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The Eds (Eddy) | The Kids | The Kanker Sisters | Unseen Characters

Eddy

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"We're gonna be rich!"
Voiced by: (English) Tony Sampson
Voiced by: (Arabic) Dimitri Melki (First voice), Rabih Bahr Safi (Second voice and Movie)
Voiced by: (Danish) Søren Ulrichs
Voiced by: (Dutch) Bart Bosch
Voiced by: (European French) Lionel Melet
Voiced by: (German) Rainer Fritzsche
Voiced by: (Hungarian) Attila Szatmári (First voice), Krisztián Dányi (Second voice)
Voiced by: (Italian) Roberto Draghetti
Voiced by: (Korean) Bang Seong-joon
Voiced by: (Latin American Spanish) Ricardo Mendoza (Season 1-3), Óscar Flores (Season 4-6 and Movie)
Voiced by: (Norwegian) Tommy Karlsen
Voiced by: (Polish) Janusz Wituch
Voiced by: (Swedish) Stefan Frelander
Voiced by: (Taiwanese) Wei Po Chin
Voiced by: (Turkish) Murat Şenol
Voiced by: (Japanese) Toshitaka Shimizu, Wataru Takagi (Commercial only)
Voiced by: (Brazilian Portuguese) Ricardo Juarez

The self-styled leader of the Eds, whose height seems to be inversely proportional to his ego. Pursues his schemes with a determination that borders on stubbornness, and which would be admirable if he wasn't such a penny-pinching weasel most of the time.

Warning: MASSIVE SPOILERS from the finale ahead. Read with caution.

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    # — A 
  • Aesop Amnesia: In general, Eddy never seems to learn from his past mistakes. From continuing to overlook a flaw in his scams to ignoring Edd's warnings of what impending predicament may occur due to his impulse to taunting the likes of Kevin and Sarah despite the many beatings he (as well as the other two Eds) has received from them.
    • In "Once Bitten, Twice Ed", Eddy doesn't get the clue that the "Snag Ed, bring him home" scam didn't work after he saw it for himself fail twice. His response is not to scrap it altogether, but just keep tweaking it.
    • Deconstructed in The Movie where his bad actions and unwillingness to learn from his mistake catch up to him where the neighborhood kids are at their wits end with him along with his friends, finally Subverted, where he finally learns that being a jerk won’t make him popular. He finally realized he needed to be better towards his friends and neighborhood kids. He’s rewarded by building a better friendship with his friends and finally being accepted by the neighborhood kids.
  • Afraid of Needles: In "This Won't Hurt an Ed" it turns out he's just as afraid of needles as Kevin is.
  • Allergic to Routine: Eddy gets bored easily, which may be another reason why he likes scamming so much.
  • All Men Are Perverts:
    • He owns/owned a porn stash and has lots of used tissues under his bed.
    • He's terrified of the Kankers, yet in "1+1 = Ed", they see the Kankers in the bath and he sniggers and asks Ed if he "saw anything".
    • In his version of the story in "Once Upon An Ed", the other kids are all portrayed in an unflattering light, except for Nazz, who is in her bikini the whole time.
    • In "Knock Knock, Who's Ed?", Eddy pulls a bra out of Ed's mom's drawer and exclaims "Woo-hoo! PG-13!"...at least until Ed reveals who it belongs to, causing him to drop it in disgust.
  • Always Someone Better: This is how he views Kevin sometimes, which motivates him to challenge Kevin, but Eddy usually loses. Same goes for his brother—evil or not, Eddy knows he can never be as cool as his brother.
    • Although to be honest his brother doesn't exactly fit the term cool, considering the fact that he comes across as a selfish, arrogant jerk, who was willing to scam others out of their money for his own personal gain, while also using his little brother as his own personal punching bag. It doesn't help either that Eddy didn't receive proper guidance from his parents or any legal guardian to teach him the importance of right and wrong and that being true to one's self is often more appealing to others than trying to imitate the toxic/superficial behavior of someone else.
  • Ambition Is Evil: His main "negative" trait besides greed (although both can overlap).
  • Angrish: Whenever particularly riled.
  • Animals Hate Him: Eddy states that he hates birds after one steals his quarter in "Vert-Ed-Go." In "Will Work for Ed", he got attacked by a rooster. Also, in "Sorry Wrong Ed", he got trampled on by hippos. In "It Came From Outer Ed", crows were summoned by a curse made by Ed's "scam" which caused them to attack him and the other Eds.
  • Anti-Hero: Ends as a "Woobie Anti-Villain" type after his Freudian Excuse is revealed.
  • Anti-Role Model: How Eddy's behavior is portrayed in most episodes, in contrast to Edd. He has too many flaws to count and, in fact, some fans noticed that he's guilty of all 7 of the Seven Deadly Sins. Justified because his own role model is his sociopathic older brother.
  • Arch-Enemy: Mainly to Kevin and Sarah, especially because of their shared levels of being wrathful and mean (though, Kevin is shown to be much more patient than the other two and is usually only mean to the Eds). Eddy tends to be the most impatient out of the three but isn't the type to hold a grudge. Sarah has the worst temper out of the three as she possesses superhuman strength likely inherited from her brother and the fact that unlike Eddy who usually calms down shortly after his fiery explosion, she has a tendency to hold grudges especially when the Ed's do something to her best friend Jimmy. They eventually rekindled in the Movie.
  • Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Invokes this for his scam Master Eddy's School of Kung-Fu.
  • Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Besides his ambitions, another reason to why Eddy's the leader of the Eds is because he's much more willing to confront and sometimes push around the other kids, more than both Ed (despite being the strongest of them all) and Edd do, to which even went so far as to carry both of his companions with his own bare hands on a few occasions, such as in "Sorry, Wrong Ed". To that end, he’s also prone to smacking around his friends when he needs them to do something or when he’s particularly angry, which both Ed nor Edd are typically less willing or capable of fighting back from. That being said, he can also get pretty cowardly despite that aspect of his, running away as soon as he can’t pick on someone or when a mob finally has enough of his antics.
  • Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Of the three Eds, he perhaps has the most appropriate use of color. His yellow polo shirt gives away his cowardly nature and underhanded attitude, his green tongue marks him as the greediest of the kids always on the hunt for more money, and his uniquely pink skin that no other character has (not even his own brother) reflects his constantly angry mood that leaves him flushed.
  • Attention Whore: If the scheme isn't about money or revenge, it'll be about drawing attention to himself.
    B 
  • Bad Boss: Although he's The Leader and is very ambitious about his goals, he makes the least amount of effort in regards to making his scams with his fellow Eds, letting his own friends do most of the work, while he mostly just stands there watching them building their scams. Also. it's important to not forget that he often treats his own best friends like crap, whether he'd be talking trash about them, hurt them physically, or, in the worst cases, betray them.
  • Believing Their Own Lies: While his brother is in fact a sadistic bully who relentlessly tormented him, it's implied Eddy's lied about what a Cool Big Bro he was for so long that he's genuinely convinced himself as such, hence why in The Movie he was so eager to find his brother's place to protect him from the other cul-de-sac kids that he seemingly never considered the possibility that his brother would simply beat him up instead.
  • Berserk Button: It's really not hard to get Eddy wound up, but these in particular set him off:
    • Messing with his scams.
    • Making fun of his height.
    • He really hates clip shows, shown in The Good Ol' Ed (Though could be cause he was mainly presented with clips that had him getting seriously injured).
    • Damaging or messing with his Porn Stash.
    • Most importantly, he really hates getting his money stolen from him.
  • Be Yourself: In The Movie, Eddy learned that he didn't have to act like a jerk like his brother to get people to like and respect him. He learned that in order to liked, he needed to be himself.
  • Big Brother Worship: Deconstructed. Throughout the show's run, Eddy frequently speaks highly of his absent older brother, who he credits as his main source of inspiration, a master of many talents, and the overall epitome of the word "cool". At the same time, however, we're given hints that Eddy's brother isn't the kind of person Eddy makes him out to be (e.g., Kevin, Rolf, and then Eddy himself reacting with pure panic when they're duped into believing Eddy's Brother is returning to the cul-de-sac, Eddy leading his friends on a wild goose chase throughout Peach Creek on Halloween thanks to a map to a non-existent town his brother sent him, and Eddy mentioning how his terrible treatment of Jimmy is no different from how his brother treated him). We're also given hints that Eddy's own parents don't do a good job at providing him with love and affection, mostly just punishing him whenever his grades slip or when he does something that merits a grounding. Come the climax of The Movie and the reveal that Eddy's Brother is nothing more than a black-hearted, sadistic bully who delights in making Eddy suffer, it becomes tragically apparent that Eddy's entire act of being a smug, obnoxious shyster was because his abusive older sibling was virtually the only role model he had growing up while his parents seemingly didn't do enough to teach him the difference between right and wrong and showing him a better way to live his life. Eddy himself confesses that he had been lying through his teeth about what his brother was like the whole time in hopes of being seen as "cool", and all but says that his attempts at trying to emulate his brother were in hopes that it would earn him acceptance from his peers.
  • Big Eater: Not to Ed's level, but he does tend to eat a lot when there's food available. In "1+1 Equals Ed", he actually ate the sun.note  He also devoured Jimmy's entire gingerbread village in "Jingle, Jingle Jangle".
  • Big Ego, Hidden Depths: He acts like a narcissist, but it's shown in The Movie that he secretly hates himself. When Edd abandons him, he actually breaks down in tears and admits it:
    Eddy: FINE! GO HOME! I don't blame ya!! Because everything WAS my fault! (Beat, then cue sobbing) Yeah, you heard me! A foul-up wannabe loser! (breaks down even more)
  • Body Horror: Has his cheek stretched to the length of his body after the other kids dive into his mouth to fish for the jawbreakers he was hoarding in the comic "A Tree Grows in Ed".
