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It, also known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown and Bob Gray, is the title character and main antagonist of Stephen King's 1986 horror novel ''It''. "It" is a shapeshifting entity who every three decades preys on the local children of Derry, Maine, and, in order to kill them, takes the form of its victims' greatest and most terrifying phobias. "It" can shapeshift, and also possesses a power to control people's actions to achieve evil aims; "It" can take over a person's mind. == Fictional biography == "It" originated before the creation of the universe in a dimension named the "Deadlights", and its true form is never revealed. Because of this, the Losers Club does not know what "It" actually is, giving the creature its name. The form "It" takes the most is that of a sadistic clown, named Pennywise, in order to use it as a decoy when going after a child. In its home under the sewers, "It" takes the form of a monstrous pregnant female black spider, which is the closest to its true physical shape, and lets the Losers look at "It" without making them lose their minds. Having control over what happens in Derry, many of the child murders "It" commits are never solved, as the adults of Derry either act as though nothing is happening or have forgotten about It. The monster arrived on Earth in the form of an asteroid during prehistory, landing on what later would become the town of Derry, and hibernated there until humans settled and colonized the place. "It" awoke, fed on the settlers, and started a cycle of hibernation, in which "It" would sleep for almost three decades and be awake for over two years. Every time the monster's hibernation stage finished, events of extreme violence happened in Derry. In the novel, Mike Hanlon, one of those who had battled against "It" during the 1957-58 period, became Derry's librarian and historian. While investigating the city's dark and violent events, he learned about the monster's cycle: * 1715-1716: "It" awoke. * 1740-1743: "It" awoke; by the time "It" returned to hibernation over 300 settlers from Derry Township had disappeared. * 1769-1770: "It" awoke. * 1851: "It" awoke when a man named John Markson poisoned his entire family; he committed suicide by eating a white nightshade mushroom. * 1876-1879: "It" awoke, and went back into hibernation after murdering a group of lumberjacks who were later found near the Kenduskeag Stream. * 1904-1906: "It" awoke and possessed a lumberjack named Claude Heroux who murdered several anti-union organizers in broad daylight at the Silver Dollar Bar. "It" returned to hibernation after the Kitchener Ironworks exploded, causing the deaths of 102 people, 88 of them children who were on a Easter egg hunt. * 1929-1930: "It" awoke when a large mob of Derry citizens gunned down a group of gangsters known as the Bradley Gang. "It" returned to hibernation after the Maine Legion of White Decency set fire to "The Black Spot", an African American army nightclub. * 1957-1958: "It" awoke with the killing of Dorsey Corcoran by his stepfather, Richard Macklin, and killed George Denbrough during one of the floods that would hit Derry every few years. "It" was forced into an early hibernation after being confronted and wounded by the Losers Club (Bill Denbrough, Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Richie Tozier, Eddie Kapsbrack, Mike Hanlon and Stan Uris). * 1984-1985: "It" awoke when three men beat up Adrian Mellon and Don Hagarty. Throwing Mellon off of a bridge to his death, "It" fed on him. After a series of murders, the Losers, now adults, return to Derry and after the second ritual of Chüd they finally kill "It". After doing so, the whole city of Derry is severely damaged by a huge storm, signifying the monster's definite death. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「It (character)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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