[CaptainCrunch]

Honestly, the villains are pretty much the best most well developed characters on the show and that's what makes it really intriguing to be.



I mean Torrie is a sympathetic villain. She's absolutely ruthless and combative because she's had a lot of crappy breaks in her life, and everyone on the good side treats her like a one dimensional villain.



Robbie again, abandoned by his dad, lives with a sh%tty mom who abandons him, of course he's looking for a father figure, but at the same time he's going to make horrible decisions. Even his beatdown of Kenny was just a really bad decision.


Kreese, I like the character, a guy who did things for what he believed was the right thing. Teaching kids to survive in a horrible world where people are going to bully them and take advantage of them. In the end we did get a peek that there was a guy with a bit of regret and compassion.


Silver again like Kreese someone with a right idea gone wrong, seduced by money and power and the bonds of a almost cancerous friendship. He goes straight, but gets seduced by all of his wrong choices.



Meanwhile the antagonists are not great people. Sam is a snobby bully. Miguel is a good kid but he just makes bad choices. Eli even when he went over to the good is still a bit of a bully.


In the middle there's Johnny who's not a hero, he's not a villain but he's a guy that's trying to walk a really narrow path to redemption.


In the original movies the characters weren't really characters, there were clear lines of hero's and villains and they didn't develop beyond that.



I can't wait to see what they do with Mike Barnes, I hope they really don't redeem him. I want a guy that literally kills someone in the ring and feels no regret, that has made millions ruthlessly and isn't fighting some redemption arc with Daniel, but is only there to destroy him. I hope he has a son that is a similar type of championship callibre combination of Karate Champion and ######bag. I want to hear Terry looking at Barnes with approval as Barnes tells his son to break Miquel's back.