  • Book Dumb: Eddy detests school and learning, which may be the reason he has all F's on his report card. It's implied if he actually bothered to put real effort into his school work, he would get decent (if not passable) grades.
  • Born Unlucky: A lot of his unfortunate mishaps are often brought on himself due to his arrogance and greed, but even in episodes where he hasn't done anything, he still gets a lot of slapstick, like in "Who's Minding The Ed?" Inverted in the earlier seasons, where he still constantly suffered slapstick despite his negative traits being a very small staple of his personality at the time.
  • Borrowed Catchphrase: In the episode "Homecooked Eds", while he cleans his furniture, he says "filthy filthy filthy" (one of Edd's catchphrases).
    Ed: "That sounds like something I'd expect from Double-D, Eddy."
    Eddy: "Don't remind me!"
  • Bratty Half-Pint: He is one of the shortest kids and is selfish, greedy and egotistical.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: He does more than any other character.
    Eddy: What, and ruin the plot?
  • Break the Haughty: Eddy spends the entire show acting like a smug, arrogant, and selfish jerk of the highest caliber. However, in the movie, as it shows that all of his failures have taken their toll on his self-esteem, and Edd abandoning him for a few moments after Eddy plays a very cruel practical joke about nearly dying and ruining his friendship with one of the only two friends he has was the last straw before he finally has his pride in shatters and breaks down and admits that he is a suck-up loser while crying his eyes out. However, it can also be considered a good thing, with Eddy finally accepting responsibility for his actions and treating Edd and Ed much better as a true friend helps him learn to stop being such a jerk. Played for Drama with his brother, who proceeds to torture Eddy just for laughs in front of everyone. Once his brother is defeated, Eddy tearfully confesses that he lied about every cool thing about his brother just because he wanted to have friends. By the end of it all, Eddy finally learned the lesson in humility he needed and stops being something he's not.
  • Brilliant, but Lazy: "Brilliant" might be stretching it, but he's definitely more talented and intelligent than his shitty grades and slacker tendencies show, with the implication that his poor academic performance is more due to an inability to focus on things that bore him than him struggling to understand the teaching material.
  • Broken Bird: Once you know of the absolute hell he went through before the show and see how everyone else treats him, it can be a little hard to watch earlier episodes.
  • The Bully: Usually towards his friends and/or Jimmy.
    • He picks on Jimmy since season 1, as seen in "An Ed Too Many", where he erases the play area where Jimmy is playing hopscotch. And this is pretty mild compared to the way he treats him in later episodes like "If It Smells Like an Ed" and "A Fistful of Ed". Sarah even has to shout at him to leave Jimmy alone occasionally.
    • In later seasons, he physically attacks his friends very often, especially Ed (who is stronger than him but never fights back). Probably in an attempt to be like his brother, he can be quite cruel, such as clipping massive clothespins on Ed in "The Luck of the Ed" or slamming a big book on Edd's face in "No Speak Da Ed".
  • Bullying a Dragon: In Little Ed Blue, when he pesters and insults the super-strong Ed while he's in a bad mood; he eventually gets sent flying into a tree for his troubles. You could also consider any time he disrespects/starts trouble with Rolf, Kevin, or Sarah as this as well.
  • Bully Magnet: While he can be The Bully himself in his friend circle (and when he's around Jimmy), Eddy has been cruelly picked on by the other kids in quite a few episodes, for his short height, middle name, a pimple, a bad school photo, etc. It happens to him more often than the other Eds (when they are not bullied as a group). He also has a violent Big Brother Bully but thankfully he doesn't live in his house anymore.
  • Butt-Monkey: Usually gets it worse than his friends. He constantly suffers from extreme slapstick, like being crushed by a tree.
  • Buy or Get Lost: Out of the three Eds, Eddy would usually, if not always, be more dismissive of the other kids if they don't plan on paying or even have any quarters at all for one of their scams.
    C — D 
  • Cain and Abel: In The Movie, it's revealed in that Eddy had a big brother who always beats him up.
  • Can't Get Away with Nuthin': He tends to suffer the worst of all Disproportionate Retribution for attempting to scam some kids out of their money, which they can easily ignore, but characters like Sarah and Kevin and Jimmy get off scot-free with their actions. He almost always receives punishment for his infractions.
  • Care-Bear Stare: In "Robbin' Ed", his Ray of Riches allows him to send dollar sign shaped energy beams at his enemies.
  • Cartoon Juggling: He juggles a variety of items that Ed throws at him, from chairs to Double D, in order to entertain Sarah while babysitting. It goes fairly well until Ed throws him a cactus.
  • Casanova Wannabe:
    • He's always talking about where "chicks" hang out/what they like, but his attempts are often pretty unsuccessful. It doesn't help that he's gotten most of his dating ideas from an ancient dating tips book and several "magazines" left behind by his brother.
    • He opens a "Kiss the Hunk" stand in the Valentine's Day episode, making the excuse about the lack of girls as "they must be freshening up in the can!"
    • He puts up a "Win a Date with Eddy! Sign up here!" sheet when he learns about the school dance, but the only person who signs it is Ed.
  • Catchphrase:
    • "We're gonna be rich!"
    • "Welcome to (fill in the blank)!"
    • "My brother's a whiz at ____"
    • "Shut up, Ed"
    • "Ed, you idiot!"
    • "In your dreams!"
    • "What's with you?"
    • "What 'are' ya?!"
    • "I hate birds."
    • Eddy also tends to shout "Mommy!" when he's about to endure some pain. Likewise, when he's being mobbed by kids or Kankers, or caught in an embarrassing situation, he tends to shout, "I'm a minor, STOP!".
  • Catchphrase Insult: Tends to call Edd "Sockhead" or Ed "Monobrow" or "Lumpy". He also likes to call Kevin "Shovel chin".
  • Characterization Marches On: The "greedy jerk" aspect of Eddy was much more toned down in the early episodes, where he was more jovial and lucid, and only slightly inconsiderate and manipulative to Ed and Edd rather than outright abusive. His manic temper and selfishness become more and more defining traits as seasons pass. He was also presented as the most socially well adjusted of the Eds in season 1, where he would be the one to tell Ed and Double D to knock it off when they were oblivious to when they were causing the kids discomfort. This trait would later be transplanted to Double D with Eddy being the oblivious one when it comes to social situations.
  • Character Tics: Whenever Eddy gets annoyed, disgusted, or just plain bored, his eyebrows connect.
    • He tends to rub the back of his neck when he's embarrassed or deep in thought.
  • Charlie Brown Baldness: He appears to only have three foot-long hairs coming out of the back of his head.
  • Chronic Villainy: Eddy needs to scam people in order to stay remotely stable. In "Laugh Ed Laugh", he completely loses his mind when a chickenpox epidemic leaves him with no kids to fleece. It takes his love of money to snap him out of his funk.
  • Control Freak: Eddy feels the need to be in charge of everything and it annoys him endlessly whenever the cul-de-sac kids prefer to follow Kevin's leadership.
  • Cool People Rebel Against Authority: Eddy certainly seems to think so, as he constantly tries to Invoke this trope by breaking or disobeying the rules whenever he can. However, this is also subverted, as it usually results in him getting in trouble while looking like an even bigger loser to the cul-de-sac kids.
  • Cool Shades: A good number of episodes show that Eddy is fond of wearing sunglasses. The paler circles around his eyes also hints that he wears sunglasses quite frequently too.
  • The Corrupter: He managed to turn Jimmy into a scammer who is even better than he is in "Ed in a Halfshell". Eddy also tends to prompt Ed's meaner moments because Ed doesn't know any better than to just copy what Eddy does.
  • Corrupt Politician: In "For the Ed, By the Ed", when Eddy runs against Plank for king of the cul-de-sac, he runs a smear campaign against Plank so the other kids won’t vote for him, and then he tries to cheat by stuffing the ballot box with papers with his name on them. Luckily, Double D knows Eddy well enough that he knew he would cheat, and foiled his plan.
  • Creative Sterility: Goes into retirement after completing every scam on the list in the comic "Retire Ed", and his only new idea after that was a way to punish Ed and Edd for bugging him to come out of retirement.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Just look at the way his brother has corrupted him.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Mostly towards Ed.
    Ed: You still got me, Eddy!
    Eddy: Boy, ain't I lucky.
  • Deconstructed Character Archetype: Eddy is a deconstruction of the Con Man archetype. Throughout the series, Eddy, along with his two best and only friends, Ed and Edd, attempts to make money to buy their favorite candy, jawbreakers, by scamming the kids in their neighborhood. While the Eds do enjoy a few victories here and there at the start of the series, as the show progresses, they begin to lose more and more often and gain a bad reputation with the neighborhood kids because of all the times they tried to scam them out of money. Their failures are mostly on account of of Eddy's greed, pride, and inability to learn from his mistakes (though the other Eds' flaws also cause them to miss out on making money from the scams), and because Eddy is obsessed with making as much money as he can by conning people, he becomes hated pariah by the neighborhood children, with it being implied that Ed and Edd would be more accepted among the other kids if they unfriended him. Also, because of Eddy's flaws, he’s a bad friend to Ed and Edd and tends to be abusive toward them, even being willing to throw them under the bus more than once by choosing money and jawbreakers over the two of them. The tragedy is that beneath all of Eddy's flaws, he can be smart when he wants to be and genuinely care for his friends, and it’s implied that if he put all his skills into making money legitimately, he would be as wealthy and popular as he always wanted. This comes to head during the Grand Finale movie where one scam ends up injuring the neighborhood kids so badly that it all but destroys all the neighborhood children’s tolerance of Eddy and his friends, forcing them to go on the run, and Eddy is forced to face his flaws when even Edd becomes sick of his behavior after a poorly-timed prank and decides to leave him, prompting Eddy, for the first time, to admit his faults and say everything is his fault, which causes Edd to forgive him. Eventually, it’s revealed that Eddy is the way he is because he was abused by his older brother, whose behavior he copied due to thinking he would earn him respect, and after his brother beats him up once more, prompting the other Eds to come to Eddy's defense and help defeat his brother once and for all, Eddy admits that he made everything up about his brother in order to appear cool in front of his friends and peers and that he was wrong about just about everything he had done throughout the series. Thankfully, this act of true sincerity and owning up to his mistakes is what finally convinces the other kids Eddy is simply a broken kid who doesn't know how to empathize or express himself due to his horrid home life and grant Eddy and his friends the acceptance and inclusion they had spent the entire series trying to gain due to them finally overcoming their flaws and expressing true remorse for their actions.
