History YMMV / BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand

* InkSuitActor: Ty Parsec resembles his voice actor, Steve Hytner, down to the brown hair, face shape, and lines around his mouth.

* EarWorm: "Let's Make Peace", a song written and performed by Creator/EricIdle for the episode "War and Peace [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment and War]]".
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Expect to see comments hoping to see Mira, XR, and Booster in a ''Toy Story'' entry.

** The show does a episode (one of two actually) with Buzz and Booster crash landing on a world called Roswell where they're the aliens and the residents are the stereotypical green/gray alien the media usually depicts. (green skin, blacks eyes bald head, etc) Yet their town is effectively just like a normal human town. A few years after the show ends its run, a movie called ''WesternAnimation/{{Planet 51}}'' is made detailing...you guessed it (though their aliens are different looking the premise is the same). What makes it funny? It's a CGI movie made by another company and this show was co-produced by Pixar, whose forte is CGI movies.

* ThatOneLevel: Canis Lunis 2 is considered the hardest level in the game. For one, it [[UnexpectedGameplayChange changes the gameplay from racing to fighting waves of enemies in various rooms]] (a very tedious process in on itself), all while trying to disable the many bombs throughout the level. It also happens to be the [[MarathonLevel longest level]] in the game, and dying or letting a bomb explode at any point forces you to replay it from the start.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Probably due to the show's nature as a spinoff, something like this was likely never going to happen (along with the fact that John Lasseter isn’t fond of this show for some reason), but the show and its content is never referenced anywhere else in the ''Toy Story'' universe.

* NoProblemWithLicensedGames: While not a masterpiece by any stretch, it is still a pretty fun and simple game with a big variety of weapons, powerups and vehicles, a nice soundtrack, some challenging side missions, pretty cel-shaded graphics and entertaining gameplay.

* NoProblemWithLicencedGames: While not a masterpiece by any stretch, it is still a pretty fun and simple game with a big variety of weapons, powerups and vehicles, a nice soundtrack, some challenging side missions, pretty cel-shaded graphics and entertaining gameplay.

* UglyCute: Villainess Gravitina is actually very beautiful, but has a very large head.

* MagnificentBastard: NOS-4-A2 surely qualifies.

* GeniusBonus: Natron the First, the "Living Mummy". The mineral natron was one of the important ingredients in the mummification process in AncientEgypt.
** Also, to get to Planet Roswell, you need to go through the Mogul system. A Project Mogul balloon was said to be the cause of the RealLife Roswell Incident.

* HilariousInHindsight: The show does a episode (one of two actually) with Buzz and Booster crash landing on a world called Roswell where they're the aliens and the residents are the stereotypical green/gray alien the media usually depicts. (green skin, blacks eyes bald head, etc) Yet their town is effectively just like a normal human town. A few years after the show ends its run, a movie called ''WesternAnimation/{{Planet 51}}'' is made detailing...you guessed it (though their aliens are different looking the premise is the same). What makes it funny? It's a CGI movie made by another company and this show was co-produced by Pixar, whose forte is CGI movies.

* MildlyMilitary: Star Command does possess some form of militaristic discipline and rule regulation, but they seem lax otherwise.

* ThatOneLevel: Canis Lunis 2 is thought of as the hardest level in the game. For one, it [[UnexpectedGameplayChange changes the gameplay from racing to fighting waves of enemies in various rooms]] (a very tedious process in on itself), all while trying to disable the many bombs throughout the level. It also happens to be the [[MarathonLevel longest level]] in the game, and dying or letting a bomb explode at any point forces you to replay it from the start.

%% CompleteMonster - Evil Buzz Lightyear and NOS-4-A2 removed per the Complete Monster Cleanup Thread. Do not add them back without approval

