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1* {{Adorkable}}:
2** Doctor Evil, very much so. He can be quite awkward, but he is charming nonetheless.
3** Number Three comes off as endearing for trying ''ever'' so hard to pretend not to notice all the attention drawn to his mole. Especially when pointing out that he's aware of the irony of the guy with the mole being TheMole.
4* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
5** When Dr. Evil goes to the past and mentions ideas that happen to be the same as something popular in the future, are these just coincidences, or is he actually aware of them but taking credit since his minions in the past do not know about them yet? Though, given Scott calls him out on several things in this regard - like naming something ''The Alan Parsons Project'' - it seems likely he was given a similar crash course for the modern day as Austin, so the latter.
6** Did Austin see Vanessa as a ReplacementGoldfish for her mother, his former partner Mrs. Kensington? There seemed to be some UnresolvedSexualTension when Vanessa asked both of them how they felt about each other.
7** What was Nigel's exact reasoning for hardly being there for Austin his whole life and how did [[spoiler:Austin's twin brother Dr. Evil]] factor into it? Was Nigel [[spoiler:looking for Dr. Evil for years]]? Was he too caught up in his own spy games? Was the shame of [[spoiler:being unable to prevent Dr. Evil from going to a life of crime]] too much for him that he felt that failure meant the desire to distance himself from Austin to protect him?
8* AluminumChristmasTrees: The President comes ''very'' close to blowing up the moon rather than pay Dr. Evil's inflated ransom ("Would you miss it?"). The United States Air Force actually considered nuking the moon to intimidate the Soviets.
9* AngstWhatAngst: Austin doesn't even particularly seem to care that [[spoiler:Vanessa]] was a Fembot and is now dead. [[RuleOfFunny He's a swinger!]] He doesn't seem to care all that much when Basil admits that they suspected it all along, and then [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome quickly changes the subject and never mentions it again]]. RuleOfFunny is obviously in play for this one.
10* AssPull: A deliberately tongue-in-cheek example from the sequel; [[spoiler:Vanessa]] being a Fembot comes completely out of nowhere and ''clearly'' makes no sense at all. The film practically [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how it's obviously making this up so [[spoiler:Austin can be single again]], justifying it with copious amounts of RuleOfFunny. After all, it's not like [[GirlOfTheWeek any of James Bond's squeezes]] ever made a return appearance.[[note]](At least, not for [[Film/NoTimeToDie another 22 years]])[[/note]]
11* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
12** George S. Clinton's music for all three movies is a loving homage of the Music/JohnBarry Bond scores, including a fantastic villainous theme for Dr. Evil.
13** "Soul Bossa Nova."
14** "Austin Powers" by the Wondermints for the first movie; sadly, very little of it gets heard. It can be heard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V19Ty9hYTsk in all its glory on the soundtrack album]], and holds up really well years later.
15** From the second film; There Might Be Giants' parody of Bond VillainSong s "Dr. Evil."
16** There's also rapper Ludacris's 2004 song "Number One Spot", which not only samples the series' intro theme, but also includes several references to the series. The music video puts Luda directly into all of Myers's roles and co-stars Verne Troyer as Mini-Me, with a cameo by Quincy Jones in the beginning requesting Ludacris put a new spin on "Soul Bossa Nova."
17--->"In court I never show up like Austin Powers's fah-za/Father, father and hey I love gooooold."
18** Don't forget Music/{{Madonna}}'s darkly mesmorizing "Beautiful Stranger", which served as the unofficial theme to the second movie. Oddly ironic considering that her contribution to [[Film/DieAnotherDay a real Bond movie]] was much less warmly well-received.
19** The third film also has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKsrjE9Hphk "What's it all about, Austin?"]] a cover of the title song from ''Film/{{Alfie}}'' originally meant for a musical number that was sadly cut from the final film, though it can still be heard in the end credits.
20* BaseBreakingCharacter: Foxxy Cleopatra. Some love her for being a SassyBlackWoman and for being portrayed by Music/{{Beyonce}}. Others hate her for having no chemistry, romantic or otherwise, with Powers (unlike her predecessors) and for being one of the worst examples of an AffirmativeActionGirl ever.
