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By the end of the episode, Delasora is back in custody, his troops have surrendered, Bob Stryke is dead and the legitimate government is still going.
Murdoc played the long game to take out two targets while making it look like he was aligned with them the whole time and were the ones who turned on ''him''. Getting [=MacGyver=] involved was part of the plan and another chance to have some fun. Once the job was done, he faked his death again and escaped. In a way, he actually did kill for money and power. In this case, it was the power to take out a dictator and a government agent while they paid ''him'' for it.
Murdoc played the long game to take out two targets while making it look like he was aligned with them the whole time and were the ones who turned on ''him''. Getting [=MacGyver=] involved was part of the plan and another chance to have some fun. Once the job was done, he faked his death again and escaped. In a way, he actually did kill for money and power. In this case, it was the power to take out a dictator and a government agent while they paid ''him'' for it.
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By the end of the episode, Delasora is back in custody, his troops have surrendered, Bob Stryke is dead and the legitimate democratic government is still going.
Murdoc played the long game to take out two targets while making it look like he was aligned with them the wholetime time, did their bidding, and were the ones who turned on ''him''. Getting [=MacGyver=] involved was part of the plan and another chance to have some fun. Once the job was done, he faked his death again and escaped. In a way, he actually did kill for money and power. In this case, it was the power to take out a dictator and a government agent while they paid ''him'' for it.
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In fact, during their brief exchange where [=MacGyver=] goaded Murdoc nto killing him with the rocket, it was almost as if he told the assassin: "I'm not going to have an out if I'm in front of a firing squad this time, can you give me an alternative?" Naturally, Murdoc obliged.
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Murdoc played the long game to take out two targets while making it look like he was aligned with them the whole time. Getting [=MacGyver=] involved was part of the plan and another chance to have some fun. Once the job was done, he faked his death again and escaped. In a way, he actually did kill for money and power. In this case, it was the power to take out a dictator and a government agent while they paid ''him'' for it.
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Murdoc played the long game to take out two targets while making it look like he was aligned with them the whole time.time and were the ones who turned on ''him''. Getting [=MacGyver=] involved was part of the plan and another chance to have some fun. Once the job was done, he faked his death again and escaped. In a way, he actually did kill for money and power. In this case, it was the power to take out a dictator and a government agent while they paid ''him'' for it.
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On the other hand, by the end of the episode, Delasora is back in custody, his troops have surrendered, Bob Stryke is dead and the legitimate government is still going.
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Consider that Murdoc already knew about [=MacGyver=]'s ability to get out of traps and yet he puts him in yet another one instead of just shooting him. Not only that, but there are tarps right next to a cruise missile--that shouldn't be there since anything loose could get sucked into the intake--that he uses to take it down.
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Consider that Murdoc already knew about [=MacGyver=]'s ability to get out of traps and yet he puts him in yet another one instead of just shooting him. Not only that, but there are tarps right next to a the cruise missile--that shouldn't be there since anything loose could get sucked into the intake--that he uses to take it down.
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Consider that Murdoc already knew about [=MacGyver=]'s ability to get out of traps and yet he puts him in yet another one instead of just shooting him. Not only that, but there are tarps right next to a cruise missile--that shouldn't be there--that he uses to take it down.
On the other hand, by the end of the episode, Delasora is back in custody, his troops have surrendered, the government agent helping them is dead and the legitimate government is still going.
Murdoc played the long game to take out two targets while making it look like he was aligned with them the whole time. Once the job was done, he faked his death again and escaped. In a way, he actually did kill for money and power. In this case, it was the power to take out a dictator and a government agent while they paid him for it.
On the other hand, by the end of the episode, Delasora is back in custody, his troops have surrendered, the government agent helping them is dead and the legitimate government is still going.
Murdoc played the long game to take out two targets while making it look like he was aligned with them the whole time. Once the job was done, he faked his death again and escaped. In a way, he actually did kill for money and power. In this case, it was the power to take out a dictator and a government agent while they paid him for it.
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Consider that Murdoc already knew about [=MacGyver=]'s ability to get out of traps and yet he puts him in yet another one instead of just shooting him. Not only that, but there are tarps right next to a cruise missile--that shouldn't be there--that there since anything loose could get sucked into the intake--that he uses to take it down.
On the other hand, by the end of the episode, Delasora is back in custody, his troops have surrendered,the government agent helping them Bob Stryke is dead and the legitimate government is still going.
