Character Information
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corruptcarnie[CW implications of child abuse [chiefly physical and emotional, but also indirect CSA by exposing a child to adult material], possibly also animal abuse]
Eddy's older brother was, for the entirety of the series, until the movie, an unseen character we only know of through Eddy's grander-than-life stories of him and the conflicting evidence we see from things he left behind and others' reactions to him. He "went away" when Eddy was young, his room was wallpapered over, and is heavily guarded with many locks and even booby traps inside. The older cul-de-sac kids (so, excluding Sarah and Jimmy who were too young to meet him, and Double D, who moved in after Eddy's brother left when Eddy was a toddler!) Kevin and Rolf fear him, Nazz admires him (she wanted to go mountain-climbing with him), Rolf hid his chickens upon hearing bro would return (so, he either had a habit of stealing them or worse, harming them.... Rolf asks the Eds to tell him his chickens no longer exist.)
Eddy often speaks of his brother glowingly, despite the fact that he's the one who taught him to run scams in the first place, left behind a report card forging kit, his room (with a tally of dates carved into the wall, Bro's equivalent of notches on a bedpost?), a taxidermied camel, a car filled with strange things (even more porn mags, allegedly a snake (?!), another noose—a small one around a small teddy bear's neck, mirroring a larger noose hanging on his wall carrying a toilet seat labelled "Lucky"), and once sent Eddy a care package (Eddy was so excited to receive, that he only opened it with his friends present...) only for it to be addressed to "Pipsqueek" (spelling mistake Brother's own...) and filled with baby bibs, rattles, and diapers, mocking his very short younger brother who's between the ages of 12-13. Eddy tries to prove how much he's grown to bro, by recording a video with his friends' help, but drops a very telling (in hindsight) line at the end, "No more beating up little Eddy, eh, big brother?"
When Jimmy and Sarah take advantage of Eddy's lie that his brother is coming back to town by dressing up as him in his sports jersey, standing on each other's shoulders, head out of view, Eddy goes from enjoying all the good treatment (mostly fueled by the other kids' fear), to being genuinely terrified and doing whatever he's asked of by "Bro." He does briefly question why his "brother" wants ice cream because he remembered "that lactose thing" implying Eddy's brother is lactose intolerent, but he's too scared to question it further and does as told.
There are never addresses on Eddy's brother's mail, or the details are smudged, perhaps on purpose, which might be Eddy's parents attempts to protect their son, as they do seem to want to minimize contact and forget Bro's existence (wallpapering over the door to his room...), Eddy's parents are shown to be over-protective and somewhat infantalizing towards their 12-13 year old son, once even humiliatingly arranging for a girl in Eddy's own grade (Nazz) to babysit him. The overprotectiveness is understandable in light of Eddy's history with his brother...
After teaching Jimmy how to scam others and sending him out to scam kids, setting Jimmy up for failure (inspired by seeing Jimmy mimic Ed and Double D talking about how younger siblings mimic their older siblings), Eddy excuses his decision, saying, "I know I was rough on him, but it's how my big brother taught me." Except Jimmy turned out to be far better at making cash than all three Eds! ^^; Eddy also once tried to encourage Ed, a gentle giant who dotes on his spoiled and favourite child sister Sarah, to stand up her because "You're the big brother, that means you're the boss!" likely echoing Bro's words...
When Eddy's mom makes him throw out a bunch of his things, among the things Eddy tries to save and what he's most worried about is a box of magazines his brothers gave him. While not shown on-screen, they're heavily implied by their titles (such as "Legs"), the whistling sound effects, Eddy's hushed voice, Edd and Ed's nervous smiles and laughter about them to be dirty magazines his mother wouldn't approve of. ("My magazines are in the sewer?!" "Seems appropriate. You realize if your magazines were in that sewer, Eddy, they’d be totally illegible, the text smeared by the damp sludge." "… it’s the pictures I’m worried about!" later... Double D asks Eddy in disbelief, "Oh, you read those?")
When the biggest scam Ed, Edd, and Eddy pull in the finale Big Picture Show goes disastrously wrong, forcing the Eds to go on the run, seeking Eddy's older brother for protection from the wronged and angry cul-de-sac kids... Eddy's stories got more and more ridiculous, conflicting, and confusing (claiming his brother was a whaler [which may have been slang Eddy took literally, claming his brother was a "whizz at harpooning whales"], claiming his brother worked in a gag factory, etc.), while Double D took everything seriously and did his best to search for information to track him down, their efforts do pay off, despite Eddy's claims being largely lies: they find their (blue) whale. A trailer in the shape of one in a presently closed amusement park with the same name as a postcard Eddy's brother sent. They tracked him down!
The angry cul-de-sac kids are gaining on Eddy, but stop stop for what seems to be a heartfelt reunion between the brothers, but Eddy's brother doesn't return Eddy's hug, and instead almost immediately starts playing Uncle with him, which for Eddy's brother, is just a sadistic excuse to torture his little brother, twisting his leg, while Eddy's still hugging and cllinging to his arm in tears.
