Ash Williams

* The Evil Dead
* Evil Dead II
* Army of Darkness
* FVJVA

"*Groovy.*"
―Ash's signature line throughout the franchise.
**Ashley "Ash" Williams** is the main protagonist of the Evil Dead series.

## Biography

### Early life

In his teenage years, a young Ash met Chet Kaminski, who would later become a lifelong friend to him. During their high school career, Ash and Chet would frequently host parties in Elk Grove, indulging in drug usage, and tormenting the school hall monitor. It was also during his high school years that he began dating a girl named Linda Bates, but broke up with her for another girl with the same name.

At some point, Brock; Ash's father, gave Ash a 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale, a car he bought used from the Elk Grove Destruction Derby. Also at an unknown point, Ash and Linda began working at a superstore named S-Mart (where he worked in the housewares department while Linda worked a checkout counter).

### The Evil Dead

There are two conflicting stories on how Ash, his girlfriend Linda, his sister Cheryl, and friends Scotty and Shelly, found the cabin in the woods. One story says that Scotty rented the cabin, while another says that they heard that the cabin was abandoned by its previous owner, but either way, the five decided to venture out to this cabin to spend the weekend there.

At the cabin, they find the "*Necronomicon Ex-Mortis*", or *The Book of The Dead*, along with a tape recorder. On the tape was a recording from the owner of the cabin, Professor Raymond Knowby, who was translating a passage of the book.

After curiously playing the tape, Ash and company had unknowingly awoken the Kandarian Demon, the same one that Professor Knowby had previously unleashed earlier. This demon causes Ash's friends, and sister, to consequently become possessed and killed one by one.

It wasn't until Ash was the sole survivor that he finally destroyed the Necronomicon by throwing it into the fireplace, and in doing so, all of the possessed bodies rapidly decayed and "died". For a moment, it appeared as the demonic spirit had been driven back, however, as the morning sun rose, Ash was ambushed by the demon.

### Evil Dead 2

The demon sends Ash flying across the woods, eventually smacking him up against a tree, causing him to land face-first into a muddy puddle of water. Upon Ash arising from the puddle, he discovered that he himself had been turned into a Deadite. However, this transformation did not last long due to the morning sunlight driving the evil spirit from his body temporarily.

Getting on his feet, Ash quickly ran to his car, attempting to make an escape during daylight. This escape attempt would not be successful, and Ash was quickly reminded once again that the bridge had been destroyed the previous night by the demonic forces. As Ash lamented over the loss of his last possibility of escape, he noticed that the sun was quickly setting and the Kandarian Demon was on the hunt again. Hopping back into his car, Ash raced back to the cabin, seeing it as his only "safe" sanctuary from the evil force. With the evil close behind him, Ash ran back into the cabin and managed to hide in the fruit cellar trap door, waiting until the evil force left, and tricking it to give up and withdraw.

Unbeknownst to Ash, the daughter and associate of Professor Knowby along with two local guides were slowly making their way through the woods towards the cabin to give the professor the final "lost pages" of the Necronomicon.

Before the group's arrival, Ash's Deadite girlfriend Linda becomes resurrected, with her decapitated head and body rising out of the makeshift grave just outside the cabin.

The head of Linda then attacks Ash, biting him on the right hand. After removing Linda's head from his hand with a vice in the workshed, Ash manages to cut her head in half with a chainsaw he pried out of her possessed corpse's hands. Stumbling out from the workshed and back into the cabin, Ash notices that his right hand seemed to have a mind of its own, turning black, twitching around, and attempting to kill him by using any means necessary.

Making his way into the kitchen, Ash uses the chainsaw he just used on Linda's head, to cut off the infected hand, screaming and laughing maniacally while doing so. After failing to properly "kill" his evil hand, Ash was forced to chase it throughout the main room of the cabin. Ash eventually gives up the hunt for the hand when the inanimate objects within the cabin become possessed and began to laugh at him after he had tried to sit down on a broken wooden chair.

At his breaking point, Ash joins in on the hysteria, but this "joyous" moment is interrupted with a knock on the cabin's front door. Possibly believing it to be one of his dead friends once again returning, Ash wastes no time raising his shotgun and blindly firing into the closed door. Hearing a human scream, Ash opens the door and is quickly trampled on by a man named Jake, who manages to pin Ash to the floor and knock him out. As it is revealed, Ash's shot had grazed Jake's girlfriend, Bobby Joe, in the shoulder, which provoked Jake to attack Ash.

