Miguel Diaz

Miguel Diaz is one of the three deuteragonists (alongside Robby Keene and Samantha LaRusso) of the YouTube/Netflix series . 
Miguel is the top student of Johnny Lawrence's Eagle Fang Karate (allied with Miyagi-Do Karate), and the former top student of Cobra Kai. 
He is portrayed by Xolo Maridueña, who also portrayed Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle in the DC Extended Universe film of the same name.
==History==
===Season 1===
Miguel, his mother Carmen, and grandmother Rosa moved into the apartment complex where Johnny lived at. Miguel attempted to introduce himself to Johnny, but Johnny rebuffed him.
Later, while visiting the mini mart to pick up some Pepto-Bismol for his grandma, Miguel accidentally outed Kyler and his cronies as not being college kids when they went to go buy beer. Miguel attempted to apologize, but Kyler and his crew began shoving him around, taking his Pepto-Bismol and pouring it on his head as well as nicknaming him "Rhea" (short for diarrhea). However, after Miguel was shoved onto Johnny's car, Johnny stepped in and beat up Kyler and his gang.
Inspired by Johnny's karate moves, Miguel encouraged Johnny to open up his own karate dojo and teach him karate. Though Johnny initially shot down the idea, he later changed his mind and opened up his Cobra Kai dojo in the mini-mall, inviting Miguel to be his first student. At school, Miguel befriends Eli and Demetri. The dojo would later receive a second student when Aisha joined.
When Kyler began harassing Sam LaRusso and lying by saying she performed oral sex on him, Miguel stepped in and told him to back off. Kyler responded by challenging him to a fight, at which point Miguel used his karate training to beat down Kyler and his three cronies, impressing Sam and the whole lunchroom. The fight was filmed and uploaded to YouTube where it went viral, resulting in tons of publicity for Cobra Kai, and several students including Eli (later goes by "Hawk") and Bert.
Miguel eventually began dating Sam, though their relationship became strained by Sam's father Daniel LaRusso's dislike of Cobra Kai. Later, after getting drunk at a Cobra Kai party in a canyon, Miguel got into a misunderstanding with Sam where he assumed Robby Keene was her boyfriend and accidentally hit her while trying to attack Robby, resulting in their relationship breaking up.
Miguel and Cobra Kai later entered into the All Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament which Robby also entered into as an independent fighter. Miguel and Robby would face off in the final round, though by exploiting an injury Hawk had inflicted on Robby out of turn, Miguel was able to beat Robby and win the tournament for Cobra Kai. As the announcer went up to give Miguel the first place trophy, Miguel dedicated his victory to Johnny Lawrence and Cobra Kai.
===Season 2===
However, Miguel and Hawk were both punished by Johnny for using a cheap shot to win and made to do 50 push-ups on their knuckles. Though initially still hung up over his break up with Sam, Miguel eventually began dating a new Cobra Kai student named Tory Nichols.
After Hawk attacked and vandalized Miyagi-Do and took Mr. Miyagi's medal of honor, Miguel fought Hawk to recover it so he could give it back to the dojo. After defeating Hawk, Miguel took the medal and went to the LaRusso residence to give it back, only to be greeted by Robby. Miguel handed Robby the medal and told him to let Sam know he had given it back, though rather than do that Robby simply dropped the medal in the yard and did not inform Sam that Miguel had returned the medal.
Later though, Miguel and Sam were able to make amends at a party hosted by Moon after Aisha told Sam that Miguel had in fact returned the medal. Sam went to apologize to Miguel for not realizing he was the one who returned the medal and the two ended up kissing, which was secretly seen by Tory.
On the first day of school, Tory went to attack Sam for kissing Miguel. Miguel raced to get to the confrontation to stop her and came in just as Robby Keene had stepped in in an attempt to resolve the fight. However, assuming Robby was trying to harm Sam, Miguel tackled him to the ground. As the whole hallway erupted into fighting, Miguel fought Robby, who was angry at him for kissing Sam and believed he was taking advantage of her. The fight eventually led onto the second floor of the school where Miguel managed to defeat Robby and pin him down. Remembering a speech by Johnny to not confuse "mercy" with "honor", Miguel let Robby go and told him "I'm sorry". However, still bitter over Miguel kissing Sam, Robby attacked Miguel and knocked him over the railing, sending him plummeting to the ground below. The impact of the fall severely injured Miguel and sent him into a coma, necessitating him to be hospitalized. 
