#lightyear spoilers

[w-i-s-e]

It is finally confirmed!!!

#lightyear 2022 #lightyear movie #lightyear #lightyear spoilers #disney pixar #pixar #emperor zurg #evil emperor zurg #zurg

[catherine-sketches]

Here is a interesting thing about a knee jerk reaction that I had while watching Lightyear (2022) yesterday.

Spoilers ahead:

When Buzz comes back from his first 4 minutes for him/4 years for everything else flight and he finds out that his friend Alisha has a fiancé now I Swear to you I was expecting the lines to be :

Buzz: That’s wonderful! What’s his name?

Alisha, smiling : Her name is Kiko.

But instead the lines went:

Buzz: that’s wonderful! What’s her name?

Alisha, smiling: Oh, her name is Kiko

And in hindsight of course he would ask “what’s her name?” Buzz and Alisha have been friends since the academy why the hell wouldn’t he know she is a lesbian???

But I think I’m so used to the “assume it’s a he before proven wrong” style lines that my brain was just… expecting it.

I was never happier to be wrong.

#Lightyear spoilers #Lightyear #Lightyear 2022 #buzz lightyear #alisha hawthorne #kiko hawthorne #pixar

[renatapatata]

lightyear (2022) spoilers without context

#i have many thoughts bout this movieee and i only just saw it and its not even rlly out whoopss #pixar #disney #disney pixar #lightyear #buzz lightyear #chris evans #toy story #taika waititi #keke palmer #pixar's lightyear #disney's lightyear #pixar lightyear #pixar buzz lightyear #alicia clawthorne #izzy clawthorne #sox #sox the cat #lightyear 2022 #lightyear spoilers #pixar spoilers #spoilers without context

[mintytrifecta]

Why does this keep happening to him

#The way there's so many parallels between each buzz lightyear canon and how they just make him have The Worst Time... #Incredible honestly #I could go on for hours analyzing Buzz and how much trauma he Should have #And how his recurring motifs center around him feeling like he has to prove himself or his identity #And how often he gets used and manipulated because of the ideals he has and because he's The Buzz Lightyear #Seems like in a couple canons he's seen more as a figurehead rather than a person and hes also at fault for enforcing that perception #Anyways I'm not here to psychoanalyze buzz I'm here to make memes #The psychoanalisis will come later maybe idk #I still didn't watch the movie btw #Toy story #Toy story 2 #Buzz lightyear #Lightyear 2022 #buzz lightyear of star command #Utility belt buzz #lightyear spoilers #Lightyear 2022 spoilers

[luna-rainbow]

lightyear, the endgame dissertation

You know that post along the lines of "Lightyear as a movie was okay but then you learn it was a video length essay rebuke against Endgame Steve's ending and it is chef's kiss"...it is 100% on the money.

First thing's first, I never got into the Toy Story franchise, and in fact I found it pretty hard to connect with most of the Pixar movies, despite how much accolade they get.

Lightyear by itself is...par. It's got humour, it's got heart, it's got a solid central message around friendship.

But when you put it in the context of a Endgame critique then you realise how much BURN it packed in there.......

(Massive spoilers under cut)

I want to start this off by saying Izzy is adorable and she had a solid character arc that wasn't overshadowed by Lightyear's. She went from bluster to feeling inadequate to forcing herself to confront her worst fears for a friend. Two separate character arcs in one movie, imagine that, Marvel!

The premise is that Buzz makes a mistake during an emergency launch and strands the entire crew on a semi-hostile planet. Feeling immense guilt that he's ruined the mission (and thereby, much of the team's dreams of being "Space Rangers"), Buzz commits himself to running dangerous solo missions to trial fuel combinations that could get the ship off the planet. With each trip he approaches hyperspeed, he experiences time dilation, and he is so focused on his mission that he barely notices his best friend (Alisha) ageing until he comes back one time and realises she had already passed on.

When Buzz finally finds the right fuel combination, he's 80 years in the future. The crew and their descendants have truly settled into the planet, but in recent weeks the planet has been invaded by a ship of ominous looking robots.

He meets his best friend's grand-daughter, Izzy, and her crew of misfits. Then for the next 40 minutes, Buzz learns he doesn't have to do things alone, and that he doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility on his own.

