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| 7 | [[caption-width-right:350:''[[CatchPhrase To infinity and beyond!]]'']] |
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| 9 | ''Buzz Lightyear of Star Command'' was a 2000-2001 [[WesternAnimation animated]] [[AnimatedAdaptation television show]] from Creator/DisneyTelevisionAnimation as part of [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]]'s ''Creator/OneSaturdayMorning'' block and Creator/{{UPN}}'s sibling block, ''One Too'', based on the character Buzz Lightyear from the ''Franchise/ToyStory'' franchise. The Buzz in this show is not a toy, but the actual Space Ranger - remember how ''Toy Story'' alluded to a ShowWithinAShow 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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| 11 | The story chronicles the adventures of Buzz Lightyear (initially played by Creator/TimAllen reprising his role from ''Toy Story'' in the PilotMovie before being taken over by Creator/PatrickWarburton in the series proper), an agent of the galactic peacekeeping force Star Command, who frequently battles the Evil Emperor Zurg (Creator/WayneKnight) and other threats to the galaxy. Buzz is accompanied in his missions by his partners on Team Lightyear: Mira Nova (Creator/NicoleSullivan), the blue-skinned, [[LadyOfWar ass-kicking princess]] of Tangea; Booster (Creator/StephenFurst), the trademark [[TheBigGuy big lovable lug]]; and XR (Creator/LarryMiller[=/=]Creator/NeilFlynn), the wisecracking, fast-talking RobotBuddy. |
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| 13 | Not to be confused with ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'', a {{prequel}} film that explores the origins of Buzz as a space ranger. Despite being centered on Buzz, ''Lightyear'' has no relation to the show beyond director Angus [=MacLane=] describing it as a 1980s-era movie that the show served as a DenserAndWackier 1990s-era adaptation of, though Pixar has [[CanonDiscontinuity long disowned]] the series beforehand. |
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| 15 | !!Buzz Lightyear of Trope Command: |
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| 17 | * TwentyPercentMoreAwesome: Zurg's '''''HYPER DEATH RAY''''' causes [[FateWorseThanDeath a fate twenty percent worse than death]], known as '''''HYPER DEATH'''''! |
| 18 | * AbortedArc: "The Shape Stealer" ended with the titular creature remaining at large, yet it never returned for another episode. |
| 19 | * AccidentalMisnaming: Despite his habit of transforming into one, Plasma Boy hates being called Plasma Monster. |
| 20 | * TheAce: |
| 21 | ** 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. |
| 22 | ** Buzz too, but that goes without saying. |
| 23 | * AffablyEvil: Every villain has moments of being cordial toward the heroes, but Zurg most often. |
| 24 | * AffectionateParody: The show is quite clearly a warm love letter to MerchandiseDriven action cartoons in general, given that it is intended to be the in-universe show that the Buzz Lightyear toys in the ''Franchise/ToyStory'' movies are based on. |
| 25 | * AgriWorld: Jo-ad, [[BigFun Booster's]] home planet, is dedicated entirely to agriculture, resembling the American Midwest and specializing in growing gigantic produce, with the majority of the inhabitants being farmers. It provides the food supplies for Capital Planet. Booster first meets Buzz when Zurg tried to steal Jo-ad's entire crop so that he could starve them into submission. |
| 26 | * AirVentPassageway: Both lampshaded and subverted in "Stranger Invasion", where Zurg points out that enabling his enemies to crawl through air vents is just asking for trouble. |
| 27 | * AlliterativeName: |
| 28 | ** Keno Kentrix |
| 29 | ** Vicki Vortex |
| 30 | ** Lardak Lurdak |
| 31 | ** Flip Faxtoner [[note]]Real name [[{{Brainwashed}} Buzz Lightyear]][[/note]] |
| 32 | * AllThereInTheManual: Before the pilot was released, ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' had a comic that showed how Buzz Lightyear saved Mira's people, which led to her joining the Space Rangers, which she briefly references in the pilot. The story is also the subject of Mira's flashback in the flashback episode. |
| 33 | %%* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs[=/=]StormingTheCastle: NOS-4-A2 is really good at this, pulling it on both Star Command and Planet Z. %%Please add more context and split these tropes into their own examples instead of lumping them together |
| 34 | * AlternateContinuity: To ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'', per Angus [=MacLane=]'s comments. |
| 35 | * AlternateUniverse: In another universe, Buzz Lightyear is evil and has taken over all power, Zurg is [[BurgerFool the burger guy at Cosmo's]], and all other characters are DarkerAndEdgier due to their traumatic experiences. |
| 36 | * AlwaysNight: This is kind of played with. There are episodes that take place during the day, but there are also episodes that are set in the dark, such as "Wirewolf" and "Haunted Moon". It's also sort of a JustifiedTrope in that most of the show takes place in outer space. |
| 37 | * AlwaysSecondBest: Ty Parsec resents Buzz for being better than him at everything. |
| 38 | * AmazingFreakingGrace: On bagpipes. Played by XR. No, seriously. |
| 39 | * AmazonBrigade: The Valkyran Raiders from "42" are all female warriors. |
| 40 | * AmnesiaDanger: "Mindwarp". [[spoiler: Buzz is brainwashed into thinking he works for Norbert Klerm, and Team Lightyear has to snap him out of it before they're taken out by Klerm's robots.]] |
| 41 | * AnAssKickingChristmas: "Holiday Time". It's a generic "villain steals Christmas" plot with an ''awesome'' fight scene between Zurg and Buzz Lightyear featuring BulletTime and backed by a pounding techno track |
| 42 | * AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing: XR the robot is who he is because the little green men were off their group mind when they rebuilt him. |
| 43 | * AndIMustScream: In "The Shape Stealer", Zurg's minions create a cloak-shaped organism that possesses people by wrapping itself around them. Two of the creature's victims (a bus driver and Booster) mention that people possessed by the Shape Stealer are still aware of their actions and can't do anything about it. |
| 44 | * AndImTheQueenOfSheba: "Stress Test" has Buzz say "And I'm a fluffy bunny" in response to Mira telling him that what he assumes is part of Zurg's latest plan is just a pen. |
| 45 | * AnimationBump: The direct-to-video movie, as well as several episodes. |
| 46 | * ArchEnemy: |
| 47 | ** Zurg is the sworn enemy of the Galactic Alliance, but also he considers Buzz his personal nemesis. |
| 48 | ** XR has two, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent NOS-4-A2]] and XL. |
| 49 | * AreWeGettingThis: After Buzz finishes his PatrickStewartSpeech, Zurg makes sure it has been captured on camera so that he can laugh at it later. |
| 50 | * ArmCannon: Warp's cybernetic arm can morph into a cannon or flamethrower, and the Hornets have cannons ''for'' arms. |
| 51 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: |
| 52 | ** Torque as described by a computer: |
| 53 | ---> "Suspect: Torque, wanted in all 50 sectors for terrorism, smuggling, arson and unpaid parking tickets" |
| 54 | ** 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: |
| 55 | ---> "As citizens of my empire, you will all be fitted with the latest in subservient fashion. Brain control modules will make you all mindless drones in the service of my evil. Your 167 hour work week will consist of grueling labor in lunchbox-sized cubicles that allow zero privacy. Oh! And no dental benefits. |
| 56 | ** Zurg's Christmas Offensive: sabotage the fleet, bust out the prisoners of PC-7, and steal Buzz's newspaper. Lampshaded by XR. |
| 57 | ** Zurg's Grub spy revealing his sabotage of Star Command: |
| 58 | --->'''Buzz:''' Alright, Grub, how much damage have you done?\ |
| 59 | '''Grub:''' Um, let's see... I blew up your orbitron regulators so you'll crash into Capitol Planet. And I destroyed your power supply so you can't correct your orbit. Oh yeah... and I shrunk your commander's spacesuit. ''(snickers)'' |
| 60 | ** Zurg lamenting the destruction Mira tricked him into causing with the titular spaceship in "The Starthought". |
| 61 | --->'''Zurg:''' My beautiful ship! My beautiful palace! My Troll doll collection! |
| 62 | * ArtificialLimbs: Several characters have artificial limbs. For example, Nebula has a bionic peg leg, Warp has a robotic arm, and Cosmo has a robotic hand. |
| 63 | * ArtShift: At least part of the intro is animated by Creator/{{Pixar}}, to drive home the ShowWithinAShow aspect of the series. |
| 64 | ** Also prevalent in Creator/ToonCity's episodes due to their digital coloring (in contrast to the cel animation used in other episodes). |
| 65 | * AscendedFanboy: Booster was just a janitor with high hopes of being a Space Ranger before he became one. |
| 66 | ** Inverted with Petra and Plasma Boy in "The Plasma Monster". These two when they first appear respectively express their disdain for the Space Rangers, but by the end, they ended up joining the Space Ranger Academy. |
| 67 | --->'''Plasma Boy:''' You know Booster? I used to think Space Rangers were whack. But now I see you're pretty dope.\ |
| 68 | '''Mira:''' Is that a good thing?\ |
| 69 | '''Petra:''' Yeah. |
| 70 | * AsideGlance: A fair number of characters have given certain glances to the audience. |
| 71 | ** In "Rookie of the Year", near the end, Buzz gives a 'what can you do?' shrug and smile after his team starts bickering again despite learning to cooperate. |
| 72 | ** An LGM gives this to the audience at one point in "At Large on a Small Planet". |
| 73 | * AsteroidThicket: Flying through a bunch of asteroids happens in three episodes - "Tag Team," "Downloaded," and "Super Nova". |
| 74 | * BadassArmfold: This applies to quite a few characters on the show-Team Lightyear, Zurg, Nebula, Ty, Warp... |
| 75 | * BadassBoast: Buzz in "The Adventure Begins" after Zurg declares victory: "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Evil. Never. Wins.]]" |
| 76 | * BadassBookworm: Professor Triffid is fairly competent fighter but only when augmented by his OrganicTechnology space suit. |
| 77 | * BadassLongcoat: Buzz in "Conspiracy" - he even wears a fedora briefly. |
| 78 | ** The villain Torque sports a brown duster. |
| 79 | * BaitAndSwitch: Booster's flashback in "Root of Evil" subverts the FantasyForbiddingFather trope: |
| 80 | -->'''Booster's Father:''' Booster [[EmbarrassingMiddleName Sinclair]] Munchapper?! What have I told you about playing Space Rangers in the irrigation tunnels? Without me? *Hops into the tunnels with a Young Booster and his friend, Buster* To the launch tubes! |
| 81 | * BarbieDollAnatomy: "The Crawling Flesh" features some [=LGMs=] being seen in the nude. They do not have visible genitals. |
| 82 | * BeardOfEvil: Evil Buzz from the AlternateUniverse has a beard. |
| 83 | * BelligerentSexualTension: Buzz and Ozma tend to be hostile toward each other, but are strongly suggested to be attracted to one another. |
| 84 | * BetaTestBaddie: XL steals parts and adds them to his being because he feels incomplete. |
| 85 | * BetweenMyLegs: |
| 86 | ** In "42", two Valkyran Raiders between Mira's legs. |
| 87 | ** In "Wirewolf", a sentry robot between Ty's legs. |
| 88 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Booster may be a jovial goofball, but he is not to be underestimated. When the chips are down, he can be very dangerous to the bad guys. |
| 89 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Zurg comes off as incredibly goofy at times, but the series does show that he's capable of causing immense destruction and cruelty. |
| 90 | * BigBad: Zurg is the show's main villain. |
