Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Story

Characters

Star Command

Team Lightyear

• Captain Buzz Lightyear : Famed Space Ranger known for heroism and bravery and leader of Team Lightyear. Buzz often suggests that his arch-villain Emperor Zurg is behind every evil plot and is often proven correct. Like his Toy Story incarnation, Buzz is a stickler for procedure, but will tell a cover story if he needs to. However, he has few people skills, and at times displays a lack of integrity. He attended PS- 19³ as a primary school. He wrote at least half of the regulations in the Star Command Manual. He also owns a house on Capital Planet, though as they all look alike and his duties often keep him away, he is confused over just which one is his. To compare this animation and the Toy Story films, the button between the red and blue ones is green in the Toy Story films and yellow in this animation with the releasing of strings when pressed. He seems to have a little crush on Dr. Ozma Furbanna and vice versa.
• Princess Mira Nova : A rookie ranger and heir to the Tangean throne. She utilizes her people's ability to phase through walls and read minds. Buzz has a tendency to refer to her as "Princess" when he's angry with her. She acts as Buzz's co-pilot and second-in-command. She has the most common sense of the team. Mira also has an estranged relationship with her father, King Nova, who disapproves of her choice of being a Space Ranger, though deep down she still cares about him. She has red hair and turquoise skin.
• Booster Sinclair Munchapper : A huge dinosaur-like former janitor from the agricultural planet of Jo-ad. He has a big appetite and incredible strength, but is sweet and occasionally naive. He is in awe of Buzz Lightyear and has encyclopedic knowledge of his prior adventures.
• XR : A short robot that was originally emotionless and programmed to learn from Buzz, but was blown apart by Agent Z during his first mission. The LGMs rebuilt him, but the temporary loss of the Uni-Mind to Emperor Zurg left them off their game. They rebuilt XR with his slicker, more emotional personality and a variety of attachments. XR stands for Experimental Ranger.. He gets blown apart on nearly every mission he goes on, but is easily rebuilt. He considers Commander Nebula his father and is always seeking his approval.

  Other personnel

• Commander Nebula : The Space Rangers' commander and Buzz's superior, whose left leg was replaced by a pegleg-like plasma cannon. Rather short-tempered and constantly speaks with a loud voice. He has a robotic desk that forces him to do his paperwork. He hates to do so, though, and therefore signs forms without looking at them. By doing so, he inadvertently gave permission for the creation of XR, who therefore considers him a father. Nebula is frequently irritated by this, though he gives XR his due for his successes.
• LGMs, or Little Green Men : The LGMs are small, three-eyed aliens. They are the intensely loyal backbone of Star Command, keeping the station running while inventing/maintaining all of the equipment. When one of their own is kidnapped, the other LGMs will instinctively try to rescue him by any means necessary. LGMs are typically in awe of Buzz. While they generally like the other Rangers, they may not be able to tell one from another. Several of their race are also shown to work for Santa Claus, acting as his toy builders.
• Ty Parsec : Ty is the infamous old comrade of Buzz Lightyear, who is fed up with Buzz always coming to his rescue. The Space Ranger was accidentally transformed into the robotic Wirewolf on the planet of Canis Lunis, after being bitten by the villain NOS-4-A2 while exposed to radioactive moonrock. Appeared in two episodes, with a cameo appearance in the episode "War, Peace, and War". He is ultimately cured and reinstated as a Space Ranger.
• Rocket Crocket : Member of Star Command and leader of Team Rocket. He has been Buzz's rival since their academy days.
• Petra Hammerhold : Senator Hammerhold's daughter. She joined Star Command when her father forced her to do so. She was initially resentful of this, but was moved by Buzz's heroism during a crisis.
• Plasma Boy : Petra's boyfriend, who has a Plasma Monster form. Booster competed against him for Petra's affection. When Mira and XR fired a laser at his Plasma Monster form, he destabilized enough to the brink of explosion. He was prevented from explosion when Booster used his suit and Ion Stabilization Matrix on him. He's now a member of Star Command.
• 42 : Usually the name of Buzz Lightyear's ship, it gained A.I. from one of the encounters with the Valkyran Raiders and a new energy projector device inserted on the ship by the LGMs. 42 doesn't like what Buzz says about her and usually controls the ship herself. XR developed a crush on her. When the Valkyran Raiders were thwarted, 42's consciousness was placed into a robot body and she now helps the LGMs.