  • Delusions of Beauty: He describes himself as good-looking ("Once Upon an Ed") or even a "hunk" ("Hanky Panky Hullabaloo"). It's all in his mind though, considering that he's the Trope Namer for No-Neck Chump and nobody would agree with this opinion, except maybe Lee.
  • Depraved Dwarf: He's the shortest of the Eds, and also the most malevolent among them, at least up until the movie.
  • Determinator: When he has his mind set to a goal, he refuses to give up, no matter how much punishment he has to take. A perfect example for this would be in the episode "The Good, The Bad, and The Ed."
  • Didn't Think This Through:
    • His Fatal Flaw, alongside his greed. If there's something he wants right now, he'll do it without bothering to think of the consequences, such as relentlessly tormenting Kevin while he's grounded and can't retaliate, only to get his ass kicked when Kevin gets let off early, and convincing Ed to spend the money Sarah gave him to buy her fudge on jawbreakers instead, leading to a very pissed off Sarah nearly tearing Ed's head off before Edd intervenes.
    • It comes to a head in The Movie. Eddy's entire plan for sparing himself and his friends the wrath of the other cul-de-sac kids hinged on locating his older brother's current residence so he could protect them from their pursuers. This plan proved deeply flawed on multiple levels, given that it's clear that:
      • A) He didn't have the foggiest clue where his brother lived, and thus forcing him and his friends to go on a wild goose chase for much of the film, only furthering the tensions between them.
      • B) That the kids were still hellbent on getting them, and thus (admittedly unknown to the Eds) that they would be dealing with pursuers who could potentially make their journey much more difficult.
      • C) That none of them have ever had to deal with trekking that kind of distance outside of their home before, so they find themselves suffering from a lack of resources, as well as fraying temperaments and patience (especially from Edd, who's about at the end of his rope).
      • D) Even IF they find him, it's clear that he didn't account for the possibility that his brother could potentially either turn them down, throw them to the wolves, or as The Reveal shows, would beat him up instead. Justified for the latter part, because it's implied that Eddy had been lying so long about his brother being a Cool Big Bro that he started to believe it himself, and he went to him out of desperation because he and his friends were running for their lives. The beating Eddy received reopened and revealed old, painful memories in him that causes him to try and get away from his older brother.
  • Dirty Coward: He loves hitting and messing with people when he knows they can't do much back (Ed is too nice, Double D is too weak, Kevin is grounded and trapped in his own home, Marie is looking the other way and distracted when he knocks her out with a sandwich, etc.), but his confidence can break like a twig whenever faced with punishment, and he doesn't really try to physically fight back himself most of the time.
  • Dirty Kid: He owns/owned a porn stash, keeps used tissues under his bed, and seems to have the perverted mindset and sense of humor of a Hormone-Addled Teenager (despite being a boy in his pre-teens). This is somewhat justified given his age and the maturity of his peers, and especially gaining a knowledge of adult culture from his older brother.
  • Disco Dan: Eddy clearly has a fondness for this kind of style. His room looks like it never left the 1970s down to the furniture and record player. He also owns several polyester leisure suits he wears on occasion. There’s a couple of moments where you might spot a Tom Jones poster on his wall.
  • Disguised in Drag:
    • Dresses up as a fairy in "Tinker Ed".
    • He dresses up as Sarah and Nazz in "Stiff Upper Ed".
    • Sports a yellow 1950's style dress and a big brown wig tied back with a sock in the comic "Sugar, Spice, and Ed".
    • Disguises himself as a female student named "Suzette" in "Pick an Ed".
  • Distressed Dude: In the movie, Eddy ends up suffering Domestic Abuse in the hands of his evil older brother, who had no intention on stopping his attacks on Eddy. So the Eds and the Kids had to bury the hatchet and save Eddy. It's Ed who ends up saving Eddy in the end.
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: Often self-inflicted; more often than not, Eddy's a jerk who believes he deserves more respect than he gets. For example, in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ed", Eddy insults the Urban Rangers out of pettiness and feeding his own ego, and competes against Rolf in a series of gruellingly violent tests in order to receive the most coveted badge of the Urban Rangers, which he intended to use to further mock them. However, while Eddy surprisingly doesn't yell in pain, complain, or quit during any of it, he ultimately passes out only 1 second before Rolf, and his loss is mocked by receiving the "cry-baby boohoo badge", an achievement he initially intended to "rub in their faces" till he learned what it was.
    E — G 
  • Embarrassing Nickname: "Pipsqueak" by his brother. Dork by Kevin.
  • Enraged by Idiocy: Eddy sometimes gets annoyed by other people's idiotic behavior around him, especially Ed's. On occasion, though, Eddy seems to be amused by Ed's idiotic antics (as long as they don't ruin one of his plans).
  • Entitled Bastard: Primarily in the Christmas Special, where he says "Christmas is the time your parents are supposed to get you everything you want!" You know, ignoring the matter of whether or not they're financially able to.
  • Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Implied, his cry for help is usually him yelling out for his mother.
  • Even Evil Can Be Loved: While not exactly "evil" per see, nevertheless, despite frequently mistreating them, both Ed and Double D do still care about Eddy as their best friend (if not the vitriolic kind). His dynamic with Double D is especially this in the movie after their heated argument, where when Eddy broke down sobbing—thinking that he's about to lose one of the two people who truly loves him—Double D comes back and comforted him, genuinely feeling sorry for him, and thus cementing their friendship from then on.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
    • More jerkish than evil, but he's on good terms with his grandfather.
    • Deep down, he does genuinely value Ed and Double D as his best friends. In fact, what causes him to outright break down in tears is Double D leaving after a heated argument, legitimately under the assumption that he was about to lose one of the two people who actually gave a damn about him.
  • Everyone Has Standards:
    • He's all for a good scam, but even he pulls up short of seriously injuring someone (at least intentionally; collateral damage he's more ambivalent towards depending on the circumstances) even if his current scheme is mean-spirited. In one episode, he plays a prank with Ed by dropping spoonfuls of yogurt from a makeshift building imitating bird leavings. When Ed gets too excited and drops an anvil, Eddy reprimands him and is seriously concerned he might actually hurt someone. Likewise even he was disturbed by whatever happened to Jimmy in One of Those Eds. It's a testament of how dangerously close he is to falling from a moral point that he spends a good chunk of the Big Picture Show trying to deny the seriousness of the damage they caused despite the very clear and severe injuries their marks have suffered.
    • He's a big womanizer and has moments of enjoying perverted things. But in "Out with the Old, In With the Ed" when he and his two friends are tricked by the Kankers into entering a girls' bathroom, he quickly covers his eyes when Edd tells them to.
  • Evil Is Petty: He tries to scare and embarrass Kevin in "This Won’t Hurt An Ed" and show up Rolf in "The Good, the Bad and the Ed" just because he’s jealous of their popularity with the cul-de-sac kids.
  • Evil Laugh: When the situation calls for it, Eddy can let out a pretty maniacal cackle. He laughs constantly as the villainous Professor Scam, and cackles to the heavens when he plots against Double D in "Mission Ed-Possible". He also tends to laugh hysterically whenever he sees another kid suffering.
  • Evil Mentor: To Jimmy in "Ed in a Halfshell". He tries to make Jimmy a scammer like himself. It works too well, as Jimmy uses this knowledge against the Eds in "If it Smells Like an Ed".
  • Extreme Doormat: It's not to the same extent as Ed or Edd, but he almost never fights back when one of the Cul-de-Sac kids beat him and his friends up. He's especially this to his brother in the Grand Finale.
    • He also becomes one near the end of "Stiff Upper Ed" in order to please Jimmy and Sarah.
  • The Face: He's the most socially adept of the Eds considering Ed is wild and Lethally Stupid, while Edd is persnickety and shy. He's also the one who does most of the talking and manages to consistently woo the kids to try out the Eds' scams.
  • Fatal Flaw: Needless to say, he has many, particularly involving his Greed and, more importantly, his Pride, but he drops these by the end of the movie:
    • Greed, the trait that often causes Eddy to drag his friends into big trouble. When Eddy wants to scam others, he will throw caution into the wind to get as much money as possible, blinding him to what's in front of him and it ends in failure most of the time.
    • Short-Sightedness. When he wants something, he will do what he wants without listening to the advice of others because his arrogance gets the better of him. This flaw causes him nothing but pain and humiliation on a regular basis. The movie even showcases he was betting on his brother to protect him and his friends from the others, but he never bothered to take into account his brother would rather abuse him for laughs. Double D even calls him out on this, that for all of Eddy's scams, they never work because Eddy never listens to others or thinks things through.
    • Selfishness. Eddy cares about himself more than anyone and doesn't show a shred of remorse for any of the problems he causes others other than for his own amusement. Eddy will scam others out of there money or bully/humiliate others just to make himself feel better about himself. These negative traits are largely why he's Hated by All in the cul-de-sac and that Ed and Edd also suffer because of his actions. The movie proves this to be one of his biggest flaws, as Edd begins to seriously question his friendship with him and after Eddy continues to prank him, not put any effort into finding his brother and playing a cruel practical joke about nearly drowning, Edd gets into a furious argument with Eddy and nearly ends their friendship thinking Eddy is a lost cause who will never grow up. It's only after Eddy sees Edd is serious does Eddy finally break down and apologize for his actions and admit fault does he move past these negative qualities.
