History YMMV / BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand

** Creator/NicoleSullivan plays a character whose mockingly referred to as "princess" by one of the villains, though technically [[ModestRoyalty]] she is. Two years she be [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible on a show]] playing the villain that mockingly calls the hero "princess".

*** And just to make things even funnier, Creator/ChrisEvans, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica himself will be voicing Buzz Lightyear in the upcoming movie, ''Lightyear''.
** The show does an 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.
** Wayne Knight voicing Zurg becomes especially hilarious when one remembers that the wrong Buzz Lightyear once speculated that Al, who was also voiced by Wayne Knight, was one of Zurg's minions when they inform him that he was the guy who kidnapped Woody in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''.

** Warp Darkmatter is Buzz Lightyear's EvilCounterpart, a suave, snarky mercenary who functions as the competent [[TheDragon right-hand man]] to Evil Emperor Zurg. Having fooled Buzz and all of Star Command for years undercover as a Space Ranger, Warp uses his position to collect information before ultimately faking his own death and allying with Zurg "full-time." Becoming Agent Z, Warp successfully pulls off the theft of the Unimind, outwits and traps Buzz and his team at various times, and is such a successful freelance BountyHunter that he owns an entire moon paradise all to himself. Capable of honor and comraderie even in villainy, Warp allies with Buzz more than once to combat greater threats and showcases a willingness to put his own neck on the line to save his allies while outsmarting worse villains than himself. Darkly hilarious and far more capable than most other villains in the series, Warp is always proud to boast that he's only evil for "more profit and more fun."

* OneSceneWonder: Fop Doppler, Mira's would-be fiance from "Mira's Wedding". He subverts UpperClassTwit by showing he's a natural at Space Ranger Training, and puts it to good use during the climax when stopping a coup. (It turns out he was CrazyPrepared and wore his ranger suit under his wedding outfit, scrapping for a fight.) Oh, and once the dust settles and Mira admits what he did was amazing, he's quite reasonable; he likes Mira as a friend but agrees with her that an ArrangedMarriage seems unfair to both of them. XR manages to nullify the arrangements, and Mira considers Fop a good friend and Ranger.

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

* FoeYay: NOS-4-A2 gives off shades of this towards [[ArchNemesis XR]]. When he’s not trying to exact revenge on him, he’s trying to get him back under his control. Then there’s the fact he almost always calls XR “[[TermsOfEndangerment Little One]]”.
-->'''NOS-4-A2:''' (''after capturing XR'') We must stop meeting like this. People will talk.

* AcceptableTargets: Politicians.

** [[DarthVaderClone Warp Darkmatter]] is Buzz Lightyear's EvilCounterpart, a suave, snarky mercenary who functions as the competent [[TheDragon right-hand man]] to Evil Emperor Zurg. Having fooled Buzz and all of Star Command for years undercover as a Space Ranger, Warp uses his position to collect information before ultimately faking his own death and allying with Zurg "full-time." Becoming Agent Z, Warp successfully pulls off the theft of the Unimind, outwits and traps Buzz and his team at various times, and is such a successful freelance BountyHunter that he owns an entire moon paradise all to himself. Capable of honor and comraderie even in villainy, Warp allies with Buzz more than once to combat greater threats and showcases a willingness to put his own neck on the line to save his allies while outsmarting worse villains than himself. Darkly hilarious and far more capable than most other villains in the series, Warp is always proud to boast that he's only evil for "more profit and more fun."

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: One of Zurg's lines in "Stranger Invasion" suddenly gets very disturbing after seeing ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''.
--> '''Zurg''': And if I may remind you, no [[Franchise/StarWars giant]] [[Film/ANewHope trash compactor]]! When heroes fall in, they always have enough time to figure a way out! Make it [[spoiler:an incinerator]]!

* HarsherInHindsight: In "Eye of the Tempest," a mutated super villain wrecks a power station made up of two generating towers. The first one is damaged without much comment... But as the second comes down, Mira shouts, "Look out! The other tower!" amid falling rubble. Chilling in hindsight, as WTC North would do the same less than a year later.

* ItWasHisSled: 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]].

** After the United States Space Force was formed, one of it's field commands's emblem calls itself [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Training_and_Readiness_Command Star Command]].

** Another villain, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Norbert Klerm]], was voiced by Mitchell Whitfield, who would later voice a much more important villain in [[WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}} another Disney action series]].
** In the DTV intro for "The Adventure Begins", Woody jokes that the toys just want to watch all the commercials on the VHS. With the advent of Website/YouTube, it's become common for users to upload just the previews of various VHS tapes.
** In the episode "Mindwarp", Buzz is brainwashed into thinking he works for the episode’s villain, Norbert Klerm, and Team Lightyear has to snap him out of it. Something very similar happens to Buzz in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The show as a whole could be considered Disney's answer to Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: A lot of people think Ty Parsec had a lot of potential, whether as Buzz Lightyear's 'rival', or as the TragicVillain Wirewolf - which would certainly be a variation on all the CardCarryingVillain types in the show. But no, he's only in two episodes and they just say "The Curse of the Wirewolf is lifted". Even if everybody else turned by the ray gun was cured, since Ty was bitten by NOS-4-A2, he should still be a Wirewolf even if there was no way of him transforming into the beast - and destroying a whole moon by flying your hollow spaceship into it? COME ON PEOPLE.

** "The Lightyear Factor" & "[[Recap/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommandE49Sunquake Sunquake]]": [[EvilDoppelganger Evil Buzz Lightyear]] is an [[AlternateSelf alternate version of Buzz]] from a parallel universe who lacks his bold heroism. A [[CardCarryingVillain gleefully evil]] conqueror who successfully destroyed Star Command and imprisoned every ranger there, Evil Buzz proceeded to wipe out millions across the galaxy--including Capital Planet and Tangea--and claim control of the universe he inhabited. Encountering a Zurg from another dimension, Evil Buzz partners with him upon [[MultiversalConqueror being offered control of his universe]]. Imprisoning Buzz and destroying Star Command, Evil Buzz takes Team Lightyear captive to be killed. Partnering with Gravatina after his initial defeat, Evil Buzz, as revenge for Buzz "ruining" his home universe, plans to use Gravatina's powers to cause a series of sunquakes that will [[OrbitalBombardment rain comets upon numerous populated planets]], specifically targeting Capital Planet and Star Command just to spite Buzz. Despite forming a romantic relationship with Gravatina, Evil Buzz leaves her behind to die once their space station starts collapsing into the sun.

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

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Expect to see comments hoping to see Mira, XR, and Booster in a ''Toy Story'' entry.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: In each level, you can collect little green men in order to win a medal, however the game also allows you to shoot at them until they die.

** The pilot movie has the plot featuring [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier the best friend of a soldier who is at first thought to be dead but is actually the true identity of]] TheDragon [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier for the bad guys]] and [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy a group of rag-tag intergalactic misfits who don't get along at first but become a family unit by the end]].

** The pilot movie has the plot featuring [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier the best friend of a soldier who is at first thought to be dead but is actually the true identity of TheDragon for the bad guys]] and [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy a group of rag-tag intergalactic misfits who don't get along at first but become a family unit by the end]].

** The pilot movie has the plot featuring [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier the best friend of a soldier who is at first thought to be dead but is actually being brainwashed by the bad guys]] and [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy a group of rag-tag intergalactic misfits who don't get along at first but become a family unit by the end]].

* ItWasHisSled: If you saw the show before watching the movie, you would know that Warp Darkmatter didn't actually die.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: In each level, you can rescue little green men in order to win a medal, however the game also allows you to shoot them until die.