| Bill | |
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| Homeworld | Earth |
| Gender | Male |
| Hair Color | Black |
| Eye Color | Unknown |
Bill is the codename of a character seen in episodes "Career Day" and "The Sad, Sad Tale of Chickenfoot". He is a "professional" and inexplicably respected paranormal investigator, yet he only believes in things that do not actually exist (much to Dib's rage and consternation).
Personality
Bill believes the strangest things such as Chickenfoot, psychic lawn gnomes, vampiric lemurs, and even thinks that cereal box mascots such as FrankenChokey and Count Cocofang are real paranormal monsters.
He is best known for constantly pursuing the latter, whom he dogmatically believes to be a real vampire. This obsession has led him to cause at least one incident when he pulled a stake on a man dressed as the Count for a public appearance, and pursued him, nearly killing him.
Ironically, this "legitimate paranormal investigator" is equally convinced that all real paranormal phenomena (such as the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot and dinosaurs) is "complete and utter bunk," and thus refuses to listen to any evidence that contradicts his dogma, including Dib's "theory" about Zim being an alien; however, Bill did mention the Molt and its effects, even if he didn't appear to believe in it himself.
Bill interviewed about Chickenfoot.
Yet paradoxically later as in the same episode he believed aliens were controlling a cow making a crop circle and on another episode he was seen in “Mysterious Mysteries” claiming that Chickenfoot was a space chicken hailing from a planet where pig demons rule, this made it clear that even if he didn’t believe the galactic equinox theory, he does believe in alien life.
Bill in Issue 45.
Bill would eventually appear in Issue 45 of the comic series. It's revealed that he now spends his time tagging along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who let him do so in exchange for bringing them coffee and rubbing cinnamon oil on their feet. It's in this capacity that he meets Dib again, as the FBI are investigating his "kidnapping" of Li'l Meat Man; Bill is convinced that Li'l Meat Man is a "Meat-Munculus" foretold to bring about the "baloneypocalypse".
He, Dib, and the FBI chase after Zim, but by the time they find him he's stopped caring about Li'l Meat Man, and in fact has let it be eaten by a dolphin.
Facts of Doom
- Bill was voiced by Adam Paul.
- Bill was meant to be a parody of Agent Smith from the Matrix franchise.
- He also has similarities to Fox Mulder from The X-Files.
- There is a fan theory that at one point, Bill was once a dedicated and brilliant paranormal investigator that slowly went insane over years of constant exasperation in his career. Jhonen Vasquez has not confirmed or denied it.
- Dib thinks that Bill makes a mockery of the field of paranormal investigation.
- Dib is not wrong as Bill seems to be overly paranoid, as he firmly believes that all conventional paranormal events are part of an elaborate federal government coverup, something that ironically is stereotypically believed by some conspiracy theorists.
- Bill is much more subdued in Issue 45 than in the show. While he still states a bizarre paranormal theory (Li'l Meat Man being a Meat-Munculus) he shows little energy in pursuing it, just following the FBI around, this suggests that he may have grown weary of his profession.
- Also in Issue 45, Bill states that he thinks better around clowns.
- Unlike most one time characters like Keef, Tak, the Weenie Clerk or Mr. Dwicky, Bill did not make an impact on the IZ fandom as he is mostly used as a joke character to irritate Dib.