‘Cobra Kai’ Villain Alicia Hannah-Kim on Singing Taylor Swift Songs With Peyton List on Set and How Kylo Ren Inspired Kim Da-Eun

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Selena Kuznikov SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 6, Part 1 of “Cobra Kai,” now streaming on Netflix.

While Kim Da-Eun — Alicia Hannah-Kim’s character in “Cobra Kai”— was one of the main antagonists last season (and seemed to be done for good), you shouldn’t have counted her out.

Kim is back, and teaming up with Kreese (Martin Kove) to take their new generation of Cobra Kai fighters to the next level in the worldwide karate championship, the Sekai Taikai.

The pairing are going up against all of Miyagi-Do, lead by Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) and Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio). “Cobra Kai” originated in 2018 as a scripted original on YouTube, and detailed the story of what happened decades after the 1984 “The Karate Kid” film. (To read an in-depth interview with “Cobra Kai” showrunners Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg — breaking down Part 1 of Season 6 — click here.) In the 40 years that the franchise has been around, Hannah-Kim is the first ever female sensei in the “Karate Kid” universe, something that she says she’s “hyper aware of.” Her character was introduced in the fifth season of the series, in which she was brought in by Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith) to train his cohort of Cobra Kai karate kids.