Brandy Barr is the daughter of Ash Williams and Candace Barr. A resident of Elk Grove, Michigan, Brandy went most of her life unaware of the fact that her father was the infamous local legend known as "Ashy Slashy", until the forces of evil decided to target her with the intent of preventing an ancient prophecy from coming to pass. After being rescued by Ash from these evil creatures, Brandy learned of her true parentage and lived with Williams in the days leading up to his battle with Kandar The Destroyer.
Brandy Barr first appeared in the Ash vs Evil Dead Season Three episode Family. She was portrayed by Arielle Carver-O'Neill.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Brandy Barr was the result of Ash Williams and Candace Barr's drunken bender through the city of Branson, Missouri, which saw Williams and Barr getting eloped at a tacky chapel, and their immediate round of drunken sex in the backseat of Ash's Oldsmobile.[1] Some time after this, Ash and Candace parted ways, with Ash returning to his life on the run from evil (and the memory of his wedding soon forgotten), and Candace returning to Elk Grove, Michigan. Eventually, Candace gave birth to a daughter which she named Brandy.
There is little known about Brandy's upbringing, except that Candace told her that her father was a crackhead who was killed in prison, sparing her the ridicule which would come with being known as the daughter of Elk Grove's notorious "Ashy Slashy".[1] At another point in her life, the young Brandy befriended a girl named Rachel Manning, whom she attended Kenward County High School with.
Meeting Ash Williams[]
In 2017, Brandy would finally meet her biological father after the forces of evil had been re-awakened following the rediscovery of the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. Possessing Kenward County High's mascot Cougie, both Brandy and her friend Rachel would be chased through the corridors by the demonic costumed character. Once the two found safe refuge from Cougie, the frightened Brandy managed to call her mother and tell her of the attack. This prompted Candace to finally confront Ash Williams (who was in the midst of opening his own hardware store and sex toy shop in Elk Grove) and tell him of their wedding and their daughter. Though Ash's memories of his romp with Candace in Branson slowly came back, he expressed doubt that he produced a daughter, but eventually agreed to investigate this demonic attack at the school.
Upon their arrival, Ash, his companion Pablo Simon Bolivar, and Candace found Brandy and Rachel hiding in the music class room. With evil still looming in the halls, Candace and Ash quickly explained to Brandy that Ash was her real father, though Ash believed Brandy to be the one who was possessed by a demon. This tense moment was broken when the lights of the room flickered, and Rachel Manning became the one possessed by a Deadite spirit. The scared Brandy watched as her best friend began to attack them with the various musical instruments throughout the room, and cried out in horror as Rachel threw a cymbal that cleanly decapitated her mother Candace. Ash eventually took down the Deadite Rachel using a harp, and the possessed Cougie was taken out by Kelly Maxwell and her new associate Dalton.[1]
Life With Ash[]
Following Candace's death, Brandy moved into her father's home. Ash tried his best to comfort Brandy about Candace's untimely demise, though she was reluctant to speak to him about it. Upon arriving back at school the following morning, Brandy headed straight to the office of guidance counselor Rebecca Prevett, who had become a close friend of Brandy's since her arrival at the school two years prior. Unbeknownst to anyone, the woman Brandy knew as "Rebecca Prevett" was actually a Dark One known as Ruby, who had come to the school with the intent of befriending Brandy in order to manipulate her into eventually killing Ash and preventing an ancient prophecy (in which is was said that Ash would destroy the champion of evil) from coming to pass. During this meeting, Ruby (as Prevett) began to plant the seeds of doubt in Brandy's mind, telling her about how Ash killed his sister Cheryl many years ago, the same incident which earned him the nickname of "Ashy Slashy". Before Prevett could continue, Brandy was taken to be questioned by police about the previous night's events.[2]
The following day, a funeral service for Candace was held at the Elk River Community Chapel. Before the service was to begin, Ash spoke with Brandy, who revealed that Ms. Prevett had offered to support her until Brandy graduated school in four months, though after hearing Ash's sincere words about wanting to do the "dad thing", Brandy agreed to give him a second chance and stay with him. However, between their conversation and the beginning of the funeral service, Ash was forced to battle the undead Candace inside her coffin, where he was knocked unconscious inside the box. The gore-covered Ash awoke during the service and climbed out of the casket, much to horror of Brandy and the others in attendance. Already upset by the horrific sight, Brandy became irritated with Ash after Williams spotted Ruby in the crowd and began to accuse her of being a demon. Brandy stood up for the woman she knew as Ms. Prevett, telling Ash that she was gathering her belongings and moving out of his "creepy house", leaving the chapel with Prevett.
