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Scott Evil

If you've got a time machine, why don't you just go back and kill Austin Powers when he's sitting on the crapper or something?

— Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me • 1999

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Our interpretation.

Scott points out, with blunt incredulity, that anyone able to travel through time could simply go back and kill Austin Powers at a humiliating, vulnerable moment, such as while he's on the toilet. The question treats the obvious violent shortcut as strangely overlooked.

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