Top Gun: Maverick takes place in the modern-day. The film picks up with Maverick, still a captain in the Navy, trying to get a special stealth jet program off the ground. One thing leads to another and Maverick is called back to the Top Gun academy.

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The tables have turned on Maverick this time as he is no longer a student but a teacher. Most of Top Gun: Maverick revolves around Maverick prepping his students for a special mission involving uranium and a non-specific military force. Does he get his team together? More importantly, is there anything that is left unsaid in the plot? Let’s find out with the spoiler wings adjusted to the upright position.

8 What Happened To Charlie?

Penny from Top Gun Maverick

Charlie was played by Kelly McGillis in the first movie. She was Tom Cruise’s, aka Maverick’s, love interest throughout the film as well as a civilian for the Top Gun program. By the end, it seems like they were ready to settle down. She isn’t mentioned once in the sequel. The love interest instead is replaced by Penny who is played by Jennifer Connelly. There is a lot of history that goes unexplored in Top Gun: Maverick with her. Why did Maverick leave Penny and where was Charlie in all of this?

7 Why Is Maverick Still A Captain?

Maverick from Top Gun Maverick

“That’s one of life’s great mysteries.” That’s a line Maverick says to Admiral Cain after Cain is confused about why Maverick never moved up in the world. His thirty years of duty are brushed over with only tiny glimpses into his life since then. By the end of the sequel, it is confirmed that Maverick has shot down five enemy combatants, making him an ace pilot. What was he doing in that period? Also, how long was he working with Hondo on that stealth fighter?

6 Maverick Against The Idea Of Saving Lives?

Cain from Top Gun Maverick

Admiral Cain is painted to be a bad guy at the beginning of Top Gun: Maverick. However, if viewers thought about it, Cain’s program sounds great. He wants to create an automated piloting system to avoid putting men in danger any longer.

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If planes were piloted by robots, people would no longer die in the Navy. The downside to that is the loss of jobs. That’s what Maverick is seemingly fighting for. There has to be some middle ground to work with.

5 Bob’s Lack Of A Callsign

Bob from Top Gun Maverick

Bob is the only pilot in the sequel without a callsign. Half of the cast is barely called by their normal names. If they are, it’s only for brief snippets. Why didn’t Bob get one by the end of the movie? It seems like he proved himself enough to get a scene wherein Phoenix, his partner, gives him an official name. It’s played for a joke in the movie and it is admittedly funny. It still doesn’t make complete sense though.

4 Where Did Maverick Land?

Maverick from Top Gun Maverick

Maverick pushes the stealth fighter to new limits past Mach 10. This causes the jet to break apart, thus crashing Maverick somewhere way off of the base. The scene then skips to Maverick walking into a diner, completely shaken.

When he asks where he is, a little kid responds with, “Earth.” It’s another funny line in Top Gun: Maverick as this kid thought Maverick was an alien of some sort. Maverick’s question is never answered though. How far away did he take that jet before he crashed?

3 Penny’s Bell

Penny from Top Gun Maverick

There is another part about Penny that doesn’t make sense. She owns a bar called The Hard Deck which is where Maverick first meets up with her again. She has a bell installed at the bar.

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If someone disrespects the bartender and they ring the bell, that person has to buy drinks for everyone in the bar. If she rings it twice, meaning they can’t pay, they get thrown out. How much money are these Naval officers making to buy rounds for what looks like fifty-plus people? That’s highway robbery and seems like someone should call the Better Business Bureau on her.

2 Maverick And Rooster’s Stealth Mission

An battle scene in Top Gun Maverick

The idea that both Maverick and Rooster survive their plane crashes is one miracle. It’s another that neither of them got shot while trying to sneak onto the enemy base. The wildest thing about this mission is the fact the enemy has one F-14 on their base.

Why is it there other than to be a callback to the original movie? It’s a good thing Maverick can pilot it let alone that no one tried to shoot it down on the runway in Top Gun: Maverick.

1 Maverick Should Have Come Clean With Rooster

Maverick and Rooster from Top Gun Maverick

After Maverick and Penny rekindle their relationship, he opens up about Rooster. He set him back four years because that’s what his mom, Carole, wanted. Maverick has kept it a secret to this point because he didn’t want Rooster to be mad at his mom.

Now that they are seemingly friendly toward each other at the end of the sequel, Maverick should come clean. Carole is dead, another question left unanswered as to how, and it’s not like Rooster is going to hate his mom in the afterlife. Iceman’s illness is also brushed over.

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