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"We heard you got pretty choked up!"
―Brucks[src]

Brucks is a recurring antagonist in the Netflix series, Cobra Kai. He was the secondary antagonist of Season 1 , minor antagonist in Season 3, and a guest character/supporting character in Season 6. He is best friends with Kyler and was Hawk's former bully victim. He later reappeared in Season 6, where he's shown to be a better person after the brutal beatdown Hawk gave back in Season 3 and said it helped turn his life around, as he is now friends with his former bullying victims, even assisting them during the college fraternity fight.

Biography[]

Season 1[]

Brucks is first shown going into the liquor store with Kyler and other two friends, trying to buy beer. However, Miguel Diaz who is also in there outs them for being underage. Furious, Kyler begins bullying him and then Brucks pushes him into a 1991 Pontiac Firebird, owned by Johnny Lawrence. When Johnny tells the group of teens to leave Miguel alone Brucks and Kyler make fun of him. An angry Johnny then kicks Kyler, which shocks Brucks and the other two. The four then attack Johnny, but Johnny beats all of them up before he is arrested by police.

During the Halloween dance Brucks, along with Kyler and the other two friends, runs into Miguel in the locker room and make fun of him for learning karate. An angered Miguel kicks Kyler. However, Brucks then pins Miguel to a locker, and he along with Kyler and his other two friends beat Miguel up, leaving him severely injured once they walk away.

A few days later, at the school library, Brucks and Kyler bully again Miguel, Demetri and Eli Moskowitz (later Hawk), making fun of Eli's lip scar, pushing Miguel, and throwing Demetri's backpack in the trash, staining it with yogurt, but are unaware that Kyler's girlfriend at the time, Samantha LaRusso, witnesses what they are doing.

At the cafeteria, when Kyler spreads false rumors about Samantha, Brucks and the rest of his gang laugh, as Kyler openly mocks her. In that, Miguel arrives and orders Kyler to leave Sam alone. Kyler taunts Miguel and challenges him to another fight, and Brucks joins in to attack Miguel alongside Kyler's other two friends. However, all four are beaten and ultimately defeated by Miguel in front of the entire student body.

After the fight, Miguel Diaz tells Johnny how he beat up Kyler and his friends, Johnny is surprised and even asks if Miguel beat up “the big dumb one" (Brucks).

When Brucks, Kyler, Yasmine and Moon come to the lake to celebrate Yasmine's birthday, they see it is crowded with many people that Yasmine typically does not associate with. When Kyler sees Miguel there he loses his nerve and suggests they leave, and Brucks follows him.

Season 2[]

Brucks does not appear and is not mentioned in season 2, but it's possible that he witnessed the school fight.

Season 3[]

Brucks tries out for Cobra Kai alongside Kyler. After recognizing Hawk, both Brucks and Kyler make fun of him. When Hawk declares that he will fight Brucks, the latter mockingly says he will fix his lip. However, after Hawk takes off his shirt which exposes his tattoo on his back, Brucks is shown to be freaked out. Hawk then starts aggressively beating him up for his past bullying. Despite Brucks pleading for him to stop at one point, Hawk beats him so savagely that even the jaded Tory is shocked. When the fight ends, Brucks is groaning in pain and Kyler looks visibly frightened of Hawk, whose knuckles are bloody from the beating. John Kreese laughs and tells someone to pick Brucks up. After being beaten up by Hawk, Brucks is not seen or mentioned for the rest of the season 3. Kyler abandons Brucks to join Cobra Kai.

Season 4[]

Brucks does not appear and is not mentioned in season 4.

Season 5[]

Brucks does not appear and is not mentioned in season 5.

Season 6[]

Brucks appears again when he knocks down a college tour guide while trying to catch a small red Frisbee. Hawk is surprised to see him, and has a flashback of when he gave Brucks the beatdown at the Cobra Kai dojo; after coming out of the flashback, Hawk apologizes to Brucks, admitting he was in a bad place, but Brucks shows he doesn’t hold a grudge against him for it when he assures him he’s doing fine and reveals he had to get new teeth after the beatdown. Brucks later gets into a fight with the guys at the frat party and is seen slamming one of them down on the table, causing Hawk, Demetri, Miguel and Kyler to grin proudly, after which they leave the frat house.

