Character Relationship Map: It Chapter Two

Characters

• Beverly Marsh (played by Jessica Chastain) — protagonist

  Brave Losers Club member confronting childhood trauma and leading the fight against Pennywise.

• Bill Denbrough (played by James McAvoy) — protagonist

  Stuttering leader of the Losers Club seeking closure for his brother's death.

• Richie Tozier (played by Bill Hader) — supporting

  Loudmouthed comedian masking deep fears and hidden romantic feelings.

• Mike Hanlon (played by Isaiah Mustafa) — supporting

  The only Loser who stayed in Derry, researching the entity's history.

• Henry Bowers (played by Teach Grant) — supporting

  Psychopathic bully manipulated by Pennywise into hunting the Losers.

• Ben Hanscom (played by Jay Ryan) — supporting

  Architect and historian harboring a lifelong crush on Beverly.

• Pennywise (played by Bill Skarsgård) — supporting

  Ancient cosmic entity feeding on fear, manifesting as a dancing clown.

• Stanley Uris (played by Andy Bean) — supporting

  Pragmatic, organized member who struggles with trauma and takes his own life.

• Eddie Kaspbrak (played by James Ransone) — supporting

  Hypochondriac whose placebo inhalers mask his underlying bravery.

• Dean (played by Luke Roessler) — minor

  Adult character involved in Derry's local events.

• Adrian Mellon (played by Xavier Dolan) — cameo

  Gay man attacked in Derry, victim of hate crime.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Stanley Uris → Ben Hanscom (Social Farewell Letter Writer)

  Stanley wrote the Losers letters prior to his suicide, and the Losers were meant to receive them after his death.

• Stanley Uris → Eddie Kaspbrak (Social Farewell Letter Writer)

  Stanley had written the Losers letters before his suicide to strengthen his friends for their fight.

• Stanley Uris → Richie Tozier (Social Farewell Letter Writer)

  Stanley wrote the Losers letters prior to his suicide, and Richie remains part of the group meant to receive his encouragement.

• Stanley Uris → Beverly Marsh (Social Farewell Letter Writer)

  Stanley wrote the Losers letters prior to his suicide, intending to strengthen his friends against It.

• Stanley Uris → Mike Hanlon (Social Old Friend)

  Stanley is one of the Losers Mike summons to Derry, and Mike is the one who later reveals Stanley's farewell letters to the group.

• Bill Denbrough → Stanley Uris (Social Posthumous Friend)

  Mike reveals to Bill that Stanley had written the Losers letters before his suicide, ending one with 'We're Losers, and always will be'.

• Bill Denbrough → Ben Hanscom (Alliance Childhood Battle-Brother)

  Ben is one of the Losers who gathers at the Neibolt house and convinces Bill not to face It alone before they descend together.

• Bill Denbrough → Eddie Kaspbrak (Alliance Childhood Battle-Brother)

  Eddie travels with Bill and the other Losers to the Neibolt house and descends into the cavern to perform the ritual beside him.

• Bill Denbrough → Richie Tozier (Alliance Childhood Battle-Brother)

  Bill and Richie both return to Derry as Losers Club members, reunite around the childhood oath, and together confront It in the sewers.

• Beverly Marsh → Eddie Kaspbrak (Alliance Oath Keeper)

  Eddie and Richie are both preparing to leave until Beverly reveals her visions of their deaths, changing Eddie's decision to stay.

• Beverly Marsh → Richie Tozier (Alliance Oath Keeper)

  Richie and Eddie decide to leave until Beverly reveals her visions of their deaths if they fail to fulfill their oath to kill It.

• Beverly Marsh → Bill Denbrough (Alliance Fellow Loser)

  Beverly reveals her visions of their deaths to keep the group together, and she and Bill escape the same hallucinatory crisis after Bill releases his...

• Bill Denbrough → Mike Hanlon (Alliance Co-Strategist)

  Mike shows Bill, via a drug-induced vision, that the Ritual of Chüd can defeat It using artifacts from the Losers' past.

• Bill Denbrough → Dean (Social Failed Protector)

  Bill meets Dean while retrieving Georgie's paper sailboat and warns him to leave Derry, but later fails to save Dean from Pennywise at the carnival.

• Richie Tozier → Henry Bowers (Conflict Avenger)

  Richie returns to the library and impales Henry Bowers, killing him before he can finish off Mike.

Story Analysis

The adult Losers reunite in Derry to honor their childhood oath and destroy Pennywise forever.

Plot Progression

1. A New Cycle of Blood
2. Pilgrimage of Buried Relics
3. The Price of Remembering
4. The Broken Ritual
5. Everlasting Losers