Big Eddie

Eduardo Luis "Big Eddie" Antunez is a fictional character appearing in the American animated sitcom North Springs. He is depicted as a gangster and conman originally affiliated with the ; he eventually became the underboss of the North Springs Mexicans, a gang he started with ex-business partner Javier "Spiky Jay" Derbez. He was created by Rob Farlane, and is voiced by Tony Quezona.

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Big Eddie is a member of the North Springs Mexicans, a gang of Mexican American criminals in North Springs. He is best known among the townspeople for his constant use of numerous aliases, his sloppy attempts to "clean up" crime scenes by removing anything that could prove he committed a crime, and frequent.

Eddie is a hard-living "veteran criminal", sometimes depicted as a jaded burnout addicted to cigarettes, liquor, gambling, and prescription drugs. He claims to have suffered from depression in the past.

Backstory
Eduardo Luis Antunez was born in to Emilio Diego "Em Dash" Antunez and Nicole "En Dash" Antunez. His parents were members of the, a detail which they left out while they were raising him. Eddie's mother abandoned him as a preteen after she divorced Emilio due to their constant arguments about the ethics of organized crime, as well as Emilio "not doing good in bed".

Emilio raised Eddie on the principle that "crime always pays", and would make Eddie read books about organized crime—including popular like  and The Seven Days of Antonio Argentieri—to "drill" the message into his head. This would transition to Eddie studying criminology into his adulthood. On Eddie's 28th birthday, the police raided a local facility in which members of the Mexican Mafia and were using to create drugs. After Emilio was sent to prison, he decided to avenge his father by joining the Mexican Mafia. Eddie says in "Makowski Watches PBS" that it was during this period that he was sent to prison over 100 times, though he was always freed by a member of the Mexican Mafia and subsequently faced no consequences. Eddie was banned from the group after joking about homosexuality, which was considered a "forbidden topic" by other members of the gang, which led to him moving to Florida and discovering the North Springs Mexicans, which he quickly joined and remains a member of throughout the series' run.