21* CriticalDissonance: Most fans would agree that the third film was a step down from the first two films, given its more serious tone, the 70s not being nearly as iconic as the 60s [[note]]Which Austin himself lampshaded to Felicity in the second film, quipping that it and the 80s had only a "gas shortage and a Flock of Seagulls" respectively[[/note]] and the unpopularity of Goldmember and Foxxy. However, it still made the most money at the box-office and is the highest rated of the three films on Metacritic.
22* CrossesTheLineTwice:
23** Dr. Evil's HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood backstory that he talks about during the group therapy scene in the first film would be horrifying in any other context, but since it's [[LaughablyEvil Dr. Evil]], it's funny as fuck.
24** Dr. Evil and Scott doing on ''Series/TheJerrySpringerShow'' at the beginning of the second film - the whole segment is dedicated specifically to "evil fathers", with Scott and Dr. Evil being on the show alongside [[TheKlan a klansman]] and a [[ThoseWackyNazis Neo-Nazi]], of all things. Then Dr. Evil gets into a fistfight with the klansman (per usual for ''The Jerry Springer Show''), and when Springer tries to calm things down, Dr. Evil then tries beating him up after Springer insults him, culminating in Springer biting Dr. Evil's ankle.
25** The death of one of Doctor Evil's henchman under a steamroller would be horrifying... if he hadn't stood in place for what seems like a full minute screaming {{Big No}}s while the machine sloooooooowly approaches him (and is played by ''Series/MadTV1995'''s Michael [=McDonald=], who's [[HamAndCheese making the absolute most of his brief performance]]).
26* DirectorDisplacement: The films are better known as the work of Creator/MikeMyers, who wrote and starred in them, than Jay Roach, who directed.
27* DiscreditedMeme: Just about every joke and catchphrase was repeated by everyone and their grandparents so much in the 2000's that they have become painfully dated and cringey by today's standards.
28* FirstInstallmentWins: The sequels were a lot more successful at the box office. However, they relied heavily on cameos, wacky characters, and now dated pop culture references, whereas the original is a spoof of the '60s spy film genre and holds up very well even today.
29* FountainOfMemes: Any character played by Mike Myers (Austin himself, Dr. Evil, Fat Bastard, and, to a lesser extent, Goldmember) is very quotable.
30* GeniusBonus: ''International Man of Mystery'' is a direct spoof of 60s spy movies in the same way a movie like ''Film/WalkHardTheDeweyCoxStory'' is a music biopic spoof. As a result, the more you know about James Bond tropes and films of that ilk, the funnier ''International Man of Mystery'' is, as it's quite clear through the production notes and commentary that Myers and his crew are vastly knowledgeable about that culture and root much of the film's humor in it.
31* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: ''The Spy Who Shagged Me'' is considered a cult classic in Spain, thanks primarily to its SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing, which cast famous comedian Florentino "Flo" Fernandez to voice all characters played by Myers, and he adapted them to his particular sense of humor, [[{{Woolseyism}} making the entire film particularly funny for Spaniard audiences]]. Although Flo came back in the same capacity in ''Goldmember'', given that entry was hit the hardest by {{Sequelitis}}, ''The Spy Who Shagged Me'' is the most fondly remembered entry in the series in Spain by country mile.
32* HarsherInHindsight:
33** Gifs of Austin somehow jamming an entire hallway with a motorized cart saw a surge of popularity after the 2021 Ever Given incident (where a ship ran aground sideways in the Suez canal, causing a maritime traffic backup so bad some ships ended up going around Africa instead).
34** ''Man of Mystery'' ended on a PatrickStewartSpeech about how the spirit of TheSixties was living more responsibly in TheNineties. Highly cynical TurnOfTheMillennium ideas about sex, war and egotism make even a ChivalrousPervert like Austin look like a WideEyedIdealist.
