Why did Pennywise say fear?

It had no specific meaning to Pennywise, this was Bill's mantra throughout the film, which is something that his mother taught him to help him overcome his stutter, which she belived was a psychosomatic reaction to a car crash he was in when he was three.

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Why does Pennywise feed on fear?

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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What does Pennywise fear?

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 was Pennywise's last words?

Image via Warner Bros. Finally, Pennywise is beaten into submission. He scurries away, utters the word "fear," and partially disintegrates before falling into the void. It's a powerful defeat of a powerful monster, and it's satisfaction enough were IT to remain a single film.

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Does Pennywise need fear?

Pennywise thrives on fear and guilt. Joker is an extreme psychopath.

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What was Georgie's fear in IT?

IT, Georgie's fear is IT, an evil creature in his basement that smells of garbage and wants to pull him through the basement stairs and eat him(this creatureis entirelymade up).

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Why did Pennywise stop laughing?

If you are talking about the science when Georgie dies, Pennywise was thinking about his first meal in 27 years, and in Pennywise's words, fear in a kid is like “salting the meat.” So, when Georgie was laughing, Pennywise knew Georgie was not scared so he stopped laughing to make sure he was still fearful.

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Did Pennywise eat Georgie?

As well as having his right arm bitten 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.

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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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What if Pennywise never killed Georgie?

If Georgie hadn't died, the Losers Club wouldn't have fought Pennywise and come back 27 years later to finish IT off.

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How did kids beat Pennywise?

Film: At the house on Neibolt Street, the kids basically do a bunch of damage by impaling It with rods. It looks like they get these weapons from the rusty wrought-iron fence of the house itself. Down in the sewers, during their final encounter, it's much of the same.

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What is Pennywise's worst fear?

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 the scariest scene in IT?

Georgie's Arm ('It')

After a creepy conversation with Pennywise, the killer clown chomps on Georgie's arm, leaving the boy to drag himself to safety as blood pours into the raindrops on the street before he's pulled into the drain by Pennywise, never to be seen again.

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Why does Pennywise go away for 27 years?

IT thrives on chaos; an exact 27-year pattern is way too predictable for a being of pure evil. Rather, IT wakes up roughly every three decades, and stays away for a different period of time.

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Who was Pennywise before he died?

In the novel, It claims that its true name is Robert "Bob" Gray, but decided to be named “It”. Throughout the book, It is generally referred to as male, usually appearing as Pennywise. The Losers come to believe It may be female after seeing it in the form of a monstrous giant spider that lays eggs.

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What is Pennywise's famous line?

It : I'm every nightmare you've ever had. I'm your worst dream come true. I'm everything you ever were afraid of. Pennywise : Kiss me, fat boy!

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Can adults see Pennywise?

Throughout the summer and their trials against Pennywise and the school bullies, the Losers realize that none of the adults in Derry can actually see Pennywise or the horrors he is committing against the children of Derry.

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Can Pennywise hurt adults?

Throughout the novel (and its adaptations), IT kills many, many people, mostly children as their fears are easier to represent (as explained in the novel, the fears of adults are more complex and abstract, making it more difficult for IT to take a specific shape), but it never got to the Losers (at least not when they ...

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What was the losers fear from IT?

In each adaptation, Pennywise attacks his victims by manifesting the thing they fear the most. For the boys in the Losers Club, that fear includes werewolves, mummies, lepers, evil paintings, and even giant birds.

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How did Pennywise get his teeth?

2 as pennywise claims a dying adrian melon. the distended mouth and glittering rows of pointed teeth seen in the films are a product of cgi. but the smile that surrounds them is frighteningly. real actor bill skarsgard spent considerable.

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Why doesn t Pennywise eat 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. Children are relatively powerless and most people (outside of friends and family) soon forget about them.

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Why is Pennywise obsessed with floating?

The simplest and most obvious interpretation is that all the talk of floating is a reference to the fact that Pennywise (aka the titular "It") murders his victims and drags them down to the town's sewer system where he dwells, which is full of water. And what do dead bodies do in water? That's right — they float.

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What is Pennywise's scariest form?

Stanley's Head

After Stanley's untimely death in Chapter Two, Pennywise uses a vision of child Stanley's severed head that has been transformed into a grotesque spider-monster to terrorize the remaining members of the Losers Club.

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