    • Inculpability. Because of his inflated ego, Eddy will act like he did nothing wrong and play the victim card, completely ignoring his actions no matter how obviously he is at fault. This mindset causes him nothing but problems that could be resolved if he'd admit fault. The movie shows him stubbornly refusing to accept responsibility and blame Edd instead. After Edd proclaims he would rather face his consequences than be friends with Eddy anymore, Eddy finally sees the error of his ways and takes responsibility for everything that happened up till that point.
    • Arrogance. Eddy has a very high opinion of himself and thinks he's a cool guy and a natural charmer. Eddy's stubbornness and pride causes him nothing but humiliations and beatings because he's unwilling to concede defeat or admit guilt. By the end of the movie, after having his pride destroyed completely by nearly ruining his friendships with Ed and Edd and his brother sadistically beating him that Eddy finally learns a lesson and drops this attitude.
  • Fat Bastard: He's noticeably more on the chubby side compared to the other characters, not to mention a selfish, greedy con-artist.
  • Foil: Eddy is much less friendly than his friends are. While Ed is rather unintelligent and Edd is typically not a person to want to scam others, Eddy is rather cunning and is always looking for an opportunity for money.
  • Freudian Excuse: As is revealed in the movie. His older brother, beyond being an unpleasant and demeaning bully, was clearly not a good influence on him.
  • Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Quantity over quality is the name of the game for Eddy. His scams are very often thought up and made on the spot with the only idea for them being to make as much profit as possible without any thoughts about quality if the scam involves making products or safety measures if it is an attraction. As expected, it makes the other kids either not want to pay anything or they end up unsatisfied and demand their money back.
  • Gonk: Alongside having a rather rough attitude, he's also not much of a looker (even when he tries to be one), especially when compared to his friends Ed and Edd.
  • Greed: Eddy is very greedy when it comes to money and jawbreakers, and it got worse with each season.
  • Greed Makes You Dumb: Eddy succumbs to this a lot. One of the biggest examples was the episode "Here's Mud in Your Ed", where Rolf tricked him into giving up all of his worldly possessions in exchange for a fake "money tree" seed. After realizing he had been scammed, he falls for the same thing again when Rolf tries to sell him the "real" money tree seed (which is a metal bolt). At this point, even Ed realizes what's going on and mocks him for it.
    • In "Laugh Ed Laugh", Eddy actually goes insane from withdrawal because a chickenpox epidemic leaves him no kids to scam. Double D and Ed have to exploit his love of money (namely luring him into a shed with lots of fake money in it) in order to snap him out of it. Strangely, this aspect of him never came up again until mid-Season 2.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Eddy becomes extremely jealous whenever he sees someone else getting praise and/or attention, growing jealous of Plank in "For the Ed, by the Ed", Kevin in "This Won’t Hurt An Ed", the Urban Rangers in "The Good, the Bad and the Ed", Jimmy in "A Fistful Of Ed", and Ed in "Tight End Ed".
  • Grew a Spine: In "A Fistful Of Ed", he actually stands up to and manages to shout down the Kankers, much to their shock. They all leave without a word.
  • The Grinch: Eddy states how much he hates Christmas, because all he ever gets are lame clothes. We see this for ourselves in "Jingle Jingle Jangle" when Eddy tries to sneak a peek at his parent's gifts for him, and they are all indeed nothing but dorky clothes. He eventually decides to just put himself up for adoption to basically steal some presents from whoever takes him in. Even at the end of the episode when he seems to realize Christmas isn't about the gifts, he still greedily steals Santa's sack of presents for everyone for himself, saying he deserves it for having given willingly from his heart.
  • Guilt by Association Gag: When Ed turned the school's pool into gravy Eddy got a detention. Unlike Double D it's usually played for laughs that Eddy is held accountable for Ed's mistakes.
    H — I 
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Just as short-tempered as Sarah, if not worse.
  • Hated by All: Given how much of a Jerkass he is, and considering how he often scams people, not many of the Cul-De-Sac kids like him, with only Ed and Edd, both of whom would be more appreciated by the other children if they left him, consistently being his friends, with Kevin and Sarah being the most hateful towards him. It's even implied that the unseen adults don't like him much either; he's been punished several times for things done by other people and he's outright labeled as a megalomaniac on his report card. Thankfully, Eddy is moved out of this by Big Picture Show with him building a closer bond with his friends and the neighborhood kids, learning about his past with his brother, with Eddy showing that he cares for his friends, has learned his lesson on being a good person and truly changed for the better.
  • Hates Being Touched: Most certainly due to his brother. (Though getting pummeled repeatedly by Kevin and molested by the Kankers probably didn't help.) His narcissism is also part of the Running Gag about touching his face in particular.
  • The Heavy: A lot of the conflict in the show is caused by Eddy's scams. Even when he's not the cause of the problem, he'll scheme to profit off the situation. In a spin on this trope, he's also one of the protagonists.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Eddy eventually admits his mistakes and redeems himself.
  • Height Angst: "A Pinch to Grow an Ed" is dedicated to Eddy's unhappiness with his height. It doesn't help that Kevin and Rolf ridicule him for his height.
  • Hell-Bent for Leather: He seems very disappointed when Kevin takes the "sweet jacket" he begins wearing in "A Fistful of Ed" off him after Jimmy beats up Double D, even going so far as to chastise Double D for losing the fight.
  • Hidden Depths:
    • He comes off as pretty Book Dumb, but he occasionally makes references to people/events you wouldn't expect him to be aware of, like calling Double D "Rembrandt" when printing fake dollars. Plus, his scams are sometimes quite clever.
    • For all of the times in which he usually lets the other Eds do all the dirty work, some episodes like Season 1's "Virt-Ed-Go" and Season 5's "Out with the Old, In With the Ed" show that he is quite capable of handling the physical labor and helping out when he actually wants to. He's doing equal work with Edd and Ed on building the clubhouse, while in the latter scenario (in a display of Laborious Laziness) he literally broke into everyone's homes to swipe their calendars, set up a complicated system of air conditioning and heating to trick everyone into thinking it's still summertime so he can scam them, and between him and Ed, crafts a gigantic water slide (that admittedly falls apart when he and Ed crash into each other on it) by themselves.
  • Hidden Heart of Gold: Especially proven during the movie, where it's revealed that his bad behavior is all just a facade under the misbelief of becoming significantly popular with such displayed personality, mainly because of his older brother's bad influence on him.
    • In The Movie it's revealed that he was picked on rather cruelly as a kid by his big brother. Hence, the reason behind his behavior throughout the show in the first place.
  • His Own Worst Enemy: Eddy's biggest enemy at the end of the day is himself not helped by his Big Brother Bully warping Eddy's perspective of what constitutes as a "cool kid" with his cruelty and malice. Eddy does possess far more self-loathing of himself than he initially seems to have, but due to his misunderstanding of his brother's actions (and deep denial of how monstrous his brother really was), he instead kept on trying to emulate his older sibling without having the qualities needed to back them up. The end result is a constant Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of the kids hating him, his closest friends barely tolerating him, and his own inability to move past these flaws ensuring he'd only repeat them again and again. It takes The Movie to finally get him to realize this.
  • Honest John's Dealership: More like an Honest John in training.
  • Honorary Uncle: Jimmy calls him "uncle Eddy" in "Ed in a Halfshell", probably because the former asked him too. It is funny, considering Eddy isn't much older than Jimmy, being a kid himself.
  • Hot-Blooded: He's reckless and impulsive to ridiculous levels.
  • Humiliation Conga: He goes through this in "An Ed Is Born" when he tries to make a home movie to look cool for his brother.
  • The Hyena: He often finds something amusing and isn't afraid to show it.
  • Hypocrite:
    • In "Little Ed Blue", as Kevin complains he doesn't like the Eds' no-budget and poorly filmed homemade movie "The Hunt for Ed-osaurus", Eddy crams a whole bag of popcorn up his mouth. Sarah complains she also wants free popcorn. Eddy complains "What do I look like? Some popcorn fairy?"
    • He also doesn't take kindly to someone who trashes his bedroom, even though he does the exact same thing to his friends', as shown in episodes such as "Stop, Look and Ed" and "Fa-la-la-la Ed."
    • He hates it when people touch him and/or invades his personal space, but he has no problem invading other characters' personal space himself.
    • He shows no remorse in scamming others out of all their money and things, yet God forbid you do the same to him. When Jimmy and Rolf get revenge on Eddy for swindling all of Jimmy's money, Eddy is furious over them taking all is stuff for ripping him off.
    • In "Will Work For Ed," while he was right have a problem with Rolf's unreasonable strictness and hardheadedness as a boss, Eddy himself has been shown to be very domineering and downright abusive to Ed and Edd when it comes to working on their scams (by physically and verbally abusing them in far more vicious ways than Rolf was to Ed).
  • Hypocritical Humor: In "Ed Overboard", he accuses the Urban Rangers of being "so full of themselves".
  • I Am Big Boned: He takes offense to Ed proclaiming he "weighs a lot", claiming, "I ate a big breakfast, so what?!"
  • Ignored Epiphany: The Christmas special has Eddy embark on a miserably lonely and sobering personal journey to discover the joy of selflessness and giving on Christmas, gets rewarded with a gigantic sack of presents for him and the rest of the neighborhood to share, and then he instantly goes back to his old self by snatching the load and running off to loot it for himself.
  • I Just Want to Be Special: The reason why he wanted to become as popular as the neighborhood kids. Further explained in the movie, where he thought that his deliberate misdemeanor, which he learned from his older brother, would earn him respect from them, only for it to backfire.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: Implied in the show, made explicit in The Movie. Despite the fact he is a megalomaniac con-artist, it's actually just an act as he thought if he acted like his older brother, people would like him, when it actually has the opposite effect, although he does eventually realize this. Ironically, he already has both Ed and Edd; it's just that he wanted to expand this matter further with the neighborhood kids out of popularity.