Murdoc played the long game to take out two targets while making it look like he was aligned with them the whole time. Getting [=MacGyver=] involved was part of the plan and another chance to have some fun. Once the job was done, he faked his death again and escaped. In a way, he actually did kill for money and power. In this case, it was the power to take out a dictator and a government agent while they paidhim ''him'' for it.
On the other hand, by the end of the episode, Delasora is back in custody, his troops have surrendered,
Murdoc played the long game to take out two targets while making it look like he was aligned with them the whole time. Getting [=MacGyver=] involved was part of the plan and another chance to have some fun. Once the job was done, he faked his death again and escaped. In a way, he actually did kill for money and power. In this case, it was the power to take out a dictator and a government agent while they paid
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Consider that Murdoc already knew about MacGyver's [=MacGyver=]'s ability to get out of traps and yet he puts him in yet another one instead of just shooting him. Not only that, but there are tarps right next to a cruise missile--that shouldn't be there--that he uses to take it down.
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Whenever one of Murdoc's plans fail, he fakes his death. Whatever ground he chooses, he has some means of escape. The one exception was the mineshaft as he lucked out (or did he? He mentioned an underground river that led out. How did he know?).
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Whenever one of Murdoc's plans fail, he fakes his death. Whatever ground he chooses, he has some means of escape. The one exception was Even the mineshaft he fell down as he lucked out (or did he? He mentioned it had an underground river river.
[[WMG: Murdoc's targets in "Obsession" were the antagonists]]
Consider thatled out. How Murdoc already knew about MacGyver's ability to get out of traps and yet he puts him in yet another one instead of just shooting him. Not only that, but there are tarps right next to a cruise missile--that shouldn't be there--that he uses to take it down.
On the other hand, by the end of the episode, Delasora is back in custody, his troops have surrendered, the government agent helping them is dead and the legitimate government is still going.
Murdoc played the long game to take out two targets while making it look like he was aligned with them the whole time. Once the job was done, he faked his death again and escaped. In a way, he actually didhe know?).
kill for money and power. In this case, it was the power to take out a dictator and a government agent while they paid him for it.
[[WMG: Murdoc's targets in "Obsession" were the antagonists]]
Consider that
On the other hand, by the end of the episode, Delasora is back in custody, his troops have surrendered, the government agent helping them is dead and the legitimate government is still going.
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[[WMG: Murdoc's Exit Strategy]]
Whenever one of Murdoc's plans fail, he fakes his death. Whatever ground he chooses, he has some means of escape. The one exception was the mineshaft as he lucked out (or did he? He mentioned an underground river that led out. How did he know?).
Whenever one of Murdoc's plans fail, he fakes his death. Whatever ground he chooses, he has some means of escape. The one exception was the mineshaft as he lucked out (or did he? He mentioned an underground river that led out. How did he know?).
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* If Mac himself isn't a Time Lord, he's probably a former companion of the Doctor.
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He has to be, because in several episodes he's either DressingAsTheEnemy or speaking with people who propably don't know english. The hungarian romani family from ''thief of Budapest'' is the first example to spring into mind, but there are many more.
* In the season 1 episode where he infiltrates a Soviet mental hospital in Russia, he can communicate with all of the patients and the staff doesn't make any reference to realizing he's an American, so Mac has to speak fluent russian or be able to pass himself off as a native speaker of some other language within the USSR. Pete Thornton also needs to be semi-fluent in russian since he can pass himself off as a Soviet psychologist in the same episode.
* In the season 1 episode where he infiltrates a Soviet mental hospital in Russia, he can communicate with all of the patients and the staff doesn't make any reference to realizing he's an American, so Mac has to speak fluent russian or be able to pass himself off as a native speaker of some other language within the USSR. Pete Thornton also needs to be semi-fluent in russian since he can pass himself off as a Soviet psychologist in the same episode.
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He has to be, because in several episodes he's either DressingAsTheEnemy or speaking with people who propably probably don't know english. English. The hungarian romani Hungarian Romani family from ''thief of Budapest'' is the first example to spring into mind, but there are many more.
* In the season 1 episode where he infiltrates a Soviet mental hospital in Russia, he can communicate with all of the patients and the staff doesn't make any reference to realizing he's an American, so Mac has to speak fluentrussian Russian or be able to pass himself off as a native speaker of some other language within the USSR. Pete Thornton also needs to be at least semi-fluent in russian Russian since he can pass himself off as a Soviet psychologist in the same episode.
** Given how much travel Mac does, this is almost certainly canon. Meanwhile, given that Pete is in charge of an international agency, it would be much more surprising if he wasn't fluent in Russian!
