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Cobra Kai Season 6 Drops A Big Clue Johnny Will Be A Miyagi-do Sensei When The Show Ends

William Zabka’s Johnny Lawrence has had a tumultuous history with Miyago-do karate since long before Cobra Kai began, but the show has provided a subtle clue that suggests he will remain associated with the dojo when Netflix’s Karate Kid spinoff show concludes in 2025. Although Johnny appears to have fought his demons and joined forces with Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso in training their students in the art of Miyagi-do, Zabka’s character’s allegiance with his on-again/off-again nemesis remains, at times, as uneasy as ever. However, Cobra Kai has already teased the partnership is here to stay this time.

With Cobra Kai ending and Karate Kid: Legends boasting a 2025 release date, the Netflix sequel show’s final run of episodes is setting up the franchise’s new era. Even though Pat Morita’s Mr. Miyagi is dead, his style of combat still permeates the saga, creating and solving several of the conflicts between various characters. By the end of Cobra Kai season 6, part 2, tensions have escalated so much between Miyagi-do and the other Sekai Taikai teams that the unthinkable has happened, so Johnny will need to remain loyal to his current dojo now more than ever.

Daniel Adding The Eagle To The Miyagi-Do Logo Quietly Confirms His Partnership With Johnny Will Last This Time Around

Cobra Kai season 6 opens up with the signature friction between Johnny and Daniel that makes the show so entertaining. The topic of disagreement revolves around Johnny’s accusation that Daniel doesn’t respect Eagle Fang karate, and is attempting to sweep aside the defunct dojo’s brief legacy in favor of Miyagi-do. As a peacemaking gesture, Daniel makes the huge decision to add an eagle to the iconic Miyagi-do logo, which for many years had simply depicted a bonsai tree against a backdrop of the sun.

Despite Johnny’s promise that he would leave Miyagi-do after the Sekai Taikai was over, that was always unlikely to happen.

The bird flying over the tree may seem like a minor addition, but it can’t have been an easy change for Daniel to make. From a certain perspective, adding the eagle could be seen as defacing the original logo. Removing the Eagle Fang iconography would undercut the significance of adding it at all, so it must remain in place for it to maintain the reveal’s poignancy. So, despite Johnny’s promise that he would leave Miyagi-do after the Sekai Taikai was over, that was always unlikely to happen. If Johnny walks away from his partnership with Daniel, the eagle means nothing.

Cobra Kai’s Sekai Taikai Has Made Sure To Give Daniel & Johnny More Common Enemies Than Ever Before

Although Johnny and Daniel have had periods of collaboration throughout Cobra Kai, they’re quite often a small twist away from turning against each other again. In other words, they’ve spent about as much time as enemies or rivals as they have as allies. Cobra Kai season 6 has made sure to give them both plenty of figures to join forces against, meaning their squabbles and old arguments can be left in the past while the senseis remain united in the face of true threats to Miyagi-do and the dojo’s students.

If Thomas Ian Griffith’s return as Terry Silver wasn’t enough to keep Daniel and Johnny together, the ongoing threat of Martin Kove as Sensei Kreese makes it even less likely that the Miyagi-do senseis can safely part ways. Not only that, but the introduction of Lewis Tan as Sensei Wolf adds a third villain into the mix, meaning Johnny really cannot afford to leave Daniel open to so many threats. So, hopefully, Johnny and Daniel finish Cobra Kai season 6 on the same team, because the alternative doesn’t bear thinking about.

Karate Kid: Legends’ Storyline Suggests Johnny’s Miyagi-Do Involvement Will Be Bigger Than Ever

2025’s Karate Kid: Legends has been confirmed to be set three years after the upcoming Cobra Kai finale. The movie will be largely separate from the Netflix show but will feature the return of Macchio as Daniel LaRusso alongside Jackie Chan’s Mr. Han from the 2010 remake. Legends will be set in Beijing, and if Miyagi-do is still operating as a practicing dojo, Daniel will obviously be unable to lead his students while he is in China. So, he’ll need a sensei to take over while he’s away, and Johnny is the perfect choice.

It’s yet to be confirmed if Zabka will appear in Karate Kid: Legends, but those coordinating the franchise have been very clear about the limited number of crossovers from Cobra Kai. So, it’s perhaps unlikely that Johnny will feature in any meaningful way. That being said, it’s still exciting to think that Zabka’s character will be left in charge as Miyagi-do’s primary sensei, especially when it’s considered that Legends is set so long after Cobra Kai, and therefore, how much more familiar he will be with Mr. Miyagi’s style of karate.

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