History YMMV / AshVsEvilDead

** [[spoiler:Ash's rematch with Henrietta is as absolutely gross as you'd expect from having to fight a corpse that should be a skeleton by now but instead is still ''rotting'' and absolutely bloated. Key gross-out moments include but aren't limited to, Ash trying to mulch Henrietta's insides but there's so much pus inside of her intestines that it instead stops the chainsaw and fills the blade and chains up with pus. Then there's Henrietta trying to ''breastfeed'' Ash with what can only be described as ';'pus breast milk''', and she even ''succeeds''.

*** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking There’s also the fact that Ash is having sex with his pants on in one shot.]]

** Tanya from the last two episodes of season 2, due to her {{Meganekko}} appearance and her earnest, yet socially awkward demeanor.

* NauseaFuel: In "The Morgue", Ash fights the possessed intestines of a cadaver that [[PottyFailure shits on him]] and falls on his head, and his head is [[AssShove slowly forced up the cadaver's anus]]. To make matters worse, he shoots the intestines, splattering excrement all over his shirt.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:

* AcceptableTargets: Survivalist militias, as seen in "Fire in the Hole" where not only are they conspiracy theorists who are WrongGenreSavvy, but also creepily misogynist and get curb stomped every time a Deadite shows up.

* CompleteMonster (season 2): [[FauxAffablyEvil Baal]], the GreaterScopeVillain of the entire [[Franchise/EvilDead franchise]] as a whole, was the demon responsible for the Deadites as their creator and father. Intending to allow evil to dominate Earth and enslave or slaughter humanity, Baal has his children turn on their mother and sends them to attack and slaughter humans. Baal then infiltrates the town of Elk Grove by skinning and impersonating multiple people before capturing [[Characters/EvilDeadAshWilliams Ash]] and subjecting him to mental torture where he traps him in a fantasy, making Ash believe that the entirety of the past 30 years have been an elaborate delusion, intending to use Ash to murder his own friends to destroy a threat to Baal. Upon being sent to the past, Baal has his ex-wife Ruby murdered by her still-evil 1982 incarnation and attempts to kill Ash in a duel, mocking Ash for ever thinking he would have intentions of honoring the deal should Ash win. Responsible for the loss of countless lives thanks to the ''[[TomeOfEldritchLore Necronomicon Ex-Mortis]]'' and the actions of the Deadites, Baal stands apart from the other Deadites for his ambition and cruelty.

* CompleteMonster (season 2): [[FauxAffablyEvil Baal]], the GreaterScopeVillain of the entire [[Franchise/EvilDead franchise]] as a whole, was the demon responsible for the Deadites as their creator and father. Intending to allow evil to dominate Earth and enslave or slaughter humanity, Baal has his children turn on their mother and sends them to attack and slaughter humans. Baal then infiltrates the town of Elk Grove by skinning and impersonating multiple people before capturing [[Characters/EvilDeadAshWilliams Ash]] and subjecting him to mental torture where he traps him in a fantasy, making Ash believe that the entirety of the past 30 years have been an elaborate delusion, intending to use Ash to murder his own friends to destroy a threat to Baal. Upon being sent to the past, Baal has his ex-wife Ruby murdered by her still-evil 1982 incarnation and attempts to kill Ash in a duel, mocking Ash for ever thinking he would have intentions of honoring the deal should Ash win. Responsible for the loss of countless lives thanks to the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Necronomicon]] and the actions of the Deadites, Baal stands apart from the other Deadites for his ambition and cruelty.

* CompleteMonster (season 2): [[FauxAffablyEvil Baal]], the GreaterScopeVillain of the entire [[Franchise/EvilDead franchise]] as a whole, was the demon responsible for the Deadites as their creator and father. Intending to allow evil to dominate earth and enslave or slaughter humanity, Baal has his children turn on their mother and sends them to attack and slaughter humans. Baal then infiltrates the town of Elk Grove by skinning and impersonating multiple people before capturing [[Characters/EvilDeadAshWilliams Ash]] and subjecting him to mental torture where he traps him in a fantasy, making Ash believe that the entirety of the past 30 years have been an elaborate delusion, intending to use Ash to murder his own friends to destroy a threat to Baal. Upon being sent to the past, Baal has his ex-wife Ruby murdered by her still-evil 1982 incarnation and attempts to kill Ash in a duel, mocking Ash for ever thinking he would have intentions of honoring the deal should Ash win. Responsible for the loss of countless lives thanks to the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Necronomicon]] and the actions of the Deadites, Baal stands apart from the other Deadites for his ambition and cruelty.

** PlayedStraight when Season 2 ends with Linda B. apparently rekindling her romantic relationship with Ash, seemingly unconcerned that [[spoiler:her husband and teenaged daughter have recently died]]. Her lack of grief over [[spoiler:Thomas]] is somewhat understandable, but the fact that she doesn't seem troubled in the slightest by [[spoiler:Lacey's]] death strains credibility, even in a goofy and darkly comic setting like this show. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse She's never seen or mentioned again in Season 3]], so we never learn what was going on with her.

