Danny was the oldest child of Ellie and Jay, the older brother of Bridget and Kassie, and the nephew of Beth Bixler. An aspiring DJ, Danny discovered an ancient book and a series of vinyl records hidden beneath the parking garage of Monde Apartments, and accidentally awakened the Kandarian Demon.
Danny first appeared in the 2023 film Evil Dead Rise. He was portrayed by Morgan Davies.
Biography
Early Life
Not much is known about Danny's early life, except he was the first child of Ellie and Jay, born some time in the early 2000s. At some point in his young life, Danny developed aspirations of being a DJ.
After Ellie and Jay's separation in the early 2020s, Danny (along with his younger sisters Bridget and Kassie) opted to live with his mother in Monde Apartments in Los Angeles, California.
Incident In The Apartment
Two months after Jay left the family, Danny's aunt Beth arrived at the apartment to see her sister and the children. Though the visit was initially filled with laughter and presents, Ellie sent all three of her children out to go pick up a few pizzas when Beth inquired about Jay.
Shortly thereafter, Bridget, Danny, and Kassie returned with food and drinks, and had just pulled into the apartment's parking garage when an earthquake struck the Los Angeles area. When the tremor finally ended, Danny noticed that an underground vault hidden beneath the (now fractured) pavement had been unearthed. Though Bridget warned him about going into the vault, her older brother proceeded to explore anyway, eventually recovering a strange old book and a series of century-old vinyl recordings.
Upon returning to the upstairs apartment, Danny and Bridget examined the "treasures" from the vault, though Bridget was slightly unsettled by the book bound in flesh and the ghoulish illustrations found in it's blood-inked pages. After his sister left the room, Danny listened to the vinyl recordings, and accidentally awakened an ancient demonic spirit in the process. The demon attacked Ellie as she was headed to the apartment's laundry room, resulting in her slow transformation into a Deadite. The possessed Ellie attacked Bridget with a tattoo gun contaminated with her evil-infected blood, jamming it directly into her daughter's cheek.
Eventually, the Deadite Ellie was trapped outside the apartment after the neighbors had come to investigate the commotion coming from the room, allowing the remaining family a moment's rest as Danny told Beth about the book and the recordings. Shortly after this, Kassie would be tricked by the creature in her mother's skin into unlocking the door after Ellie claimed Jay had just arrived to reunite with the family. The young girl opened the door, only for Ellie to quickly reach through the open space between and grabbed Kassie by the throat. Bridget and Danny ran to Kassie's rescue, saving her in the nick of time and locking the door once again.
Following Kassie's attack, Danny began to feel immensely guilty over what was happening to them. Shortly thereafter, Bridget succumbed to her evil-infected wound, becoming a Deadite herself. When the Deadite Bridget chased Danny into a bedroom, Kassie defended herself using a crude weapon of her own creation called "Staffanie", which penetrated directly through her possessed sister's head. As Beth cleaned up Kassie, Danny tied up Bridget's body in case she managed to survive her attack.
Curious to know if there was any incantation or information they could use to stop these monsters, Beth locked herself inside Danny's bedroom while brother and sister remained out in the living room. Danny's fear of Bridget's return was justified, as his possessed sister (her bloody body hidden beneath a bed sheet) retaliated against him by stabbing him in the shoulder with a pair of scissors. Danny fought back by using a spray can and the open flame of the oven, watching as his sister became engulfed in flames before collapsing. Danny eventually succumbed to the stab wound just as Beth emerged from his bedroom (having been attacked by Ellie), using his dying breath to apologize to Kassie for unleashing this evil.
Soon, Beth and Kassie made an attempt at an escape from the apartment, only to be followed by the Deadite Ellie, Bridget, and Danny, who proceeded to morph their bodies into a single creature known as "The Marauder". As The Marauder, the trio gave chase to Beth and Kassie as they made their way into the parking garage, playing a game of "cat and mouse" before finally leading Beth towards a nearby large mobile wood-chipper. With Kassie's help, Beth attacked the Marauder with a chainsaw, forcing it to stumble back into the re-activated wood-chipper. The machine made quick work of grinding the monster into a bloody pulp until only Ellie's head remained. As Ellie let out one last series of taunts, Beth kicked her sister's head into the chipper, causing it to explode instantly.
Appearances In Other Media
Live Events
- Danny (in Deadite form) appeared in the Evil Dead Rise haunted house attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights event in 2023. Initially seen throughout the attraction portrayed by various "scare actors", Danny is later depicted as a static mannequin figure as part of The Marauder near the attraction's end.
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Trivia
- Danny is named after Danny Hicks, who portrayed Jake in Evil Dead II.