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|'''Mr. Miyagi'''}}
A series of five films beginning in 1984. Following a similar pattern to the first ''[[Rocky (film)|Rocky]]'' movie (and featuring the same director) it focused on a student-master relationship between Daniel Larusso and Mr. Miyagi, whose name came [[Person as Verb|to be slang]] for a type of [[Retired Badass]]. The first three films starred Ralph Macchio as Daniel and Pat Morita as Miyagi. [[Hilary Swank]] played a new "Karate Kid" in the fourth movie.
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* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Joe Esposito's "You're The Best" in the first movie, and [[Chicago (band)|Peter Cetera]]'s "Glory of Love" in the second.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Pretty much every time Mr. Miyagi gets his hands dirty.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: While it still retained the charm of the first movie, ''Karate Kid II'' raised the stakes. It's the only movie in the series to have someone die on screen: Miyagi's father. While the first movie had the bullies risk killing Daniel during their beatings, Chozen actively wants to kill Daniel and Sato actively wants to kill Miyagi. To make matters more tense, the final fight isn't a tournament for points, but a fight to the death.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Miyagi in the first film especially.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Most kids who bully Daniel quickly move to attempted murder once he tries to defend himself. Inverted in part 3, where Barnes starts entirely too much shit throughout the movie, but gets off with nothing more than a loss by a single point. [[Karma Houdini|Terry and Kreese get no comeuppance at all]].
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