As part of the Gray-and-Gray Morality in Cobra Kai, the characters' motives for their actions can be only a matter of perspective, even when given a reason. Whether they are for the good or the bad, or a combination of both.
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In General
- How much are we supposed to reinterpret the events of the first movie in terms of Johnny and Daniel's perspectives? At first when Johnny retells the story with certain details omitted to make himself seem like the victim, it seems like a case of Unreliable Expositor. However, Ali’s advice that "there’s your (Daniel’s) side and your (Johnny’s) side and then there’s the truth" as well as her amicable reunion with both of them, which is very different to her attitude towards Johnny in the film, suggests that, while Johnny was still out of line, maybe the first movie is supposed to be reinterpreted as a memory from Daniel’s viewpoint rather than what objectively happened. For that matter, Ali is assumed to be an unbiased observer, but is that actually the truth? Or, more likely, does she also have certain biases, but is just not as angry at Johnny as she was 30 years before?
- How far are the students willing to go in their violence against each other? They go to very violent extremes but a common thing among them is that when not in adrenaline-fuelled fight mode, even the likes of Tory and Kyler are horrified when they witness someone getting severely brutalized. Tory is shown to be pretty disturbed watching Hawk beat up Brucks, despite having been remorseless moments earlier when she chipped her opponent's tooth, which makes one wonder whether she'd be able to live with herself if she were to actually hurt Sam to a near-fatal extent.
Johnny Lawrence
- How much of Johnny’s inability to move on from his loss to Daniel and subsequent downward spiral in life is due only to his immaturity? He was shown to be a surprisingly good sport at the end of the first movie handing him the trophy happily and saying good match. Then, immediately afterwards, his sensei and father-figure basically tried to kill him and called him a loser. Some could say that Johnny associated the trauma from this event with the loss (especially when one considers Johnny looked up to Kreese as a father figure), and that this was the real moment that broke him, especially since without the kind of mentorship that Miyagi could have provided, Johnny was unable to deal with such trauma in a healthy way.
- In the first episode, given that Johnny doesn't speak up until Kyler and his gang threw Miguel onto his car, would he have gotten involved at all if they hadn't touched the car? Or would he have stepped in anyway?
- In the very first episode, Johnny's You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! reaction to seeing Sam with Daniel at the dealership opens up the possibility that Johnny suspected Daniel knew about her involvement in the hit-and-run that damaged his car and only offered to fix it for free to cover it up, which might be why this seems to be the last straw for his decision to re-open Cobra Kai.
- When Johnny gives Miguel a biased retelling of the events of the first film, is he just trying to make himself look good to a kid who looks up to him, or does he actually believe that's how it happened?
Daniel LaRusso
- How much of a jerk is Daniel? While many of his interactions with Johnny seem to drip with being Innocently Insensitive or condescending, or seeing him as a threat, in the first episode, he also greets Johnny almost like an old friend (that said, he seems to be rubbing it in that he won, albeit fully admitting that the match was down to the wire and correcting his employees when they assume it was easy) and gives Johnny repairs for his Pontiac Firebird completely on the house. Additionally, the show is ambiguous as to how much of his vendetta against Cobra Kai is out of genuine concern about the influence the "No Mercy" mentality could have on today's youth and how much of it is just his ego refusing to allow any form of the dojo to return after defeating Kreese and Silver 34 years ago. Based on an early exchange between the pair, Daniel didn't begrudge Johnny the right to a business at all. He just felt that Johnny had even less motivation for wanting anything to do with this kind of a brand than he himself did.
- Daniel's scheme to manipulate Armand Zakarian into hiking up the rent on the strip mall where Cobra Kai is based. It's treated by the show as him wanting to get back at Johnny for spraypainting a penis on one of Daniel's billboards. But there's also the possibility he was exacting payback on Johnny for doing something that could've easily hurt Daniel by scaring away potential customers (Tom Cole makes fun of Daniel for it, which influences Daniel's decision to kick Cole's boba tea) and also lead to his kids getting bullied at school (which actually is happening as Kyler brought it up while he was bullying Sam).
- How much of Daniel's actions are shaped by his dealings with Johnny, and how much of them are shaped by what Terry Silver put him through?
