Buzz Lightyear

* Toy Story (1995)
* Toy Story 2
* Toy Story 3
* Toy Story 4

### Voice

Tim Allen (films, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins, Toy Story Toons, commercials)
Pat Fraley (Toy Story Treats, video games, attractions)
Patrick Warburton (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command)
Javier Fernandez-Peña (Spanish mode)
Mike MacRae (video games)
Corey Burton (Disney on Ice)
Chris Evans (Lightyear)

**Buzz Lightyear** is a character in the Toy Story movie franchise. His voice is provided by Tim Allen.

## About Buzz

### Toy Story (1995)

In the first Toy Story, we see Andy celebrating his birthday party and opened a gift with Buzz Lightyear inside, the green army men go outside and investigate. Woody, Andy's first toy has been loyal to Andy and was his favorite toy when Andy was in kindergarten.

But when Buzz came into the picture, Andy instantly chose Buzz over Woody and in fact Andy even changed his room from Woody themed to Buzz Lightyear.

One afternoon, Buzz and the other toys were doing something together and Woody used a magic eight ball and asked Buzz to get it for him, when Buzz was about to get the toy for Woody, Woody pushed him out the window, causing the other toys even Mr. Potato Head to call him a back-stabbing murder. When Andy's mom tells Andy that they'll be going to Pizza Planet for dinner, and Andy asks his mother if he could bring a toy and his mom replied just one so Andy rushes back to his room to find Buzz and Buzz was nowhere to be found and Andy grabbed Woody.

Buzz came out from the bushes while the other toys were still looking for him. Buzz flies into Andy's mom's car and Woody is thrilled to see that Buzz is still alive, after talking about how Woody was so happy to see Buzz alive, the two tumbled out of the car, fighting.

Which led to Andy driving away and somehow Woody and Buzz make it to Pizza Planet, where they are seen by Andy's next-door neighbor Sid. Sid takes them back to his house where Woody and Buzz are in his backpack and Sid's dog comes out to greet Sid and Sid gives his dog a toy to play with. when Sid is on his way back upstairs to his room, his little sister Hannah is standing there holding her doll, Janine while Sid asks her if a package came into the mail that day, and Hannah replied that she didn't know and Sid takes Hannah's doll, to "fix it" and shuts the door in Hannah's face.

After Sid was done operating surgery on the doll, he gives it back to Hannah and she is terrified and runs to tell their mother what Sid did to her doll, before Sid left the room, he says to his mother "whatever Hannah says, it's not true." He then operates on Woody to see if Woody can talk and the magnifying glass leaves a burn hole on Woody's head.

Buzz then tried to fly but failed and was eventually discovered by Hannah and Hannah takes Buzz to play with her and pretend he's Miss Nesbit. Sid then takes the toys outside and had a rocket to Buzz attached and Woody on the outdoor grill. When Sid's about to light a match to make the rocket fly, Woody starts to talk, curiously Sid goes over to see why and he's shocked by what Woody is saying. Shortly after Woody and the other toys scared Sid off, Woody and Buzz figured out a way to see Andy again .

Once Woody was about to light the match, and the match went out and Woody sobbed. Eventually after Woody was done sobbing, the two toys were able to figure out a way to see Andy and so they see the moving truck and Slinky and Woody grabbed onto each other, until the moving truck door shut. luckily, Andy saw them in his box. On Christmas, Woody and the rest of the toys are at Andy's new house, and Bo Peep's sheep hold a mistletoe for Woody and Bo Peep to kiss underneath. After Bo Peep is doing giving kisses to Woody, he joins Buzz on the bed and listens for the next gift that Andy will be opening and Woody asks Buzz if he's worried that there's another toy that's worse than Buzz, and Buzz replied that he is not worried. Near the end of the movie, Andy opened a gift and it was a puppy, which he named Buster.

### Toy Story 2

After Woody has been kidnapped by Al, who is known for his infamous commercials, Al's Toy Barn. Before the toys find Woody, Buzz figures out what was the name of Al's store, once Buzz was able to figure out the name, Etch drew Al in his chicken suit. The next day, the toys have a plan which was to rescue Woody and bring him back home.

While searching for Woody, Buzz goes down the aisle with Buzz Lightyear toys. He then gets curious and decided to check out Utility Belt Buzz, which Utility Belt Buzz ends up putting the other Buzz in the box, and the Utility Buzz comes out and started by pointing his lazer at Hamm, Slinky, and Rex and the Travel Guide Barbie, Mr. Potato Head. Mr. Potato Head tells Utility Belt Buzz to quit clowning around and get in the car so they can find Woody. Meanwhile, the other Buzz Lightyear was trying to warn his friends and tell them that they've got the wrong Buzz, but they proceeded with their mission to rescue Woody.

