Movies - Mini-Me

	Movies - Mini-Me

Mini-Me is a popular fictional character played by Verne Troyer in the second and third Austin Powers movies; Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
and Austin Powers in Goldmember
.

When Dr. Evil was cryogenically frozen in 1966, his minions cloned him as a safeguard. The clone was identical in every way but "one-eighth size." Upon being introduced to his clone, Dr. Evil immediately dubbed him "Mini-Me". Mini-Me has almost no dialogue in the films, beyond an occasional frightened "eeeeee!" and a single line sung in a surprisingly deep voice during a remix performance of Just the Two of Us. At one point, he once asks Dr. Evil to hug him after meeting Fat Bastard, who wants to eat him. On most other occasions, Mini-Me prefers to express himself through written notes.

Mini-Me has a pet called Mini-Mr. Bigglesworth, a kitten version of Dr. Evil's cat. He loves Belgian chocolate and terrorizing Scott Evil, Dr. Evil's son and rival for his affection. He is sometimes referred to and treated as a dog or other small object. Scott refers to him as "That vicious little... Chihuahua thing". Austin says, upon Mini-Me being knocked out, "Poor little bugger...he's like a dog or something". In the third movie's opening scenes, Dr. Evil uses a leash to restrain Mini-Me from attacking Scott. Fat Bastard thinks he's a baby. Nigel Powers, upon seeing him, says "Blimey, I thought I smelled cabbage". Mini-Me is appropriately confused by the remark.

Despite his stature, Mini-Me is very adept at hand-to-hand combat, beating Austin Powers into submission during a comical scene in The Spy Who Shagged Me. Footage of this beating was re-used in Goldmember, representing Austin's memory of the event and prompting him to violently counterattack, not realizing that Mini-Me has defected to Austin's side after being shunned by Dr. Evil in favour of Scott.

Another memorable gag had him passing a series of notes to Foxxy Cleopatra, first stating she was so beautiful, she must be the clone of an angel. When she smilingly disagreed, the second note asked if she was sure she didn't have a little clone in her. The third asked if she'd like to. As seen by Nigel Powers' reaction to Mini-Me genitals ("My word...you're a tripod!"), he seems to have a large penis, which may or may not follow the "1/8 Dr. Evil's size" rule.

Mini-Me is very durable and is able to withstand amazing amounts of pain. Throughout the course of films 2 and 3, he slides down a heating duct into a steel plate, is tied up in a sack and used to smash tables, is slammed repeatedly against a steel post, is kicked across a room, and is even ejected into space. Once, Austin used a katana in its scabbard to beat him. Amazingly, he survives all these assaults in perfect condition, although his brief time in space allegedly gave him the flu.

Mini-Me and Scott Evil are the main rivals for Dr. Evil's attention and love, although, since Dr. Evil thinks Scott is only "semi-evil," he grants his love to Mini-Me. Mini-Me hates Scott and has become violent with him several times (attacking him, drawing a picture of him dying, trying to press a button to incinerate Scott). Scott, due to his belief that Mini-Me is insane and wants to kill him, feels much the same way. To date, Dr. Evil has only favored Scott over Mini-Me once in the second film (when Mini-Me puts a dead skunk in Scott's bed), and in the third movie when Scott becomes evil, he shuns Mini-Me altogether.

He was obviously inspired by Nick Nack, the midget henchman of the film version of Francisco Scaramanga, the eponymous villain of the James Bond novel The Man with the Golden Gun
.

Category:Austin Powers Category:Fictional clones Category:Film sidekicks

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