35** 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]] [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/austin-powers-actor-who-received-life-sentence-for,63245/ way again.]] Made even more horrible when you realize Son had already committed this atrocious crime ''seven years before the movie was released'', without anyone involved in the making of the film finding out. Imagine how uncomfortable the actors must feel knowing they had been on set with this guy during filming—especially Creator/ElizabethHurley, who had to film a scene with him while she was (supposedly) naked.
36*** On a desperately-needed lighter note, Son was also briefly a UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter... and didn't win once in his career. It might actually ''have'' been for lack of trying, too, as one of his losses happened by way of [[RapidFireFisticuffs repeated]] GroinAttack, in [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments one of the funniest events ever to happen in the sport.]]
37*** The film's murderer count was potentially raised to two when Creator/RobertWagner was suddenly named as a person of interest in the death of Creator/NatalieWood in 2018.
38** Dr. Evil's plan to frame Prince Charles for an affair so he would have to divorce Diana. Number Two shoots it down by revealing that actually happened, but shortly after the film's release came an even worse reason it wouldn't work, as Diana died in a car accident. (Indeed, that plan was [[EditedForSyndication removed in the UK prints]] since the movie was released there not long after she died.)
39** Creator/KevinSpacey's cameo as himself playing Dr. Evil in a movie titled ''Goldmember''. After he was hit with multiple accusations of sexually predatory behavior towards young men, this is ''not'' a guy you want "making house calls."
40** Music/BritneySpears' head blowing up looks similar to her attempted suicide in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', which was one of the few times the cartoon [[TheWoobie didn't make fun of a celebrity.]]
41** Dr Evil's lair being hidden under the guise of a legitimate Hollywood organization hits a little too close to home with the reveal that prominent Hollywood figures like Harvey Weinstein and Creator/BrettRatner had been getting away with sexual abuse.
42** Scott and Dr. Evil appear on a Jerry Springer segment revolving around villainous fathers. Among the guests are a skinhead with a Neo-Nazi father and a hillbilly whose father is from the KKK. After the rise of the Alt-Right, some progressives have criticized the media for what they see as validating viewpoints that could be considered bigoted if not outright dangerous.
43** In ''The Spy Who Shagged Me'', when Dr. Evil tells Austin "I am your father", Austin says "Really?" in a rather hopeful tone of voice. Come the third movie, and you find that his relationship with his father is traumatic enough that he might have actually ''wanted'' Dr. Evil to be his dad. [[HilariousInHindsight On a lighter note,]] [[spoiler: Dr. Evil was accidentally correct that they ''were'' related.]]
44** At the end of ''Goldmember'', Fat Bastard had entirely reformed and is now thin (though his skin is a little loose) after going on the Subway diet "just like Jared." Then Jared Fogle just had to be found in possession of child pornography and propositioning minors and bob's your uncle.
45** Basil telling Felicity that she and Austin aren't meant to be. Felicity didn't even get a mention in ''Goldmember''. (There are persistent rumors that Creator/HeatherGraham shot a cameo for the film explaining her exit - similar to Creator/ElizabethHurley's brief appearance in the second film - but if this is true, it has never surfaced, and nobody involved with the film has ever gone on record confirming its existence.)
46* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Frau stopping Dr. Evil from dumping Scott into the fire pit at first comes off as a random joke where [[EvenEvilHasStandards she is trying to curb Dr. Evil's behavior]]. [[spoiler:Then the second movie reveals that she's actually Scott's mother. Her actions weren't just motivated by her trying to make her boss treat his son better, she was protecting her own son.]]
47* HilariousInHindsight:
48** 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.
49** 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.
50** Dr. Evil's sentiment about a "shorn scrotum" is quite funny in light of how popular "Manscaping" has become.
51** While snooping around Alotta Fagina's penthouse in the first movie, Austin discovers a folder with some of Virtucon's evil plots listed inside. In between "Human Organ Trafficking" and "Project Vulcan" is... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "Carrot Top Movie"]]. In the following year, they made ''Film/ChairmanOfTheBoard''. Made even more hilarious is that Cindy Margolis, who plays one of the Fembots, had a role in that film as a tennis instructor. Looks like it really is a Virtucon plan!
