So I ask you: Why not?Īs we learned during the progression of Courage, Eustace himself was and continues to be a victim of severe emotional manipulation, physical abuse, and intentional neglect on the part of his mother, Ma Bagge, and late brother, Horace Bagge.
Little is known about his father, Ickett Bagge, but given his humorously similar appearance to Eustace-ever-present scowl and all-it can be assumed that he was not the most benevolent of people. So, we, the sympathetic and open-minded audience, naturally understood even as children that Eustace was not an open and shut case. Rather, his poor moral compass was the result of a life fraught with genuine personal sadnesses, disappointments, and severe abuses.
The villainous Ma Bagge first appears in the fifth episode of the show, “Mother’s Day” when Eustace goes to visit her-no shocker here-on Mother’s Day. Muriel Bagge, naturally caring and kind, firmly tells her husband that she will not be going to see “that woman,” but that he should take Courage since he’s too afraid to go alone.
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