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{{quote|'''Rocky Balboa:''' There ain't nothin' over till it's over.
'''Mason Dixon:''' Where's that from, the '80s?
'''Rocky Balboa:''' That's probably the '70s.
|''Rocky Balboa''}}
A series of six movies set around boxing's favorite [[Underdogs Never Lose]], "The Itallian Stallion" Rocky Balboa.
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Viewers who have come to associate the ''Rocky'' films specifically with the action-packed fights might be surprised to learn upon viewing this film that it focuses mostly on the characters, their relationships and lives, and the sudden possibility to make a new and better life. The film was a box-office smash and an underdog movie that ended up winning Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing in 1976.
''Rocky'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2006.
== Rocky II ==
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* [[Fighting Series]]
* [[Fur and Loathing]]: Not ''III'', which was made in 1982, but ''V'', where the only furs were worn by the corrupt manager, and a woman who seemed to be a gold digger.
* [[Generation Xerox]]: Angie is basically Little Marie 2.0. Ironically she hangs out at the bar where Little Marie herself works. In Balboa, she tries to get Rocky to buy a round of beer for her friends including a much older louse whom Rocky notices is exploiting her and the other girls. Rocky tries to talk her out of being made to look like a fool. Much like Little Marie in the first movie, the result goes about as well as one would expect. She along with her friends and the man, try to insult Rocky and Marie as they leave, using wannabe gangster slurs to boot. Rocky, being a former enforcer walks back and grabs the man showing him how it's really done and scaring him into apologizing. Later on when Rocky sets out to fight Dixon, the fight can be watched at the same bar. Angie who was watching it, tells the man off when he insults Rocky.
{{Quote|'''Jerk:''' I hope he gets his head busted.
'''Angie:''' Shut up.}}
* [[The Glasses Come Off]]: Adrian in the first film.
* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: Mentioned in the fifth movie, despite being a trained boxer Rocky was also a former mob-enforcer and knew how to act as a street fighter. Tommy Gunn's new manager even berates him for expecting to use the same skills in a street fight.
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* [[Pretty in Mink]]: In III, Adrian gets a couple furs. Even spoofed in a short review of the films.
{{quote|"Rocky gets his own pinball games. Pet Store Lady starts wearing fur coats."}}
* [[Product Placement]]: Nike in ''[[Rocky III]]''. You see the [http://antsj.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/nike_swoosh.gif swoosh]{{Dead link}} everywhere in that movie.
* [[Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh]]: In the first round of their fight, Rocky can't seem to even faze Drago, who actually smiles at Rocky after letting Rocky pound away at his midsection to no apparent effect.
** Rocky himself is on the receiving end in the climax of his rematch with Clubber Lang in part ''III'''s [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|CMoA]] as he [[Won't Work On Me|no sells]] the increasingly panicking and frustrated Lang's devastating blows.
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* [[World of Cardboard Speech]]: ''Rocky Balboa'' has two, one given by Rocky to the athletic board after they refuse his boxing license despite passing all the medical tests they put him through. The second was given to his son when Rocky Jr. calls him out for supposedly seeking the spotlight, where Rocky explains that we can't and shouldn't blame others for our problems.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]
* [[Wrestler In All Of Us]]: Rocky has shown wrestling moves on a few occasions. For starters when he fights Thunderlips in III, with the gloves off, he throws him out of the ring. Next, after he cut Drago in IV he wrestled Drago to the ground for choking him post-bell. Last among most moves he used against Tommy Gunn in V, he used the Russian leg sweep.
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