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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[spoiler: "Ah, you! You've taken my pride, you scrapped my Rocket-Dojo, laid waste to my laborotory, destroyed my televisions, and murdered countless Williamses! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This. Ends! NOW!"]]]]
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[spoiler: "Ah, you! You've taken my pride, you scrapped my Rocket-Dojo, laid waste to my laborotory, destroyed my televisions, and murdered countless Williamses! ALL I WANTED WAS ''A DATE!'' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This. Ends! NOW!"]]]]
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* OhNoNotAgain: Billy's reaction to Marian getting kidnapped.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Linda will sometimes cry out "Punish me!" when they're defeated.
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* WorldOfPun: ''Neon'' thrives on this: when Skullmageddon isn't making enough skeleton puns to make [[OnePiece Brook]] think he's being excessive, the Lees and the normal enemies also use them liberally, mostly when using various weapons and during cutscenes for the former and during their entrance and if they manage to deliver a killing blow for the latter.
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* WorldOfPun: ''Neon'' thrives on this: when Skullmageddon isn't making enough skeleton puns to make [[OnePiece [[Manga/OnePiece Brook]] think he's being excessive, the Lees and the normal enemies also use them liberally, mostly when using various weapons and during cutscenes for the former and during their entrance and if they manage to deliver a killing blow for the latter.
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* Stripperific: Many of the female outfits leave little to the imagination.
* StuffBlowingUp: [[SarcasmMode Sometimes]].
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* StuffBlowingUp:[[SarcasmMode Sometimes]].A lot.
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* VillainSong: It ends on an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJNDP_HTFp4 epic one]].
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* VillainSong: It ends on an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJNDP_HTFp4 com/watch?v=k93kNJKEl4o epic one]].
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* RunningGag: in the final battle against Skullmaggeddon, attacking him will yield shouts of, "Ow, my X!", where X is the name of a bone (tibia, ulna, phalange, etc). Since he's, you know, a skeleton and has no UselessSpleen to be punched in.
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** The hair pick does a whopping 1 damage when it hits someone, and then notably sticks to their hair. Using it on every enemy will get you an achievement/trophy. When used on Skullmageddon (which will net you another achievement), it pins his hat to his head. (which he [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] when he tries to remove it)
** They key, which is used to open treasure chests, gives you an achievement if you manage to defeat someone despite its pitiful damage.
** They key, which is used to open treasure chests, gives you an achievement if you manage to defeat someone despite its pitiful damage.
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** The hair pick does a whopping 1 damage when it hits someone, and then notably sticks to their hair. Using it on every enemy will get you an achievement/trophy. When used on Skullmageddon (which will net you another achievement), it pins his hat to his head. head (which he [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] when he tries to remove it)
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**They The key, which is used to open treasure chests, gives you an achievement if you manage to defeat someone despite its pitiful damage.damage.
* JustPlaneWrong: well, Just Helicopter Wrong: the Killacopter performs maneuvers that are flat-out impossible, like trying to inflict HelicopterBlender on Billy & Jimmy by ''flying upside-down'' about six inches off the ground. Underscores just how much the game runs on RuleOfCool.
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* JustPlaneWrong: well, Just Helicopter Wrong: the Killacopter performs maneuvers that are flat-out impossible, like trying to inflict HelicopterBlender on Billy & Jimmy by ''flying upside-down'' about six inches off the ground. Underscores just how much the game runs on RuleOfCool.
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* CallingYourAttacks: Skullmageddon does this at times.
* CannonFodder: Williams' full title is "Cartwheeling Cannon Fodder Williams".
* CannonFodder: Williams' full title is "Cartwheeling Cannon Fodder Williams".
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* FollowTheBouncingBall: During the credits song.
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* YouBastard: Upon defeating Skullmagaddon in the final battle, [[spoiler: he congratulates the player in crushing his dreams in having a girl of his own.]]
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* YouBastard: Upon defeating Skullmagaddon Skullmageddon in the final battle, [[spoiler: he congratulates the player in crushing his dreams in having a girl of his own.]]]]
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Skullmageddon says this just before you fight the Mandroid.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Skullmageddon says this just before you fight the Mandroid.
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* WorldOfPun: ''Neon'' thrives on this: when Skullmageddon isn't making enough skeleton puns to make Brook think he's being excessive, the Lees and the normal enemies also use them liberally, mostly when using various weapons and during cutscenes for the former and during their entrance and if they manage to deliver a killing blow for the latter.
