Profile of Ashley Williams on Famous Like Me

Ashley J. "Ash" Williams is the main character in the Evil Dead 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 an evil spirit).

Ash's car, an Oldsmobile, is in fact the series director Sam Raimi's car.

Character bio

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 where they find the "Naturom Demonto", 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.

The sequel Evil Dead II , while often considered a re-hash, is in fact a true sequel, the movie begins at the exact moment the first one ends, for various reasons, scenes from the first movie were reshot for flashbacks in the sequel. 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 place of employment. There, he does what Ash does best, slays the beast, and gets the girl. This ending is left very open and fans have been waiting for a sequel since it's release.

Life Outside the Trilogy

Ash has since appeared in several video games and comic books and rumors have surfaced of Ash joining fellow horror-film icons Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees in a sequel to the 2003 super-smash hit Freddy vs. Jason. These rumors were false. Ash is coming back to fight Re-Animator's Herbert West in a new comic.

Quotes

• "You bastards! Why are you torturing me like this? Why?"
• (after getting the chainsaw in place of his 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..."

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