Characterization
Parodying several female villains from early James Bond films, including From Russia with Love's Rosa Klebb and On Her Majesty's Secret Service's Irma Bunt, Farbissina's look and demeanour are homages to the female Nazi officer in the castle scene of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and her surname is a pun on the Yiddish word פאַרביסן "farbissen" ("verbissen" in German), or "embittered"; a "farbissiner" is an angry, bitter, vocal person. "Frau", German for "Mrs." or "woman", is apparently her given name.
Farbissina has a German accent; in the German dubbed versions of the films, she speaks with an Upper Saxon dialect, suggesting coming from East Germany.
In Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, when Dr. Evil goes back in time to 1969, he sleeps with Frau (who looks the same as her 1999 counterpart) before she realizes that she is homosexual; however, she admits Dr. Evil is the only man she will ever love. Her child is Scott Evil, who was previously thought to be a test-tube baby. Unlike Doctor Evil, she actually loves Scott and only wants him to be happy. At the end of the second film, she makes a surprise guest appearance with Scott on Jerry Springer and tells him that she is his mother, but she never told him because she didn't want him to be hurt; Scott forgives her and declares he loves her.
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