Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
Even if they don't ever share a love confession or a kiss, the parallels between Richie and Eddie both coming into their own throughout the film strongly lend themselves to a reading that Richie and Eddie's feelings were requited, even if they are never said on screen.
Throughout It: Chapter Two, it becomes clear that Richie is a closeted gay man in love with his childhood best friend, Eddie (James Ransone plays the adult version). Mostly this revelation becomes clear through two scenes.
We learn that Richie Tozier, the fast-talking, foul-mouthed teenager (played by Finn Wolfhard) who grew up to be a popular stand-up comedian (Bill Hader) is gay and has been secretly in love with his friend and fellow club member Eddie Kaspbrak (played as an adult by James Ransone).
As was demonstrated in IT Chapter One, the pair were close in the book — with Richie even going on to kiss Eddie on the cheek following his sacrifice. However, there was nothing to imply that their dynamic was anything but a deep friendship.
After triggering his medicine down its throat a few times, It bites Eddie's arm off. With his few remaining seconds, he tells Richie to stop calling him Eds, before dying. The Losers later leave Eddie's body in the sewers, despite Richie's protests saying they should take his body back with them.
Eddie doesn't tolerate Richie's foolishness and finally challenges Richie about his dreaded nickname. The two bicker like an old married couple for a while and Richie calls Eddie “my love,” an affectionate term.
The audience comes to find out that Richie, played by veteran comedian Bill Hader, is gay during his singular quest to retrieve a childhood artifact for the Ritual of Chüd.
In the film, it is more than hinted that Richie, played as an adult by Bill Hader and as a youth by Finn Wolfhard, has a “secret” (something Pennywise threatens him with): that he has an attraction to Eddie Kaspbrak, played as an adult by James Ransone and as a youth by Jack Dylan Grazer.
He took the form of a clown most frequently, Mr. Bob Gray or Pennywise, but his true form is an ancient eldritch entity from another universe who landed in the town that would become Derry by way of an asteroid and first awoke in 1715.
Myra Kasprak is a minor character in Stephen King's IT and its film adaptation sequel. She is Eddie Kaspbrak's wife. They have been married for five years and have no children.
Fictional character biography
Bill has a speech impediment, due to being hit by a car at the age of three, which leads to him being outcast.
Reddie is the slash ship between Richard "Richie" Tozier and Edward "Eddie" Kaspbrak from the IT fandom.
Heart Burns There Too - Ben Hanscom (movie)
In the book, Ben Hanscom wrote the haiku on a postcard and mailed it to Beverly. Ben has a crush on Beverly that spans the period in their childhoods and is renewed in adulthood during the second battle with IT.
Greta also wrote LOSER on Eddie's arm cast and then, he later covers the S with a V in red marker, so it then spells LOVER. She is also the one to tell Eddie his medication is a gazebo rather than Mr. Keene himself.
"They put him down, and Richie kissed Eddie's cheek." (pg 1,118) - I believe this is the page where we see Richie accept that he loves Eddie (this is the same page as the "he knew well enough" quote). He gets angry for a lot of reasons: himself, It, Eddie.
To address concerns about potential overdiagnosis of BAD in children like Richie Tozier, the new diagnosis of DMDD was included in the DSM-5 (2013) for children who exhibit persistent irritability and frequent episodes of extreme behavioral dyscontrol (beep beep, Richie!!).
The filmmakers used CGI to "de-age" most of the kid actors. Warner Bros. Finn Wolfhard said they really "CGI'd and softened" his facial features because he'd grown so much since the first movie.
It Chapter Two made text what had only been subtext in Stephen King's original book: wise-cracking Losers' Club member Richie Tozier is a gay man, and has romantic feelings for his fellow Loser Eddie Kaspbrak.
This proves to be its undoing; Eddie nearly chokes it when it takes the form of a leper and is small enough for him to do that. When sufficiently weakened, the Losers kill It by crushing the heart it must have in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
Adrian appears in the beginning of It: Chapter Two. Like the book, he attends a festival with his boyfriend, Don and is harassed by the group of homophobic teenagers and later beaten and thrown into the canal by them, eventually being killed by Pennywise in front of Don Hagarty who runs after him.
After Beverly realizes they're going to die if they don't leave the body, and Ben assures Richie that it was where Eddie was 'supposed to be' and Richie kisses Eddie on the cheek before following the Losers out.
Ben is an overweight social outcast who has no friends until he meets the Losers' Club. Richie nicknames Ben “Haystack” after the obese wrestler, Haystack Calhoun. Ben is known among adults for being exceptionally polite.
Richie never actually brought up his feelings, so we'll never know. Richie definately loved Eddie, though…it's made pretty clear through Pennywise's taunting. In the book their feelings were strictly platonic, except towards Bev. Everyone loved Bev in some romantic way, to varying degrees.