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=== Rocky Balboa ===
{{quote| Played by: [[Sylvester Stallone]]}}
 
* [[Badass]]
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Clubber Lang's hitting on Adrian.
** And later Tommy Gunn's punching Paulie.
{{quote| '''Rocky:'''"You knocked him down, why don't you try knockin' me down now?"}}
* [[Book Dumb]]: Although by the end of ''II'' he's writing poetry for a comatose Adrian and by ''III'' he's clearly come far in his acting ability, as is evidenced by the many successful commercials he appears in.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Half Rocky Marciano, half Joe Frazier, and inspired by a Chuck Wepner fight.
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* [[Made of Iron]]: How else do you describe a guy who goes for 15 rounds with a World Champion and still comes out strong?
** Drago said it best:
{{quote| "He's not human. He's like a piece of iron."}}
* [[Red Baron]]: The "Italian Stallion."
* [[Real Men Love Jesus]]
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=== Adrian ===
{{quote| Played by: Talia Shire (1976-1990)}}
 
* [[Beautiful All Along]]
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=== Paulie ===
{{quote| Played by: Burt Young}}
 
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "I don't sweat you!"
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Attempting to take on [[Hulk Hogan|Thunderlips]].
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Jerkass]] --> [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Made of Iron]]: Takes a shot to the head from Tommy Gunn (the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion) and just ''shakes it off.''
* [[My Sister Is Off-Limits]]: In first movie.
** YMMV. Depending on how bad his mood is, he swings between this and [[Shipper Onon Deck]].
 
=== Mickie Goldmill ===
{{quote| Played by: Burgess Meredith (1976-82, 1990) <ref>appears in the fourth and sixth movies in archive footage</ref>}}
 
* [[Brooklyn Rage]]
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=== Apollo Creed ===
{{quote| Played by: Carl Weathers (1976-85)}}
 
* [[Badass Mustache]]
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Rocky.
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Cocky and arrogant, but underneath it all he's not really a bad guy.
* [[Hot-Blooded]]
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}
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=== Clubber Lang ===
{{quote| Played by: [[Mr. T]] (1982)}}
 
* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]
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=== Ivan Drago ===
{{quote| Played by: [[Dolph Lundgren]] (1985)}}
 
* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: His punching strength is over two times the average psi for a boxer, and close to three at tops. Rocky seemingly takes his blows way easier than Apollo's or Lang's, despite the fact that Drago's blows should theoretically make his head explode. And Rocky does this for a whole fifteen rounds.
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* [[Lack of Empathy]]: "If he dies, he dies."
* [[Mother Russia Makes You Strong]]
* [[Playing Withwith Syringes]]: With lots of steroids.
* [[The Quiet One]]
* [[The Stoic]]
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=== Tommy "The Machine" Gunn ===
{{quote| Played by: Tommy Morrison (1990)}}
 
* [[The Danza]]
* [[Deceptive Disciple]]: Starts the film pleading with Rocky to have Rocky train and teach him, eventually sells out and throws Rocky aside.
* [[Only in It For Thethe Money]]: How Don King [[Captain Ersatz|ersatz]] George Washington Duke convinces him to dump Rocky as his manager.
* [[Punny Name]]
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]
 
=== Mason "The Line" Dixon ===
{{quote| Played by: Antonio Tarver (2006)}}
 
* [[Boring Invincible Hero]]: At the start, he's unpopular with fans due to a string of easy, quick wins.
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* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Despite being the current Heavyweight champion and undefeated, he didn't got any respect from the crowd. He did get it after his fight with Balboa.
** There's a bit of [[Truth in Television]] here. There have been many fighters who didn't get the respect they deserve because the guys around are nowhere near their level. Therefore, it creates the illusion that a dominant champion is fighting nothing but bums. In contrast, Muhammad Ali receives platitudes not just because of his tremendous skills, but because of the high level of the other heavyweights around, nearly all of whom Ali fought and beat.
* [[Jerkass]] [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold|With A Heart Of Gold]]
* [[Punny Name]]
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: We first see him playing basketball with some friends.
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