52** In the [[ShowWithinAShow movie-in-the-movie]] in ''Goldmember'', Kevin Spacey plays Dr. Evil, a bald, evil super genius. He'd later go on to play a second bald, evil super genius a few years later in [[Film/SupermanReturns another film]].
53*** Spacey [[spoiler: also plays an evil, ingenious, (practically) bald guy in 1995's ''Film/{{Se7en}}'']].
54** The [[ShowWithinAShow movie-in-the-movie]] in ''Goldmember'' is a DarkerAndEdgier version of ''Austin Powers''. A few years later, the ''Film/JamesBond'' franchise would do something similar with the Creator/DanielCraig films. And for more hilarity, Craig would later say [[{{Irony}} that the]] ''[[{{Irony}} Austin Powers]]'' [[{{Irony}} films had a hand in bringing down the popularity of the]] ''[[{{Irony}} Bond]]'' [[{{Irony}} films.]]
55*** Speaking of Daniel Craig, in ''Goldmember'', it's revealed that Austin Powers and Dr. Evil [[spoiler: are [[LongLostRelative actually brothers]]]]. This plot-twist would be used in earnest in the 2015 Bond film ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', where [[spoiler:James Bond and Ernst Stavro Blofeld are revealed to be adoptive brothers.]]
56** "Who throws a shoe? Honestly!" Cue the Bush "Shoe Incident".
57** Machine-gun breasts? [[Music/LadyGaga Who would ever do that again?]]
58** The joke in the second movie about Dr. Evil being Austin's dad becomes this when the third movie reveals they are actually brothers.
59** When Dr. Evil says "there's nothing more pathetic than an aging hipster", he probably means "hipster" in the old 40s-60s sense, as that is where both he and Austin are from and the newer use was in its infancy when the movie came out in 1997. To a 2010s audience the line may seem puzzling, as most people labeled with the newer term are in their 40s at most, but may become hilarious in a different way in a few decades.
60** Remember Dr. Evil's request for "sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads"? [[http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/05/wicked-lasers-shark/ This marine biologist certainly did]].
61** At the time, Dr. Evil trying to show Scott he was hip by doing the Macarena was supposed to be funny just for how awkward he was at it. With the dance becoming CondemnedByHistory shortly afterwards, it looks even more pathetic.
62** Austin telling Felicity that TheSeventies weren't that exciting became this once ''Goldmember'' was released, as Austin only spends a few minutes in the 70s before going back to the present.
63** In ''The Spy Who Shagged Me'', Austin suggests that the 70s and 80s aren't worth bothering with, and are disposable decades. Ironically, this is now a popular sentiment for the 90s, with many people outside of the Millennial and Zoomer generations considering the entire period from the Fall of Communism to 9/11 to be quite unmemorable.
64** One could say that Mike Myers' [[TheCameo cameo role]] in ''Film/IngloriousBasterds'' is basically Austin Powers doing the job of [[MrExposition Basil Exposition]].
65** Mike Myers plays a heavyset Scotsman with a foul temper and disgusting eating habits whose bowel movements could suffocate a donkey. [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} Sound familiar?]]
66** Creator/GwynethPaltrow being cast as the woman who can make a notorious lady-killer fall in love would [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse become a very lucrative decision in the future]].
67** Austin's IconicOutfit from the second film. A FakeBrit wearing a red suit and a ClassyCravat? Sounds an awful lot like [[Franchise/AceAttorney a certain prosecutor]] [[note]] especially once the latter started wearing glasses post-TimeSkip[[/note]]. Especially hilarious considering [[BunnyEarsLawyer Austin]] and [[BritishStuffiness Edgeworth]] have almost nothing in common outside of that.
68** Austin and Vanessa were crushing people to death with steamrollers (albeit accidentally) long before [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure DIO]] turned it into an infamous meme.
69** In ''The Spy Who Shagged Me'', "I'm A Believer" by Music/TheMonkees is played during the montage of Austin and Felicity spending time in London. Two years later, the song (covered by Music/SmashMouth) would also be used in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}},'' in the final scene in which Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) and Fiona get married.
