Billy and Jimmy Lee

(First Apperance: Double Dragon)
Do you have a brother? How well do you get on with him?
Sibling rivalry is as old as time itself and the videogame world sure likes to cement the idea that brothers generally aren't in the habit of sticking together. I don't really see my brother and we fought a lot when we were younger but we certainly weren't quite at the same levels as Solid/Liquid Snake brotherly love.

Fortunately, Billy and Jimmy Lee do get along. Good thing, as the gorgeous, mini skirt wearing Marian has just taken a punch in the babymaker as is being carted of to some crazy Aztecan complex by The Black Warriors. Despite turning up on the scene about two seconds after her kidnapping, the brothers must apparently fight their way through four stages of gang members in order to rescue her and bring peace to their garishly coloured world.

Billy and Jimmy Lee are the kind of heroes 80s movies and 90s arcades are crammed with, two guys operating outside the law, taking matters into their own hands and scrapping back to back against insurmountable odds, their palette swapped hair and clothing being the only ways to tell them apart. I'm sure I will go further into this in another post, but Double Dragon represents the kind of hero I would like to be, a guy who, if a loved one was in real danger, would be able to reach some crazy level of super resource and Jason Bourne my way through a gang of muggers, or just some drunk guy in a chip-shop.

Billy and Jimmy Lee, though not the first, paved the way for a slew of "Bro's Vs. everyone" co-op teams, that continues to this very day through games like Gears Of War. Much death and carnage making up for the John Woo-esque homosexual undertones of the "Tough guys together" stereotype (Watch "The Killer" you'll see)
Irony of ironies kicks in once the mission is complete, as upon rescuing the damsel in distress, the brothers who have battled together till the end instantly turn on each other in a fight for Marian's affection
Jeez guys, Bro's before Ho's, C'mon?

Billy and Jimmy would return in various sequels and would also feature in a HORRIBLE cartoon series and an awful movie, played by Mark Dacascos and Scott Wolf, with a sexy Alyssa Milano playing a Tank Girl style Marian and a decidedly un-sexy Robert Patrick playing...some guy, I forget his name.
Billy and Jimmy Lee are the personification of back-to-back, against the odds, street fighting, they have risen above their Godfrey Ho movie sounding names to become the most bouffant heroes in the videogame hall of fame.

..And it was all going so well until a girl got involved. 'Aint it the truth.