Tearjerking moments in the Evil Dead franchise.
- Yeah, the series is mostly over the top... but damn is it not hard to start tearing up at Annie's death at the end of Part 2.Ash: You did it, kid.
- When Ash loses his hand is kinda depressing. Having lost his friends, the love of his life, and then finally the deadites possess a part of his body which he has to get rid of.Ash: Give me back my hand. GIVE ME BACK MY HAAAND!
- The entire resuscitation scene from the remake. David has to bury his sister alive to purge the demon possessing her, and while he's doing so, the Deadite gives him a nasty "Break Them by Talking" lecture made all the worse by the fact that it's completely true. After it's all done, he digs her back up and desperately tries to bring his little sister back to life using an improvised Magical Defibrillator, all the while begging her to Please Wake Up. The scene would be emotional enough, but the music pushes it way into tearjerker territory.
- Prior to this, he attempts to set the cabin on fire with a Possesed!Mia inside, only to stop when he hears her singing their deceased mother's lullaby.
- In Evil Dead 2, Ash regaining his former self after becoming a deadite for a second time. What triggers this change? Ash letting out a sorrowful cry while holding a necklace he gave to his recently deceased girlfriend earlier on in the movie.
- Bruce Campbell announcing that he's retiring the character of Ash. Truly the end of an era.
- Ash's entire story from the first film to the third, as well as the first episode of Ash vs Evil Dead series. If you edit the films together at certain points (removing the "remake" element of Evil Dead 2 and the recap of Army of Darkness), you see Ash's conga-line of trauma. He goes up to his cabin with his friends and sister to have an enjoyable weekend. They discover the Necronomicon and the tape player, then each one of his friends and his sister are then possessed and he has to end up tearing them to shreds. He's then possessed and the Evil continues to torment him for another 24 hours before another group of people arrive. But before they do, he has to hack up Linda's head with a chainsaw and then his hand is possessed, to which he has to lop off in order to survive. The second group think he's a psycho and then he gets dropped into the cellar, where the possessed body of Henrietta almost kills him. And like before, one by one, each member of the group is possessed leaving him and Annie as the last two survivors. He then knuckles up, fights Henrietta and witnesses Annie being murdered by his own possessed hand. And then, he's sent back in time (we already know all the stuff he's gone through there). All of that happening within a matter of days for him. After he gets back to his time (not including the original ending, but the U.S. ending)? Everyone thinks he went nuts and murdered not only his friends, but his sister as well (which has lead to a huge wedge driven between him and his father). He ends up leaving his home town, wandering around for over 30 years, having meaningless sex, constantly getting drunk and high and not having any meaningful connections with people, and continuing to work the same dead-end retail job. Ash may be a bad ass, but he's a bad ass formed from days of trauma that ends up affecting him for years after.
