#that what he taught daniel was complete and utter nonsense the whole time

[terrence-silver]

Hilarious how Terry Silver’s famous Three D’s speech could’ve been a direct in-universe reference to The Witches of Eastwick (which came out two years before The Karate Kid III, in 1987) and the Devil’s own speech about the three D’s which are death, desertion and divorce.

Basically, what I mean to say is that...Terry’s full of nonsense. 

Canonically.

And he adores that he is. 

It amuses him infinitely whenever he is.

His Quicksilver Technique is literally scrounged up from everything and anything under the sun with little rhyme or reason other than what’s painful, what’s deliberately degrading and what’s personally funny for Terry himself and torturous as all hell for an otherwise clueless Daniel. Terry used random things. Lies. Made up moves. Hurtful methods. His own on the spot improv. Actual movie references, if anything. Whatever’s on hand. He’s bullshitting his way through everything, for lack of a better word. What’s worse? What’s crueler? Or where Terry’s concerned, what’s better --- it worked! It actually worked! He is capable of selling a line from an actual film as a credible martial arts philosophy and have this kid eating from the palm of his hand. This patchwork of manipulation he calls a legitimate and special training routine is nothing but him quite literally trolling Daniel Larusso and Daniel Larusso believing him, making the entirety of the movie all the funnier and all the darker, because my god, Terry Silver downright scammed and lulled in Daniel with a piece of dialogue lifted from a comedy.

No wonder he was so perpetually amused and all smiles the whole film.