Lawrusso

Lawrusso is the slash ship between Johnny Lawrence and Daniel Larusso from The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai fandoms.

The Karate Kid
Johnny was Daniel's first rival throughout The Karate Kid film series. Their first encounter happened when Johnny and his friends ride down to the beach when his friend notices Alli talking to Daniel. They tell him to let it go, but Johnny doesn't and drives goes down. Daniel then sees Johnny and Alli get into an argument, which leads to Johnny breaking her radio. Daniel tries to give it back to her, but Johnny tells him to stay away. He pushes Daniel to the ground and the two get into a fight. Johnny eventually wins and leaves.

Daniel is washing egg out of his hair at the Halloween dance, when he hears on of Johnny's friends looking for him. Once the friend leaves, Daniel gets an idea and uses a hose to prank Johnny. Daniel runs but Johnny and his friends follow. Johnny catches up to him just as Daniel reaches his apartment gate. He then starts beating on him with the help of his friends when Mr. Miyagi hops the fence and saves Daniel.

Their rivalry became even more stronger to one another when both characters passed the finals on their tournament. During their final time on the round, Daniel used his famous move the Crane Kick on Johnny and he fell to the ground when the time ran out. Sooner later, John Kreese, Johnny's sensei, was furious over Johnny's failed moves in the finals, he punched Johnny in the face and even tried to kick him out of Cobra Kai. Daniel and Mr. Miyagi overheard their conversation and went straight to John and his members from Cobra Kai. Mr. Miyagi then punched John back for threatening Johnny over his defeat. After the drama, Daniel took one glance at Johnny as he was being saved by Mr. Miyagi and his friends. They then never met again until the Cobra Kai series.

The Karate Kid

 * Daniel sees Johnny in the parking lot.
 * Johnny plans to mess up Daniels soccer try outs with his friends.
 * Johnny smiles at Daniel when he notices him watching the Cobra Kai karate class.
 * Daniel decides against hanging out with Ali when he sees Johnny.
 * Johnny keeps looking to Daniel during karate class.
 * Johnny smiles at Daniel when he leaves.
 * Daniel taunts Johnny about not being able to hurt him.
 * Johnny sees Daniel in the country club kitchen and decides to mess with him.
 * Johnny and Daniel keep watching each other throughout the tournament.

Cobra Kai

 * When they were watching a hockey tournament after Daniel's training with Johnny, Johnny tried to pick a fight with one of the hockey players but Daniel tried to defend him and stop the fight. The hockey player then called Daniel "Oh, so you're boyfriend is the one defending you?" as to making fun of them.

Fanon
The ship was rather rare, given the movie came out in the 80s and the fanbase was more interested in disecting the movie and pitting the two against each other. The ship gained more traction when the Cobra Kai series was released on youtube red, and then even more when it transferred to Netflix. Most fans of the ship started with Cobra Kai and went back and watched Karate Kid.

Fans of the ship read the relationship between the two in Karate Kid as them repressing their feelings. Fan fic writers will explore this aspect, and either have events take place during or directly after Karate Kid. Most fans like to depict the two in Cobra Kai. This typically leads to more complicated fics, as writers will have to deal with the canon romances as well as their kids. Some also just like to depict the two teaching their students together.

On AO3, Lawrusso is the most written ship for both Johnny and Daniel. It is also the most written ship in the Karate Kid (Movies) and Cobra Kai (Web Series) tags.

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