23 Facts About Dave Karofsky

David Karofsky is a recurring fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee.

Dave Karofsky is revealed to be a closeted homosexual early in that season, and is still closeted at the end of the season, though he has stopped being a bully, and has won the election for Junior Prom King.

Dave Karofsky was initially used as an ordinary jock bully, but Adler's acting impressed show co-creator Ryan Murphy; he expanded Dave Karofsky's role in the show's second season by having him especially target gay glee club member Kurt Hummel, only to turn out to be gay himself, though closeted.

Dave Karofsky is a jock and a bully, initially a member of the McKinley High hockey team.

Dave Karofsky is first seen in the episode "Mash-Up", where he slushies football captain Finn Hudson.

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Dave Karofsky reappears in "Mattress", teamed with football player Azimio and writes on Finn's face with black markers to demonstrate how they will deface the glee club's yearbook photo, which Karofsky does at the end of the episode.

Dave Karofsky is featured in the first eleven episodes of the second season continuing his bullying ways; in the sixth episode "Never Been Kissed", he especially targets Kurt who is gay.

Dave Karofsky is soon expelled but is allowed to return by the school board because no physical violence to Kurt had been witnessed.

Dave Karofsky is praised by Will as a good performer and dancer but when the hockey team attacks the football team for their low-status glee club activities, Dave Karofsky leads a walkout from the joint rehearsals by all the non-glee members, and Beiste kicks them off the team.

Dave Karofsky joins in when he sees the crowd's positive reaction to the start of the half-time show, a mashup of "Thriller" and "Heads Will Roll"; the full team ultimately wins the game.

Finn approaches Dave Karofsky about joining the glee club and apologizing to Kurt, but Dave Karofsky rejects his suggestion out of hand since the championship victory has him back on top of the social ladder.

Dave Karofsky appears in three additional episodes later in the second season.

Dave Karofsky sees Karofsky and realizes he would be a credible prom king partner moments before she sees him checking out a male student's butt and realizes he is as closeted as she is.

At the prom, Dave Karofsky is voted prom king but Santana is not elected prom queen.

Dave Karofsky next appears in the third-season episode "The First Time".

Dave Karofsky has transferred to another high school from McKinley for his senior year, fearing that he might be outed if he stayed.

Dave Karofsky sees Kurt in a gay bar and tells Kurt he has become a regular there and feels accepted.

Dave Karofsky is Kurt's secret admirer for Valentine's Day in the episode "Heart" and after Kurt gently turns him down, he is recognized by a classmate who later spreads the word to others in the school that Karofsky is gay.

Dave Karofsky appeared in the series finale at the end where he joined the entirety of the Glee club on stage for their final performance.

Dave Karofsky is played by actor Max Adler, who first appeared in the first season episode "Mash-Up", initially as a member of the William McKinley High School hockey team.

Dave Karofsky began as a background character who tormented members of the glee club, and was known only by his surname.

Dave Karofsky said, "the initial locker room scene was heartbreaking" and "Max Adler's subtle facial expressions were brilliant".

VanDerWerff wrote, "The sequence in which Dave Karofsky prepared himself for death was, unquestionably, one of the best things Glee has ever done", and Slezak called it "as devastating as anything I've seen on TV this year".