  Villains

• Evil Emperor Zurg : Main antagonist of the series. Rules an empire on Planet Z, and wants to rule the entire galaxy while destroying Star Command. Emperor Zurg considers Buzz his arch-enemy and often takes any opportunity to eliminate him. Most of his subjects are robots. His feet double as rockets and he can transform his arms into a variety of weapons. Despite often breaking the seriousness of otherwise purely evil statements, Zurg is widely considered the most evil person in the galaxy, especially by the other villains. He seems to have some neuroses about being touched. In some episodes is shown being sinister. The episode War, and Peace and War was notably the only episode where Zurg teamed up with Buzz Lightyear to defeat the Heed, a common enemy that was trying to take over their galaxy. In Stranger Invasion, he revealed himself to be Buzz's father, but quickly took it back, using the statement as a 'Made You Look' in order to stun Buzz and gain the upper hand.
• * Grubs : Zurg's equivalents to the LGMs of Star Command. They perform mechanical and technical duties. The Grubs work for Zurg against their will and also desire freedom, but many of them are simply too afraid to try to defect.
• * Brain Pods : Cybernetic brains in mobile jars, who serve Zurg as scientists and researchers. Although they take pride in their creations, they secretly harbor a desire to escape from Zurg's control.
• * Hornets: The Hornets are Zurg's robotic foot soldiers, extremely expendable, lousy shots and always get vaporized in mass numbers by Lightyear's team. Hornets come in different models, but the most frequently seen are yellow and of average height.
• Warp Darkmatter was once Buzz's partner and friend, but he had been secretly working for Zurg since his academy days as a double agent and also betrayed Star Command. He eventually began working for him full-time as "Agent Z." His right arm is robotic and was grafted to his body after becoming Agent Z. Warp often takes on assignments for Zurg and is paid quite handsomely. Though Buzz has vowed to bring him in for treason, he retains some hope that there is still some good in him.
• Gravitina : A large-headed female villain with mental control over gravity. One of Zurg's allies and once hired to destroy Star Command. She's in love with Buzz and later his evil counterpart.
• NOS-4-A2 : NOS-4-A2 is a robotic vampire created by Zurg. He is capable of draining any system or entity driven by electrical power, as well as controlling any machine he bites. His bite also transformed Ty Parsec into Wirewolf. Using Wirewolf and XL, he briefly usurped control of Planet Z from Zurg and attempted to transform everyone in the galaxy into robots for him to feed on, but was defeated and destroyed by Buzz, XR, and a reformed XL. His name is a pun on the term Nosferatu.
• Torque : Minor alien villain who committed crimes of terrorism, smuggling, arson, and unpaid parking tickets. After being freed from a prison transport by Zurg's Hornets, the Grubs implanted a cell-separation device upon his chest. Torque then possesses the ability to create duplicate versions of himself. They are unstable, however, as a single laser blast is enough to destroy them. In "The Taking of PC-7", he tried to turn Booster evil with a memory-altering device built by the Warden of PC-7. The same device also made Torque a heroic good guy. Torque rides a motorcycle-shaped spacecraft and his duplication abilities seem to be a reference to the character Lobo.
• XL : XR's predecessor, who was shut down due to his villainous attitude. When he was reactivated by Zurg, XL rebuilt himself into a larger, more powerful robot with cutting edge robot parts. His head is red, whereas XR's is yellow. He infiltrates Star Command numerous times because its command codes are in his head. Like XR, he considers Commander Nebula his father, though he resents him for shutting him down. He later redeems himself and is converted into an office managing robot capable of photocopying, collating, and other office related functions. His name is a pun referring to his size.
• Wirewolf : A Space Ranger who patrolled the planet Canis Lunis until an attack from NOS-4-A2. While Ty was in combat with the energy vampire, NOS-4-A2, flew himself and Ty up into the beam, which gave power to the planet from the moon's radioactive energy, and bit into Ty's skin. After NOS-4-A2 fled, Ty started to mutate into some sort of electronic canine, later given the title of "Wirewolf." Having discovered that this transformation only happens in the light of the Canis Lunis moon, Buzz told Booster to destroy the moon. Once the moon was destroyed, Team Lightyear believed that the Wirewolf was finished until NOS-4-A2 gave Ty a Canis Lunis moonrock. When NOS-4-A2 was destroyed, Ty was turned back to normal, ending the curse of the Wirewolf.

