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For all of Austin Powers being a horn dog; he does understand the concept of consent.
In the first movie where the love interest gets drunk and tried to sleep with Austin. Austin tells her no, it wouldn’t be cool.
Also Austin was totally fine with interracial dating.
Austin understanding consent was his character development in the first film. At the beginning of the film he did not; he was shown to be rambunctiously jumping on his partner despite her giving clear negative signals. He learns consent throughout the course of the film.
Thus, a good modernization would be for him to discover the importance of trans rights and respecting genders that do not align with those assigned at birth, over time. He would need to be misguided in the beginning and make some mistakes.
But we all agree it will end with shagging, right?
He was also very casual with sex, like he did drop a mention somewhere in the movies that, like under the sheets, he might have blown a dude. I can't remember the specific reference tho.
If you're gonna do it though, you need to pick some new reference material.
I'd go with a Pierce Brosnan 007 maybe, early 2000s, and then throw in some Tom Cruise mission impossible, maybe the odd Matrix reference. Main character spends all of their time looking cool and moody and never actually does anything while still somehow singlehandedly solving all of the problems, stuff like that.
Johnny English.
Austin Powers is within the canon of the film shown to be someone who lives his beliefs that a better world is possible through collaboration. he's transported 30 years into future and finds himself to be outdated. but he also was in his era challenging what was believed to be outdated? so what does he do? he changes the things about himself that are unacceptable in modern society now and keeps the symbols and inspirations that modivate him to live a truly open-minded life.
a real life new Austin Powers would find him shocked to discover a date is a trans woman and would say some horrifically outdated thing, her telling him "that's a stereotype" and storming off. Powers would take this on board as something he needs to change about himself. he would then find himself paired with a gender fluid partner and he would spend most of the movie learning not to be a chaser before ending the movie having a really fun night with a trans woman in Dr Evil's employ that ends up being what turns the tide. the arc would be outdated transphobe -> problematic chaser -> acceptance and co-existance