Professor Knowby's and Henrietta's daughter.
Evil Dead, she's pretty much the only Deadite clever enough to actually trick someone who suspected them of being possessed.
Villain of Another Story: While the movies imply he's a Hero of Another Story, the series takes a darker turn and has him preying on several of his colleagues to force the spirit out of his wife into them.
Spirit Advisor: His ghostly head advises advises Annie how to banish the evil and then comes back to advise Ash in Evil Dead: Regeneration.Small Role, Big Impact: He's long dead by the time of the movies, but his discovery of the Necronomicon and reciting the incantations kicked off the entire plot of the films.Noodle Incident: His experiences with the Deadites, which ultimately resulted in his death.Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His reciting the incantations caused his wife's and Ash's friend's possession and deaths.Love Makes You Evil: In ∪sh vs Evil Dead Raymond Knowby is revealed to have been corrupted by the Necronomicon as a result of trying to undo his mistake of reading from it and indirectly causing Henriettas possession, as we see when he takes Tanya prisoner in order to try and appease the demon inside his wife enough to let her go.
The second movie reveals he was killed, and Ash vs Evil Dead reveals he was killed by Ruby herself. He says in the last part of the tape recorder that he's leaving, though he's certain the forces he's tampered with will eventually come for him.
And I Must Scream: The second movie shows him briefly as a spirit screaming in agony.All Webbed Up: In a draft script of the second movie, Annie finds his corpse hanging in the web of a demon spider whose offspring emerge from his mouth.He's not happy doing this, but he prioritizes saving his wife over the lives of his students and ultimately leaves Ash to die. After Henrietta is possessed he kidnaps a few of his students, injures them and attempts to have the demon within Henrietta jump into them. Evil Dead and is depicted as much more malicious than previously thought. Adaptational Villainy: He get's an expanded role in Ash Vs.Before succumbing to the Evil himself, he manages to leave a tape explaining the terror he has unleashed and later shows up as a spirit explaining to Annie how to get rid of it. He is attacked by his wife and is forced to lock her in the cellar. However, things turn out very badly when he recites a passage from the book releasing the Evil surrounding the woods. He traveled to the cabin to finish his research on the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis.
Evil DeadĪnnie's father and Henrietta's husband. Film Appearances: The Evil Dead (1981) / Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn / Evil Dead (2013) / Ash vs.