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* QuestionableCasting: The general opinion of the decision to have Scott Wolf play Billy. He's got enough good looks and charm to play a leading role, but unlike Creator/MarkDascascos, he obviously wasn't an accomplished martial artist, and that's kind of a liability when you're ''playing'' an accomplished martial artist.
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* QuestionableCasting: The general opinion of the decision to have Scott Wolf play Billy. He's got enough good looks and charm to play a leading role, but unlike Creator/MarkDascascos, Creator/MarkDacascos, he obviously wasn't an accomplished martial artist, and that's kind of a liability when you're ''playing'' an accomplished martial artist.
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* QuestionableCasting: The general opinion of the decision to have Scott Wolf play Billy. He's got enough good looks and charm to play a leading role, but unlike Creator/MarkDascascos, he obviously wasn't an accomplished martial artist, and that's kind of a liability when you're ''playing'' an accomplished martial artist.
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-->'''Koga Shuko''': I JUST WANT TOTAL DOMINATION OF ONE MAJOR AMERICAN CITY! IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR?
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* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: While the film is generally loathed, the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo fighting game based on it is considered an underrated hidden gem of a fighter in the Neo Geo's library.
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* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: While the film is generally loathed, the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo Platform/NeoGeo fighting game based on it is considered an underrated hidden gem of a fighter in the Neo Geo's library.
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Evil Is Sexy TRS; this has become an objective, in-universe trope.
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* EvilIsSexy:
** Linda Lash (Koga's leather-clad whip-wielding henchwoman).
** Shuko himself could count.
** Linda Lash (Koga's leather-clad whip-wielding henchwoman).
** Shuko himself could count.
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* WTHCastingAgency: The general opinion of the decision to have Scott Wolf play Billy.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Double Dragon started as an homage to [[Franchise/FistOfTheNorthStar 'Fist of the North Star']] and Nils Allen Stewart plays Abobo, who in the movie looks more like a mook from that series given his mohawk and overall getup more than his actual game counterpart. The hilarious part comes from the fact that he later played Zeed in the [[Film/FistOfTheNorthStar 1995 live-action adaptation of the manga]], although ironically looking ''less'' like a Fist of the North Star mook than he did in this movie.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Double Dragon started as an homage to [[Franchise/FistOfTheNorthStar 'Fist Fist of the North Star']] Star]] and Nils Allen Stewart plays Abobo, who in the movie looks more like a mook from that series given his mohawk and overall getup more than his actual game counterpart. The hilarious part comes from the fact that he later played Zeed in the [[Film/FistOfTheNorthStar 1995 live-action adaptation of the manga]], although ironically looking ''less'' like a Fist of the North Star mook than he did in this movie.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Double Dragon started as an homage to [[Franchise/FistOfTheNorthStar ''Fist 'Fist of the North Star'']] Star']] and Nils Allen Stewart plays Abobo, who in the movie looks more like a mook from that series given his mohawk and overall getup more than his actual game counterpart. The hilarious part comes from the fact that he later played Zeed in the [[Film/FistOfTheNorthStar 1995 live-action adaptation of the manga]], although ironically looking ''less'' like a Fist of the North Star mook than he did in this movie.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Double Dragon started as an homage to [[Franchise/FistOfTheNorthStar "Fist ''Fist of the North Star"]] Star'']] and Nils Allen Stewart plays Abobo, who in the movie looks more like a mook from that series given his mohawk and overall getup more than his actual game counterpart. The hilarious part comes from the fact that he later played Zeed in the [[Film/FistOfTheNorthStar 1995 live-action adaptation of the manga]], although ironically looking ''less'' like a Fist of the North Star mook than he did in this movie.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Double Dragon started as an homage to [[Franchise/FistOfTheNorthStar]] [[Franchise/FistOfTheNorthStar "Fist of the North Star"]] and Nils Allen Stewart plays Abobo, who in the movie looks more like a mook from that series given his mohawk and overall getup more than his actual game counterpart. The hilarious part comes from the fact that he later played Zeed in the [[Film/FistOfTheNorthStar 1995 live-action adaptation of the manga]], although ironically looking ''less'' like a Fist of the North Star mook than he did in this movie.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Double Dragon started as an homage to [[Franchise/FistOfTheNorthStar]] and Nils Allen Stewart plays Abobo, who in the movie looks more like a mook from that series given his mohawk and overall getup more than his actual game counterpart. The hilarious part comes from the fact that he later played Zeed in the [[Film/FistOfTheNorthStar 1995 live-action adaptation of the manga]], although ironically looking ''less'' like a Fist of the North Star mook than he did in this movie.
