No mercy takes a new meaning .There are few TV villains that I have truly grown respect for and can anticipate their next moves. Many times they are on huge shows where they are given the chance to shine. I always think of the villains from The Walking Dead specifically my baseball bat wielding fave Negan. Or I think of The Night King from Game of Thrones. Or if you really want to get nerdy with me the Fire Lord from Avatar: The Last Airbender voiced by Mark Hamill if you can believe it.
But theres one villain from a current Netflix series that makes me rethink every other television villain that I have come to love and that is John Kreese from Cobra Kai played by Martin Kove.
The show is heading into its sixth and final season and through several seasons of the show he has slowly turned into my new favorite villain on television. Today we are going to go over why. Look I will be the first to say that I do love character development. I am a huge fan of character arcs. I have been for many years. A big thing for me is that I sometimes do like when villains end up turning good. Its a major reason why I love Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender so much.
But man Kreese truly does just stick to what he believes in and does not give a flying you know what about you. I think thats something I genuinely like about him that his motives really have not changed at all. The thing about Terry Silver the other prime antagonist of Cobra Kai is that he always wanted to go bigger. To basically take over the world so much so that he was willing to take Kreese out in order to do it.
Kreese was never like that. Did he want domination over karate? Yeah, of course he did. To the extent that Silver wanted it? I dom not believe he ever wanted to take it that far. Even with that in mind he is willing to do whatever it takes in order to make his own dreams come true regardless of the and we rarely see him stray from this. I will be the first to say that I have never been a huge fan of people using kids. Oftentimes the kids are unaware of the severity of the situation and do not really know what to do. Thats sort of how I looked at the Cobra Kai kids when they first started out. Kreese knew exactly what he was doing, however.
He did not just use the kids. He molded them into what he wanted. He turned these kids against their friends because he wanted them to believe they were the best in the world and that there should be no other dojo in the Valley that could compete with them. The Cobra Kai mentality is what led to Dimitri getting his arm broken by Eli in the first place. Its what led to the Tory and Sam feud. Its the reason for all the drama. You see thats what Kreese wants. He thrives off of this rivalry because he knows that it makes his students better. It makes them angrier and gives them a no mercy mentality that he wants them to keep. Its truly what changed the game.
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