MacGyver

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MacGyver
MacGyver character
Macgyver.jpg
Richard Dean Anderson as MacGyver
First appearance"Pilot"
Last appearance"Trail to Doomsday"
Created by Lee David Zlotoff
Portrayed by Richard Dean Anderson
Other:
Sean Wohland (young)
In-universe information
Full nameAngus MacGyver
NicknameMac
Occupation Secret agent
Family
  • Ellen Jackson (mother)
  • James MacGyver (father)
Children
  • Sean Angus "Sam" Malloy (son)
Relatives
NationalityAmerican

Angus "Mac" MacGyver is the title character and the protagonist in the TV series MacGyver. He is played by Richard Dean Anderson in the 1985 original series. Lucas Till portrays a younger version of MacGyver in the 2016 reboot. [1]

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In both portrayals MacGyver is shown to possess a genius-level intellect, proficiency in multiple languages, superb engineering skills, excellent knowledge of applied physics, military training in bomb disposal techniques, and a preference for non-lethal resolutions to conflicts. MacGyver works for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles, which in the original series was an independent think tank, and in the 2016 reboot is a clandestine government organization using the cover of a think tank. In addition to his scientific knowledge and inventive use of common items, he always carries a Swiss Army knife and refuses to carry a gun.

MacGyver (1985–1992 original series, 1994 specials)

Personality

MacGyver is portrayed as a non-violent problem solver and typically eschews the use of guns. [lower-alpha 1] His violent actions are performed in self-defense, and he takes non-fatal action when possible.

MacGyver is depicted as an ally to social and environmental causes. He aids vulnerable populations throughout the series. During vineyard worker strikes, MacGyver assists Latino protesters against vineyard owners. [3] MacGyver appears to have a strong connection with children, filling the role of "big brother" at the series' inception. [2] MacGyver demonstrates his allegiance to children by assisting a mountain excursion for delinquent youths. [4] MacGyver also conducts hearing research at a school for deaf children. [5] In regard to the environment, MacGyver strives to protect endangered species such as eagles, [6] the black rhino, [7] and wolves. [8] At an unspecificed date during the series, MacGyver begins practicing vegetarianism. [9]

MacGyver is characterized as persistent and spontaneous. He employs improvisation to evade anticipatory countermeasures, and his plans are difficult to thwart on account of their unpredictability. This constant spontaneity challenges MacGyver as well as his adversaries. Because MacGyver continues to operate in this manner, it is assumed the tactical advantage of spontaneity outweighs its disadvantages. This is observed by MacGyver's nemesis Murdoc.

MacGyver demonstrates mood congruence, exhibiting grief in tragedy, fear in peril, and pain in suffering. [10] This stands in contrast to exaggeratedly macho or stoic action heroes. MacGyver is depicted as introspective, and he is known to take responsibility for personal losses and tragedies. He experiences guilt when duty prevents him from attending his mother's death and funeral. He experiences depression when his best friend suffers a fatal climbing accident.

MacGyver's most-used item is his Swiss Army knife. He usually carries a roll of duct tape in his back pocket, flattened out to make it fit. Other items he often has on hand are: an ID card, a Timex Camper watch, strike-anywhere matches, a few paper clips, chewing gum, and a flashlight. He also has a toolbox in his Jeep. [11] MacGyver initially used a Jeep Cherokee and then a Jeep Wrangler beginning with Season 2, but in Season 5 he began driving his grandfather Harry's "classic" 1946 Chevrolet pickup truck. [12]

MacGyver is proficient in Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish, [13] and American Sign Language, and knows how to use International maritime signal flags and Morse code. [14] He is an avid outdoorsman with skills that include skiing and outdoor survival. Despite an acute fear of heights, he is skilled at mountain/rock climbing, hang gliding, and parachuting - static line and ripcord / HALO. His other hobbies include ice hockey and racing, and he has shown interest in the arts of painting and guitar. [15]

His haircut is a mullet, in a clean-cut, lightly gelled variation on the classic hairstyle.

