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Mike Myers played four major characters: Austin, Dr. Evil, his henchman [[Fat Bastard]], and the third movie's co-villain Goldmember. Other characters include:
* Basil Exposition, Austin's literal [[Mr. Exposition]]. Played by [[Michael York]], though [[Eddie Adams]] played a younger version of the character.
* Austin's female sidekicks: Mrs. Kensington, her daughter Vanessa (after Austin travels from 1967 to 1997 by means of [[Human Popsicle|cryonic freezing]]), Felicity Shagwell and Foxxy Cleopatra - parodies of "Bond girls" who usually [[Brother Chuck|disappear from the face of the Earth]] after just one movie. Played respectively by [[Mimi Rogers]], [[Elizabeth Hurley]], [[Heather Graham]], and [[Beyonce]].
* Austin's father, Nigel Powers. He is also {{spoiler|Dr. Evil's father}}, thus making {{spoiler|Austin and Dr. Evil brothers}}, although they're unaware of this until the end of the third movie. Played by [[Michael Caine]].
* Dr. Evil's son Scott, played by [[Seth Green]].
* Dr. Evil's vertically challenged clone Mini-Me, played by [[Verne Troyer]].
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* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]
* [[Fat Bastard]]
* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]], now the supertrope for villains who don't take the direct approach, with its former definition going to [[Stating the Simple Solution]].
* Almost the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Preemptive "Shut Up"]]
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* [[Borrowed Catchphrase]]: At the end of ''Goldmember'', Dr. Evil says "Yeah baby!" Everyone stares blankly at him, and he adds: "No? Just trying it on."
* [[Brain Bleach]]: "[[Margaret Thatcher]] naked on a cold day! Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day!"
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: Austin's "Things To Do Before I Die" checklist in the third movie:
{{quote|Become International Man Of Mystery.
Save World From Certain Doom.
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{{quote|"Your ''fajah'' is about to have an [[Catch Phrase|unfortunate smelting accident]]!"}}
* [[Cosmopolitan Council]]: Dr. Evil's Council. The United Nations.
* [[Crazy Memory]]: Dr. Evil describes his father as this.
{{quote|Dr. Evil: He would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. }}
* [[Culture Equals Costume]]: In ''International Man of Mystery''. When Dr. Evil calls up the United Nations Secret Meeting Room to give his ultimatum, many of the occupants are dressed in costumes indicating their native countries (two Japanese are dressed as a geisha and a sumo wrestler, a British representative is wearing a Beefeater costume, a Spaniard is dressed as a matador, etc.). [[Americans Are Cowboys|One of the characters (presumably an American) is dressed as a cowboy]].
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** "My God, Vanessa's got a fantastic body. I bet she shags like a minx. How do I tell her that, because of the unfreezing process, I have no inner-monologue? I hope I didn't say that out loud just now."
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: Done a lot.
* [[Double Entendre]].
* [[Dressing as the Enemy]]: [[Once an Episode|Once a movie]], and [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: Said [[In-Universe]] by Austin in regards to his father writing off Austin's quite legitimate complaints about his parenting skills with a joke.
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* [[Flirting Under Fire]]: In ''The Spy Who Shagged Me'', Austin and Felicity have a tender moment... while standing in a laughably pathetic [[Death Trap]].
* [[Formally-Named Pet]]: Mr. Bigglesworth.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Supposedly, one of the mains reasons Dr. Evil became, well, evil was that he was raised in Belgium.
* [[Freudian Slip]]: In ''Goldmember'', Austin repeatedly saying "dad" or "father" instead of other words.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: [[Trope Namer]].
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** And later, Austin's father.
{{quote|"Look at you. You haven't even got a ''[[Nominal Importance|name tag]]''! You've got [[Mook|no chance]]. Why don't you just fall down?"}}
* [[Girl of the Week]]: Every trope that applies to a Bond Girl applies to Austin's women.
* [[Go-Go Enslavement]]: The goofy [[Space Clothes|futuristic clothes]] Dr. Evil forces on Austin and Vanessa.
* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: Austin's Union Jack underpants. Yeah.