| 91 | * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: The climax of the PilotMovie has Buzz's new partners come to the rescue.]] |
| 92 | * BigNo: Booster's reaction to being told by Petra that they can be JustFriends. |
| 93 | * BigWhat: In the 3D opening to the movie, Rex has this reaction when when [[TheGadfly Woody]] tells Buzz they're not going to watch the video itself but only the commercials. |
| 94 | * BizarreAlienBiology: Mira and Booster have some odd organic quirks sometimes. Booster in particular, for example, manages to break out of MindControl by virtue of his brain not being entirely in his ''head''. [[AccidentalInnuendo Try not to think too hard about it]]. |
| 95 | * TheBlindLeadingTheBlind: In the pilot, when the Uni-Mind is out of commission, the [[LittleGreenMen LGMs]] are next to useless; nonetheless, in spite of being disoriented in this unfamiliar state of extreme individuality, they soldier on trying to rebuild XR, which results in his distinctive personality. |
| 96 | * BlowingARaspberry: XR blows a raspberry to NOS-4-A2 in "The Slayer". |
| 97 | * BodyWipe: |
| 98 | ** "Stress Test" Zurg's face fills the screen when he forces Dr. Animus to give him his pen |
| 99 | ** "Opposites Attract" With Buzz, when he wakes up and walks out of his house not realizing his head grew. |
| 100 | * BoldlyComing: XR, on Mira, Sally, or whatever GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe is nearby. |
| 101 | * BrainInAJar: Zurg's brainpods are robots containing brains. |
| 102 | * BrattyHalfPint: The entire plot of "Clone Rangers", where Zurg clones the team, only to find out that clones take time to grow, thus he fields a team of evil kids. |
| 103 | * BreadEggsMilkSquick: This line from "Haunted Moon" when Buzz finds an old ship after his was destroyed during a mission to deflect a comet. |
| 104 | -->'''Buzz''': Power, on! Magneto engaged! Right engine! Left engine! Thrust stabilizers...functioning! Throttle! Icy hand! |
| 105 | * BrickJoke: In e "Tag Team", when Buzz comes to after falling unconscious after crashing into some Pedian slug guano while chasing Warp, he jokes about his suit having to be burned after Commander Nebula says he can't have it back. At the end, it's revealed they did indeed have to burn his suit. |
| 106 | * ButterFace: Gravitina is a MsFanservice, save for her comically oversized cranium. |
| 107 | * CameBackWrong: XR's personality change from a standard robot to a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} is the result of the [=LGM=]s trying to rebuild him without help from the Unimind. |
| 108 | * CantGetAwayWithNuthin: |
| 109 | ** 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. |
| 110 | * CapeSnag: Entirely averted. Zurg's cape seems to be for purely dramatic and sometimes LargeHam purposes only. |
| 111 | * TheCaptain: Buzz tends to be the team's commanding officer. |
| 112 | * CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth: Buzz is a straightforward example of a space-themed hero. |
| 113 | * CardboardPrison: Lampshaded in "Head Case". The 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: |
| 114 | -->'''XR:''' Laser beam... acid spray... "Break out of prison"? So THAT explains how he keeps coming back! |
| 115 | * CardCarryingVillain: Zurg constantly describes himself and his intentions as evil. |
| 116 | * CastingGag: |
| 117 | ** Eon and Era of the Chlorm are voiced by the late Jonathan Harris and Bill Mumy, who both previously worked together on ''Series/LostInSpace''. |
| 118 | ** Booster is voiced by Creator/StephenFurst, who played the similarly NiceGuy Vir Cotto in ''Series/BabylonFive''. Incidentally, the previously mentioned Bill Mumy played Lennier on the same show. |
| 119 | ** The traffic reporter at the beginning of "Speed Trap" was voiced by real-life traffic reporter [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_York Jennifer York]]. |
| 120 | * CasualDangerDialogue: 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. |
| 121 | * CatchPhrase: Buzz's ever-popular "[[SerialEscalation To infinity, AND BEYOND!]]" |
| 122 | ** Buzz's signature catchphrase has had it's moments being [[BorrowedCatchphrase used and changed by other characters]]. See Mangled Catch Phrase for such examples. |
| 123 | ** Also, Zurg's [[SkywardScream "CURSE YOU, BUZZ LIGHTYEAR!"]] |
| 124 | * CelebrityParadox: A franchise-wide one. The DTV movie 'The Adventure Begins' opens with Andy's toys watching the very same movie on VHS... with the Toy Story logo in the corner. Obviously the ''Franchise/ToyStory'' franchise can't possibly exist alongside Andy's actual toys... [[EpilepticTrees Unless they're Toy Story merchandise that came to life...]] |
| 125 | * CharacterDevelopment: For a series so heavy on StatusQuoIsGod, the character development of King Nova is impressive. With each chronological appearance, his attitude towards off-worlders, Star Command, and Mira's career choice softens more and more. See ShoutOut. |
| 126 | ** Ty's attitude towards Buzz changes too. In "Wirewolf", he was grouchy and didn't want to interact with Buzz. But in "Revenge of the Monsters", he was friendly and accepted Buzz's friendship. See the [[Heartwarming/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand Heartwarming Moments page]] |
| 127 | * CharacterTics: Quite a few! Ty's excessive blinking, XR's fidgeting when he's nervous or scared, etc. |
| 128 | * ChekhovsGun: The [=LGM=] known as "Independent Thinker"'s oven mitts in "Star Smasher" are this. When Buzz has to get the sun out of the black hole created by Zurg, it turns out that the oven mitts turn into a protective suit that shields the wearer from extreme heat. |
| 129 | * TheChewToy: XR constantly gets blown to pieces. |
| 130 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Warp and NOS-4-A2 will betray anyone to save their own skins. |
| 131 | * [[MidBattleTeaBreak Combat Intermission]]: While Team Lightyear was having a scuffle with a mutant eggplant in "Root Of Evil", XR politely asks the victim family to borrow one of their dining chairs while the action has seemingly calmed down, which after, XR returns to the fight and [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl goes WWE Style on the Eggplant with said chair.]] |
| 132 | --> '''XR''': *Exits Kitchen where Buzz, Mira And Booster are fighting a mutant Eggplant* Hey! *chuckles* Everything's under control, I just need to borrow this for one second. *chuckles*. |
| 133 | --> '''XR''': *goes back into the Kitchen* [[SuddenlyShouting YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME?! HOW DO YOU LIKE THIS PURPLEPUSS?!]] |
| 134 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: 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. |
| 135 | --> '''Warp''': What plot? You think Zurg is behind every [[CatUpATree kitten stuck up a tree!]]\ |
| 136 | '''Buzz''': The fiend! Why can't he leave kitty-cats out of his nefarious schemes? |
| 137 | ** When spotting a space tour bus of "looky-loos" [[TooDumbtoLive approaching a NOS-4-A2-possessed space station with cameras flashing:]] |
| 138 | --> '''Mira''': What do those people think they're ''doing?'' |
| 139 | --> '''XR''': Yeah! Everybody knows a flash doesn't work beyond ten feet! |
| 140 | * CompressedHair: Mira, whenever she wears her space hood. We only ever see her tuck her hair in ''once'', and it really looks like the hair below her jawline just ''disappears''. |
| 141 | * ConservationOfNinjutsu: Lampshaded when Buzz and XR find themselves facing cleaning robots after they freeze Booster and Mira. XR reassures him that the robot cannot defeat the two robots alone...only for many other cleaning robots to appear. |
| 142 | * CoolOldGuy: Commander Nebula, especially that one time he rescues Team Lightyear. |
| 143 | * CouchGag: The CG opening segments that take place in Andy's room have multiple variations, from Zurg being in the group of toys and popping Buzz with nerf balls, to Buzz knocking the other toys down with his wings, to Buzz hitting the TV and sliding off it. The montage that follows is also different for each one. |
| 144 | * CrazyEnoughToWork: Buzz's and Mira's plans tend to be this. While on the odd episode, XR and Booster can pull such plans off. |
| 145 | * TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In the episode "Stress Test" everybody thinks Buzz has gone off the deep end when he insists they've foiled Zurg's latest plan by stealing one of his pens from a transport bus. Said pen later turns out to be a key component of Zurg's '''''HYPER DEATH RAY!!!'''''. In this case, it was completely unintentional; Buzz had ''no way'' of knowing it when he picked the pen up. |
| 146 | * DaChief: Commander Nebula |
| 147 | * DatingCatwoman: Gravitina has a thing for Buzz. |
| 148 | ** Unfortunately for Gravitina, it's not reciprocated, leading to a combo funny and heartwarming in ''Opposites Attract'': |
| 149 | --->'''Buzz''': Yes Gravitina, [[FantasticAesop you may conquer worlds, but you must learn that you cannot bend the will of men]]. Gravitina, you're a very, very [[{{beat}} ...]] [[CannotTellALie 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!\ |
| 150 | '''Gravitina''': Really?\ |
| 151 | '''Buzz''': Sure! And when they let him out of [[AxCrazy that tiny little room they've got him locked up in]], he'll move the heavens to find you, [[ThePowerOfLove because that's what love is]]. In the meantime, you keep that pretty little nose of yours clean. |
| 152 | ** In a later episode, she seems have gotten the best of both worlds by getting into a relationship with [[MirrorUniverse Evil Buzz Lightyear]], but he turns on her and the original Buzz saves her, with her deciding in the end that she prefers the original Buzz. |
| 153 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Professor Triffid of Rhizome gets to save the day in "Dirty Work". |
| 154 | * DeathWorld: Welcome to the planet [[GardenOfEvil Karn]]! [[EverythingTryingToKillYou Watch your step]]. |
| 155 | * DebutQueue: The series starts with Buzz in the first episode and introduces the rest of Team Lightyear as the first three episodes go on. |
| 156 | * DemotedToExtra: The rookies of Team Lightyear in "War and Peace and War," the ostensible finale for the series. Each rookie gets only a handful of lines - the story focuses on Buzz and his crusade to learn the truth. |
| 157 | * DenserAndWackier: As Angus [=MacLane=] clarified, ''BLOSC'' is this in relation to its parent movie, ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}''. Said film, though with many humorous moments, was largely a serious time-travel fare with Buzz struggling with his own desire to finish the mission and a nightmarish take on Zurg. The cartoon, however, was driving by {{Running Gag}}s and LampshadeHanging, and dealt with more cartoonish situations (i.e. Zurg making an entire death ray powered by ''a pen''). |
| 158 | * DeskJockey: Commander Nebula repeatedly and loudly states that he ''hates'' the fact that his rank forces him off the front lines and into paperwork. He's often shown fleeing his own semi-intelligent desk just to avoid more tedious form-filing. |
| 159 | * {{Determinator}}: Quite a few of these, but perhaps most notably in the pilot, "Nos-4-A2," and "Wirewolf": |
| 160 | ** In the pilot, it takes Buzz's capture and the revelation of Warp's true nature to convince him that he needs a partner... "or two... or ''three''." |
| 161 | ** In "Nos-4-A2," [[spoiler: XR overcomes his "brainwashing" when Booster shows him the work order signed by Commander Nebula that gave XR life.]] |
| 162 | ** In "Wirewolf," [[spoiler: Buzz's apology to Ty Parsec gets past Ty's werewolf nature and reaches his heart - Ty soon returns to his human self.]] |
| 163 | * DetonationMoon: In "Wirewolf", Mira and Booster destroy the moon of Canis Lunis to return Ty Parsec to normal. |