And as he learns this, he gets transported up to the spaceship to meet the villain who is, I kid you not, Old Man Buzz. Old Man Buzz came from the same past as young Buzz, but he almost got arrested on one of his return journeys and became so disillusioned with the world, he flew off into hyperspeed and realised he could jump back and forward in time. Old Man Buzz knows the pain young Buzz suffers, and entices him with the prospect of going back in time before a mistake was ever made. It is also worth noting that young Buzz has friends that he is shown to now depend on and trust, while Old Man Buzz only has himself and in his drive to achieve his mission, destroys his only 2 semi-sentient robot companions (Sox and Ivan).

What follows is the greatest dissertation against Endgame I have ever fucking seen in live motion.

Old Man Buzz says that Alisha will get to be a Space Ranger again and young Buzz pointing out that "but...she won't have her family. She won't have Izzy". Old Man Buzz says dismissively "She's not going to miss anyone if she never meets them in the first place" and young Buzz looking absolutely SHOOK by those words, realising this old man was going to wipe out 80 years of lived experiences so he can have his past. Young Buzz then tries to appeal to the old man's rationality and point out that Alisha had an entire life and Old Man Buzz dismisses it as "what kind of life is that?!" because he has in his mind what kind of life she should have, while refusing to acknowledge the life she had was fulfilling and full of joy. Old Man Buzz presses him with "You don't want to live like this Buzz, waking up with the same nightmare, haunted by your mistake, but you can finally let go of that."

And Buzz does, by walking away from Old Man Buzz and refusing to go back to the past. Buzz owns and then forgives himself for that past mistake (and accepting fallibility and forgiving oneself is a recurring theme in this movie, not just for Buzz, but for the other characters too) by accepting the present it has created, because he realises there are good things about the present worth living for.

"You're going to erase everything!" Young Buzz yells at Old Man Buzz as he preps the crystal, "People's family, their friends. My friends."

As much as Buzz misses the friendships of his previous life, he values the connections he has made in the here and now and he doesn't want to erase them for what has already passed.

Buzz defeats Old Man Buzz by destroying the fuel source, i.e. the only hope of Buzz going back in time, and the day is saved by everyone coming together to help each other instead of Buzz struggling to do it on his own (and also why Old Man lost because he only had himself and his robots, who he didn't value).

In the end, Izzy asks Buzz about the now destroyed fuel source, "Your mission...you've always wanted to go home."

Buzz smiles, "You know, for the first time in a long time, I feel like I am home."

AND SUCK ON THAT, ENDGAME.

#anti endgame #lightyear #steve rogers #like legit i almost got teary in aspects thinking this is what steve deserved #all the guilt and grief he had carried with him #for him to realise that he didn't need to do it alone and that he didn't need to impale his life on that one mistake #and you can interpret that mistake to either not getting off the ship or not stopping bucky's fall or not stopping hydra's infiltration #but how much i wished to see steve to have walked onward from that and acknowledge that #it is okay to be human and to be fallible but what's more important is the way you pick yourself up and walk on #and the way that you open your arms and let other people into your world #and that the solution to a mistake IS NEVER TO GO BACK INTO THE PAST TO FIX IT but it is to LIVE IN THE FUTURE AND MAKE IT BETTER #fuck endgame #spoilers #lightyear spoilers

[vv3spa]

cinematic poetry.

#lightyear #lightyear 2022 #lightyear spoilers #buzz lightyear #izzy hawthorne #zurg #emperor zurg

[toaverse]

Alisha and her beautiful family😊

#alisha hawthorne #izzy hawthorne #lightyear #lightyear spoilers #lightyear 2022 #kiko hawthorne

[blackstarising]

something something okay, fine, maybe lightyear isn't top tier cinema but there is something deeply, deeply, profound about why buzz is the way he is. it's the way everything is about him but it's not, because his flaw isn't that he's the buzz lightyear, it's that he's constantly trying to chip away at the weight of his failure, not just the marooning, but the way he tumbled, not sailed, but tumbled and tripped and fell and grit his teeth through the academy. he's trying, oh, how he's trying, and the load is becoming bigger and bigger but he can't let it fall, he can't let it drop because it'll drown them too, he thinks, it'll drown them too and I can hold on for one more day, right? and not only can he, but he has to because who is he, in the greater scheme of things? who is he if he's barely a space ranger to begin with, and everyone is trying to hold onto him as time stretches farther and farther, screaming it doesn't matter who you are, but you are loved. please rest in it. please.

