After the woman tells Daniel that they had previously met when she was a young girl during a typhoon, Daniel realizes that it's Yuna (whose name is finally revealed in the series) and is happy to see her again. Even though Aisha comes from a wealthy family, she is left out by Yasmine's clique due to her size and intellectual personality. After Daniel defeats Silver in a one-on-one fight, Kyler abandons Cobra Kai along with the other students. During the semifinals, Miguel faces off against Hawk who is going by Eli again and has joined Miyagi-Do. Counselor Blatt (Erin Bradley Dangar) is the high school guidance counselor and vice-principal. Later in the season, Tory befriends Robby after he joins Cobra Kai when they find common ground in their broken home lives and their own betrayals from Miguel, Johnny, and Sam as well as their resentment toward their probation and expulsion from school for their roles in the school brawl. He was very close to his mother, who died shortly before Robby was born in 2002. When Tory was a child, her mother worked at a restaurant and would bring home leftovers so that Tory and her younger brother had enough to eat. Eventually, they corner him, but quickly run away upon discovering that their activities have been recorded on a security camera and vow revenge. Vanessa analyzes the underlying motivations behind Anthony's behavior at school and later evaluates Daniel and Amanda and calls them out about how their behavior is contributing to it, deducing that their lack of attention and discipline towards him through his childhood as the cause of Anthony acting out. Vanessa LaRusso (Julia Macchio) is Louie LaRusso's sister, Daniel's cousin, and a second year graduate student in Child Psychology. Johnny hires her to hold a sign to let passers-by know about the Cobra Kai dojo. Sam apologizes to Aisha for her former association with Yasmine, and they share a laugh about Yasmine's front wedgie incident. Jimmy expresses shock when Bobby is ordered by Kreese to injure Daniel and is present when Kreese attacks Johnny following his loss and second-place showing. Kandace (Rebecca Lines) is Tory's sleazy maternal aunt. She and Johnny spend time drinking together and have a lot in common. However, when they witness Kyler bullying Demetri by drawing a penis on his cast, they feel bad for Demetri. In Season 2, Johnny starts developing feelings for Carmen but discovers that she is dating a British man named Graham. When he returns home, he finds a drunken Johnny, who explains that he loves Miguel as a son, leading Miguel to shed a tear of happiness that changes to dejection and heartbreak as Johnny calls him Robby instead, straining their relationship, due to Robby taunting Miguel about Johnny using him to compensate for his relationship problems with Robby. Carmen opposes violence, and it takes some convincing by Johnny for her to allow Miguel to continue with his training. She tells Daniel that people like Tory, who feel like they have been dealt a bad hand in life, constantly get written off as hopeless causes and having someone who can take the time to listen to them and understand their situation can make all the difference their lives. Gunther Braun (Carsten Norgaard) is the German representative for the Sekai Taikai karate tournament. Ichiro is later seen among the villagers heading for the pillbox to shelter from the Typhoon and is seen at the viewing window with Daniel, Miyagi, and Yukie looking for others caught in the storm. In addition, Hawk is pressured into breaking Demetri's right arm during a gang fight with Miyagi-Do at the laser tag park where Chris works, which he does with some obvious reluctance, costing him his friendship with Miguel when Miguel finds out about it. Horrified by Kennys actions against Anthony, Robby lectures Kenny for going against how he trained him to fight, but Kenny, having been corrupted by Cobra Kai, asserts "no mercy" before leaving. Judy makes a return in Season 2 as one of Johnny's Tinder dates. At the end of the day, he and Frank are exchanging cash from what they worked on from the car wash with Nathaniel and are fist bumping together. After defeating several Cobra Kai members, he is defeated by Johnny with three unanswered points in the semi-finals. In Season 4, he invites pop star Carrie Underwood as a guest performer for the All-Valley tournament before the qualifying matches. His first appearance is when he is cheering on Cheng when he is fighting with Dre in the Playground. Aisha reveals she "struck first" by introducing herself and that they