.
* OneOfTheBoys: Deconstructed, in that it feeds into her undeserved reputation for promiscuity, and she's bullied so intensely by girls that it's unlikely for her to make any gal pals.
* {{Patricide}}: Subverted. She smashed her father over the head with a toilet tank lid hard enough to shatter it when he tried to rape her, and while he was definitely knocked unconscious and more than likely suffered a skull fracture, he was pretty clearly still alive even after Pennywise kidnapped her. As a result, Beverly announces [[ButNowIMustGo she must leave the other Losers behind to go live with her aunt the rest of her childhood]].
* PutOnABus: Moves to Portland at the end of the first film to get away from her abusive father.
* RedheadsAreUncool: Textbook example of a ginger pre-teen social outcast.
* SecurityCling: She clings onto the back of Richie's shirt during the Neibolt scene.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: [[spoiler:After leaving her abusive husband Tom, she initially gravitates back to her childhood love with the kind Bill. However, her final, truest love is the gentle, warm and caring Ben who doesn't have a mean bone in his body.]]
* SlutShaming: A constant (undeserved) victim of this, by anyone from IT to her fellow kids.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Her beauty gets her unwanted attention and an undeserved reputation as a slut. Even worse is that several adults and her own father seem attracted to her.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Bev is the only female member of the Losers' Club.
* TankTopTomboy: Whenever she's not wearing a dress, Bev sports shorts and a tank top to signify her tomboy status.
* [[TeensAreShort Pre-teens Are Short]]: Sophia Lillis is only five feet tall, and Bev is just wary of her coming early teens.
** Even as an adult, she peaks around 5'4", making her the shortest of the Losers.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Bev has short hair and enjoys rough and tumble play like her guy friends do, but she also occasionally wears pretty dresses, and nail polish can be seen in her bathroom. Downplayed in ''Chapter Two'', where her tomboy qualities are less evident.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Smokes cigarettes, and flirts with Mr. Keene so the boys can shoplift his store while he's distracted.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eddie]]
!!Edward "Eddie" Kaspbrak
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I don't want to go missing either."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JackDylanGrazer (child), Creator/JamesRansone (adult)

->''"I think it's great we're helping the new kid, but we also need to think of our own safety. I mean, he's bleeding all over and you guys know that there's an AIDS epidemic out there right now, as we speak, right? I mean, my mom's friend in New York City got it just by touching a dirty pole in the subway and enough of AIDS blood got into his system from a hangnail. A hangnail!"''

A hypochondriac asthmatic and MamasBoy. As an adult, Eddie is a risk analyst in Manhattan and is married to a woman very similar to his overbearing mother.
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* AbusiveParents: His mother has turned him into a hypochondriac, keeps him under her thumb, gives him placebo medications and tricks him into thinking he has asthma. She also tries to keep him from having friends.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the movie, he actually calls out his mother for lying to him and takes a part in beating the crap out of Pennywise.
* AdaptationalJobChange: He grows up to be a risk analyst rather than a limo driver as in the book.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: While still a neurotic hypochondriac, this version of Eddie is much more fiery, outspoken and prone to dropping [[ClusterFBomb Cluster F Bombs]] when compared to his timid book counterpart.
* AlmostDeadGuy: [[spoiler: Survives long enough after being mortally wounded to impart important knowledge to the others on how to harm IT.]]
* AmbiguousDisorder: While his various physical ailments were fabricated by his mother, it's clear that his "asthma" attacks are really panic attacks and he likely suffers from some form of anxiety disorder.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Downplayed from the book, but present. Notably, he's unhappily married to a woman who looks and acts exactly like his abusive mother, even down to deliberately casting the same actress for both roles, and shows little to no interest in other women. Meanwhile, he can be seen appreciatively checking out Ben when Richie mentions how hot he is during the reunion dinner, and quite randomly yells "Let's take off our shirts and kiss!" while arm wrestling Richie. He's also paralleled by the openly gay Adrian Mellon, and the exact nature of his relationship with [[spoiler:Richie]] is up for interpretation.
** Could be AmbiguouslyBi given that he seemed attracted to Bev and Greta as a young teenager, and is married (albeit unhappily) to a woman as an adult. His awkwardness and strange suggestive outbursts could be attributed to conflicted and hormone-driven feelings that affect teens entering puberty coupled with problems that sheltered and unsocialized children often suffer from, such as lacking a verbal filter.
*** This is more of an extention of the well-known statistic of perpetuating cycles of abuse, since Eddie was mistreated and controlled by his mother as a child and likely has major self-worth issue, he ultimately gravitated towards a woman who mistreats him as an adult.
*** This is much like how Beverly was abused by her father when she was a child and she married an abusive man before the events of the movie, [[spoiler: but she worked to break the cycle with her relationship with Ben at the end of the movie.]]
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite all of their snarking at each other, when things get scary he tends to cling to Richie for comfort, and they are the only members of the gang to hug goodbye after the blood oath.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: {{Downplayed}}: he's physically the smallest of the Losers, and tie-in materials confirm that he's the youngest by a few months, so naturally he gets a bit of this treatment. However, the usually associated trope of EveryonesBabyBrother actually goes to Stan.
* BadassBureaucrat: He's a risk analyst for an insurance firm and manages to strangle IT in Leper form and [[spoiler:succeeds in hurting IT during his solo encounter.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: [[spoiler: His relationship with Richie toes the line between this and VitriolicBestBuds due to the revelation that Richie was in love with Eddie, as well as Eddie's own AmbiguouslyGay / AmbiguouslyBi nature.]]
* BerserkButton: After discovering all his afflictions are just made up and his medicines are placebos, he becomes very angry at his mother. When Pennywise later tries to scare him by vomiting black goo over him to try to exploit his former fear of disease, Eddie becomes furious.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He's actually pretty protective over Stanley. He's the first one to notice he's missing in Neibolt, and does whatever it takes to comfort him after his encounter with Pennywise.
* CallingTheOldWomanOut: When he finds out his asthma medicine is a placebo, he confronts his mother and defies her to join his friends.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Impaled by one of IT's spider appendages, hoisted into the air and swung around like a rag doll, before being thrown several feet into a rocky crevasse. Despite the Losers' best efforts to staunch the wound, he ends up bleeding out anyway.]]
* CowardlyLion: He's quick to panic and doubts his own bravery, but he steps up when it counts. He's also the ''only'' member of the Losers Club who [[spoiler:succeeds in hurting IT during his solo encounter.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: He has his moments. Being friends with someone like Richie makes it inevitable.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the book, he bleeds out after Pennywise in spider form bites his arm off. [[spoiler:In this version, he's run through with one if IT's appendages.]]
* DrivesLikeCrazy: He crashes his car when Mike calls him at the start of ''Chapter Two'', after yelling at other drivers and popping pills while arguing with his wife on the phone. Possibly an intentional MythologyGag, considering his career in the book was a limo driver.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: In the climax of ''Chapter Two'', he attacks IT and frees Richie from the deadlights. It gets him killed.]]
* HatesBeingTouched: When he gets his arm broken at the Neibolt house, he gives us this little gem:
-->''Do not fucking touch me!''
* HenpeckedHusband: Had became one for Myra.
* HeroicBSOD: Freezes up when [[spoiler:Stan's head]] attacks Richie, which nearly gets Richie killed. Bill later chews him out over this.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: He attacks It to free Richie from the Deadlights. It gets him killed.]]
* HiddenDepths: Despite his anxiety and frailty, he's actually got quite a sharp tongue, mostly seen in his banter with Richie.
* {{Hypochondria}}: He takes a whole bunch of pills to keep his various afflictions under control. Turns out they're sugar pills.
* InSeriesNickname: The other Losers (and Pennywise) will occasionally call him "Eds".
* InducedHypochondria: His mother suffers from Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, and he's the proxy. She's utterly convinced he'll become a worse person if he so much as leaves her care for a moment, and as such, treats Eddie like he's constantly sick so he won't leave. Luckily, Eddie figures out it's all fake and stands up to her, though he [[spoiler:ends up regressing and marries a woman just like her after losing his memories.]]
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: He marries a woman who looks and acts just like his mother, down to even being [[CastingGag played by the same actress.]]
* {{Malaproper}}: Upon finding out that his pills are just placebos -- a word he'd apparently never heard before that day -- he confronts his mother about this, but accidentally called the pills "gazebos" instead.
* MamasBoy: He's a fraidy cat who loves his mom. Until the reveal, that is.
* TheMedic: He's able to put his extensive medical knowledge to good use by patching up Ben after his run-in with Bowers. Lampshaded in ''Chapter Two'' when he exictedly recalls this incident and Bev asks if he became a doctor.
* MotorMouth: Eddie enters this mode whenever he exhibits his fear of germs.
* MyBelovedSmother: Deconstructed and PlayedForDrama. Turns out all of his afflictions were entirely made up by his mother so she could control him.
* TheNapoleon: He's the shortest of the male Losers and has an even shorter temper.
* NervousWreck: He’s always anxious about the events that unfold, and is constantly on edge.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Easily the smallest member of the group aside from Beverly, and seemingly the most fragile. He's also the only one without a weapon during the final battle and kicks Pennywise clear across the room fueled only by his rage at getting puked on.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: He gets one in both films.
** In ''Chapter One,'' Pennywise attempts to use his fear of germs against him by vomiting on him as the Leper. Seeing as this was only a few hours after he'd found out that his mother had been lying to him his whole life about his 'medicines', he is understandably pissed-off.
---> '''Eddie:''' ''I'm gonna fucking kill you!''
** In ''Chapter Two,'' Eddie sees [[spoiler: Richie]] trapped in the Deadlights and snaps.
---> '''Eddie:''' ''BEEP-BEEP, MOTHERFUCKER!''
* ProfaneLastWords:
-->''"Richie, there's something I have to tell you... I fucked your mom."''
* ProperlyParanoid: He’s always warning the others about the dangers and the consequences that could happen to them if something goes wrong.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Has a lot of knowledge of various infections and diseases, though no practical application of that knowledge due to his paranoia.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:His death serves the dual purpose of showing the other Losers how IT can be harmed and making them sufficiently motivated to go finish IT for good, as well as establishing that Pennywise is done playing around and AnyoneCanDie.]]
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Part of his dainty-boy characterization.
* SecurityCling: For someone who supposedly can't stand Richie, Eddie sure does cling to him a lot whenever he gets scared, both as a child and an adult.
* SirSwearsALot: The most likely of the kids besides Richie to drop an f-bomb or three. He's even worse as an adult.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Framed in a cowardly light, but his statement that sewer water is highly contaminated still stands.
* TagalongKid: Constantly argues that the group should turn around and go home.
* TerrifiedOfGerms: At first, which is why IT takes the form of a rotting leper to scare him. The Losers even comment on this [[spoiler: when they're cleaning off in the quary after Eddie's death and IT's vanquishing. They all say that Eddie would've hated cleaning off in dirty water, with Beverly pointing out that he'd be saying they'd get "stretpococcal something".]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Stands up to his domineering mother and joins the Losers in going after Beverly, and fights IT with them.
* UnstoppableRage:
** During the final battle Pennywise tries to exploit his fear of disease by shifting his head into the Leper's and vomiting blackish-green sludge all over him. unfortunately for Pennywise, Eddie'd learned the truth about his "medicine" and lost his fear of disease and the act just makes him ''angry.''
--->'''Eddie:''' ''I'm gonna kill you!'' (soccer kicks Pennywise in the head)
** Happens again in ''Chapter Two'' when he almost succeeds in [[spoiler:''throttling IT to death'']] through sheer rage. Generally, it's shown that Eddie has extreme anger issues beneath his surface frailty, which allows him to dole out some of the most serious damage to IT when pushed.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Richie, with some SnarkToSnarkCombat involved.
* YourMom: Or rather "your sister", in one of his comebacks to Richie. Gets a funny callback in an otherwise tragic scene when [[spoiler: his ''last words'' are a YourMom joke]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Richie]]
!!Richard "Richie" Tozier
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Do you use the same bathroom as your mother? Then you probably have crabs."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/FinnWolfhard (child), Creator/BillHader (adult)

