>>113097582>I'm curious about how strong the Deadites actually are though.Deceptively overpowered if you look at what they've done all throughout the franchise.
>How does their possession shit work?Basically, it all comes down to two things: 1) "Did you ever come into contact, no matter how slightly, with Deadite-related phenomena?" 2) "Are you not a Chsoen One?" If the answer to either of these is "Yes", then you have been possessed by a Deadite and your soul is being swallowed in Hell.
>Can they possess anyone for any reason or are their rules? They can pretty much possess anyone and anything. They've possessed everything from people, to plants, to general inanimate objects, to buildings, to highly advanced technology and AI, to literal aliens, to actual goddamn bacteria, to skeletons and bones, etc.
Their one limit seems to be that they can't directly possess things like Chosen Ones (though slow corruption or subversion is possible and higher demonic powers can bruteforce a possession), along with beings that have already been spiritually claimed by other demons, like vampires. Everything else is fair game.
>Also, about how big a threat are they? World-ending threat? Universe ending? They're a multiverse-wide demonic force per the comics and several implications in Ash VS Evil Dead point to the same there. Also IIRC one comic makes mention of an "omniverse" or such.
>How do they rate against slasher villains or The Thing or Xenomorphs or Cthulu mythos shit?Their masters, the Dark Ones, are literal Mythos-style cosmic horrors in the comics. The show tones them down slightly, but the pure Dark Ones are still eldritch abominations that eclipse everything else in the franchise in terms of threat and power. In the comics, the Deadites basically double as 'extensions' of their masters. In the Mirror World/Deadlands, they are regularly broken down into the substrate of the Dark Ones being.
