The Karate Kid/YMMV

YMMVs for the original film series:

• Awesome Music: "You're the best, around, nothing's ever gonna keep you down!"
  • Bill Conti's score deserves mention also. Including the main theme derived from Survivor's "Moment of Truth." Survivor had the freakin' market cornered on rousing 80's anthems.
  • Not to mention "Glory of Love" by Peter Cetera.
• Complete Monster: Kreese, Mr. "A man faces you, he is the enemy, an enemy deserves no mercy."
  • Terry Silver from the third film is just as bad, if not worse.
• Memetic Mutation: Many things, most famously the Crane Kick in the sunset image. But some of the dialogue has achieved that point as well.

"Get him a body-bag! Ye-heah!" "Sweep the leg." "Johnny, you're a cream puff!" "Banzai!" "Daniel-san." And of course, "Wax On, Wax Off."

• Moral Event Horizon: Chozen crosses this by refusing to help Daniel save a child's life during a storm. Just in case nobody got it, in the finale he holds a knife to Kimiko's throat and punches her lights out.
• Narm Charm: Glory of Love would've been a super ultra narmy and cheesy love song that Tastes Like Diabetes... if it wasn't performed by a pro like Peter Cetera, who makes it really charming.

YMMVs for the 1984 original:

• Draco in Leather Pants: In the 2010s, many viewers would start ignoring Johnny’s negative qualities in favor of his positive ones, which lead to the creation of the show Cobra Kai.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: As Daniel runs out of the dance party to get away from the costumed skeletons, a guy is seen dressed as Spider-Man and one member comments he is like Spidey as he tries to climb up the fence wire. Columbia Pictures would make their Spider-Man movie in 2002.
• Ron the Death Eater: In the years to come, around 2015 or before, people began looking at Daniel in a rather negative light, seeing him as the real bully of the story.

YMMVs for the 2010 remake:

• Awesome Music: About midway through the film, a Mandarin version of "Dirty Harry" by Gorillaz can be heard. Commence scooping up the pieces of your mind now.
  • The score is by the late James Horner, that's right, the same guy who scored Avatar, The Land Before Time, An American Tail, Titanic, and Willow.
• Complete Monster: Perhaps not as flashy as some, but Master Li teaches children to savagely beat each other into unconsciousness. The definition of child abuse is too restricted.
• He Really Can Act: Jackie Chan plays a dramatic role surprisingly well.
  • Fans initially scoffed when they heard that Jaden Smith was playing the Daniel-san Expy, accusing Will Smith of nepotism. However, Jaden's performance was also praised.
• Toy Ship: Both Dre and his crush Mei Ying are both around 12 years old.