Cobra Kai: What if Hawk was Johnny's Son? (Replacing Robby)

**Cobra Kai: What if Hawk was Johnny's Son? (Replacing Robby)**

**Fusion of Hawk and Robby into one character**

**Season 1: Shy kid gained confidence**

**Season 2: New confident kids help others find balance and deal with bullies.**

**Season 3: Hawk feels broken and alone. He is manipulated by Kreese to join him.**

**Season 4: Teaching others Miyagi-Do and becoming a Mike Barnes type villain. In the end, he wins**

## Cobra Kai Season 1: Plot

**Eli Moskowitz/Eli Keene is a victim of cyberbullying due to his cleft lip surgery scar. Eli is initially quiet, shy and sensitive, and he skips school when he gets in trouble for selling drugs to gain respect, after which he and his friends Cruz and Trey spend their days engaged in petty theft as seen when they are stealing laptops from Tech Town. Johnny tries to reconcile with him at the apartment he lives at with his single mother, but he rebuffs him because he believes his father is ashamed of him. To impress his father for neglecting him in favor of Miguel, Eli begins working at LaRusso Auto Group. Despite his original ulterior motive, Eli grows to appreciate Daniel's faith in him and turns against Cruz and Trey when they try to rob the dealership. Eli even begins to enjoy the work he's doing and develops a strong social communicating. Daniel takes Eli under his wing in an attempt to teach the misguided weak teenager. Daniel teaches him Miyagi-Do Karate as a way to instill confidence and discipline. Daniel's son nicknames him "Lip" due to his scar, but he takes Daniel's advice of "flipping the script" and undergoes an attitude change. Eli cuts his hair into a mohawk, gets a hawk with a mohawk tattooed on his back, developing a much more confident personality, and is dubbed Hawk by Daniel. Hawk also grows close to Daniel's daughter Samantha, and the pair become friends. With his new name comes a new attitude and fresh start to communicate more in school. He begins to stand up to bullies who pick on others. Daniel trains him to control his anger and fear to find balance. Sam's relationship with Miguel Diaz complicates their friendship, due to Hawk's disdain for Miguel and Johnny. Sam and Hawk went went to a party together, where Miguel picks a fight with Hawk for arriving with Sam and mocks his lip. When Miguel swings at Hawk, Sam blocks the punch and is struck by Miguel. The pair breaks up that night with Hawk and Sam retreating to the LaRusso residence. However, when Daniel finds out that Johnny and Hawk are father and son after Johnny shoves Daniel and breaks one of his All-Valley trophies, Daniel furiously banishes Hawk from his home and business as punishment for his deception. Undaunted by this rejection, Hawk enters the All-Valley tournament with no affiliation and advances towards the finals, impressing Daniel. This, combined with Amanda's encouragement to forgive Hawk and Hawk's apology for hiding the fact that he is Johnny's son, convinces Daniel to reconcile with Hawk, officially become Hawk's sensei again and allow Hawk to fight under the Miyagi-Do name during the final match against Miguel. Hawk sustains a shoulder injury from his previous match and ultimately finishes second to Miguel, who exploits Hawk's shoulder injury to win a close match. Impressed with Hawk's performance and disgusted with his students' increasingly thuggish behavior, Johnny apologizes to Hawk, who politely accepts it, implying that Hawk still cares about Johnny somewhat despite their strained relationship. Regardless of this loss, Daniel praises Hawk's performance and takes him to Mr. Miyagi's old rest house to explain his plans to restart the Miyagi-Do dojo with Hawk as his senior protege.**

## Cobra Kai Season 2: Plot

**Hawk's story this season is helping kids in school deal with bullies and harassment. Hawk dyes his Mohawk Purple to represent wisdow and bravery. Hawk moves in with the LaRussos after his mother Shannon abandons him and leaves with her boyfriend Rick to go on vacation to Mexico, and is evicted from their apartment due to unpaid bills. He and Sam bond closely while training and enter a short relationship, however the relationship is short-lived as she cheats on him with Miguel while they are attending Moon's party due to Sam finding out from Aisha that Miguel returned Miyagi's Medal of Honor to Hawk, which had been stolen by other Cobra Kai students. After Hawk takes Sam to Johnny's apartment after getting drunk at a party, Daniel accuses Hawk of following the footsteps of his father and cuts ties with Johnny and Hawk. With his mother in rehab and his relationship with Daniel tarnished, Hawk is forced to live with Johnny, and the pair slowly start to reconcile. During the karate war between the Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do students at school, Hawk once again gets into a fight with Miguel. After a lengthy fight, Miguel eventually traps Hawk in an arm lock and nearly decides to break his arm, but decides to let go of him after remembering Johnny's advice of showing mercy. However, Hawk, furious with Miguel for taunting him about his relationship problems with Johnny and Sam and taking advantage of Sam at Moon's party, furiously retaliates by kicking Miguel over the balcony railing, accidentally sending him falling off the second floor and crashing spine-first on a stair handrail, paralyzing him and rendering him unconscious. Shocked and horrified at the fact that he accidentally crippled Miguel, Hawk flees the scene while Sam, Hawk and a police officer check on an unconscious Miguel.**