  • Immoral Journalist: In "Truth or Ed", he joins the school paper, thinking he’ll get the money from the sales, and increases sales by writing made-up stories that slander the other kids.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: He's revealed to have this at the end of The Movie. Turns out that his jerkish tendencies and high opinion of himself were a mere facade to cover up a nasty self-hatred. You can thank his brother for that. Hints were even given throughout the series beforehand that he might not feel as awesome as he claims himself to be.
  • Informed Attribute: Eddy refers to all of his attempts at the Get-Rich-Quick Scheme as scams, even the ones that are genuine business ventures and not the trio deliberately selling a faulty product.
  • Ink-Suit Actor: Look at Eddy, then look at his voice actor, Tony Sampson, who even lampshades this. According to Matt Hill and Samuel Vincent (Ed and Edd's voice actors), Tony even acts like Eddy!
  • It's All About Me: In later seasons, especially.
    Eddy: I'm the Peach Creek Clobberer, I'm the best mascot you've seen! Forget about this old dope, he's just a has-been!
    J — K 
  • Jack of All Stats: In the online game Lunchroom Rumble, he has more balanced stats than either Ed or Double D, with 2/4 speed, 3/4 strength, and 3/4 range.
  • Jack of All Trades: He considers himself one in the Tight End Ed episode. The reality is a bit different...
  • Jaded Washout: In the show, he seems ridiculously overconfident—but in the movie, it's revealed that he actually doesn't think all that highly of himself and is also fully aware of what people really think of him.
  • Jerkass: Eddy is arrogant, scams his peers, is full of himself, and likes to think that he's better than everyone else on the show, and fans wonder why he and his friends get the living shit beaten out of them sometimes. It is revealed in The Movie that Eddy's jerkish behavior is just an act, since he thought acting like his brother would make him look cool to all the other kids. In the end, Eddy realizes that being a jerkass is what's keeping him from being popular, and tearfully laments that he'll never learn his lesson. Fortunately, Eddy did learn his lesson and became a better friend and better person, earning the forgiveness and friendship of the neighborhood kids.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Despite his jerkish tendencies and Moral Myopia, he actually does rightly call out others for their own stupid/Jerkass behavior, sometimes.
    • When Ed goes out of control in "The Day the Ed Stood Still" because of his overactive imagination, Double D tries to pin the blame on Eddy even though he had little to no control of the situation. Eddy defends himself by rightfully pointing that it was Double D's idea to create the monster suit for Ed in the first place, not to mention Double D himself should've been aware of Ed's wild imagination to begin with.
    • He brings a good point to Ed with how unhealthy the latter's relationship with Sarah is, with Ed doing everything for his sister, while Sarah gives him nothing but abuse. He's speaking from experience, as while Eddy will never admit it, his older brother was (and still is) horrifically abusive.
    • In "In Like Ed", Eddy may have been overpricing his material for the yard sale, but he was also right in calling Edd out for underpricing his own material as well, since charging something such as ice skates and a stack of comics for only single-digit cents wouldn't give him enough profits.
    • In "Boom Boom, Out Goes the Ed", when Edd asks them why he is always the only one working on the assignment, Eddy points out that if he and Ed did help, Edd's grade average would lower, which Double D would never allow.
    • Although Eddy isn't being nice about wanting to destroy Ed's violin and is rude enough to say that "violins are for sissies" in "Pain in the Ed", he is completely right that Ed's awful violin playing is not only annoying, but actively destroying the cul-de-sac. It becomes more justified when Ed tries to practice in Eddy's room without his consent, and Edd has the gall to act like Eddy is in the wrong for trying to put a stop to it.
    • In "Truth Or Ed," when looking over the school newspaper, Eddy obnoxiously says that scandal sells. Given how people sometimes like to pay attention to scandalous things, he's actually right.
    • In "It Came From Outer Ed", Eddy is reluctant to go along with Ed's scam until Double D guilt-trips him into it. His skepticism of Ed's competence proves well-founded, as it turns out Ed was just planning to reenact a curse from a comic book he read. After everything, naturally, goes to hell in a hand-basket, he rightly berates Double D for encouraging Ed's behavior against his better judgment.
    • In "Run For Your Ed", when Edd chides Eddy for encouraging Ed to sacrifice himself to the Kanker sisters to return them their Ship-Inna-Bottle, Eddy retorts that it was Ed taking the bottle in the first place that prompted the Kankers to go on a rampage in the cul-de-sac and break into Edd's house.
    • When Edd enlists the Urban Rangers to rescue Ed in "Ed Overboard," Eddy calls them out for only being interested in saving Ed for a "Freeing of the Fool" medallion.
    • During "Urban Ed" he chastises Ed for dropping an anvil during their "pigeon droppings" prank, telling Ed "You're gonna hurt somebody! This ain’t a cartoon!"
    • He is right in "Who's Minding the Ed?" that the animals keep on running him over and lashes out at Double D for constantly showing him No Sympathy for it.
    • While Eddy had brought it on himself to earn their hatred for him, Eddy in return has every right to hate both Kevin and Sarah, especially the former, as both of them are crueler to the Eds than the other kids, Sarah mistreats one of his best friends on a regular basis without any provocation and is a selfish, tyrannical, bossy Spoiled Brat, and Kevin has humiliated Eddy and sometimes gives Eddy and his friends a hard time without being provoked.
    • In the movie, Double D hits his Rage Breaking Point and angrily lashes out at Eddy for his irresponsibility, pride, and never listening to him. Eddy fires back at Double D, however, pointing out that for all his supposed moral high ground, he still goes along with Eddy's schemes against his better judgement and he's the one who built the machine that triggered the Noodle Incident that got them chased out of the cul-de-sac in the first place. It becomes a case of both sides having a point when Double D disputes that they wouldn't have been chased out of town had Eddy bothered to pay attention to him when he warned Eddy against pushing the red button that caused the whole scam to go haywire.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's loud, obnoxious, disrespectful, scams his peers, and likes to think that he's better than everyone else. He can also be quite the bully towards his friends and Jimmy. However, he reveals in the movie that he was only acting like a jerk because he thought he'd be cool if he acted like his brother. This is Truth in Television, as some victims, especially children, are prone to taking up the traits of their abusers, whether they know it (or even like it) or not. The "Heart of Gold" part is deep down and hidden under several layers of Napoleon Complex, emotional instability, and years of domestic abuse by his brother but really, all he wants is friends. It mostly shows itself in the movie but the last 11 minute episode lets him show it a little too, when he actually stands up to the Kankers for Double D and manages to shout them down, then shares hotdogs with Ed and Double D, asking if everyone is happy now.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Can be this for much of seasons 4 and 5. In one scene of "Boom Boom Out Goes the Ed", Double D is seemingly dead underground. Ed is in tears, while Eddy at first seems sad but but soon reveals himself to be happy because "I STILL GOT CASH MONEY!" without even caring about his friend presumably being dead. This is practically deconstructed in the movie with the quicksand prank, which forces him to confront his insensitivity.
  • "Just Joking" Justification: Eddy sometimes makes attempts to excuse his jerkish behavior to others as a "joke" but nobody buys it and he is often punished for it. For example:
  • Karma Houdini: The one time he earns this title individually is in "A Fistful of Ed", where he takes full advantage of everyone's newfound fear of Double D and taunts Jimmy to the point of rage. While the other two Eds are brutally hurt, Eddy doesn't receive much punishment apart from Kevin taking his jacket — though he makes up for it by defending Double D from the Kankers.
  • Karmic Butt-Monkey: Unlike Ed and Double D, Eddy usually completely deserves to be ridiculed, hurt, and ostracized by the other neighborhood kids, given that he’s always trying to swindle the kids out of their money to satisfy his candy craving, and generally acts like a selfish, disrespectful, arrogant, short-tempered jerk to everyone, even his own friends.
  • Kick the Dog: Post Flanderization. He does this almost every time someone tries to be nice to him. Deconstructed in The Movie where the kids, even Edd, have finally had enough of this.
  • Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Not academically (he proudly admits to not caring about school), but socially. He fancies himself The Social Expert due to his older brother's tutelage, and in episodes like "Pop Goes the Ed" and "May I Have This Ed", confidently leads his friends in the art of socializing. In reality, he's a shrill Attention Whore whom the cul-de-sac despises; if anything, it's actually Edd who (by default) has the most social graces of the crew.
    L — N 
  • Lack of Empathy: Eddy does care for the Eds, but he's so toxic and selfish he usually brushes off them or the well-being of everyone around him if it benefits him in the long run. When Eddy hurts someone or scams them out of their money, he will laugh and smile like a jackass without a shred of remorse for hurting others. The movie shows that everyone around Eddy reach a breaking point over this apathetic behavior and almost ruins his friendship with Edd for not caring about others. Thankfully, Eddy finally learns from his mistakes and drops this behavior.
  • Large Ham: He gets louder and hammier with each season.
  • Laser-Guided Karma:
    • Eddy usually acts like a complete, arrogant, and selfish jerk, who will scam the kids out of their pocket money and, at times, take his friend's loyalty for granted, which often ends up coming back at him when he's forced to face the consequences from the cul-de-sac kids.
    • While the Eds as a group suffer this, Eddy alone has suffered this in specific episodes. "Brother, Can You Spare an Ed?" is an egregious example: Eddy used his friends as human piñatas in his scam to pay Sarah back (he actually tried to keep the money he was supposed to pay her). Edd has finally had enough of Eddy taking advantage of him and Ed, and Eddy himself ends up getting the same treatment he gave his friends. What's more, the price is only a penny per turn, which prolongs the deserved pain Eddy suffers in the end.
    • Deconstruction however as some of the humiliation he received from the cul-de-sac kids has went too far and was undeserved on his behalf such as in the episode "Your Ed Here" where Kevin humiliates Eddy by threatening to tell the cul de sac kids about his middle name and forces him to do many embarrassing dares to avoid blowing his cover (not that Kevin would keep his end of the bargain anyways considering he tells them his middle name either way), or in "X Marks the Ed" where he is constantly chased down and taken pictures of for having a giant zit on his head, before having shrunk down by Rolf at the end.
