Richie's trauma was never really explored in the first film. Richie swears he never even saw Pennywise, which is revealed to be a lie in Chapter 2. But only to the audience, not to the rest of the Losers Club.
In IT, Richie (played by Finn Wolfhard) admits to his friends that he's terrified of clowns, which is coincidentally the default form that Pennywise takes on. However, in both the book and the 1990 miniseries, his greatest fear is a werewolf, and cutting this from his battle with Pennywise was a mistake.
The connection between his young arcade crush, the homophobic slurs, and Pennywise's mention of his "dirty little secret" seems like a deliberate cinematic thread indicating that his secret was being attracted to a boy, or boys in general.
In the 2017 movie adaptation, It lured Richie into a room by taking the form of Eddie Kaspbrak. Pennywise knows of Richie's love for Eddie, so he taunts him with it. The room was filled with clowns, which in the movie were Richie's biggest fear.
What did Pennywise mean when he said I know your secret?
When he has to find his token, he's taken back to a memory at the arcade when he shared a moment with another boy, and was then called gay by Henry Bowers and his gang. Pennywise also taunts him with a refrain of "I know your secret!," and insists that the other Losers won't understand or accept it once revealed.
They reach the conclusion that Pennywise has all of the adults under some sort of spell that prohibits them from seeing him. The adults of Derry are shown to be villainous in their own right as well. The adults of Derry are shown to be true villains of the story in the same way as Pennywise.
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.
We learn that Richie Tozier, the fast-talking, foul-mouthed teenager (played by Finn Wolfhard) who grew up to be a popular stand-up comedian (Bill Hader) is gay and has been secretly in love with his friend and fellow club member Eddie Kaspbrak (played as an adult by James Ransone).
After leaving the arcade as an adult, Richie again has an encounter with It in the town square during which It, as Pennywise, threatens to reveal Richie's “dirty little secret,” implying that he will out him as gay.
Well, the simple answer would be an emphatic no. As was demonstrated in IT Chapter One, the pair were close in the book — with Richie even going on to kiss Eddie on the cheek following his sacrifice. However, there was nothing to imply that their dynamic was anything but a deep friendship.
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Richie always calls Eddie "Eds" or "Eddie Spaghetti" and has even called him "Eddie my love." He often calls Eddie cute as well, just to get a reaction from him, and Eddie is not always pleased about this.
For the boys in the Losers Club, that fear includes werewolves, mummies, lepers, evil paintings, and even giant birds. When we finally see Bev's fear, it is something a bit simpler and much more rational than any of the boys. The thing she fears most manifests as blood.
One of those attacks resulted in Losers Club member Eddie breaking his arm while trying to get away from It; he is left with a heavy-duty cast, which a bully defaces with a big old "loser." So Eddie attempted a little DIY redecoration, by turning the word into a makeshift "lover."
Richie was the most light-hearted member of the Losers' Club. The fear and terror didn't take control of him like it did the others. Richie had the nickname, "Trashmouth," for his constant use of foul language. That mouth frequently got him in troubles with adults and bullies in town, like Henry Bowers.
“Beep beep, Richie,” Stan hissed, elbowing his friend sharply in the ribs and hoping none of the other losers had heard his comment. Richie had caught Stan eyeing Bill a few times now and, while Stan had still refused to admit it out loud, incessantly teased him about his crush.
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. It feasts on the flesh of humans simply because our fears are easy to manifest and they make us taste better.
The Atlantic said of the character; "the scariest thing about Pennywise, though, is how he preys on children's deepest fears, manifesting the monsters they're most petrified by (something J. K. Rowling would later emulate with boggarts)." British scholar Mikita Brottman has also said of the miniseries version of ...
The cinematic adaptation of Stephen King's IT Chapter Two depicted the satisfying death of Pennywise while subtly hearkening back to Pennywise's first 1988 victim, Bill's brother Georgie.
He scares them and then kills them. This process seems to capture them in some fashion, presumably in his deadlights, which are closer to his true form. It seems like he doesn't enjoy killing those who aren't afraid of him, or perhaps he only has power over those who are afraid of him.
IT arrived on Earth through an event similar to an asteroid impact, landing in what would later become Derry, Maine. Once there, IT adopted its usual pattern of hibernation that lasted between 27 and 30 years, awakening to kill and eat and then going back to sleep.
