Fat Bastard (character)

Austin Powers character
name = Fat Bastard


caption = Mike Myers as Fat Bastard
first =
last = Austin Powers in Goldmember
gender = Male
country = SCO
role = Henchman
father =
children =Michael O'Neil
spouse =
episodes = 2
portrayer = Mike Myers

Fat Bastard is a fictional character in the second and third films in the "Austin Powers films". He is a morbidly obese henchman hailing from Scotland. Fat Bastard serves Dr. Evil in his quest to defeat Austin Powers. The character is portrayed by Mike Myers.

Concept and creation

Characteristics

His extreme size (1 metric tonne) endows Fat Bastard with super-human strength, as exhibited by his prowess in the Sumo ring in Goldmember. This makes him a formidable enemy for Austin Powers. He shares the same moniker as alleged New England underboss for the Patriarca crime family Carmen Nunzio who is referred to by criminal associates as "Fat Bastard" who weighs over three hundred pounds.

Fat Bastard is noted for his foul temper, his frequent flatulence, his vulgar manners, his unusual eating habits, and a taste for babies (and anything that looks like a baby, e.g. dwarves). In "", he tries to refuse Dr. Evil's money for his services in exchange for eating Mini-Me. Mike Myers has jokingly said that it took about 64 hours to transform into Fat Bastard's body.

Fat Bastard has a thick Scottish accent, nearly identical to that of another Mike Myers character, Stuart Mackenzie, from the 1993 movie "So I Married an Axe Murderer". It is also similar to his voice acting as the title character in the film "Shrek".

Appearances

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

items fall from the shelves.

Austin Powers in Goldmember

In the next film, Fat Bastard leaves Dr. Evil's employ and relocates to Japan. There he becomes a sumo wrestler, and despite trying to go straight, he still carries out the odd job for Dr. Evil. Eventually, by the end of "Austin Powers in Goldmember" he has lost his excessive weight, crediting it to the Subway diet. However, he points out that he still has a lot of excess skin, further noting the resemblance of his neck to a vagina. On the film audio commentary, Mike Myers admits that Fat Bastard probably will not stay thin (as 'Thin Bastard,' as he called him) and would most likely return to his overweight state. [ "Austin Powers in Goldmember DVD commentary"]

Popular Culture and DirecTV commercial

Beginning in June 2006, this character was in a DirecTV commercial with Mini-Me. The plot was that he was talking about how Mini-Me was looking good to eat like in the movies (see above). Mini-Me thinks that he is crazy. He also uses two of his lines from the movie. His famous line in this commercial is "Come on, get in my belly!"

In the Video Game Warcraft III the Rifleman Has a Mild Scottish Accent and when clicked multiple time will yell out "where's meh Beer, Ah there you are! Get in my BELLY!!!"

Reception

In reviews for the movie in the newspapers, film critic Roger Ebert referred to him as "We can't even say his name!", while others called him "Obese Illegitimate Child." The action figures sold of the character had the name "Fat Man" on the box.

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