While the group surveyed the carnage inside the cabin, they quickly concluded that this mysterious one-handed man was the maniac who had killed the previous group and then proceeded to lock him in the fruit cellar. As the group listened to the tape recording of Raymond Knowby describing how he had unleashed a demon that possessed his wife, the Deadite Henrietta emerges on cue from the dirt floor in the cellar right infront of Ash. Ash lets out a blood-curdling scream and is released from the cellar moments before Henrietta can attack him. As the night goes on, one by one the forces of evil claim the new group once again until only Ash and Annie Knowby are left.

Before his death, a rageful Jake had thrown the lost pages of the Necronomicon into the cellar with Henrietta, which was crucial for Ash and Annie to obtain to put an end to the demonic forces. The two survivors headed out into the workshed to prepare, and modify Ash's chainsaw to become attachable to his arm stump.

Venturing down into the cellar, Ash manages to find all the pages without a problem but is ambushed by Henrietta after handing Annie the pages. After cutting off Henrietta's "goose-necked" head and blowing it apart with his shotgun, Annie begins to read a spell from the missing pages that would turn the Kandarian Demon into a "thing of the flesh", something that they could attack and send into a time portal. Annie's reading of the spell is interrupted as Ash's evil hand suddenly makes its return, stabbing her in the back with the Kandarian Dagger, leaving Ash alone against the large demon. With her dying breath, Annie finishes the spell to open the time portal, and the wounded Kandarian Demon is pulled into the vortex, along with Ash, his car, and the rest of the cabin's surroundings.

### Army of Darkness

Ash exits the time vortex as he is dumped into medieval England, around 1300 AD. As Ash lays on the ground, he begins to become surrounded by knights on horseback. An elder man, only identified as "The Wise Man" tells the leader of the group, Lord Arthur, that he believes Ash to be the *Chosen One* mentioned in the writings of the Necronomicon; the one to deliver them peace from the terror of the Deadites. Arthur denies this and claims that Ash is one of Henry The Red's men. Ash is then captured and sent to The Pit.

Shortly after arriving at Castle Kandar, Ash accidentally falls into the pit after being hit on the back of the head with a rock thrown by an irritated peasant. Trapped in the pit with two Deadites, Ash does the best he can at fighting off the creatures, until The Wise Man throws down Ash's chainsaw. After quickly disposing of the Deadites and escaping the pit, Ash proceeds to intimate the locals using his shotgun. Now believing that he truly was *The Chosen One*, The Wise Man informs Ash that in order for him to return to the 20th century, he must journey to a graveyard, recite the magic words ("Klaatu, Verata, Nicto"), and then bring back the Necronomicon. Before setting out on this journey, Ash (with the assistance of the local blacksmith) creates a mechanical prosthetic hand out of a gauntlet from a suit of armor.

The next morning, Ash rides off into the woods towards the graveyard, only to have the trip detoured by the return of the Kandarian Demon, who chases Ash through the woods and into an old windmill off the beaten path. Deciding to spend the night in the windmill, Ash's evening is interrupted by a strange noise coming from outside the mill. Heading outside to investigate, Ash discovered that it was only the horse he rode in on. As Ash goes back inside to the safety of the windmill, he sees a man standing in the doorway looking at him. Ash charges at the figure, flying through the doorway and face-first into what turned out to be a mirror. The mirror shatters, and several "Mini-Ashes" jump out from the broken pieces and proceed to torture the much larger Ash with nails, pots, and forks. After the Mini-Ashes managed to tie the original Ash down, one Mini-Ash sacrifices himself and jumps into the larger Ash's mouth.

Attempting to kill the creature wiggling around in his stomach, Ash drinks from a pot of boiling water, only making Ash's situation much worse, as the Mini-Ash began to grow into normal human size. Splitting off from the original Ash's right side, this doppelganger, now identified as "Evil Ash", was quickly blasted by original Ash in the face with his shotgun and dismembered with his chainsaw.