Several hours later, Prevett dropped Brandy off at the Williams home to let her gather her belongings. As Brandy headed inside, Ruby sped away to the River Walk Cemetery, and using an incantation from the Necronomicon, resurrected the body of Brock Williams, the father of Ash and the grandfather of Brandy. The corpse of Brock shambled back to the place he once called home, regenerating his body in the shower to look like he did at the time of his death. Brandy heard the sound of the running water in the bathroom and went to investigate. Not too long after, Ash Williams returned to the house to find Brock and Brandy watching television, laughing at Ash's hardware store commercial on repeat. Brandy told Ash that laughing and talking with Brock was the first time in days that she's felt normal, though that would soon come to an end when Ash and the undead Brock began to argue in the kitchen. Curious as to what was going on in the other room, Brandy stepped into the kitchen only to get immediately knocked out with a can of baked beans. By the time Brandy would regain consciousness, Ash and Brock's battle had moved into the living room, where Brandy walked in just as Ash was using his chainsaw to stab his undead father in the gut. Doused in blood, Brandy grabbed her belongings and ran out of the house.[3]
A few minutes later, Brandy returned to the house to retrieve her cellphone, only to find Kelly and no sign of Ash. Kelly told Brandy that since evil seems to be focused on Ash and his daughter, Brandy needed to stay close. Maxwell attempted to explain that she's been in Brandy's exact situation, as evil killed her parents, too. Before the two could leave and go seek Ash out, Pablo (now possessed by a Deadite) attacked the two ladies, eventually trapping them inside Ash's trailer parked nearby.[4] Eventually, Brandy and Kelly managed to stop Pablo's siege after Brandy stabbed him in the heart with the Kandarian Dagger. This triggered a spiritual trip for Bolivar, which not only released him of his Deadite possession, but unleashed his potential as "El Brujo Especial". After Pablo's immediate recovery from his possession, Brandy managed to find her father outside his hardware store, where he claimed that he had proof that Ms. Prevett was a demon in disguise. At that very moment, Ruby arrived on-scene, having been looking for Brandy all over town. With "Ms. Prevett" and the Elk Grove sheriff watching, Ash proudly showed off his proof: a blood-covered child locked inside the trunk of his car. Ash claimed that the kid was also a demon in disguise, and that it had come from Prevett's home. Though the child was indeed Ruby's, she continued to play as if she was horrified at the sight. With the police threatening to lock Ash up for kidnapping, Brandy hopped in the driver's seat of the Oldsmobile and called for her father to get in. Williams wasted no time in wanting to avoid another arrest and got in, the Oldsmobile taking off squealing through the street.[5]
By sunrise, father and daughter had returned to the Williams Family Home, where Ash attempted to explain the baby in the trunk. As Brandy went upstairs to change clothes, a group of people who identified themselves as "The Knights of Sumeria" arrived at the house looking for Ash. When the Knights informed Williams that they could potentially put an end to evil for good using the lost pages of the Necronomicon, Ash offered to show them the strange incantations on the wall of the hardware store cellar, and left without saying goodbye to Brandy. After Brandy came downstairs with a fresh set of clothes, she was upset that she couldn't find her father anywhere in the house. Looking inside the Airstream Trailer, Brandy found Pablo going through some of his uncle's belongings, asking Bolivar if he had seen her father recently. It was then that Pablo received a vision that Ash was in trouble at the hardware store, and told Brandy to stay in the house until Kelly returns. Several hours later, Ash returned and reunited with Brandy, and was shocked to see that Kelly had also returned, now brandishing the Kandarian Dagger. Unbeknownst to anyone, this was not the Kelly Maxwell that had left the house earlier, but was in fact a sorceress named Kaya, whose spirit had been transferred into Kelly's body by Ruby after Kelly died fighting the Dark One in the Prevett mansion.[6]
Death At The Dance[]
Not long after Ash and Kelly's arrival at the house, Brandy got dressed up for a dance being held at school that night. Though Ash was initially reluctant to let Brandy go while evil was loose, she told him that she needed to go and find out for herself if Ms. Prevett was really a demon. Being persuaded by "Kelly" for this plot, Ash agreed to let her go, under the condition that he linger and "swoop in for the kill" when Ruby shows her true colors. The trio arrived at the school and went over their plan, though Ash was forced to split from Brandy and Kelly after being spotted by the police (still looking for him from the attempted kidnapping). While on the dance floor, "Kelly" began planting the seeds of doubt within Brandy, telling her that Ash seemed "off" recently. It was then that Ms. Prevett took to the stage, asking for a moment of silence to remember the lives of Candace Barr and Rachel Manning. This emotional moment increased the growing doubt within Brandy, as the moment for Candace and Rachel seemed to be genuine. Prevett stepped off the stage and approached Brandy and Kelly, taking the two to her office to speak privately with them.