      • Coupled with the fact that it's not entirely his fault that he picked up bad habits from his brother, who had been a total asshole to him for god knows how many years, which has likely made him feel insecure and forced to overcompensate by imitating his behavior to impress him.
      • Had he received more appropriate consequences for his behavior? He may have learned the proper value of friendship; his true, genuine, good-hearted nature would have likely emerged much earlier, before the Big Picture show finale.
    • However, eventually, Eddy receives good karma by showing that he does care about his friends Ed and Edd, takes responsibility for his actions, and becomes a better person. As a result, he was accepted by the cul-de-sac kids and forgiven for his previous actions.
  • Lazy Boss: As the leader of the Eds, Eddy is the one to conceive the scams, but leaves the heavy lifting of making them reality to Double D and Ed, while he uses his sleazy salesman routine once they're ready. And more often than not, it's his impatience and wanting to make a quick quarter that hinder the scam from being successful.
  • Lazy Bum: If there's work to be done, you can bet Eddy will gladly let the other two Eds do it while he sips a drink. Although somewhat downplayed as more often than not, he will step in and do some legwork when he feels like it.
  • The Leader: Of the Eds. The "Mastermind" type or the "Headstrong" type.
  • I Lied: In the movie, he admits he made up most of what he said about his brother in an effort to be cool.
  • Lost Voice Plot: In "Button Yer Ed", Eddy loses his voice due to a fly getting stuck in his throat, only allowing him to make wheezing, squeaky noises. He is frustrated when other people do not know what he's saying.
  • Lovable Rogue: Pre-Flanderization. He can be really smooth and nice to his friends every now and then despite running a scam.
  • Made of Iron: Eddy has an incredibly high recovery rate from any injury. While Edd can easily be rendered unconscious and Ed generally No Sells anything thrown at him, Eddy is affected by his injuries but can shake them off in seconds.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Shows tendencies of this in several episodes like "Brother, Can You Spare an Ed and "All Eds Are Off". In "Ed in a Halfshell" he even tries to make Jimmy a manipulative scammer like himself. He succeeds.
  • Manly Tears:
    • In "Momma's Little Ed", he tears up when he sees that Ed is upset about Edd getting kicked out.
    • In The Movie, combined with Broken Tears. First, he cries when admitting that everything was his fault. Also, when Ed defeats his brother and he admits that he had made up everything he had ever said about his brother.
  • The McCoy: He's extremely the most impulsive of the Eds, being very ambitious about his goals from the show, whether it'd be scamming others to earn money, or trying to fit himself in to the Kids.
  • The Millstone: While all of the Eds tends to screw things up, Eddy is the worst at it. Many of the Eds' failures come from Eddy's impatience, arrogance, and greed taking the scam far beyond their capabilities. Many of the scams would actually be legitimate business ventures if not for him trying to be dishonest, and there were several times when Eddy's ideas would have been highly successful if he wasn't so obsessed with making as much money as possible.
  • Misery Builds Character: He's at least twice stated that he believes suffering traumatic events promote bravery. The first episode literally has him say "A little early childhood trauma builds character", and in the episode where Ed and Jimmy become friends, when Double D opposes playing dodgeball on account of it holding no educational value, Eddy corrects him by stating that it "builds character".
  • Mister Big: He's the leader of the titular trio of scammers and the shortest among them.
  • Money Fetish: Although his main goal is to get jawbreakers, he's very obsessed with money and always dreams or talks about becoming rich.
  • Moral Myopia: Eddy is completely fine with scamming others and being a jerk to them. When others do the same thing to him, however, he acts outraged.
    • In "Here's Mud In Your Ed," Eddy tricks Jimmy out of his money by making an amusement park appear real, but it turned out to be an abandoned alley. When Jimmy and Rolf team up and (successfully) get revenge on him by scamming him, he gets angry and plays the victim.
    • In "If It Smells Like An Ed," Eddy acts like a jerk towards Jimmy by giving him a wedgie. In retaliation, Jimmy frames all 3 Eds. Eddy gets angry at Jimmy for acting like a jerk towards him after the latter reveals himself as the perpetrator and tries to make himself the victim.
  • Mouthy Bird: a human inversion. His pointed upper lip can look oddly beak-like at times. In "Take This Ed and Shove It", his elder design even has his lip dangling like a turkey's snood.
  • Mugging the Monster: Does this to Jimmy in "A Fistful Of Ed" by taunting him and throwing hot dogs at him, unaware of how dangerous Jimmy can be when he gets angry. Jimmy does eventually get angry, and beats up Edd instead.
  • The Napoleon: He's hot-tempered and aggressive as well as one of the shortest characters on the show.
  • Narcissist: He acts like this throughout the series. Subverted in the movie, when his narcissism is revealed to be a facade, since he admits he doesn't think all that highly of himself.
  • Never My Fault: Eddy loves to see himself as the victim and likes to blame other people for his actions. Examples include:
    • In "For Your Ed Only", Eddy blames Edd for getting him and the other two Eds caught by Sarah after she discovers that they have her diary, completely ignoring the fact that Eddy stole the diary in the first place.
    • In "From Here To Ed", Eddy blames Edd for their failed attempt to get back at Kevin after the latter (unintentionally) ruined the Eds' scam.
    • In "Dueling Eds," Eddy drives Rolf into depression when he throws one of his sea cucumber balls at the fence, shaming him. When Edd and Ed nag him to apologise to Rolf, Eddy insists he didn't do anything.
    • In "If It Smells Like an Ed," after Jimmy reveals himself as the perpetrator behind the Eds being framed, Eddy plays the victim card and demands that Jimmy sets him free. He ignores the fact that that had he not given Jimmy a wedgie, him and the other Eds wouldn't have been in that situation.
    • In "Here's Mud In Your Ed," after finding out that Rolf and Jimmy scammed him, he again plays the victim card, ignoring the fact that he scammed Jimmy first.
    • Finally averted in the movie, where he finally admits that everything the Eds have gone through in the series is his fault.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: It's usually his fault that the Eds always get punished by the kids, although he always refuses to admit it and plays the victim instead. Finally deconstructed in The Movie where he breaks down from the pressure of constant failures and admits that he's a "foul, wannabe loser".
  • The Nicknamer: He often comes up with nicknames for many of the characters including Edd (Sockhead), Ed (Monobrow, Lumpy, Lurch, Lummox), Kevin (Shovelchin, Kev), Jonny (Baldy, Melonhead), Rolf (Stretch, Dracula, Rolfie-Boy), Jimmy (Curly Q) etc. His brother also does the same thing, calling the kids "Anklebiters" in the movie.
  • Noble Male, Roguish Male: The roguish to Ed and Edd's noble.
  • NO INDOOR VOICE: Quite possibly the loudest character in the series, able to shout down even Sarah if pushed far enough. The other kids call him out on this, numerous times, even wagering a bet that he could go 24 hours without screaming in "All Eds Are Off".
  • No-Neck Chump: He provides the page image. Called this in "Pick an Ed" by somebody graffitiing the school wall. And it changes with each disguise. And Edd wrote each of them.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: Despite the fact he Hates Being Touched, he does tend to get in people's faces a lot. And he often carries both Ed and Edd around by their collars or gets into wrestling matches with other kids.
  • Not a Morning Person: Despite his near-manic energy, he does not wake up well. In "It's Way Ed", he's shown to wreck alarm clock after alarm clock and it usually takes a few seconds for him to become fully fuctional. On top of that, he likes to sleep in on weekends.
  • Now Allowed to Hug: Eddy is known to greatly dislike being touched, even by Ed and Double D. However, come the finale movie after Ed saves Eddy from his sadistic and cruel Big Brother Bully and Double D goes to see if he's alright, he lets his guard down and allows him to help him up and hold his hands.
    O — R 
  • Odd Name Out: Not necessarily his first name, but rather his middle name Skipper, to which he gets teased from it.
  • OOC Is Serious Business:
    • In the movie, Eddy acts like a Smug Snake when he reaches his brother's trailer, but when he actually makes an appearance, Eddy becomes very anxious and submissive around him, despite previously acting like he was going to bail him out. Similarly, in "Ed... Pass It On" he starts groveling when he sees who he thinks is his brother at the door.
    • Also in the movie, Eddy is known to blame others and never himself. So, when Edd reached his Rage Breaking Point where he would rather accept the beating from the livid kids of the Cul-De-Sac than to spend another second with "a so-called friend", Eddy's crying and finally accepting responsibility prompted Edd to forgive him.
  • Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In "Dueling Eds", Tony Sampson's Canadian accent slips out when Eddy says "I'm sorry, okay?"
  • Overly Long Tongue: Not all the time, but it can stretch to absurd lengths. Sometimes it even trails behind him when he runs. As revealed in "Laugh Ed, Laugh", he can wear it on his head like a turban. He even balances on his tongue in the show's intro.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: In the episode "Pick An Ed," Eddy goes undercover as a new student "Carl." Edd is the only one able to see through the disguise while Ed, unsurprisingly, doesn't. The disguise does fool the other kids, though. This is played more straight when Eddy disguises himself as a female student named "Suzette." Plank is able to see through the disguise and Kevin exposes the disguise at the near end.
  • Perpetual Frowner: When he's not being smug he's usually seen with a constant grouchy frown on his face rather than a smug smile.
  • Pet the Dog:
    • He has his moments (especially in earlier seasons), such as getting a distraught Ed an animal to play with in "Who's Minding the Ed?" (which was actually Double D in a rabbit onesie, not that Ed noticed.)
    • He might not like Sarah or Jimmy, but in "The Eds Are Coming", he uses a mailbox to slingshot Jimmy into the yard to get Sarah when it looks like she's being attacked by aliens.
    • Despite hating sharing his space, he lets Double D stay over at his house after pranking him in "Momma's Little Ed".
