No Mercy: Martin Kove Bit His “Cobra Kai” Co-Star at a Fan Convention

This is not how Sensei Kreese was supposed to strike first.

In what might be the weirdest thing to happen at a fan convention lately, “Cobra Kai” star Martin Kove was reportedly kicked out of an event in Washington on Sunday after biting his co-star Alicia Hannah-Kim.

That’s right. He bit her.

Kove, 78, is best known for playing the no-mercy dojo master John Kreese in “The Karate Kid” and “Cobra Kai”. Hannah-Kim, who plays fellow villainous sensei Kim Da-Eun, says she was walking past him when he suddenly grabbed her arm and chomped down. According to her police report, the bite was hard enough to leave a visible bruise and nearly broke the skin.

And as if that wasn’t bizarre enough, she says he then kissed her arm—y’know, like that makes it better?

Hannah-Kim didn’t press charges, but she did file a report and take photos. She also claims that when she calmly told him what he did was unacceptable, he got angry and insisted he’d done it “for fun.”

Kove later apologized, but only after the police showed up and asked him to leave.

Fun fact: One of Bill Hader’s first jobs in Hollywood was driving Kove around. He talked about it on Marc Maron’s podcast and didn’t exactly paint Kove in the nicest light. 👀