Sleep, my little Kovu. Let your dreams take wing. One day when you’re big and strong… You will be a king.

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The Hypocrisy of Miyagi-Do

Finished all of Cobra Kai season 4 in one sitting and so spoilers ahead.

Also, this is a longer one.

Obviously this show is great and everything about it is great, but I want to bring attention to the disproportionate way it favours the LaRussos and Miyagi-Do.

In the original Karate Kid, Cobra Kai was clearly evil. More than that though, it was kind of trash. It was good against anyone who didn’t know any proper karate, sure, but the moment Daniel learned how to defend himself, he became top dog. Even more than that though, its philosophy of “strike first, strike hard, no mercy” was clearly meant to incite violence and hatred. When Johnny restarts Cobra Kai in season 1, all this sort of came back, but with a twist.

Cobra Kai is confidence and outer projections of strength. While Johnny took an aggressive approach to everything in his life and, indeed, when starting Cobra Kai again, it developed into something else. It would be wrong to say Cobra Kai didn’t start breeding bullies again, but it instilled a sense of confidence that characters like Aisha, Miguel and Eli didn’t have before. Even as Johnny softened up, he began dissuading his students from being little monsters. It was Daniel and his refusal to let go of the past that kept Cobra Kai festering in villainy. By the time Kreese came on board, it was just right for corruption.

To bring it back to Daniel: as stuck as Johnny is on the past, Daniel is as well. Johnny is bitter because his past was a mess while Daniel only seems to have gotten over it because everything went right for him. You can tell that the two are different sides of the same coin when things don’t go Daniel’s way. He throws his power and influence around to harass Johnny despite the former being no threat to him. 

The LaRussos are just the worst people and that is a hill I will die on. Starting with Daniel, he is as stubborn as Johnny if not more considering that he is used to getting his way. Several of Johnny’s relapses into his old self are either because of Daniel’s direct harassment or his refusal to consider how something would affect Johnny. I keep remembering how, in season 2, Johnny takes care of Sam after she drinks herself stupid and Daniel’s first reaction is to trash Johnny’s apartment (I mean, it was Johnny that kicked him into the tv, but still). Daniel has a tendency to get aggressive first, but he gets off scot free because he never actually throws the first punch, he just antagonizes until someone does.

Sam is the worst of the family. She has an entitlement that makes most royal heirs tell her to chill out. In season 4, she was at her absolute worst and I give her no breaks whatsoever. If I’m not mistaken, she still hasn’t even apologized to Johnny for Yasmin wrecking his car. Sam gets angry and, like Daniel, wields whatever power she has over people like a warhammer then screams bloody murder when they actually strike back. The way she treated Tori this season was way out of line even without her knowing what was going on in Tori’s life. Several times Tori was just minding her own business when Sam went out of her way to antagonize her. While I also blame Miguel for doing Tori dirty, Sam had a hand in it and yet she tries to spin it as if Tori was the villain. 

Amanda, I used to think, was the reasonable one. She was the one telling Daniel to stop messing around and focus on his actual job. Even when she relented, it was less about actually getting on board with karate and just knowing that she couldn’t stop him so it was a waste of both their times to try. All that went out the window in season 4 when she went out of her way to threaten a child. I get it, Tori hurt Sam, cool, but there was no reason to go to this girl’s workplace to make a scene. I can’t say Tori would have listened otherwise, but maybe meeting her outside of work. Or actually trying to figure out why. Or even just waiting for Tori to get violent first. But no, she went into this child’s workplace guns blazing and then went about her day when Tori got fired. 

Not much to say about Anthony, but he’s a little shit. That is all.

Now, the show villainizes Cobra Kai (I group Eagle Fang in there too as it’s the same style) and everyone associated with it. I have mixed feelings on how this is portrayed because, on the one hand, yes, John Kreese might actually be Lucifer himself and Terry Silver is the war god Ares, but there is some good in Cobra Kai that I’d touched on earlier.

Cobra Kai is about strength and, in the wrong hands, it’s a tool for bullying and destruction, but, in season 4, the Cobra Kais were all pretty happy just being themselves. We don’t spend much time in the high school this season, but Kyler seems to almost always be having a party with his Cobra Kai friends and not harassing the other students. Granted, he could do both, we never actually see this while we do see Miyagi-Do students showing unnecessary aggression to those they don’t like such as Kenny. Tori and Robby, while they set out initially to be a nuisance to Sam and Miguel, decide on their own that they’d rather just be in each others company than bother with their exes. It was those exes that started a fight and even post-fight left seething while Robby and Tori were just happy to be together enjoying normalcy for once. 

Say what you will about John Kreese (I mean, I just called him the devil) but he actually seems to care about his less fortunate students. In as much as it helps him somehow. Whatever his rationale, he gave Robby a place to stay and took care of Tori’s abusive landlord. It was Daniel and Amanda who blamed and judged these kids for circumstances beyond their control before doubling back once the circumstances were revealed to them. Kreese went looking for the problem and helped in the ways he knew how. Granted, these are short term solutions. Threatening to cut off a landlord’s willy and letting a homeless kid stay in a warehouse isn’t going to do much for these kids’ futures (whom Kreese seems to think is going to be spent practicing karate with him until the moon splinters), but it is leagues better than what Daniel and his family are doing.

In conclusion, Miyagi-Do is toxic. No hate to Mr. Miyagi himself though. In fact, Miyagi-Do worked for him and the lessons he wanted to impart onto Daniel. The very fact that he insisted that Daniel find his own way meant that he didn’t intend of Daniel to form a cult-like reverence of him. 

Daniel might preach peace, but his students and his family and even himself show that he has no interest in a non-violent scenario, just one where he always wins. As a consequence to this dissonance, Johnny has to be made to be even more unreasonable. When Sam and Miguel picked a fight and then ran away, he almost seemed upset at the fact that they picked a fight to begin with, but then doubled down on the idea that it was the running away that was the problem.

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LYRA ♤ BLACK ♤ PREWETT

Daughter of Lucretia Black and Ignatius Prewett, Lyra was a loved, loud and fierce child. She loved with burning passion, she yearned to be just as good, compassionate and kind as the rest of her cousins Molly, Fabian and Gideon.

Though, the cursed blood of the House Of BLACK, was pumping through her veins, poisoning her mind, urging her to do every evil deed she could think off...

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