Scott Evil

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Scott Evil, played by Seth Green, is a fictional character from the Austin Powers films. Although he was told as a child that he was artificially conceived in a laboratory, it is revealed that Scott is the son of Dr. Evil and Frau Farbissina and was conceived in 1969 when Dr. Evil took some of Austin Powers' Mojo. He grew up in one of Dr. Evil's lairs while Dr. Evil was still frozen. Once Dr. Evil returned and learned that he had a son, he tried to bond with Scott, but Scott was resentful for his father being absent for so long and his father's comment on national television that Scott wasn't "evil enough."

While Dr. Evil is an over-the-top villain with gratuitously elaborate schemes for world domination, Scott is a moderately intelligent young man with common sense. Scott is shown as a Nirvana fan, and he wears a Kurt Cobain T-Shirt. When learning of his father's evil schemes, Scott suggests ideas that are more straightforward and that would guarantee success (i.e., rather than slowly lowering the captured secret agent into a pool filled with ill-tempered, mutated sea bass while behind a closed door, to just shoot him immediately with the gun at hand). Dr. Evil then dismisses Scott's ideas because, in his mind, Scott isn't evil enough to be taken seriously.

In the second film, Scott appears to follow the goth subculture he follows his father back through time and says that they may be able to work their differences out. Dr. Evil replies that his clone, Mini-Me, is his heir now, as he was created in Dr. Evil's own image. Scott asserts that Mini-Me will probably try to kill him; both Dr. Evil and Mini-Me himself quickly agree ("He'll kill me the first chance he gets!" "Probably.") Later, Mini-Me draws a picture of Scott dying. Scott is angered and somewhat disturbed by the image but Dr. Evil refers to it as 'sweet' (although he does grimace as he hands the picture to Scott).

When Dr. Evil is released from prison in the third film, he returns to his new submarine lair to find a surprise. Scott has started to go bald, signifying that he is becoming more evil. He has also gotten a present for his father, a pit full of sharks with laser-beams on their heads (a reference to the first film in which Dr. Evil requested sharks "with frickin' lasers on their head" instead of the sea bass procured by his henchmen). Scott quickly replaces Mini-Me at his father's side (causing Mini-Me to join Austin Powers.) At the end of the movie, however, Dr. Evil renounces his evil ways, enraging Scott, who takes over the criminal empire.

"Oh, come on! First, I'm not evil enough for you, and now you're gonna turn GOOD?!"

In the movie's final scene, Scott is dressed in black and is now completely bald. He says "I'm gonna get you, Austin Powers!" and mimics his father's evil laugh before dancing about the lair.