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* Pennywise from ''[[IT]]'' by [[Stephen King]].

** In the TV miniseries based on the same, [[Tim Curry]]'s portrayal of the role was so creepy, the other actors avoided him even off-camera. He is responsible for a hell of a lot of people's coulrophobia.

** Pennywise isn't confined simply to "IT", ~~you know. He~~ appears in several other Stephen King novels, and plays no direct role. He simply sits in the background, possibly waiting for something.

** Pennywise isn't confined simply to "IT"; he appears in several other Stephen King novels, and plays no direct role. He simply sits in the background, possibly waiting for something. Perhaps the most disturbing is in ''Dreamcatcher,'' where it's mentioned that the monument erected honoring the Losers Club for defeating "It" is defaced by graffiti saying "Pennywise lives."

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** The ironic part is that while It often used its shape-shifting ability to take the form of nightmarish imagery, one of its primary uses for the Pennywise form was to ''attract'' kids. Instead, It gives us a reason to fear clowns: they lure children in with balloons and dancing, and then feed them to the circus lions.

*** Perhaps the most disturbing is in ''Dreamcatcher,'' where it's mentioned that the monument erected honoring the Losers Club for defeating "It" is defaced by graffiti saying "Pennywise lives."

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** The ironic part is that while It often used its shape-shifting ability to take the form of nightmarish imagery, one of its primary uses for the Pennywise form was to ''attract'' kids.

*** That's why clowns are scary. They lure children in with balloons and dancing and then feed them to the circus lions.

* The Ankh-Morpork Fool's Guild in the ''[[Discworld]]'' series realizes that clowns scare and disgust some people. Thus, they prepare their charges through exceedingly harsh conditions to endure a lot of abuse. [[Terry Pratchett]], creator of the series, has described the guild as "the stricter sort of medieval monastery without [the monastery's] non-stop boffo laughs." He also introduces the idea that whiteface clowns are scary even to other clowns because their humor often comes from bullying others. Doctor Whiteface is described as having, under his painted grin, features "cold and proud as a prince of Hell".

** In ''[[Discworld/Making Money|Making Money]]'', Lord Vetinari proposes that some people hate clowns because clowns aren't really funny, but instead tragic:

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** Oh, yes, and they actually kidnap those kids and force them into a life as a clown. Who takes his pain and hatred out on the next frightened kid. Who gets kidnapped and made into a clown. And the cycle of clownery goes on.

* One of the secretaries at the Peoria REC in [[The Pale King]] resembles one.

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