Who The Villains Are Supposed To Be In Top Gun 2
Warning: SPOILERS below for Top Gun: Maverick!
Top Gun: Maverick leaves the identity of its villain intentionally shrouded in mystery, just like the original Top Gun. Returning the Top Gun franchise to theaters after almost four decades, Top Gun: Maverick has all the quintessential elements that made the first movie so great. Tom Cruise, now doing his own stunts, reigns supreme again in the sequel as pilot Pete «Maverick» Mitchell. This time around, he faces the demons of his past while training a new squad of TOPGUN graduates for a dangerous mission, one against an unclear enemy.
In all of its high-octane drama and moving nostalgia, Top Gun: Maverick truly fascinates when it boasts slambang aerial encounters. Director Joseph Kosinski's forte is on full display, but interestingly, none of these action scenes reveal the rival military's real identity. While their motive to create a supply of enriched uranium is made evident, they are only referred to as «the enemy.» The first Top Gun does something similar, with the U.S. naval aviators going up against Soviet-built fighter jets from an unknown nation. However, several details in that movie's aircraft markings and geographical locations reveal that the original Top Gun villain is a vague combination of the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea.
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Top Gun: Maverick treads a similar path as the first movie. Its desolate aerial background locations and fifth-generation enemy fighter planes suggest that Maverick's enemy in the Top Gun sequel possibly hails from China, Russia, or Iran. While the snowclad mountains in the climactic moments of Top Gun: Maverick could allude to any of the three nations, the
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