#Double Dragon

[prokopetz]

Marian’s character arc in the Double Dragon expanded universe is both awesome and extremely funny.

For the first few games in the series her entire purpose is to repeatedly get kidnapped, possessed, and/or straight up murdered (she gets better) in order to motivate the male leads.

In her latest appearances, conversely, well

It’s like if Princess Peach got sick of getting kidnapped by Bowser all the time, so she got super jacked and started punting Koopa Troopas into the stratosphere.

[xekstrin]

Literally can’t stop thinking about how River City Girls took THEE damsel of my childhood video games — Marian from Double Dragon— and made her into a beefcake who isn’t taking anyone’s shit anymore.

Like literally canonically this is how she describes it. That she’s tired of getting kidnapped by bad guys so her boyfriends can rescue her.

LOOK AT HER!!!!

AND THEY RESOLVED THE LOVE TRIANGLE BY HAVING HER BAG BOTH HEROES. LMAO!!!

[tvneon]

[theactioneer]

Alyssa Milano, Double Dragon (1994)

[videogamesskies]

Double Dragon II: The Revenge (TurboGrafx 16) (1988)

[peteneems]

[notobscurevideogames]

Battletoads & Double Dragon (Rare - Genesis - 1993)  

[vilkalizer]

Dabble Dargon.

[gameraboy2]

Double Dragon for the Atari 2600

[megahorous]

BEST FRIENDS [HD remake]

[tobiasdrake]

Double Dragon Marian is seriously out here going, "Stop getting punched in the gut and kidnapped with this one neat trick crime bosses DON'T want you to know!"

And now she's playable!?

This woman could break Bowser in half. I love her. River City Girls 2 is the best.

[arcadebroke]

[devileaterjaek]

[smashedpages]

Remembering the late, great Dwayne McDuffie on his birthday.

[theactioneer]

Double Dragon (James Yukich, 1994)

[videogamesskies]

Double Dragon (Arcade) (1987)