What is the story behind It?

The story follows the experiences of seven children as they are terrorized by an evil entity that exploits the fears of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey. "It" primarily appears in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown to attract its preferred prey of young children.
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What is the storyline behind Pennywise?

When young children in the little town Derry, Maine goes missing a group of seven kids find out that the killer is not a man. The killer is the evil clown Pennywise who can shapeshift into the thing you are most afraid of. The kids, also known as the Losers Club, decide to fight and kill It.
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Why does Beverly sleep with everyone in It?

After the Losers' Club defeat Pennywise, they get lost in Derry's sewer system. After coming to the realisation that they can't escape without being unified, Beverly — the single female member — decides she needs to have sex with the six boys.
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Was Beverly raped in the book It?

ScreenGeek did some digging and shares the shocking scenes removed from Fukunaga's adaptation when Muschietti eventually took over directing duties, including a scene in which eleven-year-old Beverly Marsh is raped by her father.
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Why did Pennywise become a clown?

King stated in a 2013 interview that he came up with the idea for Pennywise after asking himself what scared children feared "more than anything else in the world", and feeling that the answer was clowns.
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How did Pennywise become a monster?

In the novel, It's origins are nebulous. 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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Can adults see Pennywise?

And it is not totally true that adults can't see Pennywise because there are several incident in books where adult see Pennywise but adult don't find it as a threat because of the reason that Pennywise choose not to. Pennywise only attack children as they are easily manipulated and easily scared.
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Who is Pennywise scared 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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Why does Pennywise come every 27 years?

That hunger for tasty, tasty, beautiful fear is pretty much the sole reason It returns to Derry, Maine every 27 years to torment and feed on the townsfolk before retreating into a new cycle of slumber.
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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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Is Pennywise a girl or a boy?

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 It the clown weakness?

It's weaknesses are courage and heart.
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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 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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Can Pennywise be killed?

The short answer is: yes. At the end of the 1986 novel, the Losers descend back into Derry's sewers and, facing off against It in the form of a giant female spider, challenge it to the Ritual of Chüd (more on that in a second) and ultimately crush Its heart, destroying the creature once and for all.
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What was Pennywise real name?

Most iconically, It takes the form of Pennywise the Clown, whose real name is actually Bob Gray (anticlimactic, honestly).
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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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What happens if you take Pennywise's balloon?

While it possesses no harmful qualities of its own, it's still pretty unnerving to see a red balloon appear out of nowhere. According the the Wiki set up to explain It and his powers, the red balloon is an illusion — one of many — that can be created to lure It's victims to their deaths.
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Is Pennywise real?

No. Pennywise is a fictional character.
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What did Pennywise mean by they all float?

The simplest and most obvious interpretation is that all the talk of floating is a reference to the fact that Pennywise (aka the titular "It") murders his victims and drags them down to the town's sewer system where he dwells, which is full of water. And what do dead bodies do in water? That's right — they float.
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Does Pennywise feel fear?

Also known as the titular creature in Stephen King's smash hit novel IT, Pennywise is a monster that capitalizes on fear to hunt his victims. The fact that he can transform into any frightening form the human mind can conceive makes him a villain that anyone can be afraid of.
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