Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: Difference between revisions

* [[Amazing Freaking Grace]]: On bagpipes. Played by XR. No, seriously.

* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The Valkyran Raiders.

{{quote| "How did you stop wanting to phase through energy?"<br />

"You don't." }}

** More importantly<ref> and this even mentioned in Toy Story</ref>, he's the "sworn enemy of the Galactic Alliance".

* [[Arm Cannon]]: Warp's cybernetic arm can morph into this, and the hornets have cannons ''for'' arms.

{{quote| "Suspect: Torque, wanted in all 50 sectors for terrorism, smuggling, arson and unpaid parking tickets"}}

** In 'The Planet Destroyer,' Zurg cheerfully informs the council of the Galactic Alliance of what life will be like after they follow his only demand of complete surrender, the last of which causes the entire council to gasp in shock:

* [[Boisterous Bruiser|Boisterous]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Booster]]

* [[Blowing a Raspberry]]: XR, once.

* [[Bratty Half Pint]]: XR delves into this.

** The entire plot of an episode when Zurg clones the team, only to find out that clones take time to grow, thus he fields a team of evil adolescents.

** Averted on at least one occasion. XR accidentally mentions a poker game he's going to later, Buzz calls him out on illegal gambling, XR quickly backpedals and tries to make it out as a sting operation, Buzz rolls his eyes knowingly and lets it slide. Besides another one-off joke about it a little later, it's never mentioned again.

* [[Cape Snag]]: Entirely averted. Zurg's cape seems to be for purely dramatic and sometimes [[Large Ham]] purposes only.

* [[Cardboard Prison]]: Lampshaded: One episode has XL and XR switching bodies, with XR ending up going to prison with XL's body. When he flips through XL's list of weapons to try and break out, he finds the following:

{{quote| '''XR:''' Laser beam... acid spray... "Break out of prison"? No WONDER he keeps escaping!}}

* [[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.

* [[Detonation Moon]]: In "Wirewolf"

* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]/[[Evil Genius]]: Zurg purports to be this. To be fair, he's not always far from the mark.

* [[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.

* [[The Dragon]]: Warp to Zurg. A lot of the other villains answered to Zurg, but Warp did so the most frequently.

* [[Drunk On the Dark Side]]: Oh, Zurg just ''loves'' being evil!

** Let's not forget the infamous Nana Zurg.

** Zurg's not the only villain who loves his mommy. XR finds this out about Varg the hard way.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: XL and Warp Darkmatter to XR and Buzz, respectively.

* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Every. Single. Villain.

* [[Face Palm]]: Buzz and XR.

* [[Faked Rip Van Winkle]]

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The '''''HYPER DEATH RAY!''''', apparently provides something 20% worse than death.

** Also Zurg's intention for Buzz in ''The Adventure Begins'':

* [[Fearless Fool]]: Buzz and Mira. Booster and XR are more on the wimpy side, much as they profess to be warriors.

* [[The Federation]]: The Galactic Alliance

** [[The Hero]]: Buzz Lightyear

** [[The Lancer]]/[[The Chick]]: Mira Nova

* [[Flying Car]]: A lot of these, most noticeably Buzz's car from his Academy days.

* [[For the Evulz]]: See [[Drunk On the Dark Side]].

* [[Fur Against Fang]]: [[Recycled in Space|Recycled with ROBOTS!]]

* [[Future Slang]]

* [[Galactic Conqueror]]: Zurg's purpose in life. He actually did take over the galaxy a few times, but the protagonists make sure it never lasts.

* [[World of Ham|Galaxy of Ham]]

* [[Gentle Giant]]: Booster

* [[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.)

'''XR''': "No, she wanted to ''date'' you. But with her, it's pretty much the same thing." }}

* [[Green Aesop]]: Just about any episode located on Rhizome or involving Doctor Triffid.

** In all fairness, Gravitina was always more of an aquamarine...

** Played straight with the college-age, hip Petra Hammerhold.

* [[Kick Chick]]: Mira.

* [[Kidnapped Scientist]]: The LGM called "Independent Thinker."

* [[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!'''''

* [[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

* [[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.

* [[Mass Hypnosis]]: Zurg's [[Mind Control Device|mind control ray]] (from ''The Adventure Begins'') is, technically, an example of this.

* [[Manly Tears]]: A few times, most noticeably in "The Crawling Flesh."

* [[Never Say Die]]: Strongly averted.

* [[Never the Selves Shall Meet]]: Lampshaded and averted.

* [[Noble Male Roguish Male]]: Booster and XR, respectively.

** Also Buzz and Warp at any given point in their relationship.

* [[Not Good With People]]: Depends on the writers, but Buzz tends to have poor people skills.

* [[Not Brainwashed]]: Warp, in the pilot.

* [[Only Child Syndrome]]: XR is the only member of Team Lightyear unaffected by this trope.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Mira in regards to her teammates. Commander Nebula could count too.

** [[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy|Not]] [[Batman the Brave And The Bold (Animation)|anymore]].

* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: XR and Booster most of the time. Nearly always when they're together.

* [[The Power of Friendship]]

* [[Princesses Prefer Pink]]: Guess what color teen!Mira wore in flashbacks?

{{quote| '''''"LIGHTYEAR!"'''''}}

** Once in reverse when Buzz was ANGRY.

* [[Scully Syndrome]]: Buzz again. He often accuses Zurg of being behind every possible misdeed and/or theorizes overly complicated evil plots - sometimes making him look obsessed. However, it is subverted, as Buzz is [[Properly Paranoid|almost always proven right when he does this]].

** One episode is built around this idea, with Buzz claiming what looks like a pen is a key part of Zurg's latest plan. He comes across as so obsessed and on edge, that the others force him to take some downtime. In actuality, the "pen" is the trigger for Zurg's '''''[[Death Ray|HYPER DEATH RAY]]'''''.

* [[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]]:

** 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 (Animation)|Gargoyles]]''.

** It’s a tentative connection, but, considering all the show’s throwback’s to [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]], could there be another such throwback in King Nova, Mira, and the Tangean Royals? Consider:

* [[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 for Emphasis|ONE. THING. RIIIGHT!]]"

* [[Take a Third Option]]: A big part of Buzz's ''modus operandi''.

{{quote| '''Buzz:''' How do I safely remove this ''thing''... from my neck?<br />

'''Warp:''' If you're referring to your head, I completely understand your desire to exchange it for a new one. }}

'''LGM:''' More death. }}

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: The Grounder bounty hunter duo.

* [[Token Human]]: Buzz... well, he's [[Ambiguously Human|probably human]], anyway.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Sooner or later, ''everybody'' fits this trope. Good thing [[Everybody Lives|it's a kids show]].

** There's also "sweet mother of Venus." Golly.

* [[Unwinnable Training Simulation]]: Level 10 in the pilot. Mira beats Buzz's record, who can beat only Level 9.

* [[Villainesses Want Heroes]]: Gravatina to Buzz

* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: The '''''[[Overly Long Gag|HYPER DEATH RAY!]]''''' (insert evil music here)

* [[Wham Line]]: "Lightyear, I've been on Zurg's payroll since the Academy."

** Buzz's reaction is the saddest [[Heroic BSOD]] in the entire series.

* [[Where's the Kaboom]]: "Where's my big universe-altering explosion?!"

* [[William Shatner]]: He speaks the song in the movie’s credits.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Professor von Madman as a human/crystal cyborg.