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* WorldOfPun: ''Neon'' thrives on this: when Skullmageddon isn't making enough skeleton puns to make Brook [[OnePiece Brook]] think he's being excessive, the Lees and the normal enemies also use them liberally, mostly when using various weapons and during cutscenes for the former and during their entrance and if they manage to deliver a killing blow for the latter.
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** The final dungeon of ''EarthBound'' has many similarities to the final stage. Namely that [[spoiler:The man characters are robotized and enter one way time portals to chase the final boss.]]
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*** Pretty much the only character that doesn't have this is "Your Worst Nightmare Skullmageddon" [[spoiler: and "Bone and Metal Giga Skullmageddon]]. Also "Most-Refined Ichisumi.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[spoiler: "Ah, you! You've taken my pride, you scrapped my Rocket-Dojo, laid waste to my laborotory, destroyed my televisions, and murdered countless Williamses! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This. Ends! NOW1]] ]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[spoiler: "Ah, you! You've taken my pride, you scrapped my Rocket-Dojo, laid waste to my laborotory, destroyed my televisions, and murdered countless Williamses! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This. Ends! NOW1]] ]]
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*** Pretty much the only character that doesn't have this is "Your Worst Nightmare Skullmageddon" [[spoiler: and "Bone and Metal Giga Skullmageddon]]. Also "Most-Refined Ichisumi.
Ichisumi."
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[spoiler: "Ah, you! You've taken my pride, you scrapped my Rocket-Dojo, laid waste to my laborotory, destroyed my televisions, and murdered countless Williamses! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This. Ends!NOW1]] ]]NOW!"]]]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[spoiler: "Ah, you! You've taken my pride, you scrapped my Rocket-Dojo, laid waste to my laborotory, destroyed my televisions, and murdered countless Williamses! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This. Ends!
* AttackItsWeakPoint: The Giant Tank. Skullmageddon lampshades it.
-->"Idiots! Don't let them near the giant, glowing red weak point! Why does it even ''have'' a weak point? Couldn't you have put a cover on it?"
-->"Idiots! Don't let them near the giant, glowing red weak point! Why does it even ''have'' a weak point? Couldn't you have put a cover on it?"
* [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace Billy And Jimmy Can Breathe In Space]]: A particularly silly example.
-->'''Billy:''' The endless vacuum of space! I'd better hold my breath.
-->'''Jimmy:''' Good idea, bro!
-->''(They proceed to do so.)''
-->'''Billy:''' The endless vacuum of space! I'd better hold my breath.
-->'''Jimmy:''' Good idea, bro!
-->''(They proceed to do so.)''
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* BrainWashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Ultimately Skullmageddon's plan in order to get a date from Marian.]]
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* CombinationAttack: A less than chivalrous example, you can have one brother kneal behind an enemy and the other bro push them over.
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* CoOpMultiplayer: Called "Bro-op".
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* CoOpMultiplayer: Called "Bro-op". "Bro-op".
* CrazyPrepared: Spoofed in the Giant Tank fight, where Billy claims they actually trained for this with an anti-tank technique. Subverted in the Marian II boss fight when Billy points out to Jimmy that they never trained for killer plants with animal heads.
* CrazyPrepared: Spoofed in the Giant Tank fight, where Billy claims they actually trained for this with an anti-tank technique. Subverted in the Marian II boss fight when Billy points out to Jimmy that they never trained for killer plants with animal heads.
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* {{Expy}}: Skullmageddon is one for [[HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]] mixed with [[TurtlesInTime Super Shredder]].
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* {{Expy}}: Skullmageddon is one for [[HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]] mixed with [[TurtlesInTime [[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime Super Shredder]].
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* ManEatingPlant: A boss. Genetically spliced from a shark and a tyrannasaurus.
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* SmallAnnoyingCreature: Fuzzface, who only appears if you crouch in a specific spot repeatedly. The bad news: It's a creepy oversized bee thing with googly eyes that constantly stare at the screen, an annoying voice and once you make it appear, it keeps following you around until you beat the game. The good news: it perioidically drops lots of life and energy recovery items and you can hit it by "accident", which makes it shout out in pain or say that it "knows you didn't mean to do that".
