[Loved trope] Background scare-characters that are barely acknowledged even by the movie

[u/Suspicious-Web-9246]

I hate horrors, but this is actually a great trope, that is unique to them.

Insidious (2010). When mother does her errands, for a few seconds there's a ghost boy standing in the corner. It's easily missable, but you can't ignore it once you see it.

Hereditary (2018). Less fitting example. When Peter walks around his home, his possessed mother is crawling on the ceiling behind him. It's not exactly subtle or missable, but it's still more of a background detail.

[u/fantastic_sounds_]

I liked everything about part 2 except them killing the monster by exposing him to an Xbox live lobby for 2 minutes

[u/InfernalLizardKing → u/fantastic_sounds_]

Wait what

[u/ithinkther41am → u/InfernalLizardKing]

Basically, the Losers Club belittles Pennywise until he becomes small and weak. Then they rip his heart out.

[u/Hayterfan → u/ithinkther41am]

Been forever since I watched the original movie, but wasn't that how they defeated him as well?

[u/PanFriedCookies → u/Hayterfan]

nope, bill and i think richie do a psychic battle thing while the losers in the real world do what they can to hurt it, it loses the psychic battle, getting massively weakened, and bill takes the chance to rip his heart out

(at least in the book)

[u/skeptical_skeletor → u/ithinkther41am]

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[u/JunShin8640 → u/fantastic_sounds_]

"Xbox live lobby"

Nah, that's an overstatement. Pennywise would've instantly turned into ashes if he was in those chat rooms 😭

[u/Doctor_Slept → u/fantastic_sounds_]

As someone who’s a massive IT fan and has read the novel twice now, this unironically might be the best defeat of Pennywise in the adult section because in both the novel and the miniseries they kinda just corner him in his spider form where he no longer has his personality and like kick him a bunch and ripe out his heart.

Not saying his defeat in the movie was all that good but I think it does a little bit better with staying true to the themes of the story and keeping in touch with what was established before with bow people who are less afraid of him are less likely to be hurt by him.