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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]]''. The Buzz in this show is not a toy, but an actual Space Ranger - remember how ''[[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.]]

 

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=== Tropes: ===

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

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

* [[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.

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

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

* [[Elemental Punch]]: Plasma Boy uses an electrically charged punch on Booster after a really ugly argument with him

* [[The Empire]]: Zurg Empire... which seems to consist entirely of Planet Z and the occasional [[Moon Base]].

** 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.

* [[Fighter, Mage, Thief]]: The three rookies all fit this. Booster (fighter) is absurdly strong and tough, Mira (mage) has found many uses for her ghosting powers, and XR (thief) uses a wide variety of unpredictable tools.

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

* [[Four-Fingered Hands]]: XR's.

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

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: XL after his team-up with NOS-4-A2.

* [[Hive Mind]]: The LGMs are a rare heroic example.

* [[I Like Those Odds]]: (Buzz) "Fast. Risky. I like it."

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Gravitina has a crush on Buzz.

** 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...

* [[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!'''''

* [[Literal Cliff Hanger]]: Buzz, twice in the series.

* [[Little Green Men]]: The LGMs. The people of the planet Rozwell are a play on this trope, as they look the part but act just like 1950's Americans.

* [[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

* [[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."

* [[Mecha-Mooks]]: Hornets, Beetles, and other insect-themed members of Zurg's army.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: NOS-4-A2, energy sucking villain. If you don't get it, it's Leetspeak for [[Our Vampires Are Different|Nosferatu]].

* [[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 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.

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

* [[Oh, the Humanity!]]: Parodied, XR says "Oh, the technology!" when face with [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|robotic carnage]].

** [[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.

* [[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!"

** Varg's order to Crumford Lorak -- "You! Bring. TAPE!!"

** Buzz to the LGM "commandoes" -- [[Punctuated for Emphasis|"This is ''not'' - ''and I repeat, NOT'' - a REVENGE MISSION!"]]

* [[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]].

** 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]]'''''.

** It also helps that Zurg is responsible for most of the recurring villains.

* [[Sesquipedalian Smith]]: Reccurring villain Rentwhistle Swack.

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

* [[Shout-Out]]:

*** 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.

*** The Tangean Royals as a race have pointed ears... and telepathic abilities...

* [[Sissy Villain]]: Um, Zurg. Just ''look'' at the man's reaction to ''bunzel bees''.

** Oh, yeah, and let's not forget Warp's shriek when Mira drops a hornet on him.

* [[Slobs Versus Snobs]]: Tangean Royals VS. Tangean Grounders.

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Mira Nova as the only recurring female.

* [[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.

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

* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: Warp. Hard.

** 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)