regret is sometimes difficult to
overcome although chosen taguchi said
this in reference to the 30 plus years
of him trying to redeem himself this can
also be applied to robbie keane a
misguided student who hasn't had that
mentor he needs to set him on the right
path from what we saw at the end of
season 3 it was speculated that it may
be a long while before he was redeemed
or he may just be set in his ways but it
seems that he's changed his ways for the
better this is why there is hope for
robbie let's talk about the influence of
cobra kai the path to redemption what's
in store for him in the future and more
it goes without saying that there are
spoilers in this video if you haven't
seen season 4 yet don't watch this video
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let's recap on what we know about robbie
so far since this is a continuation of
my previous video why there was no hope
for robbie i'm only going to talk about
the events that are relevant to robbie's
ark in season 4. feel free to skip to
the next chapter to avoid the recap but
be warned you may miss important details
that we'll talk about in the later part
of the video after fighting his dad in
the locker during december 19th robbie
refuses to fully join cobra kai after
crease attempts to sway him with the
dojo furious at the fact that he didn't
join them in the raid on the house party
tori tells robbie that he needs to find
another dojo if he's going to stay on
defense at the skate park sam attempts
to reconcile with robbie but because of
the earlier conversation he had with
tory and still being upset at his father
and mr larusso robbie tells sam she
isn't going to get what she wants while
kris is on his way back from speaking
with terry silver robbie attempts to
warm up to class but is told to leave
promising to leave if someone can land a
hit on him he proceeds to clean house
using miyagido and take out everyone
until tori lands a hit after being asked
to stay robbie proceeds to begin to
teach miyagido to kobrakai so they can
have another tool in their arsenal for
the all valley one day robbie is sought
out by a boy named kenny payne the
younger brother of sean someone who gave
him a rough time in juvie although the
tryout goes south quickly robbie visits
kenny's house to give him his backpack
he left behind he finds out that sean
was sent to joby because skinny caught
one of his friends stealing from their
parents realizing that kenny is being
bullied he offers to teach him some
self-defense using concepts from both
miyagido and kobrakai robbie also
inspires kenny to use his speed to
attack his opponents instead of running
away kris gives kenny another chance to
try out and while failing again at first
kenny strikes first with greece
acknowledging that robbie found cobra
kai material and gives kinney a spot on
the team robbie hears that according to
kinney hawk and others are bullying him
prompting the gang to reflect on revenge
before that can happen they are
introduced to a new sensei terry silver
who goes on to tell robert to confront
his fear so he can fully use his anger
as a weapon this conversation inspires
robert to confront johnny to get his
dojo to back off or there will be
payback robbie proceeds to end the
conversation by saying he is better than
johnny and is only using cobra kai to
get what he wants later that night at
the drive-in robbie attempts to stop
what he perceives hawk to be bullying
kenny leading to a standoff between
kobakai and miyagi fang the fight is
avoided as cobra kai is strict into
standing on the baseball diamond at the
time the sprinklers turn on to wet the
field robbie swears revenge and after
silver teaches class robbie leads the
game to corner hawk at the tattoo parlor
shattering his confidence by cutting his
hair as cobra kai starts to get new
equipment in daniel attempts to warn
robbie about silver but silver
intervenes before the conversation can
continue any further learning that
kinney is still being tormented at
school and wants to seek revenge robbie
warns kenny to avoid going down the path
he and sean are on during class that day
robbie and kenny are picked to spar
against each other because robbie is
showing compassion and still sees kenny
as his friend instead of his opponent
robbie is caught off guard and loses
silver overhears tori asking robert a
prompt to throw sam and miguel off
balance and offers to fund their trip
while also trying to pay off shannon so
he can look after robbie although they
dance together to throw their rivals off
balance they soon develop a genuine
connection due to both sharing the
desire to win at the all valley to have
it mean something while attending
scenery's after party robbie intervenes
after sam attacks tori because they are
more in sync and balanced robbie and
tori are able to overpower and defeat
sam and miguel before the tournament and
the end their prom night robbie and tory
share their first kiss silver's
influence starts to creep in as robbie
tory and kyler help cobra kai win the
skills division before his quarterfinals
match with kenny daniel confronts robbie
after realizing he taught cobra kai
miyagido techniques robbie insists that
he will use whatever way to win
resulting in daniel to respond never put
passion in front of principal because
even if you win you lose after losing a
