A morbidly obese henchman hailing from Clydebank, Scotland, Fat Bastard serves Dr.

[1][2][3] Fat Bastard is noted for his foul temper, his emotional monologues that culminate in flatulence, his vulgar, crude manners, and his unusual diet.

[4] The character utilizes many tropes associated with negative stereotypes of fat people, namely that they are greedy, obsessed with eating, possibly cannibalistic, and grotesque.

After seducing and sleeping with Fat Bastard, secret agent—and Austin's ally—Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham) places a homing device in his rectum.

During an assassination attempt against Austin and Felicity in 1999, Fat Bastard dresses as a package delivery man and literally breaks in through the front door.

He groans and calls his scrotum "the mommy daddy button"; she tells him she did it for insulting her sexual prowess and he faints, shaking the whole room in the process.

By the end of Austin Powers in Goldmember, he has lost his excessive weight, crediting it to the Subway diet, even citing Jared Fogle as a hero.

In reviews for the movie in the newspapers, film critic Roger Ebert referred to him as "We can't even say his name!

The mass retail action figures sold of the character had the name "Fat Man" on the box, even though the patch on his blazer clearly displayed "FB".

Specialty stores such as comic book shops had figures in packaging which referred to him as "Fat Bastard", however.