Coach Lawrence

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**Coach Lawrence** is a supporting character in the *Tales of Arcadia* franchise.

He is the health and gym teacher of Arcadia Oaks High, the second husband of Mrs. Palchuk-Lawrence, the stepfather of Steve Palchuk, and the step-grandfather of Maja, Baja, Taja, Faja, Daja, Waja, and Eli Jr.

## History

### Backstory

Coach Lawrence was a student of Arcadia Oaks High in 1972, along with Lenora Janeth.

### Trollhunters (Part One)

Coach Lawrence is seen taking gym classes in several episodes. After Strickler took leave, he filled in for him. He also took health classes and tried to teach the students about the digestive system and assigned them flour babies in order to introduce them to parenting.

### Trollhunters (Part Two)

It was revealed in the episode "Creepslayerz," that he is now Steve’s stepfather, much to the latter’s displeasure.

In "The Reckless Club", Lawrence briefly appears dropping Steve off at school when the latter has to go through Saturday detention for intentionally getting into trouble to investigate Jim and the Trollhunters. Steve is clearly displeased with Lawrence taking him to school.

Coach Lawrence makes another appearance in "In the Hall of the Gumm-Gumm King", in the school gym, watching Eli climb the rope with ease (possibly under Steve's influence), which surprises Lawrence.

### Wizards

Coach Lawrence makes small appearance in telling the children of Arcadia Oaks that school out and that the world was over again and go home.

## Physical Description

Lawrence is buff and has a brown mustache. He wears typical gym teacher clothes such as sweatpants, a T-shirt, and a red hat.

## Personality

Lawrence appears to be your typical tough and surly gym leader stereotype, but he also tries his best to emotionally connect with Steve as his new stepson. He is also protective of his students, as seen when he defended Aja and Krel from Kubritz's allegations. However, he is not too fond of students who are unable to play sports well, like Eli and frequently picks on them. On the other hand, he is clearly very impressed with students who were great at sports. He isn't very bright and not a very good class teacher, such as letting the class watch Gun Robot 3 as a substitute and being unable to teach the digestive system properly.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

* **Gravesand-Induced State** (briefly): After unintentionally drinking Gravesand, it amplified Lawrence's feral instincts ten-fold, thus making him more stronger and aggressive. Luckily, Steve managed to break him free from his feral curse by accepting him as a friend and his stepfather.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Lawrence was strong enough to throw Logan's phone a very good distance, pop a dodgeball with his bare hands, and rip a climbing rope off its hook with ease.

### Abilities

* **Extreme Fitness**: Coach Lawrence is extremely fit and strong. He possesses immense strength, is able to run very fast and also has great stamina.

### Weaknesses

* **Mortality**: As a human, Lawrence possesses a mortal body, so is therefore highly vulnerable to any forms of injuries, sicknesses, and death.

## Relationships

### **Romances**

#### Mrs. Palchuk-Lawrence

Mrs. Palchuk is Coach Lawrence's new wife. They clearly love each other and Lawrence even defends his wife after she and Steve get into an argument. He tries his best to help his new wife get over her and her son's hostility with each other ever since Mr. Palchuk left.

### **Family**

#### Steve Palchuk

Coach Lawrence also tries his best to prove himself as a worthy father figure to Steve, but he's not very good at it, because he almost always reveals embarrassing things about Steve at school.

Although their relationship improves somewhat after Steve saves Lawrence from the Gravesand curse, Steve is still kind of embarrassed to be around him.

In A Glorious End, Part Two he learned from Steve that he was seen as a role model by him, and Lawrence cried a little after hearing that.

### **Friends/Allies**

#### Karl Uhl

As staff members, Lawrence and Uhl seem to get along with each other.

#### Lenora Janeth

As staff members, Lawrence and Janeth have a professional relationship. They were seen judging the science fair together in "D'aja Vu".

#### AAARRRGGHH!!!

It is unknown how and when Coach Lawrence and AAARRRGGHH!!! first met, but it can be presumed that it was during the two weeks after the Eternal Night when Toby introduced AAARRRGGHH!!! to everyone in Arcadia.

In "Ill Gotten Gains" Coach Lawrence was surprised that AAARRRGGHH!!! attended summer school with Toby and the other students. He then imagined having him join the school on the wrestling team which could "finally make it to state" as he put it.

### **Students**

#### Eli Pepperjack

Lawrence is frequently hard on Eli because he is wimpy and unathletic. However, briefly shown in "In the Hall of the Gumm-Gumm King", Lawrence was impressed by Eli's improvements when he backflips from a rope perfectly.

#### Aja and Krel Tarron

Coach sees Aja as one of his star athletes while he's amazed by Krel's high intellect. In "Ill Gotten Gains", he was genuinely confused why the siblings had to go to summer school, and even defends them from Kubritz's accusations when she calls them aliens (which he and everyone else took as "illegal aliens").

### **Enemies**

#### Colonel Kubritz

Coach Lawrence finds Kubritz rather deplorable, especially after she lied to him about a fatal disease infecting Arcadia Oaks High when he realized that she was merely staging a phony quarantine just to capture Aja and Krel.

## Trivia

* On a Discord, Aaron Waltke suggested that Coach Lawrence's first name is Koch. He later clarified that he meant it as a joke, since Koch sounds so similar to the word "coach."
* Lawrence reveals in "Collision Course" that he takes Pilates.
* In the episode "Return of the Trollhunter", Coach Lawrence asks his students what happened in 1989 while filling in for Mr. Strickler's history class (claiming he doesn't remember it since it was a crazy year). This could be a reference to his voice actor, Tom Wilson, portraying Biff Tannen in the *Back to the Future* franchise and was the main antagonist in Part 2 (which was released in theaters in 1989).
* In the episode "Something Rotten This Way Comes", Coach Lawrence is on Gunmar's list of Jim's loved ones that he will kill to "make a throne from their bones".
* In the episode "The Reckless Club", Coach Lawrence was in the 1972 yearbook with Ms. Janeth, making him roughly 60 years old.

## Gallery

***Arcadia Oaks-pedia*** has a collection of images and media related to *Coach Lawrence* which can be found at
***Coach Lawrence/Gallery***.