Pre-Goldmember
When Austin and Dr. Evil were infants, Nigel took the family on their first family outing to Belgium. Nigel left the car to find a restroom in the bushes, leaving his wife and two children in the car alone. Shortly after leaving the car, the car exploded; when he came back, he found Austin lying on the ground, scarred. Mrs. Powers was dead and "Dougie" (aka Dr. Evil) was nowhere to be found; Nigel assumed he had been killed, but he was in fact hiding inside his mother's carcass. Dougie was later found by a Belgian man and his 15-year-old love slave with webbed feet. The two raised him in the Belgian town of Bruges and taught him to be evil.
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