Top Gun: Maverick
While Iceman is plow like the villain ofTop Gun , the belated sequelTop Gun : Maverickproves that he was n’t worn about Tom Cruise ’s antihero Maverick . Top Gunis a amazingly complicated movie for a fun , cheery smash hit . Tony Scott ’s action heroic is a rare warfare picture show that does n’t focus on international dispute , withTop Gun ’s plot never address the nationality of the movie ’s faceless foreign enemies . Instead , Top Gun ’s main conflict is between Maverick and himself , as well as the battle of wills between him and the Navy ’s top brass .
However , whileTop hit man : Maverickproves Iceman and Maverick oversee to hold on to their fire - forged friendly relationship for decades after the original moving-picture show , Val Kilmer ’s self-satisfied Iceman is still treat as a major villain for most ofTop Gun . This is arguably a little unfair since , while Kilmer ’s fibre is a intimidation ball of machismo , so is Maverick . confessedly , Iceman does invariably square up off against Cruise ’s antihero throughoutTop Gun , but Maverick initiate these fights as often as Iceman does , and while Iceman is the de facto villain ofTop Gun , the sequel proves his criticisms of Maverick were well - found .
Maverick’s Struggles After Top Gun Prove Iceman’s Point
Iceman warn Maverick that he was unsafe , and subsequently , inTop Gun ’s jubilant climax , he re - contextualized this same line as a compliment . However , this is undeniably the attribute that hold Maverick back over the years . For example , theoriginalTop Gun ’s jokeabout Maverick ’s bad ” high - speed pass ” over an admiral ’s daughter makes him sound like a cad , butTop Gun : Maverickreveals that Maverick on the Q.T. spent decades fight with his tone for Penny Benjamin . Similarly , his dependency to risk and so - called “ need for speed ” are what make him a hero inTop Gun , but these same quality imperiled any chance Maverick had at a promotion , stability , or vocation winner .
Iceman effectively call the character ’s future when he told Maverick he was unsafe . In the first scenes ofTop Gun : Maverick , Cruise ’s character takes an passing risky mental test flight of stairs to Mach 10 despite a commanding police officer ’s attempts to shut out down the charge . This make for an exciting opening chronological succession , but it also almost bolt down Maverick and ruin the expensive experimental aircraft . WhileTop Gun 2 ’s original story pore on drone rendering exam archetype irrelevant , Top Gun : Maverick ’s completed plot was more focused on Maverick ’s love of peril and the cost that this had on his life ’s prognosis .
Iceman’s Top Gun: Maverick Death Matured Maverick
By the end ofTop Gun : Maverick , Maverick finally seems content to settle down . This might be because Iceman ’s decease remind Maverick that he is not immortal while saving Rooster during a wild delegation permitted him to forgive himself for Goose ’s destruction decade before . Whatever the reason , Maverick does seem less grievous at the end ofTop Gun : Maverickand he seems to have get through an age where he does n’t view this as a personal weakness . While Iceman might not have live to see this character uprise , Top Gun ’s supposed baddie was proved right whenTop Gun : Maverickwrapped up its tale .
