Dr. Evil Dr. Evil Dr. Evil (Douglas "Dougie" Powers) is a fictional character played by Mike Myers in the "Austin Powers" film series. He is the antagonist of the movies, and Austin Powers' nemesis. He is a parody of James Bond villains, primarily Ernst Stavro Blofeld (as played by Donald Pleasence in "You Only Live Twice"). Dr. Evil routinely hatches schemes to terrorize and take over the world, and is usually accompanied by Number 2, an eye-patch wearing goon who fronts his evil corporation Virtucon Industries, his cat Mr. Bigglesworth and his sidekick Mini-Me, a dwarf clone of himself. Myers revived the
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