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Mia
Mia Allen
The first Final Girl in the Evil Dead franchise.
- Action Survivor: Spends the bulk of the film possessed, only to be exorcised and saved by David, who is soon killed in a Heroic Sacrifice. Unaware of what's in store, Mia is forced to fight for her life with little to no context of what's happening, when the Eldritch Abomination emerges from Hell to kill her.
- An Arm and a Leg: In her final fight against the Abomination, she is forced to rip her own arm off after it's pinned under David's Jeep.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Harshly averted once she's possessed, but played straight early on as she definitely doesn't look like a junkie on hard drugs or withdrawal.
- Break Them by Talking: While possessed, Mia does this to David, taunting him about their dead mother.
- Broken Bird: As a teenager, David abandoned Mia, leaving her to care for their mother, who was implied to be suffering from a terminal illness and some sort of mental illness. This all led to her becoming a heroin addict. The events at the cabin traumatize her even further.
- Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Literally; Mia loses an arm during the final confrontation with the Abomination.
- Buried Alive: David utilizes this to exorcise Mia.
- Chainsaw Good: During the final fight between herself and the Abomination, Mia wields a chainsaw, which she uses to bisect the demon, killing it and sending it back to Hell.
- Composite Character: Shares traits with Cheryl, such as being the younger sister to The Hero and is the first of the group to become possessed, spending the bulk of the film locked in the cellar and terrorizing the others. However, Mia is ultimately saved by David, who sacrifices himself in a last ditch effort to allow Mia to escape. Unfortunately, this doesn't work out and Mia is forced to fight for her life, vanquishing the Abomination with a chainsaw, similarly to Ash. She even has her own one-liner. She also gets part of Linda's role, being the one to be gifted the necklace.
- Damsel in Distress: Sort of. Spends the bulk of the film possessed and is implied to be trapped in Hell, only for her body to be cleansed of the demon, allowing her to return to the mortal world.
- Disc-One Final Boss: Mia spends the bulk of the film as the main antagonist, similarly to Cheryl from the original film, only to be exorcised of the demon, which kills her brother, claiming five souls and emerging from Hell as an Eldritch Abomination.
- Distaff Counterpart: Is somewhat seen as this to Ash, though not necessarily. The filmmakers thought it would be hard to create a protagonist as well-received as Ash, and so led the audience to believe David would become The Hero, only to reveal Mia as the Final Girl, surprising fans. Like Ash, Mia is at the Cabin with her sibling and friends, is possessed for a time, is left as the last one standing against the awakened evil, and has to part with one of her hands while fighting back, even managing to use a chainsaw one-handed afterwards.
- Drugs Are Bad: The reason the group convenes at the cabin in the first place. Mia is trying to quit her heroin addiction for the second time.
- Evil Is Hammy: Once Mia is possessed by the entity, she spends the bulk of the film taunting the others, specifically David, over his failures as a son and brother.
- Final Girl: The audience is led to believe that David will survive, but instead he makes a last ditch effort to save Mia's soul, which works, though he's killed in the process. This leaves Mia the only one left to confront the Abomination, fighting and ultimately vanquishing it with a chainsaw, leaving her the only survivor of the events at the cabin.
- Hero Killer: Excepting Ash vs. Evil Dead, Deadite Mia takes out more protagonists than any other Deadite across the whole series, successfully infecting and possessing every other member of the cabin before the credits, and killing the poor dog, too.
- Licking the Blade: Taunts Natalie by bisecting her tongue with a box cutter.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: In the original film, once an individual becomes possessed, their eyes turn a milky white, while in the reboot, their eyes turn bright and gold.
- Took a Level in Badass: For most of the film, Mia is either suffering through heroin withdrawal or helplessly possessed. In the finale, however, as the last one standing against the Abomination, Mia finds the strength to not only fight back against the evil entity, but to kill it after ripping off her own left hand to get free from David's overturned Jeep and brutally bisecting it with a chainsaw.
- Tragic Keepsake: Similarly to the mirror pendant Ash gave Linda in the original, Mia is gifted a talismanic necklace from her brother, which could or could not have had a hand in her survival.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Twice. Once due to withdrawal, then another when she becomes possessed, vomiting blood all over Olivia.
- Walking Spoiler: Mia's whole character is one big bait and switch, in that she turns out to be the Final Girl, rather than David being The Hero, like Ash from the original.
