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bo0tleg · 3 days

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One thing I like about Top Gun (1986) is how believable the development with Ice and Mav's dynamic is.

I've seen a lot of the "Rivals suddenly become buddies after traumatic event together" in media, but I don't think I've seen it done better than in Top Gun. Mostly, I attribute it to how much build up it has.

Most of the time, the 'Rivals' hate each others guts throughout the entire movie/series and then they go through an extremely traumatic event that binds them for life and shifts their entire concept of each other. Ice and Mav never once changed how they saw each other, it just changed their understanding of it.

Ice saw Maverick as dangerous and Mav saw Iceman as stuck-up and commanding. And they weren't wrong, by any means.

From the beginning, they have tension between them because of how different they are. And it ends up in the audience seeing Ice as the 'Antagonist' because that's how Mav sees it, and we're seeing it from his perspective as the protagonist. But Ice was never inherently wrong, in fact he was right.

Other than his first scene, Iceman always has a point in what he's saying. He's criticizing Mav, not insulting him. Sure, he does it in a brash way because masculinity, but he's not trying to insult him, he's trying to knock him down a peg and wake him up to reality. All Ice wants is that he starts to act as a team player, start caring about everybody's safety AND his own, rather than being reckless for the sake of being reckless. But Mav sees it as an insult because he can't process criticism in a healthy way (due to how he grew up). The same thing happened with Charlie, for the record.

And so the strife between the two begins. What I like about it is how it bleeds out of them over time, becoming more settled as the movie goes on. In the locker room "You're dangerous" scene, the tension is palpable. It's obvious they're agitated by each other, and feel the need to prove they're the correct one.

If you pay attention, this whole... demand for superiority goes away as time progresses. They're fine with each other's presence, it's not like they're constantly at each others throat all the time. In the shower scene, Ice dropped all of the aggression and competitiveness from his tone and is instead just laying out what he thinks. He's not undermining Maverick, he's not lecturing him like a child. Iceman is just telling Maverick exactly how he sees the situation in hopes that it would make him realize what the fuck he's doing, but with little hope that it'll actually work.

That doesn't mean Ice is always correct either, he doesn't understand why Mav acts the way he does, thus fails to take into consideration the emotional trauma behind it. Which only causes even more strife.

The entire time, Iceman isn't being a dick for the sake of it, he just wants Mav to stop being stupid (by his standards). And Maverick doesn't understand it because all he gets from what Ice says is insults.

Maverick isn't good at understanding what people mean to say if it's implied, you need to say it to his face. This is the reason he stayed quiet in the shower scene, because Ice finally laid everything out in simple words that he can understand without making it sound like a dick-measuring contest.

Thing is, the tension mellows out. At the beginning, you could see the tension and cut it with a knife. By the middle you can see them getting used to each other without jumping to constantly trade jabs (namely: the volleyball scene, it's just a bunch of guys being dudes, and the scene where Charlie says that Mav flew recklessly in front of the whole class, Ice doesn't comment on it in any way). Over time, they've settled down into their tension without needing to address it all the time.

Then Goose dies.

And the tension between them is still there.

Just because Goose isn't there anymore, doesn't mean their whole dynamic vanishes all of a sudden. You can see their hesitation towards each other (especially Ice), and that's great! It demonstrates that Goose dying doesn't magically resolve their problems with each other in solidarity.

Ice tried to give his consolations to Mav, and is awfully awkward about it. You can see on his face that he wants to say more, but doesn't because he knows it's not his place given their history. And not much is said, but a lot it communicated. (Val Kilmer is a killer actor for this, OH MY FUCKING GOD BLESS THAT MAN)

Even in the graduation scene you can see how out of their depts they really are with each other. A stilted congratulations, that was it. But they're trying, and that's what matters.

A scene I think gets overlooked a lot is the scene right before the Layton, where Ice expressed his worries about Mav to Stinger, and Mav heard him. Because I feel like that was a shift that was more drastic than the Layton itself for them.