While never being in a long-term on-screen relationship, he has relationships with several women in individual episodes and several previous relationships are hinted at in flashbacks, from which he has one child. He is portrayed as being on good terms with his past romantic acquaintances.

First name

MacGyver's first name was originally intended to be Stacey, as seen in a press release from Paramount. [16] However, it was never confirmed in any episode, and remained a mystery until the seventh season; whenever he is asked about it, he says he dislikes his first name and quickly changes the subject. His grandfather, Harry Jackson, calls him "Bud" or "Buddy". Most of his friends and colleagues call him by his last name MacGyver or simply "Mac". In the final season, his first name is canonically revealed to be Angus when, while knocked unconscious and hallucinating, he meets a 7th-century man named Ian M'Iver ("son of Ingmarr") whose son has the same first name. [17] This revelation is repeated in the series finale, which introduces MacGyver's son as having the middle name Angus, as well as on the packaging of the MacGyver DVD season sets.

Biography

MacGyver's birthdate is first seen as January 23, 1951 [18] but was then revised in season 2 as March 23, 1952 [19] [20] (the date which continued to be used for the rest of the series). (However, in Series 6 Ep 12 Jerico Games, he looks at a high school yearbook, 1968, when he was supposedly 18.) He was raised in Mission City, Minnesota. MacGyver was in the Cub Scouts. A Den Mother by the name of Mrs. Fryfogel taught him "backwoods common sense" and the motto "Be prepared." [21] At the age of 7, his grandmother Celia Jackson and father James MacGyver (Martin Milner) were killed in a car accident in which they both drowned, and MacGyver grew up with his mother, Ellen MacGyver. [22] His grandfather, Harry Jackson (John Anderson) acted as his father, but moved away when MacGyver was 16, working for a time in Alaska while sending money to MacGyver and his mother, and eventually settled down as a farmer in Minnesota. [23] At about 12 years of age, MacGyver had a traumatic experience with the accidental shooting death of a friend by a bullet from a falling gun. [24] MacGyver is a lifelong player of ice hockey, having played in his local hockey leagues and coached for a minor league team; he is also a supporter of the Calgary Flames and believed he could have made the NHL. [25] He met Jack Dalton while in high school.

MacGyver went to Western Tech where he graduated with a dual degree in chemistry and physics. [26] After graduating from college he turned down an offer to work at the nearby nuclear power plant and it is later revealed that he briefly served during the Vietnam War in a bomb-defusing team. [27] Five years before the start of the series, MacGyver worked as a "Hell Fighter," fighting oil well fires in Sumatra. [28] Sometime during this time MacGyver's mother died of a stroke while he was in Afghanistan on assignment, though no specifics are given other than it being after Christmas. [29] Eventually he moved to Los Angeles where he held numerous jobs until he accidentally meets Peter Thornton, an agent at the Department of External Services. When MacGyver saves Thornton's life using a paper clip, a wrench and shoelaces, MacGyver is offered a job as a field agent at the DXS. [30]

In the first episode of Season 2, Thornton takes a job as Director of Operations at the Phoenix Foundation, [31] and MacGyver follows, where he is hired as a "sort of troubleshooter." [32] He is assigned to a variety of tasks, usually field operations such as conducting environmental surveys and testing security systems. In the fifth season, Harry dies of a heart attack, [33] at which point MacGyver believes he has no remaining relatives. [34] In the second to last episode of the show, it is revealed that MacGyver has a son, Sean "Sam" Angus Malloy. Sean's mother is the photojournalist Kate Malloy who MacGyver had met after college. Kate had been murdered in China several years prior to MacGyver meeting their son for the first time. After discovering and reuniting with Sean, MacGyver decides to resign from the Foundation in order to spend time with his son. [35]

Two television specials featuring the character followed, both occurring and released in 1994, two years after the series ended. In the first one (MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis), MacGyver teams up with his former college archaeology instructor, Professor Atticus (Brian Blessed), to help him prove his theories about ancient Atlantis while dodging the bullets of genocidal Yugoslav troops, a Greek revolutionary and a ruthless treasure hunter. Soon thereafter (MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday), he investigates the murder of a friend in Britain, and eventually traces it to an unscrupulous businessman who sells nuclear arms research for profit. No mention in either special is made of Pete Thornton, Jack Dalton, MacGyver's son Sean or any of the show's other regulars.

