

The trio return to the present and the citizens of Elk Grove throw a parade in Ash's honor. Taken back into the past by Ruby, the group is confronted by Baal and a younger Ruby when Ash finally defeats Baal the cabin is set ablaze and sinks into the depths of hell. Recalling previous adventures via time travel, Ash theorizes that it may be possible to bring Pablo back from the dead by going back in time to the cabin and preventing his younger self from ever finding the Necronomicon. However, it is revealed that Ash was merely playing along in order to gather the group to return Baal to hell they succeed but Pablo is killed in the process. As time goes on Ash appears to succumb to Baal's attempts, obeying commands to capture his former allies. Reclaiming the book and throwing it into a portal to hell, the group unknowingly allows Baal to enter the mortal world.Īfter awakening in an asylum, Ash is confronted by a doctor (Baal in disguise) who tries to convince Ash that there were no demons but merely "delusions". Ruby reveals that her children have betrayed her and attempted to take possession of the book themselves in order to summon a demon known as Baal Ash and his friends form an alliance with Ruby to retrieve the Necronomicon and send the demon spawn back to hell. Returning to Elk Grove to search for Ruby, Ash is reunited with his estranged father Brock who disowned him after Cheryl's death.

Instead believing that Ash had killed his sister and friends, they gave him the nickname "Ashy Slashy" and drove him out of town. It is revealed that, after escaping from the cabin Ash had returned home, only for no one to believe him about the deadites. Declaring that Ruby has sent them, one calls him "Ashy Slashy". As the trio drive off, a radio broadcast reveals mysterious sinkholes are erupting across the country.Īsh's partying in Jacksonville is cut short when deadites show up. Ash accepts, delighting in the idea of finally living a normal quiet life. Ruby offers Ash a compromise: if he allows her to release her demonic children as well as lord over them, then she will not only spare Pablo and Kelly but also fulfill his dream of living a normal life with his friends in Jacksonville, Florida. Ash eventually discovers that the key to dispelling the evil is returning the book to the cabin and bury it within its grounds.Īt the cabin, the group is confronted by Ruby, an ancient being and the original author of Necronomicon. His former coworkers Pablo Bolivar and Kelly Maxwell join forces with him after their encounters with the Evil Dead. In an attempt to impress a date, Ash accidentally releases the Kandarian Demon by reading from the Necronomicon while intoxicated. But he's the guy you want in the foxhole next to you." Season 1 (2015–16) He doesn't want to talk about it, and he'll lie about that stump on his hand to impress the ladies. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Campbell stated, "Ash has survivor's guilt.
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In 2015, an older Ash appears as the main character in Ash vs Evil Dead, a horror comedy series for Starz. After saving a group of knights from an attacking deadite, he is hailed as the hero "who has come from the sky" Ash can only scream in anguish at his situation. Ash is sucked into the vortex after the entity and sent back in time to 1300 AD Europe.

However, Annie is stabbed by Ash's possessed disembodied hand succumbing to her wound, she is unable to close the vortex after the entity is sucked away. Annie reads passages from the Necronomicon, first to force the Kandarian Demon to manifest physically, and then opening a space-time vortex to banish the now-corporeal demonic spirit. To better fight the deadites, Ash affixes the chainsaw in place of his right hand and wields a " boomstick" to match.

Despite banding together in an attempt to survive, the others are killed off leaving only Ash and Annie. Later, the cabin owner's daughter, Annie Knowby, and three others arrive to discover what became of Professor Knowby. As the evil force toys with Ash's mind, his right hand becomes possessed and he cuts it off at the wrist with his chainsaw. Attempting to leave, Ash finds the only bridge out completely destroyed and is forced to spend another night in the cabin. Picking up from the ending of the first film, Ash is carried off by the demonic force and briefly possessed, released from the spirit by the light of dawn and falling unconscious. In an alternate recap of the previous film, only Ash and Linda are shown on the trip to the cabin.
