who is mr terry silver?
Enter Terry Silver, a charming, brilliant, black-belt multi-millionaire and good friend of Karate Kid’s bad guy, John Kreese . In Karate Kid Part III, Kreese shows up at Silver’s mansion, his life in shambles because of the irreversible damage Danny and Mr. Miyagi did to his Cobra Kai Dojo, which is actually owned by Terry. Silver immediately shows his quick wit and charm and makes the first order of business sending his disheartened buddy on a spare-no-expense vacation to Tahiti.
While Kreese is soaking up the sun, Silver takes a break from his usual business of dumping chloride sludge and makes his new full time job revenge. Silver concocts the ultimate revenge scheme: To create a rift between Danny and his beloved mentor Mr. Miyagi. Danny who won the All-Valley Karate Tournament the previous year is talked out of defending his title by Miyagi, although it’s quite clear Danny wants to defend it and agrees not to enter only to appease Mr. Miyagi.
Mr. Silver finds and hires Karate’s Bad Boy Mike Barnes who will compete against Danny in the All Valley Tournament for the title of All Valley Champion. Word of Danny not defending his title quickly reaches Mr. Silver and he reacts immediately and appropriately. He orders Barnes along with one of his elite henchmen, “Snake”, to harass and even assault Danny until he agrees to enter the tournament. Snake is also very shrewd and striking, and is kind of a young Terry Silver.
Meanwhile Silver creates brilliant accidental run-ins with Danny and forms a personal bond with the young champion. He uses this bond as leverage to distance Danny from Mr. Miyagi. Silver offers to show Danny special techniques which Miyagi refuses to teach. When Barnes finally gets Danny to agree to enter the tournament because of the repeated harassment, Miyagi, stunningly, refuses to train his student. Danny has no choice but to turn to Mr. Silver, and take him up on his offer of free training at the Cobra Kai dojo with Silver himself.
Silver’s training system, which he calls “Quick Silver”, is utterly brilliant. Danny is pressured by Silver to practice punching and kicking wooden boards, leaving Danny’s shins bloodied and knuckles broken. The scene of Silver training Danny in the Dojo is one of the best in the movie and it displays Silver’s raw smarts, which make it easy to believe that he’s a millionaire.
Silver continues the training over several weeks and his mind manipulation of Danny begins to affect Danny’s personal life. Once a fun and outgoing person, Danny now finds himself constantly on edge and ready to crack.
Silver devises another accidental run-in with Danny at a hot night club where Danny is taking out his main squeeze on a date. Silver secretly hires a kid from the night club to go try to dance with Danny’s girl. Not on Danny’s watch. Danny cracks the kid in the face and smashes his nose into smithereens. Silver then grabs Danny and the two take off out of the night club like a couple of bats outta hell. Danny’s life is turned upside down and he finds himself a shamble of the person he once was and his relationship with Mr. Miyagi on the rocks.
Silver finally reveals to Danny that he is in cahoots with Barnes and Kreese and Danny is completed traumatized. He brings this news to Mr. Miyagi and it rekindles his relationship with true sensei. Miyagi finally agrees to train him.
In the tournament Barnes is beating Danny to a bloody pulp. He gets a point and then does an illegal move to hurt Danny, such as a kick to the groin, and loses a point, keeping the score 0-0. He continues with the repeated pain for several minutes. Danny wants to crawl into a hole and cry his eyes out but Mr. Miyagi grabs him by his neck and shakes the shit out of him until the fear is gone.
Barnes gets screwed in overtime on some gay move and he loses the match and then Danny and Mr. Miyagi celebrate like a couple of fags.
Silver and Kreese, frustrated, then head back to Silver’s mansion for a pool party bash but Barnes is not invited.
Although he couldn’t finish the job, Silver came closer to destroying the Daniel-san/Miyagi duo than anyone in history. Even without winning the tournament Silver has made a lasting impact on Danny, who still suffers from nightmares to this day.
Mr. Terry Silver is clearly one of the greatest, most innovative, evil masterminds of all time.
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This is Sensei John Kreese. I am very displeased that my last name is spelled wrong all over this page. My name is Kreese with a “K”, not “C”!!!
Cobra Kai has currently secured a large government grant, thanks to Terry’s political and legal influence in the California Legislature, and Cobra Kai (now Cobra Kai Inc.) is undergoing a significant national expansion of our dojos, which by 2010 will span the continental US from ocean to ocean.
I appreciate the creation of this site to my brother in arms, Terry Silver.
Cobra Kai Never Dies; NO MERCY!
JOHNNNNNNNNY!
How the hell are you buddy? Haven’t heard from you in a while, hope Mamon is well. Give her a little squeeze for me will ya???