Family

Cultural impact

The term "MacGyver" has now become part of the colloquial American English lexicon. When one "MacGyvers" a solution to a problem, one finds a simple yet elegant solution using existing resources. [43] [44] This is in contrast to a kludge, or a Rube Goldberg, which is generally complicated and problematic.

MacGyver (2016–2021 series)

Angus MacGyver
Lucas Till as MacGyver.png
Lucas Till as MacGyver
First appearance"The Rising"
Last appearance"Abduction + Memory + Time + Fireworks + Dispersal"
Created by Lee David Zlotoff
Portrayed by Lucas Till
Developed by Peter M. Lenkov
In-universe information
Occupation Secret agent
FamilyEllen Hayes (mother)
James MacGyver (father)
Relatives Harry Jackson (grandfather)
Gwendolyn Hayes (aunt)
NationalityAmerican

Lucas Till portrays a younger version of Angus "Mac" MacGyver in the 2016 reboot of the series.

Personality and skills

MacGyver has a genius-level intellect and a particular ability for adaptation and improvisation. He is a resourceful U.S. operative who works for the Phoenix Foundation, a covert U.S. government agency operating under the guise of a think tank. Trained as an EOD technician for the Army, Mac prefers to use non-lethal means to stop his enemies, and refuses to carry a gun, though if necessary he will resort to lethal measures. [45] He is never without his trusty Swiss Army knife and uses anything in his environment to his advantage. While not an expert in biology or medicine, MacGyver is shown to be an efficient field medic and knowledgeable in crime scene techniques and DNA sequencing procedures. [46]

He is afraid of heights, though is able to overcome his fear to finish his missions. [47] Though not an expert fighter, he is shown to be able to temporarily hold off multiple enemies in hand-to-hand combat, typically long enough for him to figure out a way to end the conflict using his adaptation and improvisational skills. [48] He is proficient in multiple languages, including Italian, German and Mandarin. [49] He also knows Morse code. [50]

He is shown to be charming, personable, and with an easy ability to make and keep friends. [51] MacGyver shows flashes of intense anger when his friends are threatened or when his father, who disappeared from MacGyver's life at the age of 10, is mentioned. [52]

Biography

MacGyver was raised primarily in Mission City, California. His mother died when MacGyver was 5, and his father disappeared from MacGyver's life when MacGyver was 10. [53] After his father's disappearance, MacGyver was raised by his grandfather. MacGyver met his best friend Wilt Bozer in the fifth grade, and both graduated from Mission City High School. Bozer and MacGyver are roommates when the series begins, although Bozer initially believes that MacGyver works as an IT expert. MacGyver spent two years at MIT studying physics, though did not graduate. He left MIT to join the Army because he wanted to make an actual difference in people's lives rather than thinking about theoretical problems, being trained as an EOD technician and spending three years in Afghanistan. [54] In the Army he met Jack Dalton, who was a Delta Force soldier. [54]

After leaving the Army, MacGyver was hired by the Department of External Services, a government clandestine operation using the guise of a think tank. Eventually, Jack Dalton left his position with the CIA and became MacGyver's partner at DXS; by the time of the series pilot, they had spent three years as partners at DXS. [51] After DXS's original, unnamed cover is blown a new cover is needed which will allow for a transition of the organization's assets so its work can continue. MacGyver suggests the name "Phoenix", after the mythological bird that is reborn by rising from its own ashes, and the organization begins using the cover-name of the "Phoenix Foundation". [51]

Explanatory notes

  1. ↑ In the first episode of the series, MacGyver fires an AK-47 at some Soviet soldiers. His dislike of firearms was established in subsequent episodes. [2]

