Dr. Evil also known for pointing out Dr. Evil's incompetence and immaturity as well as obvious mistakes and flaws in Dr. Evil's plans. For instance, when Dr. Evil asks why Austin Powers always foils their plans, Scott says "Because you never kill him when you have the chance and you're a big dope". Dr. Evil mocks Scott and ignores his corrections, which often leads to failure. Scott later grows more "evil", thus losing his hair; this gains his father's respect momentarily, especially after Scott provides him a pool filled with "frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads". When
Dr. Evil "Number 12 Looks Just Like You," an episode of "The Twilight Zone" in which Dr. Rex uses the same gesture several times. Although the idiosyncrasy was intended to be a humorous "signature move" for Evil, the only apparent reason for Rex's use of it was to differentiate him from several other characters (played by the same actor) who were intentionally physically identical to him. Evil also repetitively uses the euphemism "frickin<nowiki>'</nowiki>". He occasionally uses unnecessary finger quotes around now-familiar technical terms such as ""laser"". The scar on his face is a reference to similar scars on early 20th century movie