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'''''Buzz Lightyear of Star Command''''' was a 2000-2001 [[Western Animation|animated]] [[Animated Adaptation|television show]] from [[Disney|Disney television animation]], based on the space character Buzz Lightyear from the movie ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''. The Buzz in this show is not a toy, but an actual Space Ranger - remember how ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' alluded to a [[Show Within a Show]] that pre-dated the toy line? ("The world's greatest superhero, now the world's greatest toy!") This show is [[Defictionalization|what that show might have looked like.]]
The story chronicles the adventures of Buzz Lightyear ([[Patrick Warburton]]), an agent of the galactic peacekeeping force Star Command, who frequently battles the Evil Emperor Zurg ([[Seinfeld|Wayne Knight]]) and other threats to the galaxy. Buzz is accompanied in his missions by his partners on Team Lightyear: Mira Nova ([[Nicole Sullivan]]), the butt-kicking princess of Tangea; Booster (Stephen Furst), the trademark big lovable lug, and XR (Larry Miller/Neil Flynn), the wisecracking fast-talking [[Robot Buddy]].
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* [[The Ace]]: Fop Doppler. When Mira is desperately trying to get out of their arranged marriage, she challenges him to complete Space Ranger training; guess who now holds the record for fastest completion of Space Ranger training ever? This guy can take out a room full of opponents handily, barely looking at them and never losing his cool or his style.
** Buzz too.
* [[Action Girl]]: Mira, Savy SL-2
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Brad Garrett voiced Torque, a bounty hunter who rode in a spacecraft shaped like a motorcycle and after a while could clone himself at will. Those were traits also shared by The Main Man himself, [[Lobo]]
* [[Adorkable]]: Buzz when he's in Sympathy Mode.
* [[Adult Child]]: Booster.
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* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Both lampshaded and subverted.
* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]] / [[Storming the Castle]]: NOS-4-A2 is really good at this, pulling it on both Star Command and Planet Z.
* [[A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away]]: Due to the show's nature, it has this trope in spades.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: Buzz Lightyear is evil and has taken over all power, Zurg is ineffectual and all other characters are [[Darker and Edgier]] due to their traumatic experiences.
** He's not ineffectual, he makes great burgers
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* [[Animation Bump]]: The direct-to-video movie, as well as several episodes.
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Zurg is this for Team Lightyear, especially Buzz.
** More importantly,<ref>
* [[Arm Cannon]]: Warp's cybernetic arm can morph into this, and the hornets have cannons ''for'' arms.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Torque as described by a computer:
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Booster.
* [[Beware the Silly Ones]]: Zurg come off as incredibly goofy at times, but the series does show that he's capable of causing immense destruction and cruelty.
* [[Big Bad]]: Zurg. He's basically the evil counterpart to Professor Nebula.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|The climax of the direct-to-video movie}}
* [[Big No]]: Booster's reaction to being told by Petra that they can be [[Just Friends]].
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{{quote|'''XR:''' Laser beam... acid spray... "Break out of prison"? No WONDER he keeps escaping!}}
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Zurg.
* [[Casting Gag]]: Epoch & Era of the Chlorm are voiced by the late Jonathan Harris & Billy Mumy, who both previously worked together on [[Lost in Space]].
* [[Casual Danger Dialogue]]: So much so with so many characters that one must wonder if these people really do ever get scared. And then you remember Booster's and XR's various coward moments.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Buzz's ever-popular "[[Beyond the Impossible|To infinity, AND BEYOND!]]"
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* [[The Chew Toy]]: XR.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Warp and Nos-4-A2.
* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: In the pilot, Buzz & Warp are investigating an asteroid, and Buzz immediately makes a remark about how he "knows" Zurg is behind whatever they may find there.
{{quote|'''Warp''': What plot? You think Zurg is behind every kitten stuck up a tree!
'''Buzz''': The fiend! Why can't he leave kitty-cats out of his nefarious schemes? }}
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* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Gravitina has a thing for Buzz.
** Unfortunately for Gravitina, it's not reciprocated, leading to a combo [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] / [[Heartwarming Moment]] in ''Opposites Attract'':
{{quote|'''Buzz''': Yes Gravitina, [[Fantastic Aesop|you may conquer worlds, but you must learn that you cannot bend the will of men]]. Gravitina, you're a very, very [[Beat|...]] [[Can Not Tell a Lie|evil]] lady, but somewhere out there there's a guy who thinks being evil and having a great big head are just about the best two things a girl can have!
'''Gravitina''': Really?
'''Buzz''': Sure! And when they let him out of [[Ax Crazy|that tiny little room they've got him locked up in]], he'll move the heavens to find you, [[The Power of Love|because that's what love is]]. In the meantime, you keep that pretty little nose of yours clean. }}
** In a later episode, she seems have gotten the best of both worlds by getting into a relationship with [[Mirror Universe|Evil Buzz Lightyear]] (though she hints she still prefers the original Buzz).
