17 Things You Didn't Know About Austin Powers

14. The Origin Of The Fembots

The Fembots play a large role in the Austin Powers series. A group of Fembots are first used by Dr. Evil to fight Powers in International Man of Mystery. Then in the opening of the sequel The Spy Who Shagged Me Austin discovers that the love of his life he married in the previous film, Vanessa, was actually a Fembot planted to kill him. During the opening musical number in the third film Austin comes head to head with Britney Spears and discovers that even she is a Fembot out to murder him. Although there have been plenty of female robots in film and other media throughout the years, most famously in The Bionic Woman, the Fembots in Austin Powers are directly inspired by one franchise. The Dr. Goldfoot series was an obscure and not very popular film series that later achieved cult status. Only two films were released in this franchise, the 1965 film Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine and its 1966 sequel Dr. Goldfoot and the Girls Bombs. There was also as a 1965 television special called The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot. The series follows Dr. Goldfoot, a villainous scientist who builds an army of female robots that are designed to seduce wealthy men and then rob them. Although in the Dr. Goldfoot series the female robots are docile and don't try to kill men, unlike the machine gun breasted assassin Fembots in Austin Powers, the sexy and seductive style of them are direct influences on the Fembots in Austin Powers.