I might be misremembering, but Rocky V is all about how the Rocky IV against Ivan Drago legitimately gave Rocky brain and nerve damage and another fight could possibly kill him. I believe Rocky Balboa (Rocky VI) quickly mentions that that was a misdiagnosis just so Rocky can fight again in the ring.
TV movie/TV series actually.
In the mid 1960s “Movies of the week” were popular on all three networks and getting expensive to show. So networks and studios decided to make their how…higher budgets than an ordinary tv show but less expensive in the long run. People at NBC and Universal decided to revive a popular tv/radio(and unpopular feature film) of the 1950s: “Dragnet”. Its creator, Jack Webb, had finished the last two years of his three year contract at Warner Brothers twiddling his thumbs because his first year was disastrous. So Webb was agreeable
And got the co operation of the LAPD. What he couldn’t get was his old tv partner Ben Alexander, who had another show. So he got Harry Morgan whom he had worked with before.
The film turned out well. So well in fact that NBC and Universal wanted a weekly tv series. Webb wasn’t crazy doing another weekly tv series, especially for a January mid season instead of September time to prepare. He wanted to do three or four TV movies of the week a year but he had no other job offers and alimony/child payments to meet . So he put on badge again for four years.
Anyways the original tv movie sat on the shelf for two years before being shown. One of the subplots is Harry Morgan’s character is about to be medically retired for ulcers and bad teeth with a nephew dental student occasionally dropping in to try out new dentures. Eventually when the killer is caught, the medical people catch up and Morgan is gone. So for the tv series they add a brief scene set eight months later. Morgan has been readmitted to the police force. He got a job in an area where clams are plentiful and the clam juice has cured his ulcers and fixed his teeth…running on pure clam juice.
I still don’t buy any narrative in which Veronica Quaife, after narrowly escaping teleporter-amalgamation with the Brundlefly, DOESN’T go back to the abortion clinic and finish what she started.
And I don’t buy any narrative in which Ripley ever again permits herself to be further from Earth’s surface than the second floor of her apartment building.
They can convolute their explanations all they want; to me, those stories just never take place.