'Top Gun' returns, which characters are back in 'Marverick' news updates

Tom Cruise returns in "Top Gun: Maverick," with his famed flyboy now in charge of training elite pilots.

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Cruise is now Capt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in the new film. He hasn't changed much at all.

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Nick Bradshaw, aka radar intercept officer “Goose” (Anthony Edwards), of course died in a jet accident in "Top Gun."

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The shirtless dogfight football scene is a callback to the original 'Top Gun'

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Goose's son, seen sitting on the piano during the "Great Balls of Fire" number in the first film.

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Young Bradley (from left) and Maverick walk with Carole Bradshaw and husband Nick.

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Val Kilmer's Tom "Iceman" Kazansky was Maverick's rival pilot in "Top Gun." But in the end, he told Maverick, "

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"Charlie" Blackwood (Kelly McGillis) returned from her Washington gig to be with Maverick at the end of "Top Gun."

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"Top Gun," Maverick (and Goose) is chewed out for high-speed passes over five air control towers "and one admiral's daughter."

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