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Because clowns are supposed to be fun and happy. Making something happy like that scary adds a certain degree of antithesis and irony to the situation.

IT is not just a clown, IT is fear itself. The main form of IT is a clown though.

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The clown in Stephen King's 'It' is named Pennywise.

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