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Details: Mike Hanlon

These are a bunch of facts about Mike that I’ve gathered from the book with quotes to support them! (Sorry, no page number citations, I like keeping some sanity.)

- he loves spring, and he heavily associates it with spending time with his dad.

[”Spring’s here again. We’re all waking up. And in his soul he would raise a silent cheer that shook the walls of that mostly cheerful room. He felt love for everything around him, and most of all for his dad...”]

[”Spring’s here again, thank You God, thank You very much.”]

[”Spring was a busy time, but it was a good time.”]

- he’s left handed!

[”Mike Hanlon’s writing was large and awkward because he was lefthanded and the angle was bad for him.”]

- he loved peanut butter and onion sandwiches, much to the chagrin of his mother.

[”...he was particularly partial to peanut-butter-and-onion sandwiches, a taste that made his mother raise her hands in helpless horror...”]

- he never quite finishes grieving over his father’s death-- or the way that he went.

[”I got reading... and surprised myself by bursting into tears over my father, who has now been dead for twenty-three years.”]

[”But I was most afraid that no matter what shape It took, It would have my father’s cancer-raddled face.”]

[”...it seemed to me then and it seems to be now that when a man or woman goes it should be a quick thing. The cancer was doing more than killing him. It was degrading him, demeaning him.”]

- he played football in high school.

[”Mike Hanlon wove his way through them as he would later weave his way through the opposing lines of nearly a dozen high school football teams...”]

[”in high school he would make the varsity football team as a tailback his sophomore year, and was only kept from breaking the school’s all-time scoring record by a broken leg halfway through his senior season.”]

- and played the trombone in his church school’s band.

[”The Church School had a band in which Mike played the trombone.”]

[”Although his trombone playing was not much better than Richie’s Voices, he was fond of the instrument, and whenever he felt blue a half hour of foghorning Sousa marches, hymns, or patriotic airs cheered him right up again.”]

- Mike considered publishing his historical findings on Derry, Pennywise, and the story of the Losers.

[”The segment below and all other Interlude segments are drawn from ‘Derry: An Unauthorized Town History,’ by Michael Hanlon. This is an unpublished set of notes and accompanying fragments of manuscript... found in the Derry Public Library Vault. The title given is the one written on the cover of the looseleaf binder in which these notes were kept prior to their appearance here. The author, however, refers to the work several times as ‘Derry: A Look Through Hell’s Back Door.’ One supposes the thought of popular publication had done more than cross Mr. Hanlon’s mind.”]

- as an adult, he’s interested in one of his co-workers.

[”I joke with Carole Danner about how much I would like to go to bed with her, and she jokes back about how much she’d like to go to bed with me, and both of us know that she’s really joking and I’m really not...”]

- he wears glasses as an adult.

[”I lie there in bed wearing my conservative blue pajamas, my spectacles neatly folded up and lying on the nighttable next to the glass of water I always put there...”]

- he tends to get stuck on things when fixated on them.

[”But I’m doing my own Bill Denbrough here, stuttering over the same ground again and again, reciting a few facts and a lot of unpleasant... suppositions, growing more and more obsessive with every paragraph.”]

[”I’m doing it again. Going over and over the same ground, doing nothing constructive, only cranking myself up to the screaming point.”]

- he attended the University of Maine, but otherwise never really spent any time outside of Derry.

[”I was born here, in Derry Home Hospital; attended Derry Elementary School; went to junior high at Ninth Street Middle School; to high school at Derry High. I went to the University of Maine--‘ain’t in Derry, but it’s just down the rud,’ the old timers say--and then I came right back here. To the Derry Public Library.”]

- Henry Bowers hates him the most out of all the losers, because of his race and also because of their familes’ history of conflict (that stems from racism). (Basically, racism^2.)

[”One day when we got up, there was a swastika painted on the side of the chickenhouse and all the chickens were dead. Someone had poisoned their feed. ...And who do you think it was? ...Why it was Butch Bowers, that’s who!]

[”So I got my two hundred dollars and Butch swore he was going to burn me out. ...So I caught up with him one afternoon. ...I cut him off on Witcham Street... and got out with my Winchester rifle.”]

[”Well, I’d had enough of the whole thing, Mikey. And I knew if I didn’t scare him off for good right then I’d never be shed of him.”]

[”[Will] had once taken Butch Bowers by the hair and jammed his rifle into the shelf of his chin and demanded of Butch to be left alone.”]

[”Butch Bowers associated his financial, physical, and mental decline with the Hanlon family in general...”]

[I’m not going to put the direct quote for this because it contains about 7 repetitions of the n-word but basically Butch constantly insists to Henry that any inconvenience they experience is Will Hanlon’s fault.]

- Mike does the exhibits for the Canal Days Museum.

[“A Canal Days Museum was installed in three empty storefronts downtown, and filled with exhibits by Michael Hanlon...”]

