This text accommodates spoilers for “Cobra Kai” season 6 half 2.
Memorably aggressive as he’s, the South Korean Cobra Kai dojo’s golden boy Kwon Jae-Sung (Brandon H. Lee) has turned out to be a short-lived antagonist … actually. Within the ultimate episode of “Cobra Kai” season 6 half 2, titled “Eunjangdo,” Kwon is among the most enthusiastic members within the all-out brawl began by the disqualified Russian Sekai Taikai group, and manages to struggle nearly each outstanding character of the brand new era within the span of mere minutes.
Nonetheless, his cell, spin-heavy model finally meets its match within the season’s resident Ivan Drago expy, Axel Kovačević (Patrick Luwis). Bloodied and pissed off, Kwon grabs John Kreese’s (Martin Kove) fallen Eunjangdo blade that offers the episode its title and performs his ultimate, acrobatic flying assault — just for Axel to handily counter it. Kwon falls down, by accident stabs himself within the chest with the Eunjangdo, and lets out a bloodcurdling loss of life scream that shocks your entire room. Cue shocked confusion and finish credit. Did that simply occur?
Killing such a outstanding character is a really wild technique to finish the second a part of the ultimate season of “Cobra Kai.” As co-creator Hayden Schlossberg informed Selection, the component of shock was extraordinarily deliberate too:
“We set Kwon as much as be the brand new large, dangerous antagonist going into this second block. For him to get killed by one other opponent is a shock we have been wanting ahead to.”
Cobra Kai is finished tip-toeing round main character deaths
Many main “Cobra Kai” characters have been near loss of life sooner or later. Decide an episode, and Miguel Diaz (Xolo Maridueña) would possibly fall from a fantastic peak after a struggle with Robby Keene (Tanner Buchanan). Decide one other, and any given mixture of grownup senseis would possibly try to inflict deadly harm with fists, toes, and even bladed weapons. Nonetheless, by the top of the season, essentially the most clearly evil characters usually style defeat, the misguided ones come to their senses, and everybody survives to roundhouse kick one another one other day. Precise casualties are typically one thing like a flashback scene the place a youthful Kreese (Barrett Carnahan) is compelled to struggle his much more evil captain (Terry Serpico) to the loss of life.
Season 6 is completely different. Right here, Mr. Miyagi’s (Pat Morita) large, darkish secret is that he as soon as killed a person in Sekai Taikai. “Eunjangdo” even opens with a nightmare situation wherein Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) will get to expertise stated struggle from the sufferer’s viewpoint — with an AI model of the lifeless Morita making an look for good measure — and closes with Kwon’s bloody on-screen loss of life. It is clear that the bets are effectively and actually off.
The ultimate season of “Cobra Kai” has been cut up into three components, so we nonetheless have one block of episodes to go. Because it’s unlikely that the present intends to take its foot off the pedal for its grand finale, there could be extra deaths. Proper now, essentially the most murderous participant on the sector is no doubt Kreese, who by accident drops the fateful Eunjangdo on his technique to kill his former buddy, Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith). Then once more, who is aware of what is going to occur and who might die when “Cobra Kai” season 6 half 3 arrives on February 13, 2025?