The figure of the character carries a BFG instead. The moral was essentially "don't play the video games all the damn time"-which, while certainly a good moral, is kind of odd coming from an adaptation of a video game. One particularly ironic example is in "Virtual Reality Bytes", which centers around a kid's video game addiction. The Season 2 PSAs on the other hand were unique to each episode and had morals that were actually related to the episode's plot.There were only six PSAs made for the first season, so the show reuses them all for the latter half of the season. The Season 1 PSAs were pretty generic in nature, being nothing more than scenes from the actual show that were clearly redubbed at the last minute to shoehorn a lesson in order to meet the education content quota required for children programming at the time.And Knowing Is Half the Battle - Every episode, except for the pilot, ended with a public service announcement featuring the heroes teaching some kind of moral to kids, as was standard with most animated shows at the time.
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Alternate Continuity: The series is in a different continuity than the game series that it is based on.A coloring mistake in the episode "The Price of Oblivion" ended up inadvertently giving the Lee brothers their arcade colors for one scene, with the dark-haired brother (Billy in this case) being given a red outfit, while the blond-haired brother (Jimmy) being given the blue outfit. Adaptation Dye-Job: The Lee brothers are given the different hair colors and hair styles they had in Super Double Dragon (which in turn were based on the designs they had in the NES versions of the original trilogy), but Billy's hair is colored black like on the game's American boxart instead of the reddish brown hair he has in-game and Japanese promo art, which ends up making him look like a poor man's Kenshiro with the ensemble he's given.Initially the two brothers oppose each other, but when Jimmy is betrayed by his own men, he abandon his evil ways and join forces to fight the true leader of the Shadow Warriors himself, the Shadow Master, who wishes to engulf the world with the power of the black flame.ĭouble Dragon includes examples of the following tropes: Joining forces with policewoman Marian Martin, Billy fights to protect the city from the Shadow Warriors, a criminal organization initially led by the mysterious Shadow Boss, who is revealed to be none other than his long lost twin brother Jimmy. When the Eldest Dragon is gone, Billy becomes the new Dragon Master at the age of 18. The Code's main precepts are not to harm others intentionally and not fight if he can help it.
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Billy is raised in the Dragon Dojo by the Eldest Dragon, who trains him in the ways of the Code of the Dragon. It lasted for 26 episodes, running from 1993 to 1994.īilly and Jimmy Lee are twin brothers who were separated at birth and raised by opposing factions. The Animated Adaptation of the Double Dragon video game series.