Cobra Kai Season 3s Unlikeliest Couple Is Its Best

Cobra Kai Season 3’s Unlikeliest Couple Is Its Best

Demetri got the girl of his dreams, Yasmine, in Cobra Kai season 3. Here’s why the show’s weirdest teen romance works and is a great source of comedy.

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Cobra Kai Season 3s Unlikeliest Couple Is Its Best

Warning: SPOILERS for Cobra Kai season 3.

Cobra Kai season 3 improbably paired up Demetri (Gianni DeCenzo) and Yasmine (Annalisa Cochrane) and it’s the best romantic pairing among the show’s teen characters yet. Cobra Kai has been full of the students of West Valley High hooking up and the romantic quadrangle of Samantha LaRusso (Mary Mouser), Miguel Diaz (Xolo Mariduena), Robby Keene (Tanner Buchanan), and Tory Nichols (Peyton List) has been the source of most of Cobra Kai’s roundabout teen drama. But Demetri and Yasmine together is both unexpected yet still so weirdly right.

Both Demetri and Yasmine were supporting characters introduced in Cobra Kai season 1. As one of the hapless nerds at West Valley High, Demetri pined for Yasmine, “the hottest girl in school”, from afar, but he was so awkward and irritating, he realized he had no shot at her. Demetri also watched as his friends, Miguel and Eli Moskowitz (Jacob Bertrand), embraced Cobra Kai karate and became cool. Eli even “flipped the switch”, remodeled himself as Hawk, and started dating Moon (Hannah Kepple), Yas’ best friend. Meanwhile, Demetri couldn’t cut it in Cobra Kai and became enemies with Hawk when he joined Miyagi-Do instead. But the endlessly loquacious and neurotic Demetri exasperated everyone around him, including his sensei, Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio). Improbably, Demetri learned enough basic karate that he actually managed to beat Hawk during the West Valley High Brawl that ended Cobra Kai season 2.

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In Cobra Kai season 3, Demetri is a (somewhat) new man; standing for himself and beating Hawk buoyed Demetri’s confidence – and it shows. While he’s still a science nerd who loves comics and pop culture, Demetri also stands taller and carries himself with more poise – and Yasmine noticed. As arguably the smartest kid in their class, Demetri became Yas’ science and math tutor, promising that her parents would “never have to pay” for her to get an A again. But the fact that Demetri is still bullied by Cobra Kai garnered Yasmine’s sympathy, especially when Hawk and his buddies broke Demetri’s arm. Yet despite the constant abuse, Demetri knows he has friends in Miyagi-Do, and he stands up for himself. So, in Cobra Kai season 3, episode 7, “Obstaculos”, Yas finally gave in to her temptation and made out with Demetri, and they were caught in the hallway by Sam and Miguel.

Cobra Kai Season 3s Unlikeliest Couple Is Its Best

Yasmine’s change of heart came about after she also suffered humiliation (that she absolutely deserved) in Cobra Kai season 1. After relentlessly picking on Aisha (Nichole Brown), the first female in Cobra Kai got her revenge by giving Yasmine a vicious front wedgie, which went viral. Yas’ status as the It Girl of West Valley was instantly demolished, and she didn’t appear in Cobra Kai season 2 because she was in Paris during the summer. But the time away gave Yasmine time to reflect on how cruel she had been and she returned to West Valley having turned over a new leaf, although she still tried to maintain her haughty attitude.

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Being publicly shamed not only forced Yasmine to change, it allowed her to see Demetri in a new light since he’s also been publicly embarrassed (and in the past, by Yas herself). Yet the courage Demetri shows on a daily basis, plus the fact that he’s intelligent and interesting in a nerdy way, unlike the crowd Yasmine runs with, opened her eyes to him as a boyfriend. And of course, Demetri is smitten, but he also surprisingly trades witty barbs with Yas, something that neither of them could have imagined possible in Cobra Kai season 1.

Demetri and Yasmine’s romantic coupling is a prime example of how Cobra Kai takes ancillary characters who seemed like one-dimensional stereotypes (annoying nerd, Mean Girl) at first and then gradually evolves them to become crucial characters fans come to love. Yas and Demetri together would appear to be far-fetched, yet it works, and their hilarious interplay became a reliable source of comedy in Cobra Kai season 3. Here’s hoping Demetri doesn’t blow it with his dream girl – and maybe Yasmine might even decide to learn karate in Cobra Kai season 4.

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