| “ | Throw me a frickin' bone here! | „ |
| ~ Dr. Evil's catchphrase. |
| “ | Gentlemen, it's come to my attention that a breakaway Russian republic, Kreplachistan, is about to transfer a nuclear warhead to the United Nations in a few days. Here's the plan. We get the warhead and we will hold the world ransom for… ONE MILLION DOLLARS! | „ |
| ~ Dr. Evil. |
| “ | I'm gonna get you, Austin Powers! | „ |
| ~ Dr. Evil's closing line and most famous quote. |
Douglas "Dougie" Powers, better known as Dr. Evil, is the main antagonist of Austin Powers film trilogy.
He is the head of a criminal organization with the intention of taking over the world, the son of Nigel Powers, the archenemy and long-lost brother of the titular main protagonist and the father of Scott Evil. He is also a parody of Ernst Stavro Blofeld and Dr. Julius No, the archenemy of James Bond in the 007 films and novels.
He was portrayed by Mike Myers, who also played the title character in all three films, as well as Fat Bastard and Goldmember, and Elon Musk on SNL.
Early Life[]
In his infancy, Douglas Powers was taken on a trip to Belgium with his family. When his father stopped to urinate, the car was blown up. Douglas managed to survive the explosion and was found by a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner and his French prostitute with webbed feet.
They adopted Douglas, giving him the last name Evil. At the age of 12, he received his first scribe. At the age of 14, a Zoroastrian woman named Velma ritualistically shaved his testicles.
Prior to age 18, Douglas Evil entered the British Intelligence Academy to become an International Man of Mystery. Unknown to Douglas, his roommate, Austin Powers, was actually his long lost brother. It was during his time at the academy that he would meet the man that would eventually become the number two in his organization, Number 2. It was also during this time that he got his pet cat, Mr. Bigglesworth.
Douglas Evil had the highest marks in the class, but Austin Powers was chosen to be that year's International Man of Mystery. Douglas did get the last laugh, however, when he got to join with the others laughing at Austin when his father no-showed the event. Despite this, Douglas Evil was furious that he had the best grades in the class and didn't get diddly-squat, so he dropped out of the Academy and instead went to Evil Medical School for six years, attaining a doctorate and henceforth going by the name "Doctor Evil."
1967 (International Man of Mystery)[]
In 1967, Doctor Evil hired 7 of the world's Greatest assassins (Michael Gallagher, Rory Price, Ross, Gavin Bree, Frau Farbissina, Mustafa, and Leo Boyle) to kill his arch-nemesis, Austin Powers. However, they all failed, Dr. Evil calls them “fricking idiots” and angrily executed 5/7 them by sending them down into pits of fire with trapdoors underneath their chairs but spares Mustafa and Frau Farbissina. He set a trap for Austin Powers at the Electric Psychadelic Pussycat Swinger's Club, but his attempt to kill Austin failed. He managed to escape by cryogenically freezing himself and launching himself into space in a Big Boy rocket, planning to return at a time when free love no longer reigned and greed and corruption ruled again.
1997 (International Man of Mystery)[]
Thirty years later, the Big Boy rocket broke orbit and returned to Earth, travelling to his underground lair in Nevada. However, due to a complication in the unfreezing process, his cat, Mr. Bigglesworth, lost all his fur, and Dr. Evil burns Mustafa for his mistake but he survives and a henchman had to come and shoot him. He then began to plot evil, much to the chagrin of his associate, Number Two, who had spent the past thirty years turning Dr. Evil's front company, Virtucon, into a multi-billion-dollar corporation.
Showing how disconnected he is after missing thirty years of history, Dr. Evil proposes plans to make it look like Prince Charles had an affair and therefore would have to divorce, and to punch a hole in the ozone layer. However, Number Two informs him those events have already happened, and Dr. Evil comes up with a plan to hijack a warhead from a breakaway Russian republic and hold the world hostage for one million dollars (corrected to one hundred billion dollars at Number Two's suggestion.)
It is also during this time that Dr. Evil is introduced to his "test tube baby" son, Scott Evil. Despite Dr. Evil's best efforts, Scott wants nothing to do with him, and it would take a long time for them to develop any kind of meaningful relationship.
