Ash's wooden hand was made by Italian artisans. They could've been medieval or renaissance-era ones.
Ramjam: Hey, that's an interesting idea. Army of Darkness happening in the streets of Venice? I could easily imagine that.
- Jossed: Season 3 even has some flashbacks to Army of Darkness.
We saw that creature snapping things apart in their brains, and it looked absolutely awful for them. I'm thinking that throughout the series, the consequences of that fight are going to continue to hit them.
- Jossed.
In real world demonology Eligos is a Great Duke of Hell
and very powerful, unlike the description Lionel gives of him as a lesser demon. But Lionel lied because he was eager to test the SummoningRituals in the Necronomicon and he knew Ash would've backed out if he knew there were no rituals for summoning lesser demons in the book.
- Over 30 years S-Mart may have gone bankrupt or been taken over by various other enterprises, hence the name change to Value Stop. Since Ash is one of the senior staff, possibly from the takeover of S-Mart.
- In Season 1 Episode 4, as Ash, Pablo and Kelly are escaping in The Oldsmobile from The Evil Force, Ash mentions that he has two downpayments before he can truly own The Oldsmobile. Therefore it's likely that this is a brand new Delta 88 Oldsmobile, as the Army of Darkness version was rusted and broken beyond repair: From the battle with King Arthur's men and the deadites, or when Ash took the sleeping potion and slept through the centuries.
- It's possible that Ash's artifical Hand got rusted over the years and he couldn't be bothered making a new one... or perhaps as Ash got older, he couldn't remember how to make a new one.
- Ash's personality in Ash vs. Evil Dead is primarly based on his Army of Darkness persona, more than his Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 persona.
- Ash's new hand created by Pablo (While not a Medieval Suited Hand) is probably the first direct reference to Army of Darkness.
- Evil Ash's death is almost identical to his death in Army of Darkness: Even Ash commenting "Chopping up my evil clone... maybe someday that will feel weird", implying that he has done this before in Army of Darkness
- An Image of Ash in front of a medieval castle in The Necronomicon is shown in Episode 10
- Flashbacks from the movie, and that pictures, are part of Season 3.
- Jossed. AOD gets referenced beginning with season three.
It could be possible that some of the events of the films happened differently and that the show is a continuation from them, creating an alternate timeline that's similar though slightly different from the films. For example, Ash mentions the events of the first two films, yet the Necronomicon is still intact despite him destroy it on the first night, as well as why Ash is lacking his gauntlet (though we know its due to legal rights issues). However, with a lot of noticeable details, it could be seen as an alternate timeline occurring, where Ash didn't destroy the book in the first night, Annie ended up using it to banish the evil from our world (though still dying in the same manner as she did in the film) and Ash never got sent back in time (accounting for a wooden non-functional hand instead of a functional mechanical one) and Ash has been carrying the book after those two nights of hell to keep people safe (in his original Oldsmobile Delta 88 that he crashed outside of the cabin, the same one he and his friends took to get to the cabin).
Several mentions have been made of some sort of...something that resides within Ash and is said to be the key to everything. I'm betting it's not his heroic resolve.
- Confirmed.
- Zigzagged: Ruby uses Kandarian magic, the page of the Necronomicon about the Chosen One and her own body to recreate a different Evil Ash supposedly able to override the Prophecy and replace Ash as the Chosen
- Also, the hand Ash chopped off in the second film returns and regrows an entire new Ash form, which it uses to pose as Ash and kill Amanda. It's subsequently killed off by Pablo and Kelly.
- Zigzagged: Ruby uses Kandarian magic, the page of the Necronomicon about the Chosen One and her own body to recreate a different Evil Ash supposedly able to override the Prophecy and replace Ash as the Chosen
How could they not? Given how fanservice-y this show is, a return to where the madness all started is practically a guarantee.
- Confirmed (end of Episode 7 / start of Episode 8).
- And Confirmed again at the end of Season 2 via time travel.
