History Characters / TheKarateKidEliMoskowitz

* BoisterousBruiser: A very energetic and fierce fighter who's far too reckless for his own good.

* TheBully: For most of the show, he relentlessly terrorizes people for no justifiable reason, especially Demetri who was his only friend. In Season 3, he becomes so violent and mean-spirited that he starts questioning if he really wants to be a bully and later redeems himself after [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame gaining Kyler's respect]] in the Season 3 finale.
* BullyAndWimpPairing: As soon as Eli became Hawk, he becomes Demetri's worst enemy after he writes a bad review of the Cobra Kai dojo which angers Hawk and for the most part tries to make Demetri's life miserable, but luckily they're able to reconcile, set aside their differences and fight as a team.

* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: His arc over Seasons 2 and 3. Kreese's influence turns him into a rebellious and callous bully and he completely forgets that the entire reason he took up karate was so he and his friends could defend themselves from their own bullies. [[spoiler:Thankfully, he finally realizes what he's become and he rejoins the protagonists so they can take down Kreese and Cobra Kai once and for all.]]

* FromNobodyToNightmare: He was the meekest and most bullied of Miguel's group of friends, but after undergoing the Cobra Kai training, he becomes a brutal bloodthirsty rebel that (alongside [[DarkActionGirl Tory]]) embraces the worst of Cobra Kai's tendencies.

* HotBlooded: Hawk is fiercely intense and quick to anger, which makes him a formidable foe but his overconfidence and low-impulse control is oftentimes his biggest flaw (besides his insecurities).

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: After becoming Hawk, he becomes a callous, hostile, and temperamental bully for the most part but in the Season 3 finale, he manages to reform after realizing that BeingEvilSucks.

* KubrickStare: As Hawk, he frequently makes this stare a lot when he's angry or wants to look intimidating.
* LargeHam: After becoming Hawk, his overly brash and boisterous attitude becomes a trademark personality that he proudly owns.

* ManlyManAndSensitiveGuy: Manly man Hawk is the tough guy while sensitive guy Demetri is the wimpy nerd.
* TheMcCoy: To Miguel's [[TheKirk Kirk]] and Demetri's [[TheSpock Spock]]. He takes Cobra Kai's attitude the most seriously to the point he is needlessly aggressive even in situations that can't be solved with karate. His decisions are based on how he feels [[spoiler:and only starts defecting from Kreese's teachings because he recruits bullies and Robby, who almost killed Miguel, which emotionally compromises him]].

* MoodSwinger: After becoming Hawk, he becomes more intense, bad-tempered, and unpredictable and he just shifts emotions constantly. When Demetri tries to get along with him again, at first he seems invested when Demetri talks about ''Series/DoctorWho'', but soon goes back to being resentful and pours beer on Demetri's head after he tells Hawk to move on when Moon dates another person after their break-up.

** Also the roguish male to Demetri's noble male as Hawk became more tough and aggressive while Demetri preferred to be more worldly and only fights back to defend himself.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: He starts wearing hoodies in these colors and re-dyes his mohawk red in order to maintain his image. It also showcases how much more vicious and aggressive he's become, and how far he's fallen when he's reveling in his newfound power.

* UngratefulBastard: One of his biggest faults as a character.
** He turns against Demetri who was his only friend when he was being bullied in school.
** He beats up Nate after they started a fundraiser to support Miguel (Hawk's friend) and steals the money so Cobra Kai takes the credit.
** As Johnny points out, Hawk would have been a bullied nobody without him and instead he turns against him as well and stays loyal to Kreese until the end of Season 3.
** He turns against Miguel briefly between Episode 7 and 10 of Season 3 (before his HeelFaceTurn during the house fight in the finale) even though Miguel is the one who inspired him to join Cobra Kai and learn karate in the first place.

** By Season 4, he suffers from this again after the Cobras sneak attack him and shave off his mohawk, sending him into a HeroicBSOD and believing he lost his confidence without it. It takes Demetri convincing him to join Miyagi-Do which helps improve his skillset but he still suffers from lack of confidence at the beginning of the All-Valley tournament. [[spoiler:With Moon giving him a pep talk and kissing him, he realizes he always had that confidence and manages to overcome his insecurities using all the lessons he learned from all three dojos to win the All-Male division against Cobra Kai during the tournament.]]

** However a more straight example would be Kyler Park, and this dates back possibly even ''before'' the events of ''Series/CobraKai.'' Kyler relentlessly bullies Eli because of the scar on his lip, which prompts the latter to join Cobra Kai after Miguel gives Kyler a beatdown. As a matter of fact, it's Kyler's bullying of Eli that molds Hawk into becoming just as bad as a bully that Kyler was to him (if not worse). Kyler himself joining Cobra Kai basically puts Hawk in a position to badly beat up his (now-former best friend) Brucks out of rage for their bullying towards him, and ends up being a contributing factor to Hawk defecting from Cobra Kai (especially when Kyler gets all happy with Hawk for Cobra Kai having the advantage in the [=LaRusso=] House Fight). Kyler and Eli end up facing against each other a few times after the latter joins to the Miyagi-Fangs, first in the All-Valley quarterfinals (where Eli shuts Kyler out fairly quickly), and second in the FinalBattle at Terry's flagship dojo (where Eli calls Kyler out for continuing to be a bully and not learning anything from his beatdowns). And in spite of all that, he continues to use his go-to "Lip" insult on Eli.