* In the season 1 episode where he infiltrates a Soviet mental hospital in Russia, he can communicate with all of the patients and the staff doesn't make any reference to realizing he's an American, so Mac has to speak fluent
** Given how much travel Mac does, this is almost certainly canon. Meanwhile, given that Pete is in charge of an international agency, it would be much more surprising if he wasn't fluent in Russian!
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[[WMG: MacGyver is a polyglot]]
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[[WMG: MacGyver [=MacGyver=] is a polyglot]]
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* In the season 1 episode where he infiltrates a Soviet mental hospital in Russia, he can communicate with all of the patients and the staff doesn't make any reference to realizing he's an American, so Mac has to speak fluent russian or be able to pass himself off as a native speaker of some other language within the USSR. Peter also needs to be semi-fluent in russian since he can pass himself off as a Soviet psychologist in the same episode.
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* In the season 1 episode where he infiltrates a Soviet mental hospital in Russia, he can communicate with all of the patients and the staff doesn't make any reference to realizing he's an American, so Mac has to speak fluent russian or be able to pass himself off as a native speaker of some other language within the USSR. Peter Pete Thornton also needs to be semi-fluent in russian since he can pass himself off as a Soviet psychologist in the same episode.
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* In the season 1 episode where he infiltrates a Soviet mental hospital in Russia, he can communicate with all of the patients and the staff doesn't make any reference to realizing he's an American, so Mac has to speak fluent russian or be able to pass himself off as a native speaker of some other language within the USSR. Peter also needs to be semi-fluent in russian since he can pass himself off as a Soviet psychologist in the same episode.
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[[WMG: MacGyver is a polyglot]]
He has to be, because in several episodes he's either DressingAsTheEnemy or speaking with people who propably don't know english. The hungarian romani family from ''thief of Budapest'' is the first example to spring into mind, but there are many more.
He has to be, because in several episodes he's either DressingAsTheEnemy or speaking with people who propably don't know english. The hungarian romani family from ''thief of Budapest'' is the first example to spring into mind, but there are many more.
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* If Mac himself isn't a Time Lord, he's probably a former companion of the Doctor.
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[[WMG: "MacGyver" takes place 30 years after 1982 TV series "Knight Rider" (same universe), and Angus MacGyver is the love child of Michael Knight and his mechanic Bonnie Barstow.]]
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[[WMG: "MacGyver" "[=MacGyver=]" takes place 30 years after 1982 TV series "Knight Rider" (same universe), and Angus MacGyver [=MacGyver=] is the love child of Michael Knight and his mechanic Bonnie Barstow.]]
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[[WMG: "MacGyver" takes place 30 years after 1982 TV series "Knight Rider" (same universe), and Angus MacGyver is the love child of Michael Knight and his mechanic Bonnie Barstow.]]
* Mac has Bonnie's humility, technical/mechanical wizardry and off-the-cuff improvisation, and has Michael's charm, humor, adventurous spirit, and good looks. Mac's different name is due to being adopted as an infant after Michael and Bonnie are murdered, and his blonde mullet is a professional dye job to help protect his identity. The Phoenix Foundation itself is a resurrection and worldwide expansion of "The Foundation for Law And Government" (FLAG), ditching K.I.T.T. for logistical and expense reasons.
* Mac has Bonnie's humility, technical/mechanical wizardry and off-the-cuff improvisation, and has Michael's charm, humor, adventurous spirit, and good looks. Mac's different name is due to being adopted as an infant after Michael and Bonnie are murdered, and his blonde mullet is a professional dye job to help protect his identity. The Phoenix Foundation itself is a resurrection and worldwide expansion of "The Foundation for Law And Government" (FLAG), ditching K.I.T.T. for logistical and expense reasons.
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[[WMG: The entire seventh season was a dream sequence.]]
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[[WMG: One or more of the characters is a WMG/TimeLord.]]
[[WMG: [=MacGyver=] was Jesus Christ.]]
* In the second season episode "silent World," [=MacGyver=] is heavily involved in a voice-guided missile project which incorporates technology that is also being applied in the creation of a device which allows the deaf to hear. The epilogue features several deaf children thanking [=MacGyver=] for letting them hear for the first time in their lives.
* Also from the second season, "Pirates," in which [=MacGyver=] helps a crippled boy to walk... by retrieving sunken treasure which pays for the boy's surgery.
