“Cobra Kai’s” fourth season launched on Netflix on Friday, December 31 and it saw a classic villain return from the “Karate Kid” films, but he’s not the first.
The fourth season of Cobra Kai launched on Netflix on Friday, December 31 and it saw the return of classic Karate Kid villain Terry Silver. Silver, portrayed once again by Thomas Ian Griffith, originally appeared in the ill-received The Karate Kid: Part III, and in the new season he joins forces with John Kreese (Martin Kove). But Griffith isn’t the only star from the original Karate Kid film franchise to return to the Netflix hit series, and here Newsweek will reveal all the cast members who have returned. The Karate Kid himself Ralph Macchio has been part of the Cobra Kai family since it first began in 2018. Macchio once again plays Daniel LaRusso, who is now the owner of a successful car dealership and has a wife and two kids. The events of the spin-off series sees him reignite his former feud with Johnny Lawrence, which brings us to… William Zabka, like Macchio, returns to his iconic role of Lawrence for the show, which centers around the two rivals, and has starred in it since the beginning. Unlike LaRusso, Lawrence is down on his luck and only reopens the Cobra Kai dojo after he helps a teen fend off bullies using his karate skills, which he was a student of himself in the Karate Kid movies under John Kreese’s tuteladge.
