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Bill Simmons is a human from the live-action film continuity family.

William Simmons—"Bill" to his friends and co-workers, or "Billy" if you're either an elderly relative or looking for a punch in the mouth—is an all-American boy. Son of Margaret Simmons and grandson of Sector Seven founder Walter Simmons, his only interest upon reaching adulthood was to serve his country, and he enlisted in the army, actively eschewing enrollment in his grandfather's organization after seeing what the experience had done to the rest of his family. Whether fighting Nazis on the front lines or rooting out Commies at home, Bill was a staunch defender of Uncle Sam, apple pie, and all the rest of it against foreign invaders... and then, his mind was opened to the concept of an "invading other" he could scarcely comprehend. Faced with the reality of the existence of worlds beyond our own, and indeed, the possibility that the creatures that came from those worlds could be more than simply what his grandfather claimed they were, he fell victim to the tragedy of the Simmons lineage with scarcely a hint of realizing it.

Bill is husband to Anne Fischer, and father of Seymour Simmons. He is sometimes known as Felix.

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IDW movie comics

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At best estimate, Bill was born to Margaret Simmons and her unnamed husband in the early 1920s. When Margaret became separated from her husband at an unspecified point over the following decade (either by death, divorce or something else), her father, Walter, gave her a low level position within Sector Seven so that she could provide for the boy. Together Margaret fell in love with Sector Seven agent Roy Thompson, and together, they raised Bill until Margaret's untimely death at some point prior to 1944. Blaming Sector Seven for his mother's death, Bill vowed to have nothing to do with it, and instead joined the army when he came of age.

On April 3, 1944, Bill was summoned by his grandfather to Sector Seven's Beta Command Post at Hoover Dam, where he revealed he had orchestrated Bill's transfer from his unit to Sector Seven for a special mission. Bill was not happy about either the situation or the flip attitudes of the other men he was partnered with, but the mission did appeal to his Nazi-thumping sense of adventure: an air-drop into enemy territory, there to penetrate Castle Neuschwanstein and destroy both the Nazi facility within and the N.B.E. they were holding captive there! The mission got off to a bad start, however, when the team was shot down by mecha-tanks the Nazis had reverse-engineered from their prisoner's technology, leaving only Bill, the youthful Lupton and their commanding officer Sergeant Donavan alive once they hit the ground. The tanks pursued them, transforming into humanoid modes, and although Bill was able to board the mecha and kill the pilot wired into its systems, Donavan did not survive the battle. Together, Bill and Lupton were able to topple one remaining tanks with felled trees and Lupton used it to take out the third and final one, but not before accidentally vaporizing Bill's right hand with a stray laser blast from its turret. Taking the loss in stride, Bill boarded the tank, and the pair tried using it to enter Castle Neuschwanstein stealthily. Unfortunately, the screaming of the tank's tortured pilot alerted the castle's guards, and they activated their greatest robot creation yet, the Panzer-Giganten, which crushed the tank and killed Lupton. Making his way through soldiers and scientists alike—hurling one man out a window upon receipt of the standard "I was only following orders!" response to his inquiries—Bill prepared to take himself and the Panzer-Giganten out with a satchel of explosives. The robot proved able to simply swat the satchel away, but the resulting explosion instead blew open the cryo-unit that was holding the Nazi's captive N.B.E.—Jetfire! The ancient Seeker made quick work of the Panzer-Giganten, then turned on Bill, believing him responsible for his ordeal. Bill was quick to explain otherwise, but Jetfire remained derisive, considering the human's willingness to throw his life away foolish. Bill retorted that he valued freedom more than his own life, which gave Jetfire pause, reminding him of his own desire for freedom and his rebellion against his master, The Fallen. Seeing something of himself in the young man, Jetfire fulfilled Bill's mission for him by destroying the castle, then flew him to the nearest allied outpost before disappearing. Weapon

The whole experience convinced Bill to permanently join Sector Seven, making his specific goal the investigation of a mysterious network of subterranean tunnels, a map of which the Nazis had pulled from Jetfire's brain. Over the next decade, he distinguished himself as a superior agent, but he did ruffle some feathers when he led a campaign to have Sector Seven scientist Robert Oppenheimer ousted from the organization on allegations of Communism. His severed fist was replaced with a mechanical prosthesis, and in 1953, he married fellow agent Anne Fischer in a secret ceremony.