->''"You punched me in the face, made me walk through shitty water, took me to a fucking crackhead house, and now... I'm gonna have to kill this fucking clown."''

An obnoxious but well-meaning member of the Losers' Club, with a fondness for crude jokes. As an adult, Richie is a successful stand-up comedian living in Chicago.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The movie adds in a subplot about him [[spoiler: struggling with his sexuality]] which wasn't included in the book. The fact that, in this continuity, the Losers don't forget after they defeat IT for good means that he also gets to remember [[spoiler:Eddie's death]].
* AdaptationalJobChange: A stand-up comedian rather than a radio [=DJ=].
* AdaptationalSexuality: [[spoiler: ''Chapter Two'' all but explicitly states he's gay.]]
* AmbiguousDisorder: Fans have speculated that he might have undiagnosed [=ADHD=] due to his AttentionWhore tendencies and never being able to shut up or sit still.
* AmbiguouslyBi: An odd case in which [[spoiler:his attraction to ''men'' is confirmed, but it's not clear whether his flirtations with women are genuine or just another part of his facade. The latter is implied, but it's ultimately left open to interpretation.]]
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Played by Finn Wolfhard (who has Jewish heritage) and attends Stan's bar mitzvah wearing a yarmulke, but also makes disparaging comments about Stan's circumcision and seems as confused about the difference between a bar mitzvah and a bris as Eddie and Bill are. It's unclear if Richie is just attending the bar mitzvah for moral support or if he's a fairly secular and irreverent Jew.
* AnAxeToGrind: Kills [[spoiler:Henry]] with an axe to the head.
* ArmoredClosetGay: [[spoiler:The second movie basically all but states he's gay, which makes his bravado this in retrospect. Being where he is, its probably a survival tactic.]]
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: See Eddie's entry. Additionally, Richie appears to have a shade of BigBrotherInstinct over him, grabbing hold of him when Pennywise hijacks the projector, and making Eddie look at him rather than Pennywise when the Losers are cornered at the Neibolt house. This also goes with Stan. When the Losers have a falling out, he's the only one who attends Stan's Bar Mitzvah. Also, when Stan is separated from the group and attacked by Pennywise in Neibolt, he claims that the group deserted him. Richie is the first one to say "We would never do that to you."
** This also goes with Beverly too. While he has made some crude remarks about her, he truly cares about her. He's the first one Bill goes to when he saw she was missing, and was visibly relieved when she wakes up, and hugs her.
** [[spoiler: A flashback scene in part 2 shows Richie as a child carving R+ into the local bridge, but the finished carving isn't shown to the audience until the end when Richie as an adult goes to refresh the cuts, R+E, revealing that Eddie was his first love.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He expresses irritation over being on stuck on lookout duty, while the others got to go up to Beverly's apartment. When the group heads on over to Neibolt Street, however, guess who is among those that has to go inside.
* BelligerentSexualTension: [[spoiler: His VitriolicBestBuds dynamic with Eddie is revealed to at least partially be this trope, as Richie is in love with Eddie.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: As goofy as he is, if you put anyone he cares about in danger, and he ''will'' make you pay for it. Even if they're part of the Losers Club.
* BigEater: He is a teenager, after all.
* BleedEmAndWeep: He's visibly distressed, to the point of throwing up, after killing [[spoiler:Henry Bowers]].
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: He gets splattered in [[spoiler:Eddie's]] blood when the latter is impaled on top of him.
* BullyingADragon: Unlike the other members of the Losers Club, he tends to provoke the Bowers gang by being a smartass.
* ClassClown: He's a hammy jokester who's something of an AttentionWhore.
* CommanderContrarian: Not much pleases this guy, though deep down his heart is in the right place.
* DeadpanSnarker: More snarky than deadpan, but Richie's got a line about EVERYTHING.
* DirtyKid: He constantly brings up the fact that [[HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday he has a large dick and that he's not a virgin]] and when Stan tells him about the woman he saw, the first thing he asks is "Was she hot?"
-->'''Ben:''' Derry was initially a town for beaver-trappers...
-->'''Richie:''' [[DoubleEntendre Still is]], am I right, boys?
** [[spoiler:Strongly implied in ''Chapter Two'' to be compensating for his homosexuality.]]
* DroppedGlasses: He loses his glasses in the quarry while trying to clean them at the end of ''Chapter Two'', and subsequently makes a joke about [[BlindWithoutEm having no idea who the others are.]]
* {{Fainting}}: He passes out in ''Chapter Two'' after his encounter with the Pennywise possessed Paul Bunyan statue.
* FreudianExcuse: It's implied that he's neglected by his parents, and uses his voices and jokes to gain the attention he doesn't get at home. [[spoiler:''Chapter Two'' also heavily implies that his frequent crude sexual jokes were a means to hide his homosexuality.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: While his friends ''do'' like him, they are often exasperated by his constant crude jokes. They often leave him as the lookout due to this.
* GallowsHumor: He's constantly cracking inappropriate jokes during life-threatening situations, but it's clear that he's just as terrified as the others and the humor is just his way of coping.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: Averted; unlike in the book, he keeps his iconic NerdGlasses even after becoming a famous stand-up comedian.
* HairTriggerTemper: More or less. It doesn't take much to send him off on a rant, though he's never physically aggressive.
* HeroicBSOD:
** He has a panic attack when he finds the missing poster in Neibolt.
** He falls apart completely when [[spoiler:Eddie dies]], to the extent that it takes both Ben and Mike to drag him out of the collapsing sewers.
* HiddenDepths: It's implied that his true fear is not in fact clowns, and that his actual fear is being forgotten, and his friends leaving him.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: [[spoiler: ''Chapter Two'' implies that his constant bragging about his success with the ladies is this. He also does a bit in one of his stand-up routines about his nonexistent girlfriend, and later admits that he doesn't write his own material]].
* HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday: Brags constantly about his non-existent sexual prowess. [[spoiler:''Chapter Two'' implies this is to cover up being gay.]]
* HollywoodHomely: Upon seeing the adult Ben and Beverly, Richie remarks "what the fuck happened to me?" in a pretty disappointed voice, despite being played by Creator/BillHader who at worst is just a little unkempt with a permastubble. Then again, it is ''Richie'' we're talking about, and that is something he would say. No one else ever says that he looks ugly throughout the second film.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: When Henry mocks Bill's stutter, the look on Richie's face clearly says that was out of line. But when they're at Eddie's house, he has no problem imitating his stutter in front of Mrs. K, and doesn't hesitate talking over Bill when he couldn't start a sentence.
** Meaning, no one can make fun of Bill's stutter, but him.
** Though, this could just be to remind Mrs. K that Bill stutters.
* InUniverseNickname: Appropriately nicknamed "Trashmouth".
* {{Irony}}: The ClassClown is afraid of... clowns.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's obnoxious, over-the-top, and doesn't know when to shut up, but is a good and loyal friend in the end. Despite falling out with Bill and the Losers (he tried to rub Georgie's death in Bill's face which leads to Richie getting punched when they start fighting), he immediately stops what he's doing when Bill tells him that IT got Beverly, and joins the rest of the gang to go rescue her. Also, props to him for being the only loser to go to Stan's Bar Mitzvah during their falling out.
* KickTheDog: He accidentally does this to Ben when he states that Bill and Bev kissed in the school play in third grade.
* TheLancer: Acts as the second-in-command, and is the most critical of Bill's plans, though not antagonistically so. Confirming his status, when Bill [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether puts the band back together]], Richie is the first one he gets.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: His friendship with Beverly is this.
* ManOfAThousandVoices: As an adult.
* MotorMouth: In his own words: "It's a gift.".
* MouthyKid: Never shuts up and pretty clearly thinks that he's funnier than he actually is.
* NerdGlasses. Has a pair of coke-bottled ones, possibly to give him more of a nerdy vibe and justify him being in the Losers' Club.
* PetTheDog: Despite his crassness, he's shown to be sensitive and supportive towards Bill. He's also the only member of the Losers' Club to attend Stan's bar mitzvah, and some of his jabs at Eddie's mom could be seen as KickTheSonOfABitch.
* PottyFailure: After his encounter with the Paul Bunyan statue, he promptly states "I think I just shit my pants" before fainting.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: "Welcome to the Losers Club, Asshole!"
** He gets another one in ''Chapter Two:'' "Yipee-ki-yay, motherfucker!" [[spoiler: This one ends up a Pre-Ass''kicked'' One Liner, though, as Pennywise finally has enough of Richie's shittalking and blasts him with the Deadlights mid-sentence.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gives one to Bill, right before he and the gang defeat Pennywise. Though {{Subverted}} in that he still comes to Bill's aid after giving it.
* SadClown: While he loves joking around, it's clear that his sense of humor is also a defense mechanism and his own way of deflecting things. [[spoiler:And in ''Chapter Two'', it's strongly implied to be part of him hiding his sexuality.]]
* SecurityCling: He does this quite a bit when he's anxious. He first clings onto Bill when he's having a panic attack over the missing poster, and then ''again'' during the door sequence.
** He also does this with Eddie when the latter breaks his arm whilst fighting Pennywise, and again in ''Chapter Two'' with him in Neibolt.
* SirSwearsALot: Is the most profane of the kids. As an adult, his stage name is "Richie Trashmouth".
* SlowClap: He does this in a deleted scene during Stan's Bhar-Mitzvah speech (after his PrecisionFSrtike), much to his mother's annoyance.
* StraightGay: [[spoiler:Doesn't have any stereotypically camp characteristics.]]
* StressVomit: Twice. First when Mike calls, then [[spoiler:He's so distressed after killing Henry, he vomits soon after.]]
* {{Troll}}: Particularly when he takes some artistic license with what happens at bar mitzvahs.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: He's a twelve year-old kid with a fondness for crude jokes, and he constantly brags about his dick size and (nonexistent) sexual prowess.
* UndyingLoyalty: To his friends. Even after their fight, he doesn't hesitate to help Bill when It kidnaps Beverly, and when offered a chance to escape the sewers alive by sacrificing Bill to It, Richie lists out every reason he has to hate Bill before grabbing a baseball bat and attacking It to save him.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:To Eddie.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Eddie.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Twice in ''Chapter Two'': first after he receives Mike's call and then after [[spoiler:killing Henry]].
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Is afraid of clowns. Not really helpful when IT's favorite form is [[MonsterClown Pennywise]].
* YourMom: Loves these jokes, especially with Eddie.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mike]]
!!Michael "Mike" Hanlon
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/itchapter2mike.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"My grandfather thinks this town is cursed. He thinks that all the bad things that happen in this town are because of one thing. An evil thing."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ChosenJacobs (child), Creator/IsaiahMustafa (adult)

