The Best Around QOTD
    Question Of The Day

    Major Spoilers Question of the Day: The Best Around Edition

    Matthew PetersonBy 2 Comments1 Min Read

    Daniel LaRusso was trained by an unconventional sensei, using fence painting and floor waxing techniques.  Val Armorr was trained in a monastery on an alien planet to learn the way of many martial arts.  One has super-karate.  One has a crane kick.  Each has good hair and a white gi.  Indeed, it’s one of those questions that seems obvious on the face of it, and yet, here we are with today’s kung-fu query…

    The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) thinks that this is one of those questions that will get answered by popularity rather than in-universe logic, and that’s okay, too, asking: Which martial artist is the best around: Karate Kid or The Karate Kid?

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    Once upon a time, there was a young nerd from the Midwest, who loved Matter-Eater Lad and the McKenzie Brothers... If pop culture were a maze, Matthew would be the Minotaur at its center. Were it a mall, he'd be the Food Court. Were it a parking lot, he’d be the distant Cart Corral where the weird kids gather to smoke, but that’s not important right now... Matthew enjoys body surfing (so long as the bodies are fresh), writing in the third person, and dark-eyed women. Amongst his weaponry are such diverse elements as: Fear! Surprise! Ruthless efficiency! An almost fanatical devotion to pop culture! And a nice red uniform.

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