Scott Evil: Dr. Evil's Son in Austin Powers

Scott Evil is the son of Dr. Evil, the scheming supervillain played by Mike Myers, and he is credited as Scott Evil in all three Austin Powers films. He first appears in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), directed by Jay Roach, as a teenager when his father is thawed out of cryogenic sleep in 1997.

Seth Green plays him in every film, billed sixth in the first two and third in Goldmember. Roach directed all three, so the same filmmaker shapes the character from start to finish.

The films are a running parody of the spy genre, and the Austin Powers Bond parody page shows how they poke at the James Bond series. Inside that world, Scott is the family member who does not play along. His father wants a proper evil dynasty, with a lair, a plan and a demand for $100 billion, while Scott wants nothing to do with him.

How old is he? No film or studio source gives Scott an exact age. The first film makes him a teenager in 1997, and that is as precise as the series gets.

Scott's key relationships are with his father Dr. Evil, Mini-Me, the miniature clone his father acquires, and, after the third film's reveal, his uncle Austin Powers.

His bond with Dr. Evil drives every scene they share. Dr. Evil is played by Mike Myers, who also plays the hero, so the father and the family enemy come from the same performer.

Mini-Me arrives in the second film as a miniature clone of Dr. Evil. In Goldmember he switches sides and helps Austin.

Goldmember reveals that Austin and Dr. Evil are brothers and that Dr. Evil's real name is Doug. That makes Scott the nephew of Austin Powers.

Around them sit Frau Farbissina, played by Mindy Sterling, and Number Two, played by Robert Wagner, both billed in all three films.

In my opinion, Scott's best scenes are the ones where he refuses to go along with his father, and the series gives him three clear showcases.

The first is his rejection of Dr. Evil in International Man of Mystery. The villain has thawed out into a world that has moved on, and even his own son wants no part of him. It also gives Seth Green a clear counterweight to Mike Myers playing the father at full volume.

The second is the reunion in The Spy Who Shagged Me. Scott meets a father who now has a miniature clone, and it could be argued that this reunion is the film's funniest family moment.

The third is the Tokyo sequence in Goldmember, where Scott kills an associate of the villain. The bald vow of revenge at the end of the film is the last we see of him. For readers new to the saga, the Austin Powers movies in order guide shows where each of these scenes sits.