Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and over $67 million worldwide. The film spawned two sequels, "" (1999) and "Austin Powers in Goldmember" (2002), with Myers repeatedly mentioning the possibility of a fourth film over the years (as of 2018). In 1967, British spy Austin Powers thwarts an assassination attempt by his nemesis Dr. Evil in a London nightclub. Dr. Evil escapes in a space rocket and cryogenically freezes himself. Powers volunteers to be placed into cryostasis in case Dr. Evil returns in the future. Thirty years later, in 1997, Dr. Evil returns to discover his henchman Number 2 has developed Virtucon, the legitimate front of
Nigel Powers the Dutch people, a prejudice that spills over onto Belgians because they share a border, but it's more likely due to finding that his main enemy, who was a Dutch farmer, had raised his other son, Douglas, to be an evil genius. He is presented as humorously hypocritical as, along with the Dutch, his greatest hatred is people who are intolerant of other people's cultures. Nigel Powers Sir Nigel Powers (played by Michael Caine as an adult and Scott Aukerman in the flasback) is a character who appears in the third Austin Powers movie, "Austin Powers in Goldmember". He is