Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: Difference between revisions

* [[Boldly Coming]]: XR, on Mira, Sally, or whatever [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]] is nearby.

* [[Brain In A Jar]]: Zurg's brainpods.

** 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.

* [[Can't Get Away With Nuthin']]: And how!

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

* [[The Captain]]: Buzz.

* [[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!}}

** Also, Zurg's [[Skyward Scream|"CURSE YOU, BUZZ LIGHTYEAR!"]]

* [[Celibate Hero]]: Buzz, but only nominally.

* [[The Chew Toy]]: XR.

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Warp and Nos-4-A2.

* [[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-Anything Robot]]: XR.

* [[Do They Know It's Christmas Time?]]

** [[The Big Guy]]: Booster

** [[The Smart Guy]]/[[Kid Appeal Character]]: XR

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

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

* [[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.

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

* [[No Such Thing As Alien Pop Culture]]

*** Not to mention they view all other sapient species as wild animals: keeping them in zoos, using them for product testing, etc.

* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: Mira, as rendered by one animation house.

** Plus the side-effect of being blasted by the Zurgatronic Ray. The mind-controlled Rangers are particularly creepy.

* [[Red Herring]]: The A.F.D., the only piece of machinery that XR has but his evil "brother" XL doesn't. When XL rips it off inside XR, it leaves an empty hole where you usually would have a heart. Can you guess what the A.F.D. is? {{spoiler|It's an ''Air Freshening Device''.}}

* [[She Is All Grown Up]]: Bonnie Lapton in "Eye of the Tempest", Buzz hadn't seen her since she "was this big".

* [[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.

** 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:

* [[Something They Would Never Say]]: How Buzz and Mira figure out that NOS-4-A2 is in control of Star Command.

* [[Squick]]: A fair amount of it, including jelly-like parasites and the two-people-in-one-gooey-blob creature Buzz and Mira become in "The Crawling Flesh," which totally squicks the Rangers out.

* [[The Starscream]]: NOS-4-A2 actually takes over Planet Z from his creator Zurg.

* [[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]].

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

* [[We Will Meet Again]]: (Buzz to Zurg) "But the next time we meet, I'm bringing you down and taking you in."

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

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Mira and Booster do this to Buzz when he shrugs off Bonnie Lapton's feelings for him as a stereotypical "damsel in distress" situation and doesn't even try to take her seriously. Bonnie runs off utterly crushed, as her feelings were quite genuine, and is hurt that once again someone she cares about refuses to take her seriously. It's only after Mira and Booster point out just what Buzz did that he fixes his mistake.

* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: Professor von Madman's a big one to ''[[Forbidden Planet]]''.

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

* [[Villain Decay]]: Warp in "Ancient Evil". In no way does it constitute a [[Badass Decay]].

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Zurg, possibly the most in the climax of "Lost in Time".

** Maybe Zurg stole the word too!

* [[Zeerust]]: Intentionally invoked in the series' aesthetic, even including references to [[Disney Theme Parks|Tomorrowland]] such as Buzz living in the House of the Future or Star Command's close resemblance to Space Mountain.