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| “ | QUIET! | „ |
| ~ Johnny's most famous quote. |
| “ | Look… I wasn't taught the difference between mercy and honor and I paid the price for it. If I'm extra hard on you, it's only because you have the potential to be better than I ever was. You want that, don't you? | „ |
| ~ Johnny to Miguel Diaz. |
Johnny Lawrence is the deuteragonist of The Karate Kid franchise.
He is portrayed by William Zabka, and Owen D. Stone and Thomas Parobek as a child.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
The Karate Kid I[]
- He has taken care of his friends from childhood, and protected them when Mr. Miyagi attacked them (in defense on Daniel).
- He was appalled when Kreese ordered him to exploit Daniel's injured leg.
- He gave Daniel the All-Valley champion trophy, and even acknowleged him as a good fighter.
Cobra Kai[]
Season 1[]
- He defended Miguel from Kyler and his friends.
- He is responsible for dissolution of the relationship between Sam and Kyler.
- He opened back the Cobra Kai dojo to give the teenagers a chance of defending themselves from bullies.
- He forgave his son, Robby, after Miguel attacked him on the shoulder.
- He gave for Eli Moskowitz to find Confidence by his dojo, by presenting and calling himself "Hawk".
Season 2[]
- He gives the Cobra Kai dojo a harsh but necessary telling off for fighting dirty at the tournament.
- He tried to restore John Kreese to stability by returning him to the dojo.
- After "Hawk" destroyed the Miyagi dojo, he stopped the training to give the rioter to will turn himself.
- Went to see Tommy when he was dying so he could spend time with him and give him some comfort in his final days.
- He tried to fix the relationship with his son, Robby.
- When Carmen Diaz went on a date with a guy who thought of dumping her after she will get pregnant, he made him to finish with her.
- When he went on a date with Carmen, he tried to atone for not being a good husband and father. He also asks for Miguel's blessing to get it.
- Helped Robby take care of a drunk Sam.
Season 3[]
- He tried to find his son when he was wanted, even he collaborated with Daniel for this.
- He helped to give payment for the rehabilitation surgery for Miguel.
- He renewed his relationship with Ali Mills.
- He agreed to establish a dojo club together with his rival Daniel to oppose Kreese.
- He is responsible for Hawk's redemption, by reminding him of his original dojo friends.
- After Kreese's students tried to attack the " Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang" dojos, he went to avenge them by defeating Kreese in the Cobra Kai dojo.
- When he accidentally hitted on Robby, he stopped the fight to take care on him, what gave an advantage to Kreese.
Season 4[]
- He tried to comfort his son after the latter failed on Kenny's teaching.
- Comforts Carmen when she learns Miguel has left town.
Season 5[]
- When Miguel went on bus to Mexico, he came after him with Robby.
- He succeeded in helping Robby and Miguel after he lets them vent their anger. He then informs them that Carmen is pregnant by him.
- Comforts Daniel over his marriage breaking down.
- Tried to talk Daniel out of giving up and was amomg the people who inspired him to fight back against Siver.
- He tried to stop Terry Silver, besides Daniel and Chozen.
- He also fought against Silver's senseis, helped to stop them and risked his life for that. He even got power to defeat them with help from Mike Barnes at the last minute, only by thinking that his family needs him.
Season 6[]
- He declined Stingray's offer to retake Cobra Kai because the dojo is Kreese's legacy.
- He takes Chozen's advice and calms down after being insulted by the agent realtor on their second encounter.
- He gets a job at LaRusso Auto in order to have enough money to rent a house for his newfound family.
- He used Chozen's advice to sell a car to a customer on his first day.
- His fight with Mike Barnes helped the latter continue to be the changed man he is instead of going back to his 1985 self.
- He comforted Devon after she admits that she spiked Kenny’s water to secure a spot and feels guilty about it and advised her to come clean to Kenny.
- Despite the recent tensions between him and Daniel, he sent him a voicemail, admitting that he needs him in the next Sekai Taikai event, when the latter hasn’t returned from his Miyagi investigation.
- He makes amends with Miguel for not supporting him that much during the tournament.
- He tried to calm down the rude passenger, Stew, who’s been mistreating everyone on the plane including the flight stewardess.
- He’s impressed that Daniel went along with his and Chozen’s plan to mess with Kreese and Silver’s minds, by making them accuse each other for stealing Kreese’s eunjangdo knife.
- He consoles Daniel when he learns Mr. Miyagi killed his opponent in their Sekai Taikai match.
- He reconciled with Daniel after Miguel reminds them of their past success and everything they’ve done together.
- He saved Kreese from Silver during the Sekai Taikai all-out brawl.
- He set up a proposal for Carmen at the Diaz apartment. He successfully proposed her at the hospital and got married right after.
- After Robby's injury at the semifinals, he praised him for his performance.
- He made peace with Kreese when he apologized for his past actions.
- He thanked Daniel for reopening the old Cobra Kai dojo at the Reseda Strip Mall.
- While he understands that Miguel wants to avenge Robby's injury at the finals, he advised him to fight for himself.
- He took Daniel's advice to let go of his strike first mentally and switch into defense mode which allowed him to win his match against Wolf.
- He continues his partnership with Daniel, running Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- While having shed all of his villainous traits from the first movie, Johnny does many questionable acts throught Cobra Kai: getting drunk and beating up people while being drunk, being very reckless and far too hot-headed and impulsive, often endangering his students and the people around him, and being far too vindictive through the series towards Daniel, even though Daniel had initially squashed the beef.
- He is too vengeful, as he was ready to hit kids who broke his car, attacked Daniel and later John Kreese and Silver, and pushed pepper at his opponent's eyes.
- Some of his teaching methods can be very illegal and dangerous, such as teaching boys to jump high, hitting them hard and putting them to practice in a concrete truck.
- Johnny also breaks the law and performs forbidden actions many times, even during the training of his students, among other things. He also entered to a closed public pool to teach Miguel how to kick, stole a valuable object from his stepfather, and more.
- He has a Kick the Dog moment where he destroys a random person’s scooter (although the scene was played for laughs).
Trivia[]
- Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso are the only two Inconsistently Admirable characters in The Karate Kid.
External Links[]
- Johnny Lawrence on the Heroes Wiki
- Johnny Lawrence on the Villains Wiki
- Johnny Lawrence on the Shonen Rivals Wiki
 Inconsistently Admirable
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