Daniel LaRusso
Daniel LaRusso was trained in karate at the YMCA in New Jersey and then moved to California with his single mother. Daniel falls in love with a girl named Alli but her ex-boyfriend Johnny Lawrence ends up bullying Daniel and even though Daniel tries to fight back, he still loses because Johnny Lawrence knows more karate than Daniel knows. After Mister Miyagi rescues Daniel he tells him to go to Johnny’s sensei and ask him to tell his students to stop bullying him. But when they go to Johnny’s dojo, his sensei named John Kreese tells Daniel to fight his students and Mister Miyagi says Daniel will fight at the tournament. Mister Miyagi teaches Daniel karate using muscle memory but tells him to use karate only for self-defence and never for revenge. Sensei John Kreese tells his student Bobby to break Daniel’s leg to beat him but Mr. Miyagi heals Daniel and Daniel beats Johnny Lawrence with a karate move he learned based on a crane kicking.