Headscratchers / Army of Darkness

• Ash chains Bad Ash to a table in the windmill he's squatting in before hacking him to pieces with his chainsaw. The problem with this is that during the scene where Ash arrived at the windmill his horse, which may have been carrying the chainsaw, was scared off into the woods by the evil entity chasing him. Ash was left to run to the windmill on foot, where he was clearly not carrying the chainsaw.
  • Ash actually has the chainsaw with him when he falls off the horse. In fact, thanks to a kind user on YouTube, you can see it here. And as you can clearly seen, when he's thrown off his horse, the chainsaw lands next to the puddle he falls into it, and he grabs it as he begins to make the run through the woods to the windmill.
• When Ash escapes from The Pit, as spiked walls close on it. Several minutes later, the monster from the pit climbs out, despite the walls still being closed, and Ash shoots it with his shotgun that he didn't have a few seconds earlier, causing it to fall back into the pit and land in the water below. (Though in the Director's Cut, a villager was explicitly shown giving Ash the shotgun back.)
• Does anyone have an explanation for why the Necronomicon is lying on a plinth in an abandoned graveyard in (I'm guessing) Scotland in 1300 AD? Or how the Wise Man knows it's there if the journey to that graveyard is too dangerous to make? Come to think of it, is it meant to be the Necromonicon from Ash's time, just displaced, or the one native to 1300 AD?
  • My guess, is that the reason Ash has to say the magic words, because the plinth with the book on it is sealing the worst of the Evil, making it so that Arthur and his men only have to deal with the occasional Deadite, remember, Arthur and Henry are having a war. The reason the Wiseman knows is he or his order (probably the Knights of Sumeria) placed the seal in the first place, not knowing they NEEDED the book in the first place, and by the time of the film, while not as powerful, the Deadites still make the trip dangerous to anyone except the "Chosen One"
• During the final battle, when Ash appears in the "Death Mobile", one of the Deadites yells, "That's him! In the car!" How does a medieval skeleton know what a car is?
  • The Necronomicon is capable of causing time travel, so they might be summoned in a non-linear fashion, one summoning might take place in 1980s, but the next summoning would be to the 1300s, then after that to 2015?

• Bad Ash comes off of Ash's side with the prosthetic hand. In fact he's consistently shown on that side and using that hand throughout his "split" with Ash. When he finally yanks away... he has two flesh-and-blood hands and Ash still has the prosthetic. ... How'd Bad Ash manage that one?
  • Bad Ash's flesh hand pushed it's way out of Good Ash's shoulder like his head. During the final split he pried his remaining hand out. Since it was really an overgrown mini-ash it had both hands to begin with.
    • Okay... why do mini-Ashes have both hands? Aren't they just reflections of the real (one-handed) Ash?
  • Because they are the humanoid personifications of the evil force that has been tormenting Ash the entire time. Said evil form can take on many forms and has been toying with Ash. Hence why they have both flesh hands, it's a stealth taunt to the fact he has only one hand.
  • If you assume there's some continuity between one film and another, Ash's evil reflection would have originally been created when it reached out of the mirror to taunt him in the second movie. Ash hadn't yet lost a hand in that scene, so his reflection had both. When the evil was carried back into the past, it brought the essence of Evil Ash along with it, two hands and all.
  • Not that it resolves the issue, but if the mini Ash reflections (including the eventual Bad Ash) were missing a hand, it would be the opposite hand from Ash himself. Since they're, y'know, reflections.
• Out of the whole line of prisoners at the start of the movie, why does Sheila single out Ash, who's not even wearing the colors of Henry's men, as the one to blame for her brother's death? I get that it's meant to drive the romantic subplot between them, but it really feels random and forced to me. After all, there's Henry right there for her to vent her anger on, but she chooses our one-handed hero out of everyone...
  • She was attracted to Ash, and subconsciously or otherwise wanted to get close to him.
  • Another factor was that when she was attacking Ash, she was grieving for her brother. Ash being louder than the other prisoners pretty much caught her attention and she subconsciously wanted to hurt someone, targeting him first. If Ash hadn't been there, she would have attacked whoever was in the front of the line out of her anger.
• Ash taught the kingdom about gun powder and advanced engineering, wouldn't that have jump started the industrial revolution centuries earlier?
  • He might not have written it down for them, or left anything that could be reverse-engineered; he probably only made enough gunpowder for the battle and he took his car with him. They might know how to make up the parts for the steam engine, but not how to put them together, since Ash took his books back with him, and their attempts to remake gunpowder might not have worked out as well since they didn't know the measurements.