Its highly possible (mainly due to the ending of Evil Dead 2) that Ash, Pablo and Kelly will eventually end up either traveling to a different dimension or time travel
- In the second and third movies, Ash creates a Stable Time Loop by traveling back and defeating the Deadites. If Army of Darkness is no longer canon, then perhaps Ash never made that time loop, which means he still has to go back.
- Confirmed as of Season 2. The season finale takes place just prior to the first film.
So, at the beginning of the first Evil Dead movie, it is explicitly stated that Scott had rented the Knowby cabin for the weekend, and our merry band of victims had every reason to expect it to be empty when they got there.
Meanwhile, Annie Knowby was headed up to the cabin fully expecting to meet her parents there that weekend, unaware that her father had already inadvertently awakened the evil of the Necronomicon once already, and certainly unaware that a group of kids had rented what can be safely assumed to be her family's cabin (when she spoke to Jake, she asked if this was "the road to the Knowby cabin" as if she'd expect the locals to know it by that name).
So, how would Scott rent a cabin belonging to a family that fully expected to be there during the time he was renting it?
Enter Ruby Knowby, a woman who failed to burn to death when pulled onto a funeral pyre powerful enough to make Amanda believe she had died. A woman who would have been a teenager herself when her father awakened the Deadites. A woman who might well have been brought to the cabin by her parents, rather than left at the dig site with her sister.
A woman who could have very easily made a deal with the evil bound within the book: her survival in exchange for anyone she could lure up to the cabin.
- Alternatively, it wasn't JUST Ruby, but Baal as well. When driving up to the cabin and asked by what the cabin is like, Scotty says "the guy" he's renting it from says the cabin is a bit worn down. Though, it could be possible that Ruby wore a man's skin similar to how Baal does, it'd make sense that Baal himself would have been involved.
Or at least, she is now. The real Ruby died on the funeral pyre, and was then resurrected by the spirit of one of the Necronomicon's creators, which was stalking her (something is clearly seen behind her in the Brujo's house). Now, it's using her to find the book again and summon its cohorts.
- More likely Ruby either got posessed before her first appearance (certainly would explain a lot: a Deadite calling her traitor, the magic blade, Ash's hand obeying her commands). It's also possible the real Ruby never existed at all and her whole story was completely made up as a cover.
- Its possible that Ruby was possesed over 30 years ago- she travels to the cabin after the events of Army of Darkness (its possible that Ash got sent back to that location by reciting the words- hence he finds the necronomicon reconstructed after its "demise" in Evil Dead 1 and takes it so that nobody else would discover it- ofcourse the ending of Army of Darkness hints that he screwed up the incantation so maybe the evil force/spirit of the dark one found Ruby who at that time went searching for her Father and Sister and wound up getting possesed.
- Jossed: Ruby is a Dark One, a betrayer of her own kind acting as a puppet master for centuries.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. They team up with Ruby but nothing else.
- Jossed. Ted Raimi does appear, but as Ash's best buddy Chet from his hometown of Elk Grove.
- Ted also returns to the possessed Henrietta role at the end of season two.
- Jossed. Ted Raimi does appear, but as Ash's best buddy Chet from his hometown of Elk Grove.
- Zigzagged: Ruby manages to recreate a second Evil Ash, with the supposed power to override the prophecy and take over Ash's role as the Chosen One once the Williams' bloodline goes extinct. That doesn't come to pass obviously, yet the third Evil Ash, counting after Deadite Ash from Evil Dead and Evil Ash from Army of Darkness, manages to confront Ash
- Jossed in Amanda's case. She never returned after her season one death.
- Zigzagged: Ruby manages to recreate a second Evil Ash, with the supposed power to override the prophecy and take over Ash's role as the Chosen One once the Williams' bloodline goes extinct. That doesn't come to pass obviously, yet the third Evil Ash, counting after Deadite Ash from Evil Dead and Evil Ash from Army of Darkness, manages to confront Ash
- Jossed
Anyway, that's how this troper chooses to view this series.