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* SmallAnnoyingCreature: Fuzzface, who only appears if you crouch in a specific spot repeatedly. The bad news: It's a creepy oversized bee thing with googly eyes that constantly stare at the screen, an annoying voice and once you make it appear, it keeps following you around until you beat the game. The good news: it perioidically periodically drops lots of life and energy recovery items and you can hit it by "accident", which makes it shout out in pain or say that it "knows you didn't mean to do that".
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* {{Expy}}: Skullmageddon is one for [[HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]].
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** Also a game mechanic. You don't have styles and special abilities, you have ''rockin' mix tapes!'' that give you something similar.
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* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Played for laughs on the Airlock level, which requires the Lee brothers to go outside the pressurized parts of the spaceship. They panic when they realize there's no air, then take a deep breath and (presumably) hold it for the duration. The shopkeeper points out that this is a ''really bad idea'' if you talk to him enough.
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* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Billy and Jimmy recognize Skullmageddon's dojo as a trap, but head in anyway. Then it starts to launch into space, prompting Billy to say "Aw man, it was a trap.".
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* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Billy and Jimmy recognize Skullmageddon's dojo as a trap, but head in anyway. Then it starts to launch into space, prompting Billy to say "Aw man, it was ''was'' a trap.".
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* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Of the stupid type: if Bimmy manages to kill Billy, he'll sometimes say "Bimmy is ''best'' Bimmy!"
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''Double Dragon Neon'' is the latest instalment to the ''Double Dragon'' series, made by WayForward. In the style of a 2-D BeatEmUp, it strives to be both a parody and homage of its predecessors. It also offers both single-player and local co-op (refered to as "Bro-op").
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''Double Dragon Neon'' is the latest instalment to the ''Double Dragon'' ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' series, made by WayForward. In the style of a 2-D BeatEmUp, it strives to be both a parody and homage of its predecessors. It also offers both single-player and local co-op (refered to as "Bro-op").
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* Hammerspace: Mostly averted: weapons mooks come with are shown on their hip (in the case of Linda and whips). Billy and Jimmy cannot store away weapons and items at all.
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* [[IHaveYourWife IHaveYourGirlfriend]]: [[spoiler: And wish to make her mine!]]
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* [[IHaveYourWife IHaveYourGirlfriend]]: I Have Your Girlfriend]]: [[spoiler: And wish to make her mine!]]
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* ReviveKillsZombies: Healing Touch deals additional damage to "liches and super liches."
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* VillianSong: It ends on an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJNDP_HTFp4 epic one]].
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* Expy: Skullmageddon is one for [[HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse Skellator]].
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* RewardingVandalism: From trash cans to mailboxes to light poles to sacred monuments to gravestones, everything seems to have soda, batteries, or cash in them. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when you destroy said monuments when Billy shouts "Sacrilegious!" in the same excited way he'd shout "Awesome!"
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*** Pretty much the only character that doesn't have this is "Your Worst Nightmare Skullmageddon" [[spoiler: and "Bone and Metal Giga Skullmageddon]]. Also "Most-Refined Ichisumi.
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* CannonFodder: Williams' full title is "Cartwheeling Cannon Fodder Williams".
* CloningBlues: Averted with Bimmy and Jammy, who don't seem to have the mental capacity for such concepts.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Most of the character titles are this: Cartwheeling Cannon Fodder Williams, Expensive Experiment Giant Tank, [[spoiler: Bone and Metal Giga Skullmageddon, Skullmageddons Girl!? Evil Marian]].
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* IntimateHealing: Implied by the mix-tape theme for the Healing Touch special move.
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* MechaMooks: The Gyroscopic Jerk Hoverbizzle. Comes in two flavors: Spinning and Explosion.
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* OurLichesAreDifferent: Skullmageddon is described as a "super lich", and is apparently a master of time and space.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Relentless Revenant Jiang Shi is based off of Chinese zombies.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Relentless Revenant Jiang Shi is based off of Chinese zombies.
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* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler: How Marian sends the Lee brothers after Skullmageddon after he escapes time and space.]]
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* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Billy and Jimmy recognize Skullmageddon's dojo as a trap, but head in anyway. Then it starts to launch into space, prompting Billy to say "Aw man, it was a trap.".
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Linda's dominatrix gear.
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Everywhere in this game.
** Million-Missiled Meddler Killacopter.
** Thorny Tripled-Threat Marion II
** Serious Shinobi Shun
** Sadistic Seductress Linda (whose canonical surname is "Lash")
** Million-Missiled Meddler Killacopter.
** Thorny Tripled-Threat Marion II
** Serious Shinobi Shun
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* SteamPunk: Acro-Dynamic Ace Roxy sports this design with a large, brass jetpack.
