Information AboutDr. Evil |
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BACKGROUND Speaking about his upbringing in '''', the first film in the series, while at a Group Therapy session with his estranged son Scott, Dr. Evil says: The details of my life are quite inconsequential.... Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving ... Luge lessons... In the spring, we'd make meat helmets... When I was insolent I was placed in a Burlap bag and beaten with Reed s—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 Testicle s — 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... Dr. Evil's real name is later revealed to be Douglas "Dougie" Powers. He is in fact Austin Powers' brother and the son of Nigel Powers — a fact revealed in the third Austin Powers film, '' Goldmember ''. It is revealed that Douglas and Austin were separated as babies after a car explosion, and that Nigel thought only Austin survived. Douglas was raised by Belgians, which is what made him so evil. His home town is Bruges . Dr. Evil claims to have attended "evil medical school" for six years (and he didn't do it so he could be called "Mister Evil", thank you very much). He also attended a school with Austin, and is frustrated that Austin won the "International Man of Mystery" award, while he, the school's best student, got nothing. In the first film, Dr. Evil is Cryogenically Frozen in 1967 and reawakened in 1997. Like Austin Powers, he faces challenges in acclimating to the new period. His signature gesture is placing his little finger near his mouth (see picture). He repetitively uses the word ''frickin'.'' He occasionally makes use of Finger Quotes when speaking technical terms such as '' Laser ''. In ''Goldmember'' it is revealed that he has a tattoo on his buttocks that reads "E. Diddy." ENTOURAGE Dr. Evil employs a diverse and highly Stereotypical group of minions. Perhaps closest to Dr. Evil is his assistant, '', they make love, which results in the birth of their son, Scott Evil . (In the first film, it is asserted that Scott was created from the preserved Semen of Dr. Evil.) In ''Goldmember'', Frau and Dr. Evil also kiss while Evil is in prison; although the two enjoyed it, the purpose was to transfer a key to Evil so that he could escape from his handcuffs. Dr. Evil carries on a strained relationship with his son Scott. In fact, he frequently tries to have Scott killed, but he never succeeds. He liquidates their therapy group because he thinks them "insolent". Number 2 is the leader of Dr. Evil's industrial empire, Virtucon. Mustafa is another assistant, who designs the cryogenic freezing process that preserves Dr. Evil for 30 years. These two, like many of Evil's henchmen, are punished by incineration in the first film. Number 2, however, survives, returning in the second film with burn marks. Evil is rarely seen without Mr. Bigglesworth , his Angora Cat , which is rendered furless as a side effect of cryogenic freezing and who is henceforth played by a Sphinx Cat . The second film introduces Dr. Evil's clone, Mini-Me , who is 1/8th his size. SCHEMES Dr. Evil's projects for world domination are often named after pop culture trademarks ( Death Star , Alan Parsons Project , Preparation H ), but he remains 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", as in Darth Vader . Scott also coughs and mutters "Rip-off!" Dr. Evil seems to have a problem with understanding the modern American economy, especially Inflation . In the first film, he intends to hold the world ransom for $1 million, but doesn't understand that $1 million doesn't come to much in the 90's. In the second film, however, Dr. Evil goes back to the 60's for his plan to hold the world ransom for $100 billion, an amount of money that didn't exist in the '60s. In the third movie, he demands "1 BILLION, MILLION, FAFILLION, SHABOLUBALU MILLION ILLION YILLION...'' Yen ''." One of Dr. Evil's greatest desires is to have "frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams on their frickin' heads", and is disappointed when he can't have the sharks due to laws on endangered species. Instead, Number 2 gives him mutated sea bass (though they were ill-tempered. The bass do manage to eat the head of one unfortunate henchman hired by Dr. Evil). Scott, however, manages to get him the 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, hard, and full of seamen"). 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. Often Dr. Evil's lairs are right in the open: atop the Starbucks headquarters in Seattle , behind the Hollywood Sign , and in a gigantic submarine shaped like himself. In the second movie, his lair in 1969 is inside a Volcano carved to resemble him with his finger to his mouth. PARODY Just as Austin Powers lampoons James Bond, Dr. Evil Parodies several James Bond villains. The first is Ernst Stavro Blofeld , as portrayed by Donald Pleasence in the film '' You Only Live Twice ''. Interestingly, Donald Pleasence was a regular to the Halloween Movie Series , which is concerned with a character named Michael Myers. Blofeld has a white Angora cat, parodied by Dr. Evil's Mr. Bigglesworth. Dr. Evil also wears clothing with a strong resemblance to Dr. No from the 1962 film of the same name, specifically gray Nehru Jacket Jumpsuit s. Dr. Evil has three testicles, as is proven in ''Goldmember'' when he checks to see that "they're all there" following a rather painful blow to his unmentionables. This is most likely a nod to James Bond villain Francisco Scaramanga from '' The Man With The Golden Gun '', who had three nipples. Mini-Me may also be another reference to Scaramanga, who had a Dwarf servant named Nick Nack . Some of Dr. Evil's facial and vocal expressions are allegedly patterned after Lorne Michaels , producer of television's '' Saturday Night Live '', where Myers worked for a number of years. It should be also noted he has what sounds like a thick Canadian accent. |
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