History Headscratchers / EvilDead

** I remember reading somewhere that in general, in the originals at least, what they do is alway for shits and giggles, thats why they tend to torment people rather than killing them straight away, its only really in larger populations they tend to kill first, remember for the first two films, it was only a tiny group of people, but in AoD and expanded media that they go right for the kill.

Headscratchers for ''Franchise/TheEvilDead''.

* There is something I've always wondered about the franchise in general: exactly what do the Deadites want? I mean, in the first film, it seemed that they were pissed off at being awakened. In part two, one of them says that they desire what they don't have, life. In Army of Darkness, the Deadites are an invading horde. In the few comics I've read, the book itself is an evil overlord and the Deadites are it's subjects. And in the remake, the goal was to give flesh to the Abomination.

[[AC:The Evil Dead]]
* Why was the evil force repelled by the cabin? Except when it wasn't?
** The Evil Force could have came in at anytime, it was merely toying with its fresh victims.
** Alternatively, if you find that answer unsatisfying, perhaps Professor Knowby took some kind of precautions to make the place safe- rubbed garlic or whatever on the cabin door.
* Whats the deal with that scene near the end where Ash touched the mirror, only to find it's surface acts like a pool of water (while somehow not spilling out despite being vertical). Is it just to be weird and doesn't have a point?
** It is clear from both this movie and the sequels that the evil is capable of toying with peoples' minds as well as bending reality to a certain degree. Really, the whole liquid mirror trick is nothing compared to what it does in the other movies.

[[AC:Evil Dead 2]]
* If Ash succeeded in repelling the demon that possessed him simply through a stimulus that reminded him of the people (or things) he loved, why does the lullaby only serve to distract the witch rather than purge her of the demon? Which makes me wonder...if Ash didn't interrupt the singing by attacking the witch, would she have been turned back to normal?
** Perhaps not, unless by "normal" you mean dead, since the witch has been dead since before Ash and friends arrived in the cabin.
** It's theorized in general that when possessed, the human soul is also trapped in their bodies, it would explain why some people like Ash, Sheila and Mia can come back from possession, and why deadites have knowledge of certain things they would have no way of knowing if the person they possessed was just a corpse, willpower is probably a factor too Ash had enough willpower along with the PowerOfLove to come back, whereas Henrietta maybe only had enough left to be distracted by th lullaby.
* In an extension of the above question, why is it that Ash has been shown to be the ONLY person capable of becoming unpossessed, barring the whole "chosen one" thing that only starts to become canonized by AoD, he is certainly capable of being possessed, unless it's a case of "can only possess you so many times before we get barred" rule they never mention in the media.

[[AC:Army of Darkness]]
* Bad Ash comes off of Ash's side with the prosthetic hand. In fact he's consistently shown on that side and using that hand throughout his "split" with Ash. When he finally yanks away... he has two flesh-and-blood hands and Ash still has the prosthetic. ... How'd Bad Ash manage ''that'' one?
** Bad Ash's flesh hand pushed it's way out of Good Ash's shoulder like his head. During the final split he pried his remaining hand out. Since it was really an overgrown mini-ash it had both hands to begin with.
*** Okay... [[VoodooShark why do mini-Ashes have both hands]]? Aren't they just reflections of the real (one-handed) Ash?
** Because they are the humanoid personifications of the evil force that has been tormenting Ash the entire time. Said evil form can take on many forms and has been toying with Ash. Hence why they have both flesh hands, it's a stealth taunt to the fact he has only one hand.
** If you assume there's some continuity between one film and another, Ash's evil reflection would have originally been created when it reached out of the mirror to taunt him in the second movie. Ash hadn't yet lost a hand in that scene, so his reflection had both. When the evil was carried back into the past, it brought the essence of Evil Ash along with it, two hands and all.
** Not that it resolves the issue, but if the mini Ash reflections (including the eventual Bad Ash) ''were'' missing a hand, it would be the opposite hand from Ash himself. Since they're, y'know, [[MirrorSelf reflections]].
* Out of the whole line of prisoners at the start of the movie, why does Sheila single out Ash, who's not even wearing the colors of Henry's men, as the one to blame for her brother's death? I get that it's meant to drive the romantic subplot between them, but it really feels random and forced to me. After all, there's ''Henry'' right there for her to vent her anger on, but she chooses our one-handed hero out of everyone...
** She was attracted to Ash, and subconsciously or otherwise wanted to get close to him.
** Another factor was that when she was attacking Ash, she was grieving for her brother. Ash being louder than the other prisoners pretty much caught her attention and she subconsciously wanted to hurt someone, targeting him first. If Ash hadn't been there, she would have attacked whoever was in the front of the line out of her anger.
* Ash taught the kingdom about gun powder and advanced engineering, wouldn't that have jump started the industrial revolution centuries earlier?
** He might not have written it down for them, or left anything that could be reverse-engineered; he probably only made enough gunpowder for the battle and he took his car with him. They might know how to make up the parts for the steam engine, but not how to put them together, since Ash took his books back with him, and their attempts to remake gunpowder might not have worked out as well since they didn't know the measurements.

