While Ash Williams killed a lot of Deadites throughout the original Evil Dead trilogy and Ash Vs Evil Dead, not all of his weapons were equally suited to this task. Bruce Campbell’s Evil Dead hero Ash Williams has an interesting history. In 1981’s surprisingly dark The Evil Dead, Ash was a relatively grounded, ordinary guy who was thrust into a nightmare when a possessed book turned his friends into murderous Deadites. In Evil Dead 2, he was a far cartoonier figure, a clumsy but tough hero who attempted to defeat his Deadite attackers with a combination of ingenuity and brute force. By 1993’s Army of Darkness, he was an action hero.
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