Why Bradley Bradshaw Is Anakin Skywalker

Why Bradley Bradshaw is Anakin Skywalker

Foreword: This is a weird overlap in fandoms, but this is something that I’ve been thinking about for weeks now and I can’t get it out of my head: so you, the fine people of Tumblr shall be my audience as I stand on my virtual soapbox and preach about hot angsty men!

When I first watched Top Gun: Maverick, something about Bradley didn’t sit right with me. He was irritating and annoying, with his displaced anger and bratty personality. It was so confusing to me: Goose’s son shouldn’t be such a whiny little kid.

The more I sat with it, the more I came to compare him with Anakin.

Anakin is also known for his displaced anger and bratty personality. It’s written off as poor writing, but seeing it on another character is a totally different experience.

Anakin is frustrated that he was kept from becoming a Jedi Master by Obi-Wan, despite his skills and everything he’s been through.

Bradley is frustrated that Maverick prevented him from getting into the Naval Academy, despite everything he had been through and how badly he wanted it.

Anakin never met his dad, and his mother died when he needed her the most.

Bradley was so little when Goose died that I doubt he remembers much of him, and his mother died before Bradley was out of high school.^1

They’re both sexy pilots with father figures they despise.

Go watch Revenge of the Sith, then watch Top Gun: Maverick and think about it like that. It makes a lot more sense and both characters are a bit more bearable if you look at them through the lens of a scared kid whose life isn’t in their control.

Plus they’re both hot and sexy

^1 We don’t actually know when Carole dies, but she makes Maverick promise to keep Bradley from becoming a pilot, so it makes sense for it to be some time before he’s an adult, most likely when he is starting to think about college.

Bonus pictures because I love them!

I don't know why I was expecting hangman to kiss rooster during the dagger launch scene I've seen this movie a million times

Since we’re all gonna die, there’s one more secret I feel I have to share with you. I didn’t not care for the later seasons of Criminal Minds.

love how val kilmer was method in the way where he was like im giving Ice daddy issues and also maybe hes gay and tom cruise was method in the way that hes like what if i also become reckless and insane

I said I would draw him :)

(bonus other two bc the pose practice got me in a chokehold)