The scene reveals that Buzz's father, Larry Lightyear, was originally meant to be revealed as Zurg, reflecting the Toy Story 2 relationship between the toy versions of Buzz and the evil Emperor. The reveal that Buzz is Zurg is a jarring characterization mistake that could have been avoided with the cut twist.
"A lot of it comes down to how much value as an audience you have in seeing a person get into a fight with their father," MacLane told the outlet. As you may remember, the big Zurg reveal in Lightyear is that Buzz himself is the man underneath the giant robotic helmet.
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Instead, the movie delivers a twist that this older Buzz that is in Zurg's robotic suit is just that: an older Buzz. He's a Buzz that unwittingly travelled into the future to fix the hyperspeed crystal, but when he returned, he was criticised by Commander Burnside for his actions.
Zurg's "villainy" may have been due to the fact that Zurg (the toy) actually thinks that he is the real Zurg and not just a toy, very much like how the toy Buzz Lightyear actually thinks that he is the real Buzz and if he ever realized that he is just a toy, he will just remain evil and decides that he can be Buzz's ...
In Lightyear, the evil Emperor Zurg is actually revealed to be a future version of Buzz (voiced by James Brolin), who traveled back in time to change his future. In a clever joke to the previous film, when Buzz sees the older version of himself, he first assumes it is his father.
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Is Zurg Buzz's dad?
As you may recall, in Toy Story 2 there is a scene in which Zurg tells Buzz he is his father, in a nod to Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader from Star Wars. But in Lightyear, it is revealed that Zurg is an older, alternate version of Buzz.
The scene reveals that Buzz's father, Larry Lightyear, was originally meant to be revealed as Zurg, reflecting the Toy Story 2 relationship between the toy versions of Buzz and the evil Emperor. The reveal that Buzz is Zurg is a jarring characterization mistake that could have been avoided with the cut twist.
It is later revealed that Zurg is actually the 50-year future self of Buzz Lightyear, wishing to time travel back to the past to prevent his crew from ever landing on the planet.
In the post credit scene, Zurg's robot suit is shown drifting through space, undamaged, but seemingly inactive. However, the eyes on Zurg's robot suit suddenly power on, indicating that he survived the explosion after the fight with Buzz.
Beneath his mechanized suit, Emperor Zurg turns out to be none other than Buzz from another timeline, an older, embittered version (voiced by James Brolin) from a future that's figured out how to use Buzz's fuel to travel through time.
Pixar film features not one, but three extra scenes
When the Pixar film ends, viewers are treated to not one, but three post-credits scenes. The film follows a young Buzz Lightyear as he tries to save his planet from the Emperor Zurg and his army of robots.
The same-gender kiss was cut from the Buzz Lightyear origin story before being restored following an open letter from unnamed Pixar staff alleging the studio censored "nearly every moment of overtly gay affection" in its films.
Additionally, MacLane revealed that the old look for Zurg simply wouldn't allow for what needed to be done with the character in Lightyear's story. Fortunately, the design team was still able to incorporate a few of the iconic elements from his first appearance: There are things that we needed to do narratively.
There was a hidden reason why they keep referring Buzz Lightyear and their leader Zurg as B-Zurg ever time they speak, is because they can't pronounce Buzz's name correctly which foreshadows that Zurg is Buzz Lightyear when his first name has been scramble backwards after trying to say the B word first, while his last ...
According to John Lasseter on the Toy Story 2 DVD commentary, as Andy's Buzz and the rest of the toys were making their way to the Pizza Planet truck, Ultra Buzz was carrying Zurg and said he was going to be burying his "father", implying that Zurg would have died from the fall.
His design was inspired by Darth Vader, and Toy Story 2 continued this parody by revealing that Zurg was Buzz's father in an elevator fight scene near the end of the movie. Referencing Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Zurg even directly stated, “No, Buzz!
An alternate universe version of Emperor Zurg appeared in the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command cartoon series, where beneath the mask is an evil Buzz Lightyear.
So, the movie explains that the Alien Ship, Zyclops and Zurg Suit are Alien in origins, they look a lil' more advanced and "futuristic" than Human tech, they have Alien letters on 'em and so on.
Jessie. Buzz doing a Spanish romantic dance with Jessie. Buzz's relationship with Jessie is only hinted at the end of Toy Story 2 when Buzz became instantly lovestruck with her looks and her adventurous personality. Jessie immediately returns his compliments by describing him as the sweetest space toy she has ever met.
In Lightyear, Buzz got his wings when he stole a vessel from Zurg's ship and used them to try to save Izzy (Keke Palmer) and the rest of the crew, and by the end of the movie, he was sporting the full costume he's known for.
As they head back to the ship, Zurg intervenes and captures Buzz, then reveals himself to be an older version of Buzz from an alternate timeline, which split upon Buzz's return to the planet after the successful hyperspace test: without the robot army to detain them, soldiers from the colony attempted to arrest Buzz ...
