No, the entity known as Pennywise was never a human. "It" is an ancient, malevolent, and trans-dimensional cosmic being that crash-landed on Earth millions of years ago, long before humans existed.
Pennywise came to Earth in an asteroid crash and settled beneath the area that would become Derry. He slept for millions of years, then woke when humans arrived.
Robert "Bob" Gray, otherwise known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown is the human origin for the form favored by It. It claims this to be Its human name in IT. In the Andy Muschietti continuity, Bob Gray is fleshed out as a real person whose identity It adopted.
Pennywise the Dancing Clown isn't based on one specific person but is a creation by Stephen King, inspired by children's fears of clowns and a real-life "Killer Clown," John Wayne Gacy, whose Pogo the Clown persona terrified people, though King conceived of the shapeshifting monster first, combining it with Gacy's infamous image to embody ultimate childhood dread, according to Wikipedia and John Wayne Gacy - Wikipedia.
The demon baby and pennywise the clown are just dofferent forms for the same entiry. IT is an ancient, trans-dimensional entity that can take on literally any form that matches a person's fears, the Deadlights is it's true form.
Pennywise returns every 27 years because that's its natural hibernation cycle after a major feeding spree, allowing it to rest and regain strength, while also ensuring a new generation of children grows up, forgets the horror, and becomes vulnerable prey, perfectly fitting Stephen King's themes of generational trauma and recurring fear. The cycle makes the terror cyclical, hitting a new wave of victims as adults forget the past, making the town ripe for fear again, notes Refinery29.
Pennywise/deadlights can easily eats valak's soul since Valak is a demon but the deadlights is an cosmic entity outside of our universe.. To put it simply, Pennywise is a multiverse threat. And a mere ghost or demon like Valak stand no chance against IT. Pennywise can eat souls and manipulate reality.
When "It" is about to eat Beverly, she displays fearlessness to which Pennywise said it was ok and that he knew what would make her scared. He then proceeds to open his mouth hella wide and reveals 3 small lights inside of him. This somehow scares her enough that she falls victim into the floating trance.
IT represents chaos, evil, and fear, while the turtle is a force of kindness led by compassion, making them direct opposites. Both being interdimensional entities, their powers are at the same level, meaning that the turtle could kill IT if it wanted to.
One of the main reasons is Pennywise the clown's method of preying on his targets. As a narrative, It is pretty straightforward. Based on Stephen King's novel, the movie revolves around a malicious, evil-spirited clown who preys on kids and their fear.
The surface version is that IT realized it could more effectively lure children if it looked like Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and thus adopted that as its favorite form, killing Bob Gray and eating him in the process. Side-note: this is completely original for the TV series.
Pennywise (It) goes into a deep hibernation beneath Derry, Maine Fandom, often in its subterranean lair in the sewers, after being forced back by the Losers' Club, using the ~27 years to mature, rest, and regain strength before awakening for its next cycle of terror. This ancient, trans-dimensional entity feeds on fear and emerges roughly every 27 years to cause mass destruction in Derry, its chosen feeding ground, before retreating again.
It (also commonly known as Pennywise) is an ancient alien/eldritch monster and the title character and main antagonist of Stephen King's best selling and award winning 1986 novel of the same name and two duology film adaptations (IT (film) and IT: Chapter Two).
It was seemingly able to reproduce by itself when it laid eggs at the end of it chapter two. But since it can also give birth like humans do. It either uses reality warping powers to make it so pregnant or it actually managed to seduce a poor soul into falling in love with it.
Ingrid is a main character in IT: Welcome to Derry, where it is revealed that Ingrid Kersh is the daughter of Bob Gray, the original Pennywise the Dancing Clown performer from 1908, and intended to perform alongside him as Periwinkle.
The tall man is also an interdimensional being who can manipulate time, space, and death to his liking. He would easily be able fight back against Pennywise's illusions which essentially would make Pennywise weaker. I think the obvious next pick for this would be Pinhead.
In the original IT book, Pennywise frequently introduces himself by that name (EG: “I, Georgie, am Mr. Bob Gray, also known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.”), implying that “Bob Gray” is the real name behind the Pennywise the Dancing Clown character.
The teeth prosthetics that Bill Skarsgård wore as Pennywise made him drool profusely. Director Andy Muschietti liked this as that the drooling adds onto the ravenous nature of Pennywise. Pennywise has only four minutes of dialogue in the entire film.
As well as having his right arm bitten clean off, Georgie is trying to crawl away but he was dragged into the sewers and devoured by Pennywise, with an unnamed older woman and her cat being the sole witnesses of the horrific scene, including before Georgie lost his arm.
Essentially, the Deadlights are a universal representation of cosmic evil that powerful entities, like IT and the Crimson King, can access or embody.
Valac is a demon described in the goetic grimoires The Lesser Key of Solomon (in some versions as Ualac or Valak and in Thomas Rudd's variant as Valu), Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (as Volac), the Liber Officiorum Spirituum (as Coolor or Doolas), and in the Munich Manual of Demonic Magic (as Volach) as an ...