History Film / EvilDead2

* ClosedCircle: Ash has to spend the a second night in the cabin due to the bridge being destroyed then Jake notices the trail he used to get Annie there seems to have been swallowed up by the trees.

* DecoyProtagonist: After Ash gets possessed again and goes on a rampage, the film follows Annie [[spoiler:for a short time, potentially leading viewers unfamiliar with Ash's history with the franchise to believe that Ash is doomed, and it will be Ash vs. Annie in a final confrontation, However, after Ash sees the necklace he gave Linda as a gift, he's able to overcome his possession and he resumes the main protagonist role for the rest of the film.]]

* IdiotBall: Annie, Jake, Bobby Joe and Ed grab it in their initial encounter with Ash, after knocking him out Annie sees a chainsaw with blood on it, and assumes the worst, ignoring several things. One, Ash was shooting at ''something'' and the house was boarded up, and two, Ash is ''missing his hand''. Rationally (as in, the group did not know about the Deadites yet), it would be assumed Ash got his hand lopped off by someone else and was shooting because he thought they were coming back, points can be made however, that Ash ''was'' covered in blood, but again, his hand was cut off, it could have came from there.

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[[caption-width-right:300:"'''I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL, I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL!!"'''[[note]]"Swallow ''this.''" (BOOM!)[[/note]]]]

* AlienBlood: A lot of the deadites

* CanonDiscontinuity: The opening sequence with Linda, where Scotty, Cheryl and Shelly aren't shown is now non-canon, since ''Series/AshVsEvilDead'' has them mentioned in it.

* AssholeVictim: Jake. While he suffers a brutal, agonizing death, before then he sells information for a trail instead of just helping Annie and Ed, and then assaults and stupidly forces Ash and Annie to go out in the evil infested woods with him to seek Bobbi Jo, leading to Ash being re-possessed by the evil, along with stuffing the critical Necronomicon pages needed to banish the evil down into the cellar with the Deadite Henrietta.

* BrutalHonesty: Ash rips the Band-Aid right off when it comes to Jake and his worrying over Bobbi Jo's disappearance:

* ButtMonkey: Bobbi Jo seems to suffer the most injuries and grievances out of the other four main characters. For instance, an eye goes flying into her screaming mouth.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Some of the DVD releases of the film (apparently taken from the U.K poster animation) include an animated cover that seems to show Annie Knowby (Sarah Berry) as a shrieking Deadite, [[spoiler: but that never actually happens in the film. In the commentary, during the scene where Ash and Annie have broken the glass and are looking at the Necronomicon pages, they note that the U.K. poster's image of Annie emulates a Deadite in the pose of the creepy caretaker's wife in Film/HouseOnHauntedHill. They also express their regret at not having Annie become a monster temporarily, with Creator/BruceCampbell admitting she has the perfect facial features to have pulled off the make-up.]]

* CreepyBasement: Ash is temporarily locked in the cellar, only for Annie to listen her father Raymond having buried his wife in the cellar. Her corpse then rises to attack Ash.

* EvilHand: Ash's right hand is possessed, and repeatedly tries to kill him. After it is seemingly killed, it returns with a vengeance holding Bobbi Jo, before disappearing again. [[spoiler: It finally does it's worst damage at the climax, mortally wounding Annie as she's reading the incantations from the book's pages.]]

** When Ash wakes up, he desperately tries to get out of the woods, but the bridge is completely destroyed. As he vents his frustrations, the sun begins setting, and he realizes his situation is about to get much worse. Then later in the film [[spoiler:Annie, Jake, Bobbi Jo, and Ed all suspect Ash of having murdered Annie's parents, knock him around and lock him in the cellar, where he soon finds out Henrietta is waiting for him]]
** And again later. [[spoiler: After Bobbi Jo disappears in the woods, Jake becomes frustrated at Ash and Annie's decision to focus on the pages instead of trying to rescue Bobbi Jo, with Ash telling Jake she's done for. Jake responds by holding them at gunpoint and throwing the needed Necronomicon pages into the cellar and forcing Ash and Annie out into the woods with him to look for Bobbi Jo. This not only leads to Ash once again becoming possessed by the evil, but also leads to Jake's death, and forces Ash down into the cellar, once he recovers himself, with possessed Henrietta to recover the pages. While he's successful, Henrietta gets free, and they have to take extra time killing her that they could have spent having Annie translating pages. It also may have led to Annie's death, as Ash's evil hand manages to mortally wound her during her reading the incantations. In the commentary, Creator/BruceCampbell joked that Jake's actions added around 10 more minutes to the film.]]

-->"Why are you not showing that part? You've shown everything else."
** Played with when he cuts off his own possessed hand: we don't see the actual amputation, but ''do'' see Ash's face getting drenched in the spray of blood.

** We never see Bobbie Jo's body after she's [[spoiler: rammed into a tree at high speed.]]

--> '''Ash:''' [[Film/ArmyOfDarkness "He didn't do a very good job."]]