  Galactic Alliance

• Madam President : Head of the Galactic Alliance. Her real name is unknown.
• Senator Aarrfvox : A Shragorakian senator.
• Senator Banda : A Bathyosian senator.
• Senator Hammerhold : Petra Hammerhold's father.
• Senator Phlegmex : A slime-emitting senator.

  Other characters

• Becky : A little alien girl from the planet Roswell. She befriended Booster when Team Lightyear's ship crashed on her planet.
• Brent Starkisser : The Galaxy's reporter.
• Cosmo : An alien that owns and runs the diner that Team Lightyear eats at. He has a mechanical arm as well as a foreign accent.
• Dr. Animus : The Galaxy's therapist.
• Dr. Ozma Furbanna : Lead naturalist on planet Karn. She favors all animals and hates to have them hurt, no matter what. Has a crush on Buzz, and vice versa. Zurg once used her help to hatch the Millennial Bugs where Zurg will use them on Capital Planet.
• Ed : A courier who somehow always knows how to track down Buzz Lightyear.
• Officer Panchex : A fish policeman who helped Buzz Lightyear fight Minister Gularis.
• Professor Triffid : A scientist from Rhizome. He cares a lot for the plants there.
• Savy SL2 : Her adopted robot parents were attacked by NOS-4-A2 in The Slayer, which lead her to hunting him down for revenge.
• Sheriff of Roswell : Becky's father and ally of Team Lightyear.
• King Nova : Mira's father and the ruler of Tangea. Being more tradition bound he clearly disapproves of his daughter being a Space Ranger and therefore has a complicated relationship with her as well as Buzz. But regardless of his pompous nature he still cares about his daughter and also came to her aid when she had developed a power addiction and helped her get over it, though he almost got his wish of getting his daughter back in this instance had Buzz not saved her career through a cover story.
• Santa Claus : The holiday figure, who delivers presents to all the good people in the galaxy during the Holiday. He previously used a sleigh powered by belief and later time manipulation to accomplish this massive task. Zurg stole his time manipulation device to destroy the Holiday for everyone, prompting Santa to seek Team Lightyear's help.
• The Fixer : A character from Trade World. He sells robotic parts to people around Trade World, and once tricked XR into delivering a package to XL.
• Crumford Lorak : A conman, informant and criminal commonly seen on Trade World. When this guy gets the chance, he always tricks or turns on the first ranger he sees.
• Rentwhistle Swack : An unscrupulous conman who will do anything for money.

