Daniel attracted bullies, now full-blown psychopaths

Update - I had to watch Seagal’s Out For Justice as a palette cleanser after the KK Trilogy - in which Daniel is relentlessly bullied, battered and almost murdered by three movies worth of bloodthirsty psychopaths bent on destroying the poor kid.

Specifically, the scenes where Seagal takes on entire room-fulls of bad guys - that’s the kind of treatment Danny Larusso should have unleashed on his enemies. Highlights were planting a man’s face into the floor of a butcher’s shop, then pinning his hand to the wall with a meat cleaver, followed by punching him in the dick. That would have been a fitting punishment for Chozen.

Rolling a pool ball into a cloth and clubbing multiple bad guys about the head with it, including smashing out a guy’s teeth, was exactly what Johnny and the gang needed in KK1 to cut them down to size.

He blows one guys leg clean off with a shotgun - that would sort out John Creese.

Terry Silver would have benefitted from Seagal’s treatment of Ritchie - throwing him around the kitchen like a rag-doll every time Silver goes to attack, peppered with flurries of quick punches, finishing him off with a corkscrew through the brain, then pumping several magnum rounds into his corpse as a final farewell.

If Daniel could park Miyagi and spend a weekend learning some tricks from a Seagal, I think he’d find the bullies would start to back off.

You're a little backwards - bullies seek people out. It's not t he weaker/nicer person's fault, it's the bully's.

Do you really think Terry, Kreese and Mike would let Daniel and Miyagi live after he beats Mike in the tournament? Terry is rich and powerful enough to have Daniel and/or Miyagi rubbed out, or at the very least permanently maimed, and make it look like an accident.

Yeah, there's no way Whinielle and Miyagi got out of the parking lot alive.

I can just imagine the scene:

(The custodians just finished rolling up the mats and stacking the chairs-- Pat Johnson is about close up and turn off the gymnasium lights and notices Whinielle and Miyagi still standing around nervously holding the trophy.)

Pat Johnson: Are you gentleman going to be on your way? The gym is closing.

Whinielle: Think you could let us stay awhile? Maybe we could help clean up... then later..

Pat Johnson: Haven't you got any place to go son?

Whinielle: It's not that it's just..... hey do you know where the restrooms are?

Pat Johnson: Right out that door and to your left.

Whinielle: Great thanks. (To Mr. Miyagi) I just bought us some time... we can take a really long time in the restroom and maybe no-one will notice and we can stay here overnight?

Miyagi: Aye Whinielle-San.. we leave this gym we dead. We make new life in gym restroom.

(Several hours later.. a pizza delivery man show up at the gym).

"I have an order for a Mr. Mee Ah Gee?

(Whinielle pokes his head out of the restroom) "Hey! It's Miyagi!" That food is for us. Give it to us in here and.... uh.... you never saw us"

"It’s hard to see how Daniel maintains his upbeat nature. Given that the films take place immediately after each other, the guy hasn’t had a break from being pulverised by different violent gangs everywhere he goes since he arrived in L.A., it’s enough to have turned anyone into a super-villain."

To be fair there's about a 5 or 6 month gap between the end of 1 and the start of 2. As far as we're aware, he has a happy few months with Ali and no drama. Maybe we need another movie - The Karate Kid 1.5 to fill in the blanks here.

Daniel is a kind, generous, fun, likeable young fella

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