- His reaction to finding out Robby is Johnny's son. Daniel is definitely angry to find out that the kid he's been training for all these months is the son of his childhood bully. But the fact that he says, “You lied to me! Was this all just a con? Some kind of sick mind game you tried to pull off on me?!” suggests that he's thinking Robby came to train under him as a way for Johnny to spite Daniel, much like how Silver manipulated Daniel by pretending to be his friend when he was actually just getting revenge for Kreese.
- His reaction to finding out that Kreese is back in the picture. Certainly Daniel is angry that Johnny seemingly lied to him about Kreese being dead. But his reaction when Johnny claims Kreese has turned a new leaf suggests that Daniel is frustrated that Johnny (who wasn't around to see the mind games Kreese and Silver played on Daniel) is unable to see what a snake Kreese is.
- Terry Silver's return in Season 4, and Daniel's reactions to and statements about him in Season 5, show that, yes, Daniel does have lots of unresolved issues with Silver and what the man put him through. It still remains uncertain how much of his initial issues with Johnny and Cobra Kai were displaced from Silver and how much was Daniel being legitimately concerned about Johnny restarting Cobra Kai in any form. Notably, even in Season 2, his immediate reaction to hearing that Kreese is gone is to assume that Johnny's pulling the same "he's dead" stunt that Silver pulled on him.
- When Daniel asks Kyler where his parents are from, is he just being Innocently Insensitive to assume Kyler's parents are immigrants, making him ultimately not that different from Johnny? Or is he desperate to connect with his daughter's boyfriend over a shared interest in Japanese culture? Either way, Kyler is totally oblivious to the intent of the question.
- Daniel: Where are your parents from?
Kyler: Irvine? I think.
- After the school brawl, is Daniel's guilt over the fact that his daughter got injured, that he trained the student who was responsible for Miguel getting crippled, or both? Is he upset about this or mostly upset about how the school fight reflects badly on him (ironically, something we also see Johnny having with regards to Robby)?
- During their tournament-style rematch, Daniel uses the pressure point technique on Johnny's arm, but notably lets him back off for a second instead of immediately going for his leg (which pretty much would've guaranteed a victory). Johnny also shakes off the technique in a very short amount of time, less time than it took Daniel to recover from Chozen using it on him. Is it because Daniel's still hesitant to fight Johnny, and pulled his punches? Is it because he didn't fully learn the technique and wasn't able to fully apply it? Was Johnny just naturally more resistant, as some people are, to pressure point strikes? Or did Daniel fully intend to take out Johnny's arm, but just missed the opportunity to take out his leg as well?
Miguel Diaz
- Before the final of the All Valley in Season 1, Miguel assures Johnny that he'll make sure neither Robby nor Daniel will go home a winner. Did he make a point of including Daniel because he wants to avenge Johnny's loss to him in 1984 by beating his student? Or is it because he partially blames Daniel and his vendetta against Cobra Kai for ruining his relationship with Sam?
- How accurate is Tory's accusation that Miguel only dated her to get Sam's attention? Miguel takes offense to this comment, but never explicitly denies it, and it's clear that throughout their relationship he is not over Sam at all, with their first kiss even coming moments after Miguel nearly kills the moment by bringing up Sam in the middle of a romantic night out Tory had taken him on. Did he have genuine feelings for Tory, was he making a poorly-judged attempt to do the healthy thing and move on, or was their whole relationship a deliberate Operation: Jealousy gambit? In Miguel's defense, his first reaction to kissing Sam at Moon's party is to feel guilty for cheating on Tory rather than wonder if he can get back together with Sam, even showing disgust when Hawk congratulates him for the kiss. For that matter, when he tells Robby, "[Sam] doesn't love you, she loves me" during the school brawl, does he really believe that? Or is he just saying whatever it takes to get in Robby's head while they're fighting, similarly to how he had previously mocked him by bragging about how he was using moves taught to him by Robby's dad?
Robby Keene
- Did Robby feel any guilt for the injuries he inflicted on Miguel, or was he more concerned about the possible consequences for him personally? Right afterwards, Robby goes on the run and doesn't want to surrender himself to the police and face a sentence in juvie. Later, when he catches Sam and Miguel in an intimate moment, his first reaction is to try to start another fight with Miguel, even though he had nearly killed the guy. In Season 5, Robby finally admits that he does feel very guilty for what happened with Miguel, saying he would take it back in a second if he could, and implies that his resentment of Miguel for "stealing" Johnny and Sam from him had prevented him from admitting this or dealing with it in a healthy way.