* Stripperific: Many of the female outfits leave little to the imagination.
* Stripperific: Many of the female outfits leave little to the imagination.
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* OneWingedAngel: Bone and Megal, Giga Skullmageddon.
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* BrainwashingMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Ultimately Skullmageddon's plan in order to get a date from Marian.]]
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* DistressedDamsel: [[spoiler: With a dose of BrainwashingMakesYouEvil]]. The plot is based around saving Marian again.
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* DistressedDamsel: [[spoiler: With a dose of BrainwashingMakesYouEvil]].BrainwashedAndCrazy]]. The plot is based around saving Marian again.
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* 80sHair: Oh so much, in pure Double Dragon style.
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* 80sHair: EightiesHair}}: Oh so much, in pure Double Dragon style.
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* [[Mooks]]: Lampshaded with one of Williams' death messages: "There's more where I came from!"
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* IHaveYourGirlfriend: [[spoiler: And wish to make her mine!]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:You don't just dare to play this game, you Double Dragon dare.]]
''Double Dragon Neon'' is the latest instalment to the ''Double Dragon'' series, made by WayForward. In the style of a 2-D BeatEmUp, it strives to be both a parody and homage of its predecessors. It also offers both single-player and local co-op (refered to as "Bro-op").
The plot is simple: Billy and Jimmy Lee go through a series of levels to save their girlfriend, Marian, from the big bad, Skullmageddon. What it lacks in plot, it more than makes up for in in-jokes, challenging gameplay, and awesome music.
It is available on Xbox Live Arcade for 800 MSP, and on Playstation Network for $10USD (free for PSN+ members).
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!!Double Dragon Neon contains examples of:
*80sHair: Oh so much, in pure Double Dragon style.
*ActionGirl: Linda. [[spoiler: Marian at the end.]]
*AffectionateParody: This game is not a love song. It's a ''power ballad'' to beat 'em ups, the Double Dragon series, and the 1980's.
*ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[spoiler: "Ah, you! You've taken my pride, you scrapped my Rocket-Dojo, laid waste to my laborotory, destroyed my televisions, and murdered countless Williamses! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This. Ends! NOW1]] ]]
*AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Skullmageddon, oh so much.
*BadassMustache: Abobo sports one.
*BadBoss: Skullmageddon seems like this, taking money out of Williams' salary when you destroy his tv's.
*Barrier-BustingBlow: Abobo regularly breaks through walls, as well as the Tape Worm.
*BigBad: Your Worst Nightmare, Skullmageddon.
*BottomlessPits: They show up occasionally. More than once are you able to knock enemies (mostly Williamses) into them.
*BrainwashingMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Ultimately Skullmageddon's plan in order to get a date from Marian.]]
*CatchPhrase: Abobo likes to shout his name as he appears. Billy and Jimmy have several of their own (especially when using the Baseballbat).
*Color-CodedMultiplayer: Billy is blond with blue clothes, Jimmy is brunette with red. Beyond that, there isn't much difference between the two's character design.
*CombinationAttack: A less than chivalrous example, you can have one brother kneal behind an enemy and the other bro push them over.
*ConservationOfNinjutsu: It doesn't matter how many of the kunoichis (each named Shun) the Lee brothers fight at once, they will go down.
*Co-OpMultiplayer: Called "Bro-op".
*CreatorCameo: A strange example: hitting the punching bag in the beginning of the 7th level exactly 87 times teleports you to another part of the stage, except now everyone's heads are replaced with the series creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto's: completing the area nets you an achievement and sends you back to the beginning of the stage.
*CriticalExistenceFailure: The Lee brothers and enemies alike will continue fighting no matter how many boots, fists, floors, and weapons they've taken to the face.
*DegradedBoss: Abobo, natch.
*DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: Marian just so happens to have gained the power to send the Lee brothers after Skullmageddon after he escapes for the second time. Plus, the portal turns them into super powerful Ro-Bros that can take down any mook with a single punch.]]
*DistressedDamsel: [[spoiler: With a dose of BrainwashingMakesYouEvil]]. The plot is based around saving Marian again.
*DoNotDropYourWeapon: Bao Boshi's magic staff, and Skullmageddon's sword seem to be the only two enemy weapons you can't pick up.
*DragonsUpTheYinYang: It's a special move.
