MACGYVER
Real Name: Angus MacGyver
Occupation: Special Agent for the Phoenix Foundation
Known Relatives: James (father, deceased), Ellen (mother, deceased), Harry Jackson (grandfather, deceased), Sean Angus Malloy (son, “Sam”)
Base of Operations: Los Angeles, California; sometimes Mobile
First Appearance: MacGyver – ABC TV Series (1985-1994)
History: MacGyver was born March 23, 1950 in Mission City, Minnesota where he
was raised. As a youth, he was blessed with a gifted IQ and a photographic
memory as he excelled in mechanical aptitude and inventive prowess, but he also
developed an intense dislike for guns after one of his best friends was nearly
killed by one. Only his quick thinking saved his friend’s life. When he was
twelve, however, he lost his father and grandmother in a car accident and had to
be raised by his mother and grandfather. As a teenager, MacGyver was a role
model for future ghost hunter William
Collins among countless other kids.
After graduating from Western Tech, he worked
several odd jobs with and without Jack Dalton, an associate who considers
MacGyver his best friend despite the scrapes he is always getting them into.
MacGyver’s knack for helping people helped him make the best friend he
ever had: Peter Thornton, an agent from the U.S. Department of External Affairs
When Peter left the DXS to become Director of Operations for the government
think-tank known as the Phoenix Foundation, he remembered MacGyver and gave him
a full time position in the agency. It was while he was stuck on an assignment
over seas that he learned his mother passed away from complications from a
stroke. Upset that he couldn’t be with her in her final minutes pushed
MacGyver away from other people and he became a loner.
It was while returning from another mission
that MacGyver became embroiled in an adventure with would-be actress Penny
Parker, a vivacious and exuberant beauty for whom he often acts as a big
brother. His fear of romantic entanglement however has stifled many of his
would-be relationships. In spite of his track record with members of the
opposite sex, MacGyver is often pushed through the boundaries of his fears to
make the world a better place by helping one person at a time.
In recent years, MacGyver has learned he has a son, Sean Angus Malloy (aka Sam) after a brief romance he had had several years prior. He has developed a very good relationship with the young man as they travel and share their lives getting to know each other. In recent years, MacGyver has uncovered evidence that the island of Santorini, known in ancient times as Thera, might have been the basis for the legend of Atlantis.
Comments: MacGyver investigated the Parker
House, an old edifice that Penny inherited, and even explored the
claims of it being haunted. He also seems to have had a near-death experience
with the mortal incarnation of the Egyptian god Anubis
while in a hospital in Cairo, Egypt. It is unclear, though, if this was just a
dream or a real encounter with the former deity.
The name “Angus”
is a modernized spelling of Oengus, the Celtic God of Light. Nevertheless,
it’s a name that MacGyver refuses to admit. He refuses to even acknowledge it
at times.