Star Wars is a movie franchise created by George Lucas.
References in Pixar
- In Pixar's first movie Toy Story, Buzz tells Woody that Zurg is planning to build a weapon that can destroy entire planets, similar to the Death Star in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
- In Toy Story's first sequel Toy Story 2, (in which Zurg makes his debut) Video-Game Buzz is using Darth Vader's breathing. Zurg (being the Darth Vader of the Toy Story universe) greets both Video-Game and Utility Belt Buzz with the same greeting that Darth Vader used on Obi-Wan in A New Hope, only with Obi-Wan's name replaced with Buzz's. In their climactic battle, Utility Belt Buzz accuses the robot-like Zurg to have killed his father, to which Zurg responds that he is his father, causing a horrified Utility Belt Buzz to yell, "NOOOO!!!" This is a parody of the famous scene in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, where Luke Skywalker learns that Darth Vader is his father. Coincidentally, Toy Story 2 was released the same year as Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
- On an episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Buzz and Zurg parodied the famous "I am your father" scene again. They also parodied a Lightsaber battle.
- In the charades TV spot for the 2001 movie Monsters, Inc., Mike and Sulley are playing charades, and Sulley guesses that Mike is parodying Star Wars, much to Mike's disbelief.
- In Toy Story's second sequel Toy Story 3, the way that Big Baby turns on Lotso is similar to how Darth Vader turns on the Emperor in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of The Jedi.
- One of the scores of the 2013 Toy Story TV special Toy Story of Terror! is: "I've got a bag feeling about this." This references the Star Wars phrase: "I've got a bad feeling about this."
- In the 2014 Toy Story TV special Toy Story That Time Forgot, when Reptillus Maximus insists that Rex and Trixie should stay, The Cleric reluctantly agrees to let them and says, "I find their lack of armor disturbing." A reference to Darth Vader's line, "I find your lack of fate disturbing," in A New Hope.