Eventually, Ash reaches the graveyard and recovers the Necronomicon. After forgetting and failing to recite the magic words told to him by The Wise Man, Ash accidentally resurrects every corpse in the countryside including his evil clone. Racing back to the castle, The Wise Man informs Ash that, although he still can send Ash back to the future, the forces of evil will come for the book eventually. After initially wanting to run away from this incoming "Army of Darkness" and helplessly watching as chaos erupts, Ash decides to stay and fight against the approaching legion of the undead.

Using books found in the trunk of his car, Ash rallies the locals into helping him create "hi-tech" weaponry such as gunpowder and converting his car into a steam-powered Deathcoaster. Not long after, the army of the dead and Evil Ash arrive outside the castle walls, and the battle begins.

Eventually blowing his doppelganger apart using a bag of gunpowder, with the assistance of the combined armies of Lord Arthur and Henry The Red, the battle is triumphantly won and the Necronomicon remains protected. True to his word, The Wise Man creates a potion that would put Ash into a deep sleep and "freeze" his body, which would automatically awaken him when in the proper time. After disembarking and saying his goodbyes, Ash rides off from the castle. Now back in his usual timeline, working at S-Mart.

Suddenly, the wind picks up and a passerby becomes a Deadite, and Ash springs into action, killing it with a few blows from his shotgun then sharing a kiss with a female S-Mart employee, ending the movie with, "Hail to the King, Baby".

### Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash

Set on December 2008, 5 years after the events of the film *Freddy vs. Jason* and 16 years after the end of *Army of Darkness*, Will Rollins and Lori Campbell (the former protagonists from *Freddy vs Jason*) returning to Crystal Lake to put closure to their experience, but Jason kills them a short while after and takes their decomposed corpses to his shack in the woods nearby. There, Jason enters a trance,and Freddy and Jason's "mother" Pamela appear to him. Freddy Krueger is now trapped, powerless inside the mind of Jason Voorhees, where he learns of the *Necronomicon* hidden in the old Voorhees home, with the power to resurrect him. He and Jason's mother (false Pamela Voorhees) convince Jason that if he gets the Necronomicon, Jason will become "a real boy". Meanwhile, **Ash Williams** is called to the new Crystal Lake S-Mart to give his retail expertise to its team of teenage slacker employees. While there, he interprets a nearby Jason murder as work of the Deadites. Later, he follows a group of teens to the Voorhees house where he finds the *Necronomicon* before Jason appears, killing the teens.

At the S-Mart, Ash and the employees begin to make a plan to deal with Jason; however, he ends up killing mostly everyone in the store and escaping with the evil book. Freddy uses the Necronomicon to restore himself to full power and increase Jason's intelligence. Later when Ash and the survivors sleep at Carolyn's house, they are confronted by Freddy in their dreams. Ash and his motley crew of S-Mart employees confront Freddy and Jason at the Voorhees home where Freddy has already unleashed the full power of the *Necronomicon*, giving him reality-altering abilities. With his new intelligence, Jason turn against Freddy, attempting to steal the *Necronomicon* and use it's powers for himself.

In a final confrontation between the three horror movie icons, Freddy resurrects all of Jason's previous victims from the *Friday the 13th* films as Deadites to attack him and Ash, and turns the Voorhees home into the Elm Street house. Ultimately, Ash defeats both villains with help from his coworkers, and uses the *Necronomicon* to open a portal, banishing Freddy to the Deadite world while Jason and the *Necronomicon* itself are isolated underneath a frozen Crystal Lake.

## Victims

### The Evil Dead (1981)

1. Deadite Linda: Decapitated w/ shovel by Ash - 1 hr 6 mins
2. Deadite Cheryl: Disintegrated via book burning by Ash
3. Deadite Scotty: Disintegrated via book burning by Ash

### Evil Dead 2 (1987)

1. Deadite Linda - Decapitated, head sawed in half w/ chainsaw
2. Deadite Ed - Hacked to green bloody pieces
3. Deadite Henrietta - Dismembered w/ chainsaw, shot in head w/ shotgun

### Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash

1. Deadite Jumprope Girl - Miss Mary whacked (Shot by Ash)
2. 2 Deadite Jumprope Girls - Miss Mary whacked (Chainsawed by Ash)