However, unlike the original Buzz, Evil Buzz comes from an alternate reality where he took over his galaxy and once he becomes aware of the main reality thanks to Emperor Zurg, he decides to kill him and conquer his universe as well.
It is later revealed that Zurg is actually controlled by a human inside, namely an elderly Buzz Lightyear from an alternate future, who found an abandoned alien spaceship already stocked with the Zurg armor, and simply took on the alien cyborg's identity, seeking to use the ship's technology to travel back in time and ...
According to some reports, the same-sex kiss in Lightyear had originally been cut. However, it was later restored following the recent “Don't Say Gay” ordeal that brought the company into the headlines.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He and Ultra Buzz have a brief argument over who is the real Buzz (despite the fact that the two are both the same), and Ultra Buzz tries to tell Woody and the toys that Andy's Buzz was an imposter who was trained by Zurg to imitate his actions after Woody asks which one is the real Buzz.
However, the eyes on Zurg's robot suit suddenly power on, indicating that he survived the explosion after the fight with Buzz, and that he will return to get revenge on Buzz and Burnside for foiling his plot.
"Lightyear" generated controversy not only for the infamous voice swap, but for its woke themes. As Fox News Digital reported last Spring, the film featured a "a same-sex kiss" between two female characters that "occurred in the first 30 minutes of the movie."
Lightyear failed to generate much excitement because many potential viewers just didn't care about the premise. There was also little need for an origin story because the first Toy Story sequel already did it. In homage to Star Wars, the evil Emperor Zurg is revealed to be Buzz Lightyear's father in Toy Story 2.
Pixar Had to Do a 'Lot of Soul-Searching' After 'Lightyear' Flopped at Box Office. "What went wrong is that we asked too much of the audience," Pixar Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter said.
As you may remember, the big Zurg reveal in Lightyear is that Buzz himself is the man underneath the giant robotic helmet. Voiced by James Brolin, this alternate version of the space ranger is one that has been to the far future and amassed advanced technology in an attempt to change the past.
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 ...
Zurg's character appears to draw from Darth Vader, a main villain in the Star Wars original trilogy, with a similar voice, appearance, and set of mannerisms.
Because of time dilation, Toy Buzz is about 0.015 seconds younger than he would have been without the trip into space. Toy Buzz may not have traveled as fast as Movie Buzz, but both got to experience the effects of time dilation.
You have to steal Zurgs battery in the videogame Buzz plays in the movie. Tell Buzz it's a code 546, that means you're talking about royalty. When you leave Buzz, tell him 'Farewell' while doing the vulcan hand salute. Since he's a space toy, that's how he says goodbye.
Like Woody, Buzz also goes through an evolution throughout the series. In Toy Story, he was incredibly deluded and actually believed that he himself was the real Buzz Lightyear and would not listen when told that he's really a toy modeled off of the character.
Woody. Woody and Jessie share a sibling-like relationship. Since meeting each other in Al's penthouse, the two share a close bond. The two are shown to have pretty heated arguments from time to time, but they deeply care for each other nonetheless.
After Bonnie's toys bring Bonnie's family back to the carnival, she and Woody share a dejected goodbye as they repeat the scenario from nine years ago. However, Woody's recent experiences have made him disillusioned about returning to Bonnie, and after encouragement from Buzz, he chooses to stay with Bo Peep.
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.
Zurg isn't Buzz's father in Lightyear – instead, he is a future version of Buzz. In a plot uncannily similar to Emmett and Rex Dangervest in The Lego Movie 2, an older Buzz travels back in time to finish the mission once and for all.
At almost 10 in tall, Zurg is the formidable nemesis of Buzz Lightyear and his ragtag team, so he's poised for good versus evil action play inspired by the movie.
