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To get a little more activity back up here I just wondered who your favourite villain(s) is in each season besides the obvious ones or the recurring ones. If you had to take a pick in all seven seasons besides Murdoc, Deborah, Zito, the Von Leer brothers... because those might be the ones you come up with first, who would you choose? I think each season has their standout one-time villains, because of the way they act or talk or were able to hurt MacGyver in some way.
My favorites in the first season are:
Kurt Neilson: the first one who really was able to capture MacGyver and drug/torture him.
Quayle: Booby-trapping an entire house to kill Mac. Home Alone in 1986.
Piedra: pretty much Murdoc's predecessor who died an ironic but poetic death by his own weapon.
Second season:
Sandy: a computer who tries to get rid of MacGyver and Jill Ludlum by sending robots after him. How cool is that? That's like that movie Eagle Eye but in 1986.
Chanthara: a guy who according to Mac saw many westerns and was able to see through some of Mac's diversions. A worthy opponent if you ask me.
Third season:
Bigfoot: even if it's just a guy in a suite. Pulling off an entire act on creepy ship with Bigfoot creeping around and than making such an entrance by destroying a window and picking up Mac throwing him around in the woods.
Matt Weber: for once the bad guy works at Phoenix himself and plans to take over. One of their own. If he had just fired Mac, he could've probably taken completely over.
Fourth season:
Eric Cross: Zito's pawn to get to Lt. Murphy. Despite what he thinks to believe, Cross seemed like one of the more dangerous killers around because he was controlled by someone else. Mental case.
Larson: a guy who doesn't back off to double cross a kid, hates the Challenger's Club, kills Booker and tries to frame a nearby gang for it. Talk about twisted.
Colter: the escaped convict who thinks of infiltrating into the Phoenix group as one of their own along with his companion and eventually would kill him if necessary.
Jonathan: a guy who tries to bring a "city to it's knees" with an emp and don't back off to kill his own men either, however Mac thinks "it's a stupid leader who sacrifices his own men". He seems to be going to great lengths to achieve his goal and which seems a rather complicated plan involving a timed televised warning and a huge piece of military equipment and an electrical charge of 3 million volt. But I think his televised warning is what stands out for me. Just how emotionless he sits there looking at the camera and speaks with this monotone voice to "demand the release of their General Shakti" and he seems rather serious about it too.
Fifth season:
Ladysmith: maybe not a killer like Piedra but who got to his death by his own product, another ironic death. Nice attempt to toss Mac over the side by the way.
Glass: a Yakuza who cuts of his own finger and takes on Mac with a chainsaw. How cool is that? Maybe not cooler than when a computer sends robots after him but at least he did it himself.
Tarik: throwing Mac off a parking structure into a coma. Though maybe of all the bad guys the one with the smallest part and the least lines, he came closer to offing Mac than no other before. He stood by his hospital bed when Mac got examined and defibrilated, poisoned his i.v. when no one was around.
Sixth season:
Marsh: a guy who owns a famous baseball player and whose threats are getting more dangerous if Novis Reilly don't do as he says.
Stams, Cardosa and Ramos: though the last two are just henchmen, they don't seem to back off to shoot someone in broad daylight and leave MacGyver, Pete and Samantha behind with a burning can of gasoline. That's something different than a bomb for a change.
Seventh season:
Prometheus: a bomber with a voice changer. Again, how cool is that voice changer?
Baron Samedi: a guy who poisons MacGyver and sends him off in a coffin to be buried alive to die a slow death. Skip the formalities just poison them, place them in a coffin and take him to his final resting place and be done with it.
Minton: maybe even my favourite villain of the seventh season. Clearly a messed up guy. There's something about him, that intrigues me. He looks like the guy next door but he has this calm dangerous demeanor like he's going to explode any moment unless you leave him alone. When he talks, he talks softly, nearly whispers but doesn't take any crap of anyone and especially not of a snot-nosed gangbanger. And he is strong, he easily pummeled Mac in that fight. Also he seemed very tricky when Player G apparently had him bluffed with that gun and he kept it up until G was about to go back in into the bar and than shoots him in the back. Doesn't back away to shoot someone in the back. Cowardly, maybe but doesn't mind to do so if necessary.
Anyway those were mine. Feel free to discuss your favourite villains.
 I think the poison that was used was applied to this knife, passed to the mutton when it was cut and then activated by the wine. - MacGyver.
Sometimes you just have to die a little inside to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you.
It's better to be a little sad than to be fake content.
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