===Season 3===
In Season 3, he is in a coma after the fall at the end of Season 2. He eventually wakes up and his mother and grandmother are faced with medical bills they can hardly afford. His sensei, Johnny comes to visit him but he is angry at him and blames him for the state he is in, he eventually reconciles with him and works with him to get his legs moving again. 
He has irregular methods of physical therapy such as standing out of his wheelchair to grab a swimsuit magazine, and setting a fire under his wheelchair. These methods are unsuccessful but he slowly develops his healing process by tapping his foot at a Dee Snider concert and walks with a harness. He eventually fully gets his legs moving and convinces Johnny to open up a new karate dojo called Eagle Fang, joined by a few former Cobra Kai's who were kicked out by Kreese including Mitch and Bert. He gets back together with Sam. 
When the All Valley Tournament gets cancelled because of the school fight and the City Council believes karate is the problem, Miguel steps in and with help from Sam, they deliver a speech together and convinced the council to let the tournament continue. The next day at Miyagi-Do he meets Sam's father, Daniel, and the two learn about each other. 
At a house party, Cobra Kai attacks the Miyagi-Do's and he faces his former bully Kyler, a new Cobra Kai. With Kyler's improved fighting skills and Miguel still recovering from his injury, Kyler has the upper hand for nearly the entire fight but Miguel gets enough motivation to regain his kicking and knocks him out with 2 kicks and 1 flipping knockout punch. Now with LaRusso and Lawrence's dojos allied against John Kreese, he is a star student of both.
===Season 4===
However, Johnny and Daniel's combined dojo begins with a rocky start by their different styles feuding with their beliefs. Miguel and Sam decide to try to persuade them to work together. Miguel is able to eventually persuade Johnny by comparing him and Daniel's relationship as Rocky and Apollo from Rocky III. The next day, the students of both Eagle Fang Karate and Miyagi-Do decide to work on building an Okinawan sparring deck that Hawk and Demetri came up with, in which it impresses Johnny and Daniel and decide to work their flaws together.
With Miguel and Sam dating again, Daniel invites Miguel's family over to learn more about each other and their goals with Miguel meeting Amanda LaRusso. Although the night goes well, Miguel spills wine onto Daniel when talking about his college dream. Miguel and the other students of Eagle Fang work with LaRusso on new skills by trying to grab a koi fish from the dojo pond, however, no one is successful in doing so. When leaving, Hawk asks Miguel if he wants to practice, but Miguel says that his mom has to pick him up. Carmen ends up having car trouble and when Daniel hears about it, offers to take care of the car. Daniel drives Miguel to LaRusso Automotive so the two can work on it together.
This in turn, begins to bond Miguel and Daniel. The next day, Miguel comes up with an idea to catch the koi fish by going into the pond and surrounding them. This allows Miguel to be the first one to catch a koi receiving him a Miyagi-Do headband. While this happens, Johnny sees and he becomes jealous of their relationship. After practice, Miguel and Daniel work on Carmen's car again and Miguel learns of the history on Miyagi-Do and Daniel's career. Eventually, Daniel and Miguel finish his mom's car and Daniel tells Miguel to go drop him off at a birthday party where Sam and Amanda are attending. Miguel, who doesn't have a license, obliges and Daniel teaches him. The two bond over music and when Miguel runs a yellow light, Daniel tells him not to do so because it's dangerous. At the next light, Miguel stops, and the two smile. 
During school, Miguel and Sam tell Hawk and Demetri that Johnny and Daniel are going to have a rematch to their fight from 1984. Sam and Miguel referee but Johnny and Daniel draw. The two dojos separate and Miguel goes back with Johnny. 
Miguel and the rest of Eagle Fang learn about new updates to the 2019 All Valley Karate Tournament and need to get a girl student. They first come up to try bring Sam a chance, but Johnny rejects the idea. Miguel and Johnny then go to the school to try and find women fighters, but to no avail. After hours of trying, they find Piper who is Moon's ex-girlfriend, and ask her to join. She agrees and later when class starts, she doesn't show up. They learn that Piper joined Cobra Kai instead and need to find a new girl student. Bert talks about a girl named Devon and Johnny was able to persuade her to be their female champion.
