Cobra Kai co-creator Jon Hurwitz has revealed the surprising Terry Silver-centric moment that was left out of the Netflix show’s fist-pumping finale.
As revealed on Twitter, the creators originally planned for the final episode’s ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’-backed montage to come with a final stinger: that of the Valley Monthly magazine speculating on the whereabouts of Terry Silver.
A treasured gift from our incredible prop master, Eric Bates. This magazine appears in a deleted moment from the finale — a moment that we knew we almost certainly wouldn’t use in our cut, but that we wanted to have on camera “just in case.” **Spoiler ahead**You know the… pic.twitter.com/EPMhh32K5QFebruary 20, 2025
Of course, the audience knows Silver, along with John Kreese, is likely dead after the events of the penultimate episode, which saw the one-time brothers-in-arms duel to the death of Silver’s yacht, with the vessel exploding in the process.
Hurwitz even explained that there were plans for another inexplicable Kreese return during that montage – but even they thought that would have been too far.
Hurwitz wrote, “We even took it a step further and had Martin Kove’s hand reach in to pick up the magazine, partly for the .000001% scenario we decided we wanted to imply that Kreese was still alive, but more so just to entertain ourselves since we always joke around about how Kreese likes to fake his own death. (Once we saw what the boat explosion looked like, that minuscule chance we’d use the footage completely disappeared).”
As to why the moment was left on the cutting room floor, Hurwitz said, “At the end of the day, we wanted our finale to end triumphantly and with credibility – not with an absurd confirmation that somehow John Kreese survived that fiery blast.”
Hurwitz concluded, “Yes, Cobra Kai Never Dies and no, we didn’t show the bodies, so I suppose there’s no proof that both men are dead. But for the here and now, let’s live in a world where there’s actual legitimate karate peacetime in the Valley, because that’s the story we intended and it feels so good!”
The Cobra Kai season 6 ending saw Cobra Kai – led by Johnny, Miguel, and Tory in a surprise last-minute twist – take home the Sekai Taikai trophy. While everything was wrapped up in fairly definitive fashion, the creators have also admitted that they’ve talked about “multiple” spin-off ideas.
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