What is Beverly's fear?

The thing she fears most manifests as blood. The first time Pennywise comes to Bev, an explosion of blood covers her entire bathroom. Despite her screams, her father is unable to see it, leaving Bev (and the Losers Club, depending on the version of the story) to clean it all up.

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Why is Beverly so scared of her dad?

Throughout the novel, Beverly is consistently abused by the men in her life. As a child, she is physically abused by her father Alvin. As an adult, due to the repressed memories of Derry, she marries Tom Rogan, who is physically and emotionally abusive towards her.

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What is Beverly's trauma in it?

While no incident of sexual abuse occurs in the film, each scene between Beverly and her father is laced with the understanding of what he wants, and what she knows he wants. Then, the dam breaks: Mr. Marsh chases Beverly through their stark apartment, pins her to the floor, and attempts to abuse her.

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What does Beverly's dad do to her in it?

IT (2017 film)

Unlike the novel or miniseries, Alvin is sexually abusive towards his daughter, Beverly. After she came home from the pharmacy, her father shows up in front of her and passionately sniffs her hair. This cause Beverly to have an emotional breakdown and cuts off her ponytail.

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What is Bill's fear in it?

It shows up as an animated version of George because that is what Bill fears the most at that very moment. He wants his brother back, of course, but he's also racked with misplaced guilt over his brother's death and is scared that his brother, if he were to come back, would blame him for his untimely death.

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What is Beverly's worst fear in IT?

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What is Stanley's worst fear in it?

Stan is one of the two members (alongside Eddie Kaspbrak) of the Losers Club to die, although Stan committed suicide due to his fear of Pennywise, while Eddie is killed by Pennywise.

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What is Stanley's fear?

Answer and Explanation: Stanley fears that his share of the estate of Belle Reve through the Napoleonic code has been taken and wasted frivolously by Blanche's sister.

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Why was Beverly scared of blood?

And so the blood becomes a representation of the fear of her impending womanhood. To put it bluntly, the blood Bev sees is period blood. She is afraid of going through puberty and becoming a woman. She fears this because of her abusive, misogynistic father and the fact that boys and men already sexualize her.

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Why can't Beverly's dad see the blood?

Beverly's father can't see any of the blood in the bathroom. On one level, this is because he's an adult; a major theme of It is that the innate power of childhood and ability to remember childhood fears serve as a crucial weapon against It.

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Why did Beverly sleep with the losers?

Beverly Marsh, the only girl Loser (played by the transcendent Sophia Lillis in the film), takes it upon herself to have sex with each of the boys as a way to help them grow closer together, unifying the Losers Club once again.

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What is Stanley's trauma in IT?

Stanley's personal trauma has to do with his experience with antisemitism, as he is bullied by Bowers for being Jewish.

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Was Beverly's husband abusive?

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Tom Rogan is a minor antagonist in the Stephen King 1986 horror novel IT, its miniseries adaptation, and the film adaptationIT: Chapter Two He is the abusive, violent, and sadistic ex-husband of Beverly Marsh.

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Why did Beverly sleep with everyone in the book?

For … reasons, Beverly Marsh, the only girl in the group, tells her six friends that they need to each have sex with her in order to codify their bond and, somehow, show them the way home.

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Why did Beverly sleep with the boys?

Following the show-down that sees them defeat the nightmare manifestation 'It', the children in the 'Losers Club' find themselves trapped in the sewer. The group's only female character, Beverly, then invites and encourages the boys to have sex with her as the only means of escaping the sewer.

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Did Pennywise have a daughter?

Kersh is Pennywise's daughter.

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Why does Beverly cut her hair in IT?

Her father was a bit incestuous and loved her long red-hair. She cut it to gain her strength and push him away.

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What did Beverly's mom do in IT?

In the It Novel, Elfrida is a woman that works long hours as a waitress at the best restaurant in Derry. She often brings home unsold leftover desserts for her husband's lunch the next day. She looks older than her years, although she apparently enjoys nightly sex with her husband.

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What happens to Beverly's mom?

Elfrida Marsh is a character from Stephen King's novel IT. She is Beverly Marsh's mother and Alvin Marsh's wife. She eventually succumbs to her fatal cancer. In IT (film) and IT: Chapter Two (film) she passed prior to the events of the film.

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Does Beverly sleep with all the losers?

In the 1986 book, Beverly is just 14 but has sex with all the other, even younger, members of the Losers Club. The scene was cut from the new movie but Stephen King has spoken out to defend and explain the controversial moment. He believes people are "more sensitive now" about such issues.

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Did Beverly sleep with Henry?

The Curse Of Derry (in the film)

At one point in her childhood, Beverly was sexually assaulted by Henry and the Bowers Gang.

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Did Beverly get pregnant?

Beverly Crusher got PREGNANT during shore leave with their secret son. Admiral Jean-Luc Picard shockingly realized that Jack Crusher was actually his son on Thursday's episode of Star Trek: Picard on the Paramount+ streaming service.

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What was Richie's biggest fear?

In IT, Richie (played by Finn Wolfhard) admits to his friends that he's terrified of clowns, which is coincidentally the default form that Pennywise takes on. However, in both the book and the 1990 miniseries, his greatest fear is a werewolf, and cutting this from his battle with Pennywise was a mistake.

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What is Mike's fear in IT?

Mike works on his Grandfather Leroy's farm, as his parents died in a fire when he was child. This is the main source of fear that It uses against him. He is also troubled by the town dismissing it as drug induced death and the legacy this leaves him with.

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What were Eddie's last words in IT Chapter 2?

And Eddie wants to say something, and he dies in the middle of his sentence. He says, "Richie, I..." And then goes. It was two different ways of solving the scene. I felt it was a little bit bit overkill, to find, after all that time, to come back and Eddie was still alive.

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