Despite the other Buzz being stuck in the box, he managed to escape so he can reveal to his friends that the Utility Belt Buzz didn't have Andy's name written and that he did.

Once they found Woody with the Utility Belt Buzz, they all came crashing in to rescue and help Woody come home with them. But before they could, the other Buzz Lightyear, who was their actual friend stopped them and the Utility Belt Buzz was so confused about how he had gotten out of the box. So after Woody's friends Slinky, Hamm, Mr. Potato Head, Rex and Buzz came to rescue Woody when Woody really just wanted to stay with his roundup gang episode with him singing the theme song to Toy Story 1 "You've Gotta A Friend in Me" which is performed by Randy Newman. In this case, it made Woody understand why his friends came to rescue him. Woody changes his mind and calls for his friends, but Stinky Pete said he "tried" to warn Woody, and goes over to the vent to screw the vent's screws back in and thought Woody wouldn't listen to what Stinky Pete had to say. Jessie calls Prospector Pete out and tells him "Prospector, this isn't fair".

And Pete fired back saying he was right and they were wrong. Woody calls out for help and stinky Pete says that "Silly Old Buzz Lightweight won't help you (Woody)". Woody corrects Stinky Pete and fires back saying "His name is Buzz Lightyear." Before Stinky Pete gets into his box, he says "Silly Old Space Toys". Fast forward to the part where Utility Belt Buzz and Zurg battle it out and during the battle, Zurg confirms to Utility Belt Buzz is his father and then Rex knocks Zurg over, causing Utility Belt Buzz to be sadden and say father.

After Utility Belt Buzz and Zurg were done fighting, they can be seen outside, playing. Buzz invites the other Buzz but he decides to stay behind and play with his father. So Buzz and the other toys proceeded with their plan to rescue Woody. They all drive a car with the logo being Pizza Planet. Once arriving at the airport, they all hid in a dog kennel, and a little girl goes over and says it was a puppy. Slinky barks, scaring the little girl away. So the toys move forward and decided to go ahead and continue their search for Woody.

Once they had found Woody, Stinky Pete punches Buzz in the face, Woody tells Stinky Pete that no one does that to Woody's friend, during the fight of Stinky Pete and Woody, Stinky Pete rips Woody's arm after Geri, the professional cleaner fixed him.

Before Stinky Pete could continue to attack Woody, the other toys flash him with photography lights and cameras. Buzz picks up Stinky Pete by the collar of his neck and Pete yells to the toys that children will not play with them, So Woody tells Stinky Pete that he needs to learn the true meaning of playtime, so Stinky Pete ended up in the hands of a little girl named Amy who had a Barbie doll.

Woody and his friend then proceeded to rescue Jessie, but it was already too late. Jessie was about to board the plane and Woody managed to find a way to rescue her and bring her back home with him.

When Jessie and Woody are on the plane, Jessie thought Woody was crazy, but went with the plane and returned home with Woody and Jessie and Bullseye were apart of the family.

### Toy Story 3

In the third Toy Story, Andy is all grown up and is preparing to leave for college. Few of the toys still remain and all(expect Woody) came to agree that the best thing for them is to donate themselves. under Buzz's leadership, they are taken to Sunnyside Daycare, home to toys that have been outgrown by their owners.

The leader of the daycare, a bear named Lotso promised Andy's toys that they'll live a long and happy life and Sunnyside, solidifying their decision to stay. This angers Woody, who believed that they should return home. The other toys reluctantly refuse, and a downhearted Buzz bids Woody farewell.

Later on, after an extremely rough and torturous day of playtime, Buzz sets off to request that he and his friends be moved to another room with the older children. He is instead kidnapped Lotso and his gang and switched from play to "demo mode". In this state, Buzz's memories are blocked, as a result his space ranger delusions return. He is recruited as one of Lotso's minions and is ordered to imprison his friends for trying to escape from the daycare. Buzz is left in charge to guard them every night, though the toys (under Woody's guidance, who returned to save them) intimate a plan to return Buzz back to normal and return to Andy.

Barbie forces Ken to tell her what Lotso did to Buzz and gets the manual from the bookworm. Unfortunately, their tampering only switches Buzz to Spanish mode, making him a romantic and charismatic space ranger with no memories or the ability to speak English. Nevertheless, he is told that Woody and the others are his friends and joins them in escaping Sunnyside, While doing so, he develops romantic feelings for Jessie, though she is more baffled by his Spanish mode then taken. After confronting Lotso and his gang, the toys are accidentally dragged into a a garbage truck and hauled off to the dump. Along the way, a television set falls on Buzz and reverts him back to his normal self.
Inside the garbage factory, Buzz and the others narrowly escape termination and return back to Andy's house the next morning. They wash themselves off and place themselves in a box meant for the attic, which Andy had always intended for them to go while he takes Woody to college. Instead, however, they are donated to a little girl named Bonnie, who loves and cares for them just as much as Andy did in the past.

