What is its real name?

In the novel, It claims that its true name is Robert "Bob" Gray, but was decided to be named “It”. Throughout the book, It is generally referred to as male due to usually appearing as Pennywise.
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Is Pennywise a girl?

Throughout Stephen King's It, Pennywise is referred to as a male, but author Stephen King pulled a fast one on readers in the book's ending by revealing the creature's true form was a pregnant spider, implying that it is, in fact, biologically female.
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What is the It creature?

IT is a shape-shifting creature known as a Glamour who is billions of years old. Although It lived on planet Earth for many years, IT originated in a void/dimension outside the regions of space known as the Macroverse.
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How did Pennywise get his name?

It's unclear how, exactly, Pennywise got his name. Was it given to him by the kids it haunts, or did "It" choose it? King never really explains it in his book, and he himself does not appear to have had a specific reason for choosing the name Pennywise to be the scariest creature imaginable.
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Is Pennywise real or imagination?

Pennywise the Clown is just a decoy/false appearance for its true form, which is known as the "deadlights", a shapeshifting creature, and it takes the form of a clown to stalk children in Derry.
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Who is Pennywise afraid of?

Stephen King's IT introduced readers to a one-of-a-kind creature that can take any form, the most common one being Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and as menacing as it is, this creature has one big enemy it's truly scared of: Maturin, the turtle.
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What made Pennywise evil?

THE ORIGINS OF IT

IT is an ancient evil being that is perhaps billions of years old, as old as the universe itself. IT comes from the void that contains our entire universe called the Macroverse (this is also referred to as the Todash Darkness in Stephen King's Dark Tower novels).
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How old is Pennywise?

The concept of clowns has been traced back to the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt, but the modern circus clown developed in the 19th century, so by the time King's novel is set (the first part of it), Pennywise was around 200 years old.
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Why does Pennywise have lights in his throat?

The Deadlights are orange writhing lights that exist in Todash Darkness. Pennywise uses its Deadlights to break a person's mind because one look at the Deadlights will make a person go insane due to it not being able to be comprehended by a human mind.
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Is Crimson King Pennywise?

The theory details that Pennywise - or, more technically, IT - is actually the Crimson King. According to the theory, they are not merely relatives or of the same species, they are one and the same character, with Pennywise being a physical manifestation of the Crimson King.
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Why does Pennywise have a red balloon?

Bill Denbrough described them as writhing, destroying orange lights, and IT as an endless, crawling, hairy creature made of that same light. The theory, then, suggests that the balloons are a representation of the deadlights and contain the souls of the children killed by IT.
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Will It 3 come?

Pennywise actor Bill Skarsgård confirmed in September 2019 that he'd spoken with Muschietti about what a third movie could be, teasing that it's not "quite what people expect" and that it would be "something different". "The first two stories are the book, and the second film is the end of that story.
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How was Pennywise born?

He took the form of a clown most frequently, Mr. Bob Gray or Pennywise, but his true form is an ancient eldritch entity from another universe who landed in the town that would become Derry by way of an asteroid and first awoke in 1715.
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Does Pennywise have balls?

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So in a nutshell, Pennywise/It's true form is floating balls of light out in space, and if you look at them in their true form, your mind will live eternally in It's thrall (this is what happens to Bill's wife Audra in the book).
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What does Pennywise like to eat?

It feasts on the flesh of humans simply because our fears are easy to manifest and they make us taste better. According to It, when humans got scared, "all the chemicals of fear flooded the body and salted the meat".
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Why is Pennywise 27?

The rule isn't as hard in King's novels — which, knowing IT's character, makes sense. IT thrives on chaos; an exact 27-year pattern is way too predictable for a being of pure evil. Rather, IT wakes up roughly every three decades, and stays away for a different period of time. Talk about messed up circadian rhythms!
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Is Pennywise a spider?

As in the 1990 ABC miniseries, which starred Tim Curry as the terrifying clown, Pennywise takes the form of a giant spider for the final battle. (According to King's book, Pennywise actually is a spider—sort of.
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Why does Pennywise say float?

In the movie, Pennywise says “They all float down here. You'll float, too”, referring to the floating bodies of the many victims that have been dragged to the sewers and… well, you know the rest. And as always, people get really creative around Halloween, this poster is 2021's IT celebration of the year in my opinion.
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Does Pennywise have a daughter?

Kersh is Pennywise's daughter. She says, "My father ... His name was Robert Gray, better known as Bob Gray, better known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown." This is also the name It uses to introduce itself to Georgie, Bill's brother, in the novel.
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Why did Bob Gray become Pennywise?

King originally chose It to manifest as a clown because he thought clowns are what scared children "more than anything else in the world.” In order to accomplish its goal of murdering children and feasting off their flesh and fear, It also takes on forms specific to a person's fears; for example, in the movie, It takes ...
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Who is the turtle in it?

Maturin is a minor character in IT. He was The Turtle and one of the twelve Guardians of the Beams that held up the Dark Tower. Maturin guarded one end of the Beam that was guarded on the other end by Shardik.
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