became friends since then. Mrs. Moskowitz (Caroline Avery Granger) is seen in a flashback where she urges West Valley High over the phone to do something about the cyberbullying inflicted on her son, Eli about his facial deformity. They both fight and Julie manages to defeat him. When the rivalry of the dojos escalates, culminating in an all-out karate war on the first day of school, Sam is also hospitalized with broken ribs and lacerations on her right arm from her fight with Tory. They later attend a charity auction hosted by Silver, causing him to become paranoid. Johnny chastises Robby over the phone for this behavior, warning him he will be throwing his life away, to which Robby retorts in that case "he will turn into his father". While Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang defend him using the egg technique, Anthony uploads the footage onto Cobra Kai's YouTube channel and plays it on the dojo's TV for the Cobra Kai students to see. Tory retreats, but not before telling Sam their fight isn't over. When Tory breaks a portrait of Mr. Miyagi, however, Sam regains her resolve and fights back with a bo staff, disarming Tory. Daniel subsequently strikes discipline into him after furiously breaking an iPad he had snuck into his room while being grounded and forbidden from using technology. However, they later learn that her performance was rescheduled to later that very day, nearly causing her to be late. In season 3, Robby is subsequently expelled from West Valley High School for crippling Miguel at the end of the school brawl and goes into hiding as a wanted fugitive for several weeks, stealing a used Dodge Grand Caravan from the LaRusso dealership and living out of a homeless camp. At the end of Season 1 and in the beginning of Season 2, Moon enters into a relationship with Hawk, but breaks up with him after she leans about Hawk attacking Demetri at the mall over a negative review on Cobra Kai he posted on Yelp. when he prays to God for forgiveness before sweep kicking a drunk Johnny in front of his congregation). That night, Kyler and the other Cobra Kai students attack Miyagi-Do & Eagle Fang students at the LaRussos' house. Anthony LaRusso (Griffin Santopietro) is Daniel and Amanda's son and Samantha's younger brother. In season 3, Abe appears again at the car wash fundraiser for Miguel's surgery run and managed by Samantha LaRusso and Moon and the Miyagi-Dos who started it. Yasmine is not seen in Season 2, but it is mentioned by Moon that she is in France for the summer. Shortly thereafter, Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang begin training together to take down Cobra Kai and the reconciled Hawk and Demetri stand together. Shawn Payne (Okea Eme-Akwari) is a juvenile detainee at Sylmar Juvenile Corrections. They eventually reveal this to Miguel, who has already deduced this after finding Johnny's headband in her room, causing a strain between her and Miguel, who is upset with the fact that they hid their relationship from him. But Dennis is not as skilled as Mike nor Daniel, due to the fact that Daniel easily defeated him during a second confrontation on Miyagi's bonsai shop and a sparring match against Mike on the Cobra Kai dojo, in which he lost. Encouraged by Kreese, Hawk and his gang vandalize the Miyagi-do Karate dojo and Daniel's prized 1948 Ford Super DeLuxe convertible, stealing Mr. Miyagi's Medal of Honor in the process. Demetri quits on his first day of Cobra Kai training after Johnny bodyslams him for mouthing off, but he continues to support Miguel. Sam later finds out from Tory that Silver had rigged their match in Cobra Kai's favor, leaving Sam furious. In season 2, Hawk is reprimanded by Johnny for his actions during the tournament, but he becomes more aggressive and forms his own gang with some of the newer students. He is shown at the All-Valley Tournament cheering for Cobra Kai classmate Aisha when she defeats her opponent and later celebrating with the rest of his classmates when Miguel wins the tournament, but Abe isn't shown competing. He promises to do better with Miguel than he did with Robby. In Season 5, Miguel meets his father, Hector Salazar, in Ceuta, Mexico only to discover that he has supposedly changed and is married to another woman named Maria and has a son. Jessica is shocked when Amanda tells her that Silver has returned. Robby confronts Johnny about the bullying and tells him if the bullying doesn't stop, he will be forced to put an end to it himself. Margaret (Diana Webster) is Terry Silver's secretary. Eventually, after being unanimously