Karate Kid is a spin-off of The Outsiders
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Karate Kid
bdk_solo — 9 years ago(January 24, 2017 07:24 AM)
I didn't know this but the movie "The Outsiders" is the prequel movie that spawned off a whole lot of other movies with Karate Kid being one. After the success of "The Outsiders", Ralph Macchio's Johnny Cade character was brought back to life (his death was retconned) as the character Daniel LaRusso. Now that his character had survived the fire, after being released from the hospital, his mother, fearing that the gang life would end up killing her son, packs him up, changes their names, and moves to California. This explains why she was so upset when she first sees his black eye after the beach party. She fears that Daniel is already falling back into his gang life style. Also, every time Daniel sees Johnny he gives him a menacing glare. This is because he is thinking about stabbing Johnny. Now is he wanting to stab him or scared of wanting to stab him? I don't know. But there it is.
ALSO,
Outsiders spawned off a few other movies such asThe Mighty Ducks ! Emilio Estevez's character, Two-Bits, gets out of the gang life and puts himself through law school. No one is going to hire or take a lawyer named Two-Bits seriously so he changes his name to Gordon Bombay. You know the rest of the story.
Steve Randel, played by Tom Cruise, opts out of the gang life by joining the US Navy.
Pony Boy sets out on the road picking up hitchhikers.
Patrick Swayze fully embraces his bad boy lifestyle, sets up a new gang called the ex-presidents. OR he becomes a bouncer and starts kicking the beep out of people.
