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{{quote|''"The fact is that you can't hold Ash to the same standard that you hold mere mortals to. He is not only just a complete and total [[badass]]; [[Trope Codifier|He is the standard by which all future badasses will be measured.]] So if he wants to [[Rule of Cool|jump onto a department store trampoline and]] [[Improbable Aiming Skills|fire fifteen perfectly-aimed shotgun shells]] [[Bottomless Magazines|in rapid succession]] [[Death From Above|while soaring twenty feet in the air,]] [[Crazy Awesome|he can do it.]] You and I can't; but you and I are also not Ash. And while it may seem [[Beyond the Impossible|impossible]] for him to do the things that he does and kick as much ass as he is famous for doing, I assure you that it isn't. Why, you ask? Simple. [[Memetic Badass|Because he's Ash]]."''|''[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ash.html Badass of the Week]''}}▼
▲{{quote|''"The fact is that you can't hold Ash to the same standard that you hold mere mortals to. He is not only just a complete and total [[badass]]; [[Trope Codifier|He is the standard by which all future badasses will be measured.]] So if he wants to [[Rule of Cool|jump onto a department store trampoline and]] [[Improbable Aiming Skills|fire fifteen perfectly-aimed shotgun shells]] [[Bottomless Magazines|in rapid succession]] [[Death From Above|while soaring twenty feet in the air,]] [[Crazy Awesome|he can do it.]] You and I can't; but you and I are also not Ash. And while it may seem [[Beyond the Impossible|impossible]] for him to do the things that he does and kick as much ass as he is famous for doing, I assure you that it isn't. Why, you ask? Simple. [[Memetic Badass|Because he's Ash]]."''|[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ash.html Badass of the Week]}}
In 1979, a bunch of kids got together in a cabin in Tennessee and made a film with a standard [[B-Movie]] plot; this film was '''''The Evil Dead'''''. The film, which was directed by [[Sam Raimi]] (of ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'' fame), and starred [[Bruce Campbell]] (who is most associated with this series), managed to make enough money to warrant two sequels and get into the public consciousness. The result of the two sequels was a strange blend where [[Narm Charm]] meets [[Rule of Cool]].
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''Army of Darkness'' is the most well-known (and quoted) film of the trilogy. Ash is transported back to Medieval Europe, where he finds out he can return to his own time -- if he can retrieve the Necronomicon first. Ash manages to find the book, but when he inevitably [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|screws up]] the retrieval, he's forced to train and help the [[Training the Peaceful Villagers|not-quite peaceful villagers]] he's placed in the path of an Army of Darkness.
The third film catapulted Ash into pop culture popularity; there are four videogames, tons of comic book adaptions (including [[Crossover|crossovers]] with [[Marvel Comics|Marvel Zombies]] and [[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]], as well as ''[[Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash]]''), a [[Role
[[Evil Dead (2013 film)|A remake of the first movie]], directed by Fede Álvarez, was released in 2013. Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, and Bruce Campbell were producers, while Diablo Cody doctored the script.
=== Films in this series: ===
* ''The Evil Dead'' (1981)
* ''Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn'' (1987)
* ''Army of Darkness'' (1992)
* ''Evil Dead'' (2013)
=== Video games in this series: ===
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* ''Evil Dead: Regeneration'' (2005)
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* [[Fake Shemp]]: During filming of ''The Evil Dead'', any castmember that wasn't Bruce Campbell eventually left due to various circumstances. To finish the movie, stand-ins were utilized wherever possible (sometimes quite noticeably, sometimes not) and these people were credited as this. Sam Raimi himself coined the term, inspired by the [[Three Stooges]]. The term became a fixture of later Raimi-related productions.
* [[This Is My Boomstick]]
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* [[Ashcan Copy]]: ''Within the Woods,'' a short film made primarily to get the first true ''[[Evil Dead]]'' film financed.
* [[Angrish]]: Ash has a tendency to babble and scream incoherently when frightened or enraged.
* [[Animate Dead]]: what happens when you remove the book. There's a spell to disable that, but Ash mispronounces it; [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: The source of the entire mess.
* [[Arm Cannon]] - Literally, in the games.
* [[Arrow Cam]] - A favorite of Raimi.
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: When his hand is chopped off, Ash replaces it ''with a chainsaw.'' Later, he replaces that with a [[Bamboo Technology|clockwork gauntlet]].
** And in the extended media beyond the films, he'll frequently swap out his gauntlet with the saw (for example, in ''A Fistful of Boomstick'', he can switch the chainsaw out with a flamethrower and a [[More Dakka|Gatling gun]]).