* IdiotBall: Annie, Jake, Bobby-Jo and Ed grab it in their initial encounter with Ash, after knocking him out Annie sees a chainsaw with blood on it, and assumes the worst, ignoring several things. One, Ash was shooting at ''something'' and the house was boarded up, and two, Ash is ''missing his hand'', rationally (as in, the group did not know about the Deadites yet), it would be assumed Ash got his hand lopped off by someone else and was shooting because he thought they were coming back, points can be made however, that Ash ''was'' covered in blood, but again, his hand was cut off, it could have came from there.

* JumpScare: Annie is convinced by Ash that the seemingly human Henrietta isn't, and loudly states that it's not her mother...[[spoiler: And then out of nowhere, Ed Getley pops up right next to her, a suddenly roaring and fully-possessed Deadite.]]
** A similar trick is pulled [[spoiler: when everyone is outside looking for Bobbi Jo. Jake is screaming her name, and there's a brief moment of calm right before Ash pops into frame right next to Jake, once again a fully-possessed Deadite, to Jake and Annie's immediate horror.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Oh Annie...First she accidentally stabs Jake, thinking he's the possessed Ash. Then she painfully pulls the knife out of his chest, which probably would have killed him anyway. Then she painfully drags him further into the cabin, finally setting him down on the floor near the trapdoor to the cellar. Predictably, it opens far enough for Deadite Henrietta to grab him by the head and basically eat Jake's head off, letting off a geyser of blood in the process. This is lampshaded in the commentary, where they laughingly admit everything Annie does hurts Jake and that she basically him to his death in her earnest efforts to help him. Somewhat subverted by the fact that at that point, after throwing the needed pages of the Necronomicon down into the dangerous cellar, recklessly dragging Ash and Annie to danger in the woods looking for Bobbi Jo, ignoring Ash's warnings completely, beating on both of them, and putting Ash in a position to be re-possessed by the evil, Jake kinda deserved it.]]

** [[spoiler:Annie and Jake one too, when Ash, who up to that point has been the strongest and toughest of the survivors suddenly becomes re-possessed by the evil. ]]

--> '''Ash:''' [[VerbThis Swallow this]]. ''Shotgun blasts [[spoiler: Henrietta's]] head to bits.''

* ThePowerOfLove: Ash sees the locket he'd bought for Linda lying on the floor which reminds him of the love he had for her [[spoiler: which in turn allows him to break free of the Deadite possessing him.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Bobbi Jo for running out of the cabin and straight into the evil infested woods after being scared by Ash's disembodied hand. Jake is even worse, forcing everyone out of the cabin at gunpoint to go look for Bobbi Jo, along with idiotically stuffing the vital Necronomicon pages needed to save the day down into the cellar with the Deadite Henrietta. Even Ash can't help himself with what a monumental idiot Jake is being. Lampshaded in the DVD commentary:

* {{Transflormation}}: Bobbi Jo is captured by the possessed trees in the woods. Next time we see her, she is a tree or herself or at least was merged with one.

* FromBadToWorse: When Ash wakes up, he desperately tries to get out of the woods, but the bridge is completely destroyed. As he vents his frustrations, the sun begins setting, and he realizes his situation is about to get much worse. Then later in the film [[spoiler:Annie, Jake, Bobbi Jo, and Ed all suspect Ash of having murdered Annie's parents, knock him around and lock him in the cellar, where he soon finds out Henrietta is waiting for him]]

* GoryDiscretionShot: Just as Ash is about to use the chainsaw on [[spoiler:Deadite Linda]]'s head, this trope is invoked - showing blood splattering on the walls and shadows rather than the actual act. The DVD commentary points out the irony of this.

* OhCrap: Ash has a major moment of this when he hears Professor Knowby on the tape mentioning he buried the Deadite Henrietta down in the cellar. Which Ash is currently locked within.

* PlotHole: The Deadites don't like the sun? It seems to be contradicted by the finale of the movie itself. ''Ash vs. Evil Dead'' points this out later.

--> '''Bruce Campbell:''' I like trying to reason with Jake. If he'll just listen to me, everything would be great. But he's too stupid! WhatAnIdiot

* SanitySlippage: The entire film, really, can be described as a descent into absolute madness. The film's most famous (or infamous) SignatureScene involves Ash losing his mind as an entire room begins to laugh at him, [[LaughingMad followed by him uproariously laughing along]].

* BlackBlood: When Ash is chopping up Deadites, black green blood flies everywhere.

[[caption-width-right:300:"'''I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL, I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL!!"'''[[note]]"Swallow ''this.'' (BOOM!)[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:300:"'''I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL, I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL!!'''[[note]]"Swallow ''this'' (BOOM!)[[/note]]]]

[[quoteright:300:"'''I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL, I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL!!'''[[note]]"Swallow ''this'' (BOOM!)[[/note]]]]

* SlasherSmile: While it ends up going nowhere, [[spoiler: based on Annie's character arc in the film, the evil grin Annie flashes at Jake after she's duped him into carrying the trunk to the cabin for her could come across as one, and may lead the audience to think that she'll end up becoming evil in the narrative, though she never does, subverting the trope.