David
David Allen
Played By: Shiloh Fernandez
Mia's older brother and The Hero for the majority of the film.
- Action Survivor: Spends the bulk of the film as the Only Sane Man, caring for Eric and Natalie, and trying to figure out a way to save Mia and escape the woods.
- Big Brother Instinct: Seems to have this towards Mia, especially when the possibility of saving her soul arises.
- Composite Character: Is one for both Ash and Cheryl in the original with some elements of Scotty, being the older brother who spends most of the runtime as the lead and having to survive the night while his friends and sister become deadites, being the most decisive and dominant member of the group and also being the sibling who dies.
- Decoy Protagonist: David is the hero for most the film, only to die right before the finale where his sister Mia becomes the Final Girl.
- Dirty Coward: As a teenager, David abandoned Mia to care for their ailing mother by herself, and this serves as something exploited by the entity possessing Mia throughout the film.
- David is implied to have never been able to commit to anything or anyone, especially when things get tough.
- Dying as Yourself: Debatable. While some people argue that the five souls claimed were the possessed girl from the beginning of the film, then Mia, Olivia, Eric, and Natalie, other fans think that David was the fifth, after Mia's soul was cleansed. A deleted scene even confirms that David became possessed right before burning up in the fire in the cabin.
- Dying Moment of Awesome: Ultimately sacrifices himself to keep Mia safe from the possessed Eric, destroying the cabin in the process.
- Give Me a Sign: In the middle of his despair over having to kill Mia to end the Deadite threat, lightning strikes a bush outside the house, setting it ablaze. He seems to take this as a sign that she can still be saved, and therefore changes tactics to trying to cleanse her instead. Especially notable in that Mia's words at the beginning had implied David to be an atheist.
- Grease Monkey: He's a mechanic.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Ultimately dies protecting Mia from a possessed Eric.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: David left Mia alone to care for their ailing mother and is now trying to make amends for it.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: In the grip of denial and not wanting to have to kill Mia, David tries to rationalize the night's events as some kind of freak virus passed from Mia to the others. It's not The Virus, but Demonic Possession, though the fact is he's much closer than he realizes about how the possession spreads.
- Sacrificial Lion: David is built up as The Hero, similarly to Ash, only for him to die right before the Grand Finale, forcing Mia to boss up and become the Final Girl.
- Senseless Sacrifice: David's death is seemingly in vain, as it fails to stop the Eldritch Abomination demon from taking on a physical form. However, he does at least ensure that neither himself nor Deadite Eric can remain to menace Mia further.
- Understanding Boyfriend: Somewhat to Natalie, who has really no idea about what's going on, and is an outsider to David's familial situation and his relationship to Mia.
- You Are Already Dead: Keen-eyed viewers who have caught on to how the possession spreads, or are more familiar with earlier Evil Dead films, will know that David as well as Eric are doomed to be possessed from the second Mia slashes them with the box cutter she had previously bled on. Sure enough, Eric is taken, and a deleted scene confirms that David was, too.
Eric
Eric
Played By: Lou Taylor Pucci
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Just before he finally dies, his last words to David are to admit that he missed his friend.
- Badass Teacher: Teaches high school students, perhaps explaining his inquisitiveness that ultimately gets almost everyone killed, and survives a ton of punishment before the movie's over.
- Break the Haughty: Eric could be thought of as arrogant, as he ignored the warnings explicitly scrawled on the book, unwittingly releasing the demon(s) on the group; this results in him suffering the most physical injuries of the five.
- Butt-Monkey: Eric suffers the most physical injuries out of all the characters, though he doesn't lose any of his limbs like Natalie and Mia.
- Curiosity Killed the Cast: Eric's morbid curiosity about the book ends up dooming everyone in the cabin.
- Deadpan Snarker: He's sharp tongued about the situation.
- Eye Scream: Narrowly avoided. Deadite Olivia goes for his eye with a syringe, but his glasses keep it from going in.
- Fingore: The brutal effects of what Deadite Natalie does to him.
- Made of Iron: Suffers a lot of physical injuries throughout the film, only dying upon being stabbed in the chest by a possessed Mia.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Eric is the one who releases the entity by foolishly reading aloud from the Naturom Demonto.
- Rasputinian Death: Eric is wounded with a glass shard, syringe, and a box-cutter, shot several times with a nail gun, beaten and had his hand split open with a crowbar, before finally dying due to the wound from the box-cutter, albeit slowly.
