SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains very minor spoilers for IT Chapter Two. If you have not yet seen the film, proceed at your own risk!

When he is first introduced, James Ransone’s Eddie in IT Chapter Two shows that he has matured in some ways from the character’s original portrayal by Jack Dylan Grazer in the first film – living in New York City and working as a successful risk assessor. However, there are just as many things about him that show he hasn’t really grown at all – from the fact that his wife, Myra, fully occupies the space in his life that was once occupied by his Munchausen syndrome by proxy-afflicted mother, to the fact that he remains ridiculously neurotic.