The following is a list of characters in Evil Dead, a supernatural horror franchise created by director Sam Raimi.
Ash evolves over the course of the series from a cowardly college student to a wise cracking Deadite slayer with his detachable hand chainsaw and 12 gauge "boomstick".
Ash was portrayed in nearly every Evil Dead incarnation by cult actor Bruce Campbell, with the only exceptions being the Poker Night 2 video game (where he was voiced by Danny Webber), and in the musical adaptation, in which he has been played by multiple people.
After a struggle, Ash buries her outside and places a crude cross at her grave only to have her burst from the ground and tear at his leg.
Even after returning to the cabin battered, bruised, and half naked after being brutally raped by the possessed trees her friends dismiss her and decide she must have been attacked by an animal.
To prevent further injury to the others, she is locked in the cellar where she eventually escapes and together with Evil Scotty attacks Ash, beating the latter with a fireplace poker.
Ash is forced to kill his sister for a second time when Cheryl is reborn after a photo of her is struck by the Kandarian Demon.
Cheryl re-appears in the finale of season two, first as an illusion by Baal, the main antagonist and later as a ghost seen in the background of a crowd with her father Brock, and Chet.
When Ash is possessed by the Evil she runs inside and accidentally stabs an already injured Jake in the chest with the Kandarian Dagger.
A Deadite-possessed Annie returns as a boss in Evil Dead: Hail to the King, where Ash fights her in a fruit cellar for the Kandarian Dagger.
Annie Knowby is the main character of Space Goat Publishing's Evil Dead 2 comic series.
His ignorance soon proves to be his undoing, as Ash is possessed by the Evil and throws Jake headfirst into a tree.
Unfortunately, the confused and frightened Annie stabs him in the chest with the Kandarian Dagger, and in her rush to get away from the possessed Ash, slams the door on Jake's body several times before pulling him inside.
Jake is then dragged screaming down the hall by Annie and left a bit too close to the cellar door, he lies defenseless and is eaten alive to the bone by Henrietta.
After recovering, she spends most of the time complaining and screaming until being frightened by Ash's possessed severed hand and running outside the cabin.
Once outside, she is grabbed by vines and dragged at incredible speed though the woods to be eaten by a large demonic tree.
Ed is Annie's coworker and apparent boyfriend, he travels with her to the cabin to proceed with their research of the book of the dead.
Soon after they arrive at the cabin, Ed becomes possessed by the Evil and attacks Bobby Joe, ripping off a piece of her hair out with his teeth.
He is attacked by his wife and is forced to kill her yet, unable to bring himself to dismember her body, chose to burry her in the cellar.
When Ash and his friends arrive, they end up disrupting the plan; forcing Professor Knowby to flee, only for him to be killed by the Ruby of that timeline who takes the book for herself.
After a fierce battle in which Henrietta gruesomely transforms into an even more disgusting looking creature, she is decapitated, shot through the head, and killed by Ash with help from Annie singing a lullaby to distract her.
After Ash arrives to the past, Arthur mistakes him for one of Henry's men and later throws him into a pit with deadites inside it.
Captured at the beginning of the film, Ash sets him and his surviving men free after escaping the deadite pit.
Later on (during a deleted scene of the film), Ash meets with him to talk him into helping fight against the deadites and save Arthur's kingdom, something he isn't wild about.
Sheila was portrayed by Embeth Davidtz In the original draft of the script, Ash saves her life early on, and they become close much faster than the final cut of the film.
The Blacksmith has no given name in the film, but appears in several key scenes, notably assisting Ash in the creation of both his prosthetic metal hand and the Deathcoaster.
In the original draft of the script he rode the Deathcoaster with Ash, only to be pulled into the deadite horde and himself resurface as one of the undead.
[4] The Wiseman is a priest who is initially the only one who truly believes Ash is the prophesied "Hero from the Sky", the man who would (supposedly) permanently destroy the Evil Dead.
Evil Dead as originating from the underworld along its ability to create deadites by possessing living beings or reanimate corpses.
While possession-based deadites display some degree of superhuman strength and levitate, unable to maintain in sunlight, the deadites created from reanimated corpses display other abilities such as Henrietta's ability to fly and transform into a snake-headed creature, referred to by the cast and crew of Evil Dead II as "Mr. Pee-Wee Head".