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* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]/[[Evil Genius]]: Zurg purports to be this. To be fair, he's not always far from the mark.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Did You Just Harness Natron?]]
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Evil Buzz Lightyear. {{spoiler|However, the last seconds of the episode show him escaping, implying that he might have survived.}}
* [[Ditto Aliens]]: The Little Green Men. Lampshaded once where an [[Little Green Men|LGM]] called Mira Booster, and when corrected, said "Whatever. You all look the same."
* [[Do Androids Dream?]]: XR ''does''. He even ''talks'' in his sleep.
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* [[Genre Savvy]]/[[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Zurg seems to have taken some notes from the [[Evil Overlord List]] and displays this more often than not. When building a new base, he insists on "no airducts big enough for hero-sized people to crawl through" and on constructing an incinerator as opposed to an escapable trash compactor. There are also times where he sensibly refuses to brag about the details of his evil plans to Buzz. (Not that Buzz still doesn't figure things out with the bare minimum of information.)
** Although he ''does'' have moments of severe [[Genre Blindness]].
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:
** In the pilot, XR is reading ''Victoria's Circuits'' and seems rather annoyed by the fact that Booster keeps distracting him; the magazine reappears multiple times throughout the series.
** When Mira jokingly suggests a bite mark left by NOS-4-A2 could actually be a "robot hicky". Heh.
** "But, as we say on Rhizome, bloom where the sun shines." "I got another idea, Triffid, why don't you stow it where the sun--" "BUZZ!"
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*** Let's not forget when XR is woken up and says "I didn't know she was under warranty!"
** "Let's kick some asteroid.''
** Zurg, yelling at his minions while he's stuck in a power coupling: "Don't just stand there! Hoist! Hoist! ''Lift and separate!''"
** Booster helps XR prep for his psychiatric testing, with an [[Inkblot Test]]:
{{quote|Booster: Ok, What do you see?
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''(last sheet)''
XR: MIRA! Where did ''you'' learn to snake dance? }}
** And let's not forget the episode "Gravitina"
* [[Good Thing You Can Heal|Good Thing You Can Be Repaired]]: XR... though actually, the first time he got destroyed (in the movie) is when he got switched from a near-perfect Space Ranger (miniature copy of Buzz) to his annoying, lovable, nowhere-near-perfect self.
** This trope was XR's intended purpose, though; the [[Little Green Men|LGMs]] say his name stands for "eXperimental Ranger" because they all this stuff they do that's crazy dangerous to test on real people is no problem, because if something goes wrong, XR can be repaired. Commander Nebula expands the acronym as "eXpendable Ranger" because he doesn't much care for the notion of automated Space Rangering.
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* [[Ham-to-Ham Combat]]: Whenever Buzz and Zurg go at it.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: XL after his team-up with NOS-4-A2.
* [[Hive Mind]]: The LGMs are a rare heroic example.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: The way Zurg tends to get his due, especially in the climax of "Lost in Time".
* [[I Like Those Odds]]: (Buzz) "Fast. Risky. I like it."
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** Also present in NOS-4-A2's name. Spell it out phonetically, what do you get? Nosferatu - and considering NOS-4-A2 is designed to look like a certain blood-sucking Transylvanian pest...
* [[Inkblot Test]]: Used several times. Buzz thinks every blot looks like Zurg. Except for a picture of Mira. Who, he muses, helps him fight Zurg.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]:
** <s>Professor Lapton</s> Professor Von Maaaaadmaaan!
** XL: It's a CENTRIFUGATOR!
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* [[Kick Chick]]: Mira.
* [[Kidnapped Scientist]]: The LGM called "Independent Thinker."
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|NOS-4-A2 is put offline several times throughout the series, but his last appearance saw him [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]], [[Family-Unfriendly Death|then screaming and exploding]].}}
* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]]: Buzz Lightyear
* [[Large Ham]]: Zurg. A good example would be the fact the way he describes his <s>Hyper Death Ray</s> '''''HYPER DEATH RAY!'''''
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* [[Love Hurts]]: The look on Mira's face when she realizes that she can't be with Romac as long as he's working for Zurg.
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Gravitina
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Hilariously subverted, and an homage to ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2''.
* [[Machine Monotone]]: XR, until Agent Z blows him up and the [[Little Green Men|LGMs]] put him back together without the aid of the Unimind.
* [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]]: Bonnie Lapton, daughter of Professor Von Madman.
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* [[Mythology Gag]]:
** In the pilot, the LGMs use "The Claw" to bring the Unimind.
** Also in the Christmas episode, there's a girl who resembles Jessie from ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2''.
*** From the same episode:
{{quote|'''Buzz:''' Okay, so you're the ''real'' Santa Claus?
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** One episode begins with the opening of a Pizza Planet.
** At Becky's tea party during the end of Stranger Invasion, Buzz is in a hat and apron that bears an unmistakable resemblance to [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Mrs. Nesbitt]].
