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* [[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).
* [[Barrier -Busting Blow]] - Several times across the films, but hilariously subverted in Army of Darkness, where Ash keeps screaming goofily until he notices the monster's stopped trying to get in.
* [[BBC Quarry]]: It wasn't shot in England (though the story does take place there), but Ash's arrival in the Middle Ages at the end of ''Evil Dead 2'' was filmed at a very similar-looking North Carolina rock quarry.
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Mocked.
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{{quote| Nothing like a nice relaxing stroll on the beach...blasting bad guys with my ''boomstick.''}}
* [[Night of the Living Mooks]]: The titular army in ''Army of Darkness''. Partially subverted in that they ''run away screaming'' when shelled with explosive arrows and bags of gunpowder.
* [[Nipple -and -Dimed]]: There's a short, blink-and-you-miss-it moment in "Army of Darkness" where a couple of topless slave girls are herded past the camera. It may have been intended as [[Fan Service]], but the fact that they're being led off to be raped by demonic undead monsters achieves the [[Fan Disservice|opposite]] effect, underscored by the fact that it happens while {{spoiler|Sheila is being forcibly kissed by Deadite!Ash}}.
* [[Old Shame]]: The aforementioned tree scene covered under [[Naughty Tentacles]].
* [[Orifice Invasion]]: Spoofed in ''Army of Darkness''. Played ''much'' more seriously in the original.
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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.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[Retcon]]: In-universe example; the Book of the Dead is given the title "Naturom Demonto" in the first film, then changed to being the Necronomicon in the second film as a [[Shout -Out]] to [[HP Lovecraft]], and finally it becomes "[[Necronomicon]] [[Gratuitous Latin|ex Mortis]]" in ''Army of Darkness''. This last change is particularly egrerious to anyone who [[Bilingual Bonus|understands Latin]]; it directly means "The book of the dead of the dead", though it's (understandably) more commonly translated as "The dead book of the dead" in the media, which sounds... well, still not entirely sensible, but not as outright stupid as the first translation.
* [[Revised Ending]]: ''Army of Darkness'' originally has an [[Cruel Twist Ending]] with Ash {{spoiler|waking up in post apocalyptic England after taking too much of a sleeping potion}}, which was changed to a [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]] filled ending thanks to [[Executive Meddling]].
** "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]]
* [[Shaky POV Cam]]
* [[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)|Snow White]]'s dark forest sequence, exepct this time the trees are real and not part of hallucinations.
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* [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror]]: See [[Genre Shift]].
* [[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]]'' but [[Older Than They Think|some just know it from this.]]
*** Well, they shouldn't, considering the line here is Klaatu Verata Nicto.
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{{quote| "I'm staying!"}}
* [[Title the Adaptation|Title: The Adaptation]]: Evil Dead: The Musical!
* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: The "Morturom Demonto," though it becomes the "Necronomicron ex Mortis" in the sequels (after Sam Raimi learned about [[HP Lovecraft]] and renamed the book as a [[Shout -Out]]). Usually shortened by characters to either "the Necronomicon" or "the Book of the Dead".
* [[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!''}}
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