Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman story
Jaime helps a new young bionic woman, former wheelchair user Kate Mason, adjust to her bionic implants. Meanwhile, Steve decides to ask Jaime to marry him, but he is interrupted when someone using bionic powers sabotages the security systems at OSI Headquarters and steals secret documents. Being suspects, Jaime and Steve are detained but break out to conduct their own investigation.
13 total · 3 major · 10 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| cyborg | major | Steve Austin had a bionic arm, a bionic eye, and two bionic legs. Bionic woman Jaime Sommers. Wheelchair bound Kate Mason received various bionic implants. Ron was also enhanced with bionic components. |
| mobility impairment | major | Kate Mason, who had been confined to a wheelchair since the age of six, was chosen to be enhanced with bionic implants that would allow her to walk again. We were led to believe that Jim Goldman was paralyzed after getting caught in an explosion, and he confined himself to a wheelchair to make it believable. |
| romantic love | major | Kate and Ron. The story concluded with Jamie proposing to Steve. |
| artificial body part | minor | Steve used his bionic eye to zoom in on various people and things. [eye] |
| artificial body part | minor | Steve had a bionic arm. [arm] |
| artificial body part | minor | Jamie heard CIA agents talking well outside of an ordinary human's earshot. Kate's bionic eye was equipped with facial recognition software. [ear] |
| artificial body part | minor | Steve and Jamie escaped from some CIA agents by both jumping over a high barrier wall. [leg] |
| coping with an overly hard handshake | minor | Kate, who did not yet know the strength of her new bionic arm, brought a man to his knees with her handshake. |
| sporting to promote peace | minor | Kate participated in the International Unity Games in Toronto. |
| super hearing | minor | Jamie could hear people talk well outside of an ordinary human's earshot. |