IT (2017 Films)

Pennywise - the Dancing Clown

In 1988, the small town of Derry, Maine was descended upon by a child-eating, shape-shifting alien. In its favored form of a demonic clown, It would lure in children to consume or simply leave them comatose, floating in Its lair. When It attempted to attack a small group of friends, their courage and hatred of the monster allowed them to force It into a 27 year long slumber early. However, in 2015, It rises again, causing the Loser’s Club to congregate back in Derry and figure out how to destroy It once and for all.

Shapeshifting

Bites off a child’s arm with rows and rows of fangs (source) (Chapter One)
Backhands a boy through the air (source) (Chapter One)
Holds a girl up by the neck (source) (Chapter One)
Stretches his arm to snatch a child and drag him down a sewer drain (source) (Chapter One)
Bites a chunk out of a man’s chest, killing him (source) (Chapter Two)
Kills a little girl by biting her head (source) (Chapter Two)
Breaks glass by repeatedly headbutting it (source) (Chapter Two)
Can hang Itself on a meat hook for fun (source) (Chapter One)
Crumples his body up to fit inside a refrigerator (source) (Chapter One)
Recovers after being pierced through the eye and head by an iron spike, although It does flee the room because the children are grouped up (source) (Chapter One)
Gets back up after being shot with an air pistol (source) (Chapter One)
Takes a baseball bat to the dome (source) (Chapter One)
Takes being impaled by a piece of metal (source) (Chapter One)
Dashes at a boy while shaking (source) (Chapter One)
Leaps out of a coffin, then leaps at a boy (source) (Chapter One)
Its true form is a giant spider-like monster with blades on the tips of Its eight legs (source) (Chapter Two)
Turns an arm into an extended maw, able to travel nearly the full length of a hallway (source) (Chapter Two)
Turns one of Its spider legs into a tentacle (source) (Chapter Two)
After getting a spike thrown through Its mouth and getting impaled on a stalagmite, It lives (source) (Chapter Two)
Impales Eddy through the torso with a spider arm (source) (Chapter Two)
Becomes a spooky woman from an abstract painting (source) (Chapter One)
As the abstract lady, It can produce an extended mouth full of rows of fangs (source) (Chapter One)
Becomes a headless, burned child to chase Ben (source) (Chapter One)
Appears as a spooky zombified leper (source) (Chapter One)
After appearing in a projector, Pennywise climbs off the wall and assumes an enlarged form, only being dismissed through sunlight (source) (Chapter One)
Appears as a zombified version of a man’s childhood friend to deliver a knife (source) (Chapter Two)
Appears as a naked, tall old lady with long limbs and too many mouths (source) (Chapter Two)
Takes the form of the towering, wooden statue of Paul Bunyan, but is dismissed by Richie (source) (Chapter Two)
Appears as a monster that looks like Georgie with dozens of childrens’ hands (source) (Chapter Two)
Appears as Beverly before lighting Its own head on fire (source) (Chapter Two)
Appears as a zombified version of Stanley with spider legs attached to his severed head (source) (Chapter Two)
The Stanley head monster can still flee the room after being stabbed many times (source) (Chapter Two)
Transforms a hand into a reptilian claw (source) (Chapter One)
Produces several grabbing, burned hands from Its mouth (source) (Chapter One)
Turns Its arms into mantis-like appendages (source) (Chapter One)
Turns Its head into a skeletal mummy, restraining a boy in Its bandages (source) (Chapter One)

