Top Gun: Maverick Ending Explained (In Detail)
Warning: SPOILERS for Top Gun: Maverick
The thrilling ending of Top Gun: Maverick definitively proved that Pete «Maverick» Mitchell (Tom Cruise) still has the right stuff and reaffirmed his status as one of the best fighter pilots the U.S. Navy has ever seen. Director Joseph Kosinski's sequel took Top Gun to the next level, exceeding the original in nearly every way as a 21st-century action movie blockbuster while still steeping in the nostalgia for and the iconography of the original Top Gun, which was directed by the late Tony Scott in 1986.Top Gun: Maverick also paid homage to the original film's heroes like Iceman (Val Kilmer) and Goose (Anthony Edwards) while introducing new characters, like Goose's son Rooster (Miles Teller) who can potentially move the franchise forward.
Top Gun: Maverick's ending centered on the mission Maverick trained the former graduates of Top Gun for, which was the destruction of an underground uranium facility in an unnamed hostile country. It was an impossible mission that involved flying low through a valley at high velocities, pinpoint targeting precision, and a death-defying climb to avoid both colliding with a mountain and blacking out. Then the Top Gun pilots would have to survive a dogfight against the enemy's technologically superior 5th generation fighter planes. After Iceman AKA Admiral Tom Kazansky died, Maverick lost his protection and he was removed as Top Gun's instructor by Cyclone (Jon Hamm), who was no fan of Maverick's and obstructed him every step of the way. But Maverick stole a plane and perfectly executed the simulation, proving to the trainees that their daunting mission could be accomplished because,«it's not the plane, it's the pilot.» Maverick then led the mission
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