History Film / ItChapterTwo

* MirrorScare: When grown-up Henry attacks Eddy in his bathroom. Also plenty occour in the Funhouse scene.

* MirrorScare: Plenty in the Funhouse scene.

* BloodBrothers: Mike invokes this with the other Losers when they try to go back on their promise to destroy IT as adults, reminding them of the oath they swore as kids.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Bill and Ben towards Beverly.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Richie is called right before his performance as a stand-up comedian and is unable to shake the stress that came with the sudden onslaught of unpleasant memories, and tries to back out, [[TheShowMustGoOn but his manager insists that he performs his act anyway]]. When it's finally time for him to take the stage, he makes a fool of himself by forgetting the punchline to his joke.
** As it turns out, years of abuse and slut-shaming by an entire town has left Beverly as a miserable BrokenBird who is easily swayed by promises. Despite having become a successful fashion designer, she is stuck in an abusive relationship, no better than what she experienced as a teenager.
** [[spoiler:When Richie kills Henry, he attempts to make a joke... and promptly vomits in shock, clearly traumatized; when Eddie asks if he's okay, he angrily points out that no, he's not, because "I've just fucking killed a guy!"]]
** In an odd way, Eddie's individual fight with IT is this. [[spoiler:IT forgets that IT is bound to the limitations of whatever shape IT assumes, meaning that the fight is really between a relatively healthy adult man and a diseased, deformed leper. Eddie nearly manages to choke IT to death, and IT only escapes by vomiting all over Eddie as a distraction. Eddie recounting this in the climax causes the Losers to realize that they need to trap IT in a form they can kill.]]

** Bill is a successful horror writer with several movie adaptations, but it's widely agreed that his endings suck and his marriage appears to be strained.

** Eddie is a risk analyst with a fancy car who married a carbon copy of his overbearing mother and remains as neurotic and angry as ever.

** Downplayed with Mike, who became Derry's librarian and in general having little-no-issues with his private life, though he did have to postpone his dream of moving to Florida, dedicating his life to find a way to defeat IT instead.

* TeensAreMonsters: The movie begins with a group of homophobic teenage thugs insulting a happy gay couple minding their own business, then moments later beating them up. They eventually throw one of them off a bridge into a creek, allowing him to get captured and killed by Pennywise.

* DaylightHorror: Both of IT's attacks on Richie happen outside in broad daylight.

* HurtingHero: Richie, by the climax, due to [[spoiler:Eddie dying before he could ever confess his feelings.]]

* FashionDesigner: Beverly's job as an adult.

* AnachronismStew: During Richie's flashback to 1989, a cabinet for ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' is visible even though that game didn't debut until 1992.

** The finale, including skipping destroying the town in favour of the house collapsing, is a ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Carrie}}''.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} Witness the end of It.]]'']]

->''"We need to finish IT. For good."''

[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Witness the end of It]].]]

->''"We might have changed It, just like It changed us. But we didn't stop It. We made an oath. That's why I brought you back. That's why you're here. To finish It... for good."''

->''"We made an oath. That's why I brought you back. That's why you're here. To finish It... for good."''

[[caption-width-right:350:It's back.]]

->''"Memory... it's a funny thing. People want to believe they are what they choose to remember. The good stuff. The moments. The places. The people we all hold on to. But sometimes... sometimes... we are what we wish we could forget."''

[[caption-width-right:350:You'll float, [[{{Pun}} two]].]]

->''"For 27 years, I dreamt of you... I CRAVED you... I've ''MISSED'' you! Waiting for this very moment..."''
-->-- '''Pennywise the Dancing Clown'''

* IDidntTellYouBecauseYoudBeUnhappy: UpToEleven, in that Mike lies to the rest of the Losers about the efficiency of the Ritual, knowing fully well that if he told them the truth about the natives, none of them would even bother returning to Derry anymore.

* CelebrityParadox: There is a reference to "Here's Johnny!" from ''Film/TheShining,'' a movie based on another of Creator/StephenKing's novels.

* AdultFear: Bill learns that the young boy who they met in the restaurant actually lives in his old house and hears Pennywise talking to him in the bathtub. He later realizes that IT is going to find the boy at the fairground's clown attraction. [[spoiler: [[HopeSpot Bill catches up to the boy in the Hall of Mirrors to save him]], only to slam face first into a glass wall that separates him from the kid. Despite Bill's best efforts, Pennywise manages to get to the kid first, and Bill is ForcedToWatch as the boy's head literally explodes from the force of Pennywise chomping into him.]]

* HopeSpot: Pennywise is briefly disabled after Eddie throws the spear into IT's throat, and he excitedly tells Richie he thinks he's killed IT. [[spoiler:Then he gets skewered from behind by one of IT's CombatTentacles]].

** Beverly's abusive husband is never seen again after she escapes him. This is especially weird considering that [[spoiler:she starts a relationship with Ben at the end of the movie, so she needs to divorce him at some point (something that will most likely not end well for her considering her husband's anger issues), though the film makes a point to show her leaving her wedding ring before going back to Derry]]. In the book, Bev's husband actually follows her to Derry, where he is [[spoiler:killed by Pennywise.]]

** Besides getting clubbed with a vase and Beverly leaving him, Tom Rogan gets away with his physical and sexual abuse towards Beverly in this adaptation. Even worse, seeing as she left him for Ben in such an abrupt fashion, who's to say he won't hunt down them down and brutally murder the both of them?