| 164 | %%* DiabolicalMastermind[=/=]EvilGenius: Zurg purports to be this. To be fair, he's not always far from the mark. %%Please add more context and split these tropes into their own examples instead of lumping them together |
| 165 | * DisneyVillainDeath: Evil Buzz Lightyear. [[spoiler: However, the last seconds of the episode show him escaping, implying that he might have survived.]] |
| 166 | * DittoAliens: The Little Green Men. Lampshaded once where an [[LittleGreenMen LGM]] mistook Mira for Booster, and when corrected, said "Whatever. You all look the same." |
| 167 | * DoAnythingRobot: XR has a lot of gadgets built into him. |
| 168 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There were quite a few examples of this trope. |
| 169 | ** One instance has XR looking down on top of a tall building in "The Return of XL". That's not so bad at first, but when you think about the angst he was feeling earlier, one might think he was getting ready to commit suicide. |
| 170 | ** When Mira discovers phasing through energy reactors gives her powers a supercharge, it becomes a shockingly realistic depiction of drug addiction. |
| 171 | * TheDragon: Warp to Zurg. A lot of the other villains answered to Zurg, but Warp did so the most frequently. |
| 172 | * DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Oh, Zurg just ''loves'' being evil! |
| 173 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: At one point in "The Beasts of Karn", if you look closely, you'll see that Buzz and XR are ogling at Dr. Ozma Furbanna's backside. |
| 174 | * ElementalPunch: Plasma Boy uses an electrically charged punch on Booster after a really ugly argument with him. |
| 175 | * TheEmpire: Zurg Empire... which seems to consist entirely of Planet Z and the occasional MoonBase. |
| 176 | * EnemyMine: Buzz and Zurg team up in one episode to fight aliens who plan to conquer the entire galaxy including Zurg's home. This is even foreshadowed when it is shown that both of them are upset that their allies and henchmen are both abandoning their weapons. |
| 177 | ** Buzz and Warp teamed up once to find out who planted tracking devices in them while they were still in the academy. |
| 178 | ** Buzz and Warp later teamed up again in 'Ancient Evil'. |
| 179 | * EnfantTerrible: The Clone Rangers, being evil clones of the heroes who also happen to be way younger than them. |
| 180 | * EngineeredPublicConfession: Buzz tricks Guzelian into admitting to everyone that his agenda for promoting peace was a ruse to make it easier for his people to invade in "War and Peace and War". |
| 181 | * EurekaMoment: The one time Zurg and Buzz speak in sync, complete with a sudden flash of lightning. |
| 182 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: "What? An Evil Emperor can't have a mother?!" |
| 183 | ** Let's not forget the infamous Nana Zurg. |
| 184 | ** Zurg's not the only villain who loves his mommy. XR finds this out about Varg the hard way. |
| 185 | * EvilCounterpart: XL and Warp Darkmatter to XR and Buzz, respectively. |
| 186 | ** Subverted, then Averted with Booster's childhood friend, Buster. He initially assists Zurg with his mutant vegetable plan until near the end of "Root of Evil". Even the last line of the episode continues with the subversion and aversion as Buster states that he and Booster aren't friends, but best friends. |
| 187 | * EvilDuo: The Grounder bounty hunter duo are rarely seen apart. |
| 188 | * EvilerThanThou: Both NOS-4-A2 and Evil Buzz have been this to Zurg before, successfully stealing the role of primary threat from him and being taken [[KnightOfCerebus far more seriously]] than he is. NOS is also this to XL when they team up. Enough so that XL ends up reforming to stop him. |
| 189 | * EvilIsHammy: Just about every villain is a dramatic ham, but Zurg takes the cake. |
| 190 | * EvilIsNotWellLit: Then again, what else do you expect when the walls are ''purple''? |
| 191 | * EvilMinions: Zurg has a whole staff of bug-like aliens and brains in jars to act as his researchers, technicians and all around servants. Because Zurg has already an army of drones, they are allowed to be weak and cowardly. |
| 192 | * EvilOverlord: Zurg |
| 193 | ** Who has read ''some'' of the EvilOverlordList but still could use a refresher from time to time. |
| 194 | * EvilPaysBetter: Warp Darkmatter's prime motivation is that he finds being on Zurg's side to be more profitable. |
| 195 | * EvilTowerOfOminousness: Zurg's palace is a giant sinister-looking tower. |
| 196 | * EvilTwin: Both in the usual sense (ie. an alternate universe counterpart), and from a set of clones created by Zurg. |
| 197 | * EvilWelcomesDefectors: PlayedForLaughs when Emperor Zurg takes over a planet Roswell and happily accepts the traitorous resident who offered allegiance as an evil henchman after he played up his negative traits to impress Zurg. |
| 198 | * EyeTake: A number of characters do this, but Ty takes the cake when he first fights off NOS-4-A2! |
| 199 | * FacePalm: Buzz and XR will sometimes facepalm whenever someone makes a really dumb mistake. Mira, Ty, Warp, and Commander Nebula join in occasionally. |
| 200 | * FakedRipVanWinkle: "Lost in Time" had Zurg deceive Buzz into believing he had ended up centuries in the future after being put into a state of suspended animation as a ploy to trick him into revealing Star Command's secrets. |
| 201 | * FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: NOS-4-A2 in some scenes [[spoiler:and Ty's transformation into Wirewolf.]] |
| 202 | * FantasticRacism: Most Tangeans openly show contempt and distaste for any other species, with Mira and Fop being exceptions. |
| 203 | ** As well as the Chlorm aliens who seem to think every species aside from them is a [[PunyEarthlings moronic animal]]. Such as the episode they kidnapped high ranking officials to stick them in a zoo. |
| 204 | ** One episode focused on Team Lightyear finding a group of citizens stranded on a planet inhabited by creatures that destroyed any technology but the most basic tools. Naturally the gruff leader turns out to be controlling the actually mechanical aliens in order to keep the people dependent on him. As it turns out, he himself is a robot with a pathological hatred for organics because [[spoiler: he used to work as a stock boy at a grocery store and didn't like being bossed around.]] Even after his defeat he continues to rant to Star Command's robots about how they need to rebel, only to be shut down by XR. |
| 205 | ** A rather large group of aquatic Bathyosans take great offense at air-breathers living on their world. |
| 206 | * FateWorseThanDeath: The '''''HYPER DEATH RAY!''''', which apparently provides something 20% worse than death. |
| 207 | ** Also Zurg's intention for Buzz in ''The Adventure Begins'': |
| 208 | --->"I'm not going to kill you. Nooo. No, I have a much more delicious idea. I'm going to take the galaxy's greatest hero and [[{{Brainwashed}} turn him into me]]." |
| 209 | * AFatherToHisMen: Commander Nebula, even to XR and XL who decide he is dad based on approving their construction. Buzz is also this to his team. |
| 210 | * FearlessFool: Buzz and Mira. Booster and XR are more on the wimpy side, much as they profess to be warriors. |
| 211 | * TheFederation: The Galactic Alliance is a benign union between all the planets. |
| 212 | * FighterMageThief: 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. |
| 213 | * {{Flanderization}}: A cross-media example in the ''Toy Story'' universe. The Buzz Lightyear of the movie was a LargeHam when he got passionate about his job, but in spite of treating being a SpaceRanger as SeriousBusiness, he still showed emotions of sadness, regret, fear, and annoyance while not hamming it up. The cartoon amped Buzz's hamminess as far as possible, to the point he's rarely ''not'' giving Creator/WilliamShatner a run for his money. |
| 214 | * FlyingCar: A lot of these, most noticeably Buzz's car from his Academy days. |
| 215 | * FlyoverCountry: Jo-Ad is a [[PlanetOfHats flyover]] ''[[PlanetOfHats planet]]'', populated with folksy, rural farmer types with Midwest accents. |
| 216 | * ForTheEvulz: Zurg doesn't usually seem to have a motivation for his misdeeds and for the most part just does what he does because he finds it fun. |
| 217 | * FourFingeredHands: XR and Booster both have four-fingered hands. |
| 218 | * FriendshipMoment: There's quite a number of moments where friendships between characters shine through, most notably with Team Lightyear, and with Ty and Buzz. |
| 219 | * FriendToAllChildren: Buzz somewhat. He tells stories of his adventures to them and looks out for them a lot. |
| 220 | * FunnyRobot: XR was created to be a serious space ranger. However, his HiveMind creators being mentally separated during his first reconstruction resulted in him becoming a PG-rated version of [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender.]] He's conniving, cowardly, and constantly hitting on girls, both organic and mechanical. Nonetheless, he's still a hero when the chips are down. |
| 221 | * FurAgainstFang: Subverted; [=NOS-4-A2=] can actually ''create'' Wirewolves by biting humans while in the proximity of a kind of moonstone. [[spoiler: Double Subverted in his final appearance however; Ty the Wirewolf ends up killing [=NOS-4-A2=] by throwing him against a protruding spike of debris, killing the vampire once and for all.]] |
| 222 | * FutureSlang: The most notable example on this show is people using "Craters" [[UnusualEuphemism as an expletive]]. |
| 223 | * GalacticConqueror: Zurg's purpose in life. He actually did take over the galaxy a few times, but the protagonists make sure it never lasts. |
| 224 | * GRatedDrug: |
| 225 | ** Mira can ghost through energy which, [[RadiationInducedSuperpowers in true comic book fashion]], gives her extreme powers... but also leaves her craving the next "power-up". It actually parallels real drug addictions, since she 1) crashed really hard at the episodes climax (an inopportune comedown or Overdose metaphor), and 2) according to her father who also used to phase through reactors, now has to deal with an addiction for the rest of her life. |
| 226 | ** One episode had a depressed XR chugging multiple cans of 10W40 oil at a bar, (briefly) showing classic signs of intoxication, and only stopping when Buzz comes in and intervenes. ("Why you getting [[UnusualEuphemism lubricated]] fifteen minutes to patrol launch?") Since oil is presumably necessary for his functions, this may overlap with DrunkOnMilk. |
| 227 | * GentleGiant: Booster is a big guy with a big heart. Zurg even addresses him as such in "Lost in Time". |
| 228 | * GodzillaThreshold: In "Super Nova", Mira suggests ghosting into a reactor in order to prevent a meltdown. Buzz asks her if she has any idea what ghosting into a reactor would even do to her, and she says no, but it has to be better than blowing up. Buzz agrees. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome It was, in fact, better than blowing up, but it resulted in Mira developing an intense energy-ghosting addiction, and she dealt with the consequences of this decision for the rest of the episode, and, it's implied, the rest of her life]]. |
| 229 | * TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin: Buzz would wholeheartedly argue this and evidence shows he's right. The inversion behind this conceit is the direct reason his evil counterpart is such a threat and seemingly has JokerImmunity. He's a paragon of equal stature to Buzz from a parallel universe where evil always wins. In fact, it seems the only reason that universe can manage a turnaround is because Evil Buzz is no longer present within it. |
| 230 | * GoodThingYouCanHeal: 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. |
| 231 | ** This trope was XR's intended purpose, though; the [[LittleGreenMen LGMs]] say his name stands for "eXperimental Ranger" because all this stuff they do that's crazy dangerous to test on real people is no problem for XR, because if something goes wrong, he can be repaired. Commander Nebula expands the acronym as "eXpendable Ranger" because he doesn't much care for the notion of automated Space Rangering. |