* "Out in the Cold" finds [=MacGyver=] skiing, which is little more than bipedal movement over (frozen) water.
* "Passages," from the fifth season, features the death of [[spoiler:Harry, [=MacGyver=]'s grandfather]]. [=MacGyver=] also goes into a coma, where he finds himself aboard Charon's Ferry (a cruise ship), about to cross the River Styx. Also there are [[spoiler:Harry]] and [=MacGyver=]'s long-deceased parents. [=MacGyver=] doesn't cross, but instead is "resurrected" by waking up from his coma. (It should be noted that [=MacGyver=] works for the ''Phoenix'' Foundation.)
[[WMG: Murdoc is a [[Franchise/{{Highlander}} Sword Immortal]]. ]]
This is how he keeps coming Main/BackFromTheDead. Mac isn't going to cut off his head, so he's likely still out there.
[[WMG: [=MacGyver=] is a [[Main/EvilCounterpart "good" counterpart]] of Film/JamesBond]]
Back in the 1950s, James Bond was selected as the ideal super soldier specimen to be cloned. However, as ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' has proven, only a genetically perfect clone can exhibit such radical differences. Observe:
* James Bond is a cool name. Angus [=MacGyver=]... isn't.
* James Bond is sexy and dangerous. [=MacGyver=] is the type of boy that your father would set you up on a blind date with.
* James Bond wears expensive designer suits. [=MacGyver=] wears a suede jacket with a polo shirt and blue jeans.
* James Bond drives the coolest cars from Aston Martin, BMW, and Lotus. [=MacGyver=] drives a dingy old Jeep, which (to avoid risking coolness) is later replaced by an old station wagon.
* James Bond is supplied high tech-gadgetry by Q Branch that [[Main/ItRunsOnNonsensoleum run on nonsensoleum]]. [=MacGyver=] builds his own gadgets from mundane objects (although he also has a pocket [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Infinite Improbability Drive]] that he uses on them).
* James Bond has no problem with killing people and legal permission to do it. [=MacGyver=] [[Main/TechnicalPacifist tries to avoid killing people]]; his villains die (when they die) by accident or by direct application of the VillainBall. James Bond uses guns while [=MacGyver=] doesn't.
* The number of women James Bond has chosen not to sleep with is exactly the same as the number of women that [=MacGyver=] has slept with (i.e. very few).
* James Bond, in spite of never seeming to use any contraceptives, has never ended up with children from any of the women that he has slept with. [=MacGyver=], however, manages to end up with one in spite of the very few women he has slept with and the fact that one would assume he would use contraceptives.
** Even if [=MacGyver=] didn't have any contraceptives, he would probably be able to make one out of like, a rubber band and a condom or something.
** Or maybe, just, you know, use the condom. Unless the rubber band is for extra added springyness, maybe?
** Maybe the condom was a magnum and he needed an elastic waistband at the bottom? Because he couldn't "fill it out"?
* James Bond has a bombastic, jazzy theme song. [=MacGyver=] has a little Casio ditty.
* James Bond saves the world. [=MacGyver=] saves the kids of the community from counterfeit baseball cards.
* James Bond spends Christmas saving the world from a bioterrorist threat. [=MacGyver=] spends Christmas helping a local gym run a charity play.
* James Bond spends his free time in casinos, gambling with high stakes and scoring with plenty of beautiful women. [=MacGyver=] spends his free time going on nature hikes and doing social work with the community.
* On the flip side, James Bond enjoys golf, a sport second only to shuffleboard amongst old retired men. [=MacGyver=] enjoys hockey, a sport second only to rugby for brutal violence outside the rules.
* James Bond managed to kill his archnemesis eventually. [=MacGyver's=] unwillingness to kill anybody is so powerful, it selectively rewrites the laws of the universe to allow Murdoc to survive crumbling buildings, point blank explosions, thousand foot falls, and being submerged in boiling water.
Unfortunately, [=MacGyver=] just wasn't good enough for British Intelligence; he was missing that essential bull-in-the-china-shop quality. So he was traded to the United States. The rest is history.
[[WMG: [=MacGyver=] has three brothers; their names are [[Series/GoodEats Alton Brown]], [[Series/MythBusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman.]]]]
There is no better explanation.
[[WMG:[=MacGyver=] is a [[Webcomic/GirlGenius Spark]]]]
He can improvise complex devices out of any available material, and they ''always work'' even when physics says they shouldn't.
[[WMG: [=MacGyver=] is a near-immortal being who engenders the [[Franchise/StarTrek Starfleet Corps of Engineering]].]]
