Commander Burnside

Commander Cal Burnside is the overarching antagonist of the 2022 Disney/Pixar computer-animated film, Lightyear. Burnside is the new commander of Star Command after the death of Alisha Hawthorne, but he's also responsible for creating Zurg from an alternate timeline.
He was voiced by Isiah Whitlock Jr., who also voiced River Scott in Cars 3.
== Biography ==
Commander Burnside took charge of Star Command and is pleased to see Buzz Lightyear in person (who he tells he was a big fan of during his childhood), but he also tells him that the colony has given up attempting to regain lightspeed capability and decided to live on T'Kani Prime, relying on a laser shield to protect the colony from the insects native to it. Buzz defies his orders to conduct one final test, especially after he sends personnel to decommission Sox, and despite Burnside doing his best to stop him, he manages to get into his ship and successfully achieve hyperspeed this time after making the necessary adjustments to the formula that Sox suggested after doing excessive research to find a stable formula for the hyper crystal. 
Later, it is revealed that in an alternate timeline, Buzz returned after a successful hyperspace test, but Burnside tried to have him arrested with his soldiers for defying his orders. This caused the alternate Buzz to escape at full speed and, via time dilation, flew hundreds of years into the far future, where he encountered extremely advanced technology. He spent 50 years developing a way to travel back in time to prevent the Turnip from ever landing on T'Kani Prime and avoid stranding the ship upon the planet. Having worn out his own crystal through time travel and excessive usage, Old Buzz, who is revealed to be real identity of Zurg (due to being called (B')Zurg by his robots), needs a fresh crystal to power his ship and complete his mission, which is the whole reason he's leading his robot army in the younger Buzz's timeline to enter the colony.
After the Zurg ship is destroyed by Buzz and his new team, Burnside arrived when he saved them from the last Zyclops. He was going to arrest Buzz, but he's impressed with his efforts and relents while revealing he has other plans for him to make him a space ranger again while accepting his new team. He then gave them a new mission in the quadrant of sector 4. 
== Personality ==
Commander Burnside is a well-meaning if a bit short-sighted man. Throughout his life, he has heard of Buzz Lightyear and his determination to get all the humans off the hostile planet of T'Kani Prime and how the people there have mined for crystals in order to test run Buzz's ship to get them off there, but Buzz keeps going into hyper speed and appears at random points in time in the future. When he crawled up the ranks to the position of Commander, Burnside saw that this mining operation was a waste of energy and decides to put an end to it and have the humans embrace the T'Kani Prime planet as their new home, but when Buzz comes to his timeline, Burnside finds his views challenged by the ever-dedicated Lightyear.
== Gallery ==
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== Trivia ==
*Most fans believed Burnside was Zurg and was meant to be the main antagonist after thinking The Zap patrol are one of Zurg's foot soldiers due to the Z word, which could have been suspicious. While this ended up not being true, Burnside is still the one who is truly responsible for creating Zurg since if he didn't try to arrest Buzz so promptly without showing any gratitude towards his efforts, he wouldn't have retreated, discovered technology hundreds of years into the future and returned with a robot army with the plan that he came up with.
**Zurg's creation was also caused by Burnside's decision to decommission Sox because otherwise, he would not have helped Buzz escape with XL-15.
**There was concept art where Burnside is revealed to be a cyborg.
*He bares some resemblance to Combat Carl from Toy Story of Terror.
*Burnside serves as an alternate counterpart to Commander Nebula.
*Burnside's personality is very similar to that of Commander Stanton from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy.
*Although he was angry that Buzz tried to take Star Command away from T'Kani Prime against their will despite the new generations never having been to Earth, Burnside didn't care that Buzz didn't want to stay on T'Kani Prime despite knowing he didn't born there, because he was willing to try to arrest him even though he knew he was trying to force him to stay against his will and felt no remorse for it, showing that he is a hypocrite.
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