| 232 | * GoThroughMe: Buzz invokes this in "Speed Trap" |
| 233 | --->'''Booster:'''Uh, Buzz? He's not stopping. |
| 234 | --->'''Buzz:'''He'll stop. |
| 235 | --->'''[=XR=]:'''I hate to be a nay-sayer - goodness knows, it's not my way - but we're gonna be smashed like a bug on their windshield, so maybe we should move, huh? How about that? |
| 236 | --->'''Buzz:'''Negative, Ranger. |
| 237 | --->'''Mira:'''Um... Buzz? |
| 238 | --->'''Buzz:''' [[OhCrap He's not gonna stop!]] |
| 239 | * GravityMaster: Gravitina, the "Mistress of Mass and all its Attraction". Notably, her powers made her head roughly the size of a go-kart. |
| 240 | * GreenAesop: Just about any episode located on Rhizome or involving Doctor Triffid. |
| 241 | * GreenRocks: Literally even! The green moon of Canis Lunis, when combined with NOS-4-A2's bite, can [[spoiler: transform Ty into a wirewolf.]] |
| 242 | * GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: |
| 243 | ** Mira and Gravitina are both attractive aliens with blue skin, with Gravitina leaning closer to an aquamarine shade, but the idea is the same. |
| 244 | ** The college-age, hip Petra Hammerhold is also a beautiful alien and actually has green skin like the trope's name. |
| 245 | ** Also played straight with three extras: a serving girl on Warp’s moon who pops up in two other places, Keno Kentrix’s girlfriend, and Buzz’s blind date in a flashback. |
| 246 | * HamToHamCombat: Whenever Buzz and Zurg go at it, they're both chewing the scenery. |
| 247 | * HeadDesk: Romac hits his head against a stasis chamber; Ty hits his head against the inside of his helmet. |
| 248 | * HeroicBuild: Many male Rangers are built this way. It's justified, though, given that the Rangers go through training as shown in the training scene in "The Adventure Begins". |
| 249 | * HeelFaceTurn: XL after his team-up with NOS-4-A2 ends up joining the side of good. |
| 250 | ** It's implied that, while he'll remain an independent agent, the Grounder Romac won't be taking jobs from the forces of evil anymore. |
| 251 | * HijackedByGanon: Zurg is behind almost all other villains, and Buzz is [[ProperlyParanoid very much aware of this]]. |
| 252 | * HiveMind: The [=LGMs=] are a rare heroic example. |
| 253 | ** In the PilotMovie, Zurg uses the secret to their mind link to control the minds of everyone in the universe. |
| 254 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: The way Zurg tends to get his due, especially in the climax of "Lost in Time". |
| 255 | * {{Hypocrite}}:In "Planet of the Lost", Flint accuses organic lifeforms for abusing and using machines. However, his EvilPlan involves using his robot Shriekers to bring down ships and also have them destroy other machines. [=XR=],a frequent victim of Flint's attacks, understandably doesn't buy it and promptly shuts him up. |
| 256 | * HypocriticalHumor: |
| 257 | ** "Rescue Mission" has some alien customers complain about being grossed out by finding bugs in their food. The aliens themselves are quite hideous and sickening in appearance. |
| 258 | ** In "Holiday Time", Buzz addresses that belief in the holiday spirit is something XR must decide for himself, only to then demand XR start believing and tell him that that's an order. |
| 259 | ** In "The Crawling Flesh", Buzz and Mira have been transformed into [[TwoBeingsOneBody one single]] inarticulate hideous BlobMonster, which the other rangers [[MistakenForOwnMurderer believe Buzz and Mira have been eaten by]]. At the eulogy held in their honor: |
| 260 | -->'''Commander Nebula''': Now Buzz and Mira wouldn't want any tears. They knew a ranger's job is a dangerous one, and if you boys and girls can't take the cold hard facts of their demise, well then I suggest you run home to your mamas! YOU GOT THAT? (pause, then he [[InelegantBlubbering bursts into tears)]] [[NotSoStoic Why take Buzz? WHY BUZZ? WHY? WHYYYYY?]] |
| 261 | *** Later at the same eulogy: |
| 262 | -->'''Booster''': Buzz and Mira knew to respect every living creature, no matter how strange or hideous. (Buzz and Mira, still mutated, fall out of a vent into the middle of the crowd) IT'S THE STRANGE HIDEOUS CREATURE THAT ATE BUZZ AND MIRA! (opens fire) |
| 263 | * IgnoringBySinging: |
| 264 | ** In "The Starthought", when Zurg takes the titular Tangean spacecraft, Mira Nova tricks him into using it to wreck his lair by telling him to think of various flight patterns. Zurg at one point tries to drown out Mira's statements by covering his horns and singing. |
| 265 | ** "Shiv Katall" has Booster cover his ears and sing when Mira makes the statement that Shiv Katall is more skilled than Buzz is. |
| 266 | -->'''Booster''': I can't hear Mira because she's saying wrong things! |
| 267 | * IHaveNoSon: Although they're not related in any sense, Buzz Lightyear and Warp Darkmatter have this exchange after [[spoiler:the latter is revealed to be a spy for Zurg.]] |
| 268 | -->'''Warp Darkmatter''': Welcome to the team, partner.\ |
| 269 | '''Buzz Lightyear''': This isn't my team, [[spoiler:and you're not my partner]]! |
| 270 | * IHaveThisFriend: Booster tries this when asking for advice on love in "Plasma Monster". |
| 271 | * IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Buzz invokes this in the episode "Wirewolf" when [[spoiler:Ty Parsec in wirewolf form is about to kill him.]] |
| 272 | ** Also invoked by Booster, when XR is under [[spoiler: NOS-4-A2's]] mind control |
| 273 | * ILikeThoseOdds: (Buzz) "Fast. Risky. I like it." |
| 274 | * IllTimedSneeze: Inverted. XR's [[InvokedTrope obvious and intentional]] sneeze in "Opposites Attract" actually diverts attention from Gravitina so she doesn't notice Mira sneaking up on her. |
| 275 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: NOS-4-A2]] "You could have at least used an adapter." |
| 276 | ** Happens twice. [[spoiler: The second time destroys him for good]]. |
| 277 | * ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Zurg's Hornets rarely hit anything they're shooting at. To be fair, this also applies to a lot of Space Rangers who aren't on Team Lightyear. |
| 278 | * InkblotTest: Used several times. Buzz thinks every blot looks like Zurg. Except for a picture of Mira. Who, he muses, helps him fight Zurg. |
| 279 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Booster has had his moments where although he means well, he doesn't always realize the consequences his actions have on others. |
| 280 | * InsistentTerminology: |
| 281 | ** [[strike:Professor Lapton]] Professor Von Maaaaadmaaan! |
| 282 | ** XL: It's a CENTRIFUGATOR! |
| 283 | ** Zurgatronic VS Zurgarrific. Although Zurg ''does'' like the sound of "Zurgarrific"... |
| 284 | ** And let's not forget the Hydro-Trandibulator. Making up words ''is'' a perk that comes with the Evil Emperor business, after all. |
| 285 | * IntangibleMan: Mira can phase through solid matter. |
| 286 | ** The entirety of Tangean Overworlder race has this power. They don't even bother installing doors anywhere. |
| 287 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: Booster has an endearing friendship with the little alien girl Becky, who affectionately calls him "Pickles". |
| 288 | * InterspeciesRomance: Romac and Mira used to be sweethearts. Mira is a Tangean Overworlder, while Romac is a Tangean Grounder. |
| 289 | * IronButtmonkey: XR is often blown apart for comedic effect, but can easily be rebuilt since he is a robot. |
| 290 | * IronicName: A RunningGag with the citizens of the planet Gargantia, who all have names like "Maximus," "Humongor," or "Titanicus" despite even the [=LGMs=] towering over them. According to their Ambassador, they named their planet before becoming aware of how vast the universe was. |
| 291 | * JamesBondage: Ty Parsec, much to his annoyance, always ends up needing to be rescued. Luckily, he gets a chance to do some saving of his own. |
| 292 | * KarmaHoudini: Evil Buzz Lightyear apparently is quite the successful villain in his dimension. |
| 293 | * KickChick: Mira often fights by kicking. |
| 294 | * KidnappedScientist: Zurg captures the [=LGM=] called "Independent Thinker" in "Star Smasher" so that his trash compactor invention can be used to turn the sun into a black hole. |
| 295 | * KidsVersusAdults: Team Lightyear versus the younger clones of themselves in "Clone Rangers". |
| 296 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:NOS-4-A2 is put offline several times throughout the series, but his last appearance saw him ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice, [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath then screaming and exploding]].]] |
| 297 | * KillSat: In "Planet Destroyer", Zurg uses the titular weapon to wipe out planets. SubvertedTrope as Buzz and co discover that the weapon is actually transporting the planets to another dimension. |
| 298 | * LanternJawOfJustice: Buzz Lightyear is a hero with a huge chin. Commander Nebula also fits the description. |
| 299 | * LargeHam: Zurg. A good example would be the fact the way he describes his [[strike:Hyper Death Ray]] '''''HYPER DEATH RAY!''''' |
| 300 | ** The ''weapon itself'' is a LargeHam. Every time it's mentioned, there's evil music. |
| 301 | ** The suave NOS-4-A2 also fits the bill. As Buzz puts it, "Leave it to Zurg to create a villain even more arrogant than himself!" |
| 302 | * LateArrivalSpoiler: If you saw the show before watching the movie, you would know that Warp Darkmatter didn't actually die, and that he isn't really [[EvilAllAlong the hero he pretends to be]]. |
| 303 | * LatexSpaceSuit: Mira Nova and many of the other female Space Rangers wear space suits that somehow show off their curves. |
| 304 | * LeeroyJenkins: The rookies are always eager to prove themselves, but sometimes their enthusiasm causes them to get in the way or screw a plan up, like in "Shiv Katall" or "Rookie of the Year". |
| 305 | * LegacyCharacter: Shiv Katall, the most notorious hitman in the galaxy and Zurg's go-to option for taking out defectors from his empire, is really an alias used by Buzz to smuggle those defectors to freed and then report back to Zurg that they have been eliminated. The title was passed to him by Commander Nebula some years earlier and at the end of the eponymous episode, Buzz decides to retire the identity, Booster then dons the armor and submits his resume to Zurg in order to get hired on as the Evil Emperor's new personal bounty hunter. |
| 306 | * LightbulbJoke: Torque annoys Buzz with a joke about how many Space Rangers are needed to change a light filament in the episode "The Torque Armada". |
| 307 | * LightIsGood: The climatic fight between Zurg and Buzz in the pilot. The enormous light in the backdrop is actually Zurg's emblem, but Buzz uses it to defend himself. |
| 308 | * LiteralCliffhanger: Buzz has found himself dangling from a cliff twice in the series. |
| 309 | * LittleGreenMen: |
| 310 | ** The [=LGMs=] are fittingly enough aliens that are short and colored green. |
| 311 | ** The people of the planet Rozwell are a play on this trope, as they look the part but act just like 1950's Americans. |
| 312 | * LivingLegend: Captain Buzz Lightyear, as legendary to his own universe as [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk]] and [[Franchise/StarWars Anakin Skywalker]] are to their universes. |
| 313 | * ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway: All that's known about the setting is that it takes place somewhere in space. |
| 314 | * LoveHurts: The look on Mira's face when she realizes that she can't be with Romac as long as he's working for Zurg. |
| 315 | * LoveMakesYouCrazy: Gravitina's obsession with Buzz has clearly not done her sanity any favors. |
