How many kills do Pennywise have?

Pennywise's Kills Add Up Over Time
The number is then multiplied by the number of times Pennywise has awakened -- once every 27 years throughout the 270-year history of Derry, equaling ten times -- to come up with a final tally of between 12,000 and 18,000 dead.

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How many kids does Pennywise kill?

88 Unnamed Children - Killed when the Kitchener Ironworks exploded.

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Why does Pennywise kill every 27 years?

Related: What Does Pennywise Really Look Like In IT? IT arrived on Earth through an event similar to an asteroid impact, landing in what would later become Derry, Maine. Once there, IT adopted its usual pattern of hibernation that lasted between 27 and 30 years, awakening to kill and eat and then going back to sleep.

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Who does Pennywise kill in IT?

Betty Ripsom - Eaten by Pennywise off-screen, mentioned. Patrick Hostetter - Mauled by Pennywise in the sewers. Eddie Corcoran - Eaten by Pennywise off-screen, arm seen. Oscar "Butch" Bowers - Stabbed in the neck by Henry with a switchblade, on Pennywise's orders.

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How can Pennywise be defeated?

Here, Bill encounters a giant, ancient turtle named Maturin. Yep. Maturin actually created the entire known universe when he got a stomachache and vomited. This ancient turtle teaches Bill something called the Ritual of Chüd, which is a psychic battle of wit that can defeat the monster.

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Who eats Pennywise?

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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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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What is Pennywise the god of?

It Is Actually An Ancient Cosmic Force Of Destruction

It is actually an ancient cosmic deity. A god of destruction, not just of our world, but of multiple worlds and even multiple universes.

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Did Pennywise kill the little boy?

Dean's death also gives Bill the courage and fuel to face IT with his friends. This shows that Pennywise has done enough damage already by, killing his brother and Dean in front of him, showing that Bill did indeed care for Dean.

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Which kid dies in It 2?

Plot. Twenty-seven years after its initial defeat, Pennywise the Clown returns to Derry, Maine in 2016, and brutally kills a man named Adrian Mellon by biting his heart out after he and his boyfriend are brutally assaulted in a hate crime by homophobic teens after visiting a carnival.

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What is Pennywise the Clown weakness?

It's weaknesses are courage and heart. For the sake of spoilers, I won't go too much into the Ritual of Chüd, but suffice it to say that if you want to defeat It, you've got to have the two traits listed above.

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What is Pennywise's body count?

Pennywise's Kills Add Up Over Time

The number is then multiplied by the number of times Pennywise has awakened -- once every 27 years throughout the 270-year history of Derry, equaling ten times -- to come up with a final tally of between 12,000 and 18,000 dead.

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Do kids beat Pennywise?

The spider-clown shrinks as the Losers hurl taunts at It, until it's tiny and weak enough that they pluck out its heart and squash it into nothingness. In the end, they defeat Pennywise by, uh, making him feel really bad about himself. It author Stephen King.

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What is the age limit for Pennywise?

Great film, but not for kids under 13

I recommend this film to everyone who loves slightly disturbing films and TV shows like me but for anyone under the age of 13 you really should not watch it. It's very gory and contains adult language.

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How long does Pennywise sleep?

It would sleep for millions of years, then, when humans appeared in the area, It awoke and began a feeding cycle lasting about a year: feeding on people's fear and frequently assuming the shape of whatever its prey feared the most. After feeding, It resumed hibernation for approximately 30 years, before reappearing.

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How did Pennywise become evil?

King decided for IT to predominantly take the shape of Pennywise the Dancing Clown because he believes "clowns scare children more than anything else in the world." IT influences the adults of Derry to passively ignore it and not interfere with his attacks on Derry's children.

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Does Pennywise kill adults?

First we have to clarify that Pennywise doesn't kill, he is basically an illusion, It kills. It kills children because they are safer to kill then adults.

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Who was Pennywise first victim?

The cinematic adaptation of Stephen King's IT Chapter Two depicted the satisfying death of Pennywise while subtly hearkening back to Pennywise's first 1988 victim, Bill's brother Georgie.

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Who married Pennywise?

Pennywise, The Dancing Clown, the antagonist of Stephen King's novel, "It" has never been married.

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Is Pennywise a fear?

Does Pennywise use fear? Based on the fact Pennywise frightens and kills children for pleasure, he is dangerous to the town of Derry. Pennywise must consume fear to survive but he choses to make children suffer through their worst fear, when feeding on them, simply for the fact he finds them tasty.

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How was Pennywise born?

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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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 It book ending by revealing the creature's true form was a pregnant spider, implying that it is, in fact, biologically female.

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Does Pennywise have an enemy?

You've also probably read all of King's horror novels, including The Dark Tower series, which reveals that Pennywise's archenemy is The Turtle.

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What are the IT kids afraid of?

Young kids fear "pretend" things.

They fear what might be under their bed or in the closet. Many are afraid of the dark and at bedtime. Some are afraid of scary dreams. Young kids may also be afraid of loud noises, like thunder or fireworks.

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