*DualBoss: Minstranslated Mutants: Bimmy and Jammy
**[[spoiler: A semi-example. During your second Skullmageddon fight, Evil!Marian assists with attacks and buffs, but you only ever have to fight Skullmageddon himself]].
*DualWielding: Shun dual wields knives, Ichisumi dual wields [[PaperFanOfDoom fans]].
*DumbMuscle: Bimmy and Jammy, complete with stereotypical "dumb voices".
*ElevatorActionSequence: More like Bio-engineered Plant Bulb Sled Action Sequence.
*EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: The cyclone kick.
*Expy: Skullmageddon is one for [[HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse Skellator]].
**The Mecha Biker is a loving, if obvious, one for MegaMan.
*EyeScream: The "Continue?" screen features Billy chained to a post with Skullmageddon preparing to gouge his eyes out. The screen goes red just before the moment of impact.
*GeniusBruiser: Parodied with Abobo, some of the things he says if he kills you are "Abobo need to study for tests", "Abobo have degree in physics", and "Abobo ready to pass the bar
*GiantMook: Abobo.
*GoodBadTranslation: Referenced with Bimmy and Jammy.
*GrenadeHotPotato
*GretzkyHasTheBall: Billy and Jimmy occasionally shout things like "Touchdown!" or "Hole in One!" when smacking enemies around with the baseball bat.
*GuideDangIt: Many of the secrets are ridiculously obscure (punch a punching bag a 87 times and no more than that, crouch at a specific spot 7 times), although most of them are hinted at if not flat out spelled by the shopkeepers if you talk to them enough times.
*Hammerspace: Mostly averted: weapons mooks come with are shown on their hip (in the case of Linda and whips). Billy and Jimmy cannot store away weapons and items at all.
*HarderThanHard / NumericalHard: two difficulty levels above the the default Normal called Dragon and Double Dragon, both of them greatly increasing all enemies stats.
*TheHero: Billy, joined by Jimmy in bro-op.
*HurricaneKick: The Cyclone Spin Kick.
*IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: Normal, Dragon, Double Dragon
*IHaveYourGirlfriend: [[spoiler: And wish to make her mine!]]
*InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt: You expected them to leave this out?
*JokeItem: Two of them:
**The hair pick does a whopping 1 damage when it hits someone, and then notably sticks to their hair. Using it on every enemy will get you an achievement/trophy. When used on Skullmageddon (which will net you another achievement), it pins his hat to his head. (which he [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] when he tries to remove it)
**They key, which is used to open treasure chests, gives you an achievement if you manage to defeat someone despite it's pitiful damage.
*KamehameHadoken: The fireball.
*KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: You can punch downed enemies (regardless of whether you knocked them down yourself, they fall down from the sky on fire or are thrown off their malfunctioning hoverbike) for large amounts of damage, although with some enemies it often results in you getting hit by their wakeup attack if you don't do it as quickly as possible.
*LadyInRed: Marian.
*LauncherMove: Using a weak attack on a stunned enemy will launch them up with an uppercut.
*LetsYouAndHimFight: At the end of the game, during bro-op, Billy and Jimmy fight for Marian's affection, complete with her cheering them on in the background.
*LoadBearingBoss: Lampshaded after the Mecha Biker. The Spaceship they're on starts to fall back to Earth, and Billy shouts in surprise, "Woah! I didn't know he was a load-bearing robot!"
*MacGuffin: Marian.
*MadonnaWhoreComplex: Invoked between Marian and Linda [[spoiler:or Evil!Marian.]]
*MagicMusic: Baddies drop cassettes which grant special moves and stat boosts.
*ManEatingPlant: A boss. Genetically spliced from a shark and a tyrannasaurus.
*[[Mooks]]: Lampshaded with one of Williams' death messages: "There's more where I came from!"
*MythologyGag: [[spoiler:Mistranslated Mutants Bimmy 'n' Jammy]], referencing Double Dragon III.
*NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Skullmageddon's is either this or hilariously cheesy. For some, it's both at the same time.
*[[Ninja]]: Shun.
*NoNameGiven: Averted. Every character has a name, and most get it splashed across the screen during their introduction.
*OneSteveLimit: Billy and Williams
*PaletteSwap: More to differentiate between multiples of the same mooks on screen, or to fit the theme of the level.
*PistolWhipping: They only way the Lee brothers use Williams' gun.
