Ash Williams: Army of Darkness Stats.

I'm a first timer here at Classic Marvel! I have a friend here in the forum (Riddick), that told me about this great site!! I would like to ask for a write up on Ash from Army of Darkness! I have been told by "Riddick" that Nightmask, Ragnarok, or The SKYCUTTER might help me out..PLEASE :D



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/30/2007 09:52PM by Drifter.

Hmm... I'll speak with SKYCUTTER first but I'm sure we'll easily come up with something for you. Hell, this will help us put that Chainsaw thread to the test.



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Here is one that was posted in the past. Hope it helps looks about right to me and I am a Ash fan.


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Hmm... Well that works. I'll do a version just for kicks and use this one as a base for an updated Ash Housewares.



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I wouldn't give him Monstrous Endurance... nor would I give him any actual talent with the chainsaw. The movie stressed that he's just a normal guy who's been through Hell. I'd give him the following FASERIP.

Fighting - Excellent

Agility - Good

Strength - Good

Endurance - Excellent

Reason - Typical

Intuition - Excellent

Psyche - Incredible

The only power I'd give him is Iron Will at Incredible.

For Talents, I'd give him Weapons Master and Guns. He'd presumably never actually picked up a chainsaw for use in combat before, but seemed campily proficient in it's use. I'd say Weapons Master is a way of explaining an innate ability to use any and all weapons. Same with Guns. He had presumably never fired one before, but he shot like a pro. This isn't because of training... this is because this is a B movie trait.

Drifter, here are your stats on Ash Williams from the movies: Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness! B!)-


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I like Ash.

I'd put him at around 70 health. Maybe 80.

As for intellect, yes, he can be dense, but he did create that metal hand... without modern tools. Maybe that was just a plot device. But it would be hard to figure his RIP. Probably a pretty high Psyche. Maybe we could say he is pretty dense (Poor Reason or Int) in general or when it comes to social situations, but is Good-Rem in other situations.

I can't see what Sky came up with, I don't have a Zip unzipper.

"My parents went to The Secret Wars Battleworld and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt..."

Here's Skycutter's writeup for those of you who can't open the .zip file.

Ashley J. "Ash" Williams

Ash Williams

Gender: Male

Race: Caucasian

Location: Dearborn, Michigan

Weapons of Choice: "Boomstick" (12 Gauge

Remington Sawed-Off Shotgun), Chainsaw

Family: Cheryl Williams (sister, deceased)

Enemies: "Deadites" (demon-possessed living or undead)

Height: 6'1"

Weight: 180pds.

F: EX (20)

A: EX (20)

S: GD (10)

E: EX (20)

R: TY (6)

I: EX (20)

P: IN (40)

Health: 70

Karma: 66

Resource: PR (4) "superstore S-Mart, housewares department "

Popularity: 0

Powers
None

Weapons

Boomstrick (Sawed off Double-Barreled 12 gauge Remington shotgun): Excellent (20) Damage; Rate of Fire: 1-2 Shot a round; Range: 1 area.

Chainsaw (Attaches by a Bracket to Amputated Right-Hand): 15 points of Edged Damage; Excellent (20) Material Strength chainsaw blade.

Prosthetic Right-Hand (Metal Gauntlet): +1CS to strength for Excellent (20) Blunt Damage; Material Strength: Excellent (20).

Limitation
Amputated Right-Hand

Talents
Weapons Specialist (Boomstrick/Chainsaw)
Guns
Marksman
Weapons Tinkering
Weapons Engineering


Background
The Evil Dead
In The Evil Dead, Ash and his girlfriend Linda, sister Cheryl, and friends Scotty and Shelly stay at a log cabin in the woods, where they find the "Naturon Demonto" (renamed or possibly translated to Necronomicon ex Mortis in the sequels), the "Book of the Dead", along with a tape recorder. The tape is a recording of the owner of the cabin, who was translating a passage of the book. By playing the tape, Ash and his friends awake the evil spirits who can now possess the living. Ash's friends and sister are consequently possessed and killed one by one, until he's the last survivor. He finally destroys the Necronomicon by throwing it in the fireplace, and in doing so causes the possessed bodies of Scotty and Cheryl to rapidly decay and 'die', and the evil seems to be driven back. However, the film ends with Ash being overtaken by an evil spirit himself.

Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn
Evil Dead II continues the story from the previous film after a stunted recap in which the audience is only introduced to Ash's girlfriend Linda (who still subsequently gets possessed, decapitated and buried) and Ash himself, to the point where the evil spirit attacks Ash. From this point, the film continues the story from where the first film left off. Carried a good distance by the demon, Ash is slammed hard against a tree and falls in a puddle of water. From here he becomes a deadite (see Deadite Ash, below) but shortly afterwards is released from the spirit by the coming of dawn, only to pass out. Ash regains consciousness moments before from sunset. Deciding to get out of there as fast as he can, he climbs into his car and drives to where the bridge was, only to find it completely destroyed by the evil force. As the sun quickly sets, said force starts climbing up the cliff, and Ash hops into his car, driving away as fast as he can and as a result, crashing right into a treestump that sends him flying through the windshield.
With the evil close behind him, he runs into the cabin and through it trying to hide, and ducks into the trapdoor, waiting until the evil force leaves. After it does, Ash comes out, only to find himself stuck at the cabin with the spirits of the Evil Dead for yet another night. Later, the cabin owner's daughter, Annie and two more people arrive. It is near the end of this movie that Ash gets his infamous chainsaw in place of his right hand. The film ends with Ash being sucked into a vortex and traveling back in time to 1300 AD, where the locals claim, according to their prophecies, that he is "The Man That Falls from the Sky" who will save them from the Deadites (demon-possessed zombies).

Army of Darkness
The next film continues the story from there (though he receives far less of a warm welcome than the end of the previous film suggests). Ash has to defeat his alter-ego known as "Bad Ash"/"Evil Ash" who is leading the Army of Darkness to steal the Necronomicon. In this movie, Ash constructs a mechanical prosthetic hand out of a gauntlet from a suit of armor, using it throughout the film in place of the chainsaw (though he still carries it with him). The movie has two different endings, one where he returns to his own time and defends S-Mart from a possessed woman, and another, the director's cut, where he ends up in a post-apocalyptic future.
Personality
Ash is in his early 20s and usually lives a "normal" life. He is employed at the superstore, S-Mart(where he works in the housewares department), and has a girlfriend, Linda.
Ash's personality and state of mind change drastically throughout the franchise. In The Evil Dead and the beginning of Evil Dead II, he is something of a laid back everyman who is more cowardly and inexperienced, but by middle of Evil Dead II and into Army of Darkness, he has grown into a much braver person, and becomes the voice of encouragement and confidence in Arthur's castle. It is at this point that Ash becomes known for his one-liners, and his personality takes on a more cynical, embittered tone.
Ash's experiences with the Necronomicon have also made him incredibly neurotic, irritable and perhaps even insane. It can be debated that a few of the happenings of the storyline were merely Ash's hallucinations (for example, Ash's reflection in Evil Dead II) and not the Evil at all.
Equipment and abilities
Ash is known for two main weapons: his "boomstick", a sawed off double-barreled 12 gauge Remington shotgun (although this weapon has changed several times), and the more noticeable chainsaw, which was adapted to replace his right hand, amputated in Evil Dead II after being possessed by a Kandarian spirit.
Bruce Campbell has stated Ash is pretty much incompetent at everything except fighting the Evil Dead. He knows some degree of hand-to-hand combat techniques, and prowess with a variety of weapons in various situations.
His main strength seems to be his ingenuity: he has from the second film on been shown creating such things ranging from his chainsaw bracket and shotgun harness, gunpowder from mainly referencing its elemental makeup in a chemistry book, a fully functional prosthetic hand from a metal gauntlet, and the short-lived "Deathcoaster".
The Deathcoaster is seen in the latter parts of Army of Darkness, made from the remains of his car and powered by a steam engine. The main feature of it is a massive rotating blade on the front of it, akin to an angled upright lawnmower blade. The Deathcoaster was destroyed during the film's final battle. At the end of the film he takes what is left of it with him, though it hasn't been seen or used in any later material. The Deathcoaster was not referred to as such in the film; the name appears in scripts and publicity material.

Variant incarnations of Ash
Bad Ash/Evil Ash

Bad Ash before becoming Evil Ash

Ash's dark side manifests itself as a separate entity first in Evil Dead II, where he hallucinates his reflection tormenting him over dismembering 'their' girlfriend with a chainsaw, and then proceeds to try and choke him (only for Ash to realize he was choking himself). This side of him later splits off his body in a drawn out painful event in Army of Darkness (unlike the original, having both hands intact), becoming 'Bad Ash' and getting first blown away at point blank range by Ash's shotgun, then cut to pieces, and finally buried (though even in this state he still 'lived'). When Ash blunders and accidentally awakens the Army of the Dead, Bad Ash re-emerges from the grave quickly piecing himself together as the decayed 'Evil Ash' and takes command of the undead troops, even corrupting Ash's then-love interest Sheila into a deadite-like hag. He battles the original Ash as he makes a bee-line for the Necronomicon, and gets lit ablaze by a torch, only to re-emerge as 'Skeleton Evil Ash', a much more agile and dangerous version that could breathe flames. As Henry the Red's troops arrive to assist in the battle against the undead and break their ranks, Evil Ash has his right hand holding the Necronomicon chopped off by Ash, and is then catapulted into the sky riding a lit sack of gunpowder to be blown to pieces.


Evil Ash in Army of Darkness
He returns in Evil Dead: Hail to the King after Ash's possessed hand releases the evil force once more into the world by playing Knowby's tape recording, emerging from the mirror in the cabin (a la his first appearance), tossing Ash aside and taking off. Unlike before, Evil Ash is closer in appearance to a zombified version of Ash, and has the ability to launch fireballs and shape shift. Ultimately he was destroyed once more by the original. Beyond this, Evil Ash has appeared in comic spin-offs, appearing more akin to his decayed Army of Darkness version.

