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Jimmy Lee is Billy's elder brother as well as the second main protagonist of Double Dragon series.
Biography[]
Arcade[]
One of the Lee brothers, who is also a Sou-Setsu-Ken master. He is out to crush the Black Warriors with his twin brother, Billy. However, he may have his own hidden agenda as well.
NES[]
In the NES version, Jimmy is secretly the Shadow Boss, leader of the Black Warriors. Whereas the original arcade version had both Lee brothers working together to fight against the Black Warriors in order to rescue their female friend Marian, in the NES version Billy fights completely alone and Jimmy only shows up to confront him at the end, after Willy (the leader of the gang in the arcade version) is defeated by the player.
Presumably, this change in the story was done due to developer Technōs Japan's inexperience with the NES hardware at the time, making it difficult for them to work around the console's limitations and properly implement a two-player cooperative mode in the game's conversion. The game's title having the adverb "double" in it wouldn't have made much sense with just one of the Lee brothers in the game, so they made the other one into a bad guy. While the arcade version did feature a fight between both brothers at the end, it was an optional battle that only occurred if both players defeated Willy together, and was simply a contest over who would win Marian's affections. The game's sequels on the same platform, Double Dragon II and III, both included their own two-player co-op modes, thus having both Lee brothers as heroes again. Jimmy's change of status from an antagonist to a protagonist in the NES versions of the sequels was left unexplained.
Double Dragon II: The Revenge[]
Billy's twin brother. Like him, Jimmy is also a legendary master of Sou-Setsu-Ken. Although he helped his brother crush the Black Warriors during the first game, he also had feelings for Marian and that developed a rivalry between the two brothers. He now joins Billy in a quest to avenge the woman they both loved. Jimmy is Player 2 and wears white clothing in the original arcade version and direct ports of the game. In the NES port, he wears red.
Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone[]
Billy's older brother taken by the Shadow Warriors before Billy was born.[citation needed] He and Billy were responsible for the downfall of the original Black Warriors gang a few years ago and the defeat of their leader, Willy. Since then, they went on a training mission to complete their Sou-Setsu-Ken, and two years later they are now on a worldwide hunt for the Rosetta Stones.
Super Double Dragon[]
The other half of the Double Dragons. He opened the Sou-Setsu-Ken Dojo in Los Angeles with his younger brother. He uses the northern-style of Sou-Setsu-Ken, which focuses on powerful techniques.
Double Dragon (Game Gear)[]
In the Game Gear version of Double Dragon, Jimmy is said to have been killed by a gang called the "Dragon Lords". However, it is eventually revealed that he's still alive, although under mind control, and acts as the final boss of the game, known as the "Black Samurai".
Story of joining Sora's Team[]
Jimmy alongside Marian and Billy had joined Sora's team in hope to protect the innocent. He also took the former Shadow Warrior members Linda and Abobo with him as he is about to show his enemies why he is known as the feared warrior of Sousetsuken.