Johnny goes to pick Miguel up for class and finds out about Carmen and Johnny's relationship. He is fine with their relationship but it begins to impact Miguel's training since Johnny doesn't want to hurt him. This upsets Miguel and he then confronts the two at family dinner. The next day, Johnny pulls Miguel out of school to talk in which Miguel still wants things to be the same. Johnny understands and when Sam shows up, Johnny teaches Sam and Miguel the flying tornado kick.
Prom night is here and Miguel and his family go to pick up Sam at the LaRusso's house. They take family photos and then make their way to the school. Sam and Miguel decide to not talk about Karate and have the night to themselves but when Robby and Tory show up together, it distracts them. A fight breaks out while partying at Stingray's house and Miguel, Sam and Tory all fall into the pool. That night, Miguel finds a drunken Johnny and helps him to bed. Johnny reveals that he loves him but calls him Robby, saddening him.
During the All Valley Tournament, Miguel shows off his offensive skills during the skills division but Eagle Fang end up falling into sixth place. After winning all his one-on-one matches, he faces Hawk, now going by Eli, in the semifinals. First Miguel was gaining the upper hand against, when Miguel is about to deliver a kick on a knocked down Eli, he ends up pulling a muscle in his back and collapses. Despite a minor injury and was able to fight but he decides to not return to the fight because he is not fighting for himself anymore. Before Sam's final match, the two reconcile and kiss. Miguel then leaves to go on a bus to Mexico City to find his biological father.
===Season 5===
After the 51st All-Valley, Miguel arrives in Mexico. He approaches local surfers for directions but the surfers take his backpack. After one of them gives him directions, Miguel buys his backpack and map. Later, he arrives at a bar but realizes that it was the wrong guy and leaves. Miguel calls Sam that he is in Mexico and didn’t find his father. Despite Sam telling Miguel that his mother and grandmother moved away from his father because of how dangerous he is but Miguel tells her that he wants to know truth about his father. After having a conversation with Sam, he sees a man and begins to follow him. He talks to a kid named Luis who runs away from him after his soccer ball goes to his direction. Still following the man, the kid tries to get his soccer ball from the road, Miguel saves him. The man thanks him and he introduces himself as Hector invites him over for dinner.
The next day, Miguel helps Hector make breakfast. Hector is happy to learn that Miguel is an All-Valley champion. Later, he invites him to go to an MMA event. When Carmen calls him, he chastises her for lying to him about Hector. He tells her that Hector is a good man and that he missed out on everything because of her. At the MMA event, Hector offers Miguel whiskey then Hector gets a call from an MMA fighter telling him that some “FBIs” are looking for him, Hector believes that Miguel is a part of the FBI since Miguel told him that he is from the US. Hector checks him looking at his jacket and phone if he is affiliated with the FBI, after searching everything Hector apologizes to Miguel and suggests him to they somewhere safe after Hector saw the “FBIs”. Upon reaching to a bar, Miguel and Hector have a final conversation with Hector telling him that he is a retired boss but still associated with Ecuadorian criminal activity and he had no regrets. After having a conversation, Miguel doesn’t tell Hector that he is his son and leaves the bar, he calls his mother and tearfully tells her about how he learned of Hector. Johnny and Robby find him and Miguel and Johnny hug, though is upset when he sees Robby.
While Eli is getting a new tattoo, Miguel recaps his road trip back home with Johnny and Robby. When he tells him and Demetri about Sam's messages, the binary brothers are nervous for him. Demetri brings him to a jewelry store to buy something to make up with Sam. When he notices an octopus necklace, he is sad that he can't afford it. He meets with Johnny and Johnny says if he owns up to his mistakes, he can make things right. After Sam tells him he is breaking up with him, Miguel accepts it but when leaves Miyagi-Do, he is heartbroken and drops the necklace.
