Billy North

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Billy North is a human from the live-action film continuity family.

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With the days of the American Wild West drawing to an end, Agent Billy North (? - February 15, 1898) keeps the cowboy spirit alive while serving his country as a member of the United States Secret Service. He rides a horse, and is rarely seen without a pair of six-guns at his hips, which he never hesitates to put to use at the slightest provocation.

North is a member of the First Seven, the group who would eventually found the covert government organization Sector Seven.

Fiction

IDW movie comics

When Captain Archibald Witwicky returned from a trip to the Arctic blind and mad, claiming to have discovered a giant metal man frozen in the ice, the United States government took an immediate interest. Agent North was sent to Sierra Nevada to draft gentleman adventurers Walter Simmons and Theodore Joseph Wells, whose experiences with the fantastic and otherworldly made them prime candidates to investigate Witwicky's strange case. North accompanied the two men to the Boston Secure Hospital and waited outside as they questioned Witwicky, but when Wells's dismissive attitude towards Witwicky's claims provoked a fight with the captain's first mate Reginald Danco, North quickly got involved, drawing his guns on Danco. Simmons defused the conflict, and concluded that the thing to do was follow Danco back to the North Pole to see the "metal man" for himself. He requested that North procure them a geologist, an explosives expert and a metallurgist for the trip, and North agreed, deciding to accompany them himself to provide protection against whatever they might find.

The journey to the Arctic took two months, but upon arrival, the men discovered Witwicky's claims to be true when they located the robotic beast in an ice cave. As they examined it, however, their presence triggered a signal that summoned another of the creature's kind to the cave. In the ensuing chaos, the new arrival, curious about the presence of humans in so inhospitable an environment, picked up North to get a better look at him, and North responded by opening fire. These "stings" infuriated the robot, and it hurled North over its shoulder, to his death. The remaining six were able to defeat the robot by plunging it into the freezing ocean, but North's death weighed heavily on Simmons's conscience, leading him to eventually sacrifice friends and family as he become obsessed with finding out all he could about the robots and protecting the Earth against them as he had failed to protect North. Original

Notes

• Sector 7 author John Barber designed the First Seven to represent disparate parts of the era their story takes place in. As a cowboy, Billy represents the American Old West, a time slowly working its way to its end at the time of this story as the industrial East Coast, represented by many of the other members of the group, grew stronger and stronger.