point to kenny kries reminds robbie that
he's fighting his opponent robbie then
dominates and scores all three points
back to back winning the match and
giving kenny a bloody nose robbie is
shaking after the match realizing what
he did after defeating dimitri in the
semifinals robbie looks for kenny and
intervenes when he sees him beating up
anthony robbie realizes anthony larusso
is kitty's bully and scolds kenny for
going against his training but kenny
responds with no mercy and walks away
facing eli in the finals robbie quickly
scores a point but the score is tied
when eli switches styles going into
sudden death robbie almost manages to
score the point but is thrown off
balance when he sees kenny as being
fully corrupted by cobra kai after a
lengthy fight eli wins the championship
match and robbie goes for a walk to
clear his head coming back in time to
watch torrey fight he celebrates with
the team as cobra kai wins the grand
championship however robbie leaves early
and follows johnny to the dojo he
confines in his father that he failed
kenny and thought he could use his hate
but realizes he's on the wrong path
jonny missed that it's his fault but
robbie simply doesn't want to blame his
father anymore and they finally embrace
johnny assures robbie that they will
figure it out
before we can talk about his redemption
let's first look at the influence of
cobra kai and how it affected robbie
during the beginning of the season
despite not wanting to get involved as a
pawn it still happens slowly over time
it is both tori and sam who ironically
push him towards kobakai with tori
reminding him that he's still hiding who
he is and defending sam and sam pushes
him further away from miyagido as he
refuses to side with his father and make
amends with everybody because he wants
to get back at both his father and his
former sensei he teaches the dojo
everything he knows from miyagido he
also remembers and tells the dojo that
daniel still thinks he's better than
cobra kai further motivating them to
train hard for the all valley when terry
has a one-on-one lesson with robbie he
realizes that he can channel his anger
how crease taught him to but is still
afraid of something thanks to his speech
robbie goes and confronts this fear
shedding his weakness so to speak to
move forward and to progress down the
wrong path it's also silver's lesson
about holding on to the anger to use it
when the time is right that gives them
the idea to get payback on hawk taking
out one of miyagi's fang's best chances
at winning the tournament once we hit
the episode kicks get chicks we can
slowly see his hairstyle change from how
he was parted or sucked back to that of
a younger crease proving that kobrakai's
influence has fully corrupted him robbie
takes the lesson of throwing his
opponents off balance to heart not only
by showing up to prom with tori and
dancing to get their attention but also
getting into miguel's head that his
father doesn't care about him we can
also see crease's influence weigh
heavily on robbie when he uses a choke
hold on miguel ironically the same
technique johnny taught him back in
season 1. during the tournament notably
in the skills division robbie begins to
use the same kias that silver uses when
he fights this is also seen in his
matches whether they're the qualifying
matches the quarterfinals semi-finals or
his final match robbie also turns into a
younger version of crease once crease
tells him that he's fighting his
opponent and not his friend
appropriately the song played during the
background is called mecha robbie and
even calls back to a motif heard in
miyagi rattle's bones from the karate
kid soundtrack noting that robbie has
fully embraced the ruthlessness of cobra
kai it's also clear that his influence
is playing out similar to how kubra kai
corrected both his father and daniel
like his father robbie is cobra kai's
top student until silver is called in as
a co-sensei robbie leaves class just
like his father led the cobra class of
84 because he had no mentor or father
figure both generations look up to and
find both the sensei and father figure
in john crease robbie makes it to the
finals like his father did in the 84
tournament against the miyagido pupil
even using the same strike against his
rival mirroring the actions of his
father history repeats itself when
robbie loses to eli coming in second
place i'd also like to point out that
following the after party fight robbie
and tori echoed shannon and johnny's
relationship with robbie wearing a black
shirt like his father did at the
christmas party and also driving a red
convertible with the top down while tori
wears a dress similar to shannon's when
she is seen dating in season 1. because
of the strained relationship with his
former miyagido sensei robbie joins
cobra kai and trains under terry silver
just like daniel did terry also treats
both of these people as the same for the
most part showing a friendly facade and
even offers to show a few moves though
he is notably more aggressive with
robbie robbie also learned some elements
of the quicksilver method and is slowly
corrupted by silver much like daniel was
back in 1985. robbie develops the same
killer instinct and finishes the fight
by striking his opponent in the nose
echoing the actions of daniel at the
dance club
let's look at what exactly did tarabi's
