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Oscar “Butch” Bowers
One of the trio of bullies, including Henry Bowers and “Belch” Huggins, who torment members of the self-identified Losers’ Club. He wears his hair in an Elvis pompadour. He is a quick runner and a fastball pitcher, which sometimes makes him more physically threatening than Henry, though he is less violent. Criss dies in 1958, along with Belch, at the age of twelve. Henry witnesses him getting his head torn from his body by something he describes as “the Frankenstein-monster.” When Henry is an institutionalized adult, he has a vision of Victor, who now resembles the monster that killed him. Henry also sees that Victor has “a scar like a hangrope [sic] tattoo” where the monster pulled his head off.
Victor Criss Quotes in It
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Chapter 19
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He would kill them all, his tormentors, and then those feelings—that he was losing his grip, that he was coming inexorably to a larger world he would not be able to dominate as he had dominated the playyard at Derry Elementary, that in the wider world the fatboy and the nigger and the stuttering freak might somehow grow larger while he somehow only grew older—would be gone.
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Victor Criss Quotes in It
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Chapter 19
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He would kill them all, his tormentors, and then those feelings—that he was losing his grip, that he was coming inexorably to a larger world he would not be able to dominate as he had dominated the playyard at Derry Elementary, that in the wider world the fatboy and the nigger and the stuttering freak might somehow grow larger while he somehow only grew older—would be gone.
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