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 last episode of “Cobra Kai” season 6 half 2, titled “Eunjangdo,” Kwon is likely one of the most enthusiastic contributors within the all-out brawl began by the disqualified Russian Sekai Taikai group, and manages to combat nearly each distinguished character of the brand new technology within the span of mere minutes.
Nevertheless, his cellular, spin-heavy fashion ultimately meets its match within the season’s resident Ivan Drago expy, Axel Kovačević (Patrick Luwis). Bloodied and annoyed, Kwon grabs John Kreese’s (Martin Kove) fallen Eunjangdo blade that offers the episode its identify and performs his last, acrobatic flying assault — just for Axel to handily counter it. Kwon falls down, by chance stabs himself within the chest with the Eunjangdo, and lets out a bloodcurdling dying scream that shocks all the room. Cue shocked confusion and finish credit. Did that simply occur?
Killing such a distinguished character is a really wild strategy to finish the second a part of the ultimate season of “Cobra Kai.” As co-creator Hayden Schlossberg informed Selection, the factor of shock was extraordinarily deliberate too:
“We set Kwon as much as be the brand new massive, unhealthy antagonist going into this second block. For him to get killed by one other opponent is a shock we had been trying ahead to.”
Cobra Kai is finished tip-toeing round main character deaths
Many main “Cobra Kai” characters have been near dying in some unspecified time in the future. Choose an episode, and Miguel Diaz (Xolo Maridueña) may fall from a terrific peak after a combat with Robby Keene (Tanner Buchanan). Choose one other, and any given mixture of grownup senseis may try to inflict deadly injury with fists, ft, and even bladed weapons. Nevertheless, by the top of the season, probably the most clearly evil characters typically style defeat, the misguided ones come to their senses, and everybody survives to roundhouse kick one another one other day. Precise casualties are usually one thing like a flashback scene the place a youthful Kreese (Barrett Carnahan) is pressured to combat his much more evil captain (Terry Serpico) to the dying.
Season 6 is completely different. Right here, Mr. Miyagi’s (Pat Morita) massive, darkish secret is that he as soon as killed a person in Sekai Taikai. “Eunjangdo” even opens with a nightmare state of affairs during which Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) will get to expertise mentioned combat from the sufferer’s perspective — with an AI model of the useless Morita making an look for good measure — and closes with Kwon’s bloody on-screen dying. It is clear that the bets are properly and really off.
The ultimate season of “Cobra Kai” has been cut up into three elements, 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, probably the most murderous participant on the sector is no doubt Kreese, who by chance drops the fateful Eunjangdo on his strategy to kill his former good friend, Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith). Then once more, who is aware of what is going to occur and who could die when “Cobra Kai” season 6 half 3 arrives on February 13, 2025?