->''"Something happens to you when you leave this town. The farther away, the hazier it all gets. But me, I never left. I remember all of it."''

A black, home-schooled kid who joins the Losers late in the game, after they help him escape from Henry Bowers. His parents died in a fire (implied to have been intentionally set), and he lives with his grandfather in an abattoir. As an adult, Mike is the only Loser who has stayed in Derry and works as a librarian while researching IT's history. When IT resurfaces and starts killing again, he summons the other Losers back to Derry to fulfill the oath they swore as children.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the book, adult Mike is described as looking older than his years due to the stress of staying in Derry. In the movie, he's played by Isaiah Mustafa, AKA the Old Spice guy.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: It's implied that he's shunned by most of the Derry townspeople due to his obsession with IT. At one point he says he's interviewed all the people that will speak to him, which "isn't many."
* AmbiguousSituation: It's hinted a couple of times that the fire his parents died in was no accident, but Mike's point of view on the matter is ambiguous.
* ArchEnemy: Downplayed, but he is the member of the Losers Club Henry hates the most, and goes out of his way the most to torment. Mike ultimately takes out Henry in the climax of ''Chapter One'', though he's later revealed to have survived.
* BigBrotherInstinct: In a deleted scene, he comforts Stan (who is crying), while he, Bev, and Ben are keeping watch in front of Neibolt.
* TheBigGuy: The group's muscle, and the one who takes out Henry in the climax of ''Chapter One''. Also the tallest kid in the group.
* ChekhovsGun: The bolt gun used initially to kill sheep.
* TheCynic: Mike's had a rough time, and seems to buy into his grandfather's view that Derry is doomed and there is no point connecting with the other kids in town. Though [[JerkassHasAPoint Derry isn't the best place to live.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His parents died in a fire when he was a little kid, and he lives with his grandfather and works in a slaughterhouse.
* DecompositeCharacter: He is on the giving and receiving end of this. His role as the group's historian is given to Ben, and he takes Eddie's place as the one who kills Henry (seemingly, anyway). In ''Chapter Two'', he takes up the role of historian after he stays behind.
* DemotedToExtra: In the first movie, where he has few lines and the least amount of screentime among the Losers. Zigzagged in ''Chapter Two'': he's given more to do than the first installment [[spoiler:and actually takes part in the final battle, which never happened in the book]], but he doesn't get as much of a personal arc as the others and notably lacks a solo scene with Pennywise.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After staying in Derry and researching IT for twenty-seven years, he finally gets to leave and "see the sun" like he always wanted.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His opening scene where he can't kill the sheep shows that he's caring and has a lot of pressure put on him.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Downplayed, but he is reluctant to kill the sheep.
* HeroicBSOD: Has one in the sequel after Pennywise reveals to the other Losers that the ritual doesn't work and he slaughtered the Shokopiwah natives after they tried it.
* HomeschooledKids: Known as "that homeschool kid" around town, and stays at home to help on the farm.
* IChooseToStay: The only member of the group to remain in Derry for the whole twenty-seven years after they first battle against IT. [[spoiler:He finally leaves at the end of the second film, when they succeed in killing IT for good.]]
* IneffectualLoner: Rebuffs the Losers' offer of friendship at first, stating that it will make them a target for bullies. They promptly inform him that they saved his ass, and the bullies are already targeting them.
* LonerTurnedFriend: Double-subverted. Starts the film as a loner, but befriends the Losers' Club. After the group's falling out, he decides that he's an outcast and goes back to being a loner. Then he befriends the group again in the climax.
* MrExposition: His main role in Chapter Two is to bring the others up to speed on everything they forgot.
* RaisedByGrandparents: His grandfather raised him after his parents' death.
* TheSixthRanger: The last to join the gang, and has something of an "outsider" status due to being homeschooled and a minority.
* TheStoic: Has a very stony-faced disposition, likely due to his SurvivorsGuilt, and his grandfather's... [[ARealManIsAKiller parenting style]].
* SurvivorsGuilt: Implied to have some from his parents' death. This is what IT taunts him with.
* TokenMinority: Just about the only black kid in Derry, which gets him unwanted attention from Bowers.
* TookALevelInBadass: When he resists killing a sheep on the farm, his grandfather lectures him on needing to toughen up (basically kill or be killed). We later see this, as Mike keeps trying to avoid Henry's gang and gets the crap beaten out of him whenever he fails to do so. After what happens on Neibolt Street, though, Mike does toughen up and does whatever he has to to survive an attack by Henry.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: After the confrontation with IT, he has no problem killing the sheep (though to be fair, this is what his grandfather '''wanted''' him to do. It is farm work after all).
* WeaponOfChoice: A bolt gun he takes for the final confrontation with IT.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: During his 27 year stay in Derry, Mike finds a way to defeat Pennywise in the Ritual of Chüd. He just neglects to mention that [[spoiler: the natives who tried to perform it died at It's hand]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Gets called out quite a few times for [[spoiler:concealing the full truth from the other members of the group in order to convince them to fight IT.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Stan]]
!!Stanley "Stan" Uris
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"It's summer! We're supposed to be having fun! This isn't fun, it's scary and disgusting."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/WyattOleff (child), Creator/AndyBean (adult)

->''"The good stuff? The pictures in our mind that fade away the fastest? Those pieces of you it feels the easiest to lose. But maybe I don’t want to forget."''

A neat, skeptical Jewish kid who is studying for his bar mitzvah. The most reluctant of the group to fight IT. As an adult, Stan is married to a woman named Patricia, and works as an accountant. %%He is also the only Loser to not return to Derry; unwilling to face IT again after the trauma he endured as a child, he commits suicide by slitting his wrists in a bathtub.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Stan is victimized more singularly by Pennywise in this adaptation, meant to contextualize his [[spoiler:last actions in the sequel.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler:In the book, his suicide is simply him being a DirtyCoward. Here, he knows full well he won't be able to overcome his fear of Pennywise, and rather than doom the whole group to failure, he removes himself from the equation so they can make use of his memory to fill his role properly.]]
* AgentScully: The most reluctant to accept IT's existence.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Obsessive–compulsive disorder and mysophobia. He follows a strict pattern when cleaning up Bev's bathroom and straightens the painting in his father's office even if he's frightened by it. After being attacked by Judith, he also shows clear signs of PTSD and ultimately [[spoiler:commits suicide to avoid facing It again]].
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Downplayed. Despite being one of the most level-headed of all them, the Losers are really protective of him.
* BadassAdorable: He finally finds the courage to fight back in the sewers, even handing Bill the metal pipe to finish off Pennywise.
* BathSuicide: [[spoiler:As in the book, he slits his wrists in the bath after receiving Mike's phone call.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct: Downplayed. While the moments are small, he seems to be quite protective of Bev. Like when Henry made a crude comment about her, he glared at him, and he also defended her when Richie made the Creator/MollyRingwald comment. Also, it's implied that he's the one she called first about the blood in her bathroom.
* BreakTheCutie: He gets thoroughly traumatized after getting munched on by Judith, but he seemingly recovers from this by the end.
* TheComicallySerious: Arguably the most level-headed and rational member of the Loser's Club, he can hilariously snarky at times.
* DeadpanSnarker: While usually serious, he slips a few barbs, particularly at Richie's way. He also has some SilentSnarker tendencies.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Stan is too scared to go back to Derry, and slits his wrists in a bathtub, bleeding out.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even though he believes the rumors about Bev at first, and is caught checking her out, he glares at Henry after he makes a crude remark about her.
* EveryonesBabyBrother: He tends to be the most easily frightened of the Losers, to the point where everyone else seems slightly more attuned to his well-being; even Eddie seems to regard him as someone who needs looking after. When he is briefly separated from the others at the climax of the first movie, his subsequent freak-out causes everyone else to take a minute in order to comfort him before carrying on.
* ExtremeDoormat: At times. He's never seeks to abandon his friends, but doesn't want to get into dangerous confrontations needlessly.
* FacialHorror: Downplayed. He is saved in time but he gets some pretty brutal teeth marks on his face after the monster tried eating him.
* FreakOut: [[spoiler: After being attacked by It and saved just in time, he breaks down screaming and crying. His friends manage to calm him down.]]
* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler:In this version, he realizes he's too terrified to return to face Pennywise, but without the bond they share, one of them missing will mean the rest will die. Unable to let his friends go down, Stan removes himself from the board, knowing they'll keep his spirit with them when they take Pennywise down for good and all.]]
* InformedJudaism: He's studying for his bar mitzvah, but doesn't really seem particularly interested in it. His Jewishness is never really a plot point, aside from it being a reason to give him a creepy place (the Synagogue) and a creepy monster (the portrait in the rabbi's office he's presumably had to see since young) to be introduced to It and to introduce It's ShapeShifter abilities to the audience.
* HeroicBSOD: He has a big breakdown after Pennywise munches on his face.
* MadnessMantra: "You made me go into Neibolt!" Could be seen one when after Pennywise eats his face, and the Losers are comforting him.
* NeatFreak: He's reluctant to enter the sewers in the beginning, always tucks his shirt in and whereas the other losers generally drop their bikes in a heap, he always puts his stand down.
* NiceJewishBoy: Stan is sweet, friendly, polite, and overtly Jewish.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Can be caught checking out Beverly along with the others, and occasionally bantering with Richie.
* NotSoStoic: He definitely loses his composure when he is attacked by Judith.
* OnlySaneMan: Prior to the more level headed Mike, Bev, and Ben joining the group, Stan gives off this vibe. Between Bill's denial of Georgie's death, Richie's obnoxiousness, and Eddie's anxiety, Stan can often be caught rolling his eyes in the background and suggesting that they spend their summer playing outside rather than wading through the sewer looking for a body.
* OutOfFocus: In the second movie, due to [[spoiler:dying in the first act]]. He still appears in childhood flashbacks, however.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:He dies early on in the sequel, but he still appears through flashbacks and his letter to the others provides the film's closing narration.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: At the end of his Bar Mitzvah, he lets one out which makes his father take the mic away from him.
-->'''Stan:''' I'm a Loser. And I always fucking will be.
* RuleOfSymbolism: His Bar Mitzvah parallels his CharacterDevelopment.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:He dies early in ''Chapter Two'' to establish that the Losers are no longer safe.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Attempts to invoke this trope, though he's WrongGenreSavvy. He's also first to desert the group after the blood oath, offering a flimsy excuse.
* SharpDressedMan: He's only 12, but Stan is very neat, and always wears tucked in collared shirts.
* SkepticismFailure: He's the most skeptical member of the group and is proven wrong in a particularly painful way.
* SpookyPainting: A painting in his father's study of a disfigured, Edvard Munch-esque flute player is the form IT takes to scare him.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: He's one of the main characters of Chapter 1, but [[spoiler:he offs himself in the opening half hour]] of Chapter 2.
* SuicideNote: He writes a letter to the other Losers explaining [[spoiler:why he chose to kill himself]] and affirming his love for them.
* TheStoic: He is serious and rarely loses his composure. However, when Judith attacks him, he definitely loses his composure.
* StraightMan: He is realistic, skeptical, and generally has logical retorts to whatever is going on.
* WellDoneSonGuy: His father is the Rabbi, so there is a lot of pressure on him to recite his Torah verses correctly.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Played with. He's not so much wiser, but more melancholy and sad beyond his years. Lampshaded in ''Chapter Two'', when the other Losers reminisce about him [[spoiler:after his death]] and describe him as "old before his time."
[[/folder]]

