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| “ | I know Americans. Coddled, arrogant, privileged. You have no idea what it is like to sacrifice, what it's like to go hungry. Even for one meal. Everything in your life is empty calories. Then maybe it's true. You are what you eat. | „ |
| ~ Wolf's prejudice towards Johnny Lawrence. |
| “ | John Lawrence. One of us is about to have a lot more fun than the other. | „ |
| ~ Wolf before fighting Johnny Lawrence. |
Sensei Wolf is a major antagonist in Season 6 of the YouTube Red/Netflix series Cobra Kai.
He is the abusive sensei of the Iron Dragons that secretly worked for Terry Silver and quickly developed a rivalry with Miyagi-Do sensei Johnny Lawrence and later with Daniel LaRusso.
He is portrayed by Lewis Tan.
Personality[]
Despite not actually training under Kim Sun-Yung or any Cobra Kai sensei, Wolf's general philosophies about both karate and winning generally seem to align with theirs; winning must come at all cost. This is most prominently seen in how he treats his best student Axel Kovacevic, whom he displays abusive behavior towards to the point of having left scars on Axel's back, in an effort to push him to be the best student possible. He seems highly egotistical, frequently berating Johnny, and even choosing to fight him during the brawl for pure sadistic pleasure. Though little is known about his backstory, his remarks to Johnny imply a poor upbringing, where he presumably had to fight for everything that he had, which would fit in with his Cobra Kai-esque beliefs.
Biography[]
Wolf is the Sensei of the Iron Dragons, the winners of the last Sekai Taikai, and is apparently a 3-time champion. Despite this, Wolf lost ownership of the dojo due to mixing with some bad people. Forced to fight in cage matches in Bangkok, Wolf met Terry Silver, a man who offered to pay his debts and give him his dojo back in exchange for him humiliating Silver's rivals Miyagi-Do and Cobra Kai on the next Sekai Taikai as defending champions.
During the Sekai Taikai, he first meets Johnny Lawrence at the pre-match dinner, stealing the latter's steak and mocking him that he has no idea how to win in Barcelona. However, Johnny responds by calling him an idiot, resulting Wolf insulting Johnny more that he does not tolerate any respect. On the first match, his students are able to defeat other dojos including Cobra Kai, where Zara Malik and Axel Kovacevic were able to defeat Tory Nichols, Kwon Jae-Sung, and Yoon Do-Jin easily. At some point, he tried to kidnap Daniel LaRusso by luring him into a building that was guarded by Terry Silver's henchman, Dennis De Guzman, though Daniel was able to escape easily, believing that Kreese was the perpetrator. However, Daniel, along with Chozen Toguchi, John Kreese, and Kim Da-Eun would later find out that Terry Silver and Sensei Wolf were behind the kidnapping, as both of them are revealed to be working together so they can defeat and humiliate both Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do at the tournament.
When Kreese confronts and punches Silver for supposedly stealing his eunjangdo knife (while it was actually the Miyagi-Do sensei’s who did to it mess with their enemies’ minds), Wolf keeps him from attacking before Gunther Braun intervenes and Kim takes Kreese away.
During the all-dojo brawl, he was able to briefly get into a fight with Daniel and Johnny. However, he is one of the few to be shocked when Kwon Jae-Sung accidentally kills himself with Kreese’s knife while he tried to murder Axel.
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Trivia[]
- He is basically similar to that of Master Li from the 2010 The Karate Kid remake due to his abusiveness towards his students.