In [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration NextGeneration]] episode ''The Survivors,'' we learn that one Kevin Uxbridge is a Douwd: an immortal, Q-like race that specializes in hiding their identities. However, we have seen Kevin Uxbridge before: Harry Jackson, Mac's grandfather. Jackson cared for Mac after his "real" parents were killed; eventually they were estranged and later reunited. We know that the Douwd specialize in false identities AND that they can love humans. Since they are nearly omnipotent, it is conceivable that they would be able to foster children with humans. Therefore, we can postulate that Uxbridge, living on Earth, impregnates Mac's mother and then creates a "false father" in his own image (we have seen Uxbridge do something similar), possibly so that Mac will grow up with two human parents. After their deaths, Uxbridge regrets his decision and isolates himself from his progeny to protect Mac from finding out he's half-Douwd.
Mac's half-Douwd nature gives him long life and subconsciously powers his physics-defying prowess: either he bends physical law to conform to his needs, or creates useful items in proximity to himself when in danger. His constant manipulations of reality give rise to weird phenomena that span the universe, creating subspace and other Star Trek phenomena, as well as explaining all the physics-defying moments in the series. Uxbridge, who indulges often in denial on a massive scale (as we see in ''The Survivors''), only eventually accepts that he is directly responsible for Mac's actions and, after a brief period of reunion to ensure Mac has developed in a sensible direction, fakes his own death so that he can relocate and start another new life.
The Starfleet Engineering connection is now obvious. That branch of Starfleet produces miracle workers on an absolutely unheard-of scale, with their own physics-defying aura and problem-solving ingenuity. The "main cast" engineers (all human or partially-human, mind you) must all either have studied at the feet of the master, or must be his descendants. Their own short-lived nature comes from the dilution of Douwd blood.
* Transporter Chief O'Brien was also contemporaneous with Mac, but since the episode in which O'Brien and Mac interact featured time travel, it's likely this was just a time travel accident.
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[[WMG: [=MacGyver=] was Jesus Christ.]]
* In the second season episode "silent World," [=MacGyver=] is heavily involved in a voice-guided missile project which incorporates technology that is also being applied in the creation of a device which allows the deaf to hear. The epilogue features several deaf children thanking [=MacGyver=] for letting them hear for the first time in their lives.
* Also from the second season, "Pirates," in which [=MacGyver=] helps a crippled boy to walk... by retrieving sunken treasure which pays for the boy's surgery.
* "Out in the Cold" finds [=MacGyver=] skiing, which is little more than bipedal movement over (frozen) water.
* "Passages," from the fifth season, features the death of [[spoiler:Harry, [=MacGyver=]'s grandfather]]. [=MacGyver=] also goes into a coma, where he finds himself aboard Charon's Ferry (a cruise ship), about to cross the River Styx. Also there are [[spoiler:Harry]] and [=MacGyver=]'s long-deceased parents. [=MacGyver=] doesn't cross, but instead is "resurrected" by waking up from his coma. (It should be noted that [=MacGyver=] works for the ''Phoenix'' Foundation.)
[[WMG: Murdoc is a [[Franchise/{{Highlander}} Sword Immortal]]. ]]
This is how he keeps coming Main/BackFromTheDead. Mac isn't going to cut off his head, so he's likely still out there.
[[WMG: [=MacGyver=] is a [[Main/EvilCounterpart "good" counterpart]] of Film/JamesBond]]
Back in the 1950s, James Bond was selected as the ideal super soldier specimen to be cloned. However, as ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' has proven, only a genetically perfect clone can exhibit such radical differences. Observe:
* James Bond is a cool name. Angus [=MacGyver=]... isn't.
* James Bond is sexy and dangerous. [=MacGyver=] is the type of boy that your father would set you up on a blind date with.
* James Bond wears expensive designer suits. [=MacGyver=] wears a suede jacket with a polo shirt and blue jeans.
* James Bond drives the coolest cars from Aston Martin, BMW, and Lotus. [=MacGyver=] drives a dingy old Jeep, which (to avoid risking coolness) is later replaced by an old station wagon.
* James Bond is supplied high tech-gadgetry by Q Branch that [[Main/ItRunsOnNonsensoleum run on nonsensoleum]]. [=MacGyver=] builds his own gadgets from mundane objects (although he also has a pocket [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Infinite Improbability Drive]] that he uses on them).
