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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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** 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.
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* [[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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* [[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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''(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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* [[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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* [[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!"
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* [[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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