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Anthony LaRusso is a major character in the Netflix series Cobra Kai. He is the son of Daniel and Amanda LaRusso and the younger brother of Samantha LaRusso.
He is portrayed by Griffin Santopietro.
Cobra Kai[]
Season 1[]
Anthony is shown playing video games during his free time and whenever he's out with his family. Him and Roland Zarkarian hate each other and put their fathers in comparison to what they own. He is shown having dinner with the family a couple times including Lucille LaRusso, Louie LaRusso Jr., and Daniel's new student, Robby Keene. When Daniel and Johnny Lawrence confront each other at the LaRusso home after Louie and his two biker gang burns his car, Anthony encourages his father to fight before the two tells him to back inside. He is shown attending the All-Valley Karate Tournament with his family and later leaves with Sam and their mother when she wants to head home through an Uber while Daniel stays.
Season 2[]
During the summer, Anthony goes to summer camp instead of joining Miyagi-Do Karate with his father as he doesn't want to do any chores associated with training. In the morning after summer was over, Anthony walks by and Daniel asks if he has seen Sam, to which Anthony says not since he only got back from camp yesterday before asking him to make waffles.
Season 3[]
Anthony arrives at Miyagi-Do Karate alongside his mother, when they walk, they see Sam, Demetri, Chris, and a couple of Miyagi-Do students doing karate. While Amanda is confronting Sam and orders the students to leave, Anthony is shown eating a popsicle. He repeats little things that his mother says.
Season 4[]
When Daniel and Sam return home after training, an alarm goes off and Amanda and Anthony checks out the front, believing that someone from Cobra Kai has broke into the house. They're relieved to see it's just Daniel and Sam before Amanda informs the security company to assure them it's a false alarm.
While on a bus to West Valley Middle School, Anthony and his friends, who are a group of bullies, make fun of the new student, Kenny Payne, dancing as he waits for the bus stop. During the gym class, Kenny, a decent basketball player, accidentally hits Anthony in the face. Though Kenny apologizes, Anthony doesn't believe it was an accident and confronts the student. Lia intervenes and stops Anthony, telling him to take it easy on the new kid. He obliges but watches her be friendly with Kenny and he gets jealous of him.
That night, Anthony and his friends catfish Kenny by tricking him into believing that Lia wants to meet him at Balboa Park in his Dungeon Lord cosplay. They record Kenny in the park. He tries to stop Anthony from recording and accidentally breaks his phone, apologizes, but insults them in return. Zack Thompson and Anthony's friends restrain Kenny and assaults him. They encourage Anthony to use his karate moves. When he hesitates, his friends calls him 'LaPusso,' leading him ready to attack. This gives Kenny the opportunity to escape. They chase him to no avail as he hides from them in a dumpster. The bullying continues, with Anthony and his gang filled Kenny's locker with milk in the coming school days.
He is shown having dinner with his family, Miguel Diaz, and his mother, Carmen Diaz. He is surprised to see that Johnny is with them as he was invited by Daniel. Johnny doesn't recognize Anthony at first, due to the weight loss and his growth appearance.
During a day at middle school, Anthony and Lia talk about how they haven't hung out. She tells them that they can do something as friends. He watches as Lia talks to Kenny. At the end of gym class, Anthony steals Kenny's Cobra Kai hoodie, leading Kenny to chase him while in his underwear which results him being embarrassed in front of the class.
Later that day, Daniel finds the stolen hoodie and confronts Anthony about it. He calims that a kid from Cobra Kai is bullying him at school so he stole it to get back at him. Daniel decides it's time to begin Anthony's training in Miyagi-Do. He shows him the dojo and explains the history behind everything. He tasks Anthony with cleaning Mr. Miyagi's old cars. When he returns, he's impressed that Anthony cleaned them until he learns Anthony hired a man to clean the cars for him. Daniel decides Anthony isn't mature enough to handle karate after all. Back in the house, Anthony takes a look of a karate scroll. Daniel merely calls it an extreme measure he hopes no one has to use. The two have a conversation about Mr. Miyagi.
At school, Anthony and Lia have a conversation, where they reflect their childhood friendship. Lia invites Anthony to an upcoming carnival and Anthony is excited about this, but his mood goes down when Lia announces she is going with Kenny. Anthony tries to apologize and reconcile with Kenny but he doesn't forgive him. After he calls Anthony "LaPusso", he and his friends chase Kenny through the hallway until they reach the library. They seemly cornered the boy until the lights in the room go out. They split up to find him but one-by-one, Kenny takes down the students using the techniques he's learned from Cobra Kai dojo. He leaves Anthony for last and easily takes him down. He is about to beat him up when the lights suddenly turn on and a teacher appears. The students are taken to the principal's office. When the Daniela Amanda arrive, they expect consequences for Kenny for the bullying he's done to their son. However, when the principal explains that Anthony and his friends are being suspended, as they have been bullying Kenny for during his time at school. He shows the Instagram video of Kenny's locker being filled with milk posted by Anthony, followed by security footage of Anthony and his friends chasing Kenny into the library. He then reveals that Anthony has become a bully shocking Daniel and Amanda as they realized that Anthony lied. From outside, Anthony is suspended but Kenny is off the hook due to being a bully victim. He whispers "got ya" to Anthony, knowing that he's won this battle.