** The comics (and video games) are not canon to the film/TV universe. When Dynamite's Army of Darkness series crossed-over with the Marvel Zombies comics, it was reveled that the Dynamite version of Ash comes from Earth-818793.

[[AC: Evil Dead (2013)]]
* Who was the Deadite who attacked Mia near the beginning of the movie and subjected her to the tree-rape? It can't be the girl who was burned in the prologue, since she was, well... burned, and according to Eric's translation of the Naturom Demonto, that should have killed her.
** WordOfGod says it's the girl from the beginning. Wow, doesn't that open a whole other can of worms...
*** As mentioned below her father shot her dead before she finished burning, which may have ruined the purification.
** It's also possible that what she saw ''wasn't'' the girl from the beginning, Word Of God aside, but was instead a demonic version of Mia, which was [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm the image her mind projected onto the Force.]] This at least would jive with the fact that the image Mia sees is a brunette girl wearing a white dress, such as Mia wears when she really starts acting possessed (the shower scene and thereafter), whereas the girl in the opening was blonde and wearing a vaguely purple-ish dress. This also fits with what Olivia sees just before she gets possessed, namely a hissing, feral reflection with the GlasgowGrin she will shortly be sporting. It may be that whenever a human sees the Force, their mind projects a warped version of themselves onto it.
*** In the commentary, director Fede Alvarez refers to the girl as "Evil Mia."
* How is it that the necklace that Mia breaks at the beginning of the film is perfectly fine after the house is destroyed? There is no possible way that David had enough time to fix it in the short time between the conversions and the house being destroyed.
* How was it that Mia was able to keep the chainsaw running even though the gas cap clearly fell down the hole? There was no way the chainsaw could have kept running when the was maneuvering herself under the car without the cap.
** Same reason how Ash can shoot three times a two-barelled shotgun. Being the designated survivor in an Evil Dead film at least has some perks, infinite ammo being one of them.
* A math problem: The Abomination needs five souls to rise. It never seems to get more than four over the course of the movie. How do the numbers add up?
** Possibly Mia doesn't get her soul back, even though she's freed from possession.
*** In the original ending, Mia was still possessed, but still, only TWO souls (Eric's and Olivia's) were harvested, three if we count Grandpa the dog.
** Could be Fridge Brillance: the dog?
** Mia died for a moment, so the Abomination clearly didn't need five souls, just five deaths as a sacrifice.
*** No, no. They clearly state five SOULS, so that's not it.
*** Possibly, every person who dies while the Evil is active counts as a "soul" toward the Abomination. So there was the girl in the beginning, her mother that she killed, then Eric, Olivia and Natalie. The Evil was inactive between those two incidents, but not defeated, so it could have "saved" the girl and her mother's soul toward the Abomination.
*** That's an explanation, but it sounds way too much like grasping at straws. What was wrong with something like 'Five must die'? If in a possession movie you use the word 'souls', you usually have to mean 'souls' and explain yourself if you don't.]] But of course, seeing some scenes like [[TooDumbToLive Eric reading the book.
*** It's possible that the Abomination needed Mia's soul to rise, but when her soul is returned it leaves it weaker. The Abomination seemed like barely more of a threat than the deadites, and indeed seemed worse in some respects.
** Another explanation is this: you don't actually have to die while possessed and without being purified; you just have to ''be'' possessed in the first place (heck, Eric is possessed ''after'' he dies). In this case, a temporary possession still counts, which would mean that the five souls are the girl from the beginning, Mia, Olivia, Natalie and Eric.
