---
title: "21 All Too Real Plot Ideas For ‘Top Gun: Maverick’"
date: "2017-06-21"
modified: "2017-06-21"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/top-gun-maverick-plot-jokes/"
categories:
  - "Aircraft"
  - "Culture"
  - "Entertainment"
  - "Fighter Aircraft"
  - "Humor"
  - "Tech & Tactics"
---

# 21 All Too Real Plot Ideas For ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

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Ever since leading man and human jawline Tom Cruise revealed the extremely droll Top Gun sequel title of Top Gun 2: Maverick, we’ve heard very little about the new Jerry Bruckheimer-powered followup to the 1986 cult classic. And this leaves us worried, especially since Cruise and “Iceman” Val Kilmer are both three decades older. Will Maverick and Iceman fly one of those exciting new F-35s? Will Rob Riggle [finally fly](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8zhQpU2mtQ>) with the Blue Angels?! Did someone lose that lovin’ feeling?!?

We have no ideas, but the Internet does. Here are a bunch of somewhat alarming and totally imagined storylines for Cruise’s bare-chested return to the sultry sands of Miramar’s pristine volleyball courts in the age of ISIS and drones.

https://twitter.com/BA_Friedman/status/877578430501580800

https://twitter.com/AthertonKD/status/871757618724958208

https://twitter.com/JOHNFORELLI/status/867472096347271171

https://twitter.com/dmataconis/status/868068550753361921

https://twitter.com/JeremyBRoberts/status/868957698938646528

https://twitter.com/Wieneraaron/status/868144440241659904

https://twitter.com/kels_316/status/867880506720894976

https://twitter.com/mrdavehoffman/status/868558214220009472

https://twitter.com/JSimkins13/status/875791274279874561

https://twitter.com/PatDussault/status/867488537804984320

https://twitter.com/coopertalk/status/867707099542892545

https://twitter.com/HalpernAlex/status/867877238196383745

https://twitter.com/artfulforge/status/868282534592790528

https://twitter.com/AstrosCounty/status/867755451227799553

https://twitter.com/PhantoMantis/status/867764090420076544

https://twitter.com/RRitenbaugh/status/867802957944950785

https://twitter.com/_RobThompson/status/877580126594224128

https://twitter.com/ACCBiggz/status/871845017895227394

https://twitter.com/Jasper_3/status/870823056976957440

https://twitter.com/patpohler/status/877259694141845505

And finally:

https://twitter.com/ArmyStrang/status/877162958908010496

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## Author
Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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