## Cobra Kai Season 3: Plot

**Hawk dyes his hair red and side-swept his hair. He is subsequently expelled from West Valley High School for crippling Miguel, and goes into hiding for several weeks, stealing a used Dodge Grand Caravan from the LaRusso dealership and living out of a homeless camp. After chasing down several leads, Daniel discovers that Hawk is visiting his mother Shannon in rehab and arranges to have the police arrest him, believing that Hawk will get a lighter sentence if he surrenders. However as the police arrive, Hawk begs Daniel to save him and tries apologizing; he ends their friendship by coldly ordering Daniel not to visit him in juvenile hall. During his incarceration at Sylmar Juvenile Detention Center, Hawk feels abandoned when Johnny misses a scheduled visit to provide moral support to Miguel's family during his surgery and subsequently cuts ties with Johnny. Kreese takes advantage of Johnny's neglect to visit Hawk, and upon finding out that Hawk is being bullied by a group of inmates, suggests that he adapt to the Cobra Kai mentality of striking first. Taking Kreese's lessons to heart, Hawk gains the upper hand on the bullies, winning their respect. Around mid-December, Hawk is released from juvie, but rebuffs both Daniel and Johnny when they arrive to pick him up due to his resentment towards them. After discovering Sam and Miguel are together again at the Miyagi-Do dojo, Hawk furiously accuses Sam of dumping him for Miguel after he was sentenced to juvenile hall. With nowhere else to go, Hawk furiously ends his relationship with Samantha and goes to Cobra Kai, where Kreese agrees to take him in. Hawk is initially reluctant to join Cobra Kai, but Tory convinces him to stay with Cobra Kai, the two soon befriend each other and find common ground in each other's broken home lives as well as their own betrayals from Johnny, Sam and Miguel. As the newest member of Cobra Kai, Hawk proves himself to Kreese and the rest of the Cobra Kai students after stealing a snake from the zoo. While Tory leads the Cobra Kai's that night in an attack on the LaRusso house, Kreese keeps Hawk behind at the dojo to train him. When Johnny shows up at the dojo to confront Kreese over the attack on Miguel, he is horrified to see Hawk wearing a Cobra Kai gi. Hawk engages in a fight against Johnny but is unintentionally knocked out by Johnny who reluctantly pushes him into a set of lockers after trying to reason with him to no avail. Daniel joins the fray, and he and Johnny defeat Kreese before Miguel and Sam intervene to talk them out of killing him. When Hawk regains consciousness, he coldly orders Daniel, Johnny, Miguel, and Sam to leave before continuing his training with Kreese. He is being harassed for putting a kid in a coma and is picked as the bad guy.**

## Cobra Kai Season 4: Plot

**Hawk dyes his hair yellow to represent Cobra Kai in Episode 5. Hawk aids Kreese and Silver with leading the Cobra Kais, training them in Miyagi-Do techniques so that they can better counter Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang. He also befriends a young student named Kenny Payne whom he mentors due to him struggling to fit in at school and dealing with his bullies including Daniel's son Anthony. Hawk becomes more aggressive and forms his own gang with some of the newer students. Hawk starts picking fights with Miyagi-Do, but shows slight regret. In the finals, Hawk faces off against Miguel. Terry Silver teaches him the Quicksilver method and trains him furiously. As they both know the Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do techniques, Hawk and Miguel fight to a draw, leading to a sudden death overtime for the first time since the 1985 All-Valley Tournament (from The Karate Kid Part III). Ultimately, Hawk emerges victorious over Miguel and becomes the All-Boys champion. Hawk and Johnny have a conversation and hug.**