redemption arc or at least the start of
it one of the factors is kenny the new
recruit who was advised to seek him out
by his brother sean the relationship of
student in sensei has obviously been
explored many times throughout the
series but kenny and robbie's
relationship presents in a way we
haven't seen before outside of teacher
and student big brother and little
brother when kenny shows up and attempts
to try out the first time in fails
despite being annoyed robbie is the only
student who doesn't laugh at him sam's
statement of robbie being a good person
is true robbie feels sympathy towards
kenny going out of his way to return his
backpack and offering to teach him
self-defense he also shows something
that crease didn't show him and what he
learned from miyagido patience going so
far as to make sure his stance is
correct to not show fear and telling him
to use his asset of speed to attack
because he has confidence in kenny he
advises kris to give him another shot
even when tory teases that kenny came
back robbie still doesn't laugh or say
anything derogatory towards him and
bicepfely robbie also even goes as far
to try to prevent karate from corrupting
kenny dismissing his desire for robert
to beat up hawk and to not let kenny get
ahead of himself once again using what
he learned from miyagido robbie also
shows that he is protective of kenny
making sure that kylo doesn't mess with
his head too much and coming to his
defense when he thinks kenny is about to
be bullied while he understands his
frustration with the bullies robbie
knows that kinney could go down the
wrong path if he's not careful advising
him to learn from both his and sean's
mistakes even though it's an exercise
during class robbie shows concern for
his people which kenny takes advantage
of and exploits as a weakness before
their match robbie tells skinny how
proud he is of him and that his brother
would be impressed with kenny responding
that he owes it all to him we also see
him clearly proud of kenny when
congratulating him after a match during
the qualifiers and before the
quarter-final start we can clearly see
that robbie regrets what he did during
the match and thought he took it too far
running after kenny to make sure he's
okay we can also see that he's so
distraught that he almost forgets the
bow until the referee reminds him to
robbie also realizes he's created a
monster when kenny is beating up anthony
and fully embracing the kobrakai
principles it's also kenny cheering him
on and beat up eli which causes him to
be thrown off balance and seeing parts
of himself he doesn't like the second
factor is daniel his former sensei who
contributes to this arc on two occasions
at the convenience store and at the
tournament while robbie still wants
nothing to do with daniel as the last
time that we've seen them interact is at
the end of season three it's the similar
experience they share of having terry
silver as a sensei that daniel was able
to break through the robbie what daniel
says to robbie is all true terry pops up
out of nowhere seeming nice enough to
teach a few moves and pushes robbie past
his limit confronting his father about
how he is better than him daniel warns
him about the future and which is what
plays out at the end of the season
robbie is no longer himself has the
blood of kinney on his ghee and wants to
change course ironically daniel is also
chipping away at robbie though in a
positive manner contrary to terry
chipping away at robbie in a negative
manner and while robbie doesn't let on
if what daniel says messes with his head
he knows daniel was telling the truth
the reason we know this is that if we
look back at the season 2 episode take a
right robbie was still in miyagido and
was there when daniel recounted this
simon cobra kai robbie realizes that it
was silver who he was talking about back
then daniel was weak and was trained in
the principles of cobra kai robbie knows
he didn't train under crease because we
can establish at this point robbie has a
fairly decent relationship with the
sensei and if daniel had trained under
crease crease would have made this known
to robbie and also remembers daniel
telling the class that it changed who he
was when daniel confronts robbie again
at the tournament robbie tells him that
he will do whatever it takes to win
whether that's using kobrakai miyagido
or both as mentioned before daniel tells
him one last secret never put passion
before principle because even if you win
you lose this time robbie's look on his
face tells us that it got to him and
daniel is right when kris tells him
robbie that he's fighting his opponent
robbie uses all the anger within himself
the passion and puts it before the
principles of who he is and what his
relationship is with kenny although he
won the match he's still lost kenny is
upset at losing a robbie is physically
hurt and is also now corrupted this all
echoes back to what daniel said that he
wouldn't recognize who he was anymore
and we can clearly see that after his
quarter-final match the third factor is
johnny his father although the first
interaction we see them between is less
than civil johnny tries to warn robbie
about cobra kai and how kris can
brainwash people robbie also tells
johnny that he's afraid he would end up
like his father and despite thinking he
can use kobakai how he wants this ends
