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Mini-Me is a 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. HistoryWhen Dr. Evil was sent back in time to 1969, his minions made him a clone, in addition to his supposedly cloned son Scott. The clone was identical in every way but "one-eighth his size." (in reality, he is only about a third of Dr. Evil's size) Upon being introduced to his clone, Dr. Evil immediately declared "I shall call 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. In the beginning of Goldmember, Dr. Evil asks him to "Use your words like a big boy clone!". At one point, he 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.
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 favor of Scott. With Mini-Me being unable to speak, he is therefore prone to misinterpretation. 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's 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 kendo stick to beat him. Amazingly, he survives all these assaults in perfect condition, although his brief time in the vacuum of space allegedly gave him the flu.
InspirationIt is most commonly believed that Mini-Me was inspired by Nick Nack, the little henchman of the film version of Francisco Scaramanga, the eponymous villain of the James Bond novel The Man with the Golden Gun. However, he could also draw inspiration from either a similar character in The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), as Marlon Brando has a miniature sidekick who dresses like him and even duets with him on a tiny piano, or from The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, which starred a mini version of the main character, and was produced/aired in Mike Myers' home area of Southern Ontario when he was a child. He could also be a parody of the supposed clone of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever who only appears briefly but looks exactly like Blofeld that James Bond even mistaken him for the real Blofeld (Also, the first appearance of Mini-Me he is behind a screen door, where his shadow makes him look like a perfect clone, adding to this effect). Movies: International Man of Mystery • The Spy Who Shagged Me • Goldmember Characters: Austin Powers • Basil Exposition • Dr. Evil • Scott Evil • Mini-Me • Frau Farbissina • Fat Bastard • Number 2 • Vanessa Kensington • Felicity Shagwell • Foxxy Cleopatra • Nigel Powers • Johann van der Smut
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