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  2. 1 2 Season 1, Episode 1 – "Pilot"
  3. ↑ Season 6, Episode 9 - "Bitter Harvest"
  4. ↑ Season 2, Episode 5 – "Final Approach"
  5. ↑ Season 2, Episode 9 – "Silent World"
  6. ↑ Season 2, Episode 8 – "Eagles"
  7. ↑ Season 5, Episode 8 – "Black Rhino"
  8. ↑ Season 6, Episode 18 – "Faith, Hope & Charity"
  9. ↑ Season 7, Episode 6 – "Walking Dead"
  10. ↑ Season 5, Episode 14 – "Log Jam"
  11. ↑ Season 1, Episode 18 – "Ugly Duckling"
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  13. ↑ Season 2, Episode 15 – "Pirates"
  14. ↑ Season 3, Episode 8 – "The Widowmaker"
  15. 1 2 "The Madonna". MacGyver. Season 5. Episode 11. December 1989. ABC.
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  18. ↑ January 23, 1951, per his passport in "Every Time She Smiles". MacGyver. Season 1. Episode 16. February 1986. ABC.
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  23. ↑ Phoenix Under Siege, stated by MacGyver as "it's been six..seven...eighteen years"
  24. ↑ "Blood Brothers". MacGyver. Season 4. Episode 2. November 1988. ABC. MacGyver returns to his home town and meets two childhood friends, wherein a series of flashbacks the accidental death of friend Jesse is shown when MacGyver takes his dad's revolver for the boys to play with. When their friend Neil attempted to shoot a bird, MacGyver knocked the cocked gun from his hands which resulted in it discharging and firing a bullet into Jesse's chest.
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  33. 1 2 "Passages". MacGyver. Season 5. Episode 21. April 1990. ABC.
  34. ↑ "Target MacGyver". MacGyver. Season 1. Episode 10. December 1985. ABC.. MacGyver reveals that Harry is his only living relative.
  35. ↑ "The Stringer". MacGyver. Season 7. Episode 13. April 1992. ABC. Sean is revealed as MacGyver's son.
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  46. ↑ "Compass". MacGyver . Season 1. Episode 19. March 2017. CBS. CSI and DNA sequencing knowledge shown. "Cigar Cutter". MacGyver . Season 1. Episode 21. April 2017. CBS. Field medicine skills.
  47. ↑ "Awl". MacGyver . Season 1. Episode 3. October 2016. CBS. Shown hanging from the landing gear of a plane taking off.
  48. ↑ "Cigar Cutter". MacGyver . Season 1. Episode 21. April 2017. CBS.
  49. ↑ "The Rising". MacGyver . Season 1. Episode 1. September 2016. CBS. Tells Nikki Carpenter that he learned Italian when she agreed to accompany him to Rome, presumably romantically; Wilt Bozer says that MacGyver is the only person he knows who speaks Mandarin "Flashlight". MacGyver . Season 1. Episode 18. March 2017. CBS. Translates radio orders spoken in Mandarin, though he acknowledges his Mandarin skills are "rusty"
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  51. 1 2 3 "The Rising". MacGyver . Season 1. Episode 1. September 2016. CBS.
  52. ↑ "Hole Puncher". MacGyver . Season 1. Episode 20. April 2017. CBS. Murdoc, while teaching MacGyver to act like a cold-blooded killer, enrages MacGyver by bringing up MacGyver's father. MacGyver begins choking Murdoc before getting himself under control. "Cigar Cutter". MacGyver . Season 1. Episode 21. April 2017. CBS. When Fake Dr. Zito, a criminal trained by Murdoc to kill MacGyver, is defeated by MacGyver, he claims that Murdoc told him all of MacGyvers weaknesses, including his father. When Zito mentions his father, MacGyver raises his weapon to strike the downed Zito, but a commotion causes Zito to be able to get away.
  53. ↑ "Metal Saw". MacGyver . Season 1. Episode 2. September 2016. CBS. Jack Dalton mentions that MacGyver's mother died when he was 5, and this is confirmed in later episodes; in this episode, MacGyver's father is stated to have left at age 12, though later episodes confirm he was 10, such as "Flashlight". MacGyver . Season 1. Episode 18. March 2016. CBS.
  54. 1 2 "Compass". MacGyver . Season 1. Episode 19. March 2017. CBS.
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