!The Bowers Gang

[[folder:General]]
!!The Bowers Gang
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Henry, Belch, Victor (in chair), Patrick (behind Vic)]]
->''"Do you think they'll sign my yearbook? Dear Rich, sorry for taking a hot, steaming dump in your backpack."''
-->-- '''Richie Tozier'''

A gang of four bullies (seven in the novel and five in the miniseries) with a grudge against the Losers.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Compared to how they are described in the novel. Especially Patrick.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Patrick and Henry. In the book Patrick murdered his baby brother and killed baby animals for fun and Henry killed Mike's dog, tried to rape Beverly, whitewashed Stan's face until he bled and almost drowned Bill in a dunk tank. He was very clearly insane even before IT manipulated him. Here, none of Patrick's crimes are seen and Henry only goes murderous when IT starts manipulating him and his heinous actions are either toned down or removed entirely and he even [[PetTheDog gives Bill a pass from his bullying due to Georgie going missing]]. [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes He also shows care for his cousin and tries to “protect” him from Richie’s advances.]]
* AdaptationalSexuality: Patrick and possibly Henry were implied to be closeted bisexuals. In the book; there is a scene of Patrick giving Henry a handjob (though when Patrick offered a blowjob, Henry refused and struck Patrick for doing “that queer stuff”). Here, the handjob between Henry and Patrick is not seen. Patrick’s tendency to grope girls and get sexually aroused by seeing others in pain, as well as Henry’s desire to rape Beverly are also removed. Instead, Henry simply mocks Beverly about her perceived reputation and Patrick is merely seen licking his lips once when the Losers pass him in the hallway.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the novel, there were 9 members of the Bowers gang, one was merely associated with them. In the film, there are only 4-5 members (Henry Bowers, Reginald "Belch" Huggins, Victor "Vic" Criss, and Patrick Hockstetter) with Henry's cousin, Connor Bowers, being associated with the gang.
* AgeLift: In the novel, the bullies are 12 years old. In the movie, they are 15-16.
* BarbaricBully: Their tactics go beyond general schoolyard bullying; they stalk, psychologically torture, and abuse their victims.
* CarloadOfCoolKids: They are not portrayed as "cool" JerkJock types, but they're older and tougher than the Losers and cruise around town in Belch's Trans Am.
* {{Delinquents}}: They have this reputation around town, and it's not undeserved.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the novel, Vic, Belch and Patrick are killed in varying ways by IT. In the movie, Patrick is still eaten by IT but it's under different circumstances. Whereas, Vic and Belch were stabbed to death by Henry, who was driven insane by IT's influence, though this is only shown in a deleted scene.
* DirtyCoward: Vic and Belch are well aware of Henry's psychopathy and are visibly and audibly disturbed by his actions, i.e carving his name into Ben and trying to shoot a cat. They seem to be on Henry's side because they believe they'll be spared from his wrath. This however lead them to their deaths as they were in the front row seats for Henry's murderous insanity when IT broke him.
* ExcrementStatement: Richie offhandedly mentions they once took a dump in his backpack.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Belch is disturbed by Henry carving his name in Ben's stomach and is reluctant when Henry wants to shoot a cat. Victor and Belch are disturbed by Henry's dad abusing and Victor and Patrick don't bully Mike in the alley nor does Victor bully in the Losers outside of the school.
** Henry himself starts the film out with boundaries and limits (he gave Bill a free pass from his bullying because of Georgie and when he saw his dad watching he did not harm the Losers) though they go away as the film goes on.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Their implied M.O towards Mike.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Vic and Belch were killed in the book and both Vic and Belch were only shown dead in a deleted scene. Since the deleted scene was never integrated into the movies, their fates are never mentioned or confirmed in ''Chapter One'' or ''Chapter Two.'']]
* SympathyForTheDevil: Vic and Belch are sympathetic to Henry due to his father's abuse and they do console him after his father humiliates him by shooting at his feet to make him cry. It's unknown if Patrick also pitied him because he was killed by IT, but WordOfSaintPaul states he wouldn't have.
* TeensAreMonsters: Not as sadistic and cruel as the book but still very cruel. They take sadistic glee in assaulting people on a daily basis and are almost as bad as IT itself
* UncertainDoom: Vic and Belch aren't seen in the climax, Henry arrives alone with more blood on his face and in Belch's car. Whether or not they died trying to stop Henry or were left unharmed is unclear until a deleted scene shows that an insane Henry actually murdered them off camera by slitting their throats.
* VillainousFriendship: Zig-zagged, possible due to Henry's growing insanity. Nobody (except for Belch as shown in a deleted scene) seems to care for Patrick, but Belch and Vic seem to genuinely care about Henry, and the gang spends a lot of time together.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Henry]]
!!Henry Bowers
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bowerknife.png]] \
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You s-s-s-say something, B-B-B-Billy?"'']]
[[caption-width-right:350: Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/adult_hnery.jpg[[/labelnote]] for Henry as an adult]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Nicholas Hamilton (child), Teach Grant (adult)

