History Series / MacGyver2016

* BusmansHolidy: In "Pliers", the team goes to Mac's hometown for a vacation and stumbles into a kidnapping plot.

* NoodleIncident: The team doesn't want to talk about what happened during a [=DXS=] op in Cairo, except that it's [=MacGyver=]'s fault.

* WorstAid: In "Awl", Mac has to perform surgery on a man using a car jack as a rib spreader and the windshield cleaner as a suction tube.

* ImprovisedWeapon: Mac uses a metal plate as a shield and projectile weapon against an attacking gunman.

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Mac's introduction of Nikki includes not one, but ''two'' pre-sex scenes. Plausibly, this could be to establish her as his girlfriend (as if their flirtatious banter and his later referring to her as such wouldn't), but really, it's just to assure viewers that Mac has been kicked out of Club V.

* WireDilemma: Twelve wires, and they're all green. [[spoiler:Mac guesses wrong, so he removes the bioweapon the bomb was intended to disperse from the explosives and runs away.]]

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Other than the pilot, all episodes have been named after a tool in a Swiss Army Knife.

The 2016 television SpyFiction series based on the [[Series/MacGyver original MacGyver]]. It stars Lucas Till, George Eads, Tristin Mays, Justin Hires and Sandrine Holt. It currently airs on CBS in the United States. Overseas, it airs in Australia via Channel Ten and in Canada via Global.

A WorkInProgress

* CaliforniaDoubling: It's clear in "Metal Saw" that the DMZ depicted isn't full of forests and grass.
** "Awl" clearly doesn't show Labuan in the proper light, aside from aerial shots.

* SimilarSquad: In "Wire Cutter", Phoenix has to recruit the last two surviving members of a Soviet nuclear weapons project so they can disarm a bomb they once made which had fallen into terrorist hands. The two people are an eighty year old nuclear physicist who thinks like Mac (His first scene has him attempt to repair a TV remote using a steak knife and some needles) and his equally old KGB handler who thinks like Jack (Carrying three handguns on his person while making an Uber pickup). Nikki even comments that it's like her teammates were fed into a copy machine and came out as grumpy old Russians.

* GenerationXerox: In "Wire Cutter", Phoenix has to recruit the last two surviving members of a Soviet nuclear weapons project so they can disarm a bomb they once made which had fallen into terrorist hands. The two people are an eighty year old nuclear physicist who thinks like Mac (His first scene has him attempt to repair a TV remote using a steak knife and some needles) and his equally old KGB handler who thinks like Jack (Carrying three handguns on his person while making an Uber pickup). Nikki even comments that it's like her teammates were fed into a copy machine and came out as grumpy old Russians.

The 2016 television SpyFiction series based on the [[Series/MacGyver original McGyver]]. It stars Lucas Till, George Eads, Tristin Mays, Justin Hires and Sandrine Holt. It currently airs on CBS in the United States. Overseas, it airs in Australia via Channel Ten and in Canada via Global.

* CaliforniaDoubling: It's clear that in "Metal Saw" that the DMZ depicted isn't full of forests and grass.
** "Awl" clear doesn't show Labuan in the proper light, aside from aerial shots.
* ChekhovsSkill: In a flashback scene, Mac teaches Nikki how to pick locks with a hairpin. At the end of the episode, Nikki, [[spoiler:who has just been arrested for stealing and selling a WMD]] is handcuffed in the back of a car, and then a minute or so later is gone, leaving behind an open set of cuffs and a bent hairpin.

* ImprovisedArmour: Mac improvises a sedan with discarded metal plating to protec it from small arms fire in "Metal Saw".

* MacGyvering: How [=MacGyver=] does his thing in the field. He'll take any ordinary item that he can see and combine them together to make helpful gadget or weapons.

** [=McGyver=] christens the name "Phoenix Foundation" after Patricia said that [=DXS=] was closed [[spoiler:due to Nikki working for the bad guys trying to secure a WMD in "The Rising".]]

* PaintingTheMedium: Similar to Splinter Cell, the show paints it by showing off the names of various objects/devices that [=MacGyver=] stumbles onto. They're used as clues as to what he'll use to make his improvised devices.

Angus "Mac" [=MacGyver=] is an agent working for the Department of External Security or DXS, an American black ops agency that operates as a Washington-based think tank foundation. During an op to secure a WMD, he runs into trouble when he's forced to relinquish said WMD to save Nikki Carpenter's life. After she was killed in the field, "Mac" is forced to reevaluate himself and recruit someone else. After they realize that Nikki is a mole, DXS stops her, but not before [[RealityEnsues Patricia ordered the DXS to shut down due to being compromised by Nikki.]] From there on, "Mac" and the others continue to work in the Phoenix Foundation, protecting the US from domestic and foreign enemies.

* NoodleIncident: The team doesn't want to talk about what happened during a [=DXS=] op, except that it's [=MacGyver=]'s fault.