The franchise parodies numerous films, TV shows and characters—including the James Bond series, Jason King, Danger Man, The Prisoner, The Man from U. N. C. L. E., Matt Helm and The Avengers, to name just a few—and incorporates myriad other elements of popular culture as it follows a British spy's quest to bring his nemesis down.
The character represents an archetype of 1960s Swinging London, with his advocacy of free love, his use of obscure impressions and his clothing style.
Evil plots to extort large sums of money from governments or international bodies but is constantly thwarted by Powers, and (to a degree) his own inexperience with life and culture in the 1990s.
A proposed fourth film, Austin Powers 4, has reportedly been in development since 2005, but due to numerous issues regarding the death of Verne Troyer[1] and sensibilities regarding minors being exposed to explicit sexual content,[2][3] it is currently being stalled.
Felicity is notable for having slept with Fat Bastard in the line of duty to place a tracking device on him, which at first Austin is unhappy with.
When he took his family on a vacation and stopped to find a restroom, their car exploded, and Nigel returns to see that his wife is dead and that Austin survived, but is very frightened.
[5] However, she also resembles Irma Bunt from On Her Majesty's Secret Service both physically and in that she is a butch female character with a close association with their films' central villains (Ernst Stavro Blofeld and Dr.
In the first film, Number 2 has developed Virtucon, the legitimate front of Evil's empire, into a multibillion-dollar enterprise by the time Dr.
[16] Perturbed by the fact that his father was absent for so long, and suddenly decided to show up, Scott constantly refuses Dr.
He is incredibly foul-mouthed[9] and morbidly obese, weighing "a metric ton"; however, he thinks of himself as "dead sexy" – which he is heard calling himself – and believes that women find him irresistible.
In the second movie, he infiltrates the British Intelligence as a Scottish bagpiper and steals Austin's mojo, which is later taken back by his enemies.
At the end of the film, he is shown to have lost a lot of weight as a result of a Subway diet, but has a very large amount of excess skin (he even goes so far as to mention his neck looking "like a vagina.")
He is a rather peculiar and repulsive Dutch man, who wears a completely golden outfit and is the owner of a roller disco club.
Having lost his genitals in an unfortunate smelting accident, he replaces them with a golden key that activates the "Preparation H" tractor beam.
[16] In edited versions of the film, her name is sometimes censored to "Alotta Cleavage" due to the pronunciation of "Fagina" is referenced to a woman’s genitalia.
Ivana Humpalot is a tall Russian model who participates in the photo shoot Austin is taking pictures at in the beginning of the second film.
Evil's henchmen, made a mistake during the unfreezing process, which caused Mr. Bigglesworth to lose all of his hair; he is bald for the rest of the film.
In the first film, he made a mistake during the unfreezing process and caused Mr. Bigglesworth to lose all of his hair, thereby angering Dr.
In the second movie, Austin and Felicity try to interrogate him in 1969 (when he was alive) – aided by the fact that he cannot stand being asked the same question three times in a row—but Mini-Me shoots him in the neck with a blow dart, sending him over the edge of a cliff.
The man in the adjacent stall (played by Tom Arnold) thinks Austin is having trouble defecating and tells him "You show that turd who's boss!
Evil's lair, but instead gets subdued by Powers, with the use of the Swedish-made penis enlarger pump, and Vanessa knocks him out with an empty champagne bottle.
When Austin looks in her eyes, he sees a man holding a throwing knife and uses Robin to block the attack.
Jurgen is a doctor, Generalisimo is a dictator, Don Luigi is a hook-handed crime boss, and Rita is a meter maid.
Evil presses the button on his table that causes their chairs to flip back and send them into a pit of fire, incinerating all four of them, while sparing the lives of Frau and Mustafa.
One of three characters named after players with the Toronto Maple Leafs (Myers' favourite National Hockey League team), Doug Gilmour in this case.
This part of the movie features a cameo by Ozzy Osbourne, who claims that it looks like a pair of boobs and points out that the joke was used in the previous film.
Gillian Shagwell, Manny Stixsman, Sid Belvedere, and Trevor Aigberth compose Ming Tea, Austin's band.
[9] Evil plays him a scene from the film Independence Day to show what his laser can do if the President does not hand over one hundred billion dollars.
The Texan[16] is an unnamed man wearing a cowboy hat who is seen in the first film talking to Austin in the casino restroom.
At some point, Austin manages to get O'Brien trapped in-between his legs and hold him above the toilet bowl, asking him, "Do you work for Number 2?"