#buzz lightyear #lightyear #lightyear spoilers #lightyear 2022 #lightyear movie #i am very not normal about this movie actually

[buckyandsteeb]

Whatever kid bought Andy Buzz Lightyear for his birthday obviously got the cheaper Buzz because a good set would have had Sox along with him

#lightyear #buzz lightyear #toy story #lightyear spoilers #maybe?

[catherine-sketches]

#Lightyear #Lightyear 2022 #buzz lightyear #sox the cat #they live in my head rent free #lightyear spoilers

[scp-113]

zurg's reveal in lightyear devastated so many robotfuckers

#im robotfuckers and i haven't recovered yet #lightyear #lightyear spoilers #zurg #talkingdemon

[gritsandbrits]

Or, me gaining respect for Lightyear 🚀⏰

Disney works harder than the devil himself to keep the original Buzz Lightyear cartoon hidden from society. But maybe that's a good thing, I say as more and more I'm starting to see the movie in a different light.

One of the most common beats in the Toy Story franchise is the consistent struggles between Buzz and his identity. The 2022 movie follows up on this by a twist absolutely no one saw coming. But I see why it was done, and from a franchise POV it actually makes sense.

In the very first toy story Buzz believed himself to be an actual space ranger, much to the exasperation of Woody. Throughout the first half the poor cowboy tries to convince Buzz that he is not the character but a toy. Buzz refuses, insisting that he is a real ranger. In one scene he tries to fly but after failing he suffered an existential crisis

Fortunately after an honest conversation with Woody, Buzz accepted the truth and helped to save the day.

In TS2, Buzz is shown to be more comfortable with his role as a child's toy. He even used Woody's iconic line to call him out for abandoning Andy. Along with an unexpected encounter with his counterpart, Buzz got a firsthand look at how ridiculous his actions were in TS1.

By the third movie, Buzz is willing to avvpt the jext stage kf his life: being part ol the preschool. Only for that to be shattered once he found out how rough children can be. As punishment for trying to escape, Buzz gets brainwashed by Lotso, effectively removing his identity&the freedoms that came with it. He becomes cold, obedient the perfect space ranger but without the moral code or his previous personality holding him back. Then he had to experience loss of memory & a different language&personality. He gets restored in the end, but under Lotso we saw Buzz at his worse; perfectly obedient, icy and serious.

The original Buzz Lightyear cartoon was lighthearted so a lot of moments played for laughs. Here, Buzz is content with his life as a ranger. Occasionally it gets him and his team into trouble. So attached to fighting evil, he even mistakes random blobs of ink for. Zurg! Then there's his tendency to kinda underestimate other's potential, like with Mira and Ty. And his complicated relationship with Warp who tricked him into believing he was his friend. Buzz often felt like a failure and didn't want anyone else to get hurt. Which is explored again twenty years later.

While the 2d cartoon paints a lighthearted picture, the 2022 movie deconstructs how harmful attaching your identity to a label is. Since Buzz wants to be a perfect space ranger he feels like a total failure if he doesn't reach high expectations. Everything comes to a head when he mets the face behind the robot. Himself.

Now this is actually where it starts making sense. Buzz has a history of meeting other versions of himself, all the back in 1999. There were a couple of episodes of the old cartoon where he fought his evil counterpart from another dimension. Then in one of the shorts he met a tiny version of himself.

Just look at him! Isn't he a cutie?

So Buzz meeting an old man version is another example of theae occurrences. "Zurg" is weary, grizzled and yet still hold onto the hopes of changing his past. When he tries to persuade his younger counterpart to give him a precious power cell, Young Buzz refuses. He'd seen how His Alisha and their crew had settled into happy lives. He wouldnt have met her granddaughter Izzy and her teammates. They had accepted him not as this space hero but as a person deserving of his own life. In order for Buzz to truly embrace this lesson he had to take a good long look at himself and the misery his stubborn brought. He refuses to ruin everyone else's lives, and a new chance for himself. That's when Buzz actually became a true ranger. By finally allowing himself to embrace his humanity outside shallow labels.