    • In "Laugh, Ed, Laugh", he seemed genuinely concerned when Jonny (actually Ed in a mask, which fell off) "dropped his face" and offered to get him a new one.
    • In "Stop, Look, and Ed", he tries to keep Edd from getting attacked by the other kids after Edd gets them all in trouble with their parents even though Edd just got him into a lot of trouble as well. One would expect Eddy to leave anyone who did that to their fate but here he doesn't.
    • In "Read All About Ed", when the trio's newspaper delivery machine goes berserk with Ed still attached to it, Eddy runs after it and tries to save his friend.
    • In "May I Have This Ed", Eddy was trying to help Edd (and Ed) gain some confidence in talking to girls. He even seemed proud of Edd when the latter danced with Nazz, and rubbed it in Kevin's face. Earlier, when Ed's overactive imagination causes him to start wrecking Eddy's attic, Eddy ducks behind a large chest, then quickly grabs Edd and lets him use the barricade as well.
    • In "Out With The Old, In with the Ed," he was all too willing to humiliate himself just so he can remain in the same class as Ed and Edd.
    • He has stood up to the Kankers twice for Edd, once in "Hanky Panky Hullabaloo" and in "A Fistful of Ed".
    • In the movie, keep a close eye on Eddy's face when he first hears Edd's voice when Edd starts to defend Eddy from his Bro. It is a look of sheer dread and worry because he knows without a shadow of a doubt his brother is going to attack Edd now showing that he doesn't want his friends involved.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's one of the shortest members of the cast but he can lift a lot for a guy his size and age. Nowhere near Ed, Sarah or Rolf's level, but he can apparently carry quite a large amount if he wants to.
  • Porn Stash: Eddy is implied to have one, or have had one, in "The Luck of the Ed". He seems to have found it at the end of "It Came From Outer Ed."
  • Practically Different Generations: Eddy is a kid attending middle school while his brother is an adult who already moved out and found his own place by the time the show started.
  • The Prankster: As revealed in "Fool on the Ed" where he easily pranks Ed and Edd, and brags about how he is the king of pranks. In "Eeney, Meeney, Miney, Ed", Eddy tricks Ed into thinking that Edd is a lizard man who is turning the Kids into animal-human hybrids. He and Ed frequently prank Edd like in "Momma's Little Ed", "My Fair Ed", "A Case of Ed" and the movie (Edd gets understandably upset by this, since being victim of mean pranks is one of his Berserk Buttons and in the movie this is played very seriously). He seems to get this from his brother, who manages to prank the Eds in a few episodes despite not even being physically present.
  • Primary-Color Champion: Inverted, especially given the numerous times he fails throughout the show.
  • Puppy-Dog Eyes: A rare young male example of this, such as when an ice cream cart plummets in his direction in "Sorry, Wrong Ed".
  • Rabble Rouser: Has been described as such by both creator Danny Antonucci and voice actor Tony Sampson, though he doesn't stir up mobs so much as he just simply tries to stir up a little excitement within the cul-de-sac, particularly when it pertains to whatever Zany Scheme he's cooked up for him, Ed, and Double D.
  • Real Men Hate Affection: Eddy zig-zags this trope. He doesn't like being hugged or touched. He also showed discomfort when Edd hugged him, causing their faces to be touching. On the other hand, he had no problem with Nazz kissing him at the end of the movie.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: During the film, when Double D is delivering his own speech to Eddy, Eddy finally calls Double D out on his Holier than Thou attitude and his Never My Fault reasoning that for all smarts, his inventions always fail and he still takes part in all the scams despite his supposed moral high ground.
  • Redemption Quest: The movie serves this purpose, showing that he actually does care about his friends and that his jerkass tendencies were because of a misguided effort to be like his brother in the hopes it would make him popular with the other kids. Once the illusion falls off and he admits to the others (and a good bit to himself) as much, he's forgiven and the ending shows that he's turned over a new leaf and is finally accepted by the kids.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Edd's blue. However, when it comes to his brother, he's the Blue Oni.
  • Rise of Zitboy: In "X Marks the Ed", he develops a huge pimple on his head. And it keeps growing as long as Eddy continues to get stressed about it.
  • Running Gag:
    • His lack of a neck.
    • His flat head. Rolf even rests a teacup on it in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ed".
    S 
  • Sadist: Eddy will usually laugh hysterically when he sees someone else suffer, such as laughing when Ed got molested by May in "Ed Overboard", laughing when Ed shoved a turkey down Edd’s throat in "Little Ed Blue", and laughing when Ed smashed Jimmy with a stop sign in "Ed, Edd, n’ Eddy’s Boo Haw Haw".
  • Sanity Slippage: If he doesn't have anybody around to scam, he starts to go crazy and insane, as seen in "Laugh Ed Laugh".
  • Sarcasm-Blind: Sometimes he mistakes Edd's sarcastic remarks for compliments rather than insults.
  • Schemer: His defining trait and the Trope Codifier, even providing the trope's page quote. MANY of the show's episodes are kicked off by a desire to make money so the Eds can buy their jawbreakers, and many of these schemes are usually planned as contraptions or attractions that cost money or take advantage of someone. According to Eddy himself, his brother is the inspiration for some of his scams.
  • Self-Appointed Leader: Eddy is the de facto leader of the titular trio. While he's often the one who comes up with scams, he's not really respected as a leader and is only in charge because of his enormous ego, with the other Eds sometimes taking the position.
  • Serial Moocher: Eddy displays traits that goes with being a moocher, mainly being lazy, despite being more notable for being a greedy con artist and selfish Jerkass. Though Eddy is the one who comes up the idea for the scams the Eds typically conduct, Eddy rarely does his share of the work, leaving Edd and Ed to do the heavy lifting. Further, Eddy isn't much better when the trio are in school, often having Edd be his Homework Slave rather than actually putting in the effort to study and do his own work.
  • Serious Business:
    • Has tendencies of this when his scams are ruined.
    • He takes being "manly" rather seriously.
  • Seven Deadly Sins: Unlike most characters who are guilty of just one or a few of them, Eddy is the embodiment of all seven:
    • Greed: His main flaw. He will do anything for money and material gain, even in the cost of his own best friends' lives (albeit not that morbidly).
    • Pride: He's a proud Narcissist who thinks very high of himself.
    • Wrath: He's the most impatient and short-tempered character on the show aside from Sarah.
    • Envy: He's envious because he hates it when someone has something he wants, and he usually covets other's fortunes.
    • Sloth: Even if the scams are his ideas, he's a Lazy Bum who makes his friends do all the work and is also a slacker at school.
    • Lust: He's a Casanova Wannabe and in his ideal world, Nazz always wears a bikini.
    • Gluttony: He tends to eat a lot when there's food available. He also frequently desires to consume jawbreakers, which are huge enough to fit in someone's mouth.
  • Ship Tease: With Edd (especially in The Movie), Ed, Nazz, and Lee. There's a bit of it with Sarah, at least in the boomerang episode.
  • Shorter Means Smarter: Zigzagged. He's smarter than Ed (at least most of the time), but Book Dumb in contrast to Double D.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: With Kevin, and the Urban Rangers past Season 2. He also hates Lemon Brook.
  • Skewed Priorities: Most of the time. He usually cares about his scams and getting money and jawbreakers over the health and safety of his friends and the kids he scams.
    • His reaction to there being "aliens" in the cul-de-sac?
      Eddy: I'M GONNA BE SUPER RICH!!
  • Small Name, Big Ego: Very much so (though it's later Deconstructed in the movie, see Jaded Washout above).
    Eddy: I was born to fleece, Double D. Do you know who I think I am?
    Edd: Unfortunately, yes.
  • Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter: In "Sorry, Wrong Ed", after he got rid of the cursed telephone he still kept provoking the curse and kept suffering because of it.
  • Smug Smiler: When being a Smug Snake, otherwise he is a Perpetual Frowner.
  • Smug Snake: A slimeball schemer for the most part. However, it's revealed that this is just an act due to him being bullied by his big brother.
  • So Proud of You: When he makes Jimmy his apprentice, namely in the episode "Ed in a Halfshell", when the latter becomes a Superior Successor in the end, he can't help but be proud. This is, however, inverted in the episode "Stuck In Ed", where he rejected Jimmy's Super Duper Scammy Whammy idea, just because the former has stated that ice pops, its primary products, "are stupid".
  • Sore Loser: Eddy never takes losing well. In particular:
    • When Eddy loses the election in For the Ed, By The Ed, he angrily tries to demand a recount. He ignores the fact that even if there was a recount, the results would still be the same.
    • In "Mission Ed-Possible", when Eddy finds out that Edd led him and Ed on a Wild Goose Chase after secretly giving Rolf the report cards to deliver in his place, Eddy is so livid that Edd outsmarted him and put him through so much humiliation for nothing that he attempts to beat up Edd to avenge his loss. Too bad Eddy's father arrives to confront him about his bad grades.
    • After losing the Test of Pain challenge to Rolf in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ed", Eddy angrily complains about how he lost by "one lousy second", and gets salt rubbed in the wounds by receiving the "Crybaby Boohoo Badge".
    • In "Tight End Ed", Eddy loses it when his attempts to upstage Ed as the mascot are met with failure and everyone ignores him.
      Eddy: Forget him! Look at me! I'm the mascot! I'm way better than him! I'M THE CLOBBERER, FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD!!!
    • After losing the bet to Ed in "All Eds Are Off", granted via a technicality, Eddy tries to take Ed's money and then upon finding out what Ed is going to do with the money (which is to spend it on more gravy), Eddy gives chase to Ed with a pot of butterscotch pudding out of spite since the latter is allergic to it.
  • Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Eddy is revealed to be this in The Movie. He acts like a total bastard, treating everyone like crap (even his own friends) and doing everything to get as much money as he can. However, it's all an act, only acting like his older brother (who abused him physically and emotionally) to be popular and hiding his own pain and suffering. Everyone in the show found this in horror, and his admission and regret of all his mistakes leads him (and the other Eds) to be accepted by the other kids.
