Doesn ' t exactly make our current captain look great either <| sep |> Stimmt nicht , gibt noch ' ne Zweite irgendwo im Waldstraenviertel . <| sep |> No , only Super Buus <| sep |> I finished my first read about a month ago , and Stan defintiely feels different to the rest of the kids . I couldn ' t pinpoint why , but I was disappointed we don ' t get to know as much about Stan and his inner world as we know about the others . At times , he doesn ' t feel like he belongs to the group and he ' s just tagging along . Stan ' s the most rational and mature kid of the Losers , pretty much a mini adult . We actually never meet his parents even when they are mentioned once or twice . The rest of the kids ' parents show up and all of them have significant impact in the story except for Eddie ' s parents , though they ' re still present . I think his purpose as a character is to show that adults aren ' t able to engage with IT and deal with it . They aren ' t equipped with the magical thinking of little children . This is stated several times in the books . The adult Losers are only able to defeat IT because of their childhood experiences and their ability to sort of recreate that magical thinking . And they barely make it . I also think the rest of the Losers were more in touch with their childhood traumas . Stan on the other hand struggled with their fight against IT and had to be pushed by his friends all the time . He had a really hard time accepting and tolerating the existence of IT . Even in the face of what was happening , 11 yearold Stan tried to convince himself that none of that was real . Considering all this , I think his mind was completely unable to accept that reality as a fullgrown man .