What Ice was doing in that scene wasn't doubting Maverick's flying abilities, it was his mental health. Sure, he passed the psych eval, but that means next to jack shit when in a real combat situation so close after his backseater dying. And Ice might be worried that he's gonna be left hanging, but with the way he was speaking I'm more inclined to believe he was more worried about Maverick's wellbeing than himself. Ice almost looked resigned. He knew it was gonna get dismissed because that's the military for you, but he still wanted to try to vouch for Mav to stay groundside, if only to keep his mind at bay.

But Maverick heard him, and as usual, he read it as an insult. He wasn't wrong to assume Ice didn't believe him capable of flying the mission, which wouldn't be a lie, but failed to realize that he had more than one reason to want Maverick on the ground rather than in the air. And for the first time, Maverick believes him.

Up until this point, Mav dismissed all of Ice's so called 'insults' because he was certain in and of himself. But now he isn't anymore.

And it affects his performance in the air. I'm not saying he was as shitty as he was at the start of that combat because of what he overheard, but I am saying that it certainly didn't help matters in the slightest.

So their weird 'stepping-on-eggshells' situation is all over the place by that point. Because they started to care about each other despite not being what one would call proper friends yet. It's establishing a potential friendship by implying that 1. Ice cares about Mav's wellbeing and 2. Mav cares about what Ice thinks.

On the ground, they have the wingman exchange, and their suddenly buddy buddy. Thing is, it wasn't sudden at all.

They've been setting this up the entire fucking movie.

Going back to what I said at the beginning: Ice thinks Mav is dangerous and Mav thinks Ice is stuck-up and controlling. After the Layton, they still think those things because they weren't wrong to begin with. What changed was that instead of seeing it as something that pitted them against each other, it was seen as something that simply was about the other, and that there was no changing it. It could be good.

Mav being dangerous could be good and Ice being stuck-up and controlling could be good, because those were just traits of who they were. By the end of the movie they didn't change how they saw each other, just how they interpreted each other.

And it was built up during the entire fucking movie.

There was a reason to why they acted the way they did with each other because of the stilted interpretation they had of each other. From rivalry to friendship (and perhaps more later down the line), it's glaringly obvious throughout that it wasn't a sudden shift, it was exponential.

That's why I think it was so well developed, because you could see it coming.

#I implied that Mav is autistic here and there because yes #i just love them your honor #this is what I call good writing folks #take notes #top gun #tg86 #icemav #iceman x maverick #top gun iceman #tom iceman kazansky #iceman kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #pete mitchell #top gun 1986

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military-newsboys · 1 day

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Bradley: On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your pain? Mav: Pi. Bradley: Pi? Mav: Low level, but never-ending. Bradley: Dad-

#Maverick #top gun #top gun 1986 #top gun maverick #Top Gun (1986)#Top Gun: Maverick #incorrect top gun quotes #pete mitchell #pete maverick mitchell #iceman #iceman x maverick #icemav #tom iceman kazansky #beau cyclone simpson #bradley bradshaw #nick goose bradshaw #bradley rooster bradshaw #Jake hangman seresin

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emmedoesntdomath · 1 day

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tom kazansky is the kind of gay to have an eternal migrane. now, said migrane’s name might be pete mitchell, but that is not the point-

#he’s just a girl #he’s too pretty for this #top gun movie #top gun 1986 #top gun #tg86 #tgm #tom iceman kazansky #iceman top gun #tom kazansky #iceman x maverick #maverick x iceman #icemav #maverick mitchell #pete maverick mitchell #top gun maverick #pete mitchell #emme’s bad ideas

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scottishaccentsareawesome · 2 days

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Cyclone:...I'm sorry, sir, but Maverick is - impossible to deal with! He's manipulative, he doesn't listen, he's kinda sneaky and underhanded - combine that with the fact that he's about three feet tall and he's basically RUMPLESTILTSKIN!! Iceman:...Ooh, "Rumpelstiltskin", that's one we haven't heard before! Mav's gonna love that one, he loves getting new nicknames...

