‘Cobra Kai’ Season 6 Part 2: Kwon’s Death Explained

SPOILER ALERT: This text discusses plot particulars from the Season 6 Half 2 finale of “Cobra Kai,” now streaming on Netflix.

Cobra Kai by no means dies. Till its college students do.

The ultimate season of Netflix’s hit dramedy “Cobra Kai,” itself a by-product of the “Karate Child” franchise from the Nineteen Eighties, is break up into three installments. Half 1 was launched on July 18, with Half 2 now streaming. Half 3 will arrive in early 2025.

This second chapter of the ultimate season brings the Miyagi-Do dojo to Barcelona for an elite worldwide karate event often called the Sekai Taikai. The finale to Season 6 Half 2, an episode aptly titled “Eunjangdo” — and also you’ll see why — contains a title match between Miyagi-Do’s Robby Keene (Tanner Buchanan) and the Iron Dragons dojo’s Axel Kovacevic (Patrick Luwis).

Axel, brooding and muscular in his 6’3″ body, towers over Robby because the struggle begins. Miyagi-Do’s captain rapidly tires himself out via a sequence of tried hits that show futile to Axel’s formidable protection. At that time, it takes one delicate look from the latter’s abusive sensei (Lewis Tan) to ship Axel on offense. The fighter repeatedly strikes Robby, drawing blood by a punch to the mouth. When Axel tosses him exterior the competitors mat, Robby comes nose to nose with Cobra Kai rival Kwon Jae-Sung (Brandon H. Lee). Kwon hits him with a fast jab and Robby’s Miyagi-Do teammate Miguel Diaz (Xolo Maridueña) rapidly takes exception. Miguel crosses the mat to confront Kwon, when Axel knocks him to the bottom. Inside seconds, Robby and Miguel sq. up with their rivals.

Earlier than the Sekai Taikai host can put an finish to this confrontation, he’s knocked unconscious by a disgruntled sensei whose workforce was banned for drug use. From there, the momentum of the karate match coalesces into the form of drawn-out, adrenalized struggle sequence that has develop into a “Cobra Kai” staple.

As a result of the event qualifies as a world sporting occasion, this subsequent brawl is being dwell streamed for followers globally, together with Miyagi-Do’s family members again within the San Fernando Valley. The struggle involves a climax when Kwon and Axel are thrust right into a bodily altercation. The “Iron Dragons” fighter kicks Kwon into the event’s cameraman and the present shifts right into a vertical vantage level of Kwon’s bleeding face to replicate the digicam’s drop to the ground. Kwon lets out a pissed off scream. Then, he laughs. He’s noticed what he believes to be his key to victory: an Eunjangdo knife misplaced by his Cobra Kai sensei John Kreese (Martin Kove) amid the chaos.

Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) can see the scene unfold earlier than it occurs. He rushes over to cease Kwon and the digicam cuts to a karate battle between Kreese, Johnny Lawerence (William Zabka) and Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith). Because the three antagonists of the unique “Karate Child” franchise put together to face off, a harrowing scream is heard. And everybody stops preventing.

The feel of sound design molds from a dramatic, foreshadowing crescendo to one thing somber and ethereal, a number of seconds of layered music composition punctured by the dialogue “That’s plenty of blood,” after which, the reveal of an eunjangdo knife lodged into Kwon’s torso.

“We set Kwon as much as be the brand new massive, unhealthy antagonist going into this second block,” sequence co-creator Hayden Schlossberg tells Selection in a dialog alongside co-creators and showrunners Jon Hurwitz and Josh Heald. “For him to get killed by one other opponent is a shock we had been trying ahead to.”

Hurwitz contextualizes Kwon’s demise as a very groundbreaking second, as a result of audiences haven’t beforehand seen a visceral on-screen demise within the sequence or in any of the “Karate Child” films. He provides that the “Cobra Kai” writers crafted a story set-up for Kwon’s demise in Half 1 via the storyline of Daniel discovering Mr. Miyagi killed his opponent on the Sekai Taikai a long time earlier.

“Kwon grew to become this powder keg of a personality that basically obtained us excited within the writers’ room,” Heald says.

Hurwitz provides that the “Strike Laborious, Strike Quick, No Mercy” philosophy imbued into Cobra Kai by Kreese injected a form of emotional venom into Kwon’s psyche.

Kwon, Hurwitz explains, is a damaged one that so desperately desires to show himself as the very best. After dropping to Robby in the course of the event, he struggles to deal with his inside anger. His sensei and mentor, in flip, give him the mistaken message: to indicate no mercy.

“Kreese is extra vengeful than ever, and utilizing Kwon as this final weapon,” Schlossberg says. “It ends with this Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla struggle all the scholars are concerned in. It created a possibility for us to have Kreese see the outcomes of a few of his actions. … Watching one in all his college students get killed with the knife he introduced there.”

Season 6 Half 1 chronicled the backstory of the eunjangdo knife, which a youthful Kreese acquired years earlier throughout a deadly journey to show himself to his former sensei, Grasp Kim (C.S. Lee). The weapon, Heald says, is about much more than a knife.

The co-creator particulars how the eunjangdo takes on the final remnants of affection for Johnny that Kreese nonetheless possesses. It’s this empathy, Heald explains, which stands in the best way of his changing into the ruthless creation he was as soon as able to molding into below the tutelage of Grasp Kim.

“The knife represents Kreese’s final vestige of humanity,” Heald says. “It’s an inflection level — does it ship him additional down the spiral or does it create a possibility for change? That’s a giant query we would like folks to be chewing on on the finish of those 5 episodes.”