Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn Characters
- Ash
The second incarnation of our hero, he is a little more buff and a little more competent then he was the first time around. Starting from the end of the first film Ash is possessed by the Evil and propelled through the woods. He lands in a puddle and shrieks evily as the sun rises pushing the Evil out of him, Ash falls unconcious. When he awakes he gets in his car and drives only to find that the bridge is still out preventing any escape. Ash screams hysterically and drives back to the cabin, tree branches jut out in front of the car and Ash swerves to avoid them only to impact a large tree and be thrown from the car.
Back in the cabin Ash boards up the windows in an attempt to keep the Evil out. Soon after he watches as Linda dances outside the cabin and later attacks him leaving him no choice but to kill her all over again. Ash returns to the cabin and begins to loose it. Looking in the mirror his image attacks him, once Ash looks away from the mirror, however, he finds that it is his own hand that has attacked. Ash can only watch as black veins begin to shoot out over his hand and take control. He screams as his hand attacks him and eventually has no choice but to cut it off with the chainsaw. The hand then escapes and Ash mistakingly shoots towards the newly arrived Bobbie Joe thinking it was his hand. Ash is thrown into the cellar and screams as Henrietta advances, at the last minute Annie and the others save him from a certain death. Later Ash is once again possessed by the Evil and attacks both Jake and Annie. A short time later he returns to normal and attempts to comfort the terrified Annie. Ash decides to end this once and for all and travels down to the cellar to obtain the book pages. He is attacked by Henrietta and after a long fight manages to kill her. Finally, Ash is sucked through a vortex made by the recited passages from the book and lands several years in the past.
- Linda
Linda returns as Ash's girlfriend. She accompanies Ash for a weekend getaway at the infamous cabin. They share a romantic evening together. She dances while Ash plays the piano. Later the evil from the woods returns and rushes into her room possessing her while she is changing. Once again she becomes a deadite and taunts Ash. Linda dies the same way (shovel to the head), however, she rises yet again. Once Ash returns to the cabin she escapes from her grave and dances headless outside the cabin. Ash watches stunned as her head rolls along the ground and up her body to rest on her neck, unmoving. Linda then reaches out to Ash and drops her head in his lap. She bites hard into Ash's hand and he can only remove her by crushing her head in a vise and roughly tearing his hand away. Ash is then attacked by the body of Linda who is now weilding a chainsaw, he manages to get the upper hand and Linda is killed once again first her body, then her head.
- Annie
Annie is the Professor's and Henrietta's daughter. She travels to the cabin to proceed with her research on the book of the dead which her father was also pursuing. Throughout most of the film she is just an observer, she doesn't actually get in on the action until most of her comrades are dead. When Ash is possessed by the Evil she runs inside and accidently stabs an already injured Jake in the chest with the Kandarian Dagger. Annie screams at Jake to shut up while dragging him down the hall and into the cabin's main room. She then desperatly tries to pull Jake back from the clutches of Evil Henrietta when she learns she left Jake too close to the cellar opeining but it's to no avail.
Later when she learns that Ash is back to his old self again both she and Ash decide to gather up the pages of the book and finish off the Evil. Annie is unable to finish reciting the passages in the book, however, because she is stabbed in the back by Ash's posessed hand and dies.
- Ed
Ed is Annie's coworker, he travels with her to the cabin to proceed with their research of the book of the dead. Soon after they arrive at the cabin Ed becomes possessed by the Evil and attacks Bobbie Joe ripping her hair out with his teeth. Ed then throws an attacking Jake into a wall as Annie looks on in shock. Ash kills Ed with a fatal hit from a newly aquired axe to the head.
- Jake
Bobbie Joe's boyfriend and an incredbily stereotypical Southerner. Once at the cabin Jake and the others throw a confused Ash into the cellar after he mistakingly attacks them. Later after Bobbie Joe runs from the cabin and disappears Jake looses it and makes everyone leave the cabin with him. As they leave the cabin Ash is possessed by the Evil and attacks Jake. Jake manages to escape Ash long enough to seek help from Annie within the cabin. Unfortunately the confused and frightened Annie stabs him in the chest with the Kandarian Dagger and in her rush to get away from the possessed Ash slams the door on Jake's body several times before pulling him inside. Jake is then dragged screaming down the hall by Annie and left a bit too close to the cellar door, he lies defenseless and is eatean by Henrietta.
- Bobby Joe
Jake's girlfriend and a fairly useless woman. She meets up with Annie and company while they're attempting to find a way to the cabin. Along with Jake she helps Annie and co. get to the cabin via a back trail. Once at the cabin she is mistakingly shot at through the cabin's door by a frightened Ash. After recovering she spends most of the time complaining and screaming until being frightened by Ash's possessed severed hand and runs outside the cabin. Once outside she is grabbed by vines and dragged at incredible speed though the woods to be stopped by impacting a large tree.
- Professor Knowby
Annie's father and Henrietta's husband. He traveled to the cabin to finish his research on the necronomicon. However, things turn out very badly when he recites a passage from the book releasing the Evil surrounding the woods. He is attacked by his wife and is forced to lock her in the cellar. Before succumbing to the Evil himself he manages to leave a tape explaining the terror he has unleased and later shows up as a spirit explaining to Annie how to get rid of it.
- Henrietta
Henrietta is Professor Knowby's wife and Annie's mother. She travels to the cabin with Professor Knowby to research the book of the dead. Henrietta is possessed soon after the Professor reads from the book and attempts to kill her husband. She is locked in the cellar soon after by her husband to protect himself. Non-possessed Henrietta appears once in the film feebly beckoning to Annie to open the cellar door and let her out. While locked in the cellar for most of the film she taunts the captives and tries unsuccessfully to get them to open the cellar door. She attacks Ash when he is thrown in the cellar after mistakingly attacking Annie and company. Later Henrietta is able to eviscerate an injured Jake who is dragged at bit too close to the cellar door by Annie. Finally Ash and Annie open the cellar and prepare to kill her once and for all. After a ferice battle in which Henrietta grusomely transforms into an even more disgusting looking creature she is shot through the head and killed by Ash.
- Ash's Bad Hand
Ash's bad hand comes to life after Possessed Linda bites his hand infecting it. Ash has no choice but to cut it off at the source. Ash carelessly places his bad hand under a tin bucket with a few books on top (Including Farewell to Arms) thinking he could contain the hand, but it escapes and scurries into a mouse hole. The hand flips Ash the bird while taunting Ash. Ash shoots the hand with his trusty double barrel shot-gun thinking he killed it. The hand later comes back to stab Annie in the back with the dagger. Ash's bad hand is a clear homage to The Adam's Family, a show Sam Raimi watched growing up.
- Senior Cajones
Senior Cajones is the rat that appears on the cellar stairs after Ash falls into the cellar and encounters Henrietta.
- Dirty Rotten Apple Head
Dirty Rotten Apple Head is the evil in the woods manifested in the flesh after Annie recites incantations from the Necronomicon. The flesh contains the souls of the people the evil had killed. Fortunately Dirty Rotten Apple Head is sucked into the vortex after Annie barely completes the finaly passage from the book.