Miguel and other the Eagle Fang and Miyagi-Do students are spending a day at the water park. When arrives, he checks up on Sam and the two talk to each other. However, Miguel sees Eli getting pushed by Robby into the pool after Eli tried to defend himself from Kenny but then Miguel stand up for Eli and tries to push Robby to the pool, but the lifeguard breaks up the issue and suggests everyone should the water park immediately. In the parking lot, Miguel finds Robby and gets angry at him and telling him that why is he with Cobra Kai since he left but Robby doesn’t know he is talking about. Johnny arrives on the tell Miguel and Robby that they all friends, but they answers they will never be friends and leaves the parking lot. 
One day, Johnny's attempts of having Miguel and Robby get along go bad such as restaurant and game. Inspired by Daniel, Johnny has the two fight each other to get the hatred out of them. The two end up on the second level of the apartment where Miguel attacks Robby the same way he attacked him during the high school brawl. After remembering his fall, he stops fighting. In the end, Miguel and Robby finally make amends. The two hug Johnny when they learn he's going to have a baby with Carmen. After, the two have dinner at the Diaz apartment. 
The Eagle Fangs and Miyagi-Do students learn a new lesson under Chozen Toguchi. Each of the students hide eggs but are picked off by Chozen. Anthony gets an idea to work together to hide all the eggs. The plan works and in the end, Chozen surrenders.
While having dinner at the LaRusso house, Johnny talks to Miguel, Robby, and Hawk about who will be the male representative against Cobra Kai and they already made up their mind it should be Hawk since he won the All Valley males division. In Cobra Kai dojo, despite Hawk losing the boys portion but Sam wins the girls division and Miyagi Fang qualify for the Sekai Taikai tournament. While having a party, Miguel meets a girl and they make out, causing Sam to run out and also he was able to intervene both Sam and Tory from fighting with help of Robby.
At Miyagi-Do, Miguel, Sam, Hawk, Demetri talk about Terry Silver bribing the referee in order to ensure Cobra Kai's victory. Later, they go with Bert to confront Stingray about Kreese's assault. To explain the story, he demonstrates it with a game of Dungeons and Dragons.
To finally put things to an end, Miguel, Robby, Sam, Hawk, and Demetri and their Miyagi-Fang classmates go to the flagship Cobra Kai dojo with a redeemed Tory to find evidence on Terry SIlver. While the binary brothers are finding evidence, the others see the Cobra Kai students attack Anthony. Miguel and his classmates are surprised when they learn that Mitch betrays the merged dojos and tipped off the Cobra Kai students. A long fight, Miguel fights many of Cobra Kai students and was able to save Robby from Kenny and the three other Cobra Kai students. Miguel and the others were able to protect Anthony from keeping Cobra Kai to get the tablet. Once Anthony had uploaded to Cobra Kai official YouTube channel, Terry Silver is exposed and the rest of the Cobra Kai students stopped fighting and watches the video. Miguel and the others watches Daniel defeating Terry Silver. Terry Silver was eventually arrested by the cops and Miguel and Sam rekindle their relationship.
=== Season 6 ===
Miguel arrives to West Valley High School for his senior year. After school, he, Johnny, and Robby heads to the Eagle Fang warehouse to train before going to Miyagi-Do only to see that its been demolished. Arriving at Miyagi-Do, Miguel and Robby notices that Sam and Tory are training the opposite of each other as they're struggling to get along. With Miguel and Robby able to work out their differences from the past, they make it their goal to have Sam and Tory do the same. They take them on a double date at Golf N' Stuff in order to help them get along better, but the date goes awkward. While Robby tries to talk to Kenny, who's playing in the arcade alone and still refuse to talk to him, Miguel tries to get Sam and Tory to bond through ice cream but to no avail. He, Sam and Tory then arrive to defend Robby who is fighting Kenny and his older brother Shawn, who Robby met in juvie. While training, he welcomes Kenny after he decides to join Miyagi-Fang.
