Mike Hanlon is a central character in Stephen King's horror novel It and its film adaptations, known as the historian and record-keeper for the Losers' Club, a group of friends battling the evil entity Pennywise in Derry, Maine; he's often portrayed as the pragmatic, African-American member who holds the town's dark history together, becoming the main focus in It: Chapter Two as he rallies his estranged friends to return.