A violent older teenage bully who takes pleasure in taunting the Losers.
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* AbusiveParents: Henry goes into terrified hysterics when he thinks he might incur the wrath of his father, Butch. At one point, a silently furious Butch fires his gun at Henry's feet, reducing him to tears and humiliating him in front of his friends. Shown by a deleted scene he also beats Henry at home.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: [[spoiler: Downplayed, in the novel, Henry was said to be so traumatised by the events of 1958 that his hair turned white prematurely. Since he never sees Pennywise in his Deadlight form in the movie, his hair remains the same colour. Even when comparing how he is described in the novel to how he looks like in the movie, he comes across as this.]]
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the book he tried to rape Beverly, killed Mike's dog and tried to murder Mike with firecrackers, whitewashed Stan's face until he bleed and nearly drowned Bill in a dunk tank and was anti-semtic and sexist. These are before IT started manipulating him. Here, [[spoiler: all of those actions are toned down (he merely tries to hit Mike with a rock which as opposed to firecrackers, mocks Beverly about her rumors and is never seen trying to rape her and he tries but fails to kill a cat as opposed to killing Mike's dog) or removed entirely. We don't see him established as an anti-semitic or sexist like he was in the book. He also gives Bill a free pass from his bullying due to Georgie dying whereas in the book he never shows any form of kindness to the Losers and in this adaptation he even has a cousin who he seems to care for and protect from Richie's advances.]]
* AxCrazy: He gets progressively more unhinged with each fresh humiliation and shown by a deleted scene ends up murdering his own friends. [[spoiler:In ''Chapter Two'', the time he spends in a mental institution has destroyed what little sanity he had left.]]
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: He tries to shoot a live cat.
* BarbaricBully: Even before Pennywise drives him crazy, Henry's idea of amusement include carving his name into the bellies of large kids with a switchblade, trying to hit Mike in the head with a rock and shooting helpless kittens with a 1911 pistol for target practice. Even his ''underlings'' think he's crazy, though Patrick seemed happy about it.
* BigBadWannabe: He's the biggest bully in Derry, but is a mere pawn in IT's schemes.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He doesn't appreciate people making advances on his younger cousin. But [[AxCrazy given]] [[BarbaricBully Henry's]] [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain reputation]], it's debatable how genuine this is.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: While normally he is a violently unstable bully, he never tried to kill or severely harm anybody at first and it's only under IT's influence that he truly turns [[AxCrazy deranged]] (although attempting to murder a cat is pretty deranged). First, when he attempts to carve his name in Ben, a car passes with a red balloon in the back seat. Then when he and his gang attempt to force Mike to eat raw meat and then smack him in the face with a rock, IT is right there in the bushes. Later IT gives him his knife back and pushes him to murder his father, before sending him to attack the Losers.
* BreakTheHaughty: He is on the receiving end of this from his father, who intimidates him to stop his bullying.
* 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. He gets worse under IT's influence.
* CopKiller: He kills his police officer father.
* CoveredInScars: As shown in a deleted scene, his back is covered in fresh wounds from his father's abuse.
* DemotedToExtra: He's more of a PlotIrrelevantVillain than in either the source material or the miniseries.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the book, Eddie gouges his eyes out and stabs him with a broken bottle. In the movie, [[spoiler:Richie kills him with a hatchet to the head.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: He goes after the Losers in Neibolt Street under the influence of It, but Mike is able to neutralize him pretty quickly, and he only slows them down for five minutes.
* DisneyVillainDeath: A more violent version as when Mike pushes him down the old well, Henry hits the sides like a pinball on the way down. Subverted, as he returns in the sequel.
* TheDragon: When Pennywise realizes how much of a threat the Losers pose, IT recruits Henry to kill them for it. [[spoiler:Years later, he happily takes up the mantle again to get back at the Losers.]]
* EightiesHair: Henry has a mullet as opposed to a duck's-ass haircut. Lampshaded when Richie calls him a "mullet-wearing asshole".
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While he cowers in the face of his father, he at least seemed to care for his cousin in ''Chapter Two'' and tries to "protect" him from [[spoiler:Richie's]] advances towards him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He had enough humanity left to start the movie with multiple standards (giving Bill a free pass or not harming the Losers knowing his dad was watching) but it goes away starting from his scene with Ben onwards.
* FatBastard: He turns into one during the [[spoiler:sequel, particularly after being admitted to a mental hospital due to his mental deterioration.]]
* FreudianExcuse: His father has no trouble firing a gun at his own son without so much as blinking just to terrify him and beats him at home, so it's clear he had a very abusive childhood. His father also being a police officer means he also didn't need to fear any consequences for his actions as long as they didn't have the potential to make Butch look bad.
* HumiliationConga: The Losers' thwarting him, chucking rocks at him and his gang, and his father shooting a gun at him and making him cry in front of his friends pushes him over the edge.
* KickTheDog: He tries to kill a stray cat with a Colt .45 pistol. His father intervenes.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: His father then shoots at him with the gun, and only misses by inches, and beats him at home. Henry kills him under the influence of Pennywise.
* KnifeNut: A [[SinisterSwitchblade switchblade]], which he loses while chasing Ben. IT "gifts" it back to him, and has him use it to kill his father and chase the Losers.
** [[spoiler: It returns the knife to Bowers in ''Chapter Two'' by way of a badly decomposed and mutilated Hockstetter. He kills a guard and orderly at the mental institution and wounds Eddie with it.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: He repeatedly bullies the Losers with homophobic slurs, and [[spoiler: gets killed by Richie, who is gay.]]
* LaughingMad: [[spoiler:The influence of IT drives Henry way over the deep end; as he's arrested for murdering his father, he starts giggling psychotically, and quickly starts doing it again when Pennywise reaches out to him again as an adult.]]
* MadeOfIron: When he tries to kill Mike, he gets stunned when Mike frees himself and then is pushed down the well where his head collides with the stone walls 3 times before plummeting. He survived all that.
** [[spoiler: In the sequel, he got gutted into his stomach by the frightened Eddie when tried to ambush him, and survived. Only being axed to his head by Richie is the way he finally kicks the bucket.]]
* MirrorScare: [[spoiler: Does this to Eddie in ''Chapter Two''.]]
* MissingMom: His mother isn’t seen or mentioned at any point in the film.
* MoralityPet: His cousin in Chapter Two where he [[spoiler:tries to protect him from Richie's advances.]] Also while he still does hate him Bill is the only member of the Losers he shows any form of compassion to shown by giving him a free pass in due to Georgie going missing in the first film.
* PaperTiger: He's an older and taller bully backed up by loyal thugs, so he easily puts a scare into the Losers. However, after he tries to shoot a cat, his father intervenes by taking the gun and firing several rounds to humiliate him in front of his friends and demonstrate how quickly Henry will fold in the face of someone who's not already scared of him.
-->'''Butch''': Look at him now, boys. Nothing like a little fear to make a paper man crumble.
* {{Patricide}}: He kills his father under the influence of IT.
* PetTheDog: A mild version of EvenEvilHasStandards, but he gives Bill a "free pass" for the rest of the school year after Georgie goes missing.
* PlotIrrelevantVillain: Despite being the biggest bully in Derry, Henry pales in comparison to IT, and isn't directly involved in the plot until Pennywise drives him over the edge. He only manages to slow the Losers down for a few minutes before being taken out. [[spoiler:Henry doesn't fare much better in ''Chapter Two'', either. Not only does he not impact or change the plot in any significant way in the sequel, he doesn't injure either Mike or Eddie to the extent he did in the novel. Once Henry is killed for good, he's quickly forgotten and never mentioned again.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: It isn't as explicit as in the book or miniseries (he doesn't drop any n-bombs in this version) but it's heavily implied he targets Mike exclusively for being black, yells racist comments [[spoiler: while attacking Mike in the library in ''Chapter Two'']], and refers to several of the Losers as "faggots".
* SanityHasAdvantages: [[spoiler:Due to his insanity, he's initially confused in ''Chapter Two'' when Eddie hides behind a shower curtain, allowing Eddie to stab him in the chest with his own knife]].
* SanitySlippage: Under the influence of IT, to the point where come the second film he thinks little of the [[spoiler:corpse of his friend Patrick helping him escape from a mental institution]].
* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: In ''Chapter Two'', he's still the same BarbaricBully he was in high school, except even more unhinged due to spending time in an asylum.
* TeensAreMonsters: Perhaps the most popular example.
* UncertainDoom: Henry seems to die after being shoved into the well but he is confirmed to still be alive in ''Chapter Two'' when he [[spoiler:gets washed out into the Barrens along with dead victims of IT.]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[spoiler:In the second film he gets over the shock of seeing Patrick's corpse walking around and helping him escape the mental hospital within seconds.]]
* VillainDecay: His effective prominence is diminished in the sequel, having become a PlotIrrelevantVillain.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Victor]]
!!Victor Criss
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_opib68ndxp1qgg5n4o1_1280_6.png]]
[[caption-width-right:210:''"You okay, Henry?"'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Logan Thompson

The second-in-command and smartest bully of Henry Bowers's gang.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Both incarnations of Vic are still bullies but in the novel, Vic is depicted as the OnlySaneMan of the Bowers Gang who once approached the Losers with the initial attempt to join them but changed his mind and instead warned them of Henry's growing brutality. He is also one of the few people to notice Henry's eroding sanity and grew increasingly reluctant to stay friends with him. In the movie he is still unsettled by Henry's acts and still pities him but his better nature isn't shown that much. He also smiles when Henry cuts Ben compared to the book and miniseries where he tries to stop Henry.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: While in the book Victor Criss is rebellious and prone to outbursts in class, it's implied that he will grow out of that behavior and he has some friendly interactions with the Losers Club. In the film Victor Criss is quiet and cruel and does a lot more glaring than shouting.
* BrightIsNotGood: Has platinum blond hair and is a bully.
* DeathGlare: '''Frequently''' shooting these at people for intimidation purposes. He gives one to [[TheSociopath Butch Bowers]] of all people!
* TheDragAlong: Downplayed, but he (seems to) take less joy in bullying than his friends. He's also present but doesn't partake in the scene at the beginning where Henry, Patrick, and Belch harass the Losers Club outside of the school, or the one where they beat Mike in the alley.
* TheDragon: Victor is the Bowers Gang's second-in-command. Henry trusts him to find his switchblade, delegating chasing Ben to Belch and Patrick.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Disturbed by Butch Bowers firing a gun inches away from his son's feet.
* GreenAndMean: Victor wears green clothes throughout most of the movie.
* PetTheDog: Seems genuinely concerned after witnessing Henry being abused by his father. He's also noticeably unsettled when he sees a frantic Henry trying to find his switchblade in order to avoid his father's wrath.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During the rock fight.
* SlasherSmile: When him and his friends are bullying Ben. He doesn't stop when Henry pulls out his switchblade.
* TheQuietOne: He uses his DeathGlare more than words to intimidate people. He's less boisterous than Belch, and less hammily evil than Henry and Patrick.
* TheStoic: More or less.
* TranquilFury: When he witnesses Butch Bowers abusing Henry. Just look at him, he just [[DeathGlare glares]] at him and has his fists clenched. He just looks like he wants to rip Butch's head off!
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last scene of him and Belch is before Henry kills his father. Until it gets revealed that the two were killed by Henry in a deleted scene
* VillainousFriendship: His friendship with Henry seems to be the strongest out of the gang.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Belch]]
!!Reginald "Belch" Huggins
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aceeddiekaspbrak_belch.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Henry!"'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Jake Sim

The physically strongest bully in Henry Bowers's gang.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: In both incarnations Belch is still a bully and the most loyal follower of Henry but in the novel he's more vocal about his dislike of Henry's father, even saying "I don't fuck with crazy people" to Vic. In the novel, Belch dies after a HeroicSacrifice to save Henry whereas a deleted scene of the film shows Henry killed him and Victor.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the novel Belch is regarded as the strongest of Henry's gang due to his growth spurt enhancing his muscles. In the movie, Belch's strength isn't shown that much and he is killed in a deleted scene, having been overpowered by an insane Henry. The circumstances of his death isn't shown or explained, making it uncertain if he was killed off guard or by a HeroicSacrifice to stop Henry.
* AllThereInTheManual: That his first name is Reginald.
* BoisterousBruiser: A big guy with a bombastic personality.
* TheBrute: Big and strong, though he is more stockily built than in the novel and his previous incarnation, both of which portraying him with a physical frame of six feet which dwarfed the rest of his friends.
* CoolCar: Belch drives a blue 1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.
* DumbMuscle: Implied to be this, and is always taking direction from Henry. Even Patrick bosses him around during their brief scene together.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He and the others gladly help Henry beat up Ben, but when Henry pulls out his switchblade it can be noticed that Belch's smile fades to a look of shock, and when Henry carves an H into Ben, it's very obvious that Belch sees this as taking this too far. He's also very uncomfortable when Henry wants to shoot that poor cat.
* FatBastard: Is a bit obese in the 2017 version.
* {{Gasshole}}: Where he gets his nickname.
* {{Irony}}: During the rock fight with the Losers, "Antisocial" by ''Music/{{Anthrax}}'' serves as the background music. During the same scene, Belch wore an ''Anthrax'' T-shirt, and the Losers won. Clearly, his favorite band was rooting against him.
* KindHeartedCatLover: Downplayed. Though he doesn't come across as kind-hearted, he does seem to have a soft spot for cats. Especially when Henry orders him to pick one up to shoot.
* {{Metalhead}}: Belch's fashion choices, taste in music, and behavior indicate he's one.
* PetTheDog: Is the only one concerned about Patrick’s disappearance.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During the rock fight.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Delivers a particularly memorable (and silly) example of this trope, during the rock fight.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last scene of him and Victor is before Henry kills his father. Henry is also inexplicably driving Belch's car at the end of the film. A deleted scene shows that Henry killed both of them and stole his car.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Patrick]]
!!Patrick Hockstetter
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/patrick_hocksetter.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm gonna light his hair like Michael Jackson."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Owen Teague

-->''"I hear you, tits. Don't think you can stay down here all damn day."''

