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Henry Bowers is the psychopathic school bully and the secondary antagonist of the novel It and its 1990 made-for-TV adaption.
As well as being psychopathic he is also rascist by calling Stan Uris a "nigger", extremely violent,misogynistic, anti semitic. sexist and homphobic. As well as threatening his enemies he also threatens Patrick Hockstetter. In the book if Patrick told anyone about what happened then he would reveal Patrick's secret of Zoosadism. This would mean he would get sent to a mental institution. In the film he threatens to punch Patrick in the mouth. He demonstrates acts of violence during 1958 such as carving his name into Ben Hanscom's belly, killing Mike Hanlon's dog with tainted meat and bathing him in mud to make him a "tar baby", breaking Eddie Kaspbrak's arm, breaking Richie Tozier's glasses numerous times and white washing Stan Uris' face in the snow until it bleeds. His sanity erodes becomes apparent during his attacks on Eddie and Beverly as he pushed a man to the ground and threatened him in going back inside and kicking an old lady's taillight when she tried to stand up for Beverly. After a rockfight in 1957 Henry becomes more and more sadistic and even goes as far as to swear revenge to the losers after the fight. Eventually It gives him a switchblade and his father dies after Henry murders him. Like Buddy Repperton he is the leader of a school gang
In 1958, Henry Bowers and his gang torment the Loser's Club in mulitple ways. Henry Bowers and two of his friends Vic and Belch plan to ambush the Loser's Club when they go into the sewer's to face Pennywise a.k.a. It. Henry kidnaps Stan and plans to kill him. It takes the form of Frankstein's Monster, and kills Vic and Belch in front of him. When Henry sees the deadlights, his hair turns white. In the aftermath of the summer of 1958, Henry - under the influnece of It - confesses to the cops that he was the one who killed them. He also tells them about the deadlights and the clown living in the sewer. The cops don't believe Henry about the clown, arrest him and put him on trial for the murders. Henry is commited to a mental hospital. In the hospital he measures his time he is there for by how many nightlights he burns out and remains there until May 29 1985
In 1985, It is unable beat the Loser's Club alone - so It takes the form of one of Henry's deceased friends, and makes him do It's dirty work. It also kills the guard of the mental hospital in the form of an 8ft tall Dobermann to stop him from preventing Henry Bowers' escape. Henry Bowers eventally found where the members of the Loser's Club were hiding - and Henry stabs Mike with his switchblade (which Mike survives), but Henry accidentally stabs himself when Eddie came in and saved Mike.
Henry was named after Henry Robertson Bowers who was an arctic explorer on the ill fated Terra Nova Expedition