- Why didn't Robby join the other Cobra Kais for the LaRusso home invasion? Was it because, despite his anger at his father, Daniel, Sam and Miguel, he hadn't quite reached the point where he would be okay with breaking into Daniel's home and participating in a violent gang assault? Or was it because he recognised the plan for the insanity it was and decided not to risk violating his probation and winding up in juvie again if the LaRussos had decided to involve the police?
- When Robby tells Miguel that Johnny doesn't care about him at Stingray's party, does he really believe that, or is he just trying to mess with Miguel's head while they're fighting (similar to what Miguel previously did to him in the All-Valley finals and school brawl)? If the former, does Robby believe this because he thinks so little of Johnny that he assumes his dad has an ulterior motive for everything, including his relationship with Miguel? Or can he simply not accept Johnny's feelings as genuine since this would imply that Johnny was always capable of being a good father but was unwilling to put in the effort with Robby or felt Robby wasn't worth changing for?
Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz
- Did Hawk truly believe that Johnny was to blame for Miguel's critical injury or was it just to cover the guilt he was feeling for his friend's condition? Or did he just use what happened to Miguel as an excuse to abandon Johnny and in reality he just prefers Kreese's version of Cobra Kai?
- Did Hawk join the Miyagi-Do/Eagle Fang alliance at the end of Season 3 because he truly had a change of heart or did he simply feel he had nothing to lose because Robby was quickly replacing him as Cobra Kai's alpha? Also, if it was genuine, did beating up Brucks and intimidating Kyler act as Percussive Therapy and allow him to let go of his bitterness of being bullied in the past as he now feels he finally got well-deserved payback? Did Kyler treating him like a buddy while beating up Miguel ultimately make him realize that he'd become just like Kyler? Was it an example of Your Approval Fills Me with Shame? Or both? Season 4 proves that he's made a genuine Heel–Face Turn, but how much Kyler played a role in it is unclear. For that matter, how much did his breaking Demetri's arm lead to him realizing what a monster he's become?
Demetri Alexopoulos
- Is Demetri being bullied solely for being an awkward nerd? Or does he provoke others with his insults, sardonic attitude, constant complaining, and general unpleasantness? Also, in Season 1, why does he constantly discourage Miguel and Eli's attempts at learning karate and remind them how nerdy and unpopular they all are? Does he think standing up to their bullies will simply draw unwanted attention to themselves and lead them to be beaten up even worse, as happened to Miguel at the Halloween dance? Or is he worried that if they gain some self-confidence and popularity they will abandon him, and seeks to drag them down to his level to make sure he holds on to the few friends he actually has?
- Is Demetri's initial attraction to Yasmine a purely shallow one based on her being hot and popular, or does he appreciate her sarcastic sense of humor, similar to his own? The fact that he's aware of her reputation as "the meanest girl in school" indicates he does have some knowledge of her personality, and they do end up forming one of the more stable teenage relationships on the show, indicating they are a lot more compatible than they might seem.
Tory Nichols
- The school brawl:
- Tory's motives for starting the brawl. Tory chooses to attack Sam after seeing her drunkenly kiss Miguel, because she already hates Sam. But was her reason for fighting Sam entirely over the kiss, or was it to get revenge on Miguel for cheating on her with Sam? The fact that she chose to orchestrate a very public attack on Sam at school where others, especially Miguel, could witness her giving Sam a thrashing, rather than in private where no one could stop her, supports credibility to this. And there's also the fact that Tory doesn't really fight against Robby when he pulls her off Sam while trying to break up the fight, but she does kick Miguel away when he tries to step in (although by that point, she was more out of control than when Robby was restraining her at the beginning of the fight).
- In the aftermath, did Tory realize she shouldn't have started the brawl, or did she have no regrets about starting it and only cared that Miguel got injured? Or did she not care about anything other than getting Sam's blood? No matter how Sam may have treated her, that was a bit much. Season 3 muddies the waters further, as Tory claims to blame herself for Miguel's injuries but still can't resist going after Sam again — twice — despite the fact that she and her family have everything to lose by doing so.
- Season 4 implies that Tory may be suffering from mental illness and does not have access to the help she needs. She has every right to be angry over Miguel cheating on her or her situation at home, but doesn't know how to express it all healthily, culminating in her starting fights with Sam. This is likely why Amanda helps set Tory up with a therapist. Notably, Tory never starts anything with Sam throughout seasons 4 and 5 once she has access to help.
