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Cobra Kai Posts Season 3 Teaser That Will Not Make Miguel Fans Happy

With Cobra Kai finding a new home at Netflix (and doing disgustingly well for the streaming service), fans of the "Karate Kid" sequel series are getting that much closer to getting some answers to the cliffhangers they were left with. We had Ralph Macchio's Daniel packing his bags and heading to Okinawa, Japan, to find a bit of that "Miyagi mojo" as well as learn the origins of both Miyagi-Do Karate and Cobra Kai. Then there's the matter of whether Karate Kid actress Elizabeth Shue (The Boys) would (finally) make an appearance, how Miguel (Xolo Maridueña) will end up after his accident in the finale, and if Johnny (William Zabka) can get his dojo back from his sensei (Martin Kove).

Now while there's still some time to kill before the series returns for a third season (we're thinking February 2021?), that doesn't mean it's too early for the series to begin cruelly teasing the fanbase about one of the storylines we mentioned early. We don't want to spoil it, but let's just say we're hoping that sound's being caused by someone sitting on Miguel's life support line by mistake:

What's even more twisted is that it was the video following this one celebrating Miguel's journey:

In August, series co-creator Jon Hurwitz revealed to CBR that all of the film trilogy's characters are potentially in play (as it clearly appears in the brief season 3 scene above): "We love The Karate Kid trilogy and anyone who has seen Seasons 1 and 2 has seen us make references to all three of the original Karate Kid films. And we also say that it's our belief that anything that has happened in a movie Mr. Miyagi was in, which includes The Next Karate Kid, is part of the Miyagi-Verse and our series takes place in the Miyagi-Verse." Hurwitz continued, "Any character who has lived within this Miyagi-Verse has potential to show up at some point on Cobra Kai and I can say that the three of us, as writers, have literally discussed pretty much every person who has appeared in those films, from these large characters you're talking about, like the Terry Silvers of the world, to the most minor characters who had one or two lines."

That said, as fun as it is to bring these characters back for the fans it's important that the characters they use bring something meaningful to the series' overall narrative: "We view that as all characters who live in our universe and, at any moment in time, have the potential to show up as long as they're relevant to the present-day story that we're telling and don't feel like they're thrown in there for cameo purposes or for simply for nostalgia's sake," Hurwitz explained. "There needs to be a real, dramatic reason [in] present-day why any of these characters would be relevant to our story. I can say that, going forward, we should expect more characters from The Karate Kid films to return but I can't say who or when or pretty much anything beyond that."

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