IT Theory What Pennywises Red Balloons Really Mean

IT Theory: What Pennywise’s Red Balloons Really Mean

Pennywise is often carrying a lot of balloons in IT, and there’s a fan theory that offers an interesting meaning to them. Let’s take a look.

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IT Theory What Pennywises Red Balloons Really Mean

A fan theory about IT’s Pennywise and the red balloons he’s often seen carrying offers a new meaning to them – here’s what it is about. Stephen King has been bringing different types of horror stories for decades, but one that has had a big impact on generations of readers is his 1986 novel IT. The story follows a group of kids self-named “The Losers Club” who are terrorized by an evil, shape-shifting creature they call “IT”, and whose preferred form is that of Pennywise, the Dancing Clown. The Losers are forced to confront the creature one final time 27 years later, which also makes them face all their childhood trauma – and not just the one caused by IT.

IT was famously adapted into a TV miniseries in 1990 with Tim Curry as Pennywise. The novel got another TV adaptation years later that not many know about, as it was an Indian version where comedy actor Lilliput portrayed the famous evil clown. Pennywise and the Losers got their first big-screen adaptation in 2017, with the second part (which covered their adult years) released two years later, and with Bill Skarsgård in charge of playing Pennywise. One of the most defining characteristics of Pennywise is that he carries a bunch of balloons (of various colors in the novel, red in the adaptations), which according to a fan theory are more than just an illusion to catch his victims.

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Pennywise is just IT’s preferred form, but its actual appearance is a bit complicated to describe. IT is an ancient, cosmic, evil entity that originated in the Macroverse (a void containing and surrounding the universe), and even though it can take the shape of whatever it wants, its true shape is unknown as it only exists in an inter-dimensional realm referred to as “deadlights”. In the physical realm, its final form is that of a giant female spider, as it’s the closest to the real shape that the human mind can comprehend, but thanks to those who have gotten (dangerously) close to the deadlights, there’s an idea of what they look like. Bill Denbrough described them as writhing, destroying orange lights, and IT as an endless, crawling, hairy creature made of that same light.

The theory, then, suggests that the balloons are a representation of the deadlights and contain the souls of the children killed by IT. The deadlights could be described as a sea of bright, orange balloons, which Pennywise takes a bit too literal. The strings of the balloons resemble the spider legs of IT’s final form, and when taking the films’ representation of the deadlights, they could also be a nod to the strings connected to the deadlights. What makes the balloons float is not helium, but the souls of all the children Pennywise has killed, hence why his famous “they all float down here” quote.

IT is full of symbolism, and the adaptations have their good dose of hidden details too (especially the films), so it’s not outside the realm of possibility that the balloons Pennywise carries around have something to do with his true form and all his young victims, which would also make him even more terrifying. IT’s true form will forever be a mystery and a very complex thing to describe, but the balloons could be an easy way of understanding what it’s about.

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