"What's the matter? I thought you wanted to hang with your hero?" "I do, bro, I do!"
While it's portrayed with cartoony slapstick (in typical Ed, Edd, n Eddy fashion), Eddy's reactions and attempts to defend and excuse bro, trying to free his leg, while also clinging to his brother and speaking lovingly of him make the scene a bit hard to watch, because Eddy's obviously fawning. Double D (who, despite having frequent attacks of conscience, often went along with Eddy's schemes) works up the nerve to call out Eddy's brother (after walking away earlier when Ed and Eddy faked their deaths and left him crying for a tasteless joke, so he's showing growth of his own), saying Bro should set a good example for his little brother as the elder brother, instead of belittling him in front of his friends, but all this does is turn Bro's violence against Double D (who he mistakes for a girl, as he never met him before, "Why's your girlfriend wearing a sock on her head?" and "I like you, girlfriend" before hitting Double D with Eddy for trying to stand up to him.)
He also mocks Double D's advice and further humiliates the beaten, black-eyed Eddy. "Belittle? He's always been little!"
This angers the cul-de-sac kids, even those who previously found the reunion touching, or who admired Eddy's brother (Nazz, the popular girl, seemed to admire Eddy's brother and was the only one happy he would be coming back, looking forward to going mountain climbing with him...), all were angered to discover what a scumbag Eddy's brother really was. Eddy admits in tears he lied to everyone about his older brother, because he wanted them to like him and think he was cool.... which is supported by one of the school episodes, when Eddy was welcomed and accepted as a new student "Carl," he didn't have any interest in running scams, because he finally had what he wanted: acceptance.
Unfortunately, the return to school was also when Eddy started taking his friends for granted and treating them quite cruelly, which led up to the events of the finale film where and Ed and Eddy's immature behaviour forcing Double D to take a stand. Eddy's honesty and seeing how bad Eddy's Brother really was causes the cul-de-sac kids to gain sympathy and understanding for Eddy and unite to help take down his big brother, even the often distacted and not very bright Ed manages to use some quick thinking to pull a loose screw to the door Eddy's clinging to, so it slams into his brother with the force he's pulling on it, knocking him out, making Bro the final and true villain of the series, as he was the one whose initiating Eddy into a life of crime and scams isolated him from others, although Eddy was too young to understand the consequences of his actions, solely motivated by promises of money for jawbreakers.
Eddy's older brother was, for the entirety of the series, until the movie, an unseen character we only know of through Eddy's grander-than-life stories of him and the conflicting evidence we see from things he left behind and others' reactions to him. He "went away" when Eddy was young, his room was wallpapered over, and is heavily guarded with many locks and even booby traps inside. The older cul-de-sac kids (so, excluding Sarah and Jimmy who were too young to meet him, and Double D, who moved in after Eddy's brother left when Eddy was a toddler!) Kevin and Rolf fear him, Nazz admires him (she wanted to go mountain-climbing with him), Rolf hid his chickens upon hearing bro would return (so, he either had a habit of stealing them or worse, harming them.... Rolf asks the Eds to tell him his chickens no longer exist.)
Eddy often speaks of his brother glowingly, despite the fact that he's the one who taught him to run scams in the first place, left behind a report card forging kit, his room (with a tally of dates carved into the wall, Bro's equivalent of notches on a bedpost?), a taxidermied camel, a car filled with strange things (even more porn mags, allegedly a snake (?!), another noose—a small one around a small teddy bear's neck, mirroring a larger noose hanging on his wall carrying a toilet seat labelled "Lucky"), and once sent Eddy a care package (Eddy was so excited to receive, that he only opened it with his friends present...) only for it to be addressed to "Pipsqueek" (spelling mistake Brother's own...) and filled with baby bibs, rattles, and diapers, mocking his very short younger brother who's between the ages of 12-13. Eddy tries to prove how much he's grown to bro, by recording a video with his friends' help, but drops a very telling (in hindsight) line at the end, "No more beating up little Eddy, eh, big brother?"
When Jimmy and Sarah take advantage of Eddy's lie that his brother is coming back to town by dressing up as him in his sports jersey, standing on each other's shoulders, head out of view, Eddy goes from enjoying all the good treatment (mostly fueled by the other kids' fear), to being genuinely terrified and doing whatever he's asked of by "Bro." He does briefly question why his "brother" wants ice cream because he remembered "that lactose thing" implying Eddy's brother is lactose intolerent, but he's too scared to question it further and does as told.
There are never addresses on Eddy's brother's mail, or the details are smudged, perhaps on purpose, which might be Eddy's parents attempts to protect their son, as they do seem to want to minimize contact and forget Bro's existence (wallpapering over the door to his room...), Eddy's parents are shown to be over-protective and somewhat infantalizing towards their 12-13 year old son, once even humiliatingly arranging for a girl in Eddy's own grade (Nazz) to babysit him. The overprotectiveness is understandable in light of Eddy's history with his brother...
