Dr. Evil
From Austin Powers
Dr. Evil (played by Mike Myers) is an evil genius, the chief villain of the Austin Powers series of films. A parody of any number of James Bond villains, Dr. Evil routinely hatches schemes to terrorize and take over the world.
[edit] Life
From the first film, while in group threapy with Scott Evil, he talks about his early life.
The details of my life are quite inconsequential.... Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize; he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament... My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon... luge lessons... In the spring, we'd make meat helmets... When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds—pretty standard really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe. At the age of 14, a Zoroastrian named Wilma ritualistically shaved my testicles — there really is nothing like a shorn scrotum — it's quite breathtaking... I suggest you try it. At the age of 18, I went off to evil medical school. At the age of 25, I took up tap dancing. I wanted to be a quadruple threat — an actor, dancer...
However, in the third film it is revealed that his natural mother died in a "car accident". Later, Nigel Powers adds to this story, saying that it had been a family holiday. He had stepped away from the car when it had exploded in an assassination attempt. Both Austin and Dr. Evil survived but Nigel thought that only Austin had lived. He would have told his lost son earlier but his adoptive parents raised him to be too evil.
His real name is revealed to be Douglas Dougie Powers in the third film.
[edit] Quotes
- "That makes me angry, and when Dr. Evil get angry, Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset, and when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset... people DIE!"
- "ONE MILLION DOLLARS!"
- "Boo-frickety-hoo!"
- "Riiiiight."
- "Throw me a frickin bone here!"
- "...unless you pay me 1 billion gajillion fafillion shab-ab-dood-illion ... yen."
- "Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?"
- "Congratulations numbnuts, you've succeded in turning me into a frickin' jack-in-the-box!"
- You know, Scott. I been a frickin evil doctor for 40 frickin years, okay? You forget, Scott, we are in a volcano! We are surrounded by evil hot magma!
[edit] Trivia
- Whenever Dr. Evil gets a plan he would gently put his finger to his bottom lip and do a dramatic stare.
- Despite his apparant lack of respect for his son, Scott Evil, he seems to care for his son's well being. This is especially evident when Dr. Evil says "no one talks to his son like that" tries to comfort Scott Evil, and then attacks a Ku Klux Klan member on the Jerry Springer show shortly after the latter made a very insulting remark towards Scott Evil.