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%% * SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: "Please use other door."
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* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Koga Shuko]], previously Victor Guisman, is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive wealthy businessman]] who seeks to expand his control over New Angeles. Searching for the Double Dragon medallion to acquire its power, Koga sends his men to raid a village guarding the medallion, uncaring about the villagers' deaths. Converting Abobo into a giant, monstrous mook after [[YouHaveFailedMe he fails him]], he blows up Satori Imada, and places a bounty on Billy and Jimmy Lee, seeking their other half of the medallion. Keeping his goons in suspended animation in his laboratory, he has them converted into cybernetic henchmen. Kidnapping Jimmy, he reveals that he murdered his father, and possesses him in order to kill Billy to take the other half of the medallion, threatening to kill Jimmy if he doesn't hand it over.
* DesignatedHero: Billy. The movie depicts him as a hot-headed, obnoxious screwup who essentially derails all of Marian's plans and only wins by sheer luck.
* EvilIsSexy:
** Linda Lash (Koga's leather-clad whip-wielding henchwoman).
** Shuko himself could count.
* FashionVictimVillain: [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tranquiltirades/images/6/60/Koga_Shuko.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120531041913 Koga Shuko's get-up]] makes him look a little too much like Music/VanillaIce to make for a menacing villain.
* GratuitousSpecialEffects: Marian's little brother, at one point, uses a VR headset solely to work in more CGI effects.
* HamAndCheese: Robert Patrick knows ''exactly'' what kind of film he's in, and doesn't so much chew the scenery as gobble it up.
* MoralEventHorizon: Shuko blowing up Satori, with the added cruelty of using his medallion to possess her ''just to make her watch.''
* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: While the film is generally loathed, the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo fighting game based on it is considered an underrated hidden gem of a fighter in the Neo Geo's library.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Somewhat unusually, this applies to one of the writers rather than any of the actors; co-writer Peter Gould would go on to write many episodes of ''Series/BreakingBad'', and co-created ''Series/BetterCallSaul''.
%%* SoBadItsGood: To some.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: Many of the effects involving Koga are quite hokey and look like last minute additions.
** '''''Especially''''' when he arrives as a shadow being, then morphs into the ninja wraiths during the climax.
** Some of the matte paintings depicting New Angeles appear unfinished as well.
* VideoGameMoviesSuck: The movie is a considered a textbook example of this trope, but some of the characters and plot elements from the movie were [[RecursiveAdaptation adapted]] into the ''Double Dragon'' fighting game for the Neo-Geo. And it had Creator/AlyssaMilano going for it, so it wasn't ''completely'' bad.
* WTHCastingAgency: The general opinion of the decision to have Scott Wolf play Billy.
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* DesignatedHero: Billy. The movie depicts him as a hot-headed, obnoxious screwup who essentially derails all of Marian's plans and only wins by sheer luck.
* EvilIsSexy:
** Linda Lash (Koga's leather-clad whip-wielding henchwoman).
** Shuko himself could count.
* FashionVictimVillain: [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tranquiltirades/images/6/60/Koga_Shuko.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120531041913 Koga Shuko's get-up]] makes him look a little too much like Music/VanillaIce to make for a menacing villain.
* GratuitousSpecialEffects: Marian's little brother, at one point, uses a VR headset solely to work in more CGI effects.
* HamAndCheese: Robert Patrick knows ''exactly'' what kind of film he's in, and doesn't so much chew the scenery as gobble it up.
* MoralEventHorizon: Shuko blowing up Satori, with the added cruelty of using his medallion to possess her ''just to make her watch.''
* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: While the film is generally loathed, the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo fighting game based on it is considered an underrated hidden gem of a fighter in the Neo Geo's library.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Somewhat unusually, this applies to one of the writers rather than any of the actors; co-writer Peter Gould would go on to write many episodes of ''Series/BreakingBad'', and co-created ''Series/BetterCallSaul''.
%%* SoBadItsGood: To some.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: Many of the effects involving Koga are quite hokey and look like last minute additions.
** '''''Especially''''' when he arrives as a shadow being, then morphs into the ninja wraiths during the climax.
** Some of the matte paintings depicting New Angeles appear unfinished as well.
* VideoGameMoviesSuck: The movie is a considered a textbook example of this trope, but some of the characters and plot elements from the movie were [[RecursiveAdaptation adapted]] into the ''Double Dragon'' fighting game for the Neo-Geo. And it had Creator/AlyssaMilano going for it, so it wasn't ''completely'' bad.
* WTHCastingAgency: The general opinion of the decision to have Scott Wolf play Billy.
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