- If Mac himself isn't a Time Lord, he's almost certainly a former companion of the Doctor.
- 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.
- 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 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 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.)
- 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 run on nonsensoleum. MacGyver builds his own gadgets from mundane objects (although he also has a pocket Infinite Improbability Drive that he uses on them).
- James Bond has no problem with killing people and legal permission to do it. MacGyver tries to avoid killing people; his villains die (when they die) by accident or by direct application of the Villain Ball. 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.
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.
- 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 at least semi-fluent in 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 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.
By the end of the episode, Delasora is back in custody, his troops have surrendered, Bob Stryke is dead and the 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 whole 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.