- Tory's hatred of Sam:
- Does Tory hate Sam simply because she was a romantic rival for Miguel's affections? Or does Tory envy her privilege and happy life, including her stable family with Happily Married parents and an affluent lifestyle? Or both? Also, is her continued obsession with seeking revenge on Sam in Season 3, even though she knows doing so will almost certainly land her in juvie and break up her family, simply the result of Kreese's influence combined with her implied mental illness, causing her to ignore the potential consequences of her actions? Or, on some level, does Tory actually want to go to juvie, either so that she won't have to deal with the pressure of being her family's sole breadwinner or to punish herself for what happened to Miguel?
- Is Tory a Stalker without a Crush towards Sam with her obsession being based on reasons above, or is she a deeply closeted Stalker with a Crush? Being somewhat of an outcast already due to poverty and mental instability, Tory might want to push down anything that would further set her apart, doing her mental state no favors. She once accuses Miguel of only dating her to get Sam's attention, which could be read as Psychological Projection on her part (though it is also probably true). In Season 4, Tory dates another of Sam's exes, Robby, and seems desperate for him to hate Sam as much as she does. She also agrees with Robby's idea to go to prom specifically to mess with Sam and Miguel's heads, which begs the question of which of the two she is most keen to make jealous.Sam: Seems like you're always behind me in line. First Miguel, now Robby. I have a half-eaten cupcake in there if you want some.
- How much does Tory care about Miguel? Is her anger at Sam for kissing him the natural anger one would have at another girl kissing their boyfriend? Does she see Miguel more as a possession that Sam is trying to steal from her, or (as noted above) is she attacking Sam to get back at Miguel for cheating on her (since she knows he has strong feelings for Sam)? Is her failure to visit Miguel in the hospital after the brawl out of guilt for indirectly causing his injuries, or because she simply doesn't care whether or not he's okay? Does Tory actually believe her own claims that attacking Miyagi-Do in Season 3 is about getting revenge for what happened to him, or is she just using Miguel's injuries as an excuse to make Sam's life hell? The fact that she turns on Miguel the second he leaves Cobra Kai, and doesn't raise any issues with Robby joining the dojo despite him being the one who put Miguel in the hospital, may indicate that Tory cares less about Miguel as a person than she does about the dojo rivalry and striking back at the people she feels have wronged her. This is further reinforced by the fact that she's quick to threaten Hawk after he defects.
John Kreese
- Did Kreese plan to manipulate himself into Johnny's good graces and retake Cobra Kai from the start, or would he have been content to be Johnny's Number Two if Johnny hadn't deviated from the original Cobra Kai ethos, and only intervened to stop his teachings from being perverted? Kreese's statement to the class the very moment Johnny gives him any leeway ("The trick with this move is to make the enemy think you've retreated, and then when he lets his guard down...") would seem to indicate the former, while the producers and Martin Kove's statements on the matter lean towards the latter. Kreese's actions in Season 3 would also point towards the latter, as he tries time and time again to convince Johnny to rejoin Cobra Kai, which indicates that he would've been all good with working under Johnny had Johnny continued to accept the original Cobra Kai ethos.
- Alternatively, could it have been a combination of both, where he always planned to take back control of Cobra Kai, but would've been fine at first with the idea of Johnny as his Number Two instead of the other way around? As we see in Season 4, he really hates not being in the lead and having to share credit, especially with someone he sees as his inferior.
- Kreese's relationship with Tory:
- Does Kreese want Tory at Cobra Kai because he considers her a legitimately talented fighter? Or does he only care for the fact she has a burning hatred for Daniel LaRusso's daughter that he can easily manipulate? Or, does he genuinely care about her because, like his mother, she’s clearly mentally ill? Does he want to (in his own way) save Tory the way he couldn’t save his mother?
- Was Kreese helping out Tory with her landlord issues a genuine Pet the Dog moment? Or was it just because he considered her an asset and wanted the problem solved so she could continue training at Cobra Kai? Or does even he take umbrage at sexual extortion of a minor (Tory tried to keep that to herself, but Kreese certainly put two and two together anyways, and the similarities between this situation and the incident from his youth when he defended Betsy from her abusive boyfriend may indicate that genuine disgust at the landlord's actions was a factor)? Or was it some combination of all three?
