Pennywise

## Foregin Names

### Nicknames

It, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Robert "Bob" Gray, The Derry Disease, The Eater of Worlds

## Affiliation Information

### Allies

Henry Bowers, Chimaura, Tim Curry's Pennywise

### Enemies

The Loser's Club, Derry, Humans, Green Stripes, Lovethra

## Appearance

### Last Appearance

Green Stripes vs Pennywise

**It** (also commonly known as **Pennywise**) is an ancient alien/eldritch monster and the title character and main antagonist of Stephen King's best selling and award winning 1986 novel of the same name and two duology film adaptations (IT (film) and IT: Chapter Two).

He also reappear in the prequel of It (2017), Green Stripes vs Pennywise where he met Chimaura and fought Green Stripes and Lovethra.

## Name

It or Pennywise has been called many names but his real name is unknown.

## Design

### Appearance

Pennywise looks like a clown. The main form It takes, he has white paint with red stripes from his mouth and to his eyes. Orange hair, a white, dirt shirt with clown shoes, white gloves, red buttons on his suit, and a creepy smile. His blood seems to float up when he bleeds.

### Portrayal

Pennywise is portrayed by Bill Skarsgård.

## Origins

It originated in an undiscovered void containing and surrounding our entire Universe, another far off universe referred to as the "Macroverse." (A concept related to Todash Darkness from The Dark Tower Novels). Other evidence from this series suggests It is the creation of a separate omnipotent creator referred to as "the Other" (who may be the entity Gan). This "Other" helps the defeat of it at the end, and may also be responsible for the creation of "The Turtle", who is It's natural enemy. In *It* the novel, the Turtle refers to It as his "brother". It may be one of, or a Twinner of, the six greater demon elementals mentioned by Mia in *Song of Susannah* (as the Spider is not one of the Beam Guardians). It's possible that there are other creatures of the same species as It.

## History

### It (2017)

IT awakens to eat kids for a year before going into hibernation. Georgie Denbrough dies by Pennywise biting his arm off and dragging him into the sewers. Bill Denbrough (Georgie's older brother) and the Losers' Club investigate, which culminates in his (and other victims of IT) finding of its den and forcing IT to go back into hibernation when the monster falls into a deep well. The Losers' club learns from Beverly about the future and they swear that, if IT returns one day, they will come back to destroy it once and for all.

### It Chapter 2 (2019)

27 years after the events of the first film, It resurfaces when a group of homophobic teenagers beat up and toss a gay man named Adrian Mellon off the bridge. He then slaughters Adrian in front of his lover before presumably using his blood to write a message to Mike about its return. As such, It wasted no time in hunting the children of Derry, such as when it uses empathy to lure a young girl named Victoria into getting closer to it under the false assumption that he'd help make the birthmark on her face disappear. To further torment Bill, It sends him a skateboard, explicitly letting him know that it was going to go after the young Dean next. Realizing that Dean was heading to the carnival, he chases after him into the hall of mirrors. Unfortunately, It gets the upper hand and gruesomely kills the young boy in front of him. Horrified to have lost another young boy after Georgie, Bill decides to head to the Neibolt house to personally kill It after Henry wounds Mike and Eddie. After each member of the Losers Club went down their own quests to retrieve artifacts from their pasts to complete the Ritual of Chud, the ritual seems to work when it traps Its deadlights inside of the vase, but it goes awry. A giant version of Pennywise emerges, revealing that the original natives who had performed the ritual were immediately slaughtered by It. This version of It is a combination of its default form Pennywise the Dancing Clown and the Giant Spider as described in the book. It then warps the Losers Club into different nightmarish scenarios, but they inevitably overcome their fears. It traps Richie in its deadlights, forcing Eddie to grab the pole Beverly gave him earlier and attacks Pennywise with it under the belief that it could kill It. Unfortunately, Pennywise impales Eddie with one of its spiderlike appendages, swings him around like a ragdoll, and tosses him, leaving him with a large wound in his abdomen. This one act proves to be its undoing, however, when the Losers Club realize that in order to defeat it, they had to make it believe it was smaller. Despite its insistence that it was the "eater of worlds," the remaining Losers insult the clown repeatedly until It is forced into a smaller, infantile form. It attempts to lash out at Mike, but is too weakened. To its horror, Mike reaches into its chest and grabs its beating heart. It tries to grab it to no avail, and is left crying like a baby, its final words being "Look at you...you've all grown up!" with weak laughter. The Losers each mutually take ahold of the heart and crush it slowly. It reacts in pain until the heart exploded into a pasty substance, killing it and avenging the deaths of all its victims including Georgie. It falls silent as its body turning to ash. After its death, Richie tries to coerce Eddie's corpse awake, not accepting that he was truly gone. His attempts of taking the body with him fail when Its lair and the Neibolt house start to crumble and collapse in response to its master's demise. The Losers are forced to leave Eddie's body in It's lair, and the Neibolt house collapses on itself, sinking into a hole in the ground.

