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Top Gun influenced Skyward
Added by Media Influence Map · 6 October 2026
The evidence
Brandon Sanderson pitched Skyward as Top Gun meets How to Train Your Dragon: a girl who finds a broken-down starship and fights her way through a fighter-pilot school, with the cadet rivalries and dogfights of Top Gun.
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