History Film / It2017

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:Beverly, whose father is a pedophile and may have been molesting her, drives a pipe through Pennywise's mouth. Three guesses as to what it resembles.]]

** [[spoiler: Bill's LEGO turtle and Georgie's plush turtle potentially allude to the Turtle entity present in the novel existing in this universe. When they go swimming at the quarry, one of the boys finds a turtle, too.]]
*** [[spoiler: Eventually subverted, since the second movie cuts the turtle storyline. This works more as a MythologyGag]].

* SwornBrothers: [[spoiler:All seven members bond as Brothers and Sister in this manner with the help of a broken beer bottle, vowing that if Pennywise ever returns, so will they to fight it.]]

* BloodBrothers: [[spoiler:All seven members bond as Brothers and Sister in this manner with the help of a broken beer bottle, vowing that if Pennywise ever returns, so will they to fight it.]]

* HeroesWantRedheads: Beverly. Bill and Ben explicitly have feelings for her, and all the present members of the Losers' Club stare at her sunbathing Ben makes specific mention of her red hair in his secret admirer message to her.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** [[spoiler: Georgie being DeadAllAlong -- turns out getting an arm ripped off isn't something most people could survive, let alone a prepubescent child.]] Though some of it might just have been Bill being in denial that [[spoiler: Georgie was actually dead. Their father has every reason to coldly convince Bill that Georgie is indeed dead as a kid his age would never survive losing an arm untreated for a year.]]
** Before one of the visits into the house on Neibolt Street, Richie grabs a glass bottle and smashes it against the railing to try and invoke the movie trick of making a makeshift knife from a broken bottle. After doing it, though, all Richie is left with is the neck of the bottle that he was holding on to, the all-too-common result of trying to get an improvised knife.
** Kids swearing. And a lot. It happens and the movie doesn't pretend otherwise.
** Pennywise was able to mask his killings decades prior because it was a time people died from natural causes or disasters like factory fires were more common due to lack of safety regulations. Recent years though have made it so he has to be a lot more subtle and target those in manners it would be hard to find their bodies which is why he uses the sewer. Even then the only reason people don't notice is because the citizens are too useless or loathsome to actually care.

->''[["Film/ItChapterTwo See you around."]]''

->''"See you around."''

** Butch Bowers is just as much of an abusive father as in the book, beating his son from losing his switchblade, shooting a gun inches away from his feet to terrify him into tears and clearly being the reason for Henry’s violent behavior. He ends up being [[spoiler: [[KickTheSonOfABitch killed by his own son]] ]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Henry [[spoiler: murdering his father, after the man almost shot him just to terrify him into tears, beat him for losing his switchblade and was clearly shown to be the reason Henry is the monster he is today, comes off as this.]]

* {{Catchphrase}}: ''"You'll float too."''

%%* CrapsackWorld: Derry, ''in spades''. This is largely due to Pennywise's presence.

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||The PluckyComicRelief/CasanovaWannabe||Richie||
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** Richie's sense of humor is modified, where he now makes a ''lot'' more risqué jokes and becomes SirSwearsALot. In the novel, he is more of an off-the-walls goofball who does (very bad) [[ManOfAThousandVoices Voices]], including some ethnic caricatures that were pushing ValuesDissonance even in the '80s. This may be done to downplay Richie's obnoxiousness and make him more funny and appealing to the audience, but has the effect now of turning him into a CoolLoser whose only remaining claim to Loser-hood is his NerdGlasses and probably also the fact that he clearly thinks that he's much funnier than he actually is.

* DaylightHorror: Most of Pennywise's appearances and attacks take place in broad daylight, because there's specifically a curfew in order. It doesn't really help anybody.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Downplayed - perhaps more a case of AdaptationalSympathy. In the book Butch Bowers (Henry's father) was an insane ex-Marine. He killed the chickens of Mike's father and was a racist, anti-semitic sexist. He also rewards his son for killing Mike's dog. He regularly chased kids and beat his son. Here he is a police officer and shows none of his insane or racist behavior. He stops his son from bullying the Losers and from shooting a cat. He comes across as a no-nonsense, GoodIsntNice kind of guy who does what he thinks is right to set his delinquent son straight with ToughLove, as opposed to being the novel's sociopath.