After teaching Jimmy how to scam others and sending him out to scam kids, setting Jimmy up for failure (inspired by seeing Jimmy mimic Ed and Double D talking about how younger siblings mimic their older siblings), Eddy excuses his decision, saying, "I know I was rough on him, but it's how my big brother taught me." Except Jimmy turned out to be far better at making cash than all three Eds! ^^; Eddy also once tried to encourage Ed, a gentle giant who dotes on his spoiled and favourite child sister Sarah, to stand up her because "You're the big brother, that means you're the boss!" likely echoing Bro's words...
When Eddy's mom makes him throw out a bunch of his things, among the things Eddy tries to save and what he's most worried about is a box of magazines his brothers gave him. While not shown on-screen, they're heavily implied by their titles (such as "Legs"), the whistling sound effects, Eddy's hushed voice, Edd and Ed's nervous smiles and laughter about them to be dirty magazines his mother wouldn't approve of. ("My magazines are in the sewer?!" "Seems appropriate. You realize if your magazines were in that sewer, Eddy, they’d be totally illegible, the text smeared by the damp sludge." "… it’s the pictures I’m worried about!" later... Double D asks Eddy in disbelief, "Oh, you read those?")
When the biggest scam Ed, Edd, and Eddy pull in the finale Big Picture Show goes disastrously wrong, forcing the Eds to go on the run, seeking Eddy's older brother for protection from the wronged and angry cul-de-sac kids... Eddy's stories got more and more ridiculous, conflicting, and confusing (claiming his brother was a whaler [which may have been slang Eddy took literally, claming his brother was a "whizz at harpooning whales"], claiming his brother worked in a gag factory, etc.), while Double D took everything seriously and did his best to search for information to track him down, their efforts do pay off, despite Eddy's claims being largely lies: they find their (blue) whale. A trailer in the shape of one in a presently closed amusement park with the same name as a postcard Eddy's brother sent. They tracked him down!
The angry cul-de-sac kids are gaining on Eddy, but stop stop for what seems to be a heartfelt reunion between the brothers, but Eddy's brother doesn't return Eddy's hug, and instead almost immediately starts playing Uncle with him, which for Eddy's brother, is just a sadistic excuse to torture his little brother, twisting his leg, while Eddy's still hugging and cllinging to his arm in tears.
"What's the matter? I thought you wanted to hang with your hero?" "I do, bro, I do!"
While it's portrayed with cartoony slapstick (in typical Ed, Edd, n Eddy fashion), Eddy's reactions and attempts to defend and excuse bro, trying to free his leg, while also clinging to his brother and speaking lovingly of him make the scene a bit hard to watch, because Eddy's obviously fawning. Double D (who, despite having frequent attacks of conscience, often went along with Eddy's schemes) works up the nerve to call out Eddy's brother (after walking away earlier when Ed and Eddy faked their deaths and left him crying for a tasteless joke, so he's showing growth of his own), saying Bro should set a good example for his little brother as the elder brother, instead of belittling him in front of his friends, but all this does is turn Bro's violence against Double D (who he mistakes for a girl, as he never met him before, "Why's your girlfriend wearing a sock on her head?" and "I like you, girlfriend" before hitting Double D with Eddy for trying to stand up to him.)
He also mocks Double D's advice and further humiliates the beaten, black-eyed Eddy. "Belittle? He's always been little!"
This angers the cul-de-sac kids, even those who previously found the reunion touching, or who admired Eddy's brother (Nazz, the popular girl, seemed to admire Eddy's brother and was the only one happy he would be coming back, looking forward to going mountain climbing with him...), all were angered to discover what a scumbag Eddy's brother really was. Eddy admits in tears he lied to everyone about his older brother, because he wanted them to like him and think he was cool.... which is supported by one of the school episodes, when Eddy was welcomed and accepted as a new student "Carl," he didn't have any interest in running scams, because he finally had what he wanted: acceptance.
Unfortunately, the return to school was also when Eddy started taking his friends for granted and treating them quite cruelly, which led up to the events of the finale film where and Ed and Eddy's immature behaviour forcing Double D to take a stand. Eddy's honesty and seeing how bad Eddy's Brother really was causes the cul-de-sac kids to gain sympathy and understanding for Eddy and unite to help take down his big brother, even the often distacted and not very bright Ed manages to use some quick thinking to pull a loose screw to the door Eddy's clinging to, so it slams into his brother with the force he's pulling on it, knocking him out, making Bro the final and true villain of the series, as he was the one whose initiating Eddy into a life of crime and scams isolated him from others, although Eddy was too young to understand the consequences of his actions, solely motivated by promises of money for jawbreakers.
