Fat Bastard

For the wine brand, seeFat Bastard (wine).

Fat Bastard
Austin Powerscharacter
Mike Myers as Fat Bastard inAustin Powers in Goldmember(2002)
First appearance	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me(1999)
Last appearance	Austin Powers in Goldmember(2002)
Created by	Mike Myers Michael McCullers
Portrayed by	Mike Myers
In-universe information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Occupation	Henchman Sumo wrestler
Affiliation	British Army Scots Guards
Nationality	Scottish

Fat Bastardis a fictional character in the second and third films of theAustin Powersseries.A morbidlyobesehenchman hailing fromClydebank,Scotland,Fat Bastard servesDr. Evilin his quest to destroyAustin Powers.The character is portrayed byMike Myers.

His extreme size and weight (1tonne,according to Dr. Evil) endows Fat Bastard with massive strength. He exhibits this prowess in the sumo ring during the third movie.

Fat Bastard is noted for his foul temper, his emotional monologues that culminate inflatulence,his vulgar, crude manners, and his unusual diet. These go as far as to include acannibalistictaste for human infants and people withdwarfism,whom he calls "theother,other white meat".InAustin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,he boasts that he once ate a baby, and tries to refuse Dr. Evil's money for his services in exchange for getting to eatMini-Me.

The character utilizes manytropesassociated with a verynegative view of fat people,namely that they are greedy, obsessed with eating, possibly cannibalistic, and grotesque.

Appearances

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Fat Bastard had stolen Austin'smojoin 1969, as he is a guard in the facility, and has knocked out the other guards using bagpipes that spray gas, leaving Austinimpotentin 1999. After seducing and sleeping with Fat Bastard, secret agent—and Austin's ally—Felicity Shagwell(Heather Graham) places a homing device in hisrectum.During this time with Felicity, Fat Bastard is also eating a whole chicken while in bed with her. However, the device is ineffective, lost and left in a toilet before he returns to Dr. Evil's island. However, traces of rare vegetables are found in a stool sample, enabling the island to be tracked down. Fat Bastard often declares himself "dead sexy", but he is really hiding his true feelings of rejection from society. During an assassination attempt against Austin and Felicity in 1999, Fat Bastard dresses as a package delivery man and literally breaks in through the front door. When Felicity asks if he is happy, Fat Bastard has an emotional breakdown, tearfully confessing "I eat because I'm unhappy, and I'm unhappy because I eat. It's a vicious cycle. Now if you'll excuse me, there's someone I need to get in touch with and forgive. Myself." He then farts, which makes Austin and Felicity disgusted. Fat Bastard is slightly embarrassed and says "Sorry, I farted. It's a long road ahead". He then changes his mind and decides to kill them both anyway. Before he can, Felicity incapacitates him by kicking him in the genitals. He groans and calls hisscrotum"the mommy daddy button"; she tells him she did it for insulting her sexual prowess and he faints, shaking the whole room in the process.

Austin Powers in Goldmember

In the next film, Fat Bastard retires from being a henchman and relocates toJapan.There, he becomes asumowrestler and, despite trying to go straight, he still carries out the occasional job for Dr. Evil. During his bathroom time, Foxxy Cleopatra and Austin sneak in using a disguise and catch him. Austin starts shouting to him "You really are a Fat Bastard"; to which he replies "You know that hurts my feelings. I've tried going on a diet, you know". Fat Bastard then says he did theZone diet,stating that "carbs are the enemy", though the Zone diet promotes equal amounts of carbs and protein and Fat Bastard probably meant theAtkins diet,which emphasizes low carbs. After tearfully telling Austin and Foxxy that he's happy as a sumo wrestler, he farts. Austin asks him if he soiled himself. Fat Bastard replies "maybe" and laughs. He then jokes about how it sounded wet and smells it. He is disgusted by how it smells, stating it smells like "Carrots and throw up".

By the end ofAustin Powers in Goldmember,he has lost his excessive weight, crediting it to theSubway diet,even citingJared Fogleas a hero. However, he points out that he still has a lot of excess skin, further noting the resemblance of his neck to avagina.On the filmaudio commentary,Mike Myers says that Fat Bastard probably will not stay thin (as "Thin Bastard", as he called him) and would most likely return to his overweight state.

Censorship

In reviews for the movie in the newspapers, film criticRoger Ebertreferred to him as"We can't even say his name!",while others called him"Obese Illegitimate Child".

The mass retailaction figuressold of the character had the name "Fat Man" on the box, even though the patch on his blazer clearly displayed "FB". Specialty stores such ascomic bookshops had figures in packaging which referred to him as "Fat Bastard", however.