Having successfully hijacked the warhead, he proceeds to go through with his plan of launching the warhead, via a subterranean drill, to the Earth's core, causing a detonation that would cause every volcano on Earth to erupt simultaneously. Unfortunately, his arch-nemesis, Austin Powers, who also frozen himself thirty years ago, returns. Dr. Evil successfully captures him but makes the mistake of leaving him in an easily escapable situation. Austin manages to escape and foils Dr. Evil's plan, but Dr. Evil escapes into space once again.
1999 (The Spy Who Shagged Me)[]
Two years later, Dr. Evil returned from space again, and is introduced to his new "child," an exact clone of him that he names "Mini-Me." After instantly becoming enamored with his 1/8th sized clone, Dr. Evil revealed his new plan. He informed his minions of the source of Austin Powers’s, well… “Power:” his mojo. A combination of Austin’s libido and life force, Dr. Evil intended to use the time machine to travel back to 1969, two years after Austin’s was frozen in 1967, and extract Austin’s mojo from his body, hoping it would render Austin helpless and powerless.
1969 (The Spy Who Shagged Me)[]
Through the use of a time machine, Doctor Evil, along with Mini-Me, successfully traveled back in time to 1969 and rendezvoused with his minions' past selves in his new secret volcano lair. He then revealed that he intended to use an undercover agent in the Ministry of Defense named Fat Bastard, to infiltrate the Ministry and steal Austin's mojo. This plan was successful, as Fat Bastard drilled into the frozen Austin’s cryo-pod and drained the mojo out of Austin’s family jewels, rendering the International Man of Mystery completely impotent in the middle of sex with Ivana Humpalot in 1999.
After receiving it from Fat Bastard, Doctor Evil, out of curiosity and perhaps even some sexual envy of Austin’s sexual prowess, decided to sample the mojo with just a tiny sip of the it. This single sip provided him immediately with an enhanced libido which resulted in him seducing Frau Farbissna and having a one-night stand with her. This would change history by making Scott Evil Frau's love child with Doctor Evil instead of a test tube baby. Additionally, with him now holding Austin’s mojo hostage, he revealed the second phase of his 1969 plan, the Alan Parsons Project, which involved planting a giant "laser" on the moon and turning it into what he calls a "Death Star."
However, Austin Powers had followed Dr. Evil into the past in an attempt to foil Dr. Evil’s plan and recover his mojo to cure his erectile dysfunction. When Austin arrived on the moon to confront his nemesis, Dr. Evil managed to capture his assistant and new lover, Felicity Shagwell, and left him him with a choice: Either save the world or save his girlfriend. Austin reluctantly chose to save the world, preventing Frau from using the laser to destroy Washington, D.C., but this led to Felicity dying from poison gas. Dr. Evil nearly escaped, but an enraged Austin pursued him and shot him, planning to kill Dr. Evil to get revenge for Felicity’s murder. To save himself, Dr. Evil then told Austin Powers about the time machine and suggested he use it to go back in time to save Felicity. Austin did so, traveling back ten minutes into the past and teamed up with his past self to redirect the laser AND save Felicity.
Both Austins managed to save both Felicity and the world, but Dr. Evil still had one trick to play. As both Austins flirted with each other and Future Austin/Austin-From-Ten-Minutes-From-Now attempted to kiss Felicity, Dr. Evil revealed the vial of Austin’s mojo. In an attempt to finally kill his hated rival, Dr. Evil triggered the self-destruct on his moon base and threw Austin’s mojo into the air, causing both Austins to naturally attempt to catch it, hoping it would distract Austin long enough to be caught in the explosion. The past and present Austin unwittingly crashed into each other, causing them to fail in saving their mojo as the vial crashed to the floor and was destroyed. Dr. Evil then proceeded to laugh maniacally, likely knowing that even if Austin survived the explosion, he (seemingly) had at least condemned Austin to eternal impotence and escaped into space with his rocket, and recovers Mini-Me, who was ejected into space earlier thanks to Austin.
2002 (Goldmember)[]
After spending thirty three years in space, Doctor Evil finally returns to his new lair, which was set up behind the Hollywood Sign. He reveals his new plan: to go back in time and make contact with Johann van der Smut, AKA Goldmember, to use his Preparation H tractor beam to pull in a giant golden asteroid to destroy the Earth. However, he is captured by Austin Powers at last and sentenced to 400 years in Georgia State Prison by Chief Justice Obudu.