- He was/presumably is Baptist

[”His mother was a devout Baptist and Mike was therefore sent to the Neibolt Street Church School.”]

- As a kid, he’s physically described as follows

[”In 1958 Mike was slim and well built, taller than Stan Uris but not quite as tall as Bill Denbrough. He was fast and agile...”]

- As an adult, he's 5' 7"

[I literally can't find the quote for this y'all just gonna have to trust me. Cyan not sus just go with it. If I find it I'll come back with an edit.]

#mike hanlon #tw racism #tw antisemitism #tw animal death #tw gun mention #long post #it stephen king #stephen king's it #details series #listen i love him and ik people who haven't read the book which is understandable are missing a lotta mike #so i thought i'd jot down a buncha details about him to help #this is in no way comprehensive #just some things i've noted and i may come back with more #will hanlon #we literally STAN will hanlon ugh king #I'm finally posting this bc I'm tired of it sitting in my drafts

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big thots on loser club members?

i’m gonna assume this is just like general onions soooo lets go clowns

eddie kaspbrak: i love this mf anxiety ridden gay gremlin comedy king so much....... rlly hate fanon’s interpretation boiling him down to a soft uwu babie cinnamon roll when he’s so complex and multifaceted and literally one of the bravest characters, not just against IT but against his abusive mother. He’s a rage filled lil shit but GOD LIKEKEKEKKDKK he is so fucking loyal and loves his friends so much it makes my heart burst. Has some of the best lines in the movie and like all his little ramblings and idiosyncrasies just make him feel so real and 🥺 . Ugh I will die for HIMMMMMMMMM like 🥺🥺🥺 (sorry for roasting u so much in he’s all that😞 i swear it’s out of love) (but speaking of GAY HAT!!!!!!)

richie tozier: this stoner bicon,,,,, king of hawaiian shirts,,,,, probably the character i relate most to (other than eddie but then again i feel like we all project on them so NXNXNNXNX). He’s just SO fucking dumb and funny but underneath it theres rlly just some sad ass shit like lemme hug u..... no dont breathe on me u smell but i will still hug u....... honestly deserves to get his shit rocked a couple times in the movie but we still love him✨ literally a legend like who else has the range of stealing marching band instruments and calling a demon clown a crackhead before bashing its brains?

bill denbrough: WHY!!! DO!!!! Y’ALL!!! HATE!!!! HIM!!!!! I don’t get it like yes bill rarely has the group braincell but he rlly does love his friends. He is sympathetic and always sees the best in people. He protects his friends. He is a FASHION. ICON. Jorts king. I love that he adores his friends but i also love when he’s silently judging them when they’re being dumb as shit like the face he makes is so funny dncncn. His story is so SO depressing and makes me just fucking bawl every single time. Bill’s emo ass already hates himself enough stop it y’all.

beverly marsh: queen. Absolute queen. She is such a badass bitch and really deserves SO much better. Her interactions with men were scarier than any scene with pennywise. Other than mike she is probably the most well balanced character as in, yeah shes dumb sometimes but shes usually p logical and kind and generous. i love how sentimental she is, how she keeps the poems and the princess and the frog playbill, etc she just deserves such more love. Hella brave i just love herrrrr

stanley uris: tbh i always liked stan but wasn’t quite as like Love You King until my last rewatch a few weeks ago,,,,,, it rlly just clicked for me. like he is so over everyone and deadpan and hilarious in a subtle way that eddie and richie are not and i made me love him sm. (Awful timing, considering, you kno). His bar mitzvah scene deSERVED TO BE IN THE FINAL CUT but wyatt said something abt him having a monologue in chapter 2 so👀. The scene where stanley is yelling that they left him alone and they aren’t his friends is literally so fucking sad and breaks me every time. Love u funky vampire weekend prep bird loving gay.

mike hanlon: AHHHHH OH MY GOD OH MY GOD THE SEROTONIN RUSH I FEEL THINKING OF HIMMMMMMM. mike is so kind and gentle and amazing like are u kidding. Im still angry we didnt see more of him in chapter one (and that they gave parts of his story to ben) but hopefully he has a bigger role in chapter two. I love how much he loves his friends and wants to hold onto them forever. I love that he doesnt want to cause any harm in this world. He deserves more love and recognition in this fandom.

ben hanscom: admittedly, he’s probably the loser im the least !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Over but i still do enjoy him, it just hard for me to get a grasp on who he is bc part of him is just.... mike lmao. (He also has the least loud personality tho but thats a good thing with all these bitches NXNXKKCKC) However, GOD he is so soft and romantic its 🥺. I love that he’s a huge fucking nerd cnncnc and also the part where he fucking S C R E A M S during the rock war is iconic. Also he gave us p*nnywise calling him egg boy, the most important line in any movie ever.

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