Fat Bastard

This article is about the Austin Powers character. For the wine, see FAT bastard.

Template:Austin Powers character 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.

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.

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 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, 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

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Fat Bastard in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Fat Bastard had stolen Austin's mojo in 1969, leaving Austin impotent in 1999. After seducing and sleeping with Fat Bastard, secret agent and Austin's ally Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham) places a homing device in his anus. However, the device is ineffective, lost and left in a toilet when he defecates. When Austin discovers this, he asks Felicity "I mean literally, how could you do it? The man's so fat the sheer mechanics of it are mind boggling!" Fat Bastard often declares himself "dead sexy" but is really hiding his true feelings of rejection from society. During an assassination attempt against Austin, Fat Bastard dresses as a UPS parody delivery man and literally breaks in through the front door (you can see the patches that are on his uniform; FBD probably stands for Fat Bastard Delivery), Fat Bastard has an emotional breakdown confessing "I eat because I'm unhappy, and I'm unhappy because I eat. It's a vicious cycle. Now if you'll excuse me, there's someone I need to get in touch with and forgive: meself," after which he passes a very extended and potent bout of flatulence. He then adds that "It's a long road ahead." His mood immediately changes as he bellows "Ah who am I kidding, I'm gonna kill ya anyway!" He then tries to kill Austin Powers, but Felicity incapacitates him with a kick to his testicles, knocking him out and causing him to fall to the ground, upon which the ground shakes and porcelain items fall from the shelves. Mike Meyers is a bug-eyed hump.

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 is quoted as saying, "I do seem to have a bit of excess skin though" further noting the resemblance of his neck to a vagina.

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!"

Reception

In reviews for the movies 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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