Zara Malik - Blog Posts

So yeah hayden is totally out of line and even his creator bestie (as the person who tweeted this put it) thinks so.

So not all creators are acting clueless ig, but they need to address it in part three else this will be very shitty, and robby would have been wronged in one of the worst ways possible. (I also don't get the point of having the SA rape plot line like we could have done without it)

Credits to @YEOPOP on twitter

This!

You know, if the writers didn't want the Robby/Zara situation being portrayed as SA, they shouldn't have written a SA scene between them in the first place. Sucks to suck.

THE BEST SHIP IS BACK

Tory calling Robby an idiot and a dumbass... and then both of them calling the people who tried to ruin their relationship "bitch"..... oh keenry how I've missed you!!!!

I know this may be wishful thinking,

But, I hope they don't let her get away with it.

Robby is a victim of rape, zara raped him.

And there is no other way to see it.

It was fucking rape. That's my fucking point of view.

What do you mean he liked it? What do you mean it was cheating? What do you mean I like her?

It was rape, there is no other interpretation other than rape.

Robby lived with two addicts and yet he was abandoned in a bar with free access to alcohol, and that's where it started.

He got drunk for the first time, he drank for the first time and he has no resistance to alcohol because he stays away as best he can for the simple fact that his parents were addicts who never cared about him. So he wanted to forget what was happening, to repress all of this and he turned to alcohol because where else would he go when everyone didn't give a damn about him, or his situation with Tory or his emotions? Where else was he supposed to go when his example of dealing with emotions is aggression and addiction? So he drank. He drank to a level where he couldn't formulate a response, a sentence, when Kwon came to talk to him and provoke him, and we know that if he was sober he would have done something. It was obvious on his own face listening to Kwon that he was spaced out, drunk, and then Zara approached him. And took him to her room, from where he came out the next morning. No memory of the night before, a headache, and still looking out of it, as we can see when she kissed him and he didn't even react to it. The level of alcohol this requires is the level of alcohol that prevents someone from giving consent.

— I barely remember last night

— Good thing I do

Can we see the exact connotation that something happened? That she actually took advantage of the boy who couldn't speak to give consent, who couldn't think to say no, who was too drunk for this to be acceptable? The fact that she shows no remorse whatsoever for this happening and yet kisses him again.

Besides the fact that the writers themselves are treating it like it's some kind of cheating with Tory, the characters themselves acting like he's not a vulnerable person being raped by someone who knows better?

I hate her and I hate the writers for making this like it's nothing. I don't want to be that girl, but being that girl, if the roles were reversed, would this be in the show? Would this be treated that way? Or would they actually treat it like the SA situation that it is?

From the beginning, you can see her interest in Robby - starting with that scene in the captains' photo shoot where she talks to Tory. She knows he's in a relationship. All those teasing scenes with Tory. Her taking advantage of Robby. Then the fight scene.

— You chose her over me?

Like, girl, what the fuck did you expect? He doesn't know you, he doesn't like you, you raped him and you're going after his girlfriend - the person he loves? How high is your ego to even consider that he would choose you? Axel's obsession with Sam I can understand more, although I still have my doubts. She was the first person to understand and see his situation with his sensei, she was friendly and he developed a protectiveness towards her. Although his attitude towards Miguel was wrong, he didn't rape Sam or act like a bitch towards her.

Iron Dragons and their obsession with the Miyagi-Do captains.

Zara Malik and the fact that she raped Robby Keene.

I swear

Like what did robby ever do to the writers for this kind of treatment?

I am on my knees crying begging and pleading with these writers to leave Robby alone

YES!

any one who says otherwise is wrong!

ROBBY IS A VICTIM!

So we’re all in agreement that Robby got SA’d right?

people need to understand that

ROBBY IS A VICTIM!!

people simping over zara are actually insane. do you REALIZE this girl SA’d drunk robby???

Do you believe your mother was wounded, and do you believe she passed on those wounds to you?

Zara SA’d Robby and that is a fact. If you want to argue this please do it somewhere else.

Zara has been interested in Robby since day one and has an obvious beef with Tory. The night Robby gets drunk Zara is in the bar the whole time watching him.

We have one character who has zero tolerance to alcohol drinking several strong alcoholic drinks. And we have a second character who is at the bar the whole time watching him drink and waits until he is alone to go up to him. That’s predatory behavior.

They walk back to the hotel so obviously Zara has plenty of time to see just how drunk Robby is, not that it stopped her. They then go back to her room and it is heavily implied that they have sex.

We might not know exactly what happened but I think anyone who thinks Zara didn’t do something is lying to themself, she’s not shown to be a good person at any point and the idea that she would let Robby just sleep in her room is ridiculous. If they didn’t do something she likely wouldn’t have helped him back to the hotel at all and if you’re trying to justify it as some act of kindness she could’ve easily gotten one of Robby’s teammates or coaches to help him. She could’ve gone to Demetri and Hawk who were still in the bar but she didn’t because she wasn’t trying to help.

