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* [[Lex Luthor]], on the other hand, ''has'' been known to build a teleporter out out of stuff lying around his cell. During his appearance in the short-lived ''The Joker'' comic, he improvised a jetpack out of a couple of bottles of pop and some paint flakes.
** Spectacular jailbreaks based on his MacGyvering skills were a huge part of [[Pre Crisis]] [[Mad Scientist]] Luthor's character. One story has him consider that it has reached the point where his guards won't allow him to have ''anything'' other than a pad of paper and a pen. He knows perfectly well how to turn to the ink, metal, plastic, wood pulp, and glue into a high explosive to blast his way out... but he would never ''do'' that, because then they wouldn't let him have a pen and paper any more.
** One of his most elaborate escapes went as follows: First he waited for the warden to go on vacation; then he secretly sabotaged the printing press in the prison workshop. Next he offered to fix it - this is why he waited, he knew the temp warden would be less suspicious of him than the regular one. He then proceeded to turn the press into an ''armored tank'' that he used to smash his way out.
** By contrast, in one of his most ''ridiculous'' examples, he used sunlight, a shaving mirror, some aspirin and little else to build a ''time machine'' which he used to bring [[Classical Mythology/Characters|Hercules]] to the present day to break him out of jail. By aiming said gadget at an ''illustration'' of Hercules in a book.
* Mocked, inevitably, in [[Mad Magazine|Mad's]] spoof of [[MacGyver]]. MacGyver remarks the [[Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard|the room the bad guys have locked him in]] has nothing he can use to escape, to which the woman with him points out that the room is full of explosives. He complains about the indignity of having to actually use explosives as explosives instead of improvising.
* ''[[Tintin]]'' tends to resort to this after being kidnapped by the villain-of-the-week. Interestingly, while they're still ingenious a lot of his inventions are surprisingly plausible.
* ''[[Batman]]'', of course, has pulled this off several times, usually on those rare instances where he is without his utility belt.
** Many members of his [[Rogues Gallery]] show this talent too, a result of the guards at Arkham being complete morons and letting them have access to things they shouldn't have. [[The Joker]] alone managed to escape by ''building a hot air balloon'' and there was one story where Dr. Arkham himself put him on janitorial duty, giving him access to the chemicals he needed to make his Venom. It's little wonder that Batman and the Arkham staff don't get along.
* [[Spider-Man]]'s enemy the Vulture once escaped Riker's Island by destroying the wall of his cell using a tractor beam made from a headset radio, using his expertise in the field of electromagnetics. Then, as the alarms were going off, he flew
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* In ''[[My Stupid Reality]]'' [[Death Note|Light]] modifies a cheap laptop to work better with pieces ripped out of L's refrigerator.
** [[Truth in Television|Somewhat grounded in reality,]] believe it or not; the heat-exchanger from a fridge would be powerful enough to counteract a hell of a lot of overclocking.
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100302081715/http://www.faans.com/index.php?p=1966 These] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100618114642/http://faans.com/index.php?p=1967 two] pages of ''[[Fans]]'' demonstrate MacGyvering in the field. Rico even uses the word MacGyvered to describe what happened.
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' space criminal Fructose Riboflavin has a knack for building alien [[Applied Phlebotinum|supertech]] out of odds and ends. Useful, since he spends so much of his life as a perpetual fugitive.
* Rick in [[Blur the Lines]] makes a fleshlight out of an empty can and some ground chuck (meat). [https://web.archive.org/web/20160912233323/http://www.blur-the-lines.com/?p=45
* Parodied numerous times in [[Real Life Comics]] - among other things, Tony has made a [http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/000302.html quantum space-time teleportation device] and a [http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/021017.html trans-dimensional portal device] out of random materials lying around.
* One instance of possible Mac Gyvering is found in the webcomic [[Ctrl+Alt+Del|Control-Alt-Delete]], where the main character, Ethan, makes a bipedal, sentient robot out of a single [[Xbox]]. This robot then develops a taste for gaming and becomes another character in the comic.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20081012164430/http://www.dcr.net/~stickmak/Stories/Masks.htm Masks]'', there's a superpower that allows people to do this.
* According to [http://trollscience.com/ Troll Science,] it seems there is nothing a Troll cannot achive using only flashlights, magnets, and a complete disregard of the laws of physics. exibt A is this charming little [https://web.archive.org/web/20130516091420/http://trollscience.com/troll/view/8 wagon.]
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* Brazil and Portugal are two nations whose whole philosophy is based on improvisation, and this is taught in schools. They even [http://www.cracked.com/article_17251_p2.html have a word for it]: ''desenrascanço''.
** That term is probably exclusive to Portugal. In Brazil, the improv way of life is usually called "Jeitinho Brasileiro", or "Brazilian (Little) Way", which is not limited to MacGyvering, but also any sort of problem-solving in non-conventional ways, including amoral ones.
* In French, MacGyverish translates to ''[http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=1069 débrouillard]''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104064319/http://www.lesdebrouillards.qc.ca/ And we've got a magazine teaching the virtues of ''la débrouillardise'' to little Quebecers everywhere.] Be afraid, be very afraid... [[Canada, Eh?|Or not, as the case may be.]]
** French call that ''système D''. A convenient way to do things without any annoying organisation.
* In a similar vein, the Egyptians have a [[National Stereotypes|stereotype]] about themselves that they can always find a way to make what they need. As it turns out, this might be true of Arabs in general, judging by the jury-rigged weapons systems of Hamas and Hezbollah in the [[Useful Notes/Arab-Israeli Conflict|Arab Israeli Conflict]], and of the Libyan rebels in [[Middle East Uprising 2011|their Civil War]].
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