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| Ash Profile |
| Name: Ash Age: Unknown Occupation: S-Mart employee (Housewares) Distinguishing Features: Huge chin, missing right hand, which is sometimes replaced with either a chainsaw, or a gauntlet. Weapons: Chainsaw, axe, double-barrel shotgun, ceremonial dagger, broadsword, boiling water, left fist. |
| Yes, the man himself. This is one of the most widely recognized horror film characters ever created. Played with phenomenal amounts of B-Grade trashiness and Three Stooges-esque slapstick by Bruce Campbell, Ash is the hero of the Evil Dead Trilogy, and the only one to ever defeat the evils of the deadites. In most horror movies, there is usually one character that just never dies. This concept has been referred to as the "final girl", as the character is usually female (eg. Neve Campbell in the Scream movies), but in the case of Evil Dead, the survival character is the one and only Ash. Also boasting a seemingly never-ending string of one-liners, the Ash persona has been copied numerous times since its appearance, most notably Duke Nukem, who blatantly rips off all the good lines, and the voice too. The evolution of Ash over the trilogy is something not all film series use. For instance, in the Alien series, Ripley is pretty damn tough for the whole time. Ash, however, starts out in Evil Dead as just a normal guy. Actually, if I hadn't seen the other two first, I would have picked him to die in the first one. But as the trilogy progresses, Ash turns into this entirely different machismo-loaded hero, afraid of nothing and capable of just about anything, one way or another. And is it just me, or does he get more buff with every film? I can only hope that they do eventually make more Evil Dead films, because I would love to see where the Ash character could go in the future. Personally I'd like to see him have a son somehow, and see where that would take the series. That could be pretty tough however, if they go with the intended plot for ED4 of an apocalyptic deadite-infested world. Also, it'd be hard to cast someone else as good as Bruce Campbell. But still, wouldn't it be cool to see a father-son team-up of Ashes? Especially if they both had chainsaws. |