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The story begins 25 years ago with the opening of the Hong Kong Victoria Harbour tunnel by business partners Paul Wagner and Nigel Griffith (Alan Scarfe). Paul attends with his twin baby sons, Chad and Alex. However, after the celebrations, the family is followed home by a [[The Triads and the Tongs|Triad ]] hit squad on orders from Griffith and crime lord Raymond Zhang (Philip Chan). A shootout ensues, in which Paul and his wife are killed by the bodyguard Moon (Bolo Yeung). Chad is rescued by the family bodyguard, Frank Avery (Geoffrey Lewis), and raised abroad. Alex is dropped off on the doorstep of a Hong Kong orphanage.
Those 25 years later Chad ([[Jean
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* [[Amazonian Beauty]]: Kara, who is played by a world-class bodybuilder.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Alex is a Type IV. He is a minor crook, very possessive of his girlfriend Danielle, and does not like his brother at first. He mellows out halfway through the movie and becomes more of a type III.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Moon and Kara.
* [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: Griffith and Zhang.
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: There are several abuses of this throughout, but by far the most glaring is during the warehouse scene about halfway through. Alex dual wields a pair of Beretta 92FS (which hold 15 rounds, plus one in the chamber), and during a protracted shootout, clearly fires in excess of 30 or more rounds from each gun without stopping to reload.
* [[Butch Lesbian]]: Kara.
* [[Co-Dragons]] / [[The Dragon]]: Moon is the dragon and [[Number Two]] for Zhang, while Kara and Pete are co-dragons to Griffith. Though all three share equal authority when both big bads are involved.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Alex, Chad, Moon, Kara, and Peter.
* [[Crazy Jealous Guy]]: '''Alex!'''
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* [[Evil Eye]]: Moons damaged right eye makes him look more evil and intense than before. See [[Mismatched Eyes]] and [[Scars Are Forever]].
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Moon.
* [[Expy]]: Several of course:
** Alex is Billy and Chad is Jimmy with Danielle being [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Marian/Marion]] the love interest.
*** characterwise, Alex is closer to Jimmy, but Jimmy doesn't get the girl.
** Kara is Linda. She even wears an outfit similar to female enemies in the first game, but she does not carry a whip.
** Moon is one to Abobo and Bolo. He wields [[Throw a Barrel At It|oil drums]] and is a [[Giant Mook]]. So this makes him an [[Enter the Dragon|expy]] of an [[As Himself|expy]] an [[Double Dragon|exp..]] [[Logic Bomb|Aaah!]]
** Peter is this to the Mysterious Warrior from Double Dragon II: The Revenge. He does not have supernatural powers or dresses like him for that matter, but he uses darkness to his advantage as this video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTvdu1VpQUg demonstrates].
* [[Extremity Extremist]]: Peter uses nothing but kicks when fighting. It makes sense considering he's wearing spurs on his shoes for extra damage. Alex and Chad do mix it up with there moves, but the former seems to do a lot of his fighting with punches, chops, elbows, and neck breaks. The latter usually pulls of a lot of kicks and spin kicks.
* [[Fan Vid]]: The Van Damme Fan 2009 has put out a series of [http://www.youtube.com/user/TheVanDammeFan2009#p/u/13/gVGcqho620Y videos] with clips of Double Impact replaced with sound effects from Double Dragon II on the NES.
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Alex does this a couple of times with pistols in the movie.
* [[Hurricane Kick]]: Of course. This is a Van Damme movie after all.
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* [[Jerkass]] -> [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Alex.
* [[Knife Nut]]: Kara carries a switch blade.
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: Moon's right eye is milky grey-white.
* [[Nice Guy]]: Chad.
* [[The Quiet One]]: Moon has about a total of three lines. One of them is in Chinese and there are no subtitles for that one line.
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* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Moon and Chad during their fight.
* [[Shout-Out]]: See expy for more. It seems the people working on this film were closet fans of the Double Dragon games. Considering this movie came out in 1991, Double Dragon was still popular at the time and arcade machines were commonly found in movie theaters and arcades.
* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: Chad and Alex. It is not so much as rhyming as it is the syllables. Their names each have only two syllables and four letters.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Moon kills one of his men for failing to beat up Alex (though they don't know yet that it's Chad they are fighting). Also Griffith and Zhang have Kara kill one of their associates for having one of their drug labs destroyed.
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