** The thing is if you take the explaination that 5 people need to die for the Abomination to rise, every single character has died at least once during the film, David died when the cabin exploded the rest were possessed and Mia did die for a few seconds before David hit her with the jury rigged defib he made, so technically i think it still counted, unless you needed to be possessed first, it already did have soul no.1, the girl from the start, maybe she still counted because she died on the cabins grounds and the ritual just restarted when Eric read the book.
** Possibly, every killed being during the event counts as a soul. The first one was the blonde girl’s mother (which was killed by her offscreen) the second was the dog (who’s a living being after all) followed by Olivia, Natalie And Eric. David And Mia don’t count because Mia was brought back and David killed himself
*** And what about Natalie? She was de-possessed after being shot by David.
*** Probably she wasn’t really “de-possessed” after all. The demon pretended to be the blonde girl to her father (and he believed) and pretended to be Mia to lure Natalie and trick David, so it’s totally possible the demon was “pretending” to be Natalie, only to give an emotional impact to David and make him feel guilty.
* According to WordOfGod, the 'Abomination' which looks waaay too much like Kayako from ''Film/JuOn'' is actually the girl from the first scene. How this could happen since she was CLEANSED is anybody's guess, and I think we can rule out the 'Evil took her form' since they said it was the girl, and not the Evil taking her form.
** In the beginning the father shot his daughter dead before she finished dying from the immolation, so it may not have fully purified her as it should have.
** Also worth noting is that the end credits list that creature as "Abomination Mia", so some of the "Word of God" stuff on this page may come from faulty sources.
* Both Natalie and Mia being able to cut off an arm very easily. BONES. DO. NOT. WORK. THAT. WAY.
** With Mia, a jeep fell on top of her arm. This could have easily broken the bone, meaning that the only things holding her in place was her skin and muscle; which could also have been damaged by the jeep falling on her arm.
*** The movie makes it clear it didn't, and the cutoff is way too clean.
* With Natalie, the electric knife actually shorts out once she reaches the bone, meaning she may have found another way to break it in the time it took the guys to find her.
*** She did find away. While it was offscreen, Natalie is later seen leaning against the fridge moments before her arm falls off. There was a lot of blood staining the fridge above and below the wound. She could have smacked her cut arm off of it till it broke.
* After Mia is apprehended for showering herself with boiling water, Eric says that nothing has been going great since they've got to the cabin. Gee, I wonder if it has anything to do with the cursed book you decided to read despite all the warnings not to do so within the book itself! Why is Eric never once called out for reading the Necronomicon that started this madness? Sure, there would be no movie without it, but why doesn't anyone at least call him out on this??
** Does anyone else in the cast even know he read from the book? If I remember correctly, they were off doing other things when he did.

[[AC: ComicBook/Freddy vs Jason vs Ash]]
* Why is Ash not in a mental institution, serving a life sentence, or dead after killing nearly a dozen people? Certainly he would be arrested for that and I can not imagine a feasible defense for him outside of insanity.
** Ash was locked up in a mental institution. Because Freddy vs Jason vs Ash takes place on Earth-818793 (see Army of Darkness Comics above), Ash was arrested for supposedly killing innocent people in S-Mart (as seen in the comic: Army of Darkness: Shop 'Till You Drop Dead). He was then sent to Arkham Asylum (the H.P. Lovecraft one, not the DC Comics version) in Army of Darkness vs. Re-Animator. Later in Army of Darkness: The Long Road Home and Army of Darkness: Home Sweet Hell , it is revealed that Ash has reset the world to the way it was before the "Death of Ash" story, resurrected his dead co-workers, and made the world forget that he was seen as a psychopath in the public eye. This all takes place before Freddy vs Jason vs Ash, although some people, such as Herbert West and Sheila will remember that Ash was locked up post Home Sweet Hell.