- The Resenter: After Mia, Eric is the one most openly resentful of David for running off and not staying in contact, holding it against him and it straining their friendship. When stating his plan to burn down the house, he bitterly suggests David just run away like he always does.
- Too Dumb to Live: Eric obviously ignores not only the explicit warnings not to read the incantations in the Naturom Demonto, but also the barbed wire and plastic that conceal the book at all.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While reading from the book was unfathomably stupid, Eric certainly didn't intend for the horrors that were unleashed on him and his friends.
- You Are Already Dead: Keen-eyed viewers who have caught on to how the possession spreads, or are more familiar with earlier Evil Dead films, will know that David as well as Eric are doomed to be possessed from the second Mia slashes them with the box cutter she had previously bled on. Sure enough, Eric is taken, and a deleted scene confirms that David was, too.
Olivia
Olivia
Played By: Jessica Lucas
- Black Dude Dies First: She's the second of the youths to become possessed and the first of the five to actually die, being bludgeoned to death with a piece of a sink by Eric in self-defense.
- Brainy Brunette: Olivia is an RN and seems to also know about how drug rehabilitation works, though this knowledge proves useless once the entity is unleashed.
- Bring My Brown Pants: When she goes to the bathroom to clean off the blood from Mia's assault, she urinates herself upon seeing a horrific reflection of her possessed form in the mirror, right before a light bulb bursts, before she actually becomes possessed.
- Facial Horror: Upon her possession, Olivia gruesomely slices off chunks of her own face, leaving her teeth exposed in an extreme Glasgow Smile.
- The Medic: Is revealed to be a nurse; it seems as though this will prove useful given the gory details of the events at the cabin, but Olivia becomes possessed soon after Mia and is dispatched by Eric, when her possessed form attempts to stab him to death.
- Only Sane Man: Only before any supernatural elements of the story come into play. Olivia is the one who has the most knowledge about health and drug rehabiliation and is the one who comes up with the idea to convene at the cabin.
Natalie
Natalie
Played By: Elizabeth Blackmore
- All for Nothing: She falls for the Deadite's trick and cuts off her arm, despite the fact she was doomed to turn anyway.
- Advertised Extra: While the film focuses on a group of youths stranded at a cabin in the woods, Natalie doesn't have a ton of lines and isn't very important, even though she's the girlfriend of The Hero.
- An Arm and a Leg: Once she realizes her arm is slowly becoming possessed after having been bitten by a possessed Mia in the cellar, she severs said arm with an electric carving knife. After being possessed anyway and attacking David and Eric with a crowbar, Natalie loses her other hand when David blasts it off with a shotgun.
- Disc-One Final Boss: She is the last Deadite taken down before David seemingly acts on Eric's plan to burn down the house. Ultimately she doesn't become the true Final Boss, because three other Deadite creatures menace the protagonists afterward.
- Dying as Yourself: After David blows her other arm off with a shotgun, Natalie seemingly reverts to herself, before dying in David's arms.
- The Generic Girl: Natalie doesn't have an important role in the story, only following David around and doing what he says. This makes sense as David, Eric, Olivia, and Mia are all childhood friends, while Natalie is something of an outsider and is unfamiliar with the situation regarding David's familial history and Mia's addiction.
- Girl Next Door: Doesn't have the useful knowledge or wit that Olivia and Eric bring, nor the Allen siblings' baggage, but is at least trying to help Mia.
- Life-or-Limb Decision: Subverted. Severs one of her arms to avoid becoming possessed, though it doesn't actually work for whatever reason.
- Nice Girl: Natalie spends most of the film floating on the sidelines as a listening ear for David, though she is sympathetic to Mia's situation and wants to help her get better both before and after the demonic forces start hammering her.
- Nerves of Steel: She makes it quite a ways through her arm with that electric carving knife before finally screaming when she hits bone.
- Spotting the Thread: She is the first one to notice the change in Mia's eyes immediately after her possession, and is the first to realize that the Deadite Mia has not just assaulted her, but infected her. Ultimately, this doesn't save her, however.
Harold
Harold
Played By: Jim McLarty
A local whose daughter was possessed by a Deadite before the main characters pass through.
- Crusading Widower: Goes after the evil that killed his wife and possessed his daughter (who he is forced to kill to save her soul and stop the danger she poses).