## Physical Appearance

On his back, he has white jetpack with a purple valve and green triangular accents and two black and yellow stickers- one says, "DANGER", and the other says "JET EXHAUST". His wide arms have gray circular elbows and matching spheres on the end of his upper arms with black rings on it. His gloves have purple lines on his knuckles and fingertips and green squares on the back of each. His right arm has a red button on his upper arm with a yellow and black striped sticker that reads "LASER" and a red light on his right wrist. His left arm has a SPACE Ranger symbol sticker on his upper arm and a communicator sticker in his wrist communicator (the latter of which is later peeled off) and "MADE IN TAIWAN" engraved inside on his lid of the wrist communication. A black bending with a thin green waist. His white spaceman pants have matching collars at the bottom and gray spheres behind his knees and hold his white shoes with green toe accents, purple soles, and black handwriting reading 'ANDY" on his right shoe sole.

## Trivia

* Buzz's fictional home planet is the Planet of Morph.
* Buzz Lightyear's name was inspired by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the Moon after Neil Armstrong.
* His name was mentioned in the song, "Justin Bieber - Boyfriend".
* It is interesting to note that in every Toy Story film (except for the fourth film) there is one delusional Buzz Lightyear toy who believes he is a real space ranger.
* In the first film, it was the current Buzz Lightyear who believed he was a real space ranger until he learned he was actually just a toy just like Woody had said.
* In the second film, when the toys went to Al's Toy Barn, Buzz was attacked by another newer Buzz Lightyear after he tried to take newer Buzz's belt, and was placed in a display box while the other delusional Buzz went with the Woody search group after hearing Rex say he found the secret to beating Zurg (in a video game). It should be noted that this is technically the only instance in the film series thus far that Andy's Buzz himself does not become delusional about being a genuine space ranger.
* In the third film, Lotso kidnapped Buzz and reset him to Demo mode where he lost his memories and reverted to his delusional Buzz state. When his friends attempted to reset him, they found they couldn't reset him by putting him back to normal mode and instead accidentally reset him to delusional Buzz in Spanish mode. He later regained his memories and his current persona when he was hit by a TV set while saving Jessie.
* Buzz is similar to Bolt from the 2008 film of the same name, as both believed to possess their TV show superpowers' powers, and yet, do not have them. It is not until later that both heroes realize (and admit) that they don't have any powers.
* Buzz's name is different in some languages:
* In the French dub, he is named Buzz l'Éclair. He is still named Buzz Lightyear in the French-Canadian dub.
* The role of Buzz Lightyear was originally offered to Billy Crystal who turned it down, a move he later admitted regretting. Crystal eventually voiced Mike Wazowski, Monsters, Inc. and reprised the role in Monsters University. Also, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Jim Carrey, Bruce Willis, Phil Hartman, Dan Aykroyd, Jason Alexander, Matthew Broderick, Kevin Costner, Michael J. Fox, Richard Gere, David Hasselhoff, Michael Keaton, Wayne Knight, Bill Paxton, Dennis Quaid, Kurt Russell, Adam Sandler and John Travolta were also considered for the role.
* Buzz quotes Captain James T. Kirk from Star Trek (1966) when he remarks, "There seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere..."
* Buzz does a Vulcan salute from the Star Trek series when saying "Farewell" to Woody at the gas station, when leaving Andy's house to embark on his mission to rescue Woody, and when saying "Farewell" to the other Buzz who is playing catch with Emperor Zurg.
* Buzz makes a cameo in Finding Nemo as one of the toys in the dentist's waiting room.
* The Lightyear tire brand in the Cars franchise is a reference to Buzz Lightyear's name and is also a parody of the Goodyear tire brand.
* Buzz appears during the end credits of Cars as a car, arguing with a car version of Woody. He is a Space Rover, and Woody is a station wagon.
* All Piston Cup racers' tires in Cars (including Lightning McQueen's) are branded as "Lightyear," both a reference to Buzz Lightyear and a play on the name Goodyear (an actual tire manufacturer).
* The original script for Toy Story 3 had Buzz and his entire toy line recalled back to Taiwan (where the Buzz Lightyear toys are made) due to a defect. Apparently, that defect could have explained why Buzz and his toy line believed themselves to be real space rangers. While this plot idea was ultimately scrapped, the final script did still include an explanation as to why the entire toyline had at the very least initial delusional beliefs to being the real Buzz Lightyear (as apparently they are pre-set to Demo Mode when first made).
* In only the North American release of Toy Story 2, Buzz gives out his speech with the US flag in the backdrop and the US national anthem, the "Star-Spangled Banner," playing in the background, similar to the way General Patton did in the film Patton (1970).
