The Karate Kid

The eighties films, the 2010 remake, Legends, and all six seasons of Cobra Kai.

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Where to start with The Karate Kid

Four films from the eighties and nineties, a series that arrived thirty-four years later and turned out to be the best thing in the franchise, and a 2010 remake that has nothing to do with any of it until 2025, when a film joined the two together.

  1. 1
    The Karate Kid (1984) The Karate Kid

    Needed before anything else, because the series that follows spends six years re-examining its ending from the other side. Nothing before it.

  2. 2
    Cobra Kai, series 1 Cobra Kai

    Picks up thirty-four years later with the film's antagonist as the lead, and it is far better than that premise suggests. It draws on all four original films, but the first one is the only one it needs you to have seen.

  3. 3
    Karate Kid: Legends (2025) Karate Kid: Legends

    The film that connects this line to the 2010 remake, which had been a separate story until then. It comes after Cobra Kai and refers back to it, so it goes last rather than anywhere else.

Then what? Parts II and III are worth going back for once Cobra Kai starts mining them, which it does from its second series onwards. The Next Karate Kid is the fourth and least loved. The 2010 remake is a different story with a different cast in a different country, and until Legends it had no connection to any of this at all.

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The Original Films

  • The Karate Kid 1984
  • The Karate Kid Part II 1986
  • The Karate Kid Part III 1989
  • The Next Karate Kid 1994

Cobra Kai

  • Cobra Kai 2018, 6 seasons, 65 episodes

Other Continuities

  • Karate Kid: Legends 2025
  • The Karate Kid 2010

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