Reality Warping/Illusions

Adults can’t even touch Its effects (source) (Chapter One)
Other children can see Its effects and can interact with them (source) (Chapter One)
Makes a sink drain impossibly deep (source) (Chapter One)
Produces hair from a sink drain to grab a girl, then produces an impossible amount of blood to drench her and the room she’s in (source) (Chapter One)
Generates a hole in the floor (source) (Chapter One)
Makes an abandoned apartment building look brand new while Beverly’s inside (source) (Chapter Two)
Creates a bunch of balloons to slowly float down from a height (source) (Chapter Two)
Creates a colossal red balloon that throws people to the ground when it pops (source) (Chapter Two)
When Bill jumps into water, he surfaces back in his childhood basement (source) (Chapter Two)
Floods a bathroom stall with blood while burying an underground cavern in dirt; somehow, through their romantic connection, Bev and Ben can escape their traps (source) (Chapter Two)
Creates a mob of undead children, presumably copies of Its kidnapping victims (source) (Chapter One)
Creates various small, spooky monsters inside a bowl of fortune cookies (source) (Chapter Two)
Helped Henry Bowers escape a mental facility by giving him a knife, destroying the chain link fence and creating a getaway driver for Henry in the form of his zombified childhood friend (source) (Chapter Two)
Creates a copy of Eddy’s mother to make him believe she’s in danger from the zombie leper (source) (Chapter Two)
Creates a Pomeranian that quickly transforms into a monster (source) (Chapter Two)
Illusions seem to go completely unnoticed by adults (source) (Chapter One)
Presents a door with a raging fire behind it, causing hands to reach out and try to escape (source) (Chapter One)
We later learn this is referencing Mike’s past traumas, something that happened while It was hibernating (source) (Chapter One)
Makes a woman in a painting disappear (source) (Chapter One)
Shows a boy his deceased brother, then decomposes the apparition (source) (Chapter One)
Creates a room full of clown dolls and models for a boy afraid of clowns (source) (Chapter One)
Compels a mentally unstable boy to kill his father by speaking to him through the TV (source) (Chapter One)
Creates a firefly to lure a child under the bleachers (source) (Chapter Two)

Deadlights

By producing the Deadlights deep from inside his mouth, It can cause victims to float through the air in a comatose state (source) (Chapter One)
A kiss is enough to take someone out of this state, however (source) (Chapter One)
After It retreats to hibernation, the floating children descend safely (source) (Chapter One)
Beverly, who saw the Deadlights, saw glimpses of the future and knows how all of her friends die (source) (Chapter Two)
Can turn into three floating orbs, which presumably have the same effects as the mouth Deadlights (source) (Chapter Two)
Can produce the Deadlights from the spider form much quicker (source) (Chapter Two)

Other Powers

People don’t recognize the voice of their childhood friend once they leave Derry (source) (Chapter Two)
Mike, who hasn’t left Derry in the 27 years, remembers everything about It (source) (Chapter Two)
Appears from thin air after causing a red balloon to approach a victim (source) (Chapter One)
Produces hundreds of red balloons and disappears once they pass (source) (Chapter Two)
Teleports inside of a locker with Ben (source) (Chapter Two)
Telekinetically closes a door to separate a group of friends (source) (Chapter One)
Forcefully separates and throws Bev and Ben into their own separate illusions (source) (Chapter Two)
Can cause adults to ignore non-supernatural events (source) (Chapter One)
Can cause Its eyes to glow (source) (Chapter One)
Knows that Stanley killed himself by cutting his wrists, an event that happened far outside Derry (source) (Chapter Two)
While invisible, It cuts a message into Ben’s torso. However, when Bev shatters the mirror that It’s visible in, the wounds disappear (source) (Chapter Two)
Frequently seen having two completely different effects active at once (source) (Chapter Two)
When It dies, the cavern It made Its lair and the house above it collapse (source) (Chapter Two)

Weaknesses

Generally speaking, lack of fear makes Its abilities ineffective. Groups of people sticking together have a good track record for surviving or defeating It.
An unloaded air pistol can still harm It if the shooter believes it’s loaded (source) (Chapter One)
After a beating from a group of unafraid children with baseball bats and pieces of metal, It has to retreat for another 27 years (source) (Chapter One)
A confident person is pretty easily able to choke out and incapacitate It in a zombie’s form (source) (Chapter Two)
Being mean and belittling It, rather than expressing fear around It, prevents It from harming you and repels It before It literally shrinks to a weakest form (source) (Chapter Two)
It’s possible that this would only work with a group or with a strong enough belief, as one guy telling himself “It’s not real” is not enough (source) (Chapter Two)
In the weakest form, Its heart can very easily be removed and crushed (source) (Chapter Two)

Miscellaneous

Good at luring in children with exaggerated friendliness (source) (Chapter One)
Responsible for disappearances far back in Derry’s history, with the earliest mass disappearance dating back to 1719 (source) (Chapter One)
Causing fear makes victims taste better, so the goal is mostly to scare before killing (source) (Chapter One)
Puts on a classic dancing clown show for a small audience (source) (Chapter One)
The Pennywise form may have been inspired by a real human clown in the past, or It’s just trying to mess with Beverly here (source) (Chapter Two)
Sends Henry Bowers after the Loser’s Club, as he’s a physical presence they can’t dismiss (source) (Chapter Two)
It arrived on Earth by asteroid a few million years ago (source) (Chapter Two)

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