as ''Austin Powers'' in ''Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery''.
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'''Sir Austin Danger Powers''', KBE (presumably born in the mid 1940s, judging by the car seen in the flashback in the third movie) played by Mike Myers, is the title character of a series of parodies of 1960s spy films, primarily James Bond, Derek Flint, Harry Palmer, and Matt Helm, and incorporates myriads of other elements of popular culture.

The three films, in order of release are ''Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'', ''Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'' and ''Austin Powers in Goldmember''.

The satiric elements of the suave male super-spy cliché arise from Powers' lack of physical beauty – his bad teeth, for example, are mocked in several scenes.

Characters

*'''Alotta Fagina''' (Fabiana Udenio) - She is Number 2's Italian Confidential Secretary. Alotta is based mostly on James Bond characters. Her name is a parody of the Bond girl in "Goldfinger", Pussy Galore. She also has a resemblance to Ursula Andress' character in "Dr. No", Honey Ryder. Austin Powers explores her apartment, looking for clues about the plans of Dr. Evil, and he ends up seducing her, which is typical James Bond behavior (Although technically she seduces him). (In the U.S. some networks have Bowdlerized the character's name to ''Alotta Cleafage'' when broadcast.)

*'''Austin Powers''' (Mike Myers) - A secret agent cryogenically frozen in 1967 and defrosted in 1997 in order to battle his arch enemy, Dr. Evil. Austin embodies all that is groovy in 1960s Britain and is irresistible to women, even when he experiences culture shock after being tossed into 1997, and even when he loses his 'mojo' (the mystical libido-enhancing secret to Powers' sexual success) in the second film.

*'''Basil Exposition''' (Michael York) - Basil is apparently in charge of the British secret service. Basil comes up with all kinds of gadgets to help Austin complete the mission. He is a parody of the Q and M characters from the Bond series, and his surname ('Exposition') is a play on a common movie convention, 'exposition', which is the conveyance of critical elements of plot through dialogue.

*'''Dixie Normous''' (Gwyneth Paltrow) - Fictional character within the movie ''Austin Powers in Goldmember''. Dixie Normous is the female lead in the movie-within-the-movie entitled ''Austinpussy''. Name is a parody of the short-lived Plenty O'Toole in the Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.

*'''Dr. Evil''' (Mike Myers) - Austin's archnemesis, a satirical parody of Donald Pleasence's Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the main villain in the James Bond films. Dr. Evil shares many physical similarities to this version of Blofeld,

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