* [[Ax Crazy]]: How Ash copes with the events of the first two movies. By the third, he's turned it into [[Crazy Awesome]].
* [[Badass Normal]]: Ash goes up against demons from hell, medieval knights, the undead and his own mutated friends with no training, preparation or backup, and ''still'' manages to kick ass and take names.
* [[Banned in China|Banned in]] <s>[[Banned in China|China]]</s> [[Banned in China|Britain]]: It was one of the "[[Video Nasties]]" that got Mary Whitehouse's knickers in a twist. It was more to do with the title than the content; titles with stuff like "Evil" and "Dead" were banned in a knee-jerk reaction (although the [[Crosses the Line Twice|tree rape scene]] didn't do it any favors).
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'''Ash:''' "Honey, you got ''reeaaaal'' ugly." }}
** Played straight with Ash himself, who only ever gets superficial injuries to his face that just make him seem more handsome. By the third film, his costume is a walking [[Shirtless Scene]]. There is a scene in the first film where he gets covered from head to toe in blood; a second later his face is completely clean, and the only thing the blood did was make his shirt cling to his chest in a fanservice-y way
* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: The series begins with a college student fighting demons in an isolated cabin in the woods, and gets ''cooler from there.''
* [[Big No]]: Ash, repeatedly, but especially at {{spoiler|the alternate end of the third film.}}
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Trilingual? Necronomicon ex Mortis. The first bit means "Book of the Dead" in Greek, and the second is "from/by the Dead" in Latin.
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* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: Lampshaded in ''Army of Darkness''.
{{quote|'''Good Ash:''' [shoulders his sawn-off] Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun. }}
** Better one in the [[
{{quote|'''Good Ash:''' [same as above] I ain't ''that'' good.}}
* [[Black Blood]]: Along with all sorts of liquids the production staff used as blood, mostly to avoid an X-rating...
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* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Ash's tying down of Bad Ash so he can properly chop him up with the chainsaw. There is, however, no gloating.
** Really, it was more about preventing Bad Ash from hindering him down the road (and a reference to the first movie), but it's quite likely that Ash enjoyed having a Deadite at his mercy (or lack thereof).
* [[Cool Car]]: Sam Raimi's 1973 Oldsmobile is Ash's in the series. Even the car [[Took a Level
* [[Daylight Horror]]: The ending to the first movie. A few scares at the beginning too.
* [[Dance Sensation]]: ''[[The Musical|Dooo the Necronomicon.]] [[Ear Worm|The Necronomicon.]]''
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* [[Description Porn]]: From ''Army of Darkness'', Ash introducing his boomstick.
* [[Dirty Coward]]: Scott in the first movie. Played with in the sequels with Ash, where he seemingly acts like a coward, but he either really isn't or just mans up.
* [[Dodge This]]: "Swallow this." * BOOM! *
* [[Ear Worm]]: Almost every song in the musical. "Cabin in the Woods," "All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed By Candarian Demons," and "What the Fuck Was That?" come to mind...
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|The original ending of ''Army of Darkness''. The exact opposite of the theatrical version.}}
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* [[Forging Scene]]: "Groovy".
* [[For the Evulz]]: Pretty much the Deadites' only motivation for doing anything.
* [[Fridge Logic]]: Brought up in the commentary for ''Army of Darkness''.
{{quote|'''Sam Raimi:''' How come your hand's still stuck in there even though it's chopped off?
'''Bruce Campbell:''' It's 'cause the director told me to. }}
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* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Ash in the sequels, especially ''Army of Darkness''.
* {{spoiler|[[Kill'Em All]]:}} Everybody but Ash in {{spoiler|1 and 2.}}
* [[Kensington Gore]]: Lots of it. The Musical is one of the few Broadway shows to include a "splatter zone" and fans have taken to wearing white t-shirts to shows to take home as bloody souvenirs.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: The musical does quite a bit of it. It even points out the inconsistency with {{spoiler|Ash being brought back from the curse from seeing Linda's necklace... even though Linda is a Deadite now}}.
* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]]
* [[Large Ham]]: Rumor has it that Bruce Campbell was hospitalized for two weeks after filming "Army of Darkness" on account of the damage done to his digestive tract after eating all of that scenery.
** Deadite Cheryl in the first film is also a major one.
* [[Late to the Party]] - Although Ash and his friends don't realize it at first
* [[Leg Cling]] The poster for "Army of Darkness"
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* [[Losing Your Head]]: Linda in "2" and ''Evil'' Ash in "Army of Darkness".
* [[The Lost Woods]]: The setting of the first two movies once the Necronomicon's been read aloud, they also take up some of the plot during ''Army of Darkness'', as Ash rides to find the Necronomicon.
