Henry Bowers (Horror Reboots)

Henry Bowers is the secondary antagonist of It horror reboots. He is the psychopathic school and neighborhood bully and is the leader of the Bowers Gang, a gang of preteen bullies who rival the Losers' Club.

Early Life
Raised in a poor, violent environment by his mentally ill father, Butch Bowers, Henry rapidly developed into a hateful, loathing individual who would often display immediate negative and stereotypical feelings towards those around him. In particular, Butch's deep racism also leads to Henry choosing to be a violent racist too.

Despite his hostile nature however, during his childhood, Henry would go to make friends among other bullies of his age with his closest being the more intelligent Vic Criss and the unusually large and clumsy yet muscular Belch Huggins and the rest being the psychologically-disturbed Patrick Hockstetter, well-off Peter Gordon and the slightly retarded Moose Sadler. All five of these boys he would assort into a gang of his own: the aptly-named Bowers Gang. After Henry's mother leaves the family from the constant physical abuse of Butch, Butch gains a girlfriend in Rena Davenport.

Erosion to Insanity
During and prior to the summer, Henry torments the Losers with several acts of violence such as partially carving his name onto Ben Hanscom's stomach, killing Mike Hanlon's dog with raw meat laced with insect poison, breaking Eddie Kaspbrak's arm and white washing Stan Uris' face in the snow until it bleeds. Following the apocalyptic rock fight with the Losers in July, Henry becomes more and more sadistic and even as goes as far to swear vengeance on the Losers after the fight. His deteriorating sanity becomes apparent during subsequent violent attacks on Eddie and Beverly Marsh.

In late August, It provides Henry with a switchblade which he uses to kill Butch and under It's influence, Henry alongside Belch and Vic chase the Losers down through the sewers. Under Derry, It then kills Vic and Belch in front of him. Henry still manage to escape while his friends were busy being killed. Part of him feels guilty that he lived and they died and wonders sometimes if they blamed him. Henry was eventually framed by It and convicted for most of the murders that occured throughout the summer. He was committed to the Juniper Hill Asylum and he counts how many nightlights he burns out.

Return and Death
Later, It is unable to defeat the Losers' Club alone so It takes the form of the deceased Vic and makes him do It's dirty work. It also kills John Koontz, one of the asylum's guards, to stop him from preventing Henry's escape. Henry encounters Mike at the Derry Public Library and engages in a violent brawl with him. Using his old switchblade provided by It, Henry stabs Mike's thigh, cutting his femoral artery although Mike manages to wound him with a letter opener in self-defense.

With the guidance of It in the form of Belch's reanimated corpse, the severely injured Henry then moves on to the Derry Town House, where he plans to kill the remaining Losers, one by one. He begins by knocking on Eddie's door and attacking him, breaking Eddie's arm in the same he did years ago before Eddie is able to get the better of Henry and finish him with his own switchblade.