While in maximum security, Dr. Evil is visited by Austin, who needs information about Goldmember. After reminding Austin of their academy days, Dr. Evil gives Austin information on when Goldmember is in exchange for a transfer to a regular prison. After his transfer, Dr. Evil is visited by Frau. After the story of his birth, Frau tells him that Scott is joining the family business of evil, and is even losing his hair. While Austin is busy in 1975, Dr. Evil does a rendition of "Hard Knock Life" along with Mini-Me in order to convince the other inmates to create a distraction so he can escape prison.
After his escape, Dr. Evil makes contact with Goldmember, who has come to the future with Austin Power's father, Nigel Powers, and they worked together on the Preparation H Project. It is during this time that his son Scott embraces becoming evil to the point that he starts losing his hair, and he is won over by Scott presenting him with what he always wanted: "Frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads." The now-shunned Mini-Me leaves, and later defects to Austin's side.
During the climax of the film, Nigel Powers steps in to protect Dr. Evil from Austin Powers, and finally reveals the truth that Doctor Evil is also his son, and Austin and Douglas are twin brothers. Touched by this, Doctor Evil decides to abandon the plan and turn good, much to Scott's dismay and anger and turning evil. Austin and Dr. Evil work together to stop Goldmember from using the Preparation H tractor beam to destroy the world, and Goldmember is arrested. Scott succeeds him afterwards.
Later, Dr. Evil attends the premiere of "Austinpussy" along with his reunited family except Scott because he and Goldmember refuse to turn good.
Biography[]
After a near defeat in 1967 at the hands of his nemesis, Austin Powers, Dr. Evil retreated into a space pod that cryogenically froze both himself and his beloved cat, Mr. Bigglesworth. Austin Powers agreed to also be cryogenically frozen in order to be reanimated at the time when Dr. Evil returned.
In Dr. Evil's absence, his organization, Virtucon, continued to grow economically to fund their evil deeds and kept several parties employed. His companies fared so well even that one company alone made several times more than the evil doctor originally intended to ransom the entire world. Also during his absence, Dr. Evil's son Scott was born.
Dr. Evil was unfrozen 30 years later in 1997 and continued his plans with Number Two and Frau Farbissina.
He also has a clone named Mini-Me, who is significantly shorter than him introduced in the second movie.
In the third movie, it is revealed that he is in fact Austin Powers' twin brother, Douglas (or "Dougie") and Nigel Powers' second son, and the two team up to stop Goldmember. In the end, both Dr. Evil and Mini-me are reformed with Scott Evil, his son, being in command of his evil organization.
Although many aspects of his life are unknown, some details are revealed by the doctor in a group therapy session from the original movie:
In the third movie, it is revealed that Nigel Powers is his father and Dr Evil is Douglas Powers, Nigel's other son and Austin's twin brother. One day his family drove for a trip to Belgium, where Nigel stopped in the field to urinate, when the family car exploded, killing Austin and Douglas' mother. Nigel assumed only Austin had survived the explosion. Douglas survived only because Mrs. Powers' corpse shielded him from the blast. Nigel also told him it was no accident, but an assassination attempt. Douglas was found by two Belgians, who raised him into the evil person he is today.
Despite his intelligence, he got several unintelligent ideas mainly in his schemes has mostly flaws in them.
Dr. Evil has three testicles, this was revealed when Mini Me lowered the globe during a demonstration accidentally hitting Dr. Evil in the crotch. After reacting in agony, he announced he had to check his balls and counted three.
Schemes[]
Dr. Evil's projects for world domination are often named after pop culture trademarks (Death Star, The Alan Parsons Project, Preparation H) and he is often unaware of the accidental pun. For example, when Dr. Evil says he will turn the moon into a "Death Star" (said with finger quotes), Scott laughs and calls him "Darth". Scott also coughs and mutters "Rip-off!". After a slight pause, his father says, "Bless you."
Dr. Evil varies in how real he makes his threats out to be. When he makes his threat of causing all the volcanoes in the world to erupt at once, all he does is display his machinery, something of an homage to Thunderball. When he makes the threat of "Death Star", he "demonstrates" the power of his laser by showing the President and the cabinet footage of the White House being destroyed. After the President and the cabinet realize they're still alive, he says "Well actually that was just footage from the movie Independence Day, but the real laser would be a lot like that". With his threat of flooding the world, he shows that the tractor beam is real by pulling down a satellite that looks like a pair of breasts.