outvoted thanks to Miguel and Samantha's speech about why the dojos need to compete in the All-Valley Tournament, she relented, given that the students must sign a waiver. He has a powerful kick which he used to beat one fighting dragon student. His business decision boosted the local economy. At the end of the tournament, he tells Miguel that he is considering rejoining Cobra Kai. He is the brown belt student who is defeated by Bobby in a sparring match at the dojo. He then joins Miyagi-Do, but Robby Keene is against them joining due to Chris attacking Demetri at the mall, and Robby thinking that the former Cobra Kai students vandalized the Dojo. After he is rejected by Kreese, Robby visits Kenny at his house, returning his backpack and trains Kenny on his own time after learning of his bullying, with the duo developing a mentor-mentee relationship. 157 likes. Kim intended to spread these teachings, known as "The Way of the Fist" across the world, something that his granddaughter, Kim Da-eun later sought to do as part of his legacy. Jimmy (Tony O'Dell) is a friend of Johnny and a fellow student at the Cobra Kai dojo. At the tournament, she is defeated in the quarterfinals by Tory but is unfazed by her loss, stating that she only has been training for 6 weeks. Sadly, this was also Rob Garrison's final role, as he died in 2019. Upon finding out that Sam has gotten back together with Miguel and helped him save the All-Valley Tournament from being canceled due to the aftermath of the school brawl, Tory leads the Cobra Kais in an attack on the LaRusso household, engaging the students of Miyagi-Do and Johnny's new dojo, Eagle Fang Karate. Kyler brutally beats Miguel and initially has the upper hand due to Miguel having recently recovered from accidentally being crippled by Robby during the school brawl, but Miguel, remembering all of Johnny's encouragement from when he was hospitalized and quickly defeats Kyler with a takedown counterattack consisting of a roundhouse kick, a back kick, an acrobatic flip, and a final knockout punch. Both of them become lackeys of Hawk, but Chris becomes troubled by his thuggish antics. In Season 3, Anoush has come to resent working for Cole, who treats him disrespectfully and does not even bother to remember his name. During the break-in, Miguel defends Robby from Kenny before Kenny attacks him to ignite the brawl. Unnamed Dojo. He was seen outside his tournament duties in each of the three films. After Kenny is humiliated, she continues to remain friends with him, but remains unaware of the rivalry between Anthony and Kenny. At the end of the film, he is seen cheering for Daniel and along with some of his friends, lifting Daniel up after his win, possibly reestablishing their friendship. Robby is then unintentionally knocked out by Johnny who reluctantly pushes him into a set of lockers after trying to reason with him to no avail. She attends the end-of-summer party hosted by Moon. He is not to be confused with Darryl Vidal. Col. Paul Dugan (Michael Ironside) leads a JROTC-style program, the Alpha Elite, at Julie's school, and his style of instruction and morals he instills upon his students are very similar to those of John Kreese from the earlier films. She attempts to escalate the situation, only to be cornered by Hawk, Demetri, and Miguel in the process. In the alternate ending, Master Li seeks to slap Cheng for failing to win the tournament and showing his newfound respect for Dre and Mr. Han. Miguel spends the next two weeks in a coma while Robby is expelled from school and eventually sentenced to juvenile detention for crippling Miguel at the end of the school brawl. Liang ( Ling Zho, played by Shijia L L Shji) one of Cheng's friends and the second-best student at the Fighting Dragons studio who antagonizes Dre. After Tory switches sides, the Miyagi-Dos and Eagle Fangs work together to break into Cobra Kai where Hawk and Demetri hack into the servers and steal the security footage of Terry Silver confessing to bribing the tournament referee. Dre rehearses a written apology to Meiying's father, which Mr. Han had translated for him, in which he asks for forgiveness. Later at the 2019 All-Valley Tournament, Robby tells Kenny that Shawn would be proud of him for his improved progress under his mentorship. Miguel participates in the final fight at the Cobra Kai dojo in an attempt to expose Terry Silver. She flirts with Johnny the same way he described to Miguel as the way to hit on a girl back in his day. These teachings would later be passed down to American soldiers, like