Top Gun 2: Maverick's Captain Role Can Explain Charlie's Absence
Charlie’s absence in the highly-anticipated Top Gun: Maverick can be explained by Maverick’s apparent professional stasis. Top Gun: Maverick finally arrives in cinemas on May 27, but not all of the original Top Gun characters will be returning in the new movie. While Maverick (Tom Cruise) and Iceman (Val Kilmer) are confirmed to be back, Kelly McGillis’s Top Gun heroine Charlie, Maverick’s love interest in the original movie, won’t be making an appearance in the sequel.
According to its plot synopsis, Top Gun: Maverick will have a darker tone than the original Top Gun and will see the series address the character flaws that made Maverick such a reckless renegade in the earlier movie. These same qualities appear to have held him back from promotion throughout his career since Top Gun ended, which might explain why he and Charlie never worked out.
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A possible explanation for Charlie’s Top Gun: Maverick absence could be because Maverick remains a Captain despite over thirty years of service. While there is nothing wrong with working as a Captain, the duration of Maverick’s time in the Navy and his status as one of its best test pilots means that he should, theoretically, have been offered numerous promotions from this position in the decades since the ending of Top Gun. However, much like Top Gun focused less on real wars and more on Maverick’s internal conflicts, Top Gun: Maverick is set to illustrate how Maverick has been emotionally trapped in his 80s glory days since the end of the original movie, something that is made manifest in his status as a Captain. There’s a sense that Maverick is stuck in time inTop Gun: Maverick and has not been able to
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