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MacGyver

What type is MacGyver?

  • ISTP

    Votes: 2 28.6%
  • ESTP

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • ENTP

    Votes: 5 71.4%
  • INTP

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    7

litterateur

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MacGyver: ENXP
Mac seems to waver between his thinking and feeling functions. On the one hand, in times of crisis, he is the epitome of an ENTP. On the other hand, and despite strong initial opposition at first, he always follows through relationally if a friend is in need.

Pete Thornton: ESTJ
Pete is an administrator through-and-through. He makes sure that all the t's are crossed and i's are dotted, but his strong sense of right and wrong also yield an empathetic heart.

Jack Dalton: ESTP
Jack is the classic doesn't-look-before-he-leaps type and quite capable of convincing others to go along with his schemes. He has no regard for anything that doesn't produce sensation of some kind. Fast-talking and risk-taking.

Murdoc: ENTP
Murdoc has a taste for the theatrical. He monologues, has wonderfully evil Rube Goldberg devices, and his ransom notes are always a delight.

Dr. Zito: INTJ
MacGyver's own Hannibal Lector rip-off, Dr. Zito has plans, contingencies, and more plans. Nothing he does is without specific reason.

Penny Parker: ESFP
Penny does not care for grand schemes or big ideas. She loves people. She loves the stage. Not much else goes on in her head.


Thoughts?
 

Udog

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I've watched a healthy part of the first season recently, so based on that:

MacGyver: ESTP
Se is high in this one. He lives for the moment. He's acutely aware of his surroundings at all times. He also falls in love with a new girl every week, but it always comes across as genuine.

It's possible that later seasons portray him more as an ENTP. I can't remember for sure.

I agree with Pete and Penny.

I don't remember Dr. Zito, Murdoc, or Jack well enough to venture a guess.
 

litterateur

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Se is high in this one.

I agree with this. Season One, he's very much ESTP (if only to pull in ratings and viewers). He also uses a gun (as a gun) in the first episode, and Dana Elcar didn't originally portray Pete Thornton.
 

Udog

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I agree with this. Season One, he's very much ESTP (if only to pull in ratings and viewers). He also uses a gun (as a gun) in the first episode, and Dana Elcar didn't originally portray Pete Thornton.

At the end of the season he played Pete, but I didn't hear anything about the Phoenix foundation. He did play a different character in the pilot though. Confused the crap out of me.
 

nozflubber

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actually, Hannibal Lecter DID have reasons for those he went out of his way to kill...

Yanno that ambulence attendee in Tennessee? He was new and fucking up the vitals! Dead.




As for my man MAcguyver: ISTP
 

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Why ISTP vs ESTP?
 

nozflubber

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cuz he's not a partier! he's more like Henry Thoreau stuck in a bad 80s TV show about makeshift bombs
 

Udog

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cuz he's not a partier! he's more like Henry Thoreau stuck in a bad 80s TV show about makeshift bombs

It's well known that his improvisational skills started when he was in college, figuring out new ways to create a better bong.
 

litterateur

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I'm still not convinced. The first half of the first season, yes, he was very ESTP: outgoing, adventurous, ladies-man (eg., "The Thief of Budapest," in which MacGyver globe-trots). As the series progressed, he became more bookish, scientific, rational (eg., "Hellweek," in which MacGyver returns to his alma mater). The last few seasons, he became very involved in social justice, SJ (eg., "Tough Boys," in which MacGyver hunts down a group of hooligans who trash the Challenger [Youth] Club).
 

ajblaise

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ISTP. Like an ESTP, he uses Se, but has Ti as dominant. He has to first examine complex systems with Ti and come up with a strategy, and use Se to git-r-done.
 

nanook

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Richard Dean Anderson is apparently entp (entj has been argued though), MacGyver is entp, i say N because he is not really into Bongs, nor any kind of enneagram seven-ish partying and retreats into a live style that is far from society, because society is too stupid for N people.
he is obviously E, because he has zero trouble connecting to every person (lady) . there is noting F about him. he would never show his feelings, just be kind and smile a little. he could very well pull the Han Solo line (Leia: "i love you" Han: "i know"). he has zero trouble disconnecting from all the people (ladies) that he meets, he does not bound easily (honestly, emotionally), that indicates both T and E, because people are not a special thing to him, the come and go, exchangeable. there is no F in his live at all. no harbor or nest of sympathy or empathy. he has a single "friend" and he lives for the achievement of cold objective things only (fighting bad guys) or anti social things in his sparetime (fishing or something, essentially games)
 

Gauche

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Richard Dean Anderson is apparently entp (entj has been argued though), MacGyver is entp, i say N because he is not really into Bongs, nor any kind of enneagram seven-ish partying and retreats into a live style that is far from society, because society is too stupid for N people.
he is obviously E, because he has zero trouble connecting to every person (lady) . there is noting F about him. he would never show his feelings, just be kind and smile a little. he could very well pull the Han Solo line (Leia: "i love you" Han: "i know"). he has zero trouble disconnecting from all the people (ladies) that he meets, he does not bound easily (honestly, emotionally), that indicates both T and E, because people are not a special thing to him, the come and go, exchangeable. there is no F in his live at all. no harbor or nest of sympathy or empathy. he has a single "friend" and he lives for the achievement of cold objective things only (fighting bad guys) or anti social things in his sparetime (fishing or something, essentially games)

I agree completely.
He always struck me as ENTP.
He's definitely intuitive-ass.
 

Speed Gavroche

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I say ESTP, the most blatant trait with him is the Se-Ti system. Ti is well balanced by Fe, Mac Gyver express too philantropism to be an ISTP, ISTP is possible, but I think he's rather extrovert. He's well-off with Ne too.
 

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What type is MacGyver?

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There seems to be a consensus to say that MacGyver is a TP. But a controverse about which one he is exactly. I've saw him typed as ISTP, ESTP, ENTP and INTP.

I'd say he is ENTP, he is pretty socially skilled and more in touch with Fe, driven by compassion for people and duty to the group, but he's more head in the cloud and cerebral than an ESTP. So ENTP.
 
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