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[It] What is the extent of Pennywise's Strength/Vulnerabilities?

This is regarding the most recent It movies (not the books, that's too bonkers).  Pennywise seems to be defeated easily sometimes, but other times he is completely unstoppable.  He spends a really long time just inches from eating someone, but one swift kick to the nuts and he's down.  Why is he beaten so easily most of the time?

Bonus question:. I thought he just ate kids.  What the hell happened to that couple on the beginning?
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IT’s powers and strength is to the extent on which form he takes. When he was a leper Eddie was able to overpower him because a leper is physically weak. People are also able to defeat/push back IT when they overcome their fear and strike with the belief that the weapon/object at hand will cause harm then IT will feel pain.

The hate crime on the gay couple was to signify the return of IT since there must always be a tragedy to hail its return and another ending tragedy to signal the feasting time to be over. In the first movie Georgie was the first tragedy and Powers was supposed to go on a mass murder spree to herald the end.

Child or adult IT will still kill/eat you, it’s just that IT loves children more because they have such a wide variety of fear and scare more easily in their everyday life like monsters to the simple dark. Compared to an adult when the biggest cause of concern at the end of the day is paying the rent.