Deadite Ash

Deadite Ash in Evil Dead II
'Deadite Ash' is another story, though. In Evil Dead: Regeneration this version is referred to as 'Evil Ash' (and Sam calls him 'Bad Ash' in the game). Deadite Ash is Ash himself possessed by a Kandarian demon and turned into a monstrous version of himself with greatly increased strength and brutality. In Evil Dead II, sunlight and the memory of Linda seems to drive the demon out (or possibly just 'back') and reverts him to normal. In Regeneration, Deadite Ash actually is shown to be a complete berserker, attacking anything in his path (namely the deadites) and with Ash having some degree of control, later on, over his actions, though the effects are short-term. Enemies in the last area of the game speak of how Ash is 'already one of them', possibly a reference to this. The shotgun and chainsaw are augmented during this period also, the gun notably firing bolts of energy.

Zombie Ash
Zombie Ash
Marvel Comics has announced a crossover between Evil Dead and their Marvel Zombies universe, a zombified version of the Marvel Comics universe. This five-issue miniseries is to premiere in 2007 and is entitled Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness. On an alternate cover of Army of Darkness #13 The Death of Ashley J. Williams, a zombified version of Ash is seen. This cover was drawn by Marvel Zombies artist Sean Phillips and is possibly a What-if of what he would look like. However this won't be entirely clear until the conclusion of Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness. It is important to note that this is a different form of Ash, infected by the "Super Virus" that attacks the Marvel superheroes turning them into zombies, and not the results of demonic possession like Deadite Ash.

Ash Williams Quotes
· "Groovy!"

· "Hail to the king, baby."

· "Shop smart, shop S-Mart."

· "Who wants some? Who's next?"

· "All right, you primitive screwheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my BOOMSTICK! It's a 12 gauge double barreled Remington, S-mart's top of the line... you can find this in the sporting goods department... that's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan, retails for about $109.95, got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. Shop smart, shop...S-mart. YOU GOT THAT?!"

· (aiming shotgun) "Swallow this."

· "Yo, she-@#$%&. Let's go!"

· "Come get some."

· (after shooting Evil Ash in the face) "Good... bad... I'm the guy with the gun."

· "Yeah, baby. Sing...for the King."

· "Gimme some sugar, baby." (prior to a kiss)

· "Awh, now that's just what we call 'pillow-talk', baby."

· "Buckle up bonehead, 'cause you're going for a ride."

· (after decapitating "Sparky") What's that? You can't believe you just got your @#$%& kicked by a one handed nutjob? What? Oh you think I'm your daddy?

· (After his girlfriend's possessed and severed head taunts him) "You're goin' down!"

· "Lady, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave the store." (after a deadite appears in S-Mart)

· (After deadite asks him who he is.) "Name's Ash." *@#$%& gun* "Housewares."

· "You want a piece of me?! YOU WANT A
PIECE OF ME?!"

· "First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me. Blow."

· (After being attacked by a decoy Necronomicon in the Graveyard) "Ooh..oooh...I'll get back to you!"

· "Let's go carve ourselves a witch." (starts his chainsaw)

· "You bastards! You...dirty bastards! Give me back my hand! GIVE ME BACK MY HAAAAANNND!"

It's a good writeup, SKY. The only thing I'd add is the Iron Will power and remove weapon specialist: chainsaw and boomstick. I think guns and weapons master are better for the character. It seemed less like he had special training with those weapons and more like an innate campy knack, which I think is described best with Weapons Master. You don't know why you're so so good with every weapon under the sun; you just are.

Cutter, would you mine reposting the stats on Ash, the link failed!

Drifter, here is the stats on Ash with artwork. If the Link fails again for you, let me know, and I will try to send it to you some other way!! B!)-

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I also copy/pasted SKY's writeup right up there. *points*

Cutter, this is a great write up on Ash! The artwork is Amazing! You rock, Cutter!! :D

Wait... what artwork?

Wow, AWESOME write up on Ash! The artwork is really great Cutter, thanxs for reposting it for me. I would also like to say thanxs to Punstarr for also posting the stats on Ash, but the stats are awesome with the artwork. Thanks again SKYCUTTER!! :D:.DX(B):!)-D:-):!)o

Mortals Thor has returned! You did an Amazing job on the Ash write up Cutter!! As you always do, are you sure that you are a mortal Skycutter? I'm a fan of the Bruce Campbell and the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness Movies. You really did a super job on this write up, SKY!!




By The Power of Thor, So Be It!

Good to see that your Back Northman, it has been along time. Now to the write up on Ash, you are the man, Cutter! This is a awesome write up on Ash Williams from the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness movies. :D

I just wanted to let you know Homie Cutter, I thought you did a great job on the Ash write up!! Peace Out Homie LOL

Good write up skycutter as always the Movie was Funny.