- Telling Amanda about Tory's miserable home life. Is he simply standing up for Tory or does he genuinely hope for Amanda to help her in a way he can't himself? Was he planning on Amanda doing something condescending and driving more of a rift between them? Just trying to throw Amanda off her game and "weaken" her?
- Does Kreese allow Tory to fight fair against Sam in the All Valley rather than forcing her to cheat because he cares about her feelings and wants to put her wishes ahead of his own desire to win at all costs? Or has he learned from his experience with Johnny that making Tory cheat against her will would drive her to leave the dojo and cost him one of his top students?
- Kreese doesn't retaliate against Amanda for slapping him. Is it because he planned to file the restraining order against her? Is it due to the fact that she's a woman and he doesn't want to hit her (perhaps due to his past with Betsy)? Did he not want to provoke Daniel into a one-on-one fight at that point (since Daniel would've come after Kreese if the latter had hurt Amanda)? Was it some combination of some or all of the above?
- The house brawl:
- Did Kreese actually order the attack on Daniel's home, like Daniel accuses, or was it all Tory? While we do see him tell Tory about how Sam and Miguel worked to save the All-Valley Tournament with the clear intention of her doing something by pushing Tory's "hatred for Sam" button, we don't see him actually ordering them to do anything. That way in case things didn't go the way he expected, he could claim plausible deniability since he never explicitly told his students to attack Daniel's home. Season 4 remains ambiguous on the matter, but implies it was mostly Tory's idea.
- Did Robby know about Tory's plan to attack Daniel's home? And if he did, did Kreese keep him behind at the dojo to assist him for his inevitable confrontation with Johnny (and Daniel), or was he worried that Robby wouldn't be able to go through with attacking his former friends and would pull a Heel–Face Turn during the fight, just as Hawk ended up doing? Or was it all Robby's choice? Season 4 is again ambiguous, but implies Robby knew and chose not to join the other Cobras of his own accord (though again, there's Kreese's manipulative abilities to consider).
- While it's indisputable that Kreese's fixation on bringing Robby into the fold is a result of him extending his Like a Son to Me feelings towards Johnny to his son, the fact that he knows Robby is Daniel's top student makes it possible that getting Robby to leave Miyagi-Do and join Cobra Kai is also about Kreese getting revenge on Daniel for humiliating him and Terry Silver, a theory reinforced by the fact that he calls in Silver immediately after Robby joins.
- Did Kreese really only recruit Terry Silver as a stepping stone to manipulating Johnny into returning to Cobra Kai, as Silver accuses? Or was he genuine about wanting to bring back the glory days with his old friend, and only started to mistreat him because his ego couldn't handle Silver acting like an equal rather than his subordinate?
- Did Kreese allow Kenny to join Cobra Kai because he was genuinely impressed by his cheap shot on Kyler, or did he only do it to make Robby happy?
Terry Silver
- Silver's seemingly remorseful attitude over the events of the third film. Does he truly regret it? Or does he simply think that his actions were insane, being the pragmatic villain that he is, but had no problem with the underlying motives? Or could it be that he truly regretted it at first, but he fell from grace and later only pretended to regret it when speaking to Daniel? Or did he still regret it even then, and only slowly became a monster thanks to weeks of Kreese's influence?
- Was his assault on Stingray planned from the beginning, in order to take down Kreese? Or did he genuinely lose control, and only afterwards realize what a great tool this would be?
- Is Silver's only aim in expanding Cobra Kai to gain power for himself? The fact that he's constantly talking about the importance of mentoring youth, and his own comments when alone with both Kim and Johnny at different times, imply that he may not be interested only in acquiring power, but also in spreading his style and being the number one karate teacher in the world. So is he actually interested in teaching kids, wanting to spread his style out across the world so he'll be able to influence everyone and make them (what he thinks is) the best they can be? Or is that just a means to an end, with his only real goal being personal power?
- Silver's newfound obsession with legacy, his servant worriedly asking if he should call the doctor when Silver refuses breakfast after a PTSD attack, his unexplained presence at the hospital when Johnny and Carmen are there for an ultrasound, and his fearlessness in the face of potential death when defeated by Chozen have led to a popular fan theory that he is terminally ill, and that his desire to expand Cobra Kai at any cost is a last desperate attempt to leave his mark on the world before he passes.