  • Stepford Smiler: He seems confident and manly, but it's shown that it's was all a mask to hide the inferiority complex he got from his brother's abuse. A mask he made in naive belief that he would be popular if he acted like he did.
  • Stock '90s Bad Boy: A mischievous Book Dumb but Street Smart prankster who doesn't respect authority, likes junk food, speaks in classic 90's slang, wants to be seen as cool, and has a nerdy Book Smart friend in Double D. Oddly enough, Eddy's retro-styled bedroom looks like it never left the The '70s.
  • Stone Wall: He has a massive amount of pain tolerance. Justified because his brother used to practically torture him growing up and, karma being a bitch, having enough pain tolerance to hold onto the nearby door is part of what allows the Eds to beat up his brother.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: He looks exactly like his brother only much shorter and without a big chin or goatee. He also apparently greatly resembles his grandfather as seen by his reaction to seeing his elderly self in the mirror. In A Town Called Ed, the photos of an history book also show Eddy to have several pilgrim ancestors who all look completely identical to him. Even the women in the photos look like Eddy with hair and long eyelashes.
  • Super-Strength: Not to the extent that Ed has, but he has shown to have a surprising amount of strength when angry, though this form is born of dramatic comedy and the possibility that in the cartoon worlds, about anyone can pull these off. Still, he is easily able to carry Ed and use him as a weapon when mad, but the biggest example was in Fa-La-La-La-Ed when he tears a stump out of the ground when he noticed that his bag of jawbreakers was missing.
    T — Z 
  • Tan Lines: His skin is pink, but he has pale tan lines around his eyes.
  • Tantrum Throwing: At the end of 'Ed, Ed and Away', after Sarah and Jimmy manage to pop the balloon the Eds were chasing.
  • Tasty Gold: Eddy bites into a quarter he gets from Kevin. He gets splinters on his tongue.
    Eddy: Your wooden money's no good here, Pecos Kev!
  • Team Dad: To the other Eds. Funnily enough, he also pulls this on Jimmy sometimes, even if it's usually for manipulative purposes like, "Ed in a Halfshell".
  • Tearful Smile: In The Movie, after Edd makes up with him. Then also by the end of the movie where Edd says that he has learned his lesson.
  • This Means War!: Eddy declares this to Kevin when the big-chinned guy accidentally ruins his scam.
    Eddy: That's it! Run! Hide! But I hope you're a light sleeper, 'cause I'll be all over you like a bad itch! It's war, I tell you!
  • Throw the Dog a Bone: He usually gets the worst of the punishments, even compared to his friends. However, "Is There an Ed in the House?" ends with Ed and Edd in pain while Eddy is fine. In "A Fistful of Ed", he's is one of the few characters who never get hurt, while Ed and Edd suffer a lot of slapstick pain, like several of the kids.
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Tiny Guy to Lee's Huge Girl.
  • Tiny Schoolboy: The attention whore type.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Despite being The Leader, he's the most devious and anti-heroic of the Eds due to his ambitious attitude.
  • Tongue-Tied: Eddy is this when he's around Nazz.
    Kevin: What's the matter, dork? Can't talk to girls?
  • Too Dumb to Live: Many times he's inadvertently blown his scams and tries to salvage this by facing the wrath of the kids trying to con them with another scam immediately after. It generally doesn't end well for him.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Eddy over time becomes more abusive to his friends and completely self-absorbed. This is reversed in The Movie, as while he abuses his friends, particularly Edd, he faces the consequences of his actions.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Inverted; in The Movie he reveals that the only reason he behaved like such an asshole is because he thought it would be cool to act like his brother, ultimately revealing that most of his mean streak was not genuine and probably wouldn't have happened had his brother not been such a bullying monster.
  • Totally Radical: Eddy speaks in classic 90's jargon with an emphasize on giving nicknames, various pop-culture references, and smooth-talking "cool guy" tones. It's implied he does so to emulate his brother, as he stops doing so when coming clean about his insecurities.
  • Toxic Family Influence: A lot of his bad behavior is the result of Eddy copying his brother out of a naive belief that it would make him popular.
  • Toxic Friend Influence:
    • He generally tends to be this for Ed and Edd by default, as it's been shown a couple times that the other kids can tolerate Ed's idiocy and enjoy being around Edd despite his awkwardness, but Eddy always trying to rally them around to scam people tends to sour their reputation despite being good kids otherwise. If it weren't for Eddy, the other two might not be as big of outcasts as they are now.
      • Zig-Zagged with Ed. Though he's generally a Nice Guy, Ed himself has been known to help Eddy with his unsavory acts, usually either because he wants to impress Eddy or because he's too stupid to know any better.
      • Downplayed when it comes to Edd, who usually tries to be The Conscience, but still goes along with Eddy's schemes. Even when Edd does refuse to participate in whatever scheme Eddy devises, Eddy tries in every way to blackmail him into reconsidering his decision.
    • He became this for Jimmy when he decided he'd mentor him about how to be just like him. It worked alright, and Eddy got scammed himself by Jimmy and probably was the reason why Jimmy developed a more cunning and malevolent edge to his retaliations in future episodes.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Aside from jawbreakers, he's got a particular fondness for omelettes.
  • Triple Nipple: Eddy claims that Ed has three nipples (like that guy from James Bond) to prevent Nazz from discovering that they are naked in her pool.
  • Troll: When he's not trying to make money, he's messing with people for his own amusement, even his own buds. Some of the biggest examples include convincing Ed that everyone in the Cul-De-Sac is an alien mutant; bothering Kevin while he's grounded and can't retaliate; and forging sticky-notes from Edd's parents to make him do increasingly ridiculous chores.
  • Troubled Abuser: Eddy is an arrogant, greedy, narcissistic jackass who abuses his friends on a regular basis. The Movie reveals that he got it from his brother, who, far from the Cool Big Bro Eddy painted him as, is actually a sadistic bully who gleefully abuses him both physically and verbally and freely admits to have treated Eddy as such his entire life.
  • The Troublemaker: Eddy is the biggest troublemaker on the cast. He drives the plot of most episodes through his attempts to scam the other kids out of their money, which usually results in pain and humiliation for him, the other Eds, or the kids. When he's not scamming, Eddy will often play pranks on others to amuse himself; his Establishing Character Moment in the pilot is driving Edd crazy by playing Ding Dong Ditch.
  • Tsundere: A Harsh example, largely due to his frequently rude behavior towards others. This is even supported by the fact that he tends to be a Casanova Wannabe from time to time. However, a few times, he has shown to be able to care.
  • The Unapologetic: Eddy has issues apologizing when he's wrong. A good example is the episode "Dueling Eds," when he had issues apologizing to Rolf for (unintentionally) hurting his feelings.
  • Unbelievably Impatient: Easily the most impatient person ever, not even willing to wait for even the briefest amount of time for something. This is also part of what causes many of his scams to end in failure.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: No use trying to help him, he just won't help you back.
    • In "Your Ed Here," he was humiliated by the kids when Kevin exposes his Embarrassing Middle Name. Later Edd tries to console him and reveals to Eddy his own Embarrassing Middle Name. Eddy thanks him by doing the exact same thing that Kevin did to him, yelling Edd's middle name to everyone so that the kids will make fun of Edd.
    • In the infamous episode, "If It Smells Like An Ed," he acts like this towards Jimmy. When Jimmy invites him to his Friendship Day party (and normally, Jimmy never invites the Eds to his parties), Eddy responds by giving him a wedgie in front of all the other kids, humiliating him and reducing him to tears.
  • Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: On the show he always has bad things happening to him, but more often than not he deserves it. Subverted in The Movie where his abuse is Played for Drama.
  • Villain Protagonist:
    • While Eddy isn't evil per say, he's still a cynical con artist who will do every dirty trick in the book for money. Including stealing Christmas presents from children. He has his reasons, but still.
    • In "Robbin' Ed", he becomes a literal supervillain, the nefarious Professor Scam, who dukes it out with the Hero Antagonist Captain Melonhead (Jonny).
  • Vocal Dissonance: Aside from his voice crack, Eddy has the voice of an adult when he's not shouting. And one of a big, middled aged adult too.
  • Vocal Evolution: In the Kung Shu commercial and earlier episodes of season one and two, Eddy's voice sounds higher and more pubescent like a teens, going through a voice crack. Mid season two, the voice stays completely cracky.
  • Voice Changeling: He does a spot on vocal impression of Edd in "Mirror, Mirror, On The Ed" and does good impressions of Nazz, Kevin, Sarah and Jimmy in "Stiff Upper Ed".
  • I Want My Mommy!: He sometimes shouts "Mommy!" if he's in a lot of pain/about to suffer a lot of pain.
  • When He Smiles: It's rare, but when he actually does a genuine smile for whatever reason, it's actually rather nice. Especially since it's rare seeing Eddy be sincere or happy about anything.
  • Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: However he got his middle name Skipper is a mystery in and of its own.
  • With Friends Like These...: In the later seasons, it's pretty obvious that he's a less-than-loyal friend to Ed and Double D. This thankfully gets reversed in the Movie.
  • Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Zigzagged - he does attack the Kankers in the Valentine's Day episode, but this is the only time he ever fights back against them. However, Nazz punches him in the face in one episode, knocking out several teeth, and he doesn't retaliate (though this may be because of his crush on her), and generally Sarah attacks him without Eddy hitting back, though he did fight her and Jimmy over a balloon he wanted to pop and won, it's depicted as petty wrestling rather than a serious fight (and if it had been, Sarah would have won, hands down).
  • Young Entrepreneur: Tries very hard to be this in order to get jawbreakers. However, each failure brings him closer and closer to the Despair Event Horizon until Edd leaves him and he epically snaps. Then his brother shows up and everything goes to hell from there.

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