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The film has many parallels with its predecessor Top Gun (1986). Some of them include: The movie's opening is almost similar to the opening of the first film, right down to Harold Faltermeyer's score and "Danger Zone" playing in. However, only Tom Cruise's name is shown before the movie's logo is revealed, unlike with a co-star's name like the first film opened with. Also the opening sequence is much shorter and quicker than of the first film's.Maverick acting as the trainer of Rooster and the young pilots just as he was schooled by Commander Mike "Viper" Metcalf (Tom Skeritt) in the first film.Maverick says the same motivational line "First one dies, you die too. You can count on it. Soon, there'll be others" to Rooster, who is shocked by the near-death incident of Phoenix and Bob. Viper told Maverick the exact same line after Goose's death in the first film.During the beach football scene, Maverick abandons the game halfway through as the group mocks him. He did the same thing as he was going on a date with Charlie Blackwood in the first film and Goose was mocked by Slider as they were giving up in the volleyball game.Hangman's behavior and persona reflects young Maverick's cocky attitude from the first film.Rooster joins in the trench run late after invoking a sense of abandoning the mission altogether as he was afraid of the SAMs. Maverick also showed a similar behavior at the final dogfight near the end of the first film as he went into trauma after flying into a MiG's jet wash as it reminded him of Goose's death.The enemy country and the fighter pilots are intentionally left obscured to create a sense of ambiguity and to avoid international scrutiny like the first film. However, given Top Gun's release time during the Cold War, it can be easily conceived that the enemy country was the Soviet Union (now Russia) as they use MiGs as fighter jets and the jets have red stars painted on them, like the actual Soviet MiGs. However in the second film it is left more ambiguous as currently the United States is not engaged in any direct conflict with any country in real life. However, if the presence of F-14s in the enemy's air fleet is considered, then Iran can be presumed as the enemy as they, as of 2022, still possess a few F-14s given to the Shah of Iran by the U.S. before the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Also, Iran is notoriously known for possessing nuclear missiles and secret nuclear plants, just as shown in the movie. However the enemy fighter jets are shown to be more advanced and superior than of the American ones, which Iran is currently not known to possess.The aircraft carrier crew run and warmly receive a victorious Maverick and Rooster just like Maverick, Iceman and their RIOs were received at the end of the first film.Both movies end with a plane flying off into the sunset, only in this movie it is a non-military jet (P-51 Mustangs are discontinued and the one in this movie is personally owned by Tom Cruise) and the first film's were two F-14s. However unlike the first film, the sequel's end credits roll in the standard black background where the first movie's credits rolled using the final sunset shot as the background. Both movies are dedicated to deceased people: first one was to Art Scholl, a stunt pilot who died during filming and the second one is to Tony Scott, the director of the first movie.

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