History YMMV / AustinPowers

* {{Squick}}: Goldmember and FatBastard are deliberately written to be {{Squick}} incarnate.

* CompleteMonster: The only villain who qualifies is Goldmember.

*** DiscreditedMeme: There has been a rather huge InternetBacklash against these memes. Using any one of them today immediately brands you a loser, even if jesting.

** Sharks with laser beams!

** This one combines with HighOctaneNightmareFuel. You may never look at Random Task from ''Man of Mystery'' [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/austin-powers-actor-convicted-of-torture-for-role,61087/ the same way again.]]

* VindicatedByCable: The first movie was a commercial flop at the box office, but actually wound up making significantly more money through rentals. It's one of the only movies to do so.
** Actually, the first film was a modest hit and made its budget back (grossing $50 million in the US). But indeed, it was bigger on video.

*** [[DiscreditedMeme There has been a rather huge]] InternetBacklash [[DiscreditedMeme against these memes]]. Using any one of them today immediately brands you a loser, even if jesting.

*** There has been a rather huge InternetBacklash against these memes. Using any one of them today immediately brands you a loser, even if jesting.

* EvilIsSexy: Alotta Fagina, full stop.

** Machine-gun breasts? [[LadyGaga Who would ever do that again?]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The soundtrack is a loving homage of the JohnBarry Bond scores, including a fantastic villainous theme for Dr Evil.

** ''Man Of Mystery'' ended on a perfunctory {{Patrick Stewart Speech}} about how the spirit of {{The Sixties}} was living more responsibly in {{The Nineties}}. Highly cynical {{Turn Of The Millennium}} ideas about sex, war and egotism make even a {{Chivalrous Pervert}} like Austin look like a {{Wide-Eyed Idealist}}.

** This one combines with HighOctaneNightmareFuel. You may never look at Random Task from ''Man of Mystery'' [[http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/29/austin-powers-villain-torture-gang-rape-case-random-task-actor-compton-joseph-hyungmin-son/#.TlxLZF2mCuI the same way again.]]

* ValuesDissonance: The first movie gets a number of jokes about TheSixties and TheNineties being [[UnderStatement a bit different]] decades.

** This one combines with HighOctaneNightmareFuel. You may never look at [[spoiler: Random Task from ''Man of Mystery'']] [[http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/29/austin-powers-villain-torture-gang-rape-case-random-task-actor-compton-joseph-hyungmin-son/#.TlxLZF2mCuI the same way again.]]

** This one combines with HighOctaneNightmareFuel. You may never look at [[spoiler: Random Task from ''Man of Mystery'']] [[the same way again. http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/29/austin-powers-villain-torture-gang-rape-case-random-task-actor-compton-joseph-hyungmin-son/#.TlxLZF2mCuI]]

* HarsherInHindsight: ''Man Of Mystery'' ended on a perfunctory {{Patrick Stewart Speech}} about how the spirit of {{The Sixties}} was living more responsibly in {{The Nineties}}. Highly cynical {{Turn Of The Millennium}} ideas about sex, war and egotism make even a {{Chivalrous Pervert}} like Austin look like a {{Wide-Eyed Idealist}}.

* HilariousInHindsight: One of the songs in the first movie's credits rolls off a list of BBC channels which didn't exist at the time, such as BBC Three and BBC Four.

** Dr Evil originally wants one million dollars in exchange for not trying to take over the world. Number Two tells him that one million dollars is a [[RidiculousFutureInflation relatively modest hostage demand in the 1990's]]. He then ups the bid to "one hundred...'''billion''...dollars!" His demand seems telling in light of Ireland's 90 billion euro EU bailout.