The most disturbing bully in Henry Bowers's gang.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the book; he's described as a short, fat boy who resembles a lump of clay crudely molded to look like a human child. In the film; he's a lanky teenager with messy dark hair.
* AdaptationalDistillation: This version is a lot simpler than his literary counterpart. In the book, he was a psychopath who collected and tortured animals, sexually harrassed girls, killed his brother, and believed he was the only being that existed in the universe. In the movie, he's still a member of the Bower's gang and the most enthusiastic about torturing weaker kids (in fact, he's the only one to enjoy watching Henry carve his name into Ben's stomach) but he isn't as complex as his book counterpart.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Compared to the book. [[spoiler: Here his worst act is scaring Ben with a flamethrower and he doesn't actually try to burn him as he backs off himself. He also doesn't bully Mike when they come across him in an alley. In the book he murders his baby brother and kills animals for fun.]]
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the book; Patrick was a solipsistic psychopath who murdered his baby brother and tortured and killed animals for fun. In the movie; he’s only a generic bully at best and gangly goon at worst. In the movie; his worst act is intimidating Ben with a makeshift flamethrower. In the novel, Patrick's solipsism actually affects IT's shapeshifting abilities because he believed he was the only thing that exists in the universe and was only afraid of leeches because they reminded him of his mortality.
* AdaptationalSexuality: In the novel, Patrick is depicted as perverted towards girls by trying to grope them. He was also suggested to be bisexual or bicurious towards Henry and got sexually aroused whenever someone was in pain. In the film, Patrick's sexuality isn't highlighted, all he does is make mockingly lewd gestures towards Richie but he is the first of the central cast to be killed despite his small amount of scenes.
* AdaptationalWimp: Downplayed, in the movie he's simply ambushed by IT after being lured into the sewers and he's killed quite quickly. In the book, IT actually struggled with Patrick as his solipsism affected IT's abilities. Patrick was only afraid of leeches, so there was no secondary form for IT to take and it resulted in IT's face resembling melting wax because IT couldn't find a form that would scare Patrick more than the leeches.
* AxCrazy: He's not nearly as bad as in the book (where he murders his infant brother and gets aroused by murdering small animals), but he's still pretty crazy. He nearly burns Ben's hair and he looks really excited when Henry tries to carve his name in Ben's stomach.
* DemotedToExtra: Compared to his literary counterpart, who got an entire POV chapter.
* DepravedHomosexual: Downplayed, but he does get in a few lecherous stares at Richie, complete with licking his lips.
* FacialHorror: [[spoiler: He gets blood on his face while running after seeing the dead kids. It is unknown if the kids bit him or if he gets the blood from when he briefly falls in the sewer water but considering he most likely would have been killed by the kids if he got bit as well as the face IT was likely feeding down in that sewer (considering he has blood on his mouth) it is likely the latter.]]
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The other members of the Bowers Gang don't seem too concerned about his disappearance (though it's possible that it was a result of IT's influence as his missing poster was quickly replaced with that of Eddie Corcoran). Subverted as Belch does seem concerned for him in a deleted scene, informing Henry about his dad having not heard anything.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: While none of his friends seem to be concerned or mention him when he disappears, [[{{Subverted}} a deleted scene shows Belch telling Henry that he ran into Patrick's dad who has not heard anything.]] Although Henry cuts him off and says he doesn't care this was more likely out of his anger of being beaten by his father than his actual feelings.
* GigglingVillain: He giggles at stealing Stan's kippah and continues to smile all the way until he meets IT.
* LeanAndMean: Tall, gangly, and rail-thin, and the second cruelest behind Bowers himself.
* MauveShirt: In the novel, Patrick appeared later in the book and was the last of the Bowers Gang to be introduced (and the first to be 'shown' meeting his end) but in the movie, Patrick appears much earlier and is more toned down compared to his novel counterpart. This suggested that Patrick was going to have a larger role and be another negative influence on Henry due to his psychotic personality.
* PosthumousCharacter: Makes an appearance as an apparition of IT several times after his death, talking to Bev through the drain and appearing on the TV with Pennywise. [[spoiler:He makes further appearances in ''Chapter Two'', with Pennywise appearing as an undead Patrick to assist Henry in killing the Losers.]]
* PyroManiac: Carries around a makeshift flamethrower (a spray can and a Zippo). Might be a MythologyGag, considering the infamous scene with lighters in the junkyard from the novel.
* {{Sadist}}: He shows joy and excitement at seeing Henry carving his name in Ben's stomach.
* TheSociopath: Less so than in the book, but he's still a dyed-in-the-wool sadist and the film exchanges his sadism towards animals with another (less serve compared to the book) sociopathic trait, namely pyromania.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Not that he's particularly witty, but he towers over everyone he shares the screen with (a role occupied by Belch in the novel and former adaptation) and has some interesting one-liners.
* WeHardlyKnewYou: Killed by It fairly early into the first movie.
* TheWorfEffect: Patrick, a bully armed with a flamethrower and has extreme cruelty, is swiftly dispatched by Pennywise when he enters the sewers.
[[/folder]]

!Derry Children

[[folder:Georgie]]
!!George "Georgie" Denbrough
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/georgie.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm not supposed to take stuff from strangers..."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Jackson Robert Scott

Bill Denbrough's younger brother, who goes missing after an encounter with Pennywise in a storm drain.
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* AnArmAndALeg: After convincing him to reach into the storm drain to retrieve the boat, Pennywise violently bites into and rips Georgie's arm off.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Entirely averted. He looked up to Bill, and they had a very loving relationship. Bill loves him so much that he refuses to believe that Georgie is dead, and gets the gang together to fight Pennywise.
* BigBrotherWorship: Georgie absolutely adores Bill, being seen hugging him, sitting on his lap, and worries about how he'll react when he loses the paper boat he made for him. Also when he's dragged into the storm drain by Pennywise he calls out for Bill to save him rather than his mom or dad, implying that he saw Bill as his protector.
* BigNo: Georgie, when his paper boat is about to be washed down a storm drain.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Before his death, Georgie was a pretty innocent boy, admiring Bill to a high degree, having the usual stuff that any kid his age would have in his room, and going out in the rain to have fun.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Has his arm bitten off by Pennywise, allowed to suffer in pain and bleed out for awhile, then dragged into the sewers to his death. Made even more cruel in that his last words are him crying for his big brother to save him.
* TheCutie: His adorable innocence and politeness combined with his idolization and love for his older brother make Georgie a prime example of this.
* DeadAllAlong: Throughout the movie, his brother is under the impression that Georgie's just been kidnapped (or rather, he deludes himself into thinking this). But finally comes to accept Georgie's death after finding his torn raincoat among the pile of Pennywise's 'trophies'.
* KillTheCutie: Georgie is introduced as an adorable, sweet-natured little boy who idolizes his big brother. Then he's brutally dismembered and eaten by Pennywise.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Although he is by no means the only child Pennywise has killed and eaten, his death results in Bill getting involved with the other Losers and them discovering the truth about Pennywise.
* PosthumousCharacter: He appears numerous times after his disappearance, but these are all Pennywise impersonating him to torment Bill.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: His encounter with Pennywise kicks the entire plot into motion.
* [[SensitiveGuyandManlyMan Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: The Sensitive Guy to Bill's Manly Man.
* TooDumbToLive: Averted. Like in the other adaptations, he refuses to take things from strangers, doesn't relax until Pennywise gives his name and an excuse for being in the sewers. While Pennywise shares a brief friendly chat and a giggle with Georgie, Georgie is otherwise very wary of Pennywise and very reluctantly tries to retrieve the paper boat from the drooling, wall-eyed sewer clown.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Georgie adores Bill and is extremely cute in appearance and personality, and gets brutally killed and eaten by Pennywise.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pennywise tempts him with popcorn.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Greta]]
!!Greta Keene
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/greta.png]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Megan Charpentier (teenager), Juno Renaldi (adult)

-->''"You in there by yourself, Beaver-ly? Or are half the boys in there as well, huh slut?"''

A student at Derry High and a pharmacy assistant, as well as Beverly Marsh's main tormentor.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Greta Bowie, the book character Greta Keene is based on is a snooty rich girl, but she merely ignores Beverly and doesn't bully her actively. She doesn't write "loser" on Eddie's cast either.
* AlphaBitch: She seems to be the head one at Derry High. She at least has two girls trailing after her.
* CompositeCharacter: With Marcia, who was the AlphaBitch who bullied Bev in the book. This leaves the actual Marcia in the film as just a blank slate alongside Sally.
* DecompositeCharacter: Overlaps with CompositeCharacter. In the book, it's Mr. Keene himself who tells Eddie that his medicines are placebos. In the movie she tells him.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first scene is of her and her posse bullying Bev by dumping wet garbage on her, and even before that she rudely shoves one of the Losers out of the way.
* FutureLoser: [[spoiler:In ''Chapter Two'', she's still working at her father's pharmacy and even wearing the same hairstyle and clothes, with an even more disinterested attitude about everything around her.]]
* HateSink: Every scene with Greta serves just to showcase what a snotty, nasty little witch she is. Most of the audience was just aching for IT to turn her into his next meal. [[KarmaHoudini Sadly it never happens.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: In her first scene, she torments Bev and has her minions dump wet garbage on her. In the second, she seems to be a little nicer (if still abrasive) when she offers to sign Eddie's cast... only to write 'loser' on it.
* KarmaHoudini: She is the only major Jerkass character in the entire film who doesn't suffer any dose of LaserGuidedKarma from the Losers Club or IT. Downplayed as never making it out of the small town she grew up in or having a real career whilst all of her favorite victims grow up to become wealthy and successful means she didn't exactly win in the end.
* LittleMissSnarker: Seems incapable of talking to anyone without saying something sarcastic or insulting. It's a quality that she doesn't outgrow 27 years later, unfortunately.
* MythologyGag: Eddie is excited when she signs his cast. In the book he has a crush on her.
* TheResenter: It's implied that the reason she bullies Bev is because she's envious of her beauty and the attention she gets from the boys at school.
* SlutShaming: Does this to Bev constantly.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She only has a few scenes in the film, but her first scene not only introduces Bev, it also establishes her to be a victim of constant SlutShaming throughout Derry starting with Greta tormenting her, while her second pivotal scene- where she reveals to Eddie about the placebos- helped him realize how his own mother lied to him about his medication, pushing him to stand up to her.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the book, she dies in a horrific car crash at the age of eighteen, and Pennywise uses her corpse to torment Eddie. In the film, she's alive and well still working at her father's pharmacy to the present day. [[spoiler:But Pennywise still uses her form of her younger self to torment Beverly in the climax.]]
* StaticCharacter: There is virtually no change in personality from her preteen self to her adult self.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Betty]]
!!Betty Ripsom
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/betty_7.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Her zombie appearance.]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Katie Lunman

