![]() For Richie, it's unlikely that there would be lingering fallout from seeing the deadlights like there was for Beverly since its influence seems to dissipate at the end of Chapter Two, allowing the Losers to remember each other this time.Īs you probably would expect from a celestial creature, It's powers are not restricted to embodying your worst nightmare driving people insane with his space lights, but It is best known for Its shape-shifting abilities. Once the connection is broken, however, Richie also recovers quickly, unlike Audra's in the novel, whose catatonic state lasts long after she and Bill return home after the battle with It. Richie also gets a full blast of the Deadlights in Chapter Two, instantly stopped dead in his tracks, he starts to float slack-jawed in the air. Those turn out to be visions of the fates that await them if they fail to fight against It. She already knew how Stan died, finishing his wife's sentence on the phone, and as she explains later, she has seen them all die in her dreams every night since leaving Derry. In IT Chapter Two, we learn that Beverly was changed by that encounter, even when she couldn't remember it. In the films, glimpsing the deadlights don't seem to have the same devastating effect that it does in the novel, but there were some interesting side effects. When Beverly is shown the deadlights, she instantly goes catatonic and dead-eyed, floating in Pennywise's cistern until Ben resurrects her with a classic true love's kiss, but once she does, she recovers quickly. We also see subtle hints of the deadlights when Pennywise's eye glow orange throughout the film, first when he terrorizes Mike and again when he retreats to the Well House after the Niebolt street battle. In the film, it's Beverly who glimpses the deadlights when Pennywise unhinges his jaw and reveals a peek at his true form. In the books, Bill nearly glimpses the deadlights and survives, but the only person to fully see the deadlights and recover is his wife Audra. After the Losers Club bands together and manages to hurt It for the first time in Its existence, throwing off the predictable cycle of safety It has always known, It begins to fear for the first time there may be an even greater Other.īeyond Its physical form lies what It calls the deadlights, a sea of destructive orange lights that drive most humans insane upon sight. The Turtle is believed to be Maturin, the same benevolent god-creature that factors heavily into King's 'The Dark Tower' series. ![]() It considers the Turtle inferior, but the only other creature near It's status. It's mortal enemy is a great Turtle, a fellow resident of the Macroverse who, according to It, accidentally belched up our universe in a fit of indigestion. Its physical form lives in our world as a shape-shifting manifestation of your worst nightmares, but in King's novel things get much, much weirder, Its true form is a Lovecraftian, ambiguous demigod that lives in the so-called Macroverse - an unnameable and unknowable malevolent force that considers itself Eternal. ![]() That hunger for tasty, tasty, beautiful fear is pretty much the sole reason It returns to Derry, Maine every 27 years to torment and feed on the townsfolk before retreating into a new cycle of slumber. This is why he prefers to feast on children - their fears are simple, pure, and powerful compared to the complex, pathological fears of adults. According to It, when humans got scared, "all the chemicals of fear flooded the body and salted the meat". It feasts on the flesh of humans simply because our fears are easy to manifest and they make us taste better. In both the book and the films, It is an ancient alien creature, older than civilization, and in King's novel, older than our universe. But what exactly is It? Well, that's not super easy to answer, but let's give it a try. Whether you grew up on Stephen King's novel, Tim Curry's iconic performance in the 1990 miniseries, or just met the dancing clown via Bill Skarsgard's unique but equally terrifying performance in Andy Muschietti's two-part film adaptation, the consistent through-line is that the creature known as It is an ungodly manifestation of our most primal fears. Be aware there are spoilers for IT Chapter Two (2019), IT (2017), the 1990 miniseries, and Stephen King's novel.
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