10 Great Movie Villains Who Were Completely Useless

With Austin Powers was created the greatest-ever spoof of the greatest gentleman spy of all time, and with this parallel between Mr. Bond and Mr. Powers, there had to be a similar connection with the big bad he came up against.

Essentially, Dr. Evil was made up of just about every Bond villain cliché you could think of. The cat, the henchmen (most of them useless themselves), the convoluted plans that allowed escape rather than just simply killing the hero and winning. Hell, they even beat Bond to the villainous half-brother reveal.

Evil even called certain things out himself. He knew that he was putting Austin Powers into an easily-escapable situation, but when his son asked why he didn't just kill him, he told Scott (Seth Green) that he just didn't get it. The best part of the whole Austin Powers trilogy is that it never took itself seriously, and Dr. Evil is certainly no different. He couldn't even come up with a proper evil plan, and when he finally did, he struggled to hold the world to ransom properly.

Just because Dr. Evil was designed specifically to be this way, to never truly offer any threat to Austin Powers, and to let him shine, his place on this list is no less valid. Mike Myers' character is a classic comedy villain in the original film and throughout the trilogy, and was beyond all doubt, completely and utterly useless.