History Trivia / DoubleDragon

** The ''Double Dragon'' fighting game for the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo featured elements from the movie.

* TheWikiRule: The main wiki is [[https://doubledragon.fandom.com/wiki/Double_Dragon_Wiki Double Dragon Wiki | Fandom]]

* RelationshipVoiceActor: In the PC Engine version of ''Double Dragon II'', Billy and Jimmy were voiced by Creator/RyoHorikawa and Creator/NobutoshiCanna, who were also the voice of Kunio and Riki respectively in the PC Engine version of ''[[VideoGame/RiverCityRansom Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari]]''.

* NamesTheSame:
** Jimmy Lee shares his name with a RealLife [[Creator/JimLee comic book artist]]!
** In ''Double Dragon 2'', Mission 5 is called the '''Forest of Death''', no way connected to [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Training Ground No. 44]]
** '''Williams and Roper''', the two Black Warriors mooks, were named after [[Film/EnterTheDragon Jim Kelly and John Saxon's characters.]]

!!The movie:
* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $7.8 million. Box office, $2,341,309.
* CreatorKiller: The movie dealt damage of varying degrees to some of the main players in the crew. The screenwriters and storymen got it the worst, with one screenwriter, Peter Gould, only writing one other film in 2000 (he moved on with ''Series/BreakingBad'' and ''Series/BetterCallSaul''), and both storymen, Creator/PaulDini and Neal Shusterman, stuck to TV and video after ''Double Dragon'' (with Shusterman further disappearing after the similarly poor ''Series/{{Animorphs}}'' series). Finally, it hurt director James Yukich's career to where he's focused on TV himself, though Yukich would direct one more film in 1999.
* DuelingDubs: There's ''four'' Latin American Spanish dubs (which is something unusual in the region even for films like this) which were dubbed in three different countries: Two of them in Mexico, another one in the U.S in Los Angeles, and other one in Argentina.
* PlayingAgainstType: [[Series/WheelOfFortune Vanna White]] in a cameo as a newscaster.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Scott Wolf and Creator/AlyssaMilano actually started dating while filming this movie and were subsequently engaged, but the relationship didn't last and the couple eventually broke up.
* RoleReprise: In the Japanese dub of the film, Creator/NobutoshiCanna reprise his role as Jimmy Lee from the PC Engine version of ''Double Dragon II''.

!!The animated series:
* NamesTheSame: The Shadow Warriors, who also appear in the video game adaptation ''Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls'', are named after the DubNameChange of the Black Warriors from ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonII''.
* OutOfOrder: The Season 2 episodes were aired without regard to their actual continuity. Particularly notable with "RPM", the final episode aired, which clearly took place before Jawbreaker's HeelFaceTurn in "The Sight of Freedom". "Daj of the Undertown Dragons" was the last episode made in production order. The Blu-Ray set from Creator/DiscotekMedia opts to fix this issue by placing the first season in broadcast order and the second season in production order[[note]]With the exception of the episodes "Judgement Day" and "Dragon Hunt" in season 1 which have their positions swapped.[[/note]] using the best known viewing orders that exist.
* RecursiveAdaptation: ''Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls'' is a video game based on the animated series based on the video game series.
* TalkingToHimself: Michael Donovan and Creator/ScottMcNeil voiced the Lee Brothers, as well as the villains Jawbreaker and Sickle respectively. Some of the other characters also shared voice actors.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Plans for the animated adaptation date back to the late 1980's, when the original plan for ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' was to have the series be an hour-long, and a different video game-based cartoon would air alongside the Super Mario segments each weekday. The original concept art is also far more faithful to the games than the final product (which in turn means it resembles ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' far more than the final product).

* OutOfOrder: The Season 2 episodes were aired without regard to their actual continuity. Particularly notable with "RPM", the final episode aired, which clearly took place before Jawbreaker's HeelFaceTurn in "The Sight of Freedom". "Daj of the Undertown Dragons" was the last episode made in production order.

** Wayfoward was considering the VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} and levels based off their series were DLC for the 360 version of ''Neon'' (as a nod to the 90's crossover game), but Microsoft turned down the offer.

* FanNickname: The final boss in the first game is nicknamed "Machine Gun Willy", for obvious reasons. This also serves to avoid confusion with this game's run of the mill {{mook|s}}, Williams.

* RoleReprise: In the Japanese dub of the film, Creator/NobutoshiCanna reprise his role as Jimmy Lee from the PC Engine version of ''Double Dragon II''.

!!The animated series:

* OutOfOrder: The Season 2 episodes were aired without regard to their actual continuity. Particularly notable with "RPM", the final episode aired, which clearly took place before Jawbreaker's HeelFaceTurn in "The Sight of Freedom". "Daj of the Undertown Dragons" was the last episode made in production order.

* ActorAllusion: The CatFight between Marian (Alyssa Milano) and Linda (Kristina Wagner) gave us the following lines.
-->'''Linda:''' ''[while standing over Marian]'' [[Series/WhosTheBoss Who's the boss now?]]
-->'''Marian:''' ''[after tying up Linda]'' You're lucky. [[Series/GeneralHospital Generally, I sent people to the hospital]].

* CreatorKiller: The movie dealt damage of varying degrees to some of the main players in the crew. The screenwriters and storymen got it the worst, with one screenwriter, Peter Gould, only writing one other film in 2000 (he moved on with ''Breaking Bad'' and ''Better Call Saul''), and both storymen, Creator/PaulDini and Neal Shusterman, stuck to TV and video after ''Double Dragon'' (with Shusterman further disappearing after the similarly poor ''Series/{{Animorphs}}'' series). Finally, it hurt director James Yukich's career to where he's focused on TV himself, though Yukich would direct one more film in 1999.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Scott Wolf and Alyssa Milano dated for a while after the production of the movie.

* RoleReprisal: In the Japanese dub of the film, Creator/NobutoshiCanna reprise his role as Jimmy Lee from the PC Engine version of ''Double Dragon II''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Plans for the animated adaptation date back to the late 1980's, when the original plan for ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' was to have the series be an hour-long, and a different video game-based cartoon would air alongside the Super Mario segments each weekday.

* RoleReprisal: In the Japanese dub of the film,Creator/NobutoshiCanna reprise his role as Jimmy Lee from the PC Engine version of ''Double Dragon II''.

* RoleReprisal: In the Japanese dub of the film, as Creator/NobutoshiCanna reprise his role as Jimmy Lee from the PC Engine version of ''Double Dragon II''.