- Intro-Only Point of View: The first scene shows him and his friends and families encounter with Evil, simply to provide context for what Mia and the others will soon experience.
- Shoot the Dog: He's forced to immolate, then shoot his possessed daughter to save her soul from the Evil.
Deadites
Deadites
For the sake of simplicity, the Abomination is also included in this section.
- Black Eyes of Evil: Only once, and only for a split second on-screen. The Abomination has the same yellow eyes that the Deadites before had, but when it threatens to feast on Mia's soul, its eyes briefly turn entirely black, not dissimilar to those of demon-possessed individuals in other works.
- Break Them by Talking: Deadites are capable of appearing normal and pleading for their lives in the guise of those they've possessed if they sense danger. David finds his attempt to burn down the cabin with Mia in it cut short when he hears her singing a song their mother used to sing from the basement below, with it seemingly knowing exactly what to do to get him to break off from a means of killing it. Later, when he's in the process of burying her alive, it initially tries to use Mia's face and voice to get David to let it out...but when this fails, it settles for simply throwing his flaws in his face and coldly reminding him that he did woefully wrong by his family.
- Demonic Possession: The whole schtick of the Deadites. This film, like the first, showed a more gradual possession, but rather than possessed drawings, incoming possessions are seemingly signaled by spontaneous acts of violence against others and the self before the victim is taken over completely.
- Eldritch Location: Despite the name, the Abomination is not eldritch, though the demonic entity that the Naturum Demonto summons has the ability to control the local area, and cuts off the only road to escape with a huge flood.
- Evil Is Burning Hot: The Abomination's flesh seems to be incredibly hot, so much so that it badly burns Mia's leg when it grabs her. It would likely be a Man on Fire if not for the Rain of Blood.
- Fatal Flaw: A lack of ability to divide focus. Deadites are difficult to get the jump on due to their telepathic powers, yet when trying to kill a victim, they stop paying attention. Two of the Deadite creatures (three counting the introductory scene) are taken down because they focused on one target and failed to account for nearby hostiles.
- Fire Purifies: Combined with Burn the Undead. Immolation is one means of purging a Deadite, though it also kills the host.
- Hell Is That Noise: Their breathing, which sounds ragged and rattles like something being dragged across a chain link fence.
- Implacable Man: Deadites don't seem to react to any injury that wouldn't kill a normal human. Olivia and Mia are successfully knocked out, but only when bashed across the head with a heavy toilet lid and a hammer, respectively. The Abomination takes it a step further, failing to die for several agonizing seconds of being chainsawed through the face by Mia—it only finally succumbs once she pushes the chainsaw down, through its heart, and then up, through its brain, and even then its eyes still blink at her while it sinks into the ground.
- No Immortal Inertia: Played straight and averted. Deadites Natalie and Mia are both successfully cleansed, though Natalie dies from her wounds, while Mia's various wounds sustained while possessed vanish once she regains consciousness.
- Ominous Walk: Deadite Natalie, Deadite Eric, and the Abomination all demonstrate this. In the first two cases, it's likely a result of lost blood and being waterlogged, in Eric's case, making it difficult to move. The third, however, is just doing it to be menacing.
- Rain of Blood: What occurs to signal the Abomination's arrival on Earth.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: The evil is contained within a book, which is bound in skin and bound shut with plastic trash bags and barbed wire, and locked in a basement, and someone still manages to unleash its Evil.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: Used for every Deadite, signaling full possession.
- Super-Strength: Deadite Mia and Deadite Natalie both display strength far greater than an average human. When Mia is locked in the basement behind a trapdoor that's deadbolted, she easily breaks it open again, and later forces the door open again despite David nailing it shut. The Abomination, despite crawling on hands and knees, is able to flip an entire Jeep.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: In a deleted scene shortly before acting on his plan to deal with Mia, David dismembers Natalie's body and burns Olivia's, to make sure they won't come back. While Natalie was seemingly cleansed earlier and Olivia's head was bashed in, it's not made clear if this was truly necessary or not. Regardless, his failure to do so with Eric has serious consequences.
- "Uh-Oh" Eyes: Emphasized. The first three Deadites shown have close-ups on their eyes, which change to become bright yellow and black at the edges, with highly contracted pupils. All Deadites also exhibit a highly wide-eyed stare, except for Deadite Natalie (who shot nails into her face, making this difficult).
