Evil, is a fictional character portrayed by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers film series.

American costume maker Phillip Morris had also created a long-running character named Dr.

After an eight-year legal battle, New Line Cinema paid him a settlement in response to a trademark dispute.

Another unnamed former SNL actor cited Michaels' "obsessing about minutiae, the way he ends everything by bringing his pinkie up and chewing the fingernail".

Myers disagreed, insisting the character was based on Donald Pleasence's portrayal of Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.

Evil's upbringing went as follows: The details of my life are quite inconsequential ... My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery.

Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.

Evil has a strained relationship with his son Scott (played by Seth Green), even liquidating their therapy group over an accusation of insolence.

Evil character for a brief appearance on the December 20, 2014 episode of Saturday Night Live, a show on which Myers had previously had a regular role.

[10] Myers once again revived the character for a brief appearance on a 2018 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in a sketch where Dr.

Seth Green, Rob Lowe, and Mindy Sterling also reprised their roles as Scott Evil, Number Two, and Frau Farbissina.