From references to Shawshank Prison to the involvement of The Shining 's Dick Hallorann , IT: Welcome to Derry is full of Stephen King Easter eggs . The show's third episode is no different, bringing in an important element from King's novel that never actually wound up in Andy Muschietti's two IT films.

I'm talking, of course, about slingshots.

In King's IT , the Losers Club uses a slingshot to wound Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård). They discover that silver can hurt It, so they fashion slugs from silver dollars. They designate Beverly as the keeper of the slingshot, since she has the best aim, and she later shoots and wounds It. (Fittingly, It's in werewolf form at that point, making the silver connection land even harder.)

While Bev's shooting prowess made it into the 1990

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