Is Zurg Really Buzz's Father? Lightyear Hints At Toy Story Lie
Warning! Contains Spoilers for Lightyear!Although Toy Story 2 established that Evil Emperor Zurg was Buzz Lightyear’s father, Lightyear retconned the relationship so that Zurg now has an entirely different backstory. So, is Zurg Buzz's father? Premiering on June 17, 2022, Lightyear explored the titular Buzz Lightyear’s origin story, which (in Toy Story canon at least) inspired the space ranger toy in the Toy Story film series. In Lightyear, Buzz and a ship full of colonists are marooned on an unidentified planet for decades.
Buzz tries to leave using a hyperdrive fuel synthesized on the new colony, but in doing so ends up flinging himself further and further forward in time. Eventually, he returns to find the Colony, the population of which has now lived on the planet for several generations, under assault from mysterious robots and the master they refer to only as Zurg. While Zurg was indeed the...
Buzz tries to leave using a hyperdrive fuel synthesized on the new colony, but in doing so ends up flinging himself further and further forward in time. Eventually, he returns to find the Colony, the population of which has now lived on the planet for several generations, under assault from mysterious robots and the master they refer to only as Zurg. While Zurg was indeed the...
- 1/26/2023
- by Kristen Brown
- ScreenRant
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