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** Silver convinced Stingray he can come back to Cobra Kai if he allows him to beat him up and tell the police Kreese did it. Stingray would later warn Daniel, Amanda, and Carmen about Cobra Kai's ambush on their kids and tell the cops what Silver really did, get him in further trouble.


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* QuantityVsQuality: Despite Cobra Kai having the bigger number than them, Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang managed to hold their own long enough to find a video evidence of Silver's actions, uploading the video online, and playing the video to Cobra Kai thanks to their teamwork and being trained to fight as a team.

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* FailedToCheckASpot: After Robbie takes out what appears to be the only security camera in Silver's office, the teens believe that they'll be able to get away with their plan unseen. What they do not know is that there is a hidden camera in the Cobra on the wall behind them, allowing Silver to see what they are up to.

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* FailedToCheckASpot: FailedASpotCheck: After Robbie takes out what appears to be the only security camera in Silver's office, the teens believe that they'll be able to get away with their plan unseen. What they do not know is that there is a hidden camera in the Cobra on the wall behind them, allowing Silver to see what they are up to.



* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Daniel defeats Silver in their final fight using the [=QuickSilver=] method, indirectly taught to him.

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: HoistByHisOwnPetard:
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Daniel defeats Silver in their final fight using the [=QuickSilver=] method, indirectly taught to him.


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* SunglassesAtNight: As Stingray drives Daniel, Amanda, and Carmen to the Cobra Kai Dojo, he puts his sunglasses on while he's driving at night. This makes everyone in the car nervous.
-->'''Daniel:''' What are you doing? It's pitch black.\\
'''Stingray:''' Stingrays see better in the dark.
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* CrazyPrepared: When Barnes, Chozen and Johnny go to confront Silver at his house, all of his instructors are already there.


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* KarmaHoudini: Kyler and the other Cobra Kais all get off without so much as a slap on the wrist despite numerous criminal actions. Kyler even plays victim.

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* FailedToCheckASpot: After Robbie takes out what appears to be the only security camera in Silver's office, the teens believe that they'll be able to get away with their plan unseen. What they do not know is that there is a hidden camera in the Cobra on the wall behind them, allowing Silver to see what they are up to.



* TemptingFate: After taking out a security camera in Silver's office, the teens sarcastically wonders what could wrong with breaking and entering. What they do not know is that there is a hidden camera in the Cobra on the wall behind them, allowing Silver to see what they are up to.
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* TemptingFate: After taking out a security camera in Silver's office, the teens sarcastically wonders what could wrong with breaking and entering. What they do not know is that there is a hidden camera in the Cobra on the wall behind them, allowing Silver to see what they are up to.
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* SequelHook: Kreese breaks out of prison, intending to continue his karate war against Daniel and Johnny.
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* BittersweetEnding: Leaning very heavily to the sweet end. Silver is finally exposed thanks to Daniel, Stingray, and the kids and is sent to jail while all of Cobra Kai's students quit after becoming disillusioned. Johnny, Chozen, and Mike manage to survive their fight, with Mike also planning to use a valuable painting from Silver's house to get his finances back in order. Sam and Miguel get back together while Robby and Tory reaffirm their relationship. However, while Robby and Kenny are on the road to fixing their friendship, Kenny still needs time to process everything that happened and leaves. Lastly, Kreese has escaped from prison and, having learned nothing from his ordeal, is ready to continue his war against Johnny and Daniel.

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* BittersweetEnding: Leaning very heavily to the sweet end. Silver is finally exposed thanks to Daniel, Stingray, and the kids and is sent to jail while all of Cobra Kai's students quit after becoming disillusioned.disillusioned, effectively putting an end to this expanded version of the dojo. Johnny, Chozen, and Mike manage to survive their fight, with Mike also planning to use a valuable painting from Silver's house to get his finances back in order. Sam and Miguel get back together while Robby and Tory reaffirm their relationship. And with Sam and Tory and Tory and Devon patching things up, most of the major feuds between the teens are finally settled. However, while Robby and Kenny are on the road to fixing their friendship, Kenny still needs time to process everything that happened and leaves. Lastly, Kreese has escaped from prison and, having learned nothing from his ordeal, is ready to continue his war against Johnny and Daniel.Daniel, causing the two of them to realize their karate problems aren't over yet.
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* OnlySaneMan: Daniel tries to convince Johnny, Chozen, and Mike that confronting Silver at this moment would be near suicidal. Sadly, the trio is too drunk and pissed off to listen.

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* WorfHadTheFlu: Thanks to his fight with Chozen and having his actions exposed to his students, Silver is still exhaust from their fight and [[VillainousBreakdown isn't thinking straight]] which makes it easy for Daniel, who hasn't been in any recent fights and is clear-headed, to take him down.

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* WorfHadTheFlu: WorfHadTheFlu:
** Silver is a near-match for Chozen as the latter has been drinking heavily not but an hour or so ago given Chozen's decades of abstinence means that he likely has pretty low alcohol tolerance compared to Johnny, Daniel, and possibly Mike Barnes.
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Thanks to his fight with Chozen and having his actions exposed to his students, Silver is still exhaust from their fight and [[VillainousBreakdown isn't thinking straight]] which makes it easy for Daniel, who hasn't been in any recent fights and is clear-headed, to take him down.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Daniel defeats Sliver in their final fight using the Quicksilver method, indirectly taught to him.

