![]() When Kreese beat Johnny (William Zabka) after he lost at the All-Valley Karate Tournament, the gang abandoned their sensei, but Dutch could have remained loyal. Dutch was arguably the worst bully of the original Cobra Kai members. There were rumors that Cobra Kai reached out to McQueen to reprise his role as Dutch in “Take a Right”, but he was too busy with McQueen Racing at the time. In 2010, he founded the custom car company McQueen Racing. He retired from acting around the turn of the millennium and has devoted himself to racecar driving since then. McQueen is the only son of Steve MeQueen. During that episode, the rest of the gang raise a toast to him, explaining his absence as due to his incarceration in Lompoc Federal Prison. When the Cobra Kai dojo-mates reunited in season 2, episode 5 “Take a Right,” Dutch was the only one missing from the original line-up. One other wild card for Kreese’s call recipient is Dutch (Chad McQueen) from the original films. Most fans wouldn’t even remember their names if not for the Internet. They wouldn’t have much impact without Silver or Barnes. What’s more, Barnes had two henchmen, supplied by Silver, Snake (Jonathan Avildsen) and Dennis (William Christopher Ford), but they were peripheral characters like Toshio and Taro. Most recently, he was a writer for the NBC TV series Grimm. Griffith retired from acting about a decade and a half ago and shifted to writing. Kanen is still acting with movie and TV roles as recent as 2019. Both Kanen and Griffith are still alive so maybe they both can return. The other great villain from The Karate Kid Part III was ‘Karate’s Bad Boy’ Mike Barnes (Sean Kanen) although he was Silver’s guy, not Kreese’s. Few fans would recognize if they reappeared in Cobra Kai and Kreese had no ties to the Okinawan Miyagi-Do villains so he wouldn’t call them. However, they were tertiary henchmen roles. ![]() But back to villains, Chozen had some dojo-mates, Toshio (Joey Miyashima) and Taro (Marc Hayashi), who helped him harass Daniel (Ralph Macchio). Those episodes also revealed that Yukie (Nobu McCarthy) died too, which is appropriate since McCarthy died in 2002. ![]() Sadly, Kamekona died in 1996, so even if Cobra Kai wanted to revisit him, he would have to be digitally reincarnated like Moff Tarkin (Peter Cushing) in Rogue One, and that doesn’t seem likely. But in the following episode, ‘Miyagi-Do,’ Chozen reveals to Daniel that he inherited the Miyagi-Do artifacts when Sato died. In season 3, episode 4 ‘The Right Stuff,’ Sato is mentioned when a villager explains the changes at Tomi Village to Daniel (Ralph Macchio). At the end of that film, Sato had mended his ways so he wouldn’t have returned as a villain anyhow. With the season 2 cameo of Chozen (Yuji Okumoto), Cobra Kai has exhausted all the villains from The Karate Kid Part II except for Sato (Danny Kamekona). The writers know that their audience is watching the callbacks closely and are game to toy with our expectations. Tory’s (Peyton List) mom was an expertly played red herring, which we’ll come back to in a moment. There are some other possibilities for a potential Cobra Kai season 4 villain for as we’ve already seen, Cobra Kai Easter egg clues can be intentionally misleading. Since the season 3 finale reveals that season 4 is headed to another yet showdown this tournament, Silver would be a good play.Īnd here is everything else we might be able to glean about Cobra Kai season 4. He helped to fund the Cobra Kai schools and was a major sponsor of the All-Valley Karate Tournament. In The Karate Kid Part III, Silver was a rich CEO of DynaTox Industries, an unscrupulous nuclear waste disposal company. We see Young Kreese’s (Barrett Carnahan) traumatic experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and how he saved his friend that he nicknamed Twig (Nick Marini). Season 3 of Cobra Kai explored Kreese’s backstory, adding credence to this postulation. The most likely candidate is Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith), Kreese’s war buddy and the main villain from The Karate Kid Part III. Long time,” Kreese (Martin Kove) says at the end of Cobra Kai season 3 when he calls someone mysteriously, as if to ask a favor. This article contains Cobra Kai season 3 spoilers.
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