One of Derry's missing children.
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* AscendedExtra: Sort of. She makes a couple of appearances in the movie (as opposed to the novel, where she's only mentioned). However, these are [[spoiler: IT's illusions.]]
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Bill and Richie find her mangled upper torso at the Neibolt House - though it's really just an illusion.
** [[spoiler:The bottom half appears during the Neibolt House battle in ''Chapter Two''.]]
* HopeSpot: In Neibolt House, Bill and Richie open the door marked "Not Scary At All", and open up to a pitch black room where they hear Betty Ripsom's voice asking where her shoe is (they had found it earlier in the sewers). Thinking she is alive, they turn on the light, revealing her mangled torso. Obviously, she does not need shoes anymore.
* PosthumousCharacter: She was [[KilledOffScreen killed by IT months before the main part of the movie begins]]. All her onscreen appearances in the movie are illusions created by IT.
* UndeadChild: IT assumes the form of a zombie Betty (along with several other of its victims) when hunting Patrick Hockstetter in the sewer.
* UnPerson: An in-universe case, in which mid-way through the movie the Derry authorities cover up Betty's missing posters with missing posters of Eddie Corcoran. Bill remarks that it's as if everyone is deliberately trying to forget all about her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dean]]
!!Dean
->'''Portrayed by:''' Luke Roessler

A young boy encountered by the adult Losers when they return to Derry, who lives in Bill's old house.
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* AscendedExtra: "Skateboard kid" in the book isn't given a name and is just a random kid whom Bill encounters. Here, he's given a minor storyline and interacts with the Losers on multiple occasions.
* BrokenPedestal: He's a fan of Richie's stand-up but Richie mistakes him for one of IT's disguises and subjects him to foul-mouthed threats.
-->'''Richie:''' ''(realizing his mistake)'' You want a picture?
-->'''Dean:''' I think I'm good.
* DeathOfAChild: His death is shown in rather gruesome detail.
* EatenAlive: By Pennywise.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Bill comes to view him as a Georgie-surrogate and a chance to rectify the mistakes he made with Georgie. [[spoiler:It doesn't work out.]]
* SacrificialLamb: A sweet, innocent kid whom the audience grows to like, he's ultimately [[spoiler:killed off in order to motivate Bill into taking the fight to IT.]]
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler:Pennywise bites into his head with such force that it explodes like a ripe melon, splattering blood all over the mirror.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Victoria]]
!!Victoria
->'''Portrayed by:''' Ryan Kiera Armstrong

A girl who becomes one of [=ITs=] victims during the 2016 cycle
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* DeathOfAChild: Brutally killed by Pennywise.
* FacialMarkings: She's bullied for the port-wine birthmark on her cheek.
* KilledMidSentence: "You're supposed to say thr-"
* ParentalNeglect: Her mother coldly dismisses her when she interrupts the baseball game, and doesn't even notice when she wanders off.
* TooDumbToLive: Averted; like Georgie, she's initially wary of Pennywise and outright calls him scary until he plays on her empathy and promises to get rid of her birthmark.
[[/folder]]

!Derry Adults

[[folder:Mr. Marsh]]
!!Alvin Marsh
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mr_marsh.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You worry me, Bevvie. You worry me a lot."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Stephen Bogaert

-->''"I know what's in boys' minds when they look at you Bevvie. I know it all too well."''

Beverly Marsh's single father, a janitor.
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* AbusiveParents: He behaves lecherously towards Bev, his own daughter, to the point of openly lusting after her, and before the climax of the film, he tries to rape her.
** He also openly blames her for [[spoiler:her mother's suicide]], and uses this to bully her into furthering his incestuous desires.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Goes from being a HotBlooded {{Jerkass}} in the miniseries to a creepy SoftSpokenSadist in the movie.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Alvin was no saint in the book nor the miniseries, and was actually much angrier and more prone to physical violence. However, he did seem to struggle with his desires (in the worst way possible) whereas here, he seems rather at ease with his incestuous longings. There were also moments in the book where he could be truly loving and kind to Beverly and the miniseries removes any of his incestuous feelings to him simply being overprotective. It could have something to do with his wife having died.
* AssholeVictim: Beverly knocks him out cold when he tries to rape her.
* BusCrash: In ''Chapter Two'', Mrs. Kersh tells Beverly that Alvin passed away in the 27 year TimeSkip between the two films.
* CreepyMonotone: He speaks in a flat, creepily intimate voice that could draw a comparison to IT; both of them are predators.
* GroinAttack: Beverly kicks him in the groin when he tries to rape her.
* HateSink: Easily the most despicable adult in the entire film. He has little to no characterization outside of being a twisted, incestuous man.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: One of Beverly's flashbacks in ''Chapter Two'' shows him mourning over a picture of his late wife, a moment where Alvin becomes ''almost'' sympathetic... until he turns around and viciously blames Beverly for her mother's death, using it as an excuse to further abuse her.
* OverprotectiveDad: Subverted. At first glance seems this way, until he starts ''sniffing her hair...'' Even worse, he's not overprotective of her in regards to boys because he's worried, but because he's [[{{Squick}} jealous]].
* ParentalIncest: He has sexual feelings towards his own daughter, looks through her underwear drawer, and may or may not have acted on them already. He tries to rape Beverly towards the end, but she escapes and bashes him over the head with a toilet lid.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Speaks with a CreepyMonotone while being an AbusiveDad towards Bev.
* SuddenlyShouting: ''Chapter Two'' finally shows him in a flashback raising his voice two times towards Beverly akin to that of Alvin in the miniseries in contrast to usually being a SoftSpokenSadist with a CreepyMonotone.
* TranquilFury: Towards the end of the movie when he confronts Bev about the poem Ben wrote her that she had stashed away in her underwear drawer, asking her if she's been doing "womanly things" with the boys. What makes it even scarier is that he not only sounds calm, but also like a [[ParentalIncest jealous lover]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mrs. Kaspbrak]]
!!Sonia Kaspbrak
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kasprak.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You know how bad your allergies get."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Mollie Jane Atkinson

Eddie Kaspbrak's overprotective mother.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When she makes Eddie come and kiss her in her first scene, Richie asks if he can have one too as Eddie ushers him outside and she gives a small chuckle about it.
* AdultFear: While her methods to protect Eddie are extreme, she isn't entirely wrong in wanting to protect him. The children of Derry go missing or are often found dead and she only isolates Eddie because she found him with a broken arm.
* FatBitch: Extremely overweight and rather unpleasant, keeping Eddie under her thumb and isolating him from his friends (at one point calling Beverly a [[SlutShaming dirty]] girl).
* HateSink: Downplayed, but she doesn't have a FreudianExcuse like in the book.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Whereas most of the other adults in Derry would rather forget about the child mortality rate (among the other horrors that go on in town), Mrs. Kaspbrak flips it [[MyBelovedSmother to the other extreme]] and tries to keep her son as safe as possible, even if it's to his own detriment. The way she begs and pleads with Eddie to stay safe with her after he discovers all his medications are placebos, it seems that while she may not know exactly what's wrong with Derry, she definitely knows that ''[[ProperlyParanoid something]]'' isn't right.
* MyBelovedSmother: Keeps tabs on literally ''everything'' her son does, where he goes, and whom he hangs out with. While she doesn't seem to mind the other boys coming over to her home (the better to keep an eye on Eddie, after all), when Eddie does venture off with them she sends him off with a fanny pack filled with medications and first aid supplies. She also gives the stink eye to Bev when they bring an injured Eddie back home, calling her a "dirty girl" and mouthing off that "she knows what she gets up to with these boys".
* MunchausenSyndrome: Keeps Eddie under her thumb by tricking him into thinking he needs medicine, and giving him placebos instead.
* TheParanoiac: She is a delusional paranoiac who brings herself to 'protect her son from the world,' even it it means to trick him into thinking he needs medicine by taking placebos.
* SlutShaming: Does this to Beverly, calling her a "dirty girl" and believing what the kids around town, falsely, say about her.
* VillainousBreakdown: When Eddie finds out all his medicine is fake and stands up to her, she runs out of the house after him, screaming and sobbing for him to come back.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Officer Bowers]]
!!Officer Oscar "Butch" Bowers
[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/officer_bowers.png]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Stuart Hughes

->''"Look at him now boys. Nothing like a little fear to make a paper man crumble."''

Henry Bowers father, an officer in the Derry P.D.
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* AbusiveParents: He shoots a gun at Henry's feet, terrifying him into tears and shown by a deleted scene beats his son at home.
* AdaptationalJobChange: Goes from being a farmer in the book to a police officer in the 2017 film.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the novel, Butch was a racist, anti-Semitic, sexist douchebag who had a feud with the Hanlons. He also shows signs of being [[AxCrazy legitimately and dangerously insane]] and prone to outbursts of violent rage; beating his wife to near-death, attacking his son's friends and killing the Hanlons' farm animals. Furthermore, he seems to encourage Henry's own psychotic behavior to the point of rewarding him for killing Mike's dog. In the film, Butch is still a violent abuser and the cause of his son's actions but he doesn't express any bigoted attitudes nor does he seem mentally unstable, and for all his faults he seems to disapprove of his son's behavior.
* AssholeVictim: The deleted scene where he's shown to beat his son makes it hard to feel any sympathy for him when Henry murders him in his sleep.
* CoolShades: He's seen with a pair of shades in the beginning of the movie.
* TheGlassesComeOff: When Henry and his friends start bullying and threatening the Losers within his vicinity, he takes off his sunglasses, [[KnowWhenToFoldThem causing the Bowers gang to back off]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: He intimidates Henry from a distance when he catches his son bullying while on-duty; and intervenes when Henry attempts to shoot a cat with his gun, and strongly disapproves of his son using a gun at all not to mention he is a police officer trying to help Derry citizens. Unfortunately, he relies on [[AbusiveParents physical abuse]] and threatening his son with a gun rather than provide any decent parenting.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: His abuse and humiliation of his cruel son, Henry, initially seems to be PayEvilUntoEvil. However its revealed Butch's abuse is part of the reason for Henry's demented crimes, making it this trope instead.
* RabidCop: While still in uniform, he catches Henry trying to shoot a cat with his M1911 pistol and punishes him by shooting at Henry's feet to frighten him into submission.
* SmallRoleBigImpact:
** He doesn't do much in the movie, but his brutal death at his own son's hands proves to show how deep Henry is under the influence of IT.
** The way he punishes his son coupled with how he beats him shows he may be the cause of Henry's actions.
* TranquilFury: When he finds Henry using his gun, Butch only raises his voice once but is ''very'' clearly enraged. He proceeds to let his actions speak for him.
* WeHardlyKnewYou: Appears in two scenes, one without dialogue, before Henry kills him.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He seems to highly disprove of Henry's actions, intimidating him to leave Bill alone, and later firing several rounds at Henry (though missing on purpose) in order to make him look scared in front of his friends as punishment for taking his gun and trying to shoot a cat. All this does is drive Henry's psychopathy harder until Henry murders him in his sleep, before going to try and murder the Losers.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mr. Keene]]
!!Norbert Keene
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/keenesitmovie.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Well how about that, you look just like Lois Lane."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Joe Bostick