* James Bond has no problem with killing people and legal permission to do it. [=MacGyver=] [[Main/TechnicalPacifist tries to avoid killing people]]; his villains die (when they die) by accident or by direct application of the VillainBall. James Bond uses guns while [=MacGyver=] doesn't.
* The number of women James Bond has chosen not to sleep with is exactly the same as the number of women that [=MacGyver=] has slept with (i.e. very few).
* James Bond, in spite of never seeming to use any contraceptives, has never ended up with children from any of the women that he has slept with. [=MacGyver=], however, manages to end up with one in spite of the very few women he has slept with and the fact that one would assume he would use contraceptives.
** Even if [=MacGyver=] didn't have any contraceptives, he would probably be able to make one out of like, a rubber band and a condom or something.
** Or maybe, just, you know, use the condom. Unless the rubber band is for extra added springyness, maybe?
** Maybe the condom was a magnum and he needed an elastic waistband at the bottom? Because he couldn't "fill it out"?
* James Bond has a bombastic, jazzy theme song. [=MacGyver=] has a little Casio ditty.
* James Bond saves the world. [=MacGyver=] saves the kids of the community from counterfeit baseball cards.
* James Bond spends Christmas saving the world from a bioterrorist threat. [=MacGyver=] spends Christmas helping a local gym run a charity play.
* James Bond spends his free time in casinos, gambling with high stakes and scoring with plenty of beautiful women. [=MacGyver=] spends his free time going on nature hikes and doing social work with the community.
* On the flip side, James Bond enjoys golf, a sport second only to shuffleboard amongst old retired men. [=MacGyver=] enjoys hockey, a sport second only to rugby for brutal violence outside the rules.
* James Bond managed to kill his archnemesis eventually. [=MacGyver's=] unwillingness to kill anybody is so powerful, it selectively rewrites the laws of the universe to allow Murdoc to survive crumbling buildings, point blank explosions, thousand foot falls, and being submerged in boiling water.
Unfortunately, [=MacGyver=] just wasn't good enough for British Intelligence; he was missing that essential bull-in-the-china-shop quality. So he was traded to the United States. The rest is history.
[[WMG: [=MacGyver=] has three brothers; their names are [[Series/GoodEats Alton Brown]], [[Series/MythBusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman.]]]]
There is no better explanation.
[[WMG:[=MacGyver=] is a [[Webcomic/GirlGenius Spark]]]]
He can improvise complex devices out of any available material, and they ''always work'' even when physics says they shouldn't.
[[WMG: [=MacGyver=] is a near-immortal being who engenders the [[Franchise/StarTrek Starfleet Corps of Engineering]].]]
In [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration NextGeneration]] episode ''The Survivors,'' we learn that one Kevin Uxbridge is a Douwd: an immortal, Q-like race that specializes in hiding their identities. However, we have seen Kevin Uxbridge before: Harry Jackson, Mac's grandfather. Jackson cared for Mac after his "real" parents were killed; eventually they were estranged and later reunited. We know that the Douwd specialize in false identities AND that they can love humans. Since they are nearly omnipotent, it is conceivable that they would be able to foster children with humans. Therefore, we can postulate that Uxbridge, living on Earth, impregnates Mac's mother and then creates a "false father" in his own image (we have seen Uxbridge do something similar), possibly so that Mac will grow up with two human parents. After their deaths, Uxbridge regrets his decision and isolates himself from his progeny to protect Mac from finding out he's half-Douwd.
Mac's half-Douwd nature gives him long life and subconsciously powers his physics-defying prowess: either he bends physical law to conform to his needs, or creates useful items in proximity to himself when in danger. His constant manipulations of reality give rise to weird phenomena that span the universe, creating subspace and other Star Trek phenomena, as well as explaining all the physics-defying moments in the series. Uxbridge, who indulges often in denial on a massive scale (as we see in ''The Survivors''), only eventually accepts that he is directly responsible for Mac's actions and, after a brief period of reunion to ensure Mac has developed in a sensible direction, fakes his own death so that he can relocate and start another new life.
The Starfleet Engineering connection is now obvious. That branch of Starfleet produces miracle workers on an absolutely unheard-of scale, with their own physics-defying aura and problem-solving ingenuity. The "main cast" engineers (all human or partially-human, mind you) must all either have studied at the feet of the master, or must be his descendants. Their own short-lived nature comes from the dilution of Douwd blood.
* Transporter Chief O'Brien was also contemporaneous with Mac, but since the episode in which O'Brien and Mac interact featured time travel, it's likely this was just a time travel accident.
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