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.
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.
Alvin "Al" Marsh is a supporting antagonist of the novel IT, the miniseries, and its 2017 film adaptation of the same name. He was the spouse of the Elfrida Marsh and the insane, abusive father of Beverly Marsh in IT.
In the first part she bashes his brains in with a toilet lid and we see a not breathing him laying dead on the floor by Bill. In the end of it Beverly says she is going to go live with her Aunt.
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.
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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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.
Kersh is Pennywise's daughter.
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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His phobia seems to stem from a mental illness his mother suffers from known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy, which manifests in her relentless “worrying” about his health.
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.
However, Richie is no match for It either, and soon it is Eddie, in a scene reminiscent of his encounter with the Crawling Eye, who jumps forward to save them by spraying the Spider with his asthma medicine, which his imagination believes is poison, thus making it so.
Beverly's personal trauma is sexual assault. Her father abuses her in the novel, and it is alluded to in the films. Even her father touching her hair disgusts her enough to cut it all off.
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.
The Curse Of Derry (in the film)
At one point in her childhood, Beverly was sexually assaulted by Henry and the Bowers Gang. When Beverly was coming home from school, Henry Bowers, Victor "Vic" Criss and Reginald "Belch" Huggins saw the opportunity to attack her.
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.
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.
Just like the book, Alvin does not seem sexually attracted to his daughter. Although he still abuses her, it seems he is very overprotective of his daughter, Beverly. Unlike the novel or the 2017 remake, Beverly seems to trust her father a little bit, since she does call for his help whenever she needs him.
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.
Rooted in her father's advances, Beverly Marsh has always had a fear of being a woman. In 2017's IT, we watched as a young Beverly started her period, consumed by the fear of what that meant and how it would further her father's obsession with her.
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.
Despite kissing Bill and reliving her childhood, Bev ends the sequel fully realizing her feelings for Ben. They share a passionate underwater kiss in the Derry quarry, and a flash-forward reveals they leave the town as a couple — their last scene is them watching the sunset on a yacht, clearly very much in love.
First Kiss — Bill was Bev's first kiss in the play. Holding Hands — In IT: Chapter One, in the group circle. Held Gaze — Them pining for each other multiple times in both Chapter One and Chapter Two. Romantic False Lead — Bev gets with Ben at the end of the movie/book even after her teased romance with Bill.