### Green Stripes vs Pennywise

27 years before the first film, It surfaces and targets two girls named Jade and Yuri after they were being bullied for their sexuality. It kills Yuri but he notice Chimaura kill the bullies and Jade as they stare each other down. A month later and It reveals himself to Al as his mother and trying to drag him in the muddy water with a Muddy Skeleton. He reveals himself and makes the Muddy Skeleton chase him on the road until he found his real mother. Then he targets Zach next as a picture book and coming out of the book saying "Your children were tastily!" Then when Zach closes the book, he targets Sharon, Wentworth, Sonia, William, and Donald in the underground house as dead Jade, Yuri, and the two bullies before revealing himself once more and charging at the group. Then when he corner them, he turn his hand into a bear's hand before Zach stab him but it didn't stop him until Green Stripes came out of nowhere, stabs him and rips his head off as It grew spider legs to crawl away with. Then the It Headless Body battle Green Stripes until Green Stripes killed him down a hole. Then when Chimaura bought Al for him, he used his Deadlights on him and made him float with the ours, waiting for his friends.

Then when Zach and the others found Al floating, It Spider form reveal himself and battle Green Stripes while Chimaura battle Lovethra. After Chimaura kicked Lovethra in the red portal and closed it, Green Stripes grab Pennywise and threw him down a pipe. Chimaura was next. In the end credit scene, Tim Curry's Pennywise, bought by Chimaura, showed Pennywise the Stranger Things Dimension where if he wants to stay here or go there.