up being true it is johnny thanks to
finding out from shannon that he goes to
try and stop silver and crease from
sending robbie down the same path johnny
still clearly cares about his son as
miguel finds out while his sensei is
drunk even during the qualifying matches
johnny can't help but to look and also
clap for his son despite him fighting
for cobra kai he also shows his concern
after chris coaches robbie during his
fight with kenny and after the match is
over knowing his son is going down the
same path even though cobra kai won
robbie now knows he is the same as his
father as they sure look after the
tournament this is also addressed during
the prom as he understands tory desire
and wanting to be a champion he wants to
be one as well so he can be better than
how his father turned out and do the one
thing that he couldn't do beat miyagi do
in what i consider one of the best
symbolic moments of the finale in the
season robbie and johnny talk in the
cobra kai dojo as after losing the only
thing they have left to hold on to are
the kobakai principles strike first
strike hard no mercy
johnny knows exactly how robbie feels
after the match and tells him to not let
it eat him up the father and the son are
one of the same as they both lost a
tournament as a top student of cobra kai
and robbie fears that nothing will get
better robbie felt kenny because he
tried so hard to be the mentor he needed
when he was younger and johnny failed
miguel for the same reason johnny also
understands what a son means using cobra
kai for hate because he was twisted in
the same way he also accepts
responsibility for what happened to
robbie and getting in the way of his
relationship with daniel for the first
time johnny steps up as robbie's father
and gave his son what he needed the most
love outside of these factors robbie's
arc is slowly hitting that throughout
multiple points during the season one of
the more symbolic examples is that
despite being cobra kai he wears a very
similar outfit to prom to what daniel
wore at the end of karate kid part 2
though having a black undershirt instead
of a white one despite going to the prom
to throw his rival off balance and
bumping into him on purpose at the after
party robbie doesn't attempt to strike
or bully miguel in any way he also only
intervenes in the fight when he
perceives tory being heard by miguel
during the qualifiers when they exchange
glances robbie also gives a quick nod to
miguel out of respect we also see more
of this when robbie and eli bow to each
other before the sudden death overtime
begins what's also very symbolic is that
robbie's ghee starts to fall off before
the timer expires symbolizing that he is
no longer cobra kai at his core this
would also go to prove what daniel said
in season two just because someone is
corpora kai doesn't mean they can't
change despite his feelings towards sam
throughout the season he claps in a show
of respect when she lands the impressive
second point
here are my final thoughts on robbie and
what we can see from him in the future
despite having kobokai influences on him
in some ways robbie was right about one
thing he did know the obvious tropes of
both miyagido and corbett kai unlike
what happened to someone like hawk
kubrick did not make him a bully in the
sense that he would beat someone up or
jump someone to steal charity money he
instead used it for his own reasons and
to help out someone who needed it this
also makes him closer to daniel johnny
and even miyagi more than he realizes
all three of them became senseis when
someone needed their help and sought
them out to teach them karate despite
everything that happened in the past
robbie still held on to the roots of
miyagidou and did things his way even
when it came to teaching kenny like i
mentioned before in the previous video
robbie had a right to be angry with a
lot of people that had let him down
johnny daniel and shannon there was no
one else to turn to but crease and
silver however in an ironic twist of
fate his quote in season 2 they won't
change you can't change the way you feel
now has a double meaning robbie couldn't
change who he was by turning to kobrakai
because of his strong roots in miyagido
and is now coming back to the right path
i think though that instead of coming
back to miyagido robbie will go to the
one place he hasn't trained under just
yet eagle fang in season 5 i predict
robbie will accompany johnny to mexico
to find miguel this would make sense as
from photos that are floating out there
that are from the season 5 shoot tanner
is wearing a cowboy hat and is seen near
a stall of pinatas which would mean he
has been in puerto rico shooting with
william and sholo i think that will
finally come to johnny being there for
both miguel and robbie and possibly one
final fight will settle the rivalry with
robbie coming out on top saying it's
over we have no more reason to fight
there is the possibility that robbie
could be left behind but this wouldn't
be a smart move as silver would easily
retaliate against robbie for not only
losing his match but for also
disrespecting him during the finals
whether he likes it or not robbie isn't
much different from his father and the
one advantage he does have is that he
can fix his mistakes now before it gets
any worse
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