| 316 | * LukeIAmYourFather: Hilariously subverted, and an homage to ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''. It turns out Zurg only said he was Buzz's father to catch him off-guard. |
| 317 | * MachineMonotone: XR, until Agent Z blows him up and the [[LittleGreenMen LGMs]] put him back together without the aid of the Unimind. |
| 318 | * MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Bonnie Lepton, daughter of Professor Von Madman. Buzz is quite surprised to see her grow up to be a beautiful woman. |
| 319 | * MangledCatchPhrase: |
| 320 | ** In the episode, "Lost in Time", the Buzz Lightyear animatronic does this many times. [[spoiler: It's part of Zurg's trap to get Buzz talking about Star Command's critical secrets while Buzz is under the illusion that he was lost in time and is in the future.]] |
| 321 | --->'''Buzz Animatronic:''' To Infinity, and even further!\ |
| 322 | '''Buzz Animatronic:''' To Infinity, and back again!\ |
| 323 | '''Buzz Animatronic:''' To Infinity, and more Infinity!\ |
| 324 | '''Buzz Animatronic:''' To Infinity, and so on! |
| 325 | ** In "Mira's Wedding", Fop Doppler, after becoming a Ranger, says "To Infinity, and jolly well past that!" |
| 326 | ** Lampshaded in both examples when Buzz tries one of the Buzz Animatronic's phrases, only for him to say that it just doesn't work, and sighs in disapproval when Doppler spouts his own variation on Buzz's phrase. |
| 327 | ** In "Taking of PC-7", Torque ([[spoiler: With Buzz's Personality]]) says each time cloning himself "...And Beyond!" after the initial "To Infinity..." |
| 328 | ** In "The Lightyear Factor", Evil Buzz spouts off "Buzz Lightyear! Spreading evil to infinity, and beyond! *evil chuckle*" |
| 329 | ** In "Conspiracy", a Trade World thug threatens to beat Buzz "To infinity and beyond!" |
| 330 | * ManlyTears: A few times, most noticeably in "The Crawling Flesh", when [[NotSoStoic Commander Nebula]] bawls over the mistaken belief that Buzz and Mira are dead and a mutated Buzz is moved by Booster's eulogy toward him. |
| 331 | --> '''Buzz''': Mira, there's no reason a man can't show emotion. |
| 332 | --> '''Mira''': True, unless your [[ItMakesSenseInContext molecular acid tears are eating through the vent!]] |
| 333 | * MarriedToTheJob: Buzz's first love is, and always will be, to Star Command and the battle against evil. |
| 334 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 335 | ** NOS-4-A2, energy-sucking villain. If you don't get it, it's Leetspeak for [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Nosferatu]]. |
| 336 | ** Lampshaded with Warp Darkmatter, when he chews Buzz out for not realizing he was a mole. "My name's DARKMATTER. Who's surprised here?" |
| 337 | * MechaMooks: Hornets, which make up the vast majority of Zurg's forces; there are also [[EliteMook Beetles, larger black-and-red variants of the Hornets]] seen a few times. |
| 338 | * MediumBlending: The pilot movie starts off with a minute-long Pixar-animated scene of the ''Franchise/ToyStory'' gang (as of [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory2 the second movie]]) receiving the video tape of the movie. When they start the movie itself, the camera zooms onto the TV screen and the 2D-animation starts from then on. The series' intro begins with another small Pixar-animated segment, with Buzz performing different actions before joining the gang to watch the current ''Buzz'' episode on the TV, similar to how the movie stared. |
| 339 | * MildlyMilitary: Star Command does possess some form of militaristic discipline and rule regulation, but they seem lax otherwise. |
| 340 | * MindControlEyes: Happens in quite a few episodes, like "The Adventure Begins", and "The Shape Stealer". |
| 341 | * MissingMom: Then again, Mira is ''technically'' a Franchise/DisneyPrincess. What did you expect? |
| 342 | * MistakenForOwnMurderer: Buzz and Mira are exposed to Zurg's latest evil concoction that transforms and fuses them into a single amorphous blob creature unable to talk. When Booster and XR find the blob next to Buzz and Mira's empty uniforms they assume it ate them. |
| 343 | * MistakenForToilet: In "[[Recap/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommandE61SpeedTrap Speed Trap]]", Team Lightyear is placed on speed trap duty as a result of a botched meeting with the Porcelons, a group of aliens who resemble toilets. After Buzz, Mira and XR keep accidentally saying "sensitive" terms to the Porcelons, which were toilet-related puns, the meeting was ultimately botched when Booster, who's having a PottyEmergency as the other restrooms were closed for cleaning, mistakes the Porcelon ambassador for an actual toilet. |
| 344 | * MobileSuitHuman: The Gargantuan Militants have mecha suits built to look like human-sized sapients, which they use to frame Buzz for treason in one episode. |
| 345 | * ModestRoyalty: Mira Nova. She ''hates'' being singled out as royalty. |
| 346 | * MonsterMash: A robotic variant in one episode, which featured a team-up between NOS-4-A2, the Wirewolf, and XL (the Frankenstein's Monster equivalent). |
| 347 | * MrViceGuy: XR seems to go out of his way to find new applications of his various personality flaws. |
| 348 | * MsFanservice: Gravitina is very voluptuous, tends to wear revealing clothing, and is often trying to seduce Buzz. |
| 349 | * MundaneUtility: When Zurg decides to steal the experimental [[{{Teleportation}} Matter Transport Ray]] from Star Command: |
| 350 | --> '''Zurg''': Such a device could prove useful to me! |
| 351 | --> '''Grub #1''': Yes! [[ComicallyMissingThePoint We could instantly zap dirty clothes down to the laundry room!]] |
| 352 | --> '''Grub #2''': No more [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage schlepping]] those laundry baskets around! |
| 353 | * MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Tangean culture's tendency for [[BritishStuffiness stuffy]] [[CulturalPosturing arrogance]] and [[FantasticRacism contempt]] for off-worlders is a source of great frustration and embarrassment for the rebellious Mira. |
| 354 | * MythologyGag: |
| 355 | ** In the pilot, the [=LGM=]s use "[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory1 The Claw]]" to bring the Unimind. |
| 356 | *** And again in "Rookie of the Year", when Warp uses a claw from his spaceship to steal the matter transporter. The [=LGM=]s present even go "The Claw!!!" |
| 357 | ** Also in the pilot, Zurg's gun fails to work at first because his minions accidentally placed the batteries for it in the wrong position (placing the minus sides with the positive sides)... just like the toys in Andy's room were doing for the baby monitor in the first movie. |
| 358 | ** While Woody and Buzz are arguing at the gas station in the first movie, Buzz discusses Zurg’s latest plan involving a super weapon capable of annihilating entire planets. The episode “The Planet Destroyer” seems to depict what he was talking about. |
| 359 | ** In “Strange Invasion”: |
| 360 | ----> '''Alien:''' An alien! |
| 361 | ---->'''XR:''' Where?! |
| 362 | ** From "Holiday Time": |
| 363 | ----> '''Buzz:''' Okay, so you're the ''real'' Santa Claus?\ |
| 364 | '''Santa:''' You're mocking me, aren't you? |
| 365 | ** "At Large on a Small Planet" begins with the opening of a Pizza Planet. |
| 366 | ** At Becky's tea party during the end of "Stranger Invasion", Buzz is in a hat and apron that bears an unmistakable resemblance to Mrs. Nesbitt. |
| 367 | * NaiveNewcomer: The Rookies (Mira, Booster, and XR) all serve as this under Buzz. |
| 368 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: |
| 369 | ** Booster ends up naked after lending his space suit to Plasma Boy in "The Plasma Monster". |
| 370 | ** "The Crawling Flesh" shows Booster, Commander Nebula, several Space Rangers, and some [=LGMs=] in the nude after they are cured of Zurg's mutation virus. |
| 371 | * NeverMyFault: Many of the villains. XR also rarely takes responsibility for his mistakes. |
| 372 | * NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Lampshaded and averted in "The Lightyear Factor", where XR worries that the team coming into contact with their alternate universe counterparts could end in disaster, but is quickly proven wrong. |
| 373 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mira, after being repeatedly told to not interfere, drags the other rookies along to follow Buzz in "Shiv Katall". [[MistakenlyAttackedMole This ends up blowing Buzz's cover]] as [[TheInfiltration "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. |
| 374 | * NiceMeanAndInBetween: Out of Buzz's partners, we have GentleGiant Booster as the nice one, loud-mouthed robot XR as the mean one, and snarky but heroic Mira as the in-between. |
| 375 | * NobleMaleRoguishMale: Booster and XR, respectively. Booster is very nice and always wants to do the right thing, but XR is kind of self-centered and has a few vices. |
| 376 | ** Also Buzz and Warp at any given point in their relationship. |
| 377 | * NoEnding: The series lacks a formal conclusion. |
| 378 | * NoEntrance The Tangean Overworlders take their name from the fact that they have Intangibility as a species trait, and thus they simply walk through the wall of any building they mean to enter. They see this as inheirent proof that they're Blue Blood, and anyone who doesn't know how to enter a building is just not worth associating with, whether they be Tangean Grounders or just outright aliens |
| 379 | * NotHelpingYourCase: During Mira's intervention about her energy addiction, XR illustrates his point of burning out by overcharging a light bulb. Mira attempts to counter by saying [[SpaceWhaleAesop she's not a light bulb]]. Coming from a woman currently glowing like the sun due to excessive energy absorption, nobody takes Mira's point seriously. |
| 380 | * NoSocialSkills: Depends on the writers, but Buzz tends to have poor people skills. |
| 381 | * NotMeThisTime: In "A Zoo Out There", Buzz suspects Zurg of kidnapping politicians and calls to demand their release. Not only does Zurg dismiss this as too obvious, but he also turns out to be in a meeting with ''all'' the other recurring villains, all of whom deny responsibility. |
| 382 | * OhTheHumanity: Parodied, XR says "Oh, the technology!" when face with [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman robotic carnage]]. |
| 383 | * OminousLatinChanting: In "Devolutionaries", the opening and ending scenes have Gregorianesque chanting as the background music. |
| 384 | * OneWheeledWonder: The series ends by introducing a love-interest for XR: a robotic personality named 42 living inside Star Cruiser 42. By the end of the episode, 42's personality is "surgically" removed from the cruiser and placed inside a short, humanoid, robotic body with a single wheel as its mode of locomotion. |
| 385 | * OnlySaneMan: Mira in regards to her teammates is often the only sensible one. |
| 386 | * OppositesAttract: |
| 387 | ** Buzz and Ozma are attracted even though Buzz finds Ozma's willingness to defend even the most dangerous of predators to clash with his intent to ensure all civilians are safe. |
| 388 | ** Mira and Romac used to be lovers and are implied to still have feelings for each other even though Romac is somewhat unscrupulous and Mira is highly devoted to Star Command. |
| 389 | * OtherMeAnnoysMe: Evil Buzz Lightyear to Buzz. The other counterparts bond with their templates, though XR might Squee over his more rougher combat ready counterpart: |
| 390 | --> So...what grade of oil DO they feed you in your neck of the woods? |
| 391 | * OtherworldlyCommunicationFailure: One episode features a comet haunted by the ghost of an older space hero who keeps saying "enola eno on"[[note]]"no one alone" backwards, "because he's on the other side"[[/note]] in an attempt to warn Buzz from being a [[IWorkAlone lone wolf]]. [[spoiler: Subverted, as it turns out the guy is not completely dead and therefore not a ghost, just frozen. After he's revived, he's surprised to hear he was speaking backwards.]] |