Old Buzz fell from grace because he let one mistake consume him. He couldn't see himself outside of his career. His warped perception bleeds into his perception of others. Old Buzz thinks Alisha needed to be a ranger again, ignoring that she was content with her family. He turned on his younger self, and killed his own Sox, because since the latter two disagreed with him, they become a threat when all they did was disagree with him. Old Buzz desire to be the perfect ranger nearly ruined millions of lives. Young Buzz avoided because he chose to detach himself from his title and mistake and focus on being a person, his OWN person. He also gained the clarity to value his teammates as people not just talk over them to satisfy his ego.

Overall, I think we should give Lightyear credit for being consistent with the franchise exploration of Buzz's identity. It's not as wild or out there as we assume, it's just another take on Buzz and who he is. That he is more than just a space ranger, or a mistake or a children's toy. He is Buzz. And that's admirable.

Now how about we discuss how this movie was a thinly veiled Take That to the horrid mess that was Endgame Steve?

#lightyear spoilers #buzz lightyear of star command #toy story #lightyear 2022 #blosc #buzz lightyear #meta #character analysis #pixar #disney #essay

[gay-jewish-bucky]

Me, holding Disney by the shoulders and shaking vigorously: LET ME GET THIS RIGHT

THIS IS CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY CHRIS EVANS

SAID CHARACTER ENDS UP FAR IN THE FUTURE AND IS A MAN OT OF TIME AROUND 70 YEARS IN THE FUTURE, SEPERATED FROM EVERYTHING HE'S EVER KNOWN AND LOVED

HE FIGHTS ALONGSIDE PEOPLE WHO BECOME HIS FOUND FAMILY THAT HE LOVES

HE BUILDS A LIFE IN THIS NEW TIME

HE IS GIVEN THE CHANCE FOR HIS CURRENT, NOW OLDER SELF, TO GO BACK TO "HIS TIME" AND THE LIFE "TAKEN FROM HIM" AND ABANDON SAID FOUND FAMILY

AND THE ONLY CORRECT CHOICE IS FOR HIM TO STAY IN HIS NEW PRESENT WITH THIS FAMILY BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE HE TRULY BELONGS

PART OF THAT CHOICE IS THAT HE DOESN'T WANT TO HURT THE PEOPLE HE LOVES

AND HE DOESN'T WANT TO GO BACK TO A HORRIBLE TIME IN HUMAN HITORY AND RUIN THE LIVES OF PEOPLE HE LOVES TO BE SELFISH

YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT THIS ISN'T APLICABLE TO STEVE ROGERS??!!??!??!?!?

#lightyear spoilers #marvel #mcu #mcu critical #i'm gonna commit a felony #anti-endgame

[vv3spa]

hey

#lightyear spoilers #lightyear 2022 #buzz lightyear #zurg #emperor zurg #lightyear #my edit . #chuck shut up challenge .

[andromedaprime]

If we ever get a sequel to Lightyear, I really want it to delve into the severe PTSD I'm sure Buzz has. His friends/coworkers were all gone in the span of what was probably two weeks of his life, he's now two generations removed from the people he got marooned with (and those generations haven't known a life other than being on T'kani Prime). He's already seen the horrors that he, in another lifetime, is capable of.

I want this man to be able to process the PTSD he's got, please. There's no way he was able to just... jet off into space with a new crew like he did in the movie. He's gotta be suffering so much on the inside.

#lightyear spoilers #lightyear 2022 #andy prime talks #i've seen a few comments on places like reddit where people are talking about how they thought the movie was gonna be fun and light #and they got something as horrifying as this #and you know what? it is horrifying. pixar should fucking just go with it now and stop trying to brand this as the movie andy loved as a ki #*kid #but alas what do i know #i'm just yelling on the internet

[dramaticmotionblur]

damn chris evans really sacrificed himself to support his lesbian bestie 😔

#buzz really said ally 💅 #lightyear #lightyear spoilers #buzz lightyear #chris evans #alisha hawthorne #izzy hawthorne #uzo aduba #keke palmer #lesbian #lesbians #ally #lgbtq #lgbtq representation #gay #taika waititi