Later, Demetri asks him how he got into college, to which he revealed he scored a 750 and cheated on his exams because he wanted to impress Demetri and Hawk, as they were (possibly) smarter than him. Brucks is attending a school called Midwest Industrial Training. This creates confusion when both Hawk and Demetri hear that Brucks "got into MIT," which they want to attend, not realizing that the "MIT" in question is not the "Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

Personality[]

Brucks used to be a bully and always ready to fight, but apart from that he's a fairly good humored and jovial person. Oddly, he seems to be somewhat concerned about other people's grammar, once lecturing Kyler out of nowhere on the objects of prepositions. After his beatdown by Hawk back in Season 3, Brucks is shown to have changed as he is more forgiving, kind, and respectful. He even becomes friends with Miguel, Demetri, and Hawk.

Fighting Style[]

An untrained brawler, Brucks tries to overbear opponents with his size. He has no defensive abilities whatsoever; skilled fighters like Eli are able to hit him practically at will. He is tenacious and tough, however, as he's able to take multiple hits from trained martial artists; he's strong enough to body-slam a normal-sized college man, and he mostly tackles his opponents.

Relationships[]

Kyler Park[]

Brucks is Kyler's best friend and right-hand man. He often helps Kyler bully people, particularly Miguel, Demetri, and Eli. However, after Miguel defeats Kyler's gang, they don't bully him again for the rest of season 1.

In season 3, Brucks joins Cobra Kai along with Kyler after being recruited by Kreese. When they see Eli (now Hawk), they make fun of him. However, after Brucks is brutally beaten by Hawk, Kyler is shown to be scared of Hawk. Brucks is not seen or mentioned for the rest of the season, and Kyler doesn't interact with him in Season 4 or 5. In Season 6, it is revealed that they are still best friends.

Other relationships[]

Trivia[]

  • Brucks can be seen as the secondary antagonist in the first half of season 1 due to him being second in command in Kyler's gang.
  • Brucks is voiced by Spencer Greene in the video game.
  • Characters Brucks can be compared to is Dutch and Zack Thompson:
    • Both are the leader's right-hand man.
  • It took him two seasons to return in season 3 and three seasons to return in season 6.
  • When getting into fights, Brucks mostly just tackles them and sometimes, he slams them.
           Cobrakai Villains

Main
John Kreese | Terry Silver | Kim Da-Eun | Kyler Park

Season I
Kyler Park | Yasmine | Brucks | Rory | Tom Cole | Louie LaRusso, Jr. | Sid Weinberg | Trey | Cruz | John Kreese

Season II
John Kreese | Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz | Tory Nichols | Mitch | Doug Rickenberger | Trey | Cruz | Tom Cole | Armand Zakarian

Season III
John Kreese | Tory Nichols | Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz | Robby Keene | Kyler Park | Mitch | Doug Rickenberger | Brucks | Tom Cole | Trey | Cruz | Sid Weinberg | Captain George Turner | Shawn Payne | David

Season IV
Terry Silver | John Kreese | Tory Nichols | Robby Keene | Kenny Payne | Kyler Park | Anthony LaRusso | Shawn Payne

Season V
Terry Silver | Kim Da-Eun | Kenny Payne | Kyler Park | Mitch | Hyan-Woo | Odell | Min-Jun | Suk-Chin | Bacaria | Morozov | Hector Salazar | John Kreese | Kim Sun-Yung

Season VI
John Kreese | Terry Silver | Kim Sun-Yung | Kim Da-Eun | Kwon Jae-Sung | Yoon Do-Jin | Sensei Wolf | Dennis de Guzman | Axel Kovacevic | Zara Malik | Ivanov | Oksana | Cara | Zenker

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