#incorrect quotes #top gun maverick #icemav #cyclone needs a raise #tom kazansky #iceman kazansky #beau simpson #cyclone simpson #maverick mitchell #pete mitchell

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sdrose93 · 2 days

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TG 1986

Pete Maverick Mitchell ❤❤

#Tom Cruise #Top Gun #Top Gun 1986 #Pete Maverick Mitchell #Pete Mitchell #he's so pretty #I love him #Mav <33 #Tom <3

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lieutenantfloyd · 2 days

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Cyclone: I found a note in one of my old word .docs that said Note to self: Get revenge on Maverick. Cyclone: Except I couldn't remember what I was supposed to get revenge for. Cyclone: But I trusted my own judgment, so I went with it. Maverick: Hmm... I don't know what you were supposed to get revenge for, either. Cyclone: I can only assume you got what was coming to you. Not 100 percent sure, though. Maverick: Well, whatever I did, I guess I deserved it. Cyclone: Let that possibly be a lesson to you.

#top gun #top gun maverick #incorrect quotes #top gun incorrect quotes #beau cyclone simpson #cyclone #beau simpson #cyclone simpson #cyclone top gun #maverick mitchell #pete maverick mitchell #pete mitchell

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k9effect · 1 month

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Mav: Today I realised I'm old

Ice: What happened?

Mav: I fell in the mess hall and instead of laughing, Rooster came running to see if I was ok

Ice:

Mav: I saw fear in his eyes

#sam shitposts #incorrect quotes #incorrect quote #top gun #top gun maverick #pete mitchell #pete maverick mitchell #tom kazansky #tom iceman kazansky #iceman #maverick #icemav #rooster #bradley bradshaw #bradley rooster bradshaw

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gothidecorem · 6 months

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And violà! @kazanskys-mitchell

#top gun #top gun 1986 #tg86 #tom cruise #anthony edwards #val kilmer #rick rossovich #pete mitchell #nick bradshaw #tom kazansky #ron kerner #maverick #goose #iceman #slider

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pilvimarja · 1 month

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#Top Gun Maverick #Maverick #Pete Mitchell #Rooster #Bradley Bradshaw #pilvimarja edits

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swiftietartt · 14 days

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CINEMATIC PARALLELS ▸ 9-1-1 “Buck, Bothered and Bewildered” - 7.04 || Top Gun (1986)

BONUS ▸ Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

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ultimatedirk · 1 month

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even more goosemav !!!!

they're on my brain so much, i made them a playlist HERE

#goosemav #top gun fanart #top gun 1986 #top gun maverick #top gun goose #pete mitchell #nick bradshaw #fanart #doodle

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bo0tleg · 29 days

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Slider is SO done with their shit.

Colored version and original below the CUT!

I genuinely saw the image below and was like I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE DOING TODAY FERB!

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military-newsboys · 3 days

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Mav: i'm a bit dumb Ice: yeah Ice: but ur hot Ice: and you talk good Ice: so it balances out Mav: ...i don't know whether to be insulted or not

#Maverick #top gun #top gun 1986 #top gun maverick #Top Gun (1986)#Top Gun: Maverick #incorrect top gun quotes #pete mitchell #pete maverick mitchell #iceman #iceman x maverick #icemav #tom iceman kazansky #beau cyclone simpson #bradley bradshaw #nick goose bradshaw #bradley rooster bradshaw #Jake hangman seresin

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uglygirlpretendingtobepretty · 2 months

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scottishaccentsareawesome · 2 months

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(After Rooster's first week at TOP GUN) Rooster(on the phone, sounding a little grouchy):...Hey, Dad. Goose(sighs):...What's his name? Rooster: What? Goose: The asshole in your class that seems to be making it his mission to piss you off - what's his name? Rooster: Hangman. Goose: Is he good-looking? Rooster: What?! Goose: Is he? Rooster: Uh...yeah, I guess. Goose: Is he blonde? Rooster:...How'd you know that? Goose(to Carole): - Honey, talk to Bradley. I need to scream into a pillow and then give Maverick a call.

#incorrect quotes #top gun maverick #top gun 1986 #goose & rooster #goose & bradley #hangaroo #hangster #sereshaw #icemav #goose x carole #nick bradshaw #goose bradshaw #bradley bradshaw #rooster bradshaw #jake seresin #hangman seresin #pete mitchell #maverick mitchell #carole bradshaw

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sdrose93 · 2 days

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TG 1986 and TGM 2022 ❤

Maverick's smile 🥰

#Tom Cruise #Top Gun #Top Gun 1986 #Top Gun Maverick #Pete Maverick Mitchell #Pete Mitchell #he's so beautiful

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