* BullyAndWimpPairing: As soon as Eli became Hawk, he becomes Demetri's worst enemy after he writes a bad review of the Cobra Kai dojo which angers Hawk and for the most part tries to make Demetri's life miserable but luckily they're able to reconcile, set aside their differences and fight as a team.

** Taking Robby's TrashTalk way more personally than Robby intended, leads him to be disqualified when he dislocated Robby's shoulder at the All Valley Under 18 Tournament.

** By Season 4, he suffers from this again after the Cobras sneak attack him and shave off his mohawk, sending him into a HeroicBSOD and believing he lost his confidence without it. It takes Demetri convincing him to join Miyagi-Do which helps improve his skillset but he still suffers from lack of confidence at the beginning of the All-Valley tournament. [[spoiler: With Moon giving him a pep talk and kissing him, he realizes he always had that confidence and manages to overcome his insecurities using all the lessons he learned from all three dojos to win the All-Male division against Cobra Kai during the tournament.]]

** He also falls into this with Miguel in the second half of Season 3. [[spoiler:After learning about everything Hawk and Cobra Kai have been doing to Miyagi-do during his recovery, supposedly on Miguel's behalf, Miguel tells him he does not approve and can't believe he would betray Johnny after everything he did for them. When Hawk refuses to listen and makes it clear he won't ditch Kreese and Cobra Kai for Johnny's new dojo, Miguel cuts him loose.]]

* TheWorfEffect: He is one of Cobra Kai's top three students, but loses three of his major bouts. Two of them were against Robby, who is just as well-trained (and certainly more competitively balanced), while in his first fight against Demetri, he seriously underestimated Demetri's developing martial prowess (and the weakness of TheBerserker against AwesomenessByAnalysis). Happens again in Season 5 where he struggles and even loses against opponents he easily schooled before, mostly because otherwise there wouldn't be any conflict since all the top karate students are on the same side and also to show Hawk grew out of his SoreLoser attitude, accepting that you can learn from defeat.
* WorfHadTheFlu: Hawk's fight against Kenny in Season 5 for the Sekai Taikai qualifiers is littered with this trope. Even counting Hawk's own overconfidence, the referee bribed by Silver discounted a point from him and let Kenny injure Hawk ''twice'' where both hits should be grounds for instant disqualification. Instead, the referee gave Kenny a warning for the first shot (which injured Hawk's leg and affected his performance) and for the second shot, forfeited Hawk for getting winded by an illegal attack while giving Kenny the victory.

!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JacobBertrand

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* BadassDecay: InUniverse. At the beginning of Season 3, Hawk learns that the combination of Demetri revealing his embarrassing secrets (particularly his bedwetting) at Moon's party and Demetri defeating him in the school brawl has caused his street cred to plummet. When he tries flirting with a group of freshmen girls, they laugh him off because of this.

* MeaningfulName: Hawks are natural predators to snakes, foreshadowing [[spoiler:Hawk's eventual HeelFaceTurn at the end of Season 3.]] This is reinforced in Season 4 where [[spoiler:Demetri telling Hawk that he is Miyagi-Do's best chance at defeating Cobra Kai's ace Robby Keene comes true when Hawk defeats Robby in the All-Valley Tournament and becomes the champion for the boys division.]]

* TwoferTokenMinority: Downplayed in that neither trait is given any plot importance. His surname of Moskowitz implies a Jewish background, and it's briefly mentioned that he might be on the autism spectrum. Neither of these aspects of Hawk's background have yet come up again. It should also be noted that he has a cleft lip, which is visible and brought up often.

* TheAce: Hawk effectively becomes this for the Miyagi-Do dojo in Season 4. [[spoiler:Upon having his true HeelRealization after the Cobra Kai students shaved his mohawk, Hawk decides he doesn't want to return to learning under Johnny since he reasons that was what led him down that path in the first place. Demetri eventually recruits him to learn under Miyagi-Do, and he ultimately ends up winning the males competition. His victory is attributed to being one of the only fighters to have learned from both Cobra Kai (and by extension, Eagle Fang) and Miyagi-do, making him a match for Robby -- another student of both dojos.]]

* AlwaysSecondBest: In terms of skill and dojo hierarchy, Hawk is this in Seasons 1-3 and the first half of Season 4. In Cobra Kai from Seasons 1-2, he is this to Miguel skill-wise but in a hierarchical sense, uses the students under him (particularly Mitch, Doug and Mikey) to call the shots more compared to Miguel, who has no interest in the karate gang-war between Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do. After Miguel's injury and leaving Cobra Kai in Season 3, Hawk was the best fighter and initially lead the students until Kreese's favoritism towards Tory and Robby along with the latter proving himself with the snake heist made it all but clear that Hawk was reduced to a pawn rather than a leader. In Season 4 in Eagle Fang, Hawk was still considered the second-best student after Miguel. It's averted as of the end of Season 4 and Season 5 where Hawk is now a student of Miyagi-Do and considered on par with [[spoiler:Robby, who rejoins the dojo]].