Away from the commotion of the dance in the gym, Prevett admitted to Brandy that she knew more than she initially let on, that while she was not a demon, she was there trying to stop the real monster: Ash. Upon hearing this, Brandy stormed out of the office to find her father. Out in the corridors, Brandy watched as a frightened girl ran past her, only to bump into Ash around the corner. Immediately noticing Ash's strange behavior, he proudly shows her the dismembered corpse of one of her fellow students, whom he admits he killed for not following the dance's dress code. Horrified after "Ash" flashes a demonic face, Brandy runs off back to the gymnasium, telling Ms. Prevett that she was right about her father being a monster. Before either Brandy or Prevett can react, "Ash" barges into the gym, calling out for Brandy as he slaughters the students around him. Watching the massacre from underneath a table, Ms. Prevett hands Brandy the Kandarian Dagger, telling her to protect herself when the time comes, and steps out to face "Ash". As the Ash doppelganger takes cover, the real Ash finally arrives inside the gym, with Brandy running to Ms. Prevett's side, dagger in hand. As Ash tries to warn Brandy about Prevett again, Prevett takes the opportunity to throw herself onto Ash's chainsaw blade, spraying her blood across the frightened students as Brandy cries in horror. Finally pulling Prevett off the chainsaw's blade, Ash asks Brandy for the dagger so they can kill Ruby for good, and though she initially stands ready to stab Ash with the dagger, ultimately Brandy can't bring herself to do it. Dropping the Kandarian Dagger, suddenly Pablo and Evil Ash break into the gym, where Brandy sees that there are in fact two versions of her father in the building. Ash quickly shoots his devious double, but before Pablo can explain his own discovery that "Kelly" is no longer who she claims to be, Brandy watches as Ruby rises from the floor, realizing that Ash and Kelly's warnings about the woman she knew as "Ms. Prevett" were right all along. Ruby picks up the Kandarian Dagger and throws it across the room with deadly accuracy, placing it directly in the center of Brandy's back when Brandy turned away. Killed in an instant, Ash cradled his daughter's body and collapsed to the floor, angered and saddened by the loss of his only child.[7]
Prisoner of The Deadlands[]
At that moment, Brandy awoke to find herself alone in a strange variation of the gymnasium. Watching as a shadowy, smokey demonic form rise from the ground, Brandy took off running in terror. Trying to flee the school, Brandy quickly discovered that doorways in this new environment do not work as they do in the land of the living, and found herself standing in the middle of Elk Grove's main street. After witnessing a girl from the dance get dragged into the ground by dark demonic hands, Brandy was "rescued" by Dalton, the same Knight of Sumeria who had arrived with Kelly during Cougie's attack, and explained that perhaps this bizarre plane of existence was between Earth and Hell. After working their way through the strange streets of Elk Grove, Dalton and Brandy meet up with Kelly, where they take refuge in the Elk Lounge Bar. It isn't long before Ash himself arrives in the bar, much to Kelly and Brandy's surprise. Reunited with the group, Ash explains that he killed himself with the Kandarian Dagger to get to this realm, and that he and Pablo's plan involves getting back to the hardware store cellar, where Pablo will open a rift in the real world and allow their spirits to return to their bodies. After Dalton sacrifices himself as a distraction, the trio of Ash, Brandy, and Kelly make their way into the cellar, but as the rift opens, Kelly finds that she's unable to return.
Back in the real world, Ash and Pablo race upstairs and release the resurrected Brandy from the body bag she was placed in. Ash explains to Pablo that Kelly is still trapped in the other world, but realizes they need to deal with Ruby first.[8] Recovering the Oldsmobile, Ash, Brandy, and Pablo return to the Williams home. Watching his daughter experience the nauseating effects of coming back from the dead, Ash decides that Brandy is too weak to fight, and tells her to stay at the house while he deals with Ruby and Pablo returns to the hardware store to lock down the rift. As Ash goes to leave, Brandy hugs him, telling him to be careful.
