You know you've hired some D grade flunkies when they job to a HANDSHAKE!Ībobo and Wild Willy escape with the money, which is something Billy sees no problem with. The two talk for a second, and shake hands, which leads to this. Before she becomes mince meat by our wolverine knockoffs, Billy comes to save the day. Well, one cop at least, Marian Martin, who I must say has had quite a promotion from the games. Meanwhile, the shadow warriors attack the bank truck (coming into the park in a school bus for some reason), as the cops arrive. I mean, dragon sword, and dragon cycle, as he heads to the park to stop the shadow warriors. The oldest dragon tells him essentially to stop bitching and go help, while reminding us the rules of a dragon master:ĭon't worry though, these rules will be rendered pointless later.īilly drives off with his new action figure accessories. Get used to this, as Billy is a regular Dudley friggin' Do Right through this whole show. Michael tries to get Billy to put a stop to the bad guys in the chopper, but Billy begins to bitch that the only way to win a fight is to avoid it. I dunno, he gives off some retarded leaf falling metaphor before Michael shows up. The oldest dragon feels that Billy is ready to be a dragon master, as it's his time to die. Back to Michael, who heads to the temple where Billy Lee is breaking apart steel beams by using his dragon energy, or some crap like that. Through Exposition, AKA Giant Smurf Abobo, we learn that there's a new shadow boss that has taken over, and he has evil magic powers, and if they fail this mission, who knows what they'll do to them. While goes to find help, we meet our flunkies du jour, King Hippo from Captain N's more fit cousin Abobo, and Wild Willy, who, if you couldn't guess, is an annoying cowboy stereotype. Who looks a bit too much like Skate from Streets of Rage 2, goes off to get help. But trouble looms as an evil helicopter arrives. Cut to the present day Metro City, as a bank truck decides to lounge in the park for some reason. The Oldest Dragon takes Billy, and says that he will be a great warrior, and the next dragon master. He asks the master, the oldest dragon to watch over his son Billy while he goes to find his twin son Jimmy, who was kidnapped by the shadow warriors. As an unnamed man heads to the city temple with his infant son. We start our story in Metro City, 18 years ago. And with the intro looked at, let's review the first episode, "The Shadow Falls". As this was the episode that still had some sanity (though very little), and wasn't a full blown toy commercial yet. Other than that, it shows clips of episodes, or in the case of the 1st episode, clips of the first episode only. Just makes me wonder how many sleepless hours it took to come up with that one. The intro is pretty much a basic mid 90's cartoon theme, the only thing really worth noting is the choice to rhyme dragon with braggin'. So, let's not double drag this any further. Not that I have a problem with Power Rangers, but I have yet to see a show that has been able to rip off the idea and do it right.ĭouble Dragon definitely is one of those franchises that failed at the idea, and it shows big time. And then the expectations fall off a cliff and die when you realize this show was released in 1993, a time when every show had to rip off the god damned Power Rangers. And Since I've pretty much pointed out already how most of them were pretty bad, chances are the expectations are pretty low that this will fare any better. They had made toons for Mario, Sonic, Battletoads, Legend of Zelda, and even a chunk of the Nintendo Roster in Captain N. And the Double Dragon cartoon just happened to be in the middle of what seemed to be Dic's dominance in getting practically every major video game franchise to make cartoons out of. Like I've said before, Almost every successful movie or game franchise has a cartoon or 2 about it. Well, this was definitely the nail in the coffin, but I think it really started with the animated series released by our favorite group of DICheads. But why? It was such a hit franchise, what killed it? The game would see a few more sequels, and literally vanish around 1995. The main plot of the original game had Billy and Jimmy Lee working together to beat up a rogues gallery of enemies until they would eventually duel to the death to see who would win the hot pixelated ass that was Marian, Billy's girlfriend. And while not my personal favorite beat-em-up on the 8-bit console (Always hated the jump mechanics), It's easy to see why it was a massive success. It started as a hit arcade game that would later spawn a hit NES title. It's GAME OVER month.ĭouble Dragon is one of those video game franchises that one wonders just how it ceased to be so soon. Thank you, but a good cartoon is in another castle.
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