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 his red outfit from Double Dragon II and red eyes. In the Master System version published by Sega, which was released a few months after the NES version, Jeff and Willy had their names switched in the English version of the manual. In the NES version of the game, Jimmy serves as the leader of the Black Warriors in Willy's place, 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. There, they eventually defeat Willy and the remnants of the Black Warriors, and finally rescue Marian. The two brothers set off to the streets and fight the gang hand-to-hand on a journey that takes them through many locations, beginning in the city slums and culminating inside the enemy's headquarters atop a hill far away in the countryside. Nevertheless, Marian's kidnapping prompts Billy and his brother, Jimmy, who tags along after hearing the terrible news, to look for her whereabouts themselves. Willy orders the kidnapping of Marian, Billy Lee's girlfriend, in order to lure him to his hideout and make him surrender the secrets to his fighting technique, since his martial arts school was opposing the Black Warriors gang. 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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