| 392 | * OurDoorsAreDifferent: Just about every type of high-tech door/hatch you could think of, plus the occasional doorknob. |
| 393 | ** Tangeans doors are truly unique in that they ''do not exist'', since they can just phase through solid matter, they see requiring a physical portal as a mark of an inferior species. |
| 394 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: One episode revolves around an apparent haunting by a spectre comprised of [[GhostlyChill freezing mist]] on an ice planet, that can only speak backwards ("because he's on the other side"). Buzz finds that the man is still alive, just frozen and somehow projecting the ghost. Oddly enough the same process works on XR, who got caught outside and froze as well, his ghost appearing at the end of the episode asking to be recovered. |
| 395 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: NOS-4-A2, a robotic "energy vampire" that can drain power from as well as control machinery. |
| 396 | * OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Continuing the trend, the Wirewolf, who is Space Ranger Ty Parsec suffering transformations into a robotic wolf-man after getting bitten by NOS-4-A2. |
| 397 | * OutOfCharacterAlert: Buzz and Mira figure out that NOS-4-A2 is in control of Star Command when they see the personnel acting rather unlike themselves. |
| 398 | * OverlaidSocieties: Mira Nova hails from a world called Tangea. She's a princess among her people, who can move through solid objects with ease, among other powers. Also living on Tangea are the Grounders, who have psychokinetic powers. The two races are segregated, and are antagonistic to each other. Moreover, being in close proximity means the powers of both are negated. |
| 399 | * PainfulTransformation: [[spoiler: Ty Parsec]] turning into the Wirewolf is downright cringe-worthy. |
| 400 | * PaperThinDisguise: At the end of "Shiv Katall", after the Shiv Katall identity was blown for Commander Nebula and Buzz, Booster takes up the mantle of Shiv Katall, which literally doesn't fit his body too well as parts of his torso, ears, and face were exposed. Yet oddly enough, Zurg hires him on the spot. |
| 401 | * ParodyProductPlacement: Meta example as Angus [=MacLane=] [[https://mobile.twitter.com/AngusMacLane/status/1535763232178089986 said on Twitter]] that the [=LGM=]s appeared into the show due to it being sponsored by Pizza Planet in-universe. |
| 402 | * PerfectPacifistPeople: The Rhizomians are a peaceful race and have advanced plant technology. |
| 403 | * PlanetOfHats: Tangea. Rhizome. Capital Planet. Planet Z. |
| 404 | ** {{Justified|Trope}} with Jo-Ad, an agricultural planet and the Alliance's biggest food producer; Bathyos, an ocean planet; and Tradeworld, a city-planet like [[Franchise/StarWars Coruscant]] and the galaxy's proclaimed WretchedHive of Scum and Villainy. |
| 405 | ** Tangea is more of a "Planet of Two Hats," one for each race. The Overworlders (such as Mira and her father) are arrogant, beautiful, blue-skinned people with xenophobic tendencies and intangibility. The "Grounders" tend to wear the hat of being ugly, dumb primitives with mind-beam powers, and prefer form over function. There are exceptions- Mira is quite open with offworlders, and Romac (a Grounder) is shown to be quite intelligent. |
| 406 | * PluckyComicRelief: XR and Booster are responsible for a lot of the show's humor most of the time. Nearly always when they're together. |
| 407 | * PoorCommunicationKills: The episode "Head Case". [[spoiler:The LGM's at the end meant to say that XR had metal fatigue and not mental fatigue as the two are only one letter off.]] |
| 408 | * PoseOfSupplication: Ty does this in "Wirewolf". [[spoiler: This is after he saves Buzz from the Wirewolf's attacks by taking control of it.]] |
| 409 | * PoweredArmor: The iconic Space Ranger Pulsar-400 Envirosuits. They are mostly LatexSpaceSuit at the limbs but the plastron is more voluminous. The space suits are made of special material, have a retractible FishbowlHelmet and a JetPack that allow Space Rangers to fly in most environment and even the void of space. The space suits are also armed with wrist-mounted lasers and other minor gadgets such as scanners or even a double GrapplingHookPistol. |
| 410 | * PowerHigh: Mira's reaction to phasing through energy is to remark how she feels better than she ever has before. |
| 411 | * PowerNullifier: Tangean Nobles (Like Nova) and Grounders (like her ex) cancel out each other's psionics. |
| 412 | * ThePowerOfFriendship: The main characters often survive everything they go through and save the day by watching each other's back. |
| 413 | * PretendToBeBrainwashed: Booster fakes being brainwashed by Torque when Torque uses the UPA (Universal Personality Adjuster) Helmet in "The Taking of PC-7" on Booster. Justified since Jo-Ad-ian anatomy states that Booster's personality part of his brain is located in his lower body rather than his head, as would the case be with a human brain. |
| 414 | * PrincessesPreferPink: Guess what color teen!Mira wore in flashbacks? |
| 415 | * ProductPlacement: Angus [=MacLane=] revealed that Pizza Planet was the sponsor of the show in the ''Franchise/ToyStory'' universe, hence the appearance of the [=LGM=]s as major characters. |
| 416 | * PunchClockVillain: Some of Zurg's henchmen. |
| 417 | -->'''Grub''': ...But if I don't get my vacation request form in by 5 pm, I'll miss my brother's bachelor party next week!\ |
| 418 | '''Zurg''': UGH! Which copy is mine, yellow or pink? |
| 419 | * PunctuatedForEmphasis: |
| 420 | ** Varg's order to Crumford Lorak: "You! Bring. TAPE!!" |
| 421 | ** Buzz to the LGM "commandos" in "Star Smasher": "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis This is]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis not]]'' - [[PunctuatedForEmphasis and I repeat]], ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis NOT]]'' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis - a REVENGE MISSION!]]" |
| 422 | * PunnyName: |
| 423 | ** NOS-4-A2. Spell it out phonetically, what do you get? Film/{{Nosferatu}} -- and considering NOS-4-A2 is designed to look like a certain blood-sucking Transylvanian pest... |
| 424 | ** XL ("extra large") also fits, specially compared to his "brother". |
| 425 | ** Wirewolf also counts here, since he's a Space Ranger who becomes a robotic werewolf and machinery can contain wires. |
| 426 | * PunyHumans: |
| 427 | ** Mira's father, the king of Tangea, holds humans in contempt, referring to them as monkeys and considers his species to be above them, much to Mira's disgust. It is ironic however that in one episode where Buzz's team, save for XR, were [[DevolutionDevice reverted back to a more primitive form]], Buzz morphed into a half-ape, while Mira became a giant amoeba. Though that may have been because she was exposed to more of the gas. |
| 428 | ** The Chlorm go so far as to call all other sapient species "lesser beings", which Mira [[BerserkButton really hates]] (not to mention they view all other sapient species as wild animals: keeping them in zoos, using them for product testing, etc.). |
| 429 | * PuppyDogEyes: Mira, as rendered by one animation house. |
| 430 | * RankScalesWithAsskicking: Even with a pegleg, Commander Nebula can still kick ass with the best of them (helps that said pegleg doubles as an ion cannon), and Evil Emperor Zurg can usually curbstomp anyone aside from Buzz himself. |
| 431 | * RapidAging: Warp Darkmatter becomes extremely elderly after Natron takes his life force in "Ancient Evil". |
| 432 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: |
| 433 | ** NOS-4-A2 and Zurg are both villains with red eyes. |
| 434 | ** Also the side-effect of being blasted by the Zurgatronic Ray. The mind-controlled Rangers are particularly creepy. |
| 435 | * RedHerring: 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''.]] |
| 436 | * RestrainingBolt: An interesting biological variation, the two subspecies of Tangeans actually lose their mental powers when around members of the other species. [[spoiler:Exploited at least once by a corrupt Noble and a platoon of his Grounder lackeys.]] |
| 437 | * RefusingParadise: Buzz is the only good guy who refuses to go along with the Heed in "War and Peace and War". Needless to say, he was right to do so. |
| 438 | * {{Retcon}}: XR's first meeting with Buzz in "First Missions" contradicts what was established in the PilotMovie by having them first meet in the food court, when Buzz was actually present when XR was first activated in "The Adventure Begins". |
| 439 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Ty. He wasn't heard of until Buzz brought him up in a conversation and labeled him as an 'old buddy' from the Space Ranger Academy in "Wirewolf". |
| 440 | * TheResenter: Ty Parsec initially resents Buzz for saving him over fifty times. |
| 441 | * RetroactiveWish: "Unless the clouds are going to open up and drop Buzz Lightyear run in our lap...why didn't I ask for money?" |
| 442 | * RetroRocket: Star Command's ships look like 1950's sci-fi rockets. |
| 443 | * RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: An alternate universe has Buzz as a supervillain, and Zurg a fry cook in a diner. |
| 444 | * RidiculouslyHumanRobot: XR, in spirit, anyway. Even the [[LittleGreenMen LGMs]] recognize this: "You're almost ''human''. So many character flaws!" |
| 445 | * RightBehindMe: When Warp is complaining to Buzz that they looked everywhere and haven't found the Little Green Men, a Crater Viper appears behind his back. Noticing Buzz's horrified reaction, Warp points behind him and says [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "There's something really bad behind me, isn't there?"]] |
| 446 | * RivalTurnedEvil: Warp Darkmatter, Buzz's old Academy chum. [[spoiler:Of course, he was TheMole from day one, Buzz just didn't know that . . .]] |
| 447 | ** Ty Parsec's introduction works a bit this way, too: Ty places a distress call, and then when Buzz shows up to help, Ty gets ''immensely'' annoyed. They used to be friends or classmates or something, but since the early days it's always been Buzz who takes the spotlight, and Ty is sick of it. When [[spoiler:Ty gets bitten by NOS-4-A2 and starts transforming into the Wirewolf]], you might expect it to come to a bad end... but it turns out Ty is a little more honorable than the tropes would lead you to believe, and even in later episodes he's still a hero, not a villain. |
| 448 | * RoboticReveal: In the episode "Planet of the Lost", the villain Flint is revealed to be a robot when he gets crushed by some rubble and emerges from the wreckage with parts of his artificial skin torn off, exposing his robotic interior. |
| 449 | * RoguesGallery: Let's see, there's Zurg, Warp, NOS-4-A2, Gravitina, Torque, XL, Evil Buzz, the Chlorm, the Gargantians, the Raenoks and that Klerm guy... I'd say we have a pretty sizable gallery here. |
| 450 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Mira and Fop Doppler (eventually); the rest of the Tangean Royal Court makes it seem like they're the ''only'' ones. |
| 451 | ** Mira's father also counts, given his acts in "The Planet Destroyer" and "Supernova". |
| 452 | * SapientCetaceans: The Bathyosians are aliens who happen to be humanoid porpoises. |
| 453 | * SarcasmBlind: Booster. This happens to him a few times where sarcasm just flies over his head. In "Wirewolf", for example, he doesn't pick up on Ty's sarcasm after Buzz saves him from NOS-4-A2. Ty even lampshades it. |
| 454 | -->'''Ty:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh, would you? I'm sure they can't wait to hear how [=BUZZ=] saved me again. Make that call, [=PLEASE=].]]\ |
| 455 | '''Booster:''' Right away, sir! (''goes to call Star Command'')\ |
