History Film / TheKarateKidPartIII

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** Similar to Ali and Kumiko, Jessica Andrews is set up as a love interest for Daniel. However, Jessica quickly makes up with her ex, so Daniel and Jessica remain JustFriends.

** [[spoiler:Elizabeth-Anne Ronney, who Jessica badmouths because she stole her boyfriend. Lizzie-Anne makes her grand appearance when Amanda reunites with Jessica in Ohio, and boy does she live up to the shit talk from Jessica, even ''34 years'' later]].

* ObviouslyEvil: Terry. They have multiple scenes entirely dedicated to piling on gratuitous ForTheEvulz moments for the guy. He's an obnoxious rich guy who dumps toxic waste wherever he can get away with it, bribes judges, makes sure to hire "Karate's Bad Boy" and is in touch with local "bad boys" to hook him up with his mooks. Oh, and he wants to destroy the lives of a kid and an elderly man because they inadvertently humiliated his friend Kreese when Kreese tried to destroy their lives. Throw in the ponytail and he's basically live action [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet Looten Plunder]].

* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: The plan to rejuvenate interest in Cobra Kai decides to focus exclusively on revenge against Daniel and Mr. Miyagi for their victory in the previous years All-Valley Tournament. This involves Kreese faking his death, regular harassment of the two, forcing Daniel to sign the entry form by threat of death and recruiting him for training that compromises his existing skill set. While at the tournament they have Barnes [[DownToTheLastPlay gain points and lose points to put it into sudden death for maximum drama]], which only sets up Daniel's Sudden Death victory in a fight in which he had been completely outclassed, causing Cobra Kai to instantly lose all credibility and sponsorships. Any sane person would probably just, you know, use a new unstoppable student to sweep the tournament and leverage all that publicity to better enfranchise the dojo and not spend so much effort being a cartoon villain. ''Series/CobraKai'' revealed that their actions in this film resulted in a lifetime tournament ban of Cobra Kai and any descendant dojos (due to Johnny's separation from Kreese, Silver and Barnes from the events of this film he successfully acquired entry).

* LendingABackhand: Terry Silver offers to train Daniel. During the training he gets Daniel to cause himself physical harm punching boards and steers Daniel away from Mr Miyagi's teaching, all to separate him from his support group and make him weaker for the showdown with Bad Boy Barnes.

* MotiveDecay: Terry does what he does out of friendship and loyalty to his friend, John. The opening scenes of the movie actually do a good job of driving this home. Yet he's the one who comes up with the idea of completely destroying Daniel and Miyagi, and his motivation ends up devolving completely into this.

** When Silver introduces himself to Daniel and Mr. Miyagi, he claims that he was a student of Kim Sun-Yung. It's understandable that Daniel (and even the audience as well) would assume it's complete and utter bullshit since Silver was feigning civility, [[spoiler:but ''Series/CobraKai'' Season 5 confirms he is real, being Kreese and Silver's master, and the progenitor of "The Way of the Fist" style of karate]].