** ''Within the Woods'', a "practice" film Raimi and Co. made pre-''Evil Dead''.
* [[Madness Mantra]]: ''Evil Dead 2''
{{quote|"WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?"}}
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* [[Monochromatic Eyes]]: On the Deadites.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The two sequels go from scary to hilarious and back again so quickly that your neck will hurt.
* [[The Musical]]: The franchise gained a musical adaptation, which has appeared on Broadway.
* [[Name's the Same]]: [[Mass Effect|Ashley Williams.]] Yeah it was deliberate.
{{quote|Nothing like a nice relaxing stroll on the beach...blasting bad guys with my ''boomstick.''}}
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* [[Peek-a-Boo Corpse]]
* [[Popcultural Osmosis]]
* [[Post
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: Kind of Ash's specialty...
{{quote|'''Ash:''' Yo. She-bitch. Let's go.
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** Cranked [[Up to Eleven]] in ''Fistful of Boomstick'' videogame, where Ash would spout random one-liners with a press of a button.
* [[Rain of Blood]]
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]: Although this is present in the second film as well, "Army of Darkness" is so manly that it can make your TV grow chest hair and a full-length beard. [[Testosterone Poisoning|Some of it is definitely satirical, however.]]
* [[Real Life Relative]]: Ted Raimi, natch, who appears in every movie in different roles. Ivan Raimi is also credited as Fake Shemp in the first and third movies (the latter of which he co-wrote).
** Bruce Campbell's father also appears in ''Army of Darkness'' as one of the soldiers that gets killed in battle.
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** "Hail to the King, baby!"
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Ash kills demons with a shotgun in his left hand, and a chainsaw ''as'' his right hand, all while spouting one-liners and puns that are [[So Bad It's Good|so bad they're good.]]
* [[Rule of Funny]]: Partially the driving purpose behind the two sequels.
* [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche]]
* [[Sawed-Off Shotgun]]
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Included in the cellar is a ripped poster from ''The Hills Have Eyes''. Wes Craven returned the favor by showing ''Evil Dead'' on TV in ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]''. Then Raimi did it again by sticking a Freddy glove in ''Evil Dead 2''.
** A number of physical-comedy scenes from ''Army Of Darkness'' are an obvious ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' homage.
** The haunted forest with a girl running in the darkness and attacked by possessed trees reminds a little [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]]'s dark forest sequence, exepct this time the trees are real and not part of hallucinations.
* [[The Siege]]
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: [[Lampshaded]] by Ash in ''Army of Darkness''.
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* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Twice in ''Evil Dead.'' Jazz music from a possessed record player when Ash is in the cellar where blood starts leaking from everything. Cheerful, big-band music also begins playing over the end credits, and then begins to... slow.
* [[Stock Shout-Outs]]:
** "[[Klaatu Barada Nikto]]" Taken from ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'' but [[Older Than They Think|some just know it from this.]]
*** Well, they shouldn't, considering the line here is Klaatu Verata Nicto.
** In some of the movies the "Book of the Dead" is referred to as the [[H.P. Lovecraft|Necronomicon]] ex Mortis.
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Cheryl, to some degree. The musical hangs a huge lampshade on this:
{{quote|'''Cheryl:''' Now, Mother always said when you hear a strange, frightening and potentially life-threatening ghostly chant coming from the dark woods, there's only one thing that you should do: ''not go wake the others and go investigate it alone!''}}
* [[Took a Level
** Bruce Campbell himself actually took a level in badass during the filming of ''Evil Dead 2'', so he could be a better fit to the shotgun-wielding chainsaw-handed king of badasses that Ash would eventually become.
* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]: Ash, in the [[Marvel Zombies]] crossover, is much more willing to hit on women and general has no idea what is going on.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Training the Peaceful Villagers]]: Sort of. They weren't exactly peaceful to begin with, but showing them how to make gunpowder certainly was useful. Oddly enough there's another scene where he teaches them how to use ''their own'' [[Blade on a Stick]] weapons.
* [[The Undead]]: Naturally.
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* [[Weaponized Car]]: See [[Cool Car]] above.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Annie from ''Evil Dead 2'' was written as a role for [[Holly Hunter]]. Dino De Laurentis vetoed the choice as he didn't think she was beautiful enough.
* [[What Happened to Mommy?]]: Ash has a hard time convincing himself to kill his friends and girlfriend after they're possessed. Annie briefly faces this situation literally with her possessed mother.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Ash messes up reciting The Words and doesn't care that he has doomed everyone.
{{quote|'''Ash:''' Klaatu! Verata! Ni--*coughcoughcough*...OK then! That's it!}}
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