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Old 10-09-2016, 02:20 PM   #222
Johnny1A.2
 
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Default Re: bending stereotypes

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Originally Posted by lwcamp View Post
MacGyver did a lot of that, if my vague memory of TV from my youth serves (usually in conjunction with a techno-trick, such as using it as a distraction so he could clobber someone from behind).

Luke
Yeah, he did. MacGyver was a genuinely unusual character, esp. by TV standards. He was not helpless in hand-to-hand combat, but he was by no means an expert at it, nor a walking killing machine.
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