  Planets and moons

• Bathyos: An ocean planet.
• Beta Bayou: A bottom-feeder hunter that Rentwhistle Swack rendezvous with is from this planet.
• Binipinardia: A planet that contained a devolution gas.
• Canis Lunis: A planet where Ty Parsec was turned into Wirewolf by NOS-4-A2. The name derives from the Latin words for "canine" and "moon."
• Capital Planet: The Galactic Alliance members meet here and the "Earth" of the galaxy.
• Gargantia: A planet inhabited by tiny aliens.
• Jo-Ad: An agricultural planet which is Booster's home planet.
• Karn: A planet that serves as a creature reserve. Dr. Ozma Furbanna works here.
• LGM Homeworld : The home planet of the LGMs. The Unimind is located here.
• Mahambas VI: A resort planet.
• North Polaris: Santa Claus's planet, populated by "Elf-G-M"s. The galaxy's version of the North Pole.
• Olur V: Zurg used this planet to hatch the Millennial Bugs in one of his plans to attack Capital Planet.
• PC-7: A prison planet.
• Planet X: A somewhat desert-like planet with no name or life. Home of an ancient city and the temple containing Natron.
• Planet Z: Zurg's planet where his home base is located.
• Porcelon: A planet where its inhabitants look like large toilets.
• Raenok: The Raenok's self-titled planet.
• Rexon V:
• Rhizome: A vegetation planet which is Professor Triffid's home world.
• Roswell: A planet similar to Earth in 1947. The inhabitants of Roswell are grey aliens. An incident happens there, somewhat like the real Roswell incident, but with the roles of the alien and human inverted; the humans being the visitors and the aliens being the skeptical government. E.g. in it a Grey police station commander said "... and I suppose they had big flappy mouths and little bitty eyes..." when querying one of his men's statement about seeing landing humans.
• Sands de Solay: A resort moon. Destroyed by an out-of-control freight ship.
• Sentilla VI: A stormy planet with lava rivers.
• Shragorak: Senator Aarrfvox's home planet.
• Sitka VII: A ski resort planet.
• Tangea: Mira's home planet inhabited by two races: the Tangean Royals and Grounders. The name is based on the Royals' ability to become intangible.
• Trade World: A commercial-oriented world where lesser bad guys hang out.
• Verdentia: A peaceful planet.
• Uncharted Moon: The very moon where we see Buzz and Warp in The Adventure Begins also where Buzz thought Warp was killed but later discovered that he started working for Zurg disguised as the mysterious Agent Z and that the explosion only damaged Warp's arm forcing him to get a new, robotic, arm with multiple weapons programmed in it.

  Episodes

UPN (2000)

ABC (2000–2001)

Broadcast and syndication

Awards and nominations

• Daytime Emmy Awards

  Home media

Video game

Cultural references

• Buzz's house and everyone elses' houses on Capital Planet are based an attraction at Disneyland called Monsanto House of the Future which existed from 1957 to 1967, whilst Star Command is visually based on Space Mountain.
• The episode "Strange Invasion", is a spoof of the Roswell Incident right down to the alien autopsy film and the "weather balloon coverup". Also keeping in line with the Roswell Incident, the planet they crash on is called "Roswell" and it bears a strong resemblance to the American Southwest; its inhabitants, meanwhile, resemble the grey aliens.
• The "Roswellian" sheriff and barber are spoofs of Sheriff Andy Taylor and Floyd the Barber on The Andy Griffith Show.
• When Buzz and Booster return to "Roswell" in the episode "Stranger Invasion", they end up attending a tea party hosted by the little girl Booster befriended during their first visit. While Booster wears the same outfit he did in "Strange Invasion", Buzz wears the same outfit he did as "Mrs. Nesbitt" in Toy Story at Hannah Phillips' tea party.
• In the episode "Stranger Invasion", Buzz Lightyear and the Evil Emperor Zurg engage in a confrontation similar to a lightsaber battle, in which Zurg distracts Buzz by claiming he's his father. Zurg also stated that he was Buzz's father in Toy Story 2, in which the scene parodied The Empire Strikes Back.
• Both the name of the last episode and the number of Buzz's ship, 42, are almost certainly references to the answer to life, the universe, and everything from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
• In the episode "Star Crossed", one of the characters is seen ordering food from Pizza Planet, which appeared as a space-themed restaurant in Toy Story. Pizza Planet was a Toy Story themed pizza restaurant in Disney's Hollywood Studios from December 15, 1995 to January 19, 2016 and the Pizza Planet which was formally Redd Rockett's Pizza Port.