In 1954, Bill and Anne were part of the skeleton staff manning the Sector Seven Alpha Command Post in the Arctic, where the "Mega-Man" discovered by his grandfather was frozen. When an act of sabotage trapped them in the base, along with Philip Nolan, Joe Danco and Fontaine, and a rapidly-thawing Mega-Man, tensions between Bill and Nolan exploded, the latter having long held a grudge over the Oppenheimer incident. Believing Nolan to be responsible for the sabotage, Bill locked him up, but when Fontaine turned up dead soon after, they were faced with the possibility that an N.B.E. might have somehow disguised itself as one of them. The group conducted a blood test to prove their humanity to one another, which led to the discovery that Anne was pregnant, but this only wound up destabilizing relations even further, as Nolan believed the couple were conspiring against him. At gunpoint, Bill revealed that he had been stationed in the Arctic as part of his research into the tunnel system, which they could use to escape the base. With this means of flight now exposed, Danco revealed himself to be both the saboteur and killer and a Communist defector, having orchestrated the entire scenario in order to escape to Russia with stolen Sector Seven secrets. The Mega-Man chose this moment to defrost and come smashing his way into the tunnels in pursuit, while simultaneously, above ground, Bill's grandfather called for liquid nitrogen bombs to be dropped on the facility to prevent his escape at the cost of the crew's lives. Jetfire intervened, having been shadowing Bill since their meeting during the war, but was only able to save Anne and Nolan from the freezing blast. Frozen

Although believed dead by all, both Bill and Danco survived the blast, with Danco fleeing deeper into the tunnels and Bill giving chase. Unfortunately, he ran straight into a Soviet extraction team sent to recover Danco, and was taken captive, transported back to the Soviet Union for incarceration and interrogation. Moved from facility to facility and tortured repeatedly, Bill did not break once in eight years, even managing to escape multiple times, only to be repeatedly hunted down and recaptured. Eventually, at the start of 1962, he was relocated to Soviet Research Station Oktober, where he was kept in solitary confinement for three and a half years, psychologically tormented by having episodes of Felix the Cat blasted into his cell every day. In the summer of 1965, Danco revealed that the Spetsnaz had located Anne and his now-ten-year-old son Seymour, and this may well have been the breaking point for Bill, if not for a covert Decepticon attack on the facility. Impersonating agent Alisa Morozov, the Decepticons' Pretender murdered the station's staff and began reading information from Danco's brain; in the chaos, Simmons convinced Danco to throw him his gun, allowing him to blast his cell door off at the hinges, and to then kill Danco to stop the Decepticons' plan. Setting off a propane explosion to cover his escape, Bill emerged from Research Station Oktober to find it was in the middle of Moscow, and quickly disappeared in the crowd of onlookers. Convergence chapter 2

After being on the run for two months, Bill Simmons managed to escape Russia by boarding a freighter using Danco’s indentification papers. Back in his country, he made contact with Sector 7 command, and waited to be picked up. After a time, feeling uneasy and suspecting he’d been compromised, Bill decided to head for an address inscribed on the back of the photo of his son.

The address led him to a deli. He entered the establishment, careful to be a stealthy as possible. Within, he spotted Seymour hiding. Quickly grabbing the boy, he asked his son about his mother. Though Seymour struggled at first, he recognized his father from the photograph his mother kept. Bill struggled to explain to Seymour who he was, but their conversation was cut short by the arrival of a helicopter. Recognizing that a Russian helicopter arriving in the middle of the night wasn't normal, Bill entrusted his son with the secret number to Sector 7 and his metal hand, before saying goodbye best he could. Bill then took off down the street. The Pretender exited the helicopter, and soon caught up to him. After a brief fight, the helicopter that carried the Pretender launched a projectile, incinerating the building Bill was in, presumably killing him. His body was never found. Convergence chapter 3

Revenge of the Fallen novel

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In order to convince Captain Wilder to fire his rail gun upon Devastator, Seymour Simmons evoked the memory of his father, Felix, claiming that he had invented the word "classified". Revenge of the Fallen

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  • Seymour's father was first named, as "Felix", in the novelization of Revenge of the Fallen, a name which was presumably, like many of the other dropped plot points and explanations seen in the novel, drawn from the original script for the film. Author John Barber evidently missed this factoid when he identified Seymour's father as "Bill" in the Sector 7 comic book, but he later returned to the goof in Convergence, and implied that "Felix" was an alias or changed name that Bill later took on, inspired by the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Felix the Cat|{{#if:||Felix the Cat}}]] episodes the Russians bombarded him with.
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