* NiceJobFixingItHero: [[spoiler:Oh Annie...First she accidentally stabs Jake, thinking he's the possessed Ash. Then she painfully pulls the knife out of his chest, which probably would have killed him anyway. Then she painfully drags him further into the cabin, finally setting him down on the floor near the trapdoor to the cellar. Predictably, it opens far enough for Deadite Henrietta to grab him by the head and basically eat Jake's head off, letting off a geyser of blood in the process. This is lampshaded in the commentary, where they laughingly admit everything Annie does hurts Jake and that she basically him to his death in her earnest efforts to help him. Somewhat subverted by the fact that at that point, after throwing the needed pages of the Necronomicon down into the dangerous cellar, recklessly dragging Ash and Annie to danger in the woods looking for Bobbi Jo, ignoring Ash's warnings completely, beating on both of them, and putting Ash in a position to be re-possessed by the evil, Jake kinda deserved it.]]

* OhCrap: Ash has a major moment of this when he hears Professor Knowby on the tape mentioning he buried the Deadite Henrietta down in the cellar. Which Ash is currently locked within. [[spoiler:Annie and Jake one too, when Ash, who up to that point has been the strongest and toughest of the survivors suddenly becomes re-possessed by the evil. ]]

* AssholeVictim: Jake, he sells information for a trail instead of just helping Annie and Ed, and then forces Ash and Annie to go out in the woods with him to seek Bobbi Jo, leading to Ash being re-possessed by the evil.

* OpeningNarration: The voice of Professor Raymond Knowby narrates the backstory and powers of the Necronomicon in the first scene.

* CompositeCharacter: Due to them being AdaptedOut, Linda stands in for Cheryl, Scotty and Shelly who all succumbs to DemonicPossession besides herself during the recap of the first film's events.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Some of the DVD releases of the film include an animated cover that seems to show Annie Knowby (Sarah Berry) as a shrieking Deadite [[spoiler:Annie never gets possessed in the film, though in the commentary, when they are watching the evil smile Annie has on her face when she "negotiates" the terms with Jake to get to the cabin, they admit disappointment for not having her play a Deadite.]]

* DecoyProtagonist: After Ash gets possessed again and goes on a rampage, the film follows Annie for a short time, [[spoiler:until Ash overcome his possession and the perspective returns back to him]].

* EvilHand: Ash's right hand is possessed, and repeatedly tries to kill him. After it is seemingly killed, it returns with a vengeance holding Bobbi Jo.
* {{Fanservice}}: Linda dancing in her shirt and panties in the beginning
* FanDisservice: Deadite Linda's headless body has one breast exposed. Annie also looks pretty good in those shorts.

* IdiotBall: Annie, Jake, Bobby-Jo and Ed grab it in their inital encounter with Ash, after knocking him out Annie sees a chainsaw with blood on it, and assumes the worst, ignoring several things. One, Ash was shooting at ''something'' and the house was boarded up, and two, Ash is ''missing his hand'', rationally (as in, the group did not know about the Deadites yet), it would be assumed Ash got his hand lopped off by someone else and was shooting because he thought they were coming back, points can be made however, that Ash ''was'' covered in blood, but again, his hand was cut off, it could have came from there.

* TheLegendOfChekhov: The Necronomicon narrates the tale of a past hero coming from the sky who vanquished the demon. [[spoiler: Ash is sucked into the rift in time and space and discovers that he's stuck in the Middle Ages as said hero.]]

* TheSmartGuy: Annie Knowby; the creators joke in their DVD commentary that, had she been in Ash's situation from the beginning, she would have solved the whole thing in about 30 minutes.

* StrippedToTheBone: [[spoiler: Jake. Athough it happens mostly off screen, and we only see his remains later.]]

* AssholeVictim: Jake, he sells information for a trail instead of just helping Annie and Ed, and then forces Ash and Annie to go out in the woods with him to seek Bobbi Jo.

* FanDisservice: Deadite Linda's headless body has one breast exposed.

* FromBadToWorse: When Ash wakes up, he desperately tries to get out of the woods, but the bridge is completely destroyed. As he vents his frustrations, the sun begins setting, and he realizes his situation is about to get much worse.

** Jake's death is presented as this. He's pulled into the cellar and ripped apart by a Deadite, but we don't really see it happen. We do however see the huge wave of blood that comes gushing out of the cellar, leaving the worst to the imagination.

* OhCrap: Ash has a major moment of this when he hears Professor Knowby on the tape mentioning he buried the Deadite Henrietta down in the cellar. Which Ash is currently locked within.

* TookALevelInBadass: Ash Williams goes from a clueless and frightened college kid to a badass, shotgun-toting, chainsaw swinging demon-hunter.