| “ | Fists vs bullets? I will use your butts as target practice! | „ |
| ~ Machine Gun Willy. |
Willy Mackey (Japanese: ウィリー・マッキー), commonly known simply as Willy, is a major antagonist from the Double Dragon series, acting as the main antagonist in the first two arcade games (and in some console versions of both games), one of the two main antagonists (alongside Jimmy Lee) of the NES port of the first game, the secondary antagonist of PC Engine version of Double Dragon II: Revenge and one of the secondary antagonists of Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons.
Overview[]
Willy is the leader of the Black Warriors, a gang of street thugs, and have ordered the kidnapping of Marian, the girlfriend of Billy Lee, in order to lure the two Lee brothers into his hideout in hopes of obtaining the secrets to the brothers' fighting technique, since they were opposing his gang.
Nevertheless, Marian'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 Marian. However, Willy regrouped his gang and set out to take revenge on the Lee brothers, brutally murdering Marian, an act which once again sets the two brothers to exact revenge.
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Trivia[]
- He is nicknamed "Machine Gun Willy" among fans, due to his weapon of choice, as well as to distinguish him from the similarly named Williams character that serves as the common enemy type for most of the series. This nickname was used in the iOS/Android version of Double Dragon.
- In the NES version of the original Double Dragon, Jimmy Lee serves as the leader of the Black Warriors. While Willy still appears in this version, he's simply a sub-boss the player faces before the final showdown between the Lee brothers. Despite this, the manual still describes him as the "Big Boss" of the gang, which implies that he leads the group in some sort of figurehead capacity.
- Willy was cut completely from the NES version of Double Dragon II: The Revenge. While the revenge plot was retained in this version, Marian's death occurs at the hands of a different character and the game's antagonist is a new final boss known only as the Mysterious Warrior.
- The manual for the Genesis version of Double Dragon published by Accolade misidentifies Willy as Jimmy Lee due to the writer mixing up the differing story lines of the NES and arcade versions.
- In the crossover game Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team, an enemy character clearly intended to be Willy serves as the boss of Stage 3, although he is identified as Roper within the game. The Shadow Boss, who serves as the leader of the Black Warriors in this game, is an original character who closely resembles Burnov. These inconsistencies were likely the result of developer Rare not being very familiar with the Double Dragon characters and story line.
- In both, the arcade and Famicom versions of Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone, a new character named Jim becomes the leader of the Black Warriors, who appears as the boss of the first level. In the Famicom version, he is revealed to be the older brother of Willy, although this relation (along with Jim's status as the new leader of the Black Warriors) was left unmentioned in the English localization of the NES game, which underwent a rewrite during development.
- While Willy does not appear in the 2017 downloadable game Double Dragon IV, the character is mentioned by name throughout the game's story mode, where it is revealed that the remaining members of the Black Warriors gang were absorbed into a former rival gang called the Renegades. Double Dragon IV follows the continuity of the NES versions, rather than the original arcade games.
External links[]
- Willy at the Double Dragon Wiki
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