History Headscratchers / TheKarateKid

* How come Julie's grandmother agrees to leave her underage teenage grandaughter under the care of a old man she just recently met? We know that Mr. Miyagi is not a bad person but she didn't, things could go horribly wrong in a different scenario.

* How come Julie's grandmother agrees to leave her underage teenage granddaughter under the care of a old man she just recently met? We know that Mr. Miyagi is not a bad person but she didn't, things could go horribly wrong in a different scenario.

* How come Julie's grandmother agree to leave her underage teenage daughter under the care of a old man she just recently met? We know that Mr. Miyagi is not a bad person but she didn't, things could go horribly wrong in a different scenario.

* How come Julie's mother agree to leave her underage teenage daughter under the care of a old man she just recently met? We know that Mr. Miyagi is not a bad person but she didn't, things could go horribly wrong in a different scenario.

** Take into account that Kreese could have killed Johnny by strangling him. Daniel possibly thought that Kreese was really dangerous to be around me and if Mr. Miyagi killed him, it could have been seen in self-defense, as Kreese was willing to punch him despite being an older man.

** It may be a bit of a stretch to say that Mr. Miyagi "maimed" Kreese's hands in the fight. If this troper remembers correctly, Kreese maimed his own hands by punching out two car windows.

* In the original, isn't it pointed out in the final tournament that it's against the rules to kick someone in the face? Then, Daniel uses a crane kick to kick Johnny in the face, which causes him to win the tournament rather than be disqualified.

* Daniel asks Mr Miyagi why he didn't kill Kreese and Miyagi replied that making Kreese live with his shame was a worse punishment. Really? Why didn't Miyagi say something like "Whoa psycho! You don't go killing someone just because they started a fight with you in a parking lot. I maimed Kreese's hands in that fight and I actually feel pretty bad about that now that I think about it. But after that he wasn't a threat and me killing him would have been murder. You don't murder people. Didn't I teach you that Karate is for defense? Have you learned nothing?"
** It may be worth noting that this line isn't in the novelization.
** It may be a bit of a stretch to say that Mr. Miyagi "maimed" Kreese's hands in the fight. If this troper remembers correctly, Kreese maimed his own hands by punching out two car windows.
** Teenagers say stupid stuff but in Daniel's case, it was more the fact he wanted to know why Mister Miyagi showed mercy when Kreese was constantly showing it to be a philosophy he rejected.

* Kreese assaults Johnny by catching him in what is essentially a stranglehold, even going so far as to stop his other students from trying to come to Johnny's aid, and showing no signs that he will let Johnny go. If not for Miyagi's intervening, Johnny would have been seriously injured, or worse. How was Kreese going to explain that to Johnny's parents?
** Losing is Kreese's BerserkButton as we see when he seriously injures himself twice fighting Mister Miyagi. He probably should have gone to jail for both assaults as he's a dangerous, unstable man who orders the injury of teenagers.

* In the original, why is it that a rich man like Miyagi works as a maintenance man at a crappy apartment complex, I mean, aside from giving him the ability to meet young men?

* In Karate Kid 3, why is Daniel so scared when he was fighting Mike Barnes? He already fought Chozen before in Karate Kid 2, A BATTLE TO THE DEATH MIND YOU, and he was scared when some big mouthed idiot was scoring points and getting illegal blows on him that wouldn't kill him?

** Hopefully he realized his friend was every bit as much of a psycho he had been and took a good look at his life. He seemed on the verge of that before it became an IgnoredEpiphany.
** Since he appears in the season one finale of ''Series/CobraKai'', we may find out in season 2. Since Cobra Kai was banned from the All Valley Tournament as a result of the events of the third film, it's most likely that the dojo collapsed from its bad reputation.

** See above: It's not illegal for feet-to-face contact in most karate tournaments, just fist-to-face.
*** For the first question, he kicked Johnny in the chest with the crane kick, Johnny only grabbed his face because he landed head first on the mat.
*** You can clearly see him kick Johnny in the face. Go back and freeze frame it. Straight to the nose. Seeing this, he would have been disqualified. Ali explains the rules to him before the tournament: "Everything above your waist is a point. You can hit the head, sternum, kidneys, ribs." Ok - fair enough. However, according to the USANKF Sport Karate Rules (which the All Valley Karate Tournament would have most certainly been using) Article 8 states: "Traditional Karate techniques delivered full-power can cause extremely serious injury, even death. Karate competition is a sport, and for that reason some of the most dangerous techniques are banned and all techniques must be controlled." The crane kick is not only considered a dangerous technique - but Daniel completed it full force, with zero restraint or control. Boom - disqualified. I'm pretty sure this will get addressed in the new Cobra Kai series on Website/YouTube Red next month. #justiceforjohnny

*** You can clearly see him kick Johnny in the face. Go back and freeze frame it. Straight to the nose. Seeing this, he would have been disqualified. Ali explains the rules to him before the tournament: "Everything above your waist is a point. You can hit the head, sternum, kidneys, ribs." Ok - fair enough. However, according to the USANKF Sport Karate Rules (which the All Valley Karate Tournament would have most certainly been using) Article 8 states: "Traditional Karate techniques delivered full-power can cause extremely serious injury, even death. Karate competition is a sport, and for that reason some of the most dangerous techniques are banned and all techniques must be controlled." The crane kick is not only considered a dangerous technique - but Daniel completed it full force, with zero restraint or control. Boom - disqualified. I'm pretty sure this will get addressed in the new Cobra Kai series on YouTube Red next month. #justiceforjohnny

** Daniel's beef wasn't with Johnny alone, but with Johnny AND [[GangOfBullies his gang of fellow Cobra Kai]]. When Kreese agreed to the deal, he assumed Daniel would face some of the guys who were picking on him, maybe even score a win or two, but never believed Daniel would actually make it to the finals. Once he saw how formidable Daniel had become and realized this guy could steal the victory away from his dojo, Kreese ordered Bobby to take him out, since winning was the only thing Kreese really cared about.

** Daniel's beef wasn't with Johnny alone, but with Johnny AND [[GangOfBullies his gang of fellow Cobra Kai]]. When Kreese agreed to the deal, he assumed Daniel would face some of the guys who were picking on him, maybe even score a win or two, but never believed Daniel would actually make it to the finals. Once he saw how formidable Daniel has become and realized this guy could steal the victory away from his dojo, Kreese ordered Bobby to take him out, since winning was the only thing Kreese really cared about.

** Daniel actually won because of two reasons: 1. The fact all the house work bulked him up a bit as taught him technique. 2. The Cobra Kai Dojo's dishonorable tactics disqualified their second best guy and locked their best guy in a tactic that made him vulnerable to the Crane Kick. Had the Cobra Kai dojo fought fairly, Daniel probably wouldn't have made it past the semi-finals (he might have beaten Bobby or he might not have but Lawrence would have won without the Crane Kick "trick") but wouldn't have had the problems he had in the first place.