*PunchedAcrossTheRoom: The One-Inch Punch special move does a short-range attack that knocks enemies backward.
*RakeTake: Several stages have large boards with an X on one end: stepping on the X causes the other end to fly up, catapulting any enemies standing on it high into the air. They're often positioned so that you can either juggle the enemies back and forth between 2 such boards before they have a chance to get up or quickly fling annoying enemies into a pit.
*RecycledInSpace: Subverted for your pleasure, there are two levels that literally take place in space.
*ShesGotLegs: Every female character, but not the only form of MaleGaze.
*ShoutOut: Director Sean Velasco voices the over-the-top villain Skullmageddon, doing a dead-on impression of Skeletor's cheesy, Large Ham voice from the original 1980's HeMan.
**Additionally, the Mecha Biker, who is a blue humanoid robot (referred to as a Super Combat Bot) carrying a blaster and hidden behind two boss doors that raise and lower and which also freeze you in whatever pose you're in while you move through them. He also fights using a slide attack and a charge shot. Sound familiar?
**Also, the giant ManEatingPlant boss "Marian II" looks almost like and is named similarly to Audrey II from ''LittleShopOfHorrors''.
*SiblingTeam
*SmallAnnoyingCreature: Fuzzface, who only appears if you crouch in a specific spot repeatedly. The bad news: It's a creepy oversized bee thing with googly eyes that constantly stare at the screen, an annoying voice and once you make it appear, it keeps following you around until you beat the game. The good news: it perioidically drops lots of life and energy recovery items and you can hit it by "accident", which makes it shout out in pain or say that it "knows you didn't mean to do that".
*StuffBlowingUp: [[SarcasmMode Sometimes]].
*ThemeMusicPowerUp: The final battle with Skullmageddon.
*ThrowABarrelAtIt: Oildrums and explosives.
*UnwillingSuspension: Marian when you first meet Skullmageddon.
*VillianSong: It ends on an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJNDP_HTFp4 epic one]].
*WhipItGood: Linda's weapon of choice. Can be used by the Lee brothers.
*WorldOfHam: The silliness of the 80's is first embraced, than multiplied exponentially.
*WorldOfPun: ''Neon'' thrives on this: when Skullmageddon isn't making enough skeleton puns to make Brook think he's being excessive, the Lees and the normal enemies also use them liberally, mostly when using various weapons and during cutscenes for the former and during their entrance and if they manage to deliver a killing blow for the latter.
*WouldHitAGirl: Pretty much every guy in the game, from the opening intro where Williams sucker punches Marian in the gut and carries her off, to Billy and Jimmy beating the crap out of the whip-wielding Lindas.
*YouBastard: Upon defeating Skullmagaddon in the final battle, [[spoiler: he congratulates the player in crushing his dreams in having a girl of his own.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:You don't just dare to play this game, you Double Dragon dare.]]
''Double Dragon Neon'' is the latest instalment to the ''Double Dragon'' series, made by WayForward. In the style of a 2-D BeatEmUp, it strives to be both a parody and homage of its predecessors. It also offers both single-player and local co-op (refered to as "Bro-op").
The plot is simple: Billy and Jimmy Lee go through a series of levels to save their girlfriend, Marian, from the big bad, Skullmageddon. What it lacks in plot, it more than makes up for in in-jokes, challenging gameplay, and awesome music.
It is available on Xbox Live Arcade for 800 MSP, and on Playstation Network for $10USD (free for PSN+ members).
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!!Double Dragon Neon contains examples of:
*80sHair: Oh so much, in pure Double Dragon style.
*ActionGirl: Linda. [[spoiler: Marian at the end.]]
*AffectionateParody: This game is not a love song. It's a ''power ballad'' to beat 'em ups, the Double Dragon series, and the 1980's.
*ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[spoiler: "Ah, you! You've taken my pride, you scrapped my Rocket-Dojo, laid waste to my laborotory, destroyed my televisions, and murdered countless Williamses! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This. Ends! NOW1]] ]]
*AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Skullmageddon, oh so much.
*BadassMustache: Abobo sports one.
*BadBoss: Skullmageddon seems like this, taking money out of Williams' salary when you destroy his tv's.
*Barrier-BustingBlow: Abobo regularly breaks through walls, as well as the Tape Worm.
*BigBad: Your Worst Nightmare, Skullmageddon.
*BottomlessPits: They show up occasionally. More than once are you able to knock enemies (mostly Williamses) into them.
*BrainwashingMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Ultimately Skullmageddon's plan in order to get a date from Marian.]]
*CatchPhrase: Abobo likes to shout his name as he appears. Billy and Jimmy have several of their own (especially when using the Baseballbat).
*Color-CodedMultiplayer: Billy is blond with blue clothes, Jimmy is brunette with red. Beyond that, there isn't much difference between the two's character design.
*CombinationAttack: A less than chivalrous example, you can have one brother kneal behind an enemy and the other bro push them over.
*ConservationOfNinjutsu: It doesn't matter how many of the kunoichis (each named Shun) the Lee brothers fight at once, they will go down.
*Co-OpMultiplayer: Called "Bro-op".
*CreatorCameo: A strange example: hitting the punching bag in the beginning of the 7th level exactly 87 times teleports you to another part of the stage, except now everyone's heads are replaced with the series creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto's: completing the area nets you an achievement and sends you back to the beginning of the stage.
*CriticalExistenceFailure: The Lee brothers and enemies alike will continue fighting no matter how many boots, fists, floors, and weapons they've taken to the face.
*DegradedBoss: Abobo, natch.
*DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: Marian just so happens to have gained the power to send the Lee brothers after Skullmageddon after he escapes for the second time. Plus, the portal turns them into super powerful Ro-Bros that can take down any mook with a single punch.]]
*DistressedDamsel: [[spoiler: With a dose of BrainwashingMakesYouEvil]]. The plot is based around saving Marian again.
*DoNotDropYourWeapon: Bao Boshi's magic staff, and Skullmageddon's sword seem to be the only two enemy weapons you can't pick up.
*DragonsUpTheYinYang: It's a special move.
*DualBoss: Minstranslated Mutants: Bimmy and Jammy
**[[spoiler: A semi-example. During your second Skullmageddon fight, Evil!Marian assists with attacks and buffs, but you only ever have to fight Skullmageddon himself]].
*DualWielding: Shun dual wields knives, Ichisumi dual wields [[PaperFanOfDoom fans]].
*DumbMuscle: Bimmy and Jammy, complete with stereotypical "dumb voices".
*ElevatorActionSequence: More like Bio-engineered Plant Bulb Sled Action Sequence.
*EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: The cyclone kick.
*Expy: Skullmageddon is one for [[HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse Skellator]].
**The Mecha Biker is a loving, if obvious, one for MegaMan.
*EyeScream: The "Continue?" screen features Billy chained to a post with Skullmageddon preparing to gouge his eyes out. The screen goes red just before the moment of impact.
*GeniusBruiser: Parodied with Abobo, some of the things he says if he kills you are "Abobo need to study for tests", "Abobo have degree in physics", and "Abobo ready to pass the bar
*GiantMook: Abobo.
*GoodBadTranslation: Referenced with Bimmy and Jammy.
*GrenadeHotPotato
*GretzkyHasTheBall: Billy and Jimmy occasionally shout things like "Touchdown!" or "Hole in One!" when smacking enemies around with the baseball bat.
*GuideDangIt: Many of the secrets are ridiculously obscure (punch a punching bag a 87 times and no more than that, crouch at a specific spot 7 times), although most of them are hinted at if not flat out spelled by the shopkeepers if you talk to them enough times.
*Hammerspace: Mostly averted: weapons mooks come with are shown on their hip (in the case of Linda and whips). Billy and Jimmy cannot store away weapons and items at all.
*HarderThanHard / NumericalHard: two difficulty levels above the the default Normal called Dragon and Double Dragon, both of them greatly increasing all enemies stats.
*TheHero: Billy, joined by Jimmy in bro-op.
*HurricaneKick: The Cyclone Spin Kick.
*IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: Normal, Dragon, Double Dragon
*IHaveYourGirlfriend: [[spoiler: And wish to make her mine!]]
*InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt: You expected them to leave this out?
*JokeItem: Two of them:
**The hair pick does a whopping 1 damage when it hits someone, and then notably sticks to their hair. Using it on every enemy will get you an achievement/trophy. When used on Skullmageddon (which will net you another achievement), it pins his hat to his head. (which he [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] when he tries to remove it)
**They key, which is used to open treasure chests, gives you an achievement if you manage to defeat someone despite it's pitiful damage.
*KamehameHadoken: The fireball.
*KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: You can punch downed enemies (regardless of whether you knocked them down yourself, they fall down from the sky on fire or are thrown off their malfunctioning hoverbike) for large amounts of damage, although with some enemies it often results in you getting hit by their wakeup attack if you don't do it as quickly as possible.
*LadyInRed: Marian.
*LauncherMove: Using a weak attack on a stunned enemy will launch them up with an uppercut.
*LetsYouAndHimFight: At the end of the game, during bro-op, Billy and Jimmy fight for Marian's affection, complete with her cheering them on in the background.
*LoadBearingBoss: Lampshaded after the Mecha Biker. The Spaceship they're on starts to fall back to Earth, and Billy shouts in surprise, "Woah! I didn't know he was a load-bearing robot!"
*MacGuffin: Marian.
*MadonnaWhoreComplex: Invoked between Marian and Linda [[spoiler:or Evil!Marian.]]
*MagicMusic: Baddies drop cassettes which grant special moves and stat boosts.
*ManEatingPlant: A boss. Genetically spliced from a shark and a tyrannasaurus.
*[[Mooks]]: Lampshaded with one of Williams' death messages: "There's more where I came from!"
*MythologyGag: [[spoiler:Mistranslated Mutants Bimmy 'n' Jammy]], referencing Double Dragon III.
*NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Skullmageddon's is either this or hilariously cheesy. For some, it's both at the same time.
*[[Ninja]]: Shun.
*NoNameGiven: Averted. Every character has a name, and most get it splashed across the screen during their introduction.
*OneSteveLimit: Billy and Williams
*PaletteSwap: More to differentiate between multiples of the same mooks on screen, or to fit the theme of the level.
*PistolWhipping: They only way the Lee brothers use Williams' gun.
*PunchedAcrossTheRoom: The One-Inch Punch special move does a short-range attack that knocks enemies backward.
*RakeTake: Several stages have large boards with an X on one end: stepping on the X causes the other end to fly up, catapulting any enemies standing on it high into the air. They're often positioned so that you can either juggle the enemies back and forth between 2 such boards before they have a chance to get up or quickly fling annoying enemies into a pit.
*RecycledInSpace: Subverted for your pleasure, there are two levels that literally take place in space.
*ShesGotLegs: Every female character, but not the only form of MaleGaze.
*ShoutOut: Director Sean Velasco voices the over-the-top villain Skullmageddon, doing a dead-on impression of Skeletor's cheesy, Large Ham voice from the original 1980's HeMan.
**Additionally, the Mecha Biker, who is a blue humanoid robot (referred to as a Super Combat Bot) carrying a blaster and hidden behind two boss doors that raise and lower and which also freeze you in whatever pose you're in while you move through them. He also fights using a slide attack and a charge shot. Sound familiar?
**Also, the giant ManEatingPlant boss "Marian II" looks almost like and is named similarly to Audrey II from ''LittleShopOfHorrors''.
*SiblingTeam
*SmallAnnoyingCreature: Fuzzface, who only appears if you crouch in a specific spot repeatedly. The bad news: It's a creepy oversized bee thing with googly eyes that constantly stare at the screen, an annoying voice and once you make it appear, it keeps following you around until you beat the game. The good news: it perioidically drops lots of life and energy recovery items and you can hit it by "accident", which makes it shout out in pain or say that it "knows you didn't mean to do that".
*StuffBlowingUp: [[SarcasmMode Sometimes]].
*ThemeMusicPowerUp: The final battle with Skullmageddon.
*ThrowABarrelAtIt: Oildrums and explosives.
*UnwillingSuspension: Marian when you first meet Skullmageddon.
*VillianSong: It ends on an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJNDP_HTFp4 epic one]].
*WhipItGood: Linda's weapon of choice. Can be used by the Lee brothers.
*WorldOfHam: The silliness of the 80's is first embraced, than multiplied exponentially.
*WorldOfPun: ''Neon'' thrives on this: when Skullmageddon isn't making enough skeleton puns to make Brook think he's being excessive, the Lees and the normal enemies also use them liberally, mostly when using various weapons and during cutscenes for the former and during their entrance and if they manage to deliver a killing blow for the latter.
*WouldHitAGirl: Pretty much every guy in the game, from the opening intro where Williams sucker punches Marian in the gut and carries her off, to Billy and Jimmy beating the crap out of the whip-wielding Lindas.
*YouBastard: Upon defeating Skullmagaddon in the final battle, [[spoiler: he congratulates the player in crushing his dreams in having a girl of his own.]]