* CompleteMonster: Baal, BigBad of season 2 and the GreaterScopeVillain of the entire [[Franchise/EvilDead franchise]] as a whole, was the demon responsible for the Deadites as their creator and father. Intending to allow evil to dominate earth and enslave or slaughter humanity, Baal has his children turn on their mother and sends them to [[KillAllHumans attack and slaughter humans]]. Baal then infiltrates the town of Elk Grove by [[FlayingAlive skinning]] and [[GenuineHumanHide impersonating]] multiple people before capturing Ash and subjecting him to [[MindRape mental torture]] where he traps him in a fantasy, making Ash believe that the entirety of the past 30 years have been an elaborate delusion, intending to use Ash to murder his own friends to destroy a threat to Baal. Upon being sent to the past, Baal has his ex-wife Ruby murdered by her still-evil 1982 incarnation and attempts to kill Ash in a duel, mocking Ash for ever thinking he would have intentions of honoring the deal should Ash win. Responsible for the loss of countless lives thanks to the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Necronomicon]] and the actions of the Deadites, Baal stands apart from the other Deadites for his ambition and cruelty.

** Heather sees her friends (one of whom might have been her sister, based on dialogue) horribly killed, suffers a succession of painful injuries while before becoming isolated and alone in a very frightening situation, [[spoiler:And then turned into a deadite]].

** Season 2 ends with Linda B. apparently rekindling her romantic relationship with Ash, seemingly unconcerned that [[spoiler:her husband and teenaged daughter have recently died]]. Her lack of grief over [[spoiler:Thomas]] is somewhat understandable, but the fact that she doesn't seem troubled in the slightest by [[spoiler:Lacey's]] death strains credibility, even in a goofy and darkly comic setting like this show. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse She's never seen or mentioned again in Season 3]], so we never learn what was going on with her.

** Season 2 ends with Linda B. apparently rekindling her romantic relationship with Ash, seemingly unconcerned that [[spoiler:her husband and teenaged daughter have recently died]]. Her lack of grief over [[spoiler:Thomas]] is somewhat understandable, but the fact that she doesn't seem troubled in the slightest by [[spoiler:Lacey's]] death strains credibility. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse She's never seen or mentioned again in Season 3]], so we never learn what was going on with her.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Former show runner [[https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3417732/former-showrunner-talks-ash-vs-evil-dead-season-2-finale-almost/ Craig DiGregorio stated in an interview]] that there was an alternate version of the Finale for Season 2 that sounded pretty interesting.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Thomas. Being endlessly hounded by Ash as a kid likely made him the {{jerkass}} he is as an adult. Baal messing with his mind makes him even more sympathetic.

* TheyWastedAPefectlyGoodCharacter:

** Heather's two friends can also inspire a little bit of this, as they could have provided a bit of ActionSurvivor humor and naiveté (considering they had attempted to brandish a flare gun and bear spray when first accosted).

* TheWoobie: Brandi's life has gone down the utter tubes. Not only has she had to see her best friend possessed and killed, she then witnesses her beloved mother Candi killed in front of her and is stuck with Ash, [[spoiler: who has no idea how to be a father and whose well-meaning, but clumsy attempts to bond with Brandi only terrify and upset her more. Then Ash has to destroy a Deadite version of her mother at Candi's own funeral which traumatizes her even more, and then Ash has to destroy an undead version of Brandi's hitherto unknown grandfather. Making it worse is that Brandi has no true understanding or context of any of this, making her an ordinary teenager hit by one trauma after another with a father who's best known for being a local serial killer.]]

* SpecialEffectsFailure:

* HilariousInHindsight: During Ash's MushroomSamba in "Brujo", one of the images we see is Nancy Reagan's famous "Just Say No" speech. Creator/BruceCampbell played UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan on ''Series/{{Fargo}}'', concurrently with this show.

* PanderingToTheBase: Creator/SamRaimi has [[http://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/sam-raimi-interview/ admitted]] that the show's very existence is this, being made for the small, yet dedicated group of fans of the franchise, and even having Creator/BruceCampbell back in the role of Ash. [[TropesAreTools The fans seem to love it, so it's not like it was a bad thing]].

* MagnificentBitch: The 1980s Ruby is one who never had the present day's HeelFaceTurn. Doing away with her demon husband Baal to be free of him when he loses his duel with Ash, Ruby births a demon spawn of her and Ash so she can subvert Ash's chosen one prophecy. Becoming a guidance counselor to turn Ash's long lost daughter Brandy against her, Ruby uses her child to kill others to frame Ash so she can make him the savior of humanity and keep her fellow Dark Ones sealed so she may rule the world and keep a tight lidded control on the forces of evil, while also using her friend Kaya as a mole in Ash's team. Even when defeated and left to the mercy of the Dark Ones, Ruby goes out defiant to the end, vowing that Ash will destroy them in turn.