🔴10 Obscure Karate Kid Callbacks In Cobra Kai That You Probably Missed🔴
0One of the best things about watching Cobra Kai is all the nostalgic callbacks to The Karate Kid, but some of these references are a little harder to spot. The Netflix series picked up 30 years after the events of the classic 1984 movie, and though following the old Karate Kid villain as Cobra Kai's protagonist was quite a shift, the series never forgot where it came from. There were frequent references to all three of the franchise's original movies. Some of these were impossible to miss, while others required some solid Karate Kid knowledge to pick up on.
Daniel's story got its start in the original The Karate Kid movie in 1984, and this is the film that people tend to be most familiar with. Since Johnny Lawrence was the villain of this film, Cobra Kai finds its foundation here, but as the series has gone on, characters like Chozen from The Karate Kid Part 2 and Terry Silver from The Karate Kid Part 3 joined in on the fun, too. With them came further Cobra KaiEaster Eggs from some of the more obscure moments of The Karate Kid movies that many would have missed.
It's easy to ignore episode titles when binging Cobra Kai, but many of them are secretly connections to key moments throughout the Karate Kid movies. The first instance is the series pilot, "Ace Degenerate," which references Johnny's claim that he is an "ex-degenerate" in The Karate Kid. Further examples include season 3, episode 3, titled "Now You're Gunna Pay," a reference to Johnny's movie line, and the Cobra Kai season 2, episode 4 title, "The Moment of Truth," which is named after the song featured in The Karate Kid by Survivor.
When Johnny began teaching Miguel karate in Cobra Kai season 1, he used many techniques that John Kreese and Terry Silver used when training Daniel in The Karate Kid Part 3. Not only is this a fun reference to the montage in the threequel, but it makes a lot of sense. We never saw Johnny begin his training at Cobra Kai, so when imagining how the man would teach his own pupil, Cobra Kai writers used Daniel's short stint at the dojo for reference instead. It's easy to assume that the methods would have been similar.
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