History YMMV / AshVsEvilDead

** Present Day!Ruby has been put through all sorts of hell during the second season. After reclaiming the Necronomicon from Ash, she swears that she will end the war between humans and Deadites, and is true to her words on wanting the war to end. Unfortunately, her remaining children, who still don't believe peace between mankind and the Evil Dead is possible, decide to desert her and resume the war, stripping her of her immortality and power in the process, which she spends the entirety of the season trying to get back with Ash and the team's help. While she helps Ash kill any of the deadites in their way, it's clear that Ruby [[ApeShallNeverKillApe is regretting having to become]] the HunterOfHerOwnKind just so everything could go back to normal. [[spoiler: Most tragically, when the team went back in time to save Pablo and make sure the Necronomicon will never be used again, she was [[KillAndReplace unceremoniously murdered and replaced]] [[EvilDoppelganger by her 1980 incarnation]] after attempting to pull a HeroicSacrifice to save them from Baal.]]

** Present Day!Ruby has been put through all sorts of hell during the second season. After reclaiming the Necronomicon from Ash, she swears that she will end the war between humans and Deadites. Unfortunately, her remaining children decide to desert her and resume the war, stripping her of her immortality and power in the process, which she spends the entirety of the season trying to get back with Ash and the team's help. While she helps Ash kill any of the deadites in their way, it's clear that Ruby [[ApeShallNeverKillApe is regretting having to become]] the HunterOfHerOwnKind just so everything could go back to normal. [[spoiler: Most tragically, when the team went back in time to save Pablo and make sure the Necronomicon will never be used again, she was [[KillAndReplace unceremoniously murdered and replaced]] [[EvilDoppelganger by her 1980 incarnation]] after attempting to pull a HeroicSacrifice to save them from Baal.]]

* SignatureScene: Poor [[spoiler:Heather's]] drawn-out, horrific death in the season one finale is one of the first things about the show many fans think of, albeit not always in a good way.

** Ashy Slashy the PerversePuppet quickly became a fan favorite. So much so that he's included as a cosmetic option for the ''Evil Dead'' DLC in ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'', and the description of the ''Ash vs. Evil Dead'' house at Ride/UniversalStudios Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights 2017 was quick to point out to guests that ''yes'', Ashy Slashy ''is'' featured in the house.

** Ashy Slashy the PerversePuppet quickly became a fan favorite. So much so that he's included as a cosmetic option for the Evil Dead DLC in ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'', and the description of the Ash vs. Evil Dead house at Ride/UniversalStudios Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights 2017 was quick to point out to guests that ''yes'', Ashy Slashy ''is'' featured in the house.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Joanie the prostitute racked up quite a few fans, especially since she is one of series first LGBT character and the first to be a T; being a transgender woman. [[spoiler: Veers into TooCoolToLive and WeHardlyKnewYe as she's killed off in her first episode.]]

* 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 had been considered that sounded pretty interesting.

** It's been observed that Kelly took [[spoiler:what happened to her family]] in tremendous stride. Following episodes, though, show that she really takes to killing Deadites. Pablo suggests she's focused on revenge.

** In season three, the purgatory the spirits go to called "The Rift," has a fair number of similarities with "The Upside Down" from Series/StrangerThings. There are duplicates of the Elk Grove downtown, and even a rift version of the Delta that Ash eventually uses. Also, it's patrolled by a large shadow spirit that sends everyone it catches to Hell.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Thomas is meant to be a HateSink for antagonizing Ash and the humiliation he faces was meant to be LaserGuidedKarma. However, most of his actions are due to being LockedOutOfTheLoop, and Ash's actions to an outsider look suspicious. [[spoiler: Working with Baal]] was meant to be a MoralEventHorizon, but he was, at worst, a WellIntentionedExtremist. He doesn't even get an [[spoiler: AlasPoorVillain treatment after he gets killed by a possessed Lacey]].

** In the final issue of the ''Comicbook/FreddyVsJasonVsAsh'' sequel series, the characters use time travel to [[CosmicRetcon retcon]] the entire Elm Street series out of existence. Ash ends up doing nearly the same thing to his own timeline at the end of season 2. What's more, if you consider the three horror franchises to still be [[SharedUniverse canon]] then Ash may have also retconned Elm Street [[TimeWimeyBall back int existence]] by his actions in this series.

* 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 hero [[Characters/EvilDeadAshWilliams Ashley J. "Ash" Williams]], 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 [[Characters/EvilDeadTheEvilDead forces of evil]], while also using her close friend Kaya as a mole in Ash's team. Even when defeated and left to the mercy of the Dark Ones, Ruby goes out DefiantToTheEnd, vowing that Ash will destroy them in turn.

* 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 DefiantToTheEnd, vowing that Ash will destroy them in turn.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Much like the movies that spawned it, this show is not short of brilliantly ''disgusting'' humor and violence. Probably the best example has to be Ash's brutal battle with a giant zombified, fanged, ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext rectum]]'' in Season 2.

* GeniusBonus: In the final episode, Ash states that he's just a bumpkin from Elk Grove, Michigan, while pointing to his palm. He's showing the location of Elk Grove within the state by using his hand as a map, which is something Michiganders actually do.

** Zoe and her fellow Knights of Summeria had the potential to be TheCavalry instead of just RedShirt's and expand the series mythos further than they did.
** While their running, hiding and watching wasn't completely uninteresting, Amy and the other people hiding for the Larked Ones in Purgatory being rallied by Ash to help break out of there could have been interesting.