History Characters / Creed2015

->''"You think you made it? Try spending half your life in a cell, watchin' someone else live your life."''''

* FreudianExcuse: He grew up in poverty with himself and his father being pariahs from Russian society and his mother abandoning him shortly after he was born for a rich new husband and never even contacting him or trying to help him out. It's really not a surprise that Viktor has a lot of anger towards the world.

* TheLastDance: An impending prison term for illegal firearm possession has forced Conlan into an early retirement, making Adonis his final opponent.

* {{Oop North}}: Pretty Ricky Conlan speaks with Tony Bellew's natural Scouser accent (matching his Liverpool background)
* {{Scary Black Man}}: Possibly. Ricky Conlan is played by Tony Bellew who is half Black on his Mothers side. Though he is generally white passing for most viewers

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: "Pretty" Ricky Conlan was just a champion for Donnie to prove himself as a boxer worthy of the professional stage, and had no prior connection with Donnie whatsoever. Viktor Drago was a physical representation of Rocky's and his own father's dark past that Donnie has to overcome in finding peace for his own legacy; the connection that Viktor had to Donnie was mainly through their parental figures: Ivan Drago for Viktor, Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed for Adonis. Damian "Dame" Anderson is a figure of Creed's '''own past''' as his '''childhood friend''' turned enemy, who resented Donnie for living the life that he never had due to being locked up and Donnie himself getting away with the crime.

* BlackBoxerStereotype:Played this trope straight.

* ScaryBlackMan:He is muscular and large and he often has an angry expression on his face which makes his appearance easily intimidating to other characters in the film.

* CharacterTic: Beats his chest with one hand twice in succession and roars whenever he knocks down an opponent.

* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler: His mother Ludmilla left him and his father following the latter’s loss to Rocky. When she shows up at a dinner celebrating Viktor’s boxing accomplishments, he leaves the table in anger and calls out his father for trying to win her affections back despite the fact she abandoned them. At the end of his rematch with Adonis, when it becomes clear Viktor is losing, he sees Ludmilla leaving the arena and becomes completely demoralized.]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: His general fighting style relies on using his devastating strength and furious speed to take out opponents as quickly as possible and he has built his punching style around extremely powerful blows. While this style can be very effective at taking out opponents quickly, it has the draw back of using up a ''lot'' of energy from Viktor, meaning his stamina goes down if a fight goes on past the first few rounds. He also uses a lot of big punches which are very powerful but have the drawback of not only using more energy but opening him up for counter attacks if he misses and making it hard to rebound and adjust his moves.

* BlackBoxerStereotype: Subverted since he is the protagonist of this series and he comes from a privileged and underprivileged upbringing,also even though he is an athletic he is not extremely athletic like characters from this trope addition to the fact his personality even though he is confident he is not cocky like many characters from this trope.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Creed}}''

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CreedII''

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: "Pretty" Ricky Conlan was just a champion for Donnie to prove himself as a boxer worthy of the professional stage, and had no prior connection with Donnie whatsoever. Viktor Drago was a physical representation of Rocky's and his own father's dark past that Donnie has to overcome in finding peace for his own legacy; the connection that Viktor had to Donnie was mainly through their parental figures: Ivan Drago for Viktor, Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed for Adonis. Damian "Dame" Anderson is a figure of Creed's '''own past''' as his '''childhood friend''' turned enemy.

For the characters introduced in the original ''Rocky'' films, see [[Characters/{{Rocky}} here]].
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* AscendedExtra: In the Rocky movies she's just a SatelliteLoveInterest to Apollo with barely any speaking lines. In the Creed series, she takes a more prominent role as Adonis' mother figure.

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: Dies of a stroke in the third ''Creed'' movie.]]

!!Other Fighters

!!!'''APpearances:''' ''Film/{{Creed}}'' | ''Film/CreedII'' | ''Film/CreedIII''

->Played by Creator/MichaelBJordan
->Voiced in French by Creator/JeanBaptisteAnoumon

->Played by: Creator/TessaThompson
->Voiced in French by: Fily Keita

->Played by: Mila Davis-Kent

->Played by: Lavelle Roby (Film/{{Rocky}}), Sylvia Meals (Film/RockyII, Film/RockyIV), Creator/PhyliciaRashad (Film/{{Creed}}, Film/CreedII, Film/CreedIII)

->Played by: Tony Bellew
->Voiced in French by: Pascal Nowak

-> Played by: Creator/FlorianMunteanu
-> Voiced in French by: Jochen Hägele

->Played by Creator/JonathanMajors

->Played by Creator/WoodHarris

->Played by José Benavidez Jr.

* ManipulativeBastard: He's very good at reading people and using what he learned against them. [[spoiler:He ''knows'' Adonis trying to hide from his own past regarding the whole situation that leads to Damian's incarceration, so he guilt-trips Adonis about it at every moment. He makes himself sympathetic enough that Adonis is willing to let him into his own gym, even though Damian secretly has his own gym and partners all along, and engineers the events that culminate in Adonis giving Damian a shot at the title - something that Damian ''knows'' Adonis is feeling obligated to do for him.]] This even extends into the ring itself, where his tactic is to mess with his opponent's head by taunting them endlessly until they make a mistake that he can exploit.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: "Pretty" Ricky Conlan was just a champion for Donnie to prove himself as a boxer worthy of the professional stage. Viktor Drago was a physical representation of Rocky's and his own father's dark past that Donnie has to overcome in finding peace for his own legacy. Damian "Dame" Anderson is a figure of Creed's '''own past''' as his '''childhood friend''' turned enemy.

* NotSoDifferent: Dame is unsurprisingly similar to Donnie, from their childhood as similarly fierce examples of the GeniusBruiser trope who seem to be on the exact same wavelength to their adult rivalry where Dame acts as Donnie’s MirrorCharacter… but he’s also, genuinely surprisingly, not that different from Bianca, since he empathizes with her having to watch someone one else live her dream, and calls her out when she lies about it.

* KnightOfCerebus: Of all three of Donnie's main opponents (including Ricky Conlan & Viktor Drago), Damian Anderson is the only one that is an ''active threat'' in Donnie's life.

* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: Even before the full truth of the past between Adonis and Damian comes to light, Little Duke figures out the moment Damian steps into the gym that Damian isn’t trustworthy at all and that he clearly has a chip up his shoulder and takes advantage of Adonis’s hospitality to vent his pent-up anger on other boxers.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: More or less serves the exact same role in the films that his father did for Rocky.