Top Gun: Maverick Has a Lot of Star Wars Death Star Attack Similarities
Warning: the following contains SPOILERS for Top Gun: Maverick.
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Other than hotshot pilots and dogfights, Top Gun and Star Wars don't traditionally have a lot in common, but Top Gun: Maverick changes that. Like Star Wars, Top Gun: Maverick brought back members of the original cast after 36 years alongside a new generation of co-stars, but the similarities with Top Gun: Maverick go even deeper than that.
Pete «Maverick» Mitchell (Tom Cruise) may have been one of the hottest pilots to come out of TOPGUN academy after the events of the original Top Gun movie, but after several decades of typical Maverick behavior, he hasn't climbed the ranks to Admiral like his former wingman Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky (Val Kilmer), and after his latest stunt, he gets one final assignment to return to TOPGUN academy as an instructor for a special mission.
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The mission in question is the destruction of a secret uranium enrichment plant, requiring the top pilots in the world to execute an impossible series of maneuvers with a slim chance of successfully returning home, even if the mission is successful. Interestingly, the mission parameters, and some of the story elements, have a lot in common with the attack on the Death Star at the Battle of Yavin at the end of Star Wars: A New Hope.
The mission Maverick is preparing Rooster, Hangman, and the other crack Navy pilots to execute can't be done with a newer aircraft like the F-35, meaning they need to resort to the much older F-18 Super Hornet, which was originally produced in the 1990s. In Star Wars: A New Hope, when the Rebel Alliance sends its attack on the Death Star, they have to rely on old, beat up X-Wing fighters,
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