Buzz Lightyear

“To infinity and beyond!”

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Buzz Lightyear is the main character of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. He is Star Command's most famous Space Ranger and has the reputation of always triumphing over evil. He was first introduced in The Adventure Begins and has appeared in a total of 62 episodes (not including the pilot). He is voiced by Tim Allen in the DVD and VHS release of the pilot and by Patrick Warburton throughout the rest of the series.

History

Early Years

Little is known about Buzz's childhood besides the fact that he was born on the planet Morph, located in the Gamma Quadrant in Sector 4. He grew up hearing all about Star Command and always wanted to be a Space Ranger. He was most likely raised by his grandmother, Nana Lightyear, seeing as she is the only relative he has ever mentioned, never having spoken of his mother or father.

Buzz also had an obsession with weapon-based toys as a child. For his sixth birthday, he asked Nana Lightyear for a Ranger-X Big Blue Rocket that shot real flames, but received socks instead. (He never really got over the socks.) When he was nine, he wanted a Retro Rocket Racer with real flashing lights (and a working laser), and when he didn't get it for The Holiday, he stopped believing in Santa Claus. The reason he never received the gift from Santa was because he had somehow gotten hold of a blaster and injured his cat Fluffy, proving that he was irresponsible with such toys.

Academy Years and Quitting

However, Buzz eventually matured and learned to be responsible about such things. During his training at the Space Ranger Academy alongside Warp Darkmatter, he studied long hours and underwent rigorous training, slowly becoming the Space Ranger he would come to be known as today. He managed to finish first in his class and was eager to set off and get a taste of how Space Rangers operated. However, his enthusiasm in pursuing criminals proved to be too overzealous, forgetting how the court system could be used against him for his "over-the-line" conduct in arrests. Without the proper evidence, the criminal he had bagged was allowed to walk free and Buzz was faced with disciplinary charges over blowing up half of Alliance Plaza.

This led Buzz to become embittered and briefly quit Star Command and the life of a Space Ranger. He decided to simply drive on and let the road take him wherever it would, traveling all the way to the edge of the Galactic Fringe. There, he met Myka and Zoey and helped them overcome their difficulties with an overbearing gas baron by the name of Vartkes, rediscovering what it meant to be a Space Ranger. Now, more than ever, was he determined to do the right thing, even if that meant adhering to the justice system.

Characteristics

Buzz is a well-built human male somewhere in his forties. He sports a broad chest and large feet, as is common in the style of animation the series follows, but also has a larger-than-average chin adorned with a characteristic swirl. He has large, round eyes that appear black in the show but are in fact light blue like his Toy Story counterpart. His precise hair color is unknown because he never removes his purple thermal hood, but it could either be brown (as shown by the color of the swirl on his chin and his eyebrows in Toy Story) or dark blue, as depicted by Evil Buzz Lightyear's beard.

Personality

Buzz is a one-dimensional individual. Despite being socially awkward, however, he is an honest man and a hard-worker. He believes that diligence pays off, and that taking short cuts often times leads to complications. He's a man by the book, and also the man that wrote the book; he wrote over half of the Space Ranger Mission Manual. He is not comfortable with lying most of the times, but he does tell a cover story in the aptly-named episode Little Secrets.

Buzz also apparently gets "cranky" when he isn't the "center of attention", as relayed by his elder self in Good Ol' Buzz.

Abilities

Under construction.

Quotes

• "To infinity and beyond!"

Trivia

• Buzz was named after Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, and his last name was intentionally space-related because of him being a Space Ranger.
• Buzz's house on Capital Planet is based off of an old Disneyland attraction from the 1960s called House of the Future.

Appearances

The Adventure Begins The Torque Armada Gravitina XL Little Secrets Inside Job NOS-4-A2 The Planet Destroyer The Beasts of Karn Tag Team The Main Event The Return of XL Strange Invasion The Taking of PC-7 Mindwarp Mira's Wedding Panic on Bathyos Shiv Katall (Episode) Stress Test A Zoo Out There Root of Evil

Super Nova Downloaded The Plasma Monster The Crawling Flesh Dirty Work The Slayer The Lightyear Factor Clone Rangers Bunzel Fever Devolutionaries Head Case The Yukari Imprint The Shape Stealer Star Crossed Haunted Moon Stranger Invasion Eye of the Tempest Revenge of the Monsters Lone Wolf Planet of the Lost Revenge of the Raenoks

The Starthought Millennial Bugs Conspiracy At Large on a Small Planet Sunquake First Missions Large Target War and Peace and War Lost in Time Rookie of the Year Wirewolf Rescue Mission Star Smasher Enemy Without a Face Good Ol' Buzz Return to Karn Speed Trap Holiday Time Opposites Attract Ancient Evil 42