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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2
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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I still love the Rockford Files where the protagonist usually got his rear handed to him by toughs. That's not common in any genre with non-nerdy male main characters.
The villain has been trained since birth in Ninjitsu while the hero once took a course at the Y, but has gumption. Sure he'll lose, but slowly and still have enough time to get away to fight evil another day.