Sounds great about the Dojos, let me know if you need me to throw any more money at it!
Sorry about the name mixup, clearly I was not the author, it was Margaret. And I just gave her a reverse roundhouse to her face… I don’t think she’ll make that mistake again!
SAY IT!!! SAY IT!!!
COBRA KAI…
NEVER DIES!
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS WRONG WITH YOU??!!!! You should know better than to treat women like that!!!! My best friends Dolly and Diana would be really dang furious!! Perhaps we’ll round up some of our girls, hold you down, reverse roadhouse you, and see how you like that!! Maybe, when push comes to shove, you and your friend may get tossed in the slammer for a long, long time, and get a taste of your own medicine!! And your so-called “places” will be shut down! You’re all cold-hearted snakes!! As for Dolly, Diana, and me, we’re women, ourselves! We know how to dish it out! You’ll never keep us down! Our faith and pride are strong as steel!! Let all of that be lessons to you!!
This is Daniel LaRusso. Mister Silver, I’m still so damn mad about what you did. The Cobra Kai bullied me for no reason. They even tried to kill me like 10 times - really kill me! What did I ever do to deserve that? It’s not fair! Screw this, I’m going home.
You know what? Mister Miyagi is dead now and I finally figured out that Ma isn’t coming home from that vacation to Jersey. What the hell am I supposed to do? I don’t have anybody. I just punched a wall and screamed!
I need somebody to train me for the All-Valley Over 40 Tournament. I haven’t fought in a tournament since 1989, and you know how fast I lose my skill after a tournament! I have to train constantly, because I seem to forget everything I ever learned the minute I win the big fight. Plus I can only do a move once. The crane was a one-hit wonder. So was the Miyagi family secret, and whatever the hell I used on Mike Barnes.
Are you available to sensei? If not, I’m going to carry on and storm out, pretty much throw a tantrum until you agree to all of my terms. Can I trust you this time? And why was the leg sweep so devasting when Johnnie used it, but when I tried it on Karate’s Bad Boy I got my ass kicked?
One last thing. How was it that I was the defending champion in the 1989 tournament, but the last time I won was in 1984? How did five years become one year? How did I get so tall between the first tournament and later that night when we confronted Kreese in the parking lot? And how did I gain so much weight on the flight home from Okinawa? Will you send me to Tahiti?
LaRusso! I had your ass in the tournament…….Mr. Silver made me keep losing points on purpose but I had you. I want another shot in that All Valley Over 40 Tournament. I ain’t done SHIT since my loss. It would stun you how a guy can go from Karate’s Bad Boy one month then lose his manhood the next after having a loss to the likes of you on his record. Don’t think you’ve seen the last of me, Daniel. I need your title. What’s that? Maybe you didn’t hear me, I NEED YOUR TITLE!
Barnes, what are you, greedy?! You should also watch your language! If Dolly and Diana had heard you talking like that , you would’ve had to eat a lot of gruel and curds!! You think you’re a man, grow up!! Maybe, our other best friends Daisy and Maeve would agree with Daniel! Diana, Dolly, I do! The six of us women know a way to motivate Daniel into keeping Mr. Miyagi’s spirit alive! So Barnes, learn how to take your losses and grow up!! SHAME ON YOU!!
Daniel-San. This is ghost of Miyagi. I need you do some-thing. At home, in sink, there are dishes piling up. I need you wash dishes. Then go for run around block. Count lap. It help you lose weight. Better, if enemy chasing you. I appear also as apparition to enemy, tell them to chase you. Ha ha ha.
Oh Mr. Miyagi, when did your student become such a little pansy? He’s being outrun by his girl. Even two of his slaps don’t do jack squat against a 115 pound Mike Barnes, whose face is so narrow you could paint it white and make him the killer in “Scream 4″. And now that he’s blown all his college savings, here he is at the ripe old age of 47 still getting all dolled up in an apron and hairnet like some white trash 3rd class bitch. Even Chozen was better than this, and I am dead to him, remember?
Hey LaRusso! Guess what? When Ali left you, she came back to me. She realized that even though you kicked my ass, I still had much better hair - nobody resists a man who wears headbands. We’ve been married for 20 years and she still likes it when I get freaky in my skeleton costume. How you like that, tree boy?
Have fun with the pottery girl. Can’t keep a woman, can you? Just hope you never forget the first lesson I taught you - HOW TO TAKE A FALL!
Mr. Miyagi is a weak, little defenseless dwarf. I would debrain that faggot in less than 30 seconds with a 540 kick between his slope eyes. Daniel is a faggot too! That needs be decapitated. Fuck Danielson and Midget Miyag. Lowerclass Trash!