* The colors on Buzz are the favorites of John Lasseter (lime green) and his wife, Nancy (purple).
* Buzz's facial features are loosely based on John Lasseter himself.
* Buzz was based on the G.I. Joe toys from the 1960s. However, he more closely resembles the classic Hasbro toy Rom the Space Knight. Like Buzz, Rom is a Space Ranger in a suit of powered armor who fights a race of hostile alien beings with a special laser.
* In an episode of House of Mouse, Donald Duck dresses up like Buzz.
* Buzz, along with Woody, were at one point planned to appear as new summons in Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix, but this idea was scrapped.
* Buzz was nominated for AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains. One of three animated heroes appears on the list, along with Belle and Peter Pan. Unfortunately, none of them made the list.
* Buzz is 11.43 inches tall, and his helmet adds 0.37 inches.
* The quality of Buzz's voice box deteriorated within the ten years between Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3, and is now on par with Woody's sound quality (ironic since Woody is from the 1950s).
* Despite coming to terms with his identity as a toy, Buzz is apparently perplexed by the existence of his voice box. In Toy Story 4, after misinterpreting Woody's words, Buzz comes to believe his voice box is, in fact, his conscience, or "inner voice", and begins to listen to its recordings for advice when faced with conflict. It could be possible after being rebooted after the events of the third film and Hawaiian Vacation, Buzz has forgotten certain things such as that.
* Buzz and Jessie's dance moves during the end credits of Toy Story 3 were choreographed by Tony Dovolani and Cheryl Burke of Dancing with the Stars.
* Buzz has labels on his rear end. In Toy Story, he had a label that said "Disney," which was shown when he attempted to fly out of the window at Sid's house, and in Toy Story 3, he had a Disney/Pixar label that was shown just before he was picked up by a child at Sunnyside. The latter reappears in Kingdom Hearts III.
* The characters that Buzz and Zurg are based on from whatever they're from in the Toy Story universe, are spoofs of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. They parody one of the last scenes in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, where Zurg claims he's Buzz's father just like Vader did to Luke, as the Zurg and Utility Belt Buzz in Toy Story 2 think they're the real versions of themselves and fight in a parody of the Luke/Vader fight in Star Wars.
* When Toy Story was being made, Buzz wasn't going to be in the main plot. Tinny was going to be in his place. But John Lasseter decided a tin toy wouldn't be a good toy for a boy, so Tinny was scrapped and Lasseter decided to put in a military/space character that a boy would want so badly. When names came around, the original two were Lunar Larry and Tempis from Morph.
* Stinky Pete said that space rangers sold more than the 1950's cowboys, which makes it so Buzz's predecessors have been around since the early or late 1960s.
* Based on him still functioning after being hit by both water from a water hose in Toy Story 3 and a tidal wave of water when the bathroom door burst out in "Partysaurus Rex", Buzz Lightyear is likely waterproof.
* Due to advances in graphical technology by the time of Toy Story 4's production, Buzz's body is shown to be covered in minuscule scratches and dents in the present day, likely the result of many years of being played with in addition to frequent adventures. The "LIGHTYEAR" name tag on his chest, revealed to be a sticker, has also begun to peel off.
* Buzz tends to mispronounce words. For example, he mispronounces the word "S'mores" as "Schmoes", and mispronounces Hawaii as "Hay-way-I". Woody corrects him both times.
* Buzz is also shown to have weak leadership, making actions without giving orders whatsoever, hence the reason why Woody let Jessie lead his gang.
* Despite his strength and size, Buzz can be easily be picked up by Rex, Jessie, and Bo throughout the series.
* In Toy Story 3, Buzz's batteries on his back are branded with "Buy n Large", a company appears in WALL-E.
* In The Shaggy Dog as Dave Douglas (played by Tim Allen) is racing to the court in his dog form, he dives off a bridge and yells out Buzz's catchphrase "To infinity and beyond!". Flik also says it in A Bug's Life outtakes as he grabs a piece of dandelion, he apologized soon afterward saying that he couldn't resist.
* The line was parodied in the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command episode Lost in Time as "To infinity and even further". As well as in the episode Mira's Wedding as "To infinity and jolly well past that".
* In The Santa Clause 2 as Scott Calvin is fighting Toy Santa (both of whom are played by Tim Allen), Toy Santa tells Scott "You are one sad strange little man."
* In the Cars credits the line (as well as Toy Story) was parodied when the Buzz car called the Woody car "You are one sad strange little wagon."
* He is referenced in the Runaways episode "Last Rites" when Karolina refers to her flying as "falling with style"