Willy Mackey



"Fists vs bullets? I will use your butts as target practice!"

- Roper Machine Gun Willy

Willy Mackey, better known by his nickname Machine Gun Willy, is a major villain from the Double Dragon series, acting as the main villain and final boss in the Arcade versions of the first and second game.

Machine Gun Willy is the leader of the Black Warriors, a gang of street thugs, and have ordered the kidnapping of Marion, the girlfriend of Billy Lee, in order to keep the two Lee brothers under tabs, since they were opposing his gang. Nevertheless, Marion's kidnapping prompts the two brothers to fight the gang in order to rescue her. They fight through the Black Warriors and defeat Willy, finally rescuing Marion. However, Willy regrouped his gang and set out to take revenge on the Lee brothers, brutally murdering Marion, an act which once again sets the two brothers to exact revenge. Willy and his gang are once again defeated, but this time Willy is presumed to have died.

Trivia

 * Though he does appear in the NES remake of the first game, he was replaced by Jimmy Lee as the leader of the Black Warriors;
 * In the recent Double Dragon Neon, he got replaced by the new villain Skullmageddon;
 * He never appears in the remakes of the second game, being replaced by the Mysterious Warrior;
 * Willy appears as the third boss in the crossover Battletoads & Double Dragon, where for some reason he got renamed to Roper. In this game he was once again replaced as leader of the Black Warriors, this time by the Shadow Boss, which is a villain exclusive to this game.