* {{Expy}}: [[BigBad Zurg]] may be one of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]] of all people; he's the series eponymous character's greatest enemy, [[CardCarryingVillain he self-identifies as Evil]], he tries to conquer everything he lays eyes on, he ''always'' shows up at inopportune moments to make things worse, he always comes back no matter how many times he's defeated, he's responsible - or at least related to - pretty much anything villainous that happens in the series, ''and he even has horns!''
** Except that while Zurg only engaged in an EnemyMine situation with Buzz once, Bowser made quite a few temporary alliances with [[TheHero Mario]], making him a {{Hypocrite}} for self-identifying as Evil. Choosing to help Mario instead of [[VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG Smithy]], [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Cackletta]], and [[VideoGame/SuperPaperMario Dimentio]] is not evil, it's ''selfish,'' particularly wanting his castle back. And because of that, others are have also contributed to anything villainous around the Mushroom Kingdom.
** Also, ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' confirmed that [[VillainousCrush Bowser wants Princess Peach all for himself]], which turned kidnapping her into his Achilles Heel and since then played a huge role in Mario defeating him every time and doing more damage to Bowser than Princess Peach, [[DamselInDistress no matter how she can't prevent herself from being kidnapped,]] nor how much Bowser comes back after. Zurg never had that kind of weakness.
** And Bowser might be more reckless than Zurg. In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', Bowser's plot is to steal Grand Stars and use them to mutilate the order of the Galaxy to recreate it to revolve around his Sun in an EvilEmpire. While there's obvious sinister intentions, Bowser nonetheless likely risks destroying everything, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard including him.]] [[KnightOfCerebus But this makes him MORE of a threat than he had been,]] [[AGodAmI especially his attempt to play God.]] Zurg would love to do something like this, but he might do better with his own plot to avoid risking himself.
** Either way, Bowser is currently more comparable to [[Anime/DragonBallZ Vegeta]] than Zurg. Vegeta himself had a lot of those similarities to Zurg too, but like Bowser, he ended up becoming a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor. However, at some point after the Babidi Saga, he made a permanent HeelFaceTurn. If Bowser were to make a much-needed, yet unlikely HeelFaceTurn, he should have no remorse for the evil things he's done, and only in it for himself, while the Mario games would get a new villain who'd at least have the best villainous traits Bowser had. Still being the BigBad doesn't exactly erase being an occasional enemy of his foes, even as a greater menace in both [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy Galaxy]] [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2 games]], while being more of a nuisance than a threat just about everywhere else after Paper Mario for N64. Zurg, on the other hand, never had any shortcomings and/or other reasons to make a HeelFaceTurn nor get [[FinalDeath permanently defeated]]. And forget about the Zurg toy and the Utility Belt Buzz toy in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2.''

** Either way, Bowser is currently more comparable to [[Anime/DragonBallZ Vegeta]] than Zurg. Vegeta himself had a lot of those similarities to Zurg too, but like Bowser, he ended up becoming a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor. However, at some point after the Babidi Saga, he made a permanent HeelFaceTurn. If Bowser were to make a much-needed, yet unlikely HeelFaceTurn, he should have no remorse for the evil things he's done, and only in it for himself, while the Mario games would get a new villain who'd at least have the best villainous traits Bowser had. Still being the BigBad doesn't exactly erase being an occasional enemy of his foes, even as a greater menace in both [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy Galaxy]] [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2 games]], while being more of a nuisance than a threat just about everywhere else after Paper Mario for N64. Zurg, on the other hand, never had any shortcomings and/or other reasons to make a HeelFaceTurn. And forget about the Zurg toy and the Utility Belt Buzz toy in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2.''

** Either way, Bowser is currently more comparable to [[Anime/DragonBallZ Vegeta]] than Zurg. Vegeta himself had a lot of those similarities to Zurg too, but like Bowser, he ended up becoming a HellFaceRevolvingDoor. However, at some point after the Babidi Saga, he made a permanent HeelFaceTurn. If Bowser were to make a much-needed, yet unlikely HeelFaceTurn, he should have no remorse for the evil things he's done, and only in it for himself, while the Mario games would get a new villain who'd at least have the best villainous traits Bowser had. Still being the BigBad doesn't exactly erase being an occasional enemy of his foes, even as a greater menace in both [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy Galaxy [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2 games]], while being more of a nuisance than a threat just about everywhere else after Paper Mario for N64. Zurg, on the other hand, never had any shortcomings and/or other reasons to make a HeelFaceTurn. And forget about the Zurg toy and the Utility Belt Buzz toy in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2.''

** Finally, Bowser might be more reckless than Zurg. In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', Bowser's plot is to steal Grand Stars and use them to mutilate the order of the Galaxy to recreate it to revolve around his Sun in an EvilEmpire. While there's obvious sinister intentions, Bowser nonetheless risks destroying everything, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard including him.]]

* {{Expy}}: [[BigBad Zurg]] may be one of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]] of all people; he's the series eponymous character's greatest enemy, [[CardCarryingVillain he self-identifies as Evil]], he tries to conquer everything he lays eyes on, he ''always'' shows up at inopportune moments to make things worse, he always comes back no matter how many times he's defeated, he's responsible - or at least related to - pretty much anything villainous that happens in the series, ''and he even has horns!'' If Bowser ever tried on a [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] suit, the two would be virtually indistinguishable.

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* RewatchBonus: During the scene where Warp fakes his death in the PilotMovie, he can be seen smiling, which is a hint early on that his death was staged and that he wasn't on Buzz's side in the first place.

* EarWorm: "Let's Make Peace", a song written and performed by [[Creator/MontyPython Eric]] [[{{Spamalot}} Idle]] for the episode "War and Peace [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment and War]]".

* GainaxEnding: How does the final fight between the Galactic Alliance and the Evil Empire conclude? [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn Does Warp Darkmatter return to Star Command]]]]? Do Mira and Romac live happily ever after? Is there a connection between Jessie from ''Toy Story 2'' and Dr. Ozma Furbanna? The series never actually had a formal conclusion.