Judgement Day[]
After awhile, Brandy notices the sound of police sirens racing down the street, watching from the window as people run in terror from an unseen threat. Suddenly, the Kandarian Demon barges through the front door of the house, chasing Brandy through the home and out the window, into the shed at the back of the driveway. Though the demon moves on, Brandy trembles in fear that the creature may still be out there, only for her cellphone to receive a call from her mother. Suddenly, the phone's case grows teeth, and bites off the tip of her thumb. Wrapping her hand with a rag, Brandy fights off the possessed phone, finishing it off just as Pablo returns to the house from the hardware store. The two watch as a massive explosion rises in the distance, and race off towards the Prevett house to find Ash. During the drive over, Pablo receives a message from Ash via the Necronomicon, telling him that Ruby is dead and he has recovered Kelly's body, and wants to meet back at the hardware store. Both Ash and Pablo and Brandy arrive in Elk Grove at the same time, finding that the town's streets are in complete chaos. Reunited with her father, Brandy watches as Pablo delivers the news that The Dark Ones have reunited the lost pages of their book with the Necronomicon itself, and the time has come to test the mettle of man. At that moment, the air of Elk Grove echoed with the sound of an ancient chant, and the ground began to rumble. Suddenly, a sink-hole appeared in the street, where a giant bony hand emerged from the depths.[9] Retreating to the Elk Lounge to where Ash crashed the Oldsmobile, Pablo and Ash grabbed Kelly's body, while Brandy grabbed the Kandarian Dagger from the front seat of the car. With the town swarming with Deadites, Brandy used the dagger to stab one possessed man giving chase to their group, much to the delight of Ash, telling Brandy he's never been more proud of her.
Making their way back to the Williams homestead, the group discovered through a television news broadcast that a world-wide Deadite apocalypse had begun. Ash, remorseful that he had doomed the world, claimed that he failed as humanity's savior. Brandy slapped the beer can out of Ash's hand and encouraged her father that now was the moment he had been chosen for, and he needed to step-up and be the savior to not let her down. Deciding they needed to hurry up and save Kelly's soul, Pablo raced back to the hardware store to open the rift, while Ash and Brandy chose to take an abandoned mine running underneath the streets (not wanting to deal with the chaos of the town above). While venturing through the underground, Ash gave Brandy a small silver necklace, one which had been on his person ever since the night he found the Necronomicon 30 years prior. The father and daughter moment was short-lived, as Deadites began to gather in the sewer and surround them. Ash shot through the swarm and cleared the way to an access hatch, where he and Brandy managed to escape into the cellar of the hardware store. Finding Pablo already there, Brandy and Ash stood guard outside the rift as Pablo ventured in to save Kelly's soul. Deadites began to enter the cellar, with Brandy taking on one with the aid of the Kandarian Dagger. With the Deadites disposed off, Pablo returned, and Kelly's soul returned to her body. The group raced upstairs as a mighty explosion shook the hardware store, finding that the United States Army had arrived in Elk Grove to take on the 60-foot demon on the loose. After overhearing that the army planned to drop a nuclear bomb on the creature, Ash forced Pablo, Kelly, and Brandy into the back of a civilian transport as a mass-evacuation of the town got underway. Ash shut the transport truck's door shut, refusing to get in and face the demon by himself. Though Brandy demanded he get in the truck with them, Ash told her that it was time for him to embrace his role as the Prophesied One. The truck, along with most of the other military personnel, drove off leaving Ash to face Kandar The Destroyer alone.[10]
Fate[]
Though Ash managed to bring down Kandar The Destroyer with the aid of a tank and the Kandarian Dagger, Brandy's ultimate fate after the evacuation of Elk Grove remains unknown.
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Trivia[]
- In the original ending for Ash vs Evil Dead Season Two, it would have been revealed that Kelly Maxwell was the biological daughter of Ash (due to an encounter the Ash of the present had with the Suzy Maxwell of 1982). Though that idea was scrapped late into production, the concept of Ash having a daughter was carried over into Season Three, resulting in the creation of Brandy Barr.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ash vs Evil Dead: Family (Season 3, Episode 1) (2018)
- ↑ Ash vs Evil Dead: Booth Three (Season 3, Episode 2) (2018)
- ↑ Ash vs Evil Dead: Apparently Dead (Season 3, Episode 3) (2018)
- ↑ Ash vs Evil Dead: Unfinished Business (Season 3, Episode 4) (2018)
- ↑ Ash vs Evil Dead: Baby Proof (Season 3, Episode 5) (2018)
- ↑ Ash vs Evil Dead: Tales From The Rift (Season 3, Episode 6) (2018)
- ↑ Ash vs Evil Dead: Twist And Shout (Season 3, Episode 7) (2018)
- ↑ Ash vs Evil Dead: Rifting Apart (Season 3, Episode 8) (2018)
- ↑ Ash vs Evil Dead: Judgement Day (Season 3, Episode 9) (2018)
- ↑ Ash vs Evil Dead: The Mettle of Man (Season 3, Episode 10) (2018)