![]() Richie is attracted to women in the book, as he has a relationship with a woman named Sandy, for whom he got a vasectomy before their relationship ended. Unfortunately, they got caught by the Bowers gang and Beverly tried to defend her friends, but they still got beaten up. When the movies were over the Bowers gang saw the three of them and they decided to go out an alternate exit in order to get away from the bullies. While in the theater, Ben, Bev, and Richie noticed the Bowers gang sitting in front of them. He manages to joke his way out of his discomfort and they meet Ben at the Aladdin Theater. Beverly jokes that he isn't a very romantic person. Richie started to feel weird and flustered, which was unlike him. He invited her to the movies and she joked about his invitation being a date. He didn't have a crush on her but he thought she was pretty and tough, so he went up to her and they got along instantly. ![]() While he was trying to teach himself how to use a yo-yo, he spotted Beverly Marsh. ![]() One day, Richie was walking to the Aladdin movie theater to watch movies with Ben Hanscom. A comparison can be made between the makeup or “mask” that clowns wear and the mask that Richie puts on to hide his sexuality. In the 2017 adaption, Richie has a “fear” of clowns. A comparison can be made between the teenage werewolf and Richie’s hidden sexuality. In the novel and miniseries, Richie is afraid of the teenage werewolf from the movie he and the losers watch at the movies. It could also be inferred that Richie is mainly afraid of people finding out about his sexuality, using the clown or teenage werewolf metaphors. It was already proven earlier that the children of Derry were forgotten weeks (or possibly days) after they disappear, and he seems to fear that he, too, will be forgotten if he were to go missing, though he could simply be afraid of the implications that going missing meant he would die. One of Richie’s greatest fears, other than clowns and the teenage werewolf, seems to be going missing (i.e the missing poster). Eddie's overbearing, isolating, and manipulative mother Bill's negligent parents, Beverly's abusive father and so on). While Richie's parents may falter on occasion, it is never nearly as severe as the other parents of Derry, who demonstrate great neglect and abuse toward their children (i.e. She goes so far as to wish Richie had been born a girl so he would be able to better understand some of the things he does, demonstrating her desire to be a good mother to him. Richie's mother, Maggie, was kind and attempted to understand her son, but experienced some difficulty due to Richie's gender. While Richie's father did regard his son as a little silly, it's made clear that he cares about him and loves him dearly. Richie knew how to read his parents like 'well-worn and well-loved' books. Richie's father, Wentworth, was an intelligent man with a career in dentistry who would happily indulge Richie's interest in 'voices', going so far as to use some of his son's phrases himself. Richie is shown to have had a positive upbringing. Richie is known for his hobby of doing Voices and impersonations, although when he is younger most of them were awful and sounded the same. At some point in the book, Richie accidentally insults Henry Bowers and his gang out loud, resulting in him getting chased and almost beaten. Although Richie misbehaved a lot in school, he received good grades besides the grades in behavior. The other Losers often used the phrase "Beep-beep" whenever they needed to silence him. He hated wearing the glasses, but found comfort in that one of his idols, Buddy Holly, was famous and also wore thick glasses. He wore thick black glasses and had huge front buck teeth which earned him the name "Bucky Beaver" by others in his school, though he was later dubbed "Trashmouth" by the Losers due to his foul language and loud mouth that often got him into trouble. In the 2017/2019 adaptation, Richie is shown as the only one attending Stan’s bar mitzvah. ![]() He often teases the other Losers, especially Eddie and Bill, though it's generally mutual banter with Bill while he pokes fun at Eddie by referring to him as 'Eds', 'Eddie Spaghetti' and 'cute'. He also thought Beverly was pretty, but perceived her as if she was the same as any other friend and even thought of her as “one of the boys”. Like the others in the Losers' Club, he looked up to Bill and was cited as the one who 'understood Bill better than anyone'. As a child, his closest friends were Bill Denbrough, Eddie Kaspbrak, Beverly Marsh, Stan Uris, Mike Hanlon, and Ben Hanscom. ![]()
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