70** Dr. Evil's suggestive rocket is even funnier in the wake of the Blue Origin NS-16 launch, which used a spacecraft that also drew widespread comparisons to phallic imagery. The similarities [[https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-compared-to-austin-powers-villain-dr-evil-2021-7 didn't go unnoticed]] by some viewers of the launch, especially as both Jeff Bezos and Dr. Evil are both ultrawealthy bald men profiting from vastly profitable Seattle-based corporations (Amazon and Starbucks).
71** In ''International Man of Mystery'', due to Dr. Evil's sharks being an endangered species, they're forced to use ill-tempered sea bass in their place. Come 2001, and ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' gives completionists a good reason why sea bass are actually the worse outcome. Bonus points for ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewLeaf'' adding sharks.
72** The teaser for ''The Spy Who Shagged Me'' tricked us into thinking Emperor Palpatine had somehow come back from the dead on the ruins of the Death Star. Then ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' happened...
73** In the second movie, Austin dismisses the 80s as an unmemorable decade. This is not a widely held opinion today, with the decade's pop cultural footprint being still highly-regarded, with plenty of iconic long-running franchises beginning in it, and 80s nostalgia pieces like ''Series/StrangerThings'' being gigantic mainstream hits.
74* HoYay: Doctor Evil and Mini-Me. Given that Mini-Me is Doctor Evil's near-exact duplicate, this might just be demonstrative of his vanity.
75* IronWoobie: Austin is an ace at what he does, but the films show that beneath his awesome and funny exterior he's actually [[SadClown a broken, lonely man.]] He wakes up 30 years in the future where everything has changed beyond recognition and most of the people he knows are either dead or have moved on. Losing his mojo made him afraid of disappointing a woman he felt a connection with. His father doesn't care about any of his achievements. Despite his angst, he persists for the greater good and proves himself to be the best no matter what's troubling him.
76* JerkassWoobie: FatBastard. He may be a rude, disgusting asshole, but it's not really his fault he's so gross (for the most part), as he can't stop eating, and near the end of the second movie he even admits how miserable he is. [[spoiler:At the end of the third movie, he [[EarnYourHappyEnding finally manages to lose weight]] and [[HeelFaceTurn stops being a villain.]]]]
77* MagnificentBastard: While [[BigBad Dr. Evil]] himself misses no chance to delve into BondVillainStupidity, many of his subordinates operate brilliantly:
78** [[HyperCompetentSidekick Number Two]] is Dr. Evil's aptly-named, far more competent [[TheDragon right-hand man]]. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Managing the business front]] of Evil's empire while his boss is cryogenically frozen in space, Number Two expands the operation to a multibillion dollar national corporation. Surviving his seeming death due to oversight in the first film, Number Two is kept on by Evil likely for his effectiveness and [[TheSpymaster provides reconnaissance]], capturing Austin Powers while the doctor concocts his latest goofy scheme. Forming an effective Hollywood talent agency by undercutting the competition's prices, Number Two eventually joins Dr. Evil in turning to good after being touched by Evil's reunion with his long-lost father Nigel Powers.
79** [[TheBaroness Frau Farbissina]] is Dr. Evil's [[EvilIsHammy hammy]] head [[MadScientist scientist]], and one of the only members of his organization he genuinely respects. The founder of the militant wing of the Salvation Army, Frau oversees the creation of the [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Fembots]], who have the ability to seduce men into dropping their guard and easily killing them. Using them to try to kill Austin Powers, it's later revealed that Frau and Dr. Evil created his wife Vanessa to kill Austin when he leasts suspects it. Dearly devoted to Dr. Evil, while very protective of her son Scott Evil, Frau does what she can to help her boss in his schemes.
80** ''International Man of Mystery'': [[EuphemisticNames Alotta Fagina]] poses as the SexySecretary of Number Two. When Austin sneaks into her penthouse to uncover Dr. Evil's plans, she [[FemmeFatale seduces]] him, uncovering his true identity to let Evil catch him and even after Austin disables Evil's apocalyptic drill, captures Vanessa, nearly forcing him to allow for Evil's escape.
81* MemeticMutation: [[Memes/AustinPowers Plenty, here]].
