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Adonis Johnson, later Adonis Johnson Creed, is the main protagonist and title character from the ''Rocky'' spin-off and sequel ''Creed''. Adonis is the illegitimate son of Apollo Creed; the result of an affair by the former heavyweight champion and a woman with the surname Johnson. Adonis spends the first several years of his life in foster care and juvenile hall, until he is subsequently adopted by Mary Anne Creed, Apollo's widow. He lives a life of luxury and maintains a stable white collar job, only to abandon it to pursue a life-long dream of becoming a professional boxer. He goes to Philadelphia and convinces his father's friend Rocky Balboa to train and mentor him.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Sean P. Means )〕 ==Story== In 1998 Los Angeles, California, young Adonis "Donnie" Johnson is shown in a juvenile hall detention center fighting with other children. He is separated and taken back to his cell. Mary Anne Creed (Phylicia Rashad), Apollo's widow, meets with Adonis and adopts him; informing him that he is Apollo Creed's son (sired from an extramarital affair). In the present day, Adonis (using his biological mother's last name Johnson) is a wealthy young college graduate working a white collar office job. However, on weekends, he sneaks out to Tijuana, Mexico, to fight amateur matches, and maintains an undefeated record. Soon Adonis quits his job and travels to Philadelphia to seek out Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), once he realizes that no one in his home town of Los Angeles will train him and suffers an embarrassing loss in a sparring match to light heavyweight contender Danny "Stuntman" Wheeler (Andre Ward). Once in Philadelphia, Adonis meets Rocky and tries to get the elder boxer to be his trainer, but Rocky refuses both because he doesn't think Apollo would want his son to be a fighter and because he gave up boxing years ago. However, Adonis' persistence eventually wins Rocky over. Meanwhile, Adonis forms a relationship with his downstairs neighbor, Bianca (Tessa Thompson), who is a musician with progressive hearing loss. After moving in with Rocky, their training intensifies. Adonis gets into a match with Leo "The Lion" Sporino (Gabriel Rosado), the son of a jealous trainer who originally wanted Rocky to coach his son. Although Adonis wins the fight against Sporino, the latter's father discovers that he is Apollo Creed's son and alerts the media. "Pretty" Ricky Conlan (Tony Bellew), the light heavyweight champion of the world, is about to go to jail and gun charges and his manager Tommy Holiday (Graham McTavish) decides that his best swan song fight would be against the son of Apollo Creed. He meets with Rocky and Adonis, demanding that he use the name Creed if he wants a shot at the light heavyweight title. Adonis only consents after Bianca persuades him to use Apollo's surname. During one intense night of training, Rocky becomes sick and is taken to the hospital. He is diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and refuses chemotherapy treatment as he notes that it didn't save his wife Adrian. Adonis discovers pamphlets about the disease in Rocky's coat packet after another late night training session, where Rocky tells Adonis that they are not family and that he has nothing to live for now that Paulie and Adrian have passed, and that his son has moved away to Vancouver. Adonis gets into a fight with a rapper before one of Bianca's shows, and is thrown in jail. When Rocky comes to bail him out, he tells off the former heavyweight champion, accusing him of getting Apollo killed in the ring. Later, Adonis goes to Bianca's to apologize and explain the situation but she takes out her hearing aids and ignores him. He then meets up with Rocky, explaining that he's going to use the name Creed and fight against Conlan, but only if Rocky gets treatment to fight his illness. While Rocky is sick, he still trains Adonis in the hospital room and back in his house. Before the fight, Adonis is visited by Bianca at the behest of Rocky; the two lovers reconcile. Mary Anne sends Adonis his father's iconic American flag boxing shorts; the back of the shorts bearing the name Johnson and the front bearing the name Creed. Adonis shocks the world by going the distance with Conlan, as Bianca and the once-antagonistic crowd begin to cheer him on. Although he loses by split decision, Adonis gains the respect and admiration of Conlan and everyone watching. Lastly, Adonis and Rocky go up the Rocky Steps, representing a victory for both Rocky and Adonis in fighting their respective battles. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adonis Creed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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