Other Characters
- Why do the background Cobra Kai students like Dieter, Edwin, Big Red, Mikey and Rickenberger stay loyal to Kreese even after he steals the dojo from Johnny, kicks out many of their friends and recruits former enemies of the dojo like Kyler and Robby? Is it because they are just brainwashed sheep who blindly follow Kreese's orders without questioning how much Cobra Kai has changed from the dojo they originally joined? Or have they always been Blood Knights who never cared who their violence was directed against and only joined Cobra Kai in the first place to become better fighters, and thus genuinely find Kreese's teachings more appealing than Johnny's? And why did half the squad quit after the brawl at the LaRusso house? Did Hawk's defection finally cause them to have a Heel Realization, were they simply embarrassed at being defeated in a fight where they should have had every advantage, or did they realize how lucky they were that the LaRussos decided not to call the police, and disassociated themselves from the dojo to avoid continuing to get sucked into the kind of violence that could land them in prison? For that matter, could it have been due to pressure from their parents/guardians horrified at their kids coming home with bruises and likely broken bones?
- Similarly, why did some of the Miyagi-Do students leave after the house fight? Parental pressure? Could it also have been that they signed up to learn to defend themselves, not to get involved in a karate war, and got tired of the violence?
- Was Kyler's statement that if he failed trigonometry his dad would "shit in [his] mouth" just a very crass way of saying he would be angry, or is his father genuinely abusive? After all, he would be far from the first bully in the franchise with Daddy Issues as a Freudian Excuse if the latter is true.
- In light of the backstory the audience learns in Season 4, is Shawn Payne really a delinquent bully at heart? Or did he just adopt that mindset to survive juvie after he was sent there for protecting his younger brother?
- Was Captain George Turner a Sociopathic Soldier and a coward even worse than Kreese who saw his men as expendable tools and abandoned his responsibility to maintain a chain of command for their sake the moment they were captured, or a deeply cynical but Well-Intentioned Extremist? Though he does teach his men to be ruthless, he is up front about the risks they'll take and how their sacrifices won't be remembered. One of his pieces of advice Kreese takes most to heart is to kill an enemy even if they surrender because they can't be trusted, which is a war crime, but rather pragmatic for a group that would be operating behind enemy lines with no means of taking prisoners, and against an enemy force not above I Surrender, Suckers. Even his taunting Kreese could be justified as him choosing the life of a CO over a soldier by demoralizing Kreese to make the fight easier, though the fact that he'd previously told his men that the chain of command and loyalty meant nothing in captivity, a move against all ideas of military discipline that robbed the group of any remaining morale, undermines this.
- In the Season 5 finale, was Kyler and the other Cobra Kai thugs' decision to quit following Silver's bribery being exposed a case of Even Evil Has Standards? Or did this reveal cause them to feel that everything they were taught and praised for was a lie and didn't see any benefit to sticking around with a teacher who was dishonest with them and didn't believe they can be the best without cheating? Was it simple peer pressure? Or were they less disappointed about the bribery than the fact that Silver got his ass kicked by Daniel, proving that he could talk a big game but couldn't back it up when it mattered without any Mooks to do his fighting for him? Or some mix of all the above? Kyler's anticipatory smirk at the beginning of the Daniel/Silver match lends credence to the latter interpretation, at least in regards to him.
- Are Anthony's apologies to Kenny at the end of Season 4 and in mid-Season 5 genuine, if awkward, attempts to mend bridges, having realized that what he did was wrong, or was he playing the victim both times? Or was the apology at the water park genuine, but not the first one? After the water park incident, Anthony openly admits to Sam that he deserves Kenny's ire over his past bullying, indicating his remorse by that point at least is genuine.
- Kenny going after Anthony when he was far from the only perpetrator opens the door to a lot of possibilities. While Anthony was shown to be peer-pressured into the bullying, he did strike the first blow by mocking Kenny on the bus so the latter has every reason to believe he's the ringleader of the group. Also, Kenny never actively pursues Anthony as Tory did with Sam; he only attacks when he runs into Anthony. The other members of Anthony's gang haven't been shown since their suspension, so either Kenny just hasn't happened to run into them, they're actively avoiding him out of fear of retaliation (especially after the water park stunt got posted online), or their parents really dropped the hammer on them and grounded them the whole summer. In all of these cases, it's possible Kenny fully intends to get revenge on all his tormenters, but hasn't had the opportunity. It's also possible, of course, that Kenny has gotten revenge on them offscreen as well, but since it's never addressed, it's impossible to know.
