Question 1

Is Top Gun: Maverick woke?

Accepted Answer

Top Gun: Maverick has a woke score of 20/100, which means it is not especially woke compared with higher-scoring titles. Top Gun: Maverick sticks to pilot skill, teamwork, and mission success the whole way through. No identity politics, no lectures, no girlboss rewriting, and no activist messaging. The story delivers pure merit-based action with zero social-justice sermons. Diverse cast appears but stays in the background without forcing any agendas.

Question 2

Is there DEI in Top Gun: Maverick?

Accepted Answer

The biggest factors in our score are Representation / casting choices, Anti-woke backlash / 'too woke' complaints. After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

Top Gun: Maverick

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