Streets of Rage 2

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***Streets of Rage 2*** is a 2022 American animated feature film from Prehistoric Pictures, it will be a sequel to *Streets of Rage,* and like its predecessor is based on SEGA's video game of the same name. The film is set one year after its predecessor, and sets Axel Stone and Blaze Fielding to rescue their friend Adam Hunter from the clutches of Mr. X, accompanied by Adam's younger brother "Skate", and Axel's friend, a wrestler named Max Thunder.

The film premiered on May 14, 2022, receiving positive reviews for its action, animation, new characters, and score, but received criticism for its pacing. A third film was planned and was due to come out in 2023, but was cancelled in July 2022 after Sammy Knight announced he was retiring from Plotagon.

## Plot

In 1991, heroes Axel Stone, Blaze Fielding, and Adam Hunter meet at their favorite night spot to reminisce about their victory over crime boss Mr. X one year before, having saved Wood Oak City from the syndicate's evil control. After the battle took place, Axel Stone started running a martial arts dojo, Blaze Fielding became a dance instructor, and Adam rejoined the police force, with his teenage brother Eddie "Skate" Hunter living with him and going to school in Wood Oak City. Axel even got to meet up with his old childhood friend, Max Thunder, a professional wrestler. After some attacks by thugs upon the heroes, it has become clear that the syndicate is not entirely dead, and eventually, Adam gets captured by the syndicate. Skate returns home to find the house in a wreck, and evidence of Adam's kidnapping was found by Axel and Blaze via a photo of Adam being captured by a man with the physical resemblance to Mr. X.

Chief of Police Jarrett Barnet has either fired or transferred most of the officers on the force, and as a result is unable to assist Axel and Blaze in their endeavor to help Adam, and Blaze finds that Mr. X's base of operations is not in the mayor's office building like it was the year prior. Crime rates continue in Wood Oak, and Max needed assistance in fighting rival wrestler Abadede, who worked with the syndicate, when they fought in the street. Eventually, Max and Skate team up with Axel and Blaze to rescue Adam. First, Skate is trained at Axel's dojo, despite an encounter with one of the syndicate's spies. When Chief Barnet calls Axel to send one of the mayor's security officers to their location to take them to the newly discovered location of Mr X's headquarters, Mr. X, who was listening via wiretap, sends men on jetpacks to attack the heroes at the dojo after acquiring the address.

With the arrival of the jetpack men at the dojo, the heroes fight back, assisted by Max, and the expected security officer, Janice Marx, arrives in a helicopter to transport the heroes to Mr. X's headquarters. Upon arrival, the heroes confront Mr. X, but first defeated some of Mr. X's thugs and his right-hand man, Shiva. Mr. X then fired his Tommy Gun to kill the heroes, but is subdued by Max and had his Tommy Gun destroyed. Adam is set free after the thug leader gave up the key to the chamber where he was held, and Adam and Skate is taken aboard the helicopter back to the police station.

## Characters

Axel Stone - Blonde-haired ex-police officer, now works as a martial arts teacher outside Wood Oak City and acts as a leader in fighting crime.

Blaze Fielding - Female ex-police officer, now works as a dance instructor, and acts as the brains of the team.

Eddie "Skate" Hunter - The teenage brother of Adam Hunter, who acts as his trainer in martial arts. Adam was nowhere to be found when Skate arrived home from school one day.

Max Thunder - A professional wrestler, and a childhood friend of Axel Stone.

Adam Hunter - Previously fought alongside Axel Stone and Blaze Fielding to take down the syndicate, but has now rejoined the police force. He was captured by Mr. X and his thugs a year after the syndicate's initial downfall.

Jarrett Barnet - Chief of Police in Wood Oak City.

Mr. X - A mysterious crime leader who once ruled Wood Oak City in the previous year. After his defeat, he captures Adam as revenge in order to lure his friends into a trap.

Shiva - Mr. X's loyal henchman, and expert martial artist. He holds the same mysterious aura as his boss.

Mark Lawrence - The new mayor of Wood Oak City after Mr. X's defeat.

Janice Marx - A security officer for the mayor who helped the heroes reach Mr. X's headquarters to rescue Adam.

## Production

After Life Expectancy was completed, a sequel to Streets of Rage was confirmed to be in development, along with a sequel to Dead Trigger II. A vote was set up on whether Streets of Rage 2 or Dead Trigger III would be put into production first. After Life Expectancy premiered, it was voted that Streets of Rage 2 would be put into production first.

The film was completed on April 23, 2022.

## Trivia

* This is the second Plotagon film to be released in May, after Jackster's Big Movie.