The characters / Recurring character
Richie Tozier
Richie Tozier is recorded in 2 distinct stories.
Reveal identity notes · spoilers
Member of the childhood group and adult radio performer. 11/22/63 depicts the Derry boy introducing himself as Richie Tozier while practicing dancing with Beverly Marsh. IT depicts the same distinctive named Derry schoolboy, his joking manner, and his circle including Beverly, Eddie, Bill, and Stanley. The shared named pair, town, and childhood setting support the cross-book identity.
Also recorded as Rich Tozier, Richard Tozier, Trashmouth.
Stories and supporting passages
11/22/63
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
“Richie Tozier, at your service. My friends all say ‘Richie-Richie, he live in a ditchie,’ but what do they know?” “Nice to meet you,” I said. “George Amberson.” And then—it just popped out—“My friends all say ‘Georgie-Georgie, he wash his clothes in a Norgie,’ but they don’t know anything, either.”
Richie Tozier appears alongside Beverly Marsh in 11/22/63, matching the Derry friend with glasses and voices in It.
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
I heard the music and then I saw you lindy-hopping.” “Trying to lindy-hop, is what you mean,” the boy said. He helped the girl to her feet. He made a bow. “Richie Tozier, at your service. My friends all say ‘Richie-Richie, he live in a ditchie,’ but what do they know?”
Reviewed narrative excerpt depicts this character in the story.
It
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
… into the sleeve of her blouse, Ben Hanscom who had been so big he looked like a human version of Moby Dick, and Richie Tozier with his thick glasses and his A averages and his wise mouth and his face which just begged to be pounded into new and exciting shapes. Was there a word for what they had been? Oh yes. There always was. Le mot juste. In this case le mot juste was wimps. How it came back, …
Member of the childhood group and adult radio performer.
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
Standing above them and aways upstream, on the path Ben had crossed the day before, were Richie Tozier and Stanley Uris. Richie came bopping down to the stream, glanced at Ben with some interest, and then pinched Eddie’s cheek. “Don’t do that! I hate it when you do that, Richie.”
Reviewed narrative excerpt depicts this character in the story.