# Talk:Pennywise

How much detail should we go into when describing Pennywise's outfit? I see there have been a decent amount of edits regarding this and would like to come to a consensus. I'm rather neutral  on this issue myself, but can see this becoming a topic of importance due to how central a clown's appearance is to their so-called "scare factor."
Tagging the people who were involved in these edits, @RootOfAllLight and @Sundayclose. Gommeh 📖   🎮 16:38, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm not necessarily opposed to a small expansion, but not in an image caption. Sundayclose (talk) 16:48, 19 October 2025 (UTC)


### Pennywise
I've listed this article for peer review because I'd like to get the article to FAC sometime soon and I'm unfamiliar with the process or expectations. Particularly I'm not sure if the number of citations to the novel (WP:PRIMARY) are of concern. I'm not sure what else would need to be done to get this to FAC status, so I'd like a comprehensive peer review that covers the entire article. 
Thanks, Gommeh 📖   🎮 22:19, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Closed for now as I forgot I still have my request for Natlan still open. Gommeh 📖   🎮 15:09, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

For millions of years, It dwelt under Derry, and awaited the arrival of humans, which It somehow knew would occur. Once people settled over It's resting place, It adopted a cycle of hibernating for long periods and awoke approximately every 27 years. Its awakening was always marked by a great act of violence, and another great act of violence ends Its spree and sent It back into hibernation, note: these are only reported incidents:
1715 – 1716: It awoke
1740 – 1743: It awoke and started a 3-year reign of terror that culminated with the disappearance of over 340 settlers from Derry Township, much like the Roanoke Island mystery.
1769 – 1770: It awoke again.
1851: It awoke when a man named John Markson poisoned his family, and then committed suicide by eating a white-nightshade mushroom, causing an excruciating death.
1876 – 1879: It awoke and went back into hibernation after a group of lumberjacks were found murdered near the Kenduskeag.
1904: It awakes when a lumberjack named Claude Heroux murders a dozen men in a bar with just one axe. Heroux was promptly pursued by a mob of townsfolk and hanged. In 1985, when Mike asks a witness, if he saw anyone he didn't know that night or seemed out of place. He remembered seeing "a comical sort of fella". He also said he had seen him a few more times since.
1906: It returns to hibernation when the Kitchener Ironworks explode, killing 108 people, 88 of whom were children at an Easter Egg hunt. A nine year old kid named Robert Dohay's head found by a woman. His mouth was covered in chocolate and his hair in blood.
1929 – 1930: It awoke when a group of Derry citizens gunned down a group of gangsters known as the Bradley Gang. It returned to hibe.
1929 – 1930: It awoke when a group of Derry citizens gunned down a group of gangsters known as the Bradley Gang. It returned to hibernation when the Maine Legion of White Decency, a Northern counterpart to the Ku Klux Klan, burned down an African-American army nightclub which was called "The Black Spot".
In the intervening periods between each pair of events, a series of child murders occurred, which were never solved. The book's surface explanation as to why those murders were never reported on the national news was that location mattered to a news story—a series of murders, no matter how gruesome, do not get reported if they happen in a small town. However, it is implied that Its power over Derry prevents anyone from investigating the child murders too deeply.

-; sources
IT novel:
Part 1: The Shadow Before : Derry: The First Interlude.
Part 2:June of 1958 :Derry :the second Interlude.
Chapter 10: The Reunion.
Part 3:Grownups:Derry :the third Interlude.
Part 4: July of 1958 :Derry the Fourth Interlude.
What do you think about this?.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Magician Abby (talk • contribs) 

Think about what? I mean, I see the information you have laid out, but what are you wanting to do with it? (Also, please sign your comments, so we know who is speaking in a discussion) Joyous! Noise! 14:19, 14 November 2025 (UTC)
Abby, you can sign your comments by typing 4 tildes in a row, like this: ~~~~. The tilde key is usually located just to the left of the "1" if you're on a standard keyboard, or in the set of symbols if you're on mobile. Joyous! Noise! 14:20, 14 November 2025 (UTC)
I don't know how to do this Magician Abby (talk) 19:38, 22 November 2025 (UTC)