Pixar "Fixed" Buzz Lightyear In The Worst Way
Warning: Contains potential SPOILERS for Lightyear
Pixar's changes to Buzz Lightyear in the Lightyear movie may have been intended to fix the character, but the end result is actually incredibly disappointing. Throughout Lightyear, the titular space ranger behaves very differently from his original Toy Story counterpart. However, while there's no doubt that some of these revisions add greater complexity and depth to the character, an inadvertent side effect actually undermines one key aspect of his personality – how he comes across as a hero.
In each of his various onscreen iterations, Buzz Lightyear has had a potentially toxic hero complex. Whether it's Tim Allen's pompous, oblivious and naive caricature from the first Toy Story movie, the more humble evolution that takes center stage in Toy Story 2, or Chris Evans' updated version from Lightyear, Buzz's heroism has always been tainted by occasionally questionable motivations. In Lightyear, for instance, his need to be the one responsible for saving everyone from a hostile planet is actually born out of a sense of insecurity and inferiority. Similarly, his ego and need to prove himself was one of the major sources of conflict with Woody in the original Toy Story. This complex motivation is consistent across each of his five big-screen appearances and helps make him such an iconic figure.
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Buzz's flawed heroism creates a connective thread between Lightyear and previous Toy Story entries. However, his depiction in Lightyear actually unnecessarily reinvents one of the character's most historically endearing qualities – his charming, bumbling oafishness. The Chris Evans update, which reflects the overall tone of the
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