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* [[Implacable Man]]
* [[Implausible Deniability]]: Austin's increasingly desperate insistence that "Swedish-Made Penis Enlarger Pump" weren't his bag, baby, as the evidence continued to mount against him.
* [[Impossible Shadow Puppets]]: Subverted. A mook believes he is seeing an impossible silhouette of a man with a small arm for a penis, who shakes hands with it and bites it before giving birth. It turns out to be Austin, Mini-Me, some tubing and an apple.
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Towards the end of ''Shagged'', Austin manages to fire ''fewer shots from his handgun than the number of henchmen he hits''.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: "Who throws a shoe?!? Honestly?"
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* [[Inflation Negation]]: One '''''meeeeeeeee'''''-llion dollar ransom. [[Memetic Mutation]] as well.
** This was so ubiquitous, even ''King Hussein of Jordan'' joked around with it.
* [[Inventor of the Mundane]]: During a group therapy session Dr. Evil mentions that his father claimed to have invented the question mark (among many other, equally strange declarations).
* [[Iron Butt Monkey]]: Mustafa, who can withstand quite a bit of punishment before finally dying.
* [[Ironic Echo Cut]]: Without an actual cut, though.
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'''Japanese Man 1:''' "STILL! WE SHOULD RUN LIKE IT IS GODZILLA!"
'''Japanese Man 2:''' "Though it isn't." ''*winks at camera*'' }}
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: The third film. An obvious example is when Austin and Fat Bastard are fighting and Fat Bastard does "the ultimate wire-fighting maneuver", only for one of his wires to break.
** Not to mention the numerous times when Austin looks directly at the camera when saying something. One example is during the Mr. Roboto scene. Austin, after misreading several subtitles for Mr. Roboto's dialogue, is pretty weirded out. Mr. Roboto says "Why don't I just speak English?" This leads to:
{{quote|'''Austin''': Yeah, why don't you? That way I wouldn't misread the subtitles making it seem like you are saying things which are dirty. [''looks at camera'']}}
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* [[Pretty in Mink]]: The models in the second movie, and Austin wearing a pimp coat in the third.
* [[Prove I Am Not Bluffing]]: In ''The Spy Who Shagged Me'', Dr Evil blows up the White House to demonstrate his giant moon based laser... except it was actually just footage from ''[[Independence Day]]''.
* [[Punctuated!
* [[Punny Name]]: A lot of them, usually mocking [[James Bond]] characters.
** Let's see, there's Alotta Fagina, Ivana Humpalot, Fook Mi and Fook Yu (the Japanese twins), Dixie Normas... anyone else?
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* [[Shoe Slap]]: Random Task [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|throws]] his shoe, as a parody of Oddjob's doing the same with his [[Weaponized Headgear|hat]].
* [[Shout-Out]]: According to the [[Word of God]], ''Austin Powers'' is a parody to all of the British ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]''-knockoffs in the United Kingdom in the late 60's and early '70s that Mike Myers used to enjoy, though there are plenty of James Bond references as well.
** [[Star Wars]] is frequently referenced in the second film as well.
* [[Show Some Leg]]: Felicity Shagwell says that to guard of Dr. Evil's Volcano Island.
** Also used by Vanessa to distract guards.
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* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: A rather infamous error on the setting titles renders Japan's largest city as "Toyko". Yeah.
* [[Stating the Simple Solution]]: Scott Evil keeps goading his father to [[No-Nonsense Nemesis|just shoot Austin]].
* [[Suddenly Shouting]]:
{{quote|'''Basil Exposition''': The shouting is a temporary side effect of the unfreezing.
'''Austin Powers''': Yes... I'm having difficulty controlling THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE. }}
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* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Austin just wants his father's approval.
** Inverted with Scott, who wants nothing to do with Dr. Evil despite his father's attempts at bonding, then ''finally'' wins his dad's respect. {{spoiler|Too bad his dad becomes Good.}}
* [[What Are Records?]]: Inverted, with Austin trying to play a CD on a turntable.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?|What Happened to the Cat?]]: Mr. Bigglesworth disappears from Goldmember.
* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: Mocked in deleted scenes from IMoM. We see the family of the dead guard that Austin smashes with the steamroller learning of his death. It's notable that the British and Australian cuts included these scenes.
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