![]() ![]() Since Top Gun 2 establishes Maverick as being practically immortal after surviving his Mach 10 flight untouched, the rest of the movie can be retroactively understood as Maverick convincing himself of his immortality. However, the notion that Maverick refuses to die is mentioned by numerous characters in Top Gun 2, suggesting this may not actually be the words of these aviators and officials, but rather his subconscious fears of dying seeping out in his death dream. This assessment of Maverick being able to miraculously evade the Grim Reaper is enhanced in Top Gun 2, which happens to be one of Tom Cruise’s only recent action movies that actually acknowledges the 59-year-old actor’s age. While Maverick is a great pilot, he is also clearly reckless with the aviator dodging death at every seemingly impossible turn. The majority of Top Gun 2’s mission and resolutions seem impossible (somewhat suitably for Tom Cruise), which is why they fit so perfectly as the dreams of a man envisioning an impossible life as he dies burning up in the stratosphere. While this was meant to be symbolic in Top Gun 2, it can also be taken literally – Tom Cruise’s death dream imagines Rooster as Goose, replete with a “Great Balls of Fire” bar rendition – in a manner that he can atone for his mistakes with both men in one moment. RELATED: Who Played Goose’s Son In Top Gun (& Why They Were Recast) The Top Gun 2 theory then supports the argument by suggesting that Maverick’s image of Rooster when they finally reunite is more like a ghost of Goose. Additionally, Top Gun 2’s core mission unrealistically reveals that the only person who can truly accomplish it is Maverick himself, with Top Gun: Maverick's unnamed enemy being incongruent with any nation that can be named. The Top Gun: Maverick theory also cites that the film’s ambiance and mood are surreally dream-like as the character returns to sunny San Diego. Maverick would have felt the need to clear up his mistakes with Rooster and Penny before dying, but this Top Gun 2 theory suggests that the only way to do so was in an imagined reality. When Val Kilmer's Iceman gives Maverick the advice to “ let go” in terms of Rooster and his reservations about the mission, this may have just been Maverick telling himself that he needs to let go of his errors in order to move on and die, but gave the words to Iceman because of how highly he regarded his opinion. If the theory is to be believed, what the audience saw was actually Maverick's final thoughts. In order to explain this, the theory claims that the rest of the movie is all Maverick coming to terms with his mortality by imagining a happy life and future both for himself and the two people he loves the most who he also hurt. The opening shows Cruise’s plane being torn apart in the stratosphere, with Maverick miraculously appearing largely unscathed moments later. One theory suggests that Maverick really didn’t survive his Mach 10 trial in the opening scene of Top Gun 2.
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