And we know Robby was too drunk to consent considering he was too drunk to remember and Zara obviously doesn’t find anything wrong with this fact. She acts entertained by Robby’s confusion and doesn’t fill him in, as long as she remembers everything is fine.

She kisses him, again I think it would be ridiculous to assume that was their first kiss, and he walks away looking pretty horrible. Even the kiss we do see I wouldn’t really consider consensual, Robby is basically unresponsive and his expression when he turns around is not happy.

Robby tries to bring up his concerns and how sick he feels but she just brushes him off and kisses him again. Everything Zara does in that episode is calculated and manipulative, there really isn’t another way to spin it.

And if this doesn’t bother you because Zara is a girl and Robby is a guy or because Zara is pretty or because there isn’t enough evidence I genuinely don’t know what to say.

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the problem with making axel and zara too overpowered (OP) in part 2 of cobra kai.

going into part 2 my biggest worry was that they were going to make axel and zara too OP- like never losing a fight in the tournament, and unfortunately that’s exactly what happened.

the issue with making them too OP is that it messes with the balance of our existing characters. when you introduce new characters and have them win every fight without losing not even one it cheapens the tournament and it also screws over our existing characters.

axel and zara could have been strong, shown as threatening without the need to make them bulldoze throughout all of their matches.

by never letting them lose, it sets up absolute annoying and ridiculous discourse like this:

‘it doesn’t make sense for this person to beat this person’

‘they were nerfed’

‘they only won because of plot armour’

and let’s be honest. the ‘plot armour’ discourse is fucking stupid. every character in the show has plot to some extent. if they didn’t, they wouldn’t have made it this far in the show. but also, why would they have 2 characters who were introduced in part 2 of the last season win over sam, miguel and robby who have been here since season 1 and tory who has been here since season 2. that literally wouldn’t make any sense.

moving on, if our existing characters had lost to the new characters that wouldn’t been fine. like that is not the issue here. the issue is that axel and zara completely dominated the tournament. it should have been balanced.

axel and zara should have been shown to be beatable by actually losing matches in the tournament. and if the writers didn’t want them losing matches, the least they could’ve down was allow them to take hits in their matches. here’s how:

1. zara vs another competitor in different dojo (like tiger strike or redentores) in an early round OR vs tory or sam | let zara lose a match to one of them but come back stronger later in the tournament, showing she can adapt easy from a loss.

2. axel vs competitor | have axel lose a match against the competitor in a very close match, only after giving the person he is fighting against a really tough time, pushing his competitor to his limits.

3. injures and exhaustion playing a role here | show them both struggling with fatigue, and having minor injuries, proving that they aren’t fucking invincible and the tournament is tough for everyone involved.

but instead, we got axel and zara just bulldozing their way through the tournament like it was nothing. the big brawl too. in the big brawl, no one landed a hit on axel. zara beat tory in the opening fight with cobra kai vs iron dragons and in the big brawl tory only managed to land one kick on zara before zara regained control. it’s sooo frustrating that they were made out to be so untouchable and invincible.

what makes this worse is learning that choreography was cut that actually showed them both taking hits. i’ve posted this on my blog here a bit ago but there was choreo cut in which tory was getting the upper hand on zara but that didn’t make the cut.

zara was also supposed to take hits in the semi finals against maria. this comes from the woman who plays maria (jewels) in an interview on youtube.

and axel was also meant to take hits from kwon in the big brawl. this also came from an interview with brandon who plays kwon.

like.. that’s still not ideal but it’s at least better than making them untouchable.

this has been sitting in my drafts for a while now and i’m posting this ahead of part 3 since that drops in a few days, also the fact that we know someone is gonna be beating axel and zara in the sekai taikai.

i can’t believe i have to sit through ‘axel/zara was nerfed’ and ‘it doesn’t make sense for zara/axel to loose to..’ ‘… beating axel/zara is unrealistic’

like dude cobra kai was never a realistic show in the first place, don’t piss me off. ‘in reality this character would win’ no shit dude. like that argument is so stupid and irrelevant. like thank you so much for pointing out the obvious ??

as if those people who say this aren’t insufferable enough they’re gonna be even more insufferable now that they’ve basically been given the ammo to say all of this shit.

like i’m truly so annoyed about it, but hey. what can you doooo?

cobra kai writers you had ONE JOB! ONE!

big big sigh.

and i hate that the show is never gonna address robby’s SA. they’re gonna brush over it like nothing happened as if we’re stupid or something.

robby was drunk as fuck and didn’t give consent at all, and they’re sick for trying to push it as robby ‘cheating’ when it’s clearly not what that is.. AT ALL.

the show isn’t gonna address it, and the people who are watching the show, the viewers, are making excuses for zara, saying that it didn’t happen (are y’all blind?) that robby should be lucky, ‘it’s fine cause zara is hot’

it’s truly disgusting and disturbing. it’s all really nasty. i hate how when she kissed him after leaving her room he literally looked so lost, numb and you could tell he was completely out of it.

plastering it as a ‘hook-up’ or ‘cheating’ is nuts when the show clearly implied it as SA. it’s not taken seriously in the show, and a whole group of people are not taking it seriously as well.

if you don’t think it’s SA, im gonna assume you’re dumb or dense, didn’t pay attention or just realise it’s SA but you don’t give a shit.

im so sorry that *these* are your writers robby keene.

