Ash Williams

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Ashley J. Williams, portrayed by Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness

Ashley J. "Ash" Williams is the main character in the Evil Dead horror film franchise, played by Bruce Campbell.

Ash is known for his two favorite weapons: his "boomstick" (a sawed off double-barreled 12 gauge Remington shotgun), which he advertises is on sale at "S-Mart", and the more noticeable chainsaw, which was adapted to replace his right hand (amputated in Evil Dead II after being possessed by a Kandarian spirit).

Character bio

Template:Spoilers Ash is the average man, employed at S-Mart and has a girlfriend, Linda.

In The Evil Dead, Ash and his friends stay at a log cabin in the woods, where they find the "Naturom Demonto" (renamed to Necronomicon ex Mortis in the sequels), the "Book of the Dead", along with a tape recorder. The tape is a recording of the owner of the cabin, who was translating a passage of the book. By playing the tape, Ash and his friends awake the evil spirits who now can possess the living. Ash's friends are consequently possessed and killed until he's the last survivor. However, the film ends with Ash being overtaken by an evil spirit himself.

The sequel Evil Dead II , starts with a short recap of the first Evil Dead film where Ash arrives at the cabin with his girlfriend Linda (in this reshooting Ash's other friends were left out of the story) and later kills her after she becomes possessed by a Deadite spirit. Ash is then overtaken by an evil spirit. From this point the film continues the story from where the first film left off. Ash is released from the spirit by the coming of dawn only to pass out. Ash regains conscienceness moments away from sunset to find himself stuck at the cabin with the spirits of the Evil Dead for yet another night. Later, the cabin's owner's daughter and three more people arrive. It is by the end of this movie that Ash gets his famous chainsaw in place of his hand. The movie ends with Ash being sucked into a vortex and travelling back in time to 1300 AD, where the locals claim, according to their prophecies, that he is "The Man That Falls from the Sky" who will save them from the Deadites (demons).

The next film, Army of Darkness continues the story from here, where Ash has to defeat his alter-ego known as "Bad Ash" who is leading the Army of Darkness in search for the Necronomicon. In this movie, Ash gets a new right hand made of metal. The movie has two different endings, one where he returns to his time and another where he ends up in a post-apocalyptic future. In the ending that made it in the final release, Ash appears at S-Mart, his original place of employment. There, he does what Ash does best - slays the beast, and gets the girl.

Life Outside the Trilogy

Since Army of Darkness, Ash has been featured in numerous video games and comic books, wherein he continues slaying demons and spouting out his memorable one-liners. Most recently, he is featured in the comic Army of Darkness versus Re-Animator, wherein he is confined to a mental hospital and is forced to go up against the demented Doctor Herbert West.

Quotes

Ash's character has been often quoted in several medias, notably video games such as Duke Nukem.

"You bastards! Why are you torturing me like this? Why?"
(after replacing his severed hand with a chainsaw) "Groovy!"
(after building a prosthetic to replace his severed hand) "Groovy!"
"Hail to the king, baby!"
"Shop smart. Shop S-Mart."
"Who wants some?"
"Workshed."
"All right you primitive screwheads, listen up. See this? This... is my BOOMSTICK!!!"
"Swallow this..."
"Yo, she-bitch, Let's go!"
"Come get some."
(after shooting Evil Ash in the face) "Good... Bad... I'm the guy with the gun." (the Director's cut version replaces this with "I'm not that good.")
(while cutting off his evil hand) "Who's laughing now? WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?!"
(while trying to shoot his severed evil hand) "Me and ol' double-barrel here'll blow your butt to kingdom come!"
(because he can't remember the exact words to speak to keep the Deadites from arising) "Clatto... Veratta... [coughs while faking an N word]!"
"We can take these deadites... with science."
"Yeah baby, Sing...For the King."
"Name's Ash. Housewares"
"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand things with alloys and compositions and things with…molecular structures."
"Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up! You see this? This…is my BOOMSTICK! It's a 12 gauge double barreled Remington, S-mart's top of the line...you can find this in the sporting goods department...that's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan, retails for about $109.95,got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger."

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