The man who made the 90's.
The Evil Dead franchise has become so ingrained into pop culture that practically everyone in the 90's was wittingly or unwittingly quoting the films, which only serves as testament to Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell's huge pop culture influence.
Please add entries in the following format:- The meme. Explanation The explanation behind the meme.
- Further mutations and successor memes, if any.
- Groovy. Explanation Ash first uses this Catchphrase in Evil Dead 2, But the sheer meme value of the scene practically made it associated with him, to the point that people have a case of Beam Me Up, Scotty! about him saying it in the first film.
- Truly amazing. Explanation In the first film, Ash quickly brushed off Linda's pride at her ability to predict cards (actually Shelly was just playing along), with the most Dull Surprise tone Bruce Campbell could muster up.
- Ash laughing
◊. Explanation This particular image is taken from the scene in Evil Dead 2 where the possessed cabin starts laughing at Ash, who slowly joins them, turning his face to the camera with the most unhinged expression on his face. - "Who's laughing now?!" Explanation Ash chops off his possessed hand with a chainsaw while uttering this.
- "I'll swallow your soul!" Explanation A usual threat from most Deadites in franchise, it's spread far and wide across the media, from Unreal Tournament to League of Legends.
- "Swallow this!" Explanation The usual retort to the quote above, said by Ash when he executes Henrietta Knowby.
- "Join us!" Explanation Possessed Ash shouts this at Annie Knowby, urging her to become a Deadite as well. Mostly used to invite people over for the most innocuous of reasons.
- "This is my BOOMSTICK!" Explanation Time-displaced Ash demonstrates his sawed-off shotgun to the bewildered English people in Army of Darkness. Used in videogames when someone picks up a shotgun.
- "Yo, she-bitch! Let's go." Explanation Just as a possessed witch is about to kill the knights of Lord Arthur, Ash grabs his shotgun and calls her out. Notable as one of the lines that was nicked by Duke Nukem.
- "Gimme some sugar, baby." Explanation As Ash is about to venture forth to get the Necronomicon, he and Sheila have their roll in the hay with this line. Again, Duke claimed this one.
- "Goody little-two-shoes!" Explanation After first emerging, Evil Ash starts taunting the real one with this, and it has seeped into the pop culture lexicon.
- "Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun." Explanation Ash responds to the taunt above by shooting Evil Ash in the face and belting out this one-liner. Once again, it got appropriated by Duke.
- "It's definitely an N-word." Explanation While trying to grab the Necronomicon and avoid waking up the army of darkness, Ash has to utter three words: Klaatu Barada Nikto, but he forgets the third word and tries to remember it. This has been used to signify some Mistaken for Racist moments.
- "I live... again!" Explanation Evil Ash gets revived by the Necronomicon and says this line upon coming back to un-life. This time it's not Duke who claims the line, but Caleb from Blood.