* Out of the whole line of prisoners at the start of the movie, why does Sheila single out Ash, who's not even wearing the colors of Henry's men, as the one to blame for her brother's death? I get that it's meant to drive the romantic subplot between them, but it really feels random and forced to me. After all, there's _Henry_ right there for her to vent her anger on, but she chooses our one-handed hero out of everyone...

** He might not of wrote it down for them, or left anything that could be reverse engineered, he probably only made enough gunpowder for the battle and he took his car with him, they might know how to make up the parts for the steam engine, but not how to put them together, since Ash took his books back with him, and their attempts to remake gunpowder might not have worked out as well since they didn't know the measurements.

** It's theorized in general that when possessed, the human soul is also trapped in their bodies, it would explain why some people like Ash, [[spoiler: Sheila and Mia]] can come back from possession, and why deadites have knowledge of certain things they would have no way of knowing if the person they possessed was just a corpse, willpower is probably a factor too Ash had enough willpower along with the PowerOfLove to come back, whereas Henrietta maybe only had enough left to be distracted by th lullaby.

* Who was the Deadite who [[spoiler: attacked Mia near the beginning of the movie and subjected her to the tree-rape? It can't be the girl who was burned in the prologue, since she was, well... burned, and according to Eric's translation of the Naturom Demonto, that should have killed her.]]
** [[spoiler: WordOfGod says it's the girl from the beginning. Wow, doesn't that open a whole other can of worms...]]
*** As mentioned below [[spoiler: her father shot her dead before she finished burning, which may have ruined the purification.]]
** It's also possible that what she saw ''wasn't'' [[spoiler: the girl from the beginning, Word Of God aside, but was instead a demonic version of Mia, which was [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm the image her mind projected onto the Force.]] This at least would jive with the fact that the image Mia sees is a brunette girl wearing a white dress, such as Mia wears when she really starts acting possessed (the shower scene and thereafter), whereas the girl in the opening was blonde and wearing a vaguely purple-ish dress. This also fits with what Olivia sees just before she gets possessed, namely a hissing, feral reflection with the GlasgowGrin she will shortly be sporting. It may be that whenever a human sees the Force, their mind projects a warped version of themselves onto it.]]

* How is it that [[spoiler: the necklace that Mia breaks at the beginning of the film is perfectly fine after the house is destroyed? There is no possible way that David had enough time to fix it in the short time between the conversions and the house being destroyed.]]
* How was it that [[spoiler:Mia was able to keep the chainsaw running even though the gas cap clearly fell down the hole? There was no way the chainsaw could have kept running when the was maneuvering herself under the car without the cap.]]

* A math problem: [[spoiler: The Abomination needs five souls to rise. It never seems to get more than four over the course of the movie.]] How do the numbers add up?
** Possibly [[spoiler: Mia doesn't get her soul back, even though she's freed from possession]].
*** [[spoiler: In the original ending, Mia was still possessed, but still, only TWO souls (Eric's and Olivia's) were harvested, three if we count Grandpa the dog]].
** Could be Fridge Brillance: [[spoiler: the dog?]]
** [[spoiler: Mia died for a moment, so the Abomination clearly didn't need five souls, just five deaths as a sacrifice.]]
*** [[spoiler: No, no. They clearly state five SOULS, so that's not it]].
*** [[spoiler: Possibly, every person who dies while the Evil is active counts as a "soul" toward the Abomination. So there was the girl in the beginning, her mother that she killed, then Eric, Olivia and Natalie. The Evil was inactive between those two incidents, but not defeated, so it could have "saved" the girl and her mother's soul toward the Abomination.]]
*** [[spoiler: That's an explanation, but it sounds way too much like grasping at straws. What was wrong with something like 'Five must die'? If in a possession movie you use the word 'souls', you usually have to mean 'souls' and explain yourself if you don't.]] But of course, seeing some scenes like [[TooDumbToLive Eric reading the book]].
*** [[spoiler: It's possible that the Abomination needed Mia's soul to rise, but when her soul is returned it leaves it weaker. The Abomination seemed like barely more of a threat than the deadites, and indeed seemed worse in some respects.]]
** Another explanation is this: [[spoiler: you don't actually have to die while possessed and without being purified; you just have to ''be'' possessed in the first place (heck, Eric is possessed ''after'' he dies). In this case, a temporary possession still counts, which would mean that the five souls are the girl from the beginning, Mia, Olivia, Natalie and Eric.]]
** The thing is if you take the explaination that [[spoiler: 5 people need to die for the Abomination to rise, every single character has died at least once during the film, David died when the cabin exploded the rest were possessed and Mia did die for a few seconds before David hit her with the jury rigged defib he made, so technically i think it still counted, unless you needed to be possessed first, it already did have soul no.1, the girl from the start, maybe she still counted because she died on the cabins grounds and the ritual just restarted when Eric read the book.]]
** [[spoiler: Possibly, every killed being during the event counts as a soul. The first one was the blonde girl’s mother (which was killed by her offscreen) the second was the dog (who’s a living being after all) followed by Olivia, Natalie And Eric. David And Mia don’t count because Mia was brought back and David killed himself]]
*** And what about Natalie? She was [[spoiler: de-possessed after being shot by David.]]
*** [[spoiler: Probably she wasn’t really “de-possessed” after all. The demon pretended to be the blonde girl to her father (and he believed) and pretended to be Mia to lure Natalie and trick David, so it’s totally possible the demon was “pretending” to be Natalie, only to give an emotional impact to David and make him feel guilty.]]