Due to the bullying he's done, Anthony is grounded and loses his electronic privileges and is sent to his bedroom. He is shown taking a picture with his family, Johnny, Miguel and his family before Sam and Miguel goes to the West Valley High School Junior Prom together. During the night, Daniel checks with Anthony in his bedroom and tries to make amends with his son for his actions. Anthony then later wishes Daniel good luck at the upcoming All Valley Karate Tournament and hopes that Cobra Kai loses in which he agrees. Unbeknownst to Daniel, Anthony had been secretly hiding an iPad all along in his room, in which he hears due to a notification chime while playing Dungeon Lord. Daniel gets angry at him for not taking the punishment seriously and demands Anthony to give his iPad to him. Anthony protests to Daniel that it's a tablet. Regardless, Daniel breaks it using karate techniques with his knee. When Anthony reacts to it, Daniel yells "quiet" to him. He warns Anthony to follow and listen to his rules or face a much worse punishment since he is "done playing games with him", which Anthony reluctantly agrees. The next day, Anthony is shown taking out the trash where he admits his mistakes to Kenny. To make amends, he offers Daniel to help him at the dealership or the dojo and Daniel agrees.
Anthony and the rest of his family attends All Valley Karate Tournament to cheer for Sam and Miyagi-Do. He then saw how Kenny was brutally beaten by Robby during their match in the quarterfinals of the tournament which leads Kenny to run to the locker room to check his nose. Realizing his mistakes and wanting to make amends, Anthony followed Kenny to the locker room to try and cheer him up with his loss by saying that Robby was one of the best fighters. He tried to apologize again to Kenny for all the bullying he's done to him with Kenny stating that Anthony was just trying to impress his friends by picking on the new kid who didn't have any when he moved in. Unfortunately, Kenny at this point doesn't forgive him and is convinced that he doesn't know how it feels to be bullied. He started brutally punching him until he was stopped by Robby, who's been training him in Cobra Kai and discovers that Anthony was his bully. Kenny then grabbed Anthony and told him that next year he would be in a world of pain. Robby then tried to talk to Anthony but he left while claiming that he should leave him alone. After the All Valley, Anthony and the rest of his family returned to their home in disappointment that Cobra Kai won.
Season 5[]
Anthony confronts Sam about eating the last Uncrustables. He also talks about Kenny and how he's getting better. Noticing how she's been, he asks about Miguel before she leaves to eat brunch with Moon and Yasmine.
He and his sister heads to the water park, where he is shown staring at Moon and Yasmine before leaving the girls alone. Later that day, Kenny, Kyler, a few Cobra Kai's confront him. Anthony states that he doesn't want any trouble, but Kenny states that he should've thought of it before he and his friends started to harass him in the first place. Anthony thoughts that they were cool and Kenny disagrees and he and the Cobra Kai's kick Anthony into the water. When tensions occur between the Miyagi-Do, Eagle Fang, and Cobra Kai students, Anthony leaves with Sam as she had enough of the karate drama.
When his parents argue over the karate tensions and Daniel’s feud with Terry Silver, Amanda takes Sam and Anthony to Ohio, to visits her mother and her cousin Jessica Andrews. At a local bar, Sam and Anthony spend time together as he struggles to play a classic video game. She sees an Instagram video of him being kicked into the pool by Kenny, asking if that was him; he admits it is, so she asks why he didn't just call her for help. Anthony says says that he didn’t want his sister swooping in and admits he's a bully. After Sam saves Amanda and Jessica during a fight between them and their former high school classmates, Anthony along with Sam, Amanda, and Jessica flee the scene. Back at Amanda's mother's house, Sam decides to help Anthony learn to defend himself now that he's no longer a bully.
He officially joins Miyagi-Do and he joins Sam and the rest of the Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang students in training, as the family stays united.
Although, he's still continues to be bullied by Kenny and the other Cobra Kai's. Anthony tries to resume his life, but the expansion of Cobra Kai interferes as the members hand out t-shirts. Anthony turns down the t-shirt and throws it on the ground, which is noticed by Kenny, Kyler, and their friends; Kenny picks up the shirt and tells him he dropped something. The Cobra Kais give him a swirlie in an un-flushed toilet as retaliation, which earns him a cruel nickname and new trauma.
Later, both Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang students (including a redeemed Robby) begin training with Chozen Toguchi. He gives each student an egg as well as time to hide. Although they initially struggle at first, Anthony, and the rest of the crew, work together as a team when he uses his Dungeon Lord knowledge and suggests they "protect the egg" by working together as a team instead of as individuals. After a spar with Chozen as a team, the plan is successful.
Later, Anthony, along with Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang, go to the Cobra Kai dojo for the Sekai Taikai qualifications. While waiting for the matches, Robby helps Anthony on Miyagi-Do moves that he's getting adjusted to. During the time, Kenny witnesses this and angrily confronts Robby for training the kid who bullied him while Robby states that he knows that Kenny's doing the bullying now. When Sam easily wins the girls match, the organizers are impressed and let Miyagi-Do qualify, causing Anthony and the rest of them to celebrate.
Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang, along with a redeemed Tory Nichols, arrive at the Cobra Kai dojo to find evidence on Silver. Later, the Cobra Kai students arrive and Anthony gets into a brief confrontation with Kenny, who kicks him onto the ground. Much to Anthony and the rest of the Miyagi-Fang's surprise, they were betrayed by Mitch, who rejoined Cobra Kai and tipped them off the group's plan to break into the dojo. A fight later breaks out. When Anthony recovers Demetri's tablet, he checks the upload progress, while the Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang students protect him from the Cobra Kais. After the video uploads, Anthony plays it on the TV to show to the entire dojo, successfully ending the fight and making all the Cobra Kais see the truth. Daniel and Silver then show up and they both face other in a fight, resulting in Daniel winning, defeating Silver. Anthony and his family embraced his dad afterwards. Later, he is seen sitting between Hawk and Demetri on a firetruck, resting from a long fought battle.
Season 6[]
Part 1[]
Anthony now starts his freshman year at West Valley High School. While getting ready for his first day, he and Sam were walking downstairs to greet their parents. Anthony steals Daniel's croissant, Daniel attempts to grab it off him but Anthony blocks it with his Miyagi-Do move leaving Daniel and Amanda shocked and impressed. He arrives at school. Kenny walks by, Anthony gives Kenny a slight nod but Kenny is unphased and walks off. He continues to train at Miyagi-Do now joined by several former Cobra Kai's and Mitch arrives to rejoin the team and makes amends with them for his betrayal. When Kenny finally agrees to join Miyagi-Do, he gives a nod to Anthony who nods him back. Anthony is with all the other students bowing to Daniel, Johnny and Chozen.
Later, he participates in the Sekai Taikai qualifiers. At school, he, Devon, and Kenny vent that they want to go to Barcelona where the tournament will be held. While training at the dojo at night, he asks Mitch what he's putting in his water and thinks that its protein powder. Mitch explains that the powder is laxatives and he uses it to relive stress on diarrhea. Shortly, Anthony is briefly greeted by Yasmine, who compliments his karate gi, calling it karate pajamas, before she meets Demetri for their date. Much to his and his father's happiness, Anthony is one of the twelve fighters selected by Mike Barnes to advance to the next round. Unfortunately, he gets eliminated after Kenny gives him a bloody nose. Daniel tries to cheer him up to no avail. While watching the last 4 fighters race to get the last two spots, Anthony watches and laughs when Kenny unexpectedly gets constipated after his water was tampered by Mitch’s laxatives, this results Kenny being eliminated from competing in the tournament. Anthony later claims that his bloody nose no longer feels bad.
Back at the dojo, Devon asks about Kenny's whereabouts. Anthony replies that he hasn't been seen since he got constipated in the woods with Mitch jokingly assuming that Kenny's cleaning up his pants. Later, Anthony watches the captain’s match between Miguel and Robby first and then Sam and Tory, which resulted with Robby’s victory and Sam earning the position after Tory leaves the team and presumably quits karate following her mother's death and Hawk taking her spot. With training over, Anthony remains in the valley while his dad, his sister, Johnny, Robby, Miguel, Hawk, Demetri, and Devon heads to Barcelona to compete in the Sekai Taikai.
Part 2[]
When Johnny and Miguel head back to LA from Barcelona to check on Carmen's pregnancy and plan to have Kenny to replace Miguel, Kenny refuses Amanda's offer as he thinks Anthony tampered his water that cost his chance to compete. At home, Anthony shows Amanda the video of Kenny using the toilet during the tiebreaker race, but she berates him for bullying him. Anthony defends himself that he never put laxatives in Kenny's water, but Amanda wants him to make amends. When Anthony arrives at Kenny's house and tries to apologize to him, Kenny refuses his to accept his apology and the two fight until Amanda intervenes. She berates the two for their conflict and explains that if he doesn’t help Miyagi-Do, they will lose. Later at night, Anthony and Kenny make up for their past feud with Anthony going to soil himself with laxatives to be even. Shortly, after Kenny gets a call from Devon who confessed that she spiked his water, Kenny and Anthony reconcile before parting ways with Anthony needing to rush to the bathroom while Kenny heads to Barcelona with Johnny and Miguel, whom were already finished checking with Carmen.
Anthony, Amanda, and several Miyagi-Do students including Bert and Nate, watches the Sekai Taikai semifinals from the LaRusso home. However, they witness an all-out brawl between all dojos with Amanda disappointed at the whole thing while Anthony assures her that everything's going to be okay. The fight then ends with the death of Cobra Kai student, Kwon Jae-Sung, much to everyone’s shock.
Personality[]
To be added.
Trivia[]
- Daniel and Anthony's experiences are seen as ironic as Daniel was a bully victim while Anthony becomes a bully until he became a bully victim.
- As of season 4, his appearances have sped up.
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