(there’s so much more i wanna say about how robby’s character was done incredibly dirty in part 2 but i feel like this rant was necessary instead of discussing everything as a whole.)

already seen way too many losers on that tiktok app being like ‘robby fumbled’ , ‘he hit that’ etc..

i hate the men in this fanbase becasue I KNEW this was how they were gonna act in reaction to zara literally taking advantage of robby. i truly can’t stand them.

really need to see zara get her shit fucked up, want it to be brutal and bloody.. TORY YOU GOT THAT????

february 13th, i will be there.

it’s actually fmu how both captains of iron dragons are just massive weirdos!

axel: you and sam had one conversation, now you’re being weird and mean mugging miguel for no reason? grow up. idk why he acting like miguel did him something ? the fuck wrong w him?

zara: taking advantage of robby. just a weird bitch in general? doing allat to make tory jealous.. just absolutely nasty.

cant wait to see em both go DOWNNN in part 3.

okay, BIG BRAWL ATE!!

zara losing sponsorships left and right, kwon now DECEASED. that #keenrykarma came THROUGH!

tory vs iron dragons ate so bad, i’ve absolutely loved her so much this season. she’s amaze.

hair on 10. face card on 10. body on 10. outfits on 10. fights on 10. my girl really did her big one.

the way robby FLUNG zara off tory so quick. he said he don’t play about his!!

and the ‘you’re really gonna choose her over me’ ‘its not even close’ IDK what zara stupid ass was thinking. girl you weren’t even in line, you were never gonna get chosen? stupid delusional bitch.

also zara getting jealous of tory was such a highlight for me. like queen cobra really go you that pressed? LOSER.

‘KISS THIS BITCH’ TORYYYYY TENSSS ACROSS THE BOARD

so ready to see my queen kick ass for the last time in 2025.

oh and zara took advantage of robby. plain and simple. robby didn’t just have one drink, he had MULTIPLE and drank all night. zara (who is SOBER) literally came in, and took him up to her hotel room, reminders robby is drunk out of his mind.

when robby wakes up, he has no recollection of what happened the night before because he was so out of it. but SHE does. im already seeing people downplay it as ‘it’s fine cause zara is beautiful’

it’s quite literally not fucking fine? i don’t wanna have to do the ‘roles were reversed’ type thing, but imma do it here. if the roles were reversed everyone would be SCREAMING saying how it’s wrong and how it’s SA. and how she was taken advantage of.

so WHY the FUCK is so many people downplaying it as if it was nothing? i don’t wanna hear ‘it’s just a tv show’ yes, a tv show were a main character was taken advantage of.

fuck zara and anyone who likes her i don’t care.

part 3: tory nichols, my bear. i need you to knock zara’s head off. matter of fact kwon should’ve took zara weird ass with him!! poor robby man :(

and loser ass people not taking is seriously? robby you deserve so much better. i love you forever. 🧸💗

DING DING DING RIGHT ON THE MONEY

Another thing ironic about Zara. She acts like the spoiled and privileged girl people love to say Sam is/was and people love her.

The irony about Zara and Sam is hard to ignore. Zara is framed as the girl who’s rebellious, carefree and effortlessly cool. She’s marketed as the “hot girl,” dressed in ways that emphasise her edginess and fans eat it up. Meanwhile, Sam is constantly reduced to being the “spoiled rich girl,” a label she’s never actually earned. Why? Because she comes from a wealthy family. That’s it. No evidence. No spoiled behavior. Just assumptions.

When has Sam ever acted entitled? The country club doesn’t count. Has she ever demanded special treatment because of her family’s wealth or used it as a weapon against others? No. If anything, she’s always worked hard and carried a lot of responsibility, balancing her family legacy with her own identity. The only thing people hold against her is the fact that she has money and that automatically makes her “spoiled” in their eyes.

Now, compare that to Zara. She benefits from the way she’s marketed. Her rebellious nature is packaged as “cool” and “empowering,” even when it’s irresponsible or hurtful. If Sam acted the same way—if she wore the same outfits, rebelled against authority, or prioritised herself the way Zara often does—people would call her selfish or disrespectful. But because Zara fits the archetype of the edgy, hot girl, she gets a free pass.

The double standard is glaring. Zara could literally commit murder and fans would still find ways to excuse her actions. Meanwhile, Sam could breathe the wrong way,m and she’d be called entitled. Why? Because Zara is framed as the fun, wild character who lives on her own terms, while Sam is trapped under the weight of being the “good girl” with wealth attached to her name.

At the end of the day, it’s not about what Sam does or doesn’t do. It’s about perception. Zara is loved because she’s marketed to be. Sam is criticised because she never was. And that, right there, is the problem.