Henry Bowers

Henry is portrayed by 16-year-old Nicholas Hamilton. In this adaption, Henry has a dirty blonde mullet and wears sleeveless T-shirts and torn jeans.

Henry Bowers is portrayed as sociopathic and sadistic, traits that together make him the perfect human puppet for the entity known as It. As a student, Henry is academically deficient in middle school, not very intelligent but very cunning and crafty. He spends much of his time working on his father's farm on the outskirts of Derry, performing most of the manual labor involved. He has grown up without a mother, who left the family because of her husband's alcoholism and untreated post-traumatic stress disorder as a veteran of World War II. Henry himself is often abused by his drunken father.

Henry and his small gang of bullies often terrorize and physically abuse the members of The Losers Club. Eventually, the group's members learn to fight back, often defeating Henry by outwitting him. Though Henry is often hurt, even severely, his will, manipulated by It, seems to make him unstoppable. He is often kicked or hit in the crotch, an injury that would halt most boys his age and size. However, as the Losers often note, he is back on his feet in very little time and it takes a tremendous effort to stop him even for a short period.

At the age of 10, Henry kills Mike Hanlon's dog, Mr Chips, when he feeds the animal ground beef he'd laced with rat poison, sitting back serenely watching the dog die. For years before this deed, Henry had been subjected to Butch Bower's racist opinion of Mike's father, whose own farm down the road was more successful than the Bowers'. Butch simply blames Hanlon for every misfortune he has and claims that the rest of the community had lied in their support of Hanlon. Killing Mr Chips was Henry's way of winning his father's affection; his reward was joy from Butch and being treated to a beer.

Sometime during the summer of 1958, Henry receives a package from It that contains a switchblade with a six-inch blade. He uses it to murder his father and it becomes his primary weapon to threaten the Losers, on whom he's vowed revenge.

Henry openly attacks the Losers whenever he spots them in Derry. Though several adults try to stop him, their own fear, and perhaps the collective community fear of It, keeps them from stopping him outright. When he breaks Eddie Kaspbrak's arm outside a local store, the store's proprietor tries to intervene, only to be halted when Henry shoves the man to the ground. While attacking Beverly Marsh, a woman driving a car pulls up to the curb, shouting for him to let Beverly go, only to be scared off when Henry brandishes his switchblade.