Captain George Turner, who in turn passed this philosophy down to John Kreese and Terry Silver during the Vietnam War, starting the chain of events that would lead to the opening of the Cobra Kai dojo and the spread of its philosophy of "strike first, strike hard, no mercy". Carmen Diaz (Vanessa Rubio) is Miguel's mother and works at a hospital as an X-ray technologist. This act wins over Sam, who resumes her romance with Miguel and gets her father to connect with him when he catches them making out in the Miyagi dojo. However, he later begins to have doubts about his actions, leading him to rescue Daniel who is stranded in a rural area and takes him to the Cobra Kai dojo to save the kids, easily defeating four Cobra Kai members guarding the door. Although Lucille is a down-to-earth and independent woman, she is greatly concerned about Daniel's harassment from Johnny and his gang, an issue which is shared by Mr. Miyagi. Louie is subsequently fired for his actions by Daniel. As a result, Tory breaks up with him while Kenny angrily ends their friendship. After a failed apology at school, Anthony attempts to apologize to Kenny again during the All-Valley tournament for his actions after Kenny loses his match to Robby in a locker room, but is pulverized by Kenny before Robby calls him off. Amanda approves of Miyagi-Do reopening to stop Cobra Kai. In season 2, he quits Cobra Kai along with fellow students Chris, Abe, Lil Red and Nathaniel due to Kreese's vicious teachings. She eventually sides with Kreese following the coup at Cobra Kai after Miguel is crippled by Robby at the end of the school fight. Stingray wades into the battle demonstrating karate moves and blatantly only targeting the Miyagi-Do students, while congratulating Hawk with a high-five. He is a carwash participant and the group raises $2500. Johnny ultimately decides against it, but Melissa's accidental bump into him causes him to inadvertently send the message. Sean Kanan reprises his role as Mike Barnes, and Robyn Lively reprises her role as Jessica Andrews from The Karate Kid Part III. Using the "silver bullet" technique he learned from Silver (who had paid off the referee), Kenny defeats Hawk by cutting off his airway, forcing him to forfeit. Tommy (Rob Garrison) is a friend of Johnny and a fellow student at the Cobra Kai dojo. When Demetri punches Doug in the face, he grabs Nate and smooshes his face against the glass. Sam's PTSD begins to worsen in light of the attack on Demetri, with her nightmares now including one where Tory drowns her in the Miyagi-Do pond. Furious, Amanda later confronts Daniel, who tells her it is a lie. During the tournament, Robby is forced to fight Kenny in the boys' quarterfinals, easily defeating him. When Miyagi Do and Eagle Fang split, he stays in Miyagi Do, but is more accepting of Hawk. Shawn suggests that Kenny look for Robby Keene, a former inmate whom he once fought. Hawk explains that it's not him alone changing his style, rather it being this new attitude he's developed, advising Demetri to do the same. Earlier in the series, Cruz sports a mustache, but he shaves it off after being mocked by Johnny. An immature and irresponsible man-child, he is pathologically adverse to adulthood and the responsibilities that come with it, suggesting he may have Peter Pan Syndrome. In the tournament semi finals, Demetri loses to Robby, but is able put up a fight against him before his defeat, earning him praise from Daniel and the Miyagi-Dos. Ponytail (Seth Kemp) is one of John Kreese's old Vietnam buddies. Like Daniel, Julie is the target of bullies in her school. In addition, Karate Kid actors Rob Garrison (Tommy), Ron Thomas (Bobby Brown), Tony O'Dell (Jimmy), and William Zabka (Johnny Lawrence) also briefly appeared. When Anoush leaves their dealership to join Tom Cole's (after Daniel stood him up), a furious Amanda tells Daniel he is failing to find balance, and stops speaking with him. Hawk's friendship with Demetri crumbles after the latter joins Miyagi-Do and posts a negative review of Cobra Kai on Yelp. During her trainings, she torments Tory and the other students through physical and emotional means. Karate Kid actor Martin Kove, briefly appeared as John Kreese in the beginning of the film. However, when Johnny realizes he needs funds to build his dojo, he tapes the check back together and uses the money to rent vacant space in a Reseda strip mall. Shortly after moving to Beijing, Dre immediately fell in love with a pretty young violinist named Mei Ying. 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