** In the beginning the father [[spoiler: shot his daughter dead before she finished dying from the immolation, so it may not have fully purified her as it should have.]]

* Both [[spoiler: Natalie and Mia]] being able to cut off an arm very easily. BONES. DO. NOT. WORK. THAT. WAY.
** With [[spoiler: Mia]], a jeep fell on top of her arm. This could have easily broken the bone, meaning that the only things holding her in place was her skin and muscle; which could also have been damaged by the jeep falling on her arm.

* With [[spoiler: Natalie]], the electric knife actually shorts out once she reaches the bone, meaning she may have found another way to break it in the time it took the guys to find her.
*** She did find away. While it was offscreen, [[spoiler: Natalie]] is later seen leaning against the fridge moments before her arm falls off. There was a lot of blood staining the fridge above and below the wound. She could have smacked her cut arm off of it till it broke.
* After Mia is apprehended for showering herself with boiling water, Eric says that nothing has been going great since they've got to the cabin. [[SarcasmMode Gee, I wonder if it has anything to do with the cursed book you decided to read despite all the warnings not to do so within the book itself!]] Why is Eric never once called out for reading the Necronomicon that started this madness? Sure, there would be no movie without it, but why doesn't anyone at least call him out on this??

** Ash was locked up in a mental institution. Because Freddy vs Jason vs Ash takes place on Earth-818793 (see Army of Darkness Comics above), Ash was arrested for supposedly killing innocent people in S-Mart (as seen in the comic: Army of Darkness: Shop 'Till You Drop Dead). He was then sent to Arkham Asylum (the H.P. Lovecraft one, not the DC Comics version) in Army of Darkness vs. Re-Animator. Later in Army of Darkness: The Long Road Home and Army of Darkness: Home Sweet Hell , it is revealed that Ash has [[spoiler:reset the world to the way it was before the "Death of Ash" story, resurrected his dead co-workers, and made the world forget that he was seen as a psychopath in the public eye]]. This all takes place before Freddy vs Jason vs Ash, although [[spoiler:some people, such as Herbert West and Sheila will remember that Ash was locked up]] post Home Sweet Hell.

*** [[spoiler: Possibly, every killed being during the event counts as a soul, so, the first one was the blonde girl’s mother (which was killed by her offscreen) the second was the dog (who’s a living being after all) and 3 of Mia’s friends. David And Mia herself don’t count because Mia was brought back and David killed himself]]

*** [[spoiler: Possibly, every killed being during the event counts as a soul, so, the first one was the blonde girl (who died after his father shot her head and the purification didn’t work), the second was the dog (who’s a living being after all) and the people in the cabin but David And Mia doesn’t count because Mia was brought back and David killed himself]]