82** "Who throws a shoe? Honestly!", especially after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_shoeing_incident this incident]].
83* MoralEventHorizon: Goldmember already has a somewhat misguided compass but he crosses it in response to [[spoiler:Dr. Evil's HeelFaceTurn. He puts Preparation H back in motion, holds Foxxy Cleopatra hostage and shoots at Austin and Dr. Evil when they attempt to thwart him turning on the tractor beam.]]
84* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: Creator/TonyJay's narration at the beginning of the second film.
85* NightmareFuel:
86** The JumpScare of Mini-Me ambushing Austin in ''The Spy Who Shagged Me''.
87** The sight of the [[{{Gorn}} guard's decapitated neck]] after his head is eaten by Dr. Evil's mutant bass in ''International Man of Mystery''. In such a goofy and lighthearted movie, [[SurprisinglyCreepyMoment it's immensely out of place]]. [[AudienceSurrogate Austin]] gives an understandably disgusted grunt upon seeing it.
88* OlderThanTheyThink:
89** The Austin Powers character (or at least his name and appearance) actually predates the movies. Austin Powers was originally Myers' stage name when he played in a 1960s themed band called Ming Tea.
90** The disco remix of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in ''Goldmember'' was not created for the film as some younger viewers initially thought. It was actually a song from the era, "A Fifth of Beethoven" by Walter Murphy, which was previously used on the soundtrack to ''Film/SaturdayNightFever''. The song has since gotten a second life, thanks to this movie and being featured in ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' and ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', the latter of which Murphy is the in-house composer for.
91** "Nothing's more pathetic than an aging hipster" is a paraphrase of a line from Creator/LennyBruce, "Nothing's sadder than an old hipster."
92** A couple bits actually originated on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' first (specifically the "Theater Stories" sketch): "I'm having trouble controlling THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE!" and "What the French call a certain... I don't know what."
93* OneSceneWonder:
94** Creator/WillFerrell as Mustafa, across both movies.
95** Creator/NathanLane in ''Goldmember''.
96** Creator/AaronHimelstein and Creator/JoshZuckerman are impeccable as the young Austin and Dr. Evil in ''Goldmember'', despite only being in the film for a few minutes.
97* OvershadowedByControversy: Not the films themselves, but one of the characters, Random Task from ''Man of Mystery''. Nowadays, more people associate him with [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/austin-powers-actor-convicted-of-torture-for-role,61087/ the convictions]] brought against his actor, Joe Son, rather than him being a simple gag character due to how horrific they are.
98* PresumedFlop: ''Goldmember'' is widely considered the weakest in the trilogy and has a reputation as a FranchiseKiller, yet was just as successful as ''The Spy Who Shagged Me'', earning more money domestically and only slightly less worldwide. It also has the highest Metacritic score. The real reason why there was never a fourth film was because Creator/MikeMyers wanted to make ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' -- which ''was'' a major critical and commercial failure, and proved to be a StarDerailingRole for him.
99* TheProblemWithLicensedGames:
100** ''The Spy Who Shagged Me'' received two tie-in games for, oddly enough, the Game Boy Color. Developed by Creator/RockstarGames of all companies. Both of them were bland, boring {{Minigame Game}}s that utilized a mock computer desktop format, which really didn't work with the smaller screen and controls of the system.
101** ''Austin Powers Pinball'', one of the later releases for the original [=PlayStation=]. It was clearly made as cheaply as possible, and has SNES-level graphics and LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading. Also, there's no table based on ''Goldmember'' despite being out three months prior to the game's release.
102* RetroactiveRecognition:
103** In the RentAZilla scene from the third movie, there's a cameo by Creator/MasiOka - now with all the time-travel involved, where was [[Series/{{Heroes}} Hiro Nakamura]] when you needed him? The other guy in the scene is Creator/BrianTee.
104** Creator/KevinDurand of ''Series/{{LOST}}'' and ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' as Robin Swallow's henchman in the second movie.
105* TheScrappy: Goldmember. Most fans see him as little more than a half-baked attempt to capitalise on Fat Bastard's fanbase. He also doesn't contribute anything to the third film that couldn't have been carried out by Dr Evil or Scott. Creator/MikeMyers even says in the commentary that he has no memory of playing the character.