At his apartment, Miguel is reading his Stanford personal statement to Johnny, Robby, Carmen and Rosa and they are happy with how he wrote it. However, the pipe in their apartment breaks and the plumber is still working on the situation. At school, Miguel, Sam, Hawk, and Demetri checks out the college fair during lunchtime. While there, a representative from College of the Valley recommends him to go to their school and transfer to Stanford. During a college tour, Miguel, Hawk, and Demetri encounter their former bullies Kyler and Brucks. They are surprised that Kyler goes to College of the Valley. Later, the three goes to a party hosted by a fraternity named, Theta Omega, where Kyler is being hazed by the fraternity members and their leader, Zenker. During the party, Miguel and Demetri overhear Zenker's plan to disqualify Kyler. When Zenker tries to haze Kyler again, Miguel makes him tell the truth that Kyler won’t be let into the fraternity. Kyler then picks a fight with the frat students. Miguel, Hawk, Demetri, and Brucks assists him of fighting Zenker and the frat members before the 5 leave the house. While eating, Kyler tells Miguel about how he didn’t pursue his dreams, encouraging Miguel to pursue his. 
Carmen is having her gender reveal at the LaRusso house. While setting up, Miguel and Robby are impressed with Sam and Tory working together and being friends. Miguel and everyone cheers when Johnny and Carmen reveals that they are having a girl. At Miyagi-Do, Devon approaches and Miguel and Robby on how they got Sam and Tory to be friends as she notices them doing sloppy moves during training. Later, Hawk shows a video of Gunther revealing that the tournament will take place is in Barcelona, Spain. However, he explains the selection process and that each dojo would need to pick six fighters, much to the disappointment of the students.
At West Valley High School, Miguel, Robby, Sam and Tory talk about the tournament and Robby explains that they have champions and runner ups who have a guaranteed selection. Before the tournament, Mike Barnes has the students undergo rigorous training processes. After the first session, Miguel is one of the twelve students who moves on to the next round. While getting ready to for the next session, Hawk reveals to Miguel that he never applied to MIT because since the frat party, he hasn't been thinking about other schools to apply. Miguel encourages him to tell Demetri when there's a chance. After completing the next round, Miguel, Robby, Sam, and Tory are chosen to go to Barcelona.
For the captains of Miyagi-Do, Miguel, Robby, Sam, and Tory are chosen for the position, unfortunately there can only be 2 captains, the 2 captains chosen will be the people who fight in the finals of the tournament. This means Miguel must face Robby one last time to prove who is the best fighter and who will lead Miyagi-Do. Later, Miguel gets an update about Stanford and finds out that he got deferred, he tells Johnny and Carmen about it when he arrived home. At school, Miguel tells Sam that Stanford accepts 15% of the deferred students and that being the male captain for the tournament will improve his resume in order to be accepted. Miguel and Sam later have a training session with Daniel in the woods. Arriving at home, Miguel approaches Robby who's training by himself since Tory has been unreachable to him lately. He tells him that even if they fight, they don't have any bad blood. He vents to him about college but he tells him about his situation. Before their conversation escalates, Carmen offers burgers but Robby declines. Miguel leaves then.
The day of the fight, Miguel and Robby are up first to determine who will be the male captain for Miyagi-Do, Johnny feeling conflicted steps down as Daniel tells him he’ll referee the match. Johnny wishes both his son and step-son good luck as the two step onto the mat. Miguel has support with him in Sam who is in his corner, fully determined and knowing that becoming captain will most likely guarantee his future. Their match begins and Miguel wins the first two points. However, after Tory arrives, Robby mounts a comeback and beats Miguel and becomes male captain. The two share a fist bump hoping that there's no hard feelings between them. Miguel then watches Sam and Tory's match with Johnny as their referee that results with Sam becoming female captain by default after Tory leaves the team and presumably quits karate following her mother's death. With Tory not going to compete with Miyagi-Do, Hawk, who originally lost his chance to earn a spot back in the forest, takes her place. With training over, Miguel, Hawk, Robby, Demetri, Sam, and Devon are the six students to represent Miyagi-Do.
Miyagi-Do arrives at the Sekai Taikai in Barcelona. While getting ready, they see the new Cobra Kai, led by John Kreese and Kim Da-Eun and their fellow students, led by Kwon Jae-Sung. Shortly, Tory appears with them, revealing that she has rejoined Cobra Kai, much to Miguel and Miyagi-Do's shock.
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*Miguel Diaz on the Near Pure Good Wiki
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