Bill Denbrough

**William "Bill" Denbrough** is a major character in the first and second seasons of ***It***. Bill was a member of the Losers' Club in Derry, Maine, along with Eddie Kaspbrak, Stanley Uris, Richie Tozier, Mike Hanlon, Beverly Marsh and Ben Hanscom. Along with them Bill encountered an evil creature known as Pennywise in Derry twice; once in 1957, and during its next cycle in 1985.

## Personality

* Bill was steadfast for most of his life, using his bravery and instinct to unite his friends in turmoil. He was also a talented writer, and even from a young age, he would write stories in his room with the typewriter his parents gave him.
* Though he is a brilliant wordsmith, Bill's verbal speech is nowhere near as finely tuned since Bill has a severe speech impediment for the entirety of his childhood.
* Bill overcame his stutter during his teenage years due to a private speech therapist, however his stutter returned unexpectedly after receiving a call from Mike Hanlon that summoned him back to Derry. Bill's stutter noticeably gets worse when he is upset, angry, or afraid.
* The speech impediment will sometimes not be apparent such as when he is reading a different language, doing an impression (e.g Henry Bowers) or when he is making a speech. It's because of his stutter that Henry Bowers and many others to bullied Bill viciously.
* Although upset with being treated in this manner, Bill doesn't mind when his friends poke fun at his stutter.
* Bill's greatest attribute is undying love for his younger brother Georgie, which was only strengthened when Georgie was brutally murdered by Pennywise.
* Bill uses Georgie's memory as a guiding light to destroy Pennywise. While his love for Georgie is endearing, it's also a great source of guilt, as he feels Georgie died as a direct result of him helping Georgie make the paper boat that ultimately led to his death.
* Though he is told by Richie that it isn't his fault, the guilt follows him throughout his childhood and adulthood and enables IT to torment him with illusions of Georgie.
* After Georgie's death, Bill's parents grow distant and begin to neglect him, to the point that he wonders if they ever loved him at all.
* His relationship with his parents unfortunately never recovers. Decades later, Bill is still convinced that he is to blame for Georgie's death and doesn't recognize that what his parents did to him was wrong and abusive.
* This doesn't change until IT forces him to confront his greatest fear by turning into Georgie and accusing him of being the reason Georgie died.
* Bill is shown to be reckless and impulsive on multiple occasions, especially when he is face to face with IT. But despite his headstrong demeanour, Bill is extremely intelligent and shows great maturity. He has the power to pull the Loser's Club together through the horrors that IT sets upon them.
* The 2017 version shows a new take on Bill and his dynamic with Georgie (post-death), as he is shown to be more delusional in thinking that Georgie must have survived and takes the majority of the movie to come to terms with his brother's death.
* He not only concerns himself with Georgie's disappearance, but with all children that have disappeared in Derry, and is convinced that they can be found and reunited with their families. This is, of course, proven wrong by the end of the movie.
* Bill demonstrates great difficulty in coping with the possibility of Georgie being dead. He goes so far as to plead with his father that they could still find Georgie, even showing his father a diagram model of the Derry sewer system to no avail.
* When Bill and Richie get into an argument over the necessity of facing IT and Richie insists that Georgie is dead, salting Bill's wound, he ends up punching Richie when Richie refuses to take it back.
* At this time, he states that he understands that everyone is scared, which shows that he is still able to show empathy while under great duress. Later in the movie, he apologizes to Richie.
* During the final fight with IT, IT seems to recognize Bill as the leader and subdues him, telling the Losers IT is willing to let them leave provided IT gets to keep Bill.
* Quite needlessly, Bill apologizes to them for putting them in harm's way - something all the Losers did voluntarily and out of love for Beverly and each other - and pleads with them to save themselves. Richie finds his bravery at this moment and saves Bill, attacking IT with a baseball bat.
* On a more positive note, Bill demonstrates artistic ability in the film with a drawing of Beverly and has horror movie posters up on his walls, a subtle nod to Bill's future career as a horror writer. Or perhaps artist - it remains to be seen what direction the 2019 movie will go with Bill's career.
* When Bill isn't hyper-focused on IT and IT's doing, he's an average teenage boy, making jokes, playing with his friends, and wanting nothing more than to be happy and secure at a time of great turmoil.

## Relationships

### Family

* George Denbrough - Brother
* Audra Phillips - Wife
* Ed Denbrough - Son

### Allies

* The Losers Club
	+ Eddie Kaspbrak - Childhood friend
	+ Richie Tozier - Childhood friend
	+ Stanley Uris - Childhood friend
	+ Beverly Marsh - Childhood crush and Friend
	+ Ben Hanscom - Friend
	+ Mike Hanlon - Friend

### Enemies

* The Deadlights
	+ Pennywise - Childhood fear and Attempted killer
* The Bowers Gang
	+ Henry Bowers - Childhood bully and Attempted killer

## Quotes

### Novel

*"Your f-f-face and my buh-buh-butt, T-T-Tozier."* ―Bill to Richie after Richie playfully makes fun of his stutter.
*"I'm still Bill Denbrough. You killed my brother and you killed Stan the Man you tried to kill Mike. And I'm going to tell you something: this time I'm not going to stop until the job's done."* ―Bill to IT during the final confrontation
*"I didn’t wuh-wuh-want h-him t-to g-g-get kuh-hilled!” Bill sobbed. “TH-THAT WUH-WUH-WASN’T ON MY M-M-M-MIND AT UH-UH-ALL!"* ―Bill confiding in Richie
*"You killed my brother George! You son of a bitch! You bastard! You whoremaster! Let's see you now! Let's see you now!"* ―Bill to IT
### 1990 Miniseries

*"Help me. You killed my brother George, you bastard! Let's see you now. Let's see you now. It's scared of us you know? I can feel that. I swear to God I can. I... I wanna kill it. Help me. Please help me. Help me."* ―Bill to the Losers