| 456 | '''Ty:''' (''blinks and does a FacePalm'') "Sarcasm is lost on the big one". |
| 457 | * SayMyName: Always humorously by Zurg. |
| 458 | -->'''''"LIGHTYEAR!"''''' |
| 459 | ** Once in reverse when Buzz was ANGRY. |
| 460 | * ScaryScienceWords: |
| 461 | ** [[BigBad Zurg]] begins his AlienInvasion of the planet Rosswell and tells his [[EvilMinion grubs]] to 'lower it', referring to the '[[PowerCrystal Crystallic]] [[PerpetualMotionMonster Self-perpetuating]] [[AlienKudzu Breeder]] [[AlienInvasion Construction]] [[MonsterProgenitor Core]]'. He then immediately asks why they can't come up with a shorter name for it, at which point one of his grubs reveals it to be evil marketing specifically designed to instil fright in natives, at which point Zurg begrudgingly allows it. |
| 462 | ** The grub isn't wrong either, as shown when this gets {{Brick Joke}}d when [[TheHero Buzz]] discovers Zurg's base with the help of a native general, who immediately [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry states he is frightened when the full name is told to him]]. It keeps working even after Buzz tells him it's just Evil Marketing. |
| 463 | * SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: When you've got some sort of giant evil ray gun, the galaxy and all its planets take about ten minutes to enslave. Those evil rays or fireballs or whatever don't actually have to travel; you just lock onto co-ordinates and they're just instantly ''there'', doing their enslaving/destroying thing. |
| 464 | ** In 'Wirewolf' Mira and Booster crash their spaceship into a moon to destroy it. Not only does this ''work,'' but the moon is almost entirely destroyed. Apparently moons are not gigantic rocks but basically hollow. |
| 465 | * ScoutOut: The Ranger Scouts are scouts for the Space Rangers. |
| 466 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Norbert Q. Klerm, The CorruptCorporateExecutive of [=CompuKlerm=]. |
| 467 | * ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Subverted by Buzz. He's written half the rules in the official manual, but is also a stickler for the existing ones (especially the one about "backup", as seen in the pilot). |
| 468 | * ScullySyndrome: Buzz again. He often accuses Zurg of being behind every possible misdeed and/or theorizes overly complicated evil plots - sometimes making him look obsessed. Subverted, however, as Buzz is [[ProperlyParanoid almost always proven right when he does this]]. |
| 469 | ** 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 '''''[[DeathRay HYPER DEATH RAY]]'''''. |
| 470 | ** It also helps that Zurg is responsible for most of the recurring villains. |
| 471 | * SealedEvilInACan: Natron the First in "Ancient Evil", who was imprisoned in a chamber before being freed. |
| 472 | * SequelEpisode: "Stranger Invasion" serves as a sequel to "Strange Invasion", as it deals with Team Lightyear returning to planet Roswell to save them from Zurg. |
| 473 | ** "Revenge of the Monsters" is one to "Wirewolf", as it deals with NOS-4-A2 returning and turning Ty into, well, Wirewolf again. |
| 474 | * SesquipedalianSmith: Recurring villain Rentwhistle Swack is a good example of having a fancy-sounding first name and a mundane surname. |
| 475 | * SheIsAllGrownUp: Bonnie Lepton in "Eye of the Tempest", Buzz hadn't seen her since she "was this big". |
| 476 | * ShoutOut: |
| 477 | ** The name of Buzz's Star Cruiser, "Ol' 42" could be a reference [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1 to a certain number referring to the meaning of life as we know it.]] |
| 478 | ** Becky, Booster's friend from Roswell, appears to be an Expy of Webby from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''. It helps that they have the same voice too. |
| 479 | ** In the episode "''Speed Trap,''" XR said in a similar fashion of Tigger, [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh "Tactical retreats are what XRs do best!"]] Minus the hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoooooooo. |
| 480 | ** 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 [[SdrawkcabName spell it backwards]]. The episode in question was written by Creator/GregWeisman and was a reference to the Thailog storylines in ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''. |
| 481 | *** From the same episode, we have Zurg calling his new minions [[Franchise/TheLoneRanger "The Clooooooone Rangers!"]] and Mira dressing as [[PublicServiceAnnouncement "McGlorp the Crimevark"]] for an elementary school presentation. |
| 482 | ** The entire episode "Conspiracy" is a broad-strokes WholePlotReference to ''Film/TheFugitive'', especially the train wreck scene. |
| 483 | *** From the same episode, when Buzz goes to get his newspaper in the morning he's singing a jaunty version of the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries original Star Trek]] theme to himself. |
| 484 | ** The episode "Bunzel Fever" is about [[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime Booster slowly transforming into a violent monster that randomly goes on hallucination-fueled rampages, and the only cure is to return to his home planet and help with the bunzel harvest.]] |
| 485 | ** SOMEBODY on the writing staff was obviously a fan of [[Franchise/UniversalHorror Universal Monsters]], with the inclusion of robot-monster villains [[Film/Frankenstein1931 XL]], [[Film/Dracula1931 NOS-4-A2]], and [[Film/TheWolfMan1941 the Wirewolf]]. They even all [[VillainTeamUp teamed up]] in one episode! |
| 486 | ** From the episode with the experimental [[{{Teleportation}} Matter Transport Ray]]: |
| 487 | ---> '''Booster''': Hey, what if you used that ray on a ''person?'' Oh, man! It would be awesome! You could [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries "beam" somebody from a ship to a planet!]] |
| 488 | ---> '''LGM''': ''(laughs)'' [[TakeThat That's just plain crazy!]] |
| 489 | ** Commander Nebula once told XR to get off him almost as if XR were a "[[Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968 damn, dirty ape.]]" |
| 490 | ** It’s a tentative connection, but, considering all the show's throwbacks to Franchise/StarTrek, could there be another such throwback in King Nova, Mira, and the Tangean Royals? Consider: |
| 491 | *** King Nova ''had'' disapproved of the notion of Mira joining Star Command. In ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Journey to Babel," Ambassador Sarek makes it painfully clear that he disapproves of Spock's membership in Starfleet. |
| 492 | *** 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 ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome''. |
| 493 | *** 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 TheSpock to Buzz's [[TheKirk Kirk]], though she can just as often be TheMcCoy, as well. |
| 494 | *** The Tangean Royals as a race have pointed ears... and telepathic abilities... |
| 495 | ** Evil Buzz (Buzz's evil twin from parallel universe) sports a [[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror fiendish goatee.]] |
| 496 | ** Again, pure conjecture, but is it just possible that the Grubs wear [[RedShirt red]] for a reason? |
| 497 | ** Nos-4-A2 is a reference to the classic vampire film ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}''. |
| 498 | ** XR paraphrases Energizer's slogan in "Wirewolf". |
| 499 | ** "Conspiracy" had Buzz framed for treason and sent to a prison world. He trips over an octopus man who's not meant to be there, which tips off his crew that Something is Wrong. This parallels a scene from ''Film/TheLastStarfighter'', wherein Alex trips over [[spoiler: the Ko-Dan [[TheMole Mole]], who is also an octopus-man]]. |
| 500 | ** When Mira is trapped in the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Chlorm]] zoo, Eon refers to her as "Bright Eyes", which was the name Zira gave Taylor in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968''. |
| 501 | ** In "The Starthought", the helmet Mira wears while piloting the Starthought looks suspiciously similar to [[Franchise/MegaMan the iconic helmet of a certain "Blue Bomber"]]. |
| 502 | ** The premise behind "The Starthought" and the aptly named Tangean built Spacecraft is themed after a similar novel and Clint Eastwood movie named [[Film/{{Firefox}} Firefox]] |
| 503 | ** "War and Peace and War" had Buzz and Zurg team up to defeat the Heed in their warship, and Zurg mentions that Buzz can [[Film/ANewHope use his weapon to start a chain reaction in the energy core that will cause a meltdown]]. |
| 504 | * SidekickGlassCeiling: If Mira, Booster or XR out-anything Buzz, you can be sure [[StatusQuoIsGod it won't last beyond the end of the episode]]. |
| 505 | * SissyVillain: Um, Zurg. Just ''look'' at the man's reaction to ''bunzel bees''. |
| 506 | --> '''Zurg:''' *flailing desperately* "Whu-AH! AHHH! These things ''sting like the dickens!'' |
| 507 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: ''Way'' on the idealistic side. *coughcough* ''Franchise/StarTrek'', anybody? |
| 508 | * SlobsVersusSnobs: Tangean Royals VS. Tangean Grounders. The Royals are as pretentious as they come, while the Grounders are rather crude. |
| 509 | * SmellyFeetGag: In "Bunzel Fever", Booster gets knocked out by Torque after he experiences symptoms of the Bunzel Fever, XR and Mira find him and try to wake him up, XR pulls out a sock and waves it in Booster's face, Booster wakes up instantly saying how much it stinks and XR says "this thing could raise the dead", Booster asks whose sock it is, Mira, embarrassed, blushes and snags her sock back. |
| 510 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: Mira Nova as the only female member of Team Lightyear, though not the only recurring female in the show. |
| 511 | * SpaceCadetAcademy: The Space Ranger Academy provides education and training for potential Space Rangers. |
| 512 | * SpaceClothes: Like most science fiction works, many characters wear outfits that are completely ludicrous in appearance. |
| 513 | * SpacePolice: Star Command's Space Rangers have the sworn duty of policing the universe. |
| 514 | * SpoilerOpening: Granted, it varies based on [[CouchGag which opening you get]], but nearly every opening montage shows Warp in his villain getup, and the most commonly used one draws heavily on footage from The Adventure Begins and NOS-4-A2. |
| 515 | * StarKilling: "Star Smasher" revolves around Zurg trying to turn the sun into a black hole and using it to eliminate Star Command and Capitol Planet. |
| 516 | * TheStarscream: NOS-4-A2 actually takes over Planet Z from his creator Zurg. |
| 517 | * StealthInSpace: Star Command's cloaking technology is so effective that a person inside a cloaked ship [[FridgeHorror can't see any bit of it]]. |
| 518 | * StoryArc: Very few and far between as arcs were actually discouraged by producers at the time the series was made, but there were some episodes that had more continuity between them. Excluding the three-part pilot, there was also "Wirewolf" and "Revenge of the Monsters", which could easily be viewed as a two-parter. |
| 519 | * SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: The Chlorm are highly intelligent and [[FantasticRacism believe themselves to be superior to all other sapient life forms]]. An attitude that contrasts hilariously with the fact that all their schemes boil down to "make money unscrupulously." |
| 520 | * SurroundedByIdiots: Zurg's staff is borderline incompetent due to the stress of having to work for such a BadBoss. |
| 521 | -->"That is, if the freak show known as ''my staff'' can do [[PunctuatedForEmphasis ONE. THING. RIIIGHT!]]" |
| 522 | * TakeAThirdOption: A big part of Buzz's ''modus operandi''. When he has to choose between Mira, Booster and XR as his potential partners at the end of the PilotMovie, he takes all three on as his team. |
| 523 | * TakeThat: "First Missions" has one towards Starbucks' often-confusing names for drink sizes, in which Zurg complains that tall, grande, and venti should simply be referred to as small, medium, and large. |