Dr. Evil seems to have a problem in general with understanding world economy and money, especially regarding the modern American economy and inflation. In the first film, he intends to hold the world ransom for one million dollars, but doesn't understand that it isn't as large a sum of money as it was in the 1960s, because of inflation, and the demand causes the U.N. to burst out laughing. In the second film, Dr. Evil goes back to 1969 and plans to hold the world ransom for $100 billion, and when he tells the amount to the President, he receives a similar reaction as in the first film when the President and his cabinet laugh at him. In the second film, Dr. Evil says, "Why make trillions when we can make... BILLIONS?" not knowing that trillions are larger than billions. In the third movie, he demands "1 billion, gagillion, fafillion, shabolubalu million illion yillion... yen". This time his demand is met with simple confusion from the world leaders. In his first film, his other idiotic schemes include a threat to destroy the ozone layer and make a scandal of Prince Charles' marriage, humorously unaware that these were both major issues recently and have since subsided.
One of Dr. Evil's greatest desires is to have "frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads," and is disappointed when he can't have the sharks because of laws on endangered species. Instead, Number 2 gives him mutated sea bass, which Dr. Evil grudgingly accepts, muttering "Well, it's a start" (they were ill-tempered, as the bass do manage to eat the head of one unfortunate henchman hired by Dr. Evil, who was having a stag party at Hooters that was informed of his death). Scott however, manages to get him said sharks in the third film as a father-son gift.
Dr. Evil can't resist cracking puns at his own work (he says his submarine lair is "long and hard and full of seamen"). As with Auric Goldfinger, he creates models of his plans, worried that they are too complicated for his minions to understand. He also cares nothing for the companies (Virtucon, Starbucks, Hollywood Talent Agency) that fund his plans, ignoring all suggestions from Number 2 on how to increase the profit of such companies honestly. Although he was impressed that Number 2's Hollywood Talent Agency was able to recruit celebrities such as George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Quotes[]
| “ | I have gathered here before me the world's deadliest assassins, and yet each of you has failed to kill Austin Powers. That makes me angry. And when Dr. Evil gets angry, Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset. And when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset...people DIE! | „ |
| ~ Dr. Evil executing his minions for failure. |
| “ | 'Doctor Evil. I didn't spend five years in Evil Medical School to be called "mister", thank you very much! | „ |
| ~ Dr. Evil bristling at being called "Mr. Evil". |
| “ | Dr. Evil: [deep baritone] Austin Powers, I am your father. Austin Powers: Really? |
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| ~ Parody of the iconic Darth Vader parental reveal |
| “ | How 'bout no, you crazy dutch bastard? | „ |
| ~ Dr. Evil. |
| “ | HOW ABOUT, NO. | „ |
| ~ Dr. Evil |
| “ | Riiiight... | „ |
| ~ Dr. Evil |
| “ | Why make trillions when we can make. Billions? | „ |
| ~ Dr. Evil |
| “ | 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 Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum— it's breathtaking... I suggest you try it. | „ |
| ~ Dr. Evil about his life |
| “ | Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots? | „ |
| ~ Dr. Evil. |
| “ | Din Din! I want chicken, I want liver, meow-mix meow-mix please deliver! | „ |
| ~ Dr. Evil. |
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Trivia[]
- He is based on James Bond's arch-nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld and Dr. Julius No. Ironically enough, the 2015 film Spectre (part of the reboot of the James Bond franchise) revealed Blofeld as James Bond's foster brother. Like many depictions of Blofeld, Dr. Evil’s face is not shown until after the 30-year time skip.
- Jim Carrey was originally cast as Dr. Evil, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with Liar Liar. Also Mike Myers did not want to play multiple characters in the Austin Powers series at that time.
- Dr. Evil's voice was based on Lorne Michael's, creator of television sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, which Myers was a cast member of during the 1990's.
- In Goldmember, during the scene where Dr. Evil got hit in the crotch, Mike Myers didn't wear any protection, because he wanted his reaction to be real.
- Despite being evil, he is averse to swearing, thus uses stands ins like "frickin'" or "A-hole" or "B."
- Mike Myers reprised his role for a General Motors commercial during Super Bowl LVI.
- According to the DVD Commentary of Goldmember, the fourth movie would have had Dr. Evil hire someone from either Australia or New Zealand who would eventually become the main villain.
- The success of the Austin Powers movies resulted in Doctor Doom in Tim Story's Fantastic Four movies being rewritten from a dictator to a CEO because the producers at Marvel thought that Dr. Evil made Doom's original concept hard to take seriously.
External Links[]
- Dr. Evil on the Wikipedia
- Dr Evil Soundboard
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