The local pharmacist.
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* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Is a gruff but well-meaning pharmacist in the book and a creep in the movie.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original book, he's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. In the movie he's a creep and an implied hebephile. Also, book Mr. Keene tells Eddie his medicine are placebos, whereas movie Mr. Keene seems content with keeping the lie going.
* DecompositeCharacter: His role in the book as telling Eddie his medicines are placebos is given to his pharmacy assistant and daughter, Greta.
* DirtyOldMan: Just look at the other examples.
* FatBastard: Notably well-fed, and a complete creep.
* {{Gonk}}: He has not aged well over the course of 27 years, and in ''Chapter Two'' is shown to be a tired old man with dried-up, cracked skin, and still with a gross personality to boot.
* HateSink: A liar, a creep and an overall bad man. Sadly [[KarmaHoudini he never gets any comeuppance]], and he's still alive (assuming it isn't Pennywise taking his form) twenty-seven years later with his perverted nature utterly unchanged.
* {{Slimeball}}: He acts in a perverse manner toward Beverly. You can practically see the edges of the screen thicken with slime when he oozes into frame.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Denbroughs]]
!!Zack & Sharon Denbrough
->'''Portrayed by:''' Geoffrey Pounsett & Pip Dwyer

The parents of George and Bill.
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* BlameGame: Focuses more on blaming Bill for Georgie's death than providing support for him.
* DemotedToExtra: They were hardly large characters in the original book, but here their role is diminished even further. Only Zack gets a speaking part.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Zack sternly tells Bill that Georgie's dead, despite Bill believing him to be still alive. However, given that Georgie was shown getting his arm torn off and bleeding profusely before being dragged off by Pennywise in the prologue, it is very practical that Georgie would not survive in a year without proper medical treatment. Bill did eventually realize Georgie was DeadAllAlong and that his father had been trying to convince him to accept it.
* NoSympathy: Their strategy for dealing with Bill obsessing over his disappeared brother is to chew him out for his delusion that Georgie is still alive. Zack's anger towards Bill likely stemmed from he and Sharon blaming him for Georgie's death and wanting him not only accept he's dead, but to accept responsibility as they see him thinking he's alive as a way to escape guilt. [[spoiler:When's it's revealed in ''Chapter Two'' that Bill faked his illness at the time of Georgie's death, you cannot blame their parents being angry at Bill and emotionally distancing themselves from him afterwards.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Leroy Hanlon]]
!!Leroy Hanlon
[[quoteright:190:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/steven_williams_as_leroy_hanlon.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:190:''"There are two places you can be in this world. You can be out here, like us, or you can be in there, like them."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/StevenWilliams

The stern grandfather of Mike Hanlon, who runs a nearby abattoir.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Mike hints Leroy may have encountered IT in the past. He's even played by [[Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday Creighton Duke]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: His strangely stern lecture toward Mike (saying that you are either the sheep ready to be slaughtered and eaten, or you are the butcher ready to kill to survive without hesitation) comes to new light later when Mike mentions that Leroy is aware of IT's existence. Leroy was training Mike to kill to survive, in case IT targeted Mike. There's also the issue that they are black and Derry once had a racist cult that burned down a nightclub, so he may want his grandson to be able to defend himself against human threats as well.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His son (Mike's father) was burned to death in a house fire alongside his wife. His insistence that Mike learn to fight and defend himself likely stemmed from the possibility that the house fire was not merely an accident, but a deliberate act of arson done by local racists.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Unlike most adults, Leroy is aware of IT's existence and wants to prepare Mike to fight IT, as well as human threats, such as the Bowers Gang.
* RetiredBadass: Mike hints that Leroy is fully aware of IT's existence. Combined with Leroy teaching Mike to overcome his hesitation to kill if needed heavily implies that Leroy fought against IT in the past.
* SternTeacher: His chiding Mike comes off as mean at first, until it's discovered he was only doing so to prepare Mike against IT.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rabbi Uris]]
!!Rabbi Uris
->'''Portrayed by:''' Ari Cohen

The father of Stanley Uris.
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* NightmareFetishist: {{Implied|Trope}}, since the SpookyPainting he keeps in his office is his own son's deepest fear.
* SternTeacher: Is this towards Stan while preparing him for his Bar Mitzvah. However, his [[ThePerfectionist perfectionism]] stems mostly from concern over how Stan's performance will reflect on him as a rabbi than from care for Stan.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Adrian Mellon]]
!!Adrian Mellon
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/XavierDolan

A gay man and the victim of a brutal hate crime which kicks off the new cycle that brings back the Adult losers.
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* CampGay: In contrast to Don, at least; he wears flamboyant clothing and has slightly camp mannerisms, which he exaggerates when mocking the bullies.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Savagely beaten by a gang of homophobic teens, then EatenAlive by Pennywise.
* DeadpanSnarker: Almost every word out of his mouth is gloriously snarky, even while being attacked.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Even when beaten to a pulp, he still mocks his attackers.
* EatenAlive: His fate.
* {{Foil}}: To Eddie. Both are immature, snarky asthmatics who get attacked by violent thugs and ultimately [[spoiler:killed by Pennywise while the man that loves them is ForcedToWatch]], but Adrian is openly and explicitly gay and in a committed relationship, while Eddie remains AmbiguouslyGay and ObliviousToLove. Moreover, Adrian's asthma is presumably real, while Eddie's is psychosomatic.
* ManChild: Downplayed, but he's introduced enthusiastically beating a bunch of pre-teens at a carnival game.
* NiceGuy: Gives a toy he wins at the Derry Town Days festival to a young girl.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: His death prompts Mike to summon the rest of the Losers back to Derry.
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Don's blue, as he's much more combative towards the bullies and openly mocks them even as they're beating the shit out of him.
* SacrificialLamb: His death is what brings the Losers back to Derry.
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[[folder:Don Hagarty]]
!!Don Hagarty
->'''Portrayed by:''' Taylor Frey

Adrian's boyfriend, who witnesses his death at the hands of Pennywise.
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* {{Foil}}: To Richie. [[spoiler:Both are somewhat StraightGay characters forced to watch as the man they love is killed by Pennywise, but Don is out and proud in a happy relationship while Richie is closeted and miserable.]]
* ForcedToWatch: Pennywise deliberately ''waits until he's watching'' before taking a bite out of Adrian.
* ProperlyParanoid: His protests that he wants to get out of Derry due to the town's toxic atmosphere aren't exactly unfounded, considering what happens next.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Adrian's red; he drags Adrian away from the bullies at first, and tries to defuse the situation on the bridge before it can escalate.
* StraightGay: Compared to Adrian, at least, he doesn't have many outwardly camp mannerisms.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Isn't seen or even mentioned again after the opening, despite being one of the few adults other than the Losers aware of Pennywise.
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!People from outside Derry

[[folder:Audra Denbrough]]
!!Audra Denbrough née Phillips
->'''Portrayed by:''' Jess Weixler

A famous actress and model who is married to Bill Denbrough.
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* DemotedToExtra: Her entire storyline from the book is cut, and as a result she appears in only one scene.
* MsFanservice: She's an actress and a model who wears a very cleavagey outfit in her only scene.
* PrecisionFStrike: "Fuck you, Bill," when he asks her why she can't be the woman he wants her to be.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's not shown if Bill goes back to her after leaving Derry for good.
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[[folder:Tom Rogan]]
!!Tom Rogan
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/WillBeinbrink

A fashion designer who is the abusive husband of Beverly.
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* ControlFreak: Like all abusers!
* DemotedToExtra: His entire storyline from the book is cut, and as a result he appears in only one scene.
* DomesticAbuser: He beats Beverly.
* GenerationXerox: He's not dissimilar from Beverly's father.
* TheParanoiac: Accuses Beverly of cheating on him.
* {{Sadist}}: Particularly towards women.
* SparedByAdaptation : In the book, he gets one look at IT's real form and drops dead.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Well he's a fashion designer, a usually feminine vocation for a thug with obvious issues regarding masculinity.
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[[folder:Myra Kaspbrak]]
!!Myra Kaspbrak
->'''Portrayed by:''' Molly Atkinson

Eddie's domineering wife, who bears a striking resemblance to his mother.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: In the novel, she's more of a pathetic figure, but she's portrayed as quite shrewish here, and berates Eddie into saying he loves her.
* FlatWhat: Her reaction when Eddie says "I love you, Mommy" to him over the phone.
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: Takes the trope to its logical extreme, as she's played by the same actress as Eddie's mother.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: This can be inferred, although we never actually see them together on screen. At one point, Richie makes a crack about Eddie having married a woman "ten times his own body mass" that he doesn't refute.
* WidowWoman: While she is never seen again, it's very likely she ended up as this following [[spoiler:her husband Eddie's death]].
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[[folder:Patty Uris]]
!!Patty Uris
->'''Portrayed by:''' Martha Girvin

Stanley's wife.
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* DemotedToExtra: Though she's not exactly a major player in the book, she gets her own [=POV=] chapter and some backstory. Here, she shows up in one scene, mostly in the background, and her reaction to [[spoiler:Stan's suicide]] is cut.
* NiceGirl: From the little we see of their relationship it appears that she and Stan are genuinely HappilyMarried, in contrast to the other Losers. She's also understanding when Beverly phones her to confirm [[spoiler:Stan's death]], and takes the time to mail his letter out to the rest of the Losers.
* WidowWoman: [[spoiler:After Stanley's death]].
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