Ned Randall

Ned Randall is the secondary antagonist of The Next Karate Kid and Colonel Dugan's star pupil. Ned is portrayed by Michael Cavalieri.

History[]

Ned is a skilled academy student with bullying tendencies (nearly the equivalent of Johnny Lawrence). He is the leader of Colonel Dugan's Alpha Elite group. He constantly tries to flirt with Julie, only to be rejected by her multiple times.

As a response to the rejections, he does whatever he can to make Julie's life miserable like getting her almost suspended from school by lying to Colonel Dugan that Julie was smoking, causing her to shove him and storm off. Later, after he sees Eric McGowen with Julie at the dance and when he sees them kiss in Eric's car, he got jealous and smashes the car windows and challenges him to a fight at the dock.

He and the other members of his group destroy Eric's car and beat him up. After beating him however, Dugan instructs Eric to finish him off, somewhat shocking Ned as a result. While he decides to proceed despite Charlie pleading him not to, he ends up not doing so after seeing Julie and Mr. Miyagi arrive and take Eric. However, Ned tries to grab Julie, since he had a crush on her and was angry that she rejects his advances. Julie wanting to get revenge at Ned for all the trouble at school. Ned taunts Julie with his isolated stand and tries to hit her, and she dodges it. They both fight until Ned cheats by throwing sand at in her face. Despite the disadvantage, Julie manages to counter his attack, successfully defeats him and turn her back on him in disgust, leaving Ned humiliated. When Colonel Dugan orders Ned and the others to fight Julie, they all refuse, as they now have gained respect for her. After Dugan was defeated by Miyagi, Ned and the others abandon him.

Personality[]

Out of all of his characteristics, the one that stands out the most is Ned's aggression. He is an aggressive, rough jock. Since he abuses his position with his peers, he often lashes out at them or tries to manipulate them through his authority. He also becomes jealous of Eric and Julie spending time together due to his attraction to Julie. He tries provoking Eric into fighting him when Eric has more than enough reason to do so.

Although he acts aggressive and possessive around Eric, it's possible he does have a softer side that he tries to show Julie, but never does because of Julie's disdain towards him. He shows some discomfort when he hears Dugan order to have Eric killed (thus showing he knows when things are going too far). When Dugan tries to get Ned to fight Julie again, he says "no more", having realized Dugan has gone too far. After Dugan is beaten by Miyagi, Ned looks at Dugan and shakes his head in disappointment, and leaves along with the rest.

Charlie[]

When Ned watches Charlie being pushed away by Dugan, he looks uncomfortable, and sees Dugan is taking it too far.

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No More (when he sees Col. Dugan has gone too far)

Trivia[]

He is one of the few antagonists of the Karate Kid franchise, alongside Johnny and Sato, to be redeemed.
Michael Cavalieri has talked about possibly wanting to reprise his role as Ned in Cobra Kai.