| 524 | * TallDarkAndSnarky: Warp. Hard. |
| 525 | -->'''Buzz:''' How do I safely remove this ''thing''... from my neck?\ |
| 526 | '''Warp:''' If you're referring to your head, I completely understand your desire to exchange it for a new one. |
| 527 | * TechnoBabble: Most notably Mira in the climax of "Opposites Attract" - and XR, a robot, ''has no idea what she's saying''. |
| 528 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: How EnemyMine situations between Buzz and Zurg tend to work. They are NOT friends, but they are capable of tolerating each other when their interests align, such as when they took down the Theed. |
| 529 | * TeleporterAccident: A big part of "Rookie of the Year," in which Mira, Booster, and XR get merged ''into a three-headed body''. At the end of the show, the [[LittleGreenMen LGMs]] are ''still'' trying to fix them. |
| 530 | * TermsOfEndangerment: [[ArchEnemy NOS-4-A2]] frequently calls XR "Little One". |
| 531 | * ThatCameOutWrong: When Buzz and the others defeat the Chlorm, who had captured them to be used like zoo exhibits. |
| 532 | --> '''Buzz:''' Maybe now you won't prey on weaker, less intelligent creatures like myself! ''({{Beat}})'' That didn't come out right... |
| 533 | * ThemeNaming: |
| 534 | ** The recurring Chlorm villains Eon, Epoch and Era. |
| 535 | ** The Space Rangers are named after concepts from astrophysics: Buzz Lightyear, Warp Darkmatter, Mira Nova, Commander Nebula, etc. |
| 536 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The '''''HYPER DEATH RAY''''' of course. Lampshaded by Commander Nebula. |
| 537 | -->'''Nebula:''' How's that different to a normal death ray?\ |
| 538 | '''LGM:''' More death. |
| 539 | * TheyKilledKennyAgain: XR regularly finds himself in situations that get him blown up. Thankfully, he's an easily-repaired robot. This is even explicitly a critical consideration in his design when he was first built. |
| 540 | * TitleDrop: They're actually fairly common in the show. Some examples include: |
| 541 | ** "Inside Job" |
| 542 | ** "Little Secrets" |
| 543 | ** "Bunzel Fever" |
| 544 | ** "Sunquake" |
| 545 | ** "Rookie of the Year" |
| 546 | %%* TinCanRobot: There are arguably a fair number of robots that fulfill this role, noticeably XR, XL and 42. |
| 547 | * ToiletHumor: |
| 548 | ** A different take on the trope during a flashback showing how our heroes got ReassignedToAntarctica. They were tasked with watching over some alien emissaries that were reportedly "sensitive about their appearance", then Buzz says WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong and we finally see the aliens... who all resemble toilet bowls. [[HilarityEnsues After that, well...]] |
| 549 | ** Half of Zurg's goal in "Root of Evil", which involves making children terrified of eating their vegetables, is to make them weak via poor nutrition. The other half? Making them "painfully irregular." |
| 550 | * TokenHuman: Buzz... well, he's [[AmbiguouslyHuman probably human]], anyway. |
| 551 | * TooDumbToLive: Sooner or later, ''everybody'' fits this trope. Good thing [[EverybodyLives it's a kids show]]. |
| 552 | * TooManyMouths: The president of the galaxy has two, one atop the other. |
| 553 | * ToylessToylineCharacter: Three of the four main characters were made as action figures. Mira Nova was the only one who didn't get one. |
| 554 | * TheTriple: The [[spoiler:(supposed)]] fates of Buzz's comrades in the far future: Commander Booster, President Nova, XR... with a mustache. |
| 555 | * TrojanPrisoner: Almost goes through with it, with the Commander disguised as a bounty hunter leading Buzz's captured squad away. Unfortunately, the Mole they're secretly rescuing pops out from stowaway too early. |
| 556 | --> Brain: Oh yeah? Sweet freedom! Emperor Zurg can kiss my big, fat cerebellum. Oh... we're not at Star Command yet... are we? |
| 557 | * TroubledFetalPosition: Poor Ty goes through this at one point in "Wirewolf". |
| 558 | * TrickedIntoSigning: The [=LGM=]s got Commander Nebula (who hates robots) to approve the creation of XR by slipping the authorization form in with their vacation requests. It's also implied they've successfully pulled this trick more than once before. |
| 559 | * TrueMeaningOfChristmas: XR learns to be more selfless and caring in the ChristmasEpisode "Holiday Time", but after that [[AesopAmnesia he's back to being his self-centered self]]. |
| 560 | * {{Tuckerization}}: The alien ambassador Guzelian in "War and Peace and War" was probably named after writer [[Series/PowerRangersRPM Eddie Guzelian]]. |
| 561 | * UnitedSpaceOfAmerica: The Galactic Alliance, down to having a President, a Senate and Torque being a wanted man in "...all 50 sectors." |
| 562 | * TheUnpronounceable: The [=LGMs'=] homeworld is identified on-screen as Œzạ£▪◊βGæ!. |
| 563 | * UnusualEuphemism: |
| 564 | ** "Craters!" |
| 565 | ** "Sweet mother of Venus." Golly. |
| 566 | ** "Holy Nova!" Kind of confusing when you consider Mira's last name is "Nova", but it sounds cool. |
| 567 | ** Booster, personally, has "Hot Rockets!", which might also cross into CatchPhrase, as he's the only one who ever says it. |
| 568 | * UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: Level 10 in the pilot. Mira beats Buzz's record, which was Level 9. |
| 569 | * UsedFuture: Sometimes the technology in the show breaks down or malfunctions. |
| 570 | * VengefulVendingMachine: XR is shown getting frustrated by an uncooperative vending machine in "Good Ol' Buzz". |
| 571 | * AVeryStarWarsParody: Subverted. An episode of the show had its plot [[WholePlotReference nearly completely taken]] from ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. |
| 572 | * VideoPhone: People can contact one another on monitors that enable the callers to see each other. The device is even addressed as such. |
| 573 | * VillainousBreakdown: Zurg tends to flip out whenever his plans go south, possibly the most in the climax of "Lost in Time". |
| 574 | * VillainDecay: Warp becomes a lot more inept in "Ancient Evil". In no way does it constitute as BadassDecay. |
| 575 | ** In a bizarre way, it happens with Zurg. His plan in the movie is actually successful, managing to take over the entire galaxy, only failing because of Buzz's incorruptiness, and despite his comedic traits, he is actually more sinister and serious than in the series, coming as an actually threatening villain. In the series, he is generally more wacky and comical, and his plans are less successful. It helps the movie has a more serious tone than the series. |
| 576 | * AVillainNamedZrg: The main villain's name is Zurg. |
| 577 | * VillainessesWantHeroes: Gravitina is a villainess with an unrequited crush on the hero Buzz. |
| 578 | * VirtualRealityInterrogation: One episode uses the FakedRipVanWinkle variant; Buzz is convinced a NegativeSpaceWedgie transported him into the future and destroyed Zurg. In reality, the "museum pieces" are his actual armour, the kids he's telling stories (and weaknesses) to are robots and Zurg is alive, well and showing Buzz's captive crew the whole setup to taunt them. |
| 579 | * WaveMotionGun: The '''''[[OverlyLongGag HYPER DEATH RAY!]]''''' (insert evil music here) |
| 580 | * WellDoneSonGuy: XR considers Commander Nebula to be his father for signing the papers that authorized his creation, but Nebula initially doesn't wish to acknowledge XR as his son. |
| 581 | * WeWillAllFlyInTheFuture: People can get around with jet packs, flying cars and ships. |
| 582 | * WeWillMeetAgain: (Buzz to Zurg) "But the next time we meet, I'm bringing you down and taking you in." |
| 583 | * WhamLine: Warp Darkmatter, in the PilotMovie: [[spoiler:"Lightyear, I've been on Zurg's payroll since the Academy."]] Buzz's reaction is the saddest HeroicBSOD in the entire series. |
| 584 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Throughout the series, XR and countless other robots are crushed, torn apart, tortured, and frequently put through the wringer, and no-one bats an eyelid at this regardless of how sentient the robot in question may be. Notably, NOS-4-A2 (a robot vampire) is the only character to be KilledOffForReal. |
| 585 | * WhatTheHellHero: Mira and Booster do this to Buzz when he shrugs off Bonnie Lepton's feelings for him as a stereotypical DamselInDistress 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. |
| 586 | * WheresTheKaboom: From "The Lightyear Factor" |
| 587 | -->'''Zurg:''' Where's my big universe-altering explosion?! |
| 588 | * WholeEpisodeFlashback: The show has two of these. "Lone Wolf" shows Buzz in his early days as a Space Ranger, and "First Missions" shows how Buzz met Mira and Booster. And XR...to an extent. |
| 589 | * WholePlotReference: Professor von Madman's a big one to ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet''. |
| 590 | ** "Strange Invasion" is one to the RealLife Roswell incident. Even the planet itself is named Roswell. |
| 591 | ** "Conspiracy" is a loose one of Film/TheFugitive. |
| 592 | ** "Bunzel Fever" is a G-Rated version of [[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime "Amok Time"]] from [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek: The Original Series]]. |
| 593 | * WorldOfHam: Quite a lot of characters on this show just love to chew the scenery and speak their lines with tremendous amounts of volume and vigor. |
| 594 | * WiperStart: In one episode, Buzz attempts to take control of a derelict spaceship. In trying to decipher the controls, he activates a turn signal, a cupholder, the wipers, and the seatbelt. Later, after finding and awakening the crew, it's revealed that the "cupholder" was actually the main helm control. |
| 595 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Professor von Madman as a human/crystal cyborg. |
| 596 | * WorldOfSnark: Half of the cast gets a chance to snark, especially Mira, XR, Zurg, Warp and Ty. Even Buzz and Booster get their chances to snark once in a while. |
| 597 | * WorthyOpponent: Twice invoked (not quite in so many words) by Zurg regarding Buzz in the pilot. |
| 598 | * WretchedHive: Tradeworld, best known for its black market dealings ans high crime rate, especially ''Killerville''. |
| 599 | * TheXOfY: The series' title "''Buzz Lightyear'' of ''Star Command''" in the same vein of an old unrelated show Series/JasonOfStarCommand. |
| 600 | * YankTheDogsChain: Buzz takes XR as a nonsentient robot out on a test mission to find Agent Z. At one point Agent Z manages to knock XR off a building, but XR recovers while repeating Buzz's BadassBoast of "he's good, but I'm better". Buzz smiles and says he ''is'' learning. Then Agent Z blows XR to bits, and steals the LGM Unimind. While the Little Green Men repair XR, he's not quite the same. |
| 601 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: NOS-4-A2 and XL had a temporary VillainTeamUp but, being aware of what NOS-4-A2 likes to do with robots, XL eventually grew afraid of the trope. |
| 602 | * YouKilledMyFather: In "The Slayer", Savy SL-2 makes it her mission to destroy NOS-4-A2 because the energy vampire killed her adoptive robot parents, though they are later resurrected. |
| 603 | * YouMeanXmas: The ChristmasEpisode, oddly, refers to Christmas only as "the holiday", despite the obvious appearance of Santa Claus. |
| 604 | ** Maybe Zurg stole the word too! |
| 605 | * YouRemindMeOfX: In “The Slayer”, Savy SL-2 tells XR that he reminds her of her adoptive robot father, because their eyes are the same make and model. |
| 606 | * {{Zeerust}}: Intentionally invoked in the series' aesthetic, even including references to [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Tomorrowland]] such as Buzz living in the ''House of the Future'' or Star Command's close resemblance to ''Ride/SpaceMountain''. |
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