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Daniel defeats Sliver Silver in their final fight using the Quicksilver [=QuickSilver=] method, indirectly taught to him.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Daniel defeats Sliver in their final fight using the Quicksilver method, indirectly taught to him.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Demetri interrupts Eli's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to point out he actually hasn't beaten Kyler in a fight, Eli tells him he'll get his chance. Moments later Demetri does and becomes the latest of Kyler's former victims to kick his ass.


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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Eli gives one to Kyler, pointing out that for all of his talk, he's just a MilesGloriosus who continually antagonizes people who eventually wind up kicking his ass and is too stupid to learn his lesson.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the Cobra Kais learn the truth about the outcome between Tory and Sam's match in the previous All-Valley Tournament, they all discard their Cobra Kai gear as they leave the dojo.
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* WorfHasTheFlu: Thanks to his fight with Chozen, Silver is still exhaust from their fight which makes it easy for Daniel to take him down.

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* WorfHasTheFlu: WorfHadTheFlu: Thanks to his fight with Chozen, Chozen and having his actions exposed to his students, Silver is still exhaust from their fight and [[VillainousBreakdown isn't thinking straight]] which makes it easy for Daniel Daniel, who hasn't been in any recent fights and is clear-headed, to take him down.

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* CatharsisFactor: InUniverse. After Demetri gets his turn to kick Kyler's ass, he excitedly admits to Eli that it felt very satisfying.


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* InUniverseCatharsis: After Demetri gets his turn to kick Kyler's ass, he excitedly admits to Eli that it felt very satisfying.
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* BlatantLies: In the aftermath of the fight at Cobra Kai, Kyler tells the police that he rescued everyone from that place and knew it was cultish.


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* WorfHasTheFlu: Thanks to his fight with Chozen, Silver is still exhaust from their fight which makes it easy for Daniel to take him down.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: After Silver's actions has been exposed to the other students, all of them quit, including Kyler and several others who are bullies.


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* WouldntHurtAChild: When Daniel, Amanda, Carmen, and Stingray make it to the Cobra Kai Dojo, they are blocked off by four Cobra Kai students and Daniel doesn't want to fight a bunch of kids. Stingray on the other hand, [[WouldHurtAChild doesn't have this problem]] and he takes them all down.
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* MundaneSolution: When the Miyagi-dos/Eagle Fangs arrive at Cobra Kai to steal the footage, Robby initially plans on deactivating the security system and picking the locks so they can get inside. Instead, Tory just uses her keycard to unlock the door.

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'''Eli:''' You know what? That's life. You win some, you lose some, but you gotta move on. You never did. You're still pulling the same old bully act as always. You know, everyone you bullied has kicked your ass.

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'''Eli:''' You know what? That's life. You win some, you lose some, but you gotta move on. You never did. You're still pulling the same old bully act as always. You know, everyone you bullied has kicked your ass.\\
'''Demetri:''' I haven't.\\
'''Eli:''' You'll get your chance. Kyler's too ''stupid'' to ever learn his lesson.



* CatharsisFactor: InUniverse. After Demetri gets his turn to kick Kyler's ass, he excitedly admits to Eli that felt very satisfying.

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* CatharsisFactor: InUniverse. After Demetri gets his turn to kick Kyler's ass, he excitedly admits to Eli that it felt very satisfying.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Perhaps the most extreme example in the show so far -- having just partied and downed copious amounts of booze, Daniel, Chozen, and Johnny were absolutely no condition to storm Terry Silver's residence. Unfortunately, Daniel is the only one to understand that. Mike Barnes is implied to possibly be under the influence of ''some'' kind of substance as well.
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* BittersweetEnding: Leaning very heavily to the sweet end. Silver is finally exposed thanks to Daniel, Stingray, and the kids and is sent to jail while all of Cobra Kai's students quit after becoming disillusioned. Johnny, Chozen, and Mike manage to survive their fight, with Mike also planning to use a valuable painting from Silver's house to get his finances back in order. Sam and Miguel get back together while Robby and Tory reaffirm their relationship. However, while Robby and Kenny are on the road to fixing their friendship, Kenny still needs time to process everything that happened and leaves. Lastly, Kreese has escaped from prison and, having learned nothing from his ordeal, is ready to continue his war against Johnny and Daniel.
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* CatharsisFactor: InUniverse. After Demetri gets his turn to kick Kyler's ass, he excitedly admits to Eli that felt very satisfying.


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* ChekhovsSkill: Eli, Demetri, and Anthony's computer skills come in handy when the first two steal the security footage from Silver's system and then Anthony uploads it to the dojo's TV screen for the students to see.


