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[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...
( Spoilers for Big Picture Show, the finale movie, and the only true appearance of Eddy's Brother )
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...
( Spoilers for Big Picture Show, the finale movie, and the only true appearance of Eddy's Brother )