Created by Mike Myers Gender Male Nationality Scottish Creator Mike Myers | Portrayed by Mike Myers Occupation Henchman/Sumo Wrestler Played by Mike Myers | |
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Affiliation British Army
Scots Guards First appearance Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Last appearance Austin Powers in Goldmember Movies Austin Powers in Goldmember, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Similar Mini‑Me, Dr Evil, Scott Evil, Felicity Shagwell, Number 2 | ||
Fat Bastard is a fictional character in the second and third films of the Austin Powers series. A morbidly obese henchman hailing from Scotland, Fat Bastard serves Dr. Evil in his quest to destroy Austin Powers. The character is portrayed by Mike Myers.
Contents
- Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me
- Austin Powers in Goldmember
- Popular culture and DirecTV commercial
- Censorship
- References
His extreme size and weight (1 metric tonne, according to Dr. Evil) endows Fat Bastard with massive strength. He exhibited this prowess in the sumo ring in the third movie.
Fat Bastard is noted for his foul temper, his emotional monologues that ends with him farting, his vulgar manners, and his unusual diet. These go as far as to include a cannibalistic taste for human infants and midgets, whom he gluttonously calls, "The other, other white meat". In Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, he boasts that he once ate a baby, and tries to refuse Dr. Evil's money for his services in exchange for getting to eat Mini-Me. He also has the same Scottish accent as Shrek, whose movie was released two years later in 2001.
Mike Myers has jokingly said that it took about 64 hours to transform into Fat Bastard's body.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Fat Bastard had stolen Austin's mojo in 1969, as he is a guard in the facility, and has knocked out the other guards using bagpipes that spray gas, 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 rectum. During this time with Felicity, Fat Bastard is also eating a whole chicken while in bed with her (he does offer to share). However, the device is ineffective, lost and left in a toilet before he returns to Dr. Evil's island. However, rare berries are found in a stool sample, enabling the island to be tracked down. Fat Bastard often declares himself "dead sexy", but he is really hiding his true feelings of rejection from society. During an assassination attempt against Austin and Felicity in 1999, Fat Bastard dresses as a package delivery man and literally breaks in through the front door. When Felicity asks if he is happy, Fat Bastard has an emotional breakdown, tearfully 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. Myself." after which he then farts. Austin and Felicity are both disgusted. Fat Bastard is visibly embarrassed and says, "Sorry, I farted. It's a long road ahead.". He changes his mind and attempts to kill Austin and Felicity. Felicity (despite being barefoot) incapacitates him with a kick to his groin. He places his hands on his thighs and moans "Right in the mommy daddy button" (scrotum). Fat Bastard then screams and falls, shaking the room.
Austin Powers in Goldmember
In the next film, Fat Bastard retires from being a henchman 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. During his bathroom time Foxxy Cleopatra and Austin sneak in using a disguise and catch him. Austin starts shouting to him "You really are a Fat Bastard"; "You know that hurts my feelings; I've tried going on a diet, you know", he replies. Fat Bastard then says he did the Zone diet, stating that "carbs are the enemy," though the Zone Diet promotes equal amounts of carbs and protein and Fat Bastard probably meant the Atkins diet, which emphasizes low carbs. After tearfully telling Austin and Foxxy that he's happy as a sumo wrestler he farts. Austin then asks if he soiled himself. Fat Bastard replies, "Maybe." and laughs.
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 says that Fat Bastard probably will not stay thin (as "Thin Bastard", as he called him) and would most likely return to his overweight state.
Popular culture and DirecTV commercial
I like to be funny, I like to entertain. But I'm in the body of a monstrous killer. So, doesn't quite compute.
Censorship
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 mass retail action figures sold of the character had the name "Fat Man" on the box, even though the patch on his blazer clearly displayed "FB". Specialty stores such as comic book shops had figures in packaging which referred to him as "Fat Bastard", however.