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IT/Characters

The characters present in Stephen King's IT.

Main Characters

The Losers Club

Bill Denbrough (aka "Stuttering Bill"; "Big Bill")

Ben Hanscom (aka "Haystack")

Beverly Marsh/Rogan

Eddie Kaspbrak

Richie Tozier (aka "Trashmouth")

Mike Hanlon

Stan Uris

Main Antagonists

IT

  • [[Ax Crazy]: A sadistic, homicidal entity that kills people and eats children like candy.
  • Badass Boast
  • Big Bad: The main antagonist of Derry, both directly and indirectly.
  • Child-Hater: IT really hates the Losers' Club.
  • Child Eater: IT prefers to munch on children because their imaginations and emotions are more vivid (read:juicy).
  • Dirty Coward: As terrifying as its illusions are, IT is ironically a cringing creep.
  • Eldritch Abomination: Its true form is actually a "spider" or at least the closest thing the human mind can comprehend.
  • Faux Affably Evil: To the kids.
  • Giant Spider: Not IT's true form, but probably as close to it as any human is able to perceive.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: IT shares the weaknesses of whatever form IT takes. Also, if several people all perceive IT as one form and think of IT in that form hard enough, IT becomes "mode-locked" and unable to change.
  • Humanoid Abomination: Initially what Pennywise appears to be.
  • Kick the Son of a Bitch: In the book, its possibly only redeeming quality is that that he kills off Patrick who tortures and kills things for amusement.
  • Knight of Cerebus
  • Light Is Not Good: The Deadlights, Its true form.
  • Load-Bearing Boss: After IT is finally defeated, a flood destroys much of Derry later that year. It's implied that IT had allowed the town to exist in exchange for providing IT victims every 27 years.
  • Monster Clown: IT's primary form, Pennywise The Dancing Clown.
  • Monster Is a Mommy: IT is female and protecting its eggs. Unlike most examples, however, it only makes things worse.
  • Not Quite Dead: Pennywise appears in other novels featuring Derry, including some set after IT, and is mentioned in the Dark Tower series.
  • One-Winged Angel: IT's Giant Spider form.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Pennywise/the Spider and the Turtle. One actively hunts down and eats human children while the other just sits on the edge of forever, seeing it all happen and "helping" the Losers during their first confrontation with It. The Spider berates it for just sitting there, offering seemingly useless advice. That the Spider's eyes are described as ruby-red while the Turtle's shell is some blueish-greenish color also reinforces the trope.
  • Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Happens to IT when the entire Losers' Club perceives it as a Giant Spider.
  • This Was His True Form: The Deadlights.
  • Would Hurt a Child

Henry's gang

Henry Bowers

Victor Criss

  • The Dragon: To Henry.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Victor is fine with beating up smaller kids for fun, but shocked by some of Henry's actions (such as trying to carve his name on Ben's stomach with a knife).
  • Noble Demon: Not a completely straight example, but, he has some shades of it. He has no problem beating other kids up, but, he will never go as far as to do permanent damage to them. While being chased by Henry's gang before the Rock Fight, even Mike acknowledges that out of all of them, at least Victor doesn't want to do him any serious harm.
  • Only Sane Man: Victor is among the first to realize just how far off the deep end Henry is going, and likely the first to do so on the bad side.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Although never acknowledged as equals, he is the Blue to Henry's Red. This is especially clear in the Rock Fight. Henry got hotheaded, and only got himself hurt even further. Victor kept his cool, and was able to take all the damage Henry's Gang suffered, and return it in kind back to the Losers by himself.

Belch Huggins

Patrick Hocksetter

  • Depraved Bisexual: Fondles the girls in his class, masturbates Henry and offers him oral sex.
  • Enfant Terrible: He murdered his baby brother when he was younger.
  • One-Scene Wonder: His single appearance is one of the scariest things in the whole book.
  • The Sociopath: Even moreso than Henry. He thinks that he's the only real person in the universe (Solipsism), and the only thing that can excite him is killing and torturing other creatures.


Supporting cast

Derry schoolchildren


Derry Adults


Non-Derry residents

Tom Rogan

Christine

Christine is a car that debuted in the novel Christine. She only appears briefly in the story to  help Henry Bowers get to the Loser's hotel.
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