History Characters / ItDuologyIT

* BerserkButton: [[DownplayedTrope Well, more like an "insulted" button]], but after Bill states that Pennywise's trap "isn't real" (which enables Bill and Richie to escape), Pennywise stops trying to scare Eddie, turns around to face Bill, and then responds in such a way that suggests he's genuinely offended by what Bill said.

* FauxAffablyEvil: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Pennywise can ''attempt'' to put on a facade of pleasantries to lure potential victims in. The key word, however, is "attempt" as he can barely suppress his craving for human flesh long enough to put on a convincing act. Thus, more often than not, Pennywise doesn't even bother pretending. His encounter with Georgie exemplifies this perfectly. When Georgie first sees him, his eyes are a sinister shade of yellow, but he quickly changes them to a more soothing shade of blue and disarms Georgie with a joke about popcorn. Once the joke ends, he stares at Georgie in a way that can only be described as predatory, complete with him drooling, showing that underneath the clownish facade lurks something truly demonic. The little stunt creeps Georgie out so badly he nearly gets the hell out of dodge. (Alternatively, Pennywise may have deliberately kept Georgie a little nervous, since if he felt too relaxed, he'd perhaps not taste as good.)

* CompositeCharacter: He may have been inspired by Eddie Corcoran. Corcoran was a character from the novel and is a victim of IT during 1958 who was strangled and then decapitated while running from IT in a park. He is always AdaptedOut, presumably due to time constraints as well as due to the graphic depiction of his death.

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The form IT takes to scare Mike, reminiscent of the fire that killed his parents.
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* BodyHorror: This form mostly consists of a series of burnt hands.
* ChekhovsGun: IT uses the hands near the end of the first movie to fend off Mike's attacks.
* TheFaceless: The only part of this form we see are the hands, and there might not even ''be'' a face.
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* HatesEveryoneEqually: Being is a sadistic EldritchAbomination who came from space, he sees ''all'' humans as food and fear to feed off of regardless of demographic. His main target, the losers club, are a diverse group of individuals consisting of a black man, a gay man, a woman, and a former fat guy. While he hurls bigoted insults at them, he doesn't ''actually'' have bigoted beliefs, he simply wants to rile them up because he enjoys seing them suffering.

* HatesEveryoneEqually: Being is a sadistic EldritchAbomination who came from space, he sees ''all'' humans as food and fear to feed off of. His main target, the losers club, are a diverse group of individuals consisting of a black man, a gay man, a woman, and a former fat guy. While he hurls bigoted insults at them, he doesn't ''actually'' have bigoted beliefs, he simply wants to rile them up because he enjoys seing them suffering.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In ''Chapter Two'', he mocks Ben's weight and [[spoiler:Richie's sexuality]]. Downplayed because he's not actually fatphobic or homophobic, all humans and their fear are equal to him, but because he just wants to rile them up.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In ''Chapter Two'', he mocks Ben's weight and [[spoiler:Richie's sexuality]].

* GutturalGrowler: Speaks in a deep, raspy voice.

* SmugSuper: He's arrogant and can shapeshift and read minds.

* AncientEvil: It has been haunting Derry for at least three hundred years. Its first true defeat only came at the hands of the Loser's Club, and newspaper clippings and reports from ages past show that IT has been terrorizing Derry since before the town got its name.

* ShoutOut: To the eponymous ghost in director Andres Muschietti's previous film, ''Film/{{Mama}}''. Also to Creator/EdvardMunch's famous painting, "Art/{{The Scream|Munch}}", and the Jewish painter [[Creator/AmedeoModigliani, whose works gave director Muschietti a similar fear to Stan's.

* PaperTiger: Pennywise is really good at acting or looking scary, but he's only really dangerous if you’re ''actually'' afraid. He [[EmotionEater feeds on fear]] and any other emotion repels it, so if you’re not scared or even just fight through the fear, he’s really not that formidable. When the Losers overcome their fear and start beating him up, Pennywise [[DirtyCoward breaks down crying like a pathetic loser and runs away into the sewers]]. This is especially dangerous to It if It manages to anger potential prey to the point where they're too furious to be scared, as seen with Eddie and Bev in the first film's climax and Ritchie in the second.

** He fairs much better in the final battle than either of his contemporary counterparts. In the book and 1990 film, he is easily knocked over, beaten, and killed by the Losers out of rage after Eddie is killed. Here, he has the Losers on the run for much of it until they get the idea of using YourMindMakesItReal against him. Hell, he even managed to separate them after the Ritual of Chudd fails and would have added two more to his list of victims if it weren't for the ThePowerOfLove.

* ChildHater: He hunts the Losers' Club to the extent it seems like he just ''hates'' them. And he does, according to Creator/BillSkarsgard.

* DeadpanSnarker: Has [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor a twisted sarcastic sense of humor]].
* DeadlyEuphemism: Pennywise loves to tell his victims that they'll "float". And in a rather frightening twist, it turns out he means it quite literally. His lair is revealed to have the ravaged corpses of his victims that literally float above a tower of circus props and children's belongings (some of which are implied to have been taken from his victims) in a twisted monument to his depravity.

* EmotionEater: Even more than flesh, Pennywise needs ''fear'' to feed on and function. This also extends to his sense of smell as the clown's reaction upon smelling a courageous prey was to shake his head in disgust. Once the Losers' Club stops being afraid of him, disposes of Henry Bowers and bands together, he's nearly helpless to fight them off.