Welcome to Derry’s latest twist that finally explains Pennywise’s surprising origin story

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Welcome to Derry’s latest twist that finally explains Pennywise’s surprising origin story

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for IT: Welcome to Derry, Episode 6Pennywise is the world’s most unique villain. Stephen King universe. The master of horror has created every kind of monster imaginable, from hotel-dwelling ghosts, to a woman who loves her favorite author a little too much, to monsters from another dimension, but none of them have such a hold on our collective psyche. shapeshifting alien that often takes the form of a clown.

In the 1986 novel HEand to a lesser extent, in the 1990 miniseries and two Andy Muschietti-feature films made, we learn more about Pennywise’s origin story. But in the last episode of IT: Welcome to Derry“In the Name of the Father”, a twist that takes its story in a new direction thanks to Ingrid Kersh (Madeleine Stowe). And what does this have to do with a man named Bob Gray?

“Welcome to Derry” reveals that Ingrid brought children to Pennywise

There are five children at the center IT: Welcome to Derrybut the one that gets the most attention is Lilly Bainbridge (Clara Pile). This tragic young girl’s life was absolute hell even before the underground entity appeared. A year before, her father was killed in an accident at the pickle factory where he worked, and she still blames herself. Lilly eventually collapsed and spent time in Juniper Hill Psychiatric Hospital, but life didn’t get any better when she was released. The kids at school make fun of or talk about her, and her best friend, Marge (Matilda Lawler) retired to hang out with the popular girls.

When the entity surfaces, Lilly’s first new group of friends are killed right in front of her. Then, after the monster appears to her in the form of her mutilated and dead father, she collapses again and is admitted to Juniper Hill again. This is where she found one of the few adults who truly cares about her, a housekeeper named Ingrid. Rather than sending her away, Ingrid believes Lilly when she talks about impossible monsters. So, after a fight with Ronnie (Amandine Christine), following the horror that happens in the sewers in episode 5, Lilly goes by bike to Ingrid’s house, looking for comfort. Instead, she finds someone who isn’t as trustworthy.

It’s not really difficult to discover that Ingrid is not who she says she is. After all, she was way too nice, and this is a horror show after all. In Ingrid’s attic, Lilly discovers a photograph of the governess as a little girl standing next to her father, a bald man in a suit who looks a little too much like Pennywise and the iconic clown, is played by Bill Skarsgard. When Lilly then sees a photo of the clown from the sewers, she is understandably scared, but Ingrid is excited. She found it! His father was a carnival performer in the early 1900s and played a clown named Pennywise.. However, something happened and he disappeared, so Ingrid stayed in Derry.

When she started working at Juniper Hill and a girl started talking about a clown, Ingrid took her to the basement. There was Pennywise – in the form of his father’s clown. After killing the little girl, he then appeared as her father without makeup, asking to be let in. Rather than being a simple villain, Ingrid believed that this version of Pennywise was related to her father. If she took enough children into the entity at that point, and if she could get Pennywise to appear now, she could somehow free her father.. And although Lilly cuts her off and runs away, we last see Ingrid donning her clown costume, so certain she can bring her father back.

Stephen King’s novel ‘IT’ mentions the mysterious Bob Gray

If you are a big fan of HE, the novel, and then seeing the photo of Skarsgård without makeup as Ingrid Kersh’s father will immediately make you think of Bob Gray, even though she never says the name. Bob Gray is the mysterious human form of Pennywise, which King mentions in his book but never fully explains.. Welcome to Derry is now looking to flesh out the name behind the character. Co-creator of the series Jason Fuchs Customs TV Guide:

“We’re excited to understand why the shapeshifter chose to come back, again and again, in the form of Pennywise. And what was that first meeting with Bob Gray? What was it like? Who is Bob Gray? We have a lot of why we want answers, and the story of Bob Gray and the story of Pennywise are definitely in that bucket.”

In the novel HEPennywise is called Robert Gray at one point, but it’s never explained in detail what that means. Was there a man named Bob Gray that the entity possessed so it could live among humans? like it was one of them? Was Bob Gray an original form that Pennywise took for the same nefarious reason? Seeing Pennywise as a clown is scary enough, but perhaps it’s even more terrifying knowing that he could be out there, among us and invisible, just like any other person, manipulating humans toward their demise.

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Bob Gray is briefly mentioned in Computer science: chapter two as well as during the scene where an adult Beverly Marsh (Jessica Chastain) visits an old woman named Mrs. Kersh, who shows him a photo of a man and a girl standing in front of a circus cart that reads “The Great Pennywise, the Dancing Clown”. Mrs. Kersh tells Beverly that this man is her father. However, a few minutes later, she is revealed to be the entity in human form, and not the old woman at all.

In Welcome to DerryMuschietti and his writers appear to have finally given Bob Gray an origin story. He was a real man, a carnival worker dressed as a clown called Pennywise. Somehow the entity reached him and killed Bob Gray, but intrigued by the clown’s form, perhaps even seeing how clowns scare children so easily, he decided to use Pennywise as his preferred form of shapeshifting.. And with Ingrid so torn over the loss of her father, would it be easier to manipulate the poor woman than by appearing as the unmade-up form of her father into causing even more victims to the alien?

Will Ingrid help Pennywise against the new group of losers?

Madeleine Stowe as Ingrid in “IT: Welcome to Derry”

Until the moment of this revelation in IT: Welcome to DerryIngrid was an adult we trusted and rooted for. Not only was she so kind and caring to Lilly, but she also had a terrible home life with her alcoholic husband, and we saw how much she secretly loved Hank Grogan (Stephen Rider) while struggling to protect him from the Derry mafia, who have decided that the black man must be a child killer.

Ingrid is not written to be a one-note antagonist. She really likes Hank, and maybe she really cares about Lilly. We certainly understand why she believes in seeing monsters now! Yes, it seems like she fed Pennywise some other children from Juniper Hill, but in her destroyed mind, it’s about saving the father she believes is still alive and can be brought back. When she asks Lilly if she would do the same to bring her father back, it’s easy to see how similar these two people are. They both experienced the same tragedy and are forever broken by it. The huge difference is that Lilly is stronger. She accepts her father’s death and is determined to fight back with everything she has in her, while Ingrid was too weak; her grief led her to be easily manipulated into serving the killer clown for the wrong reasons.

Ingrid has been waiting 27 years for the return of the entity, and once 1962 arrives, she is there, disguised as a clown, doing her part to bring fear to life in these new children. Now that Pennywise is back, will she serve him, doing whatever she must to deliver Lilly and the others to the monster? Will she become another victim who finds her father in death, or can she be saved?

Lilly’s life becomes more tragic because of this episode, and now she has lost the only adult she trusted.. But she certainly won’t end up like Ingrid. The housekeeper of Juniper Hill is lost to Bob Gray’s spell, but our heroine won’t let her father’s accidental death destroy her too. She has a dagger made from a fallen star to ensure this.

IT: Welcome to Derry premieres Fridays on HBO Max and streams every Sunday night on HBO.