Awesome / Creed II

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• Within the first few minutes of the film, three years after Adonis's loss to "Pretty" Ricky Conlan, Adonis has already gone from underdog to heavyweight champion.
• Adonis also beat his universe's version of the undefeated super middleweight and light heavyweight champion Andre Ward, which is Danny "Stuntman" Wheeler.
• Just seeing Rocky and Ivan Drago stand across from each other giving each other the Death Glare. Even after roughly 33 years, the hate and (wary) respect for each other is still there.
• At the beginning Adonis returns the beat down Danny "Stuntman" Wheeler gave him in the first film. Knocking him out and getting the keys that he wagered for his car in the first film back.
• Adonis's training montage in the desert. Training from Hell, indeed.
• Viktor leaving the dinner table full of Russian dignitaries when his mother walks in and talks to his father and him like she never abandoned them. First of all, it takes guts to piss off a bunch of politicians who are his meal ticket out of the slums, and second, it proves he's not some glory-seeking monster. He cares and fights for only one thing: his father, and neither riches nor fame will ever make him forget that.
• The rematch between Adonis and Viktor.
  • In the final round Adonis (with his ribs broken once again) manages to knock Viktor down to the mat twice.
  • Even better after Viktor gets up from those Adonis continues to basically pound on him to the point that Ivan has to throw in the towel to save his son from possibly losing his life.
  • Give Viktor some credit. He's basically a zombie at this point, but his body absolutely refuses to go down.
• In round 10, Viktor smashes Donny to the mat with a brutal body combo. Donnie isn't knocked out, but it looks like he simply might be unable to stand again from the sheer agony. Then he looks at ringside, sees both Bianca and Mary Anne imploring him to get up again, and starts furiously punching the canvas before pushing himself back up to his feet again. The ref comes over to check he's good to continue, and we get one of the most iconic exchanges in the franchise:
  Referee: What's your name?
  Adonis: Creed.
  Referee: What's. Your. Name?
  Adonis: ...CREED!
• Even though in the end it wasn’t why he fought, the fact that Adonis avenged his family name when it came to the Dragos.

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