## Abilities

* **Lower-tier Omnipotence**: IT has an immense amount of power with only Maturin being its equal and Gan its only superior.
	+ **Telepathy**: IT can detect emotions and memories of an individual, though apparently not thoughts, at least not from those who possess enough courage or willpower. It uses this ability to exploit fears, but also to implant thoughts. IT can also communicate through the mind, as seen with adult Richie Tozier (in the library) or adult Henry Bowers (at Juniper Hill in the novel).
		- **Mind Control/Possession**: IT can control the minds and actions of a person or several people simultaneously. This is demonstrated by affecting the minds of Derry citizens (at least those with weaker wills) to make them indifferent about any terrible events that they see. Evidence suggests that this control does not extend beyond Derry. The text also suggests that IT can erase memories or knowledge. Also, IT takes control of Norbert Keene's body to get Eddie to leave Derry.
	+ **Shapeshifting**: IT can transform into any kind of being, including forms that may not be physically possible or exist in reality. This ability is not restricted by space or uniformity, as IT can appear in multiple places as multiple beings. In the novel, when transitioning forms, its body becomes an orange amorphous goo. Additionally, changing form in this manner appears to exert energy, as when IT is injured, it reverts to a giant spider. However, this form is only the closest the human mind can understand to its true one and not exactly what the children see. IT also has limitations on its appearance depending on who is seeing it and how afraid they are. For example, when Bill and Richie enter the house on Neibolt Street, Richie sees IT as a werewolf while Bill sees it as Pennywise, instantly realizing that "this is the clown that killed Georgie".
	+ **Illusions**: IT seems to have no limit to what illusions can be created, but primarily uses them to instill fear, which means they must be realistic enough to do so. These illusions are physical (they can be touched and last beyond any given amount of time, though some of it may also be physical matter generated by IT, such as the blood left in Beverly's bathroom that only she and the other Losers could see) and can include smell (such as popcorn or rotting corpses). Also, IT can make its illusions visible only by certain people. Sometimes, when the victim sees through the illusion, they will cease to exist (although this may be the will of IT). However, one must see through the illusion perfectly. It is quite possible that some of his illusions are more akin to hallucinations that he telepathically plants in the minds of his victims using their fear, with the elaborate and apparently reality-bending visions (such as in IT: Chapter Two, where Bill relives his memories of first seeing IT in the form of Georgie in the basement of his old house, all while actually being submerged in underwater) having no true effect on the real world.
	+ **Invisibility**: IT can appear (usually as Pennywise) to only certain people and stay invisible (in both sight and sound) from others. This is seen in a few instances, like when adult Beverly encounters Pennywise at her former home or when adult Ben Hanscom encounters it in the public library. This suggests that either A) only those aware of IT's existence are able to see them when invisible or B) IT can control who to appear visible by will. When it helps Henry Bowers escape Juniper Hill, one of Henry's cellmates and a guard witnessed it being next to him.
	+ **Telekinesis**: IT can make inanimate objects fall, float around, and or behave supernaturally without touch. This includes locking doors, bending space-time, gravity, and remotely adjusting electronic devices.
		- **Psionics**: IT can steal people's souls and entrap them within the "deadlights". At the end of the story, a psychic storm nearly wipes out the town of Derry.
	+ **Chlorokinesis (plant manipulation)**: When IT, in the form of a leper, encounters Eddie, it touches several plants and causes them to die. This is not an illusion as the effect persists long after.
	+ **Weather Control**: IT may be able to affect the weather in Derry's region. On more than one occasion when the Losers face it, the weather changes into a thunderstorm (most notably at the final confrontation which actually results in the devastation of Derry's downtown region).
	+ **Teleportation**: IT can teleport to any location within Derry. However, it cannot seem to leave the city. This may be because, as Bill says "Derry is IT" and "IT is Derry."
* **Superhuman Strength**: IT can tear the heads and limbs of human bodies with extreme ease, either with arms or mouth (as Pennywise or any humanoid form).
* **Superhuman Speed**: Bill notes that IT can move at extreme speeds, claiming that it was way faster than an "express train".
* **Invulnerability**: While IT is clearly not invincible, it can heal at superhuman levels, but the rate tends to vary for unknown reasons. In the 2017 film, IT is stabbed through the head with an iron spike, which merely disorients it, as it is able to retreat into the sewer. In the novel, when IT manifests as a bird, Hanlon hits the bird's eye and feet with broken tiles, the bird retreats. When Bill and Richie encounter IT as a werewolf, it can almost instantly regenerate after being shot in the head with a handgun. IT is not a true physical entity, thus cannot be killed or harmed by conventional means. The Ritual of Chud is the only known way to truly harm and kill it. IT's resilience can also be affected by the form it takes, as most humanoid forms that it takes can be harmed in some way, as it must abide by the limitations of each of its forms.

## Weaknesses

It underestimates and scorns all of mankind. In many cases, it leaves an open escape route for victims and lets them run away. Because of this narcissism, It makes mistakes and does illogical things.

The presence of courage and heart are Its main weaknesses. This appears to have a phycological effect that installs fear and enables it the inability to function properly in its physical form.

Given that it feeds on fear, it makes sense that courage and heart can overcome it. Once the Losers are united, their strong shared will and love for each other successfully overpowers It. This allows them to form a psychic connection and "send power" to each other, even across distances.

It can be taken by surprise and can be physically assaulted if the attacker demonstrates no fear of it. Additionally, "belief" can affect It, such as the use of silver (which is a fictional weakness of supernatural entities) and an inhaler believed to contain battery acid.

The novel states that IT must obey the laws of its form. This means that IT possesses the vulnerabilities of whatever form it take, such as a vampire's vulnerability to sunlight or winged leeches obeying physics of flight.

During times of hibernation or healing, It may be vulnerable to surprise attacks. However, other books in the Stephen King universe (such as *Dreamcatcher* and *Hearts in Atlantis*) imply that IT may still be alive at the end of the story.

Other beings like Gan, who is superior to It, and Maturin, who is its equal, could kill It.