* [[Naive Newcomer]]: The Rookies (Mira, Booster, and XR) all serve as this under Buzz.
* [[Never My Fault]]: Many of the villains. XR also rarely takes responsibility for his mistakes.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Strongly averted.
* [[Never the Selves Shall Meet]]: Lampshaded and averted.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Mira, after being repeatedly told to not interfere, drags the other rookies along to follow Buzz in "Shiv Katal". This ends up blowing Buzz's cover as [[The Infiltration|"Shiv"]], greatly endangering the team (they only escaped with outside help), and costing Star Command a very valuable set up for easily transporting defecting Zurg minions.
* [[Noble Male, Roguish Male]]: Booster and XR, respectively.
** Also Buzz and Warp at any given point in their relationship.
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* [[Planet of Hats]]: Tangea. Rhizome. Capital Planet. [[The Red Planet|Planet Z]].
** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] with Jo-Ad, an agricultural planet and the Alliance's biggest food producer; Bathyos, an ocean planet; and Tradeworld, a city-planet like [[Star Wars|Coruscant]] and the galaxy's proclaimed [[Wretched Hive]] of Scum and Villainy.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: [[Badass|Warp]] is voiced by [[Diedrich Bader]]. Yes, [[The Drew Carey Show|that]] Diedrich Bader.
** [[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: XR and Booster most of the time. Nearly always when they're together.
* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: (Zurg) "Innocent politicians?! Don't be oxymoronic!"
* [[The Power of Friendship]]
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{{quote|'''Grub''':...But if I don't get my vacation request form in by 5pm, I'll miss my brother's bachelor party next week!
'''Zurg''': UGH! Which copy is mine, yellow or pink? }}
* [[Punctuated!
** Varg's order to Crumford Lorak -- "You! Bring. TAPE!!"
** Buzz to the LGM "commandoes" -- [[Punctuated!
* [[Punny Name]]: [[Nosferatu|NOS-4-A2]]
* [[Puny Humans]]: Mira's father, the king of Tangea, holds humans in contempt referring to them as monkeys and considers his species to be above them. It is ironic however that in one episode where Buzz's team, save for XR, were [[Devolution Device|reverted back to a more primitive form]], Buzz morphed into a half ape, while Mira became a giant amoeba.
** The Chlorm are even worse, calling all other sapient species "lesser beings", which Mira [[Berserk Button|really hates]].
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* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Natron the First in "Ancient Evil".
* [[Sesquipedalian Smith]]: Reccurring villain Rentwhistle Swack.
* [[She
* [[She's Got Legs]]: Dr. Ozma Furbanna, making [[Distracted by the Sexy|all three males in Team Lightyear gape at her]] when her armor comes off.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** Becky, Booster's friend from Rozwell, appears to be an expy of of Webby from ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]''. It helps that [[Hey, It's That Voice!|they have the same voice too]].
** In one episode, Zurg's attempt to clone the heroes results in kid-chibi duplicates with a bad attitude. Naming Buzz's duplicate Zzub, Zzub then sarcastically retorts that all he did was take the hero's name and [[Backwards Name|spell it backwards]]. The episode in question was written by [[Greg Weisman]] and was a reference to the Thailog storylines in ''[[Gargoyles]]''.
** It’s a tentative connection, but, considering all the show’s throwback’s to [[Star Trek]], could there be another such throwback in King Nova, Mira, and the Tangean Royals? Consider:
*** King Nova ''had'' disapproved of the notion of Mira’s joining Star Command. In ''[[Star Trek: The
*** Just like Sarek, King Nova's attitude towards his child's career choice develops and softens over time, to the point where, in the last time Nova gets a speaking role in the series, the tone of the scene is not unlike Spock's brief conversation with his father at the end of ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]''.
*** Mira, like Spock, is different from the rest of her race (though emphatically ''not'' half-human, as Spock is), and she ''did'' join Star Command against her father's wishes, just like a certain half-Vulcan. Furthermore, she ''can'' sometimes play [[The Spock]] to Buzz's [[The Kirk|Kirk]], though she can just as often be [[The McCoy]], as well.
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* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Mira Nova as the only recurring female.
** In the main cast, yes. There is also the recurring Madam President of the Galactic Alliance.
** Also appearing semi-regularly is Dr. Ozma Furbanna the scientist from Karn [[Blatant Lies|who Buzz does not have a crush on]].
** Same deal with Sally, the waitress at the diner Buzz and team often eat at.
** And Gravitina, who shares a voice actress with Sally.
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* [[Stealth in Space]]: Star Command's cloaking technology is so effective that a person inside a cloaked ship [[Fridge Horror|can't see any bit of it]].
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]]: The Chlorm.
* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: Zurg's general attitude towards his staff, even though he never says it in so many words... "That is, if the freak show known as ''my staff'' can do [[Punctuated!
* [[Take a Third Option]]: A big part of Buzz's ''modus operandi''.
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: Warp. Hard.
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