Top Gun 2's New Romance Reveals The Sad Truth Of Maverick's Life
Top Gun: Maverick, the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 classic, introduces a new love interest for Tom Cruise's Pete «Maverick» Mitchell in Jennifer Connelly's Penny Benjamin, which reveals the sad truth about Maverick's life between the two films. Briefly mentioned as an Admiral's daughter in the original movie, Penny Benjamin's presence shows that the Maverick present in the original film isn't far off from the Maverick in the sequel. This is also telling that Maverick's relationship with Kelly McGillis' Charlie did not last for one reason or another, implying that Maverick's life hasn't moved far past TOPGUN.
When audiences last saw Cruise's iconic character, the hotshot pilot was a Lieutenant who graduated second in his class at TOPGUN, an elite fighter weapons school created by the United States Navy that takes the best combat pilots and pushes them to be even greater. But when audiences meet back up with Maverick in the sequel, three decades after the original, Maverick has only climbed the ranks three times to the rank of Captain. Meanwhile, Val Kilmer's Iceman, who graduated first place in their class at TOPGUN, just ahead of Maverick himself, has achieved the rank of Vice-Admiral in the three decades since the original Top Gun movie took place.
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These many developments between films indicate that Maverick's career became stagnant once he reached Captain, with Maverick even saying in the film that he feels that he is where he belongs, not allowing himself nor pushing himself to strive any further. And in dating Penny Benjamin, it shows that Maverick has clearly not moved on very far from where he was in the original Top Gun, as he is still
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