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* IWarnedYou: After Kenny sees the footage of Silver admitting to bribing the referee to Tory, he looks at Robby in shock while Robby just silently replies with an expression conveying this.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When Bert asks Mitch how he could betray them, Mitch points out the Miyagi-dos/Eagle Fangs' treatment of him, particularly calling him "Penis Breath", didn't do much to make him want to stay loyal to them.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Kyler taunts Eli over his loss to Kenny in the Sekai Taikai tryouts, but Eli is unfazed and concedes his loss is what it is, while also calling out on Kyler for not moving past his bullying ways.

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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Kyler taunts Eli over his loss to Kenny in the Sekai Taikai tryouts, but Eli is unfazed and concedes his loss is what it is, while also calling out on Kyler for not moving past his bullying ways.ways and for not being nearly as tough as he acts like he is.
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* BrokenPedestal: When the Miyagi Dos and Eagle Fangs show the Cobra Kai students that Silver rigged the tournament to let Tory win, they are all horrified by the truth and leave the Dojo in disgust, throwing away their Cobra Kai gear in the process.
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* Fingore: Ouch. Poor Sensei Odell loses a pinkie to a poorly-aimed katana swipe to Johnny, from one of the other Cobra Kai senseis, no less.

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* Fingore: {{Fingore}}: Ouch. Poor Sensei Odell loses a pinkie to a poorly-aimed katana swipe to Johnny, from one of the other Cobra Kai senseis, no less.
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* Fingore: Ouch. Poor Sensei Odell loses a pinkie to a poorly-aimed katana swipe to Johnny, from one of the other Cobra Kai senseis, no less.


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* KansasCityShuffle: While the therapist leans in close, Kreese steals her badge from her pocket as part of his big gambit to escape.
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* TheDogBitesBack: After all the hellish training and torture he was put through back in 1985, Daniel finally gets back at Silver and defeats him in a one-on-one fight.
* FaceHeelTurn: Mitch returns to the Cobra Kais at the last minute; he claims his reason for doing so is because no one in Silver's Cobra Kai addresses him as "[[EmbarrassingNickname Penis Breath]]."

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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Kyler taunts Eli over his loss to Kenny, but Eli is unfazed and concedes his loss is what it is, while also calling out on Kyler for not moving past his bullying ways.

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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Kyler taunts Eli over his loss to Kenny, Kenny in the Sekai Taikai tryouts, but Eli is unfazed and concedes his loss is what it is, while also calling out on Kyler for not moving past his bullying ways.


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* ItsPersonal: Johnny, Chozen, and Barnes are all eager to get back at Silver for their own personal reasons.


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* PrecisionFStrike: Two of them in the same episode.
** Daniel gets a third one this season, claiming Johnny, Chozen, and Barnes are "out of their fucking minds" for going to confront Silver at his dojo.
** Silver takes the fourth one of this season, when he details the contents of the message he plans to send to Miyagi-Do/Eagle Fang prior to the Sekai Taikai.
--->''"Stay the fuck out of our way, or someone will get hurt."''
* WhatTheHellHero: Barnes chews out on Daniel for getting involved in his life and his former nemesis being the reason he lost his furniture store.
-->''"My life was fine before you showed up. Next thing I know, there's a pile of ashes where my store was? That place was leveraged to the hilt, Daniel."''
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Kyler taunts Eli over his loss to Kenny, but Eli is unfazed and concedes his loss is what it is, while also calling out on Kyler for not moving past his bullying ways.
-->'''Kyler:''' You heard Kenny when he dropped your ass. Just a Faux-Hawk now, boy.\\
'''Eli:''' You know what? That's life. You win some, you lose some, but you gotta move on. You never did. You're still pulling the same old bully act as always. You know, everyone you bullied has kicked your ass.


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* GoThroughMe: Devon (alongside Tory) holds back Kim Da-Eun in Sam's place while she rushes to her little brother's side to protect him from the Cobra Kais.
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Daniel, Johnny, and Chozen take the fight to Silver and his dojo to expose him and his true colors.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Just as a Cobra Kai sensei is about to stab Johnny, Barnes arrives in the nick of time and knocks out the remaining two senseis present.
* ChekhovsGun: The training that the Miyagi-Dos and Eagle Fangs underwent from Chozen's instruction comes into play here, where they protect Anthony from the Cobra Kais while he handles the tablet uploading the footage of Silver.
* DelayingAction: The Miyagi-Dos and Eagle Fangs all hold back the Cobra Kais to stop them from reaching Anthony while he is handling the tablet uploading the footage of Silver for everyone to see.
* HeroicSecondWind: Johnny is outnumbered by multiple other Cobra Kai senseis and on the verge of death, bloodied and beaten. Seeing the ultrasound scan of his and Carmen's unborn child brings him back to his feet and fight back against the senseis and knock nearly all of them out.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Silver gets away with Stingray's beating at the end of the previous season after framing Kreese for the misdeed. He finally gets arrested after Daniel takes him down in a one-on-one fight, following a revised statement from Stingray.
* NotQuiteDead: Kreese was assumed dead at the beginning of the episode after he was repeatedly stabbed by another inmate and left him in a bloody mess. Turns out the "blood" on Kreese was melted Jell-O, and Kreese is alive and well.
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