Thirsting for revenge against the Dragons, Willy ordered his men to kidnap Marian one more time, and not willing to take any chances this time around, he immediately murdered her and placed her lifeless body inside a magical barrier inside their hideout. Linda managed to nurse herself back to health and employed the following years in studying oriental magical arts which allowed her to bring all of her fellow gang members back from the dead, including their leader Willy. In it, it is stated that Willy indeed died at the hands of the Lee brothers five years ago, as did almost all the other members of the Black Warriors during the events of the first game, with Linda being the only survivor. The manual for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum English computer version of Double Dragon II expands on the story and takes some liberties not seen in other versions of the game and/or the series' established canon. Willy is the only enemy character, besides Jeff, who retains his design from the first game, only this time he wears a red version of his standard outfit. Their appearance after Willy may hint on him possibly being their subordinate, or perhaps even being controlled by them, implied by their evident magical nature. Willy is not the final boss of the game, though after his defeat, the brothers are challenged by two new opponents and the actual last bosses of the game: the Double Illusion. Willy and his gang are once again defeated, but this time Willy is presumed to have died from injuries sustained during the battle. In the arcade version of Double Dragon II, Willy regroups his gang and retaliates against the Lee brothers for his previous defeat by brutally murdering Marian at the start of the game, an act which once again sets the two brothers to take it to the streets in a quest to exact revenge on him and his men. Willy's design is similar to his NES sprite but has red eyes. In the Master System version, published by Sega, Jeff and Willy had their names switched in the English version of the manual. In the NES version of the game, Jimmy acts as the leader of the Black Warriors instead, although Willy still appears as the second-to-last opponent, just before the battle between the Lee brothers, and the manual still describes him as the "Big Boss" of the gang, which implies that Willy leads the group in some sort of figurehead capacity. Nonetheless, the brothers eventually succeed in subduing him and finally rescue Marian. But more than anything, he tends to go trigger-happy with his machine gun during battle, and the bullets he shoots are capable to fell the heroes in a single shot. He has enhanced speed and resilience and like Jeff, if the brothers try to grab him by the hair, he'll immediately break himself free and retaliate (unless he's down on health). Willy proves to be a formidable foe indeed. Seeing how his last men are being defeated by the brothers, Willy grabs his machine gun from the wall and climbs down to join the battle himself. The brothers infiltrate Willy's hideout, and after eluding many traps, they reach the building's main hall, where Willy looks down from a balcony how they fight the remnants of his gang. The two brothers set off to the streets and face the gang in hand-to-hand combat on a journey that takes them through many locations, beginning in the city slums and culminating inside the enemy's headquarters atop a distant hill in the countryside. However, Marian's kidnapping instead prompts Billy and his brother, Jimmy, who tags along after hearing the terrible news, to look for her whereabouts themselves. He orders the kidnapping of Marian, Billy Lee's girlfriend, in order to lure him to his hideout and force him to surrender the secrets to his fighting technique, since his martial arts school was opposing his gang. Willy is the leader of the Black Warriors, a criminal organization which had been terrorizing the city after the war. He's always seen armed with his trademark and trusty weapon: a machine gun that can kill the player in one shot (or at least take a huge chunk of their health). He's usually seen wearing a set of matching yellow leather jacket and pants (red in the arcade and PC Engine CD versions of Double Dragon II and colored diversely in many artworks), the former featuring a spiked metal pad over his right shoulder. Willy is generally depicted bearing a pronounced widow's peak hairline and short, unshaven, stubble mustache and beard. Willy is the leader of the Black Warriors, originally a biker gang known as the "Killers" until it grew in members after the nuclear war and became the dominant criminal organization in New York City.
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