106* OnceOriginalNowCommon: While Austin Powers wasn't the first comedy film to use an OverlyLongGag [[note]]Before this, films would maybe have one or two.[[/note]], it was one of the first to ''primarily'' derive its humor from it. At the time it came out, it really was something new and unique. Now that the OverlyLongGag has become a staple of comedies, it's become harder to see why ''Austin Powers'' was treated as such a big deal in the 90's.
107* {{Sequelitis}}: The first movie was very popular at the time of its release and did reasonably well critically. Depending on who you ask, its two sequels were either seen as retreads of the same jokes or just as regarded for its handling of said jokes. The movies themselves actually [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this for humour, with Music/OzzyOsbourne and his family making a cameo in the third film complaining about ''the very film they are in'' reusing the old jokes.
108* SpecialEffectsFailure:
109** Done intentionally. We have obvious rear screen projection for the driving scenes, obvious stock footage for [[spoiler: Dr. Evil's lair exploding in the first film]] and also in the first film, when the guard gets his head bitten off by [[strike: a shark]] [[NinjaZombiePirateRobot an ill-tempered mutated sea bass]], it is obviously a dummy. In the opening Utah scene for the third film, it is obviously a backdrop. Far more evidently in FatBastard's "Ultimate wire-frame maneuver" later on in that film.
110** In a more straightforward example, the air hose keeping the Fat Bastard suit inflated is clearly visible when he rolls onto Felicity in the second film.
111* SpiritualSuccessor: The films follow in the footsteps of the Film/JamesBond spoofs of the 1960s, particularly ''Film/OurManFlint'' and ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967''.
112* {{Squick}}:
113** Austin mentions not using protection when he shags. Keep in mind he's ''very'' promiscuous.
114** Austin drinking Fat Bastard's diarrhea, getting some of it on his upper lip and saying "it's a bit nutty" without a care in the world.
115** Just about everything involving Fat Bastard, really...
116** Goldmember peeling his own skin off and either collecting or eating it.
117** Foxxy mentions having a fling with Austin about 8 years prior to their reunion in ''Goldmember''. Beyoncé was only 20 when she was cast, so if Foxxy is meant to be the same age as her then...
118* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: ''Goldmember'' had a bad habit of not using its characters to their full potential. The titular Goldmember doesn't actually become the BigBad until the last few minutes, Foxxy's romance with Austin is sidelined in favour of showing him making peace with his father (defeating the whole purpose of replacing Felicity), the Mole only gets a few seconds of screentime with Dr. Evil before he's revealed to be a double agent and Number Two and Frau are DemotedToExtra.
119* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: ''Goldmember'' was meant to introduce a new nemesis for Austin Powers, but rather than go with either the titular Goldmember or the now-evil Scott, the film tried to use both while ''still'' having Dr. Evil carry most of the conflict.
120* ValuesDissonance:
121** Mustafa. First and foremost, he was played by the very white Will Ferrell wearing brown facepaint (yes, it ''very'' slightly works as a joke about the common tendency to do this kind of thing in films of the time period, but it's still uncomfortable). Secondly, his only purpose in the first two movies is to suffer horrifying injuries.
122** The opening scene from ''The Spy Who Shagged Me'' where Austin is strutting around a resort in the nude, startling several women along the way doesn't seem as innocent as it used to with indecent exposure being taken much more seriously.
123* ValuesResonance: In recent years, having sex with an intoxicated person while one party is sober has become a hot-button issue, but back in the late '90s, it wasn't as controversial. In the '60s, people were even more loose about consent. So Austin -- a guy from the '60s and is now living in the 90s -- refusing to have sex with an intoxicated Vanessa when she comes on to him, is incredibly refreshing to see.
124* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The films seem to suffer from this greatly, being filled to the brim with sexual innuendo and the second film having the word "shag" (British slang term meaning "to have sex with") right in the title. Not only that, the third movie actually won an award for Favorite Movie at the 2003 Kids' Choice Awards.

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