Bill Simmons

William Simmons is a human from the live-action film continuity family. His first name has also been given as Felix.

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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 enrolment 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 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 with scarcely a hint of realizing it.

William is husband to Anne Fischer, and father of Seymour Simmons.

Fiction

IDW Publishing comics

At best estimate, William 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 William until Margaret's untimely death at some point prior to 1944. Blaming Sector Seven for his mother's death, William vowed to have nothing to do with it, and instead joined the army when he came of age.

On April 3, 1944, William was summoned by his grandfather to Sector Seven's Beta Command Post at Hoover Dam, where he revealed he had orchestrated William's transfer from his unit to Sector Seven for a special mission. William 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 William, the youthful Lupton and their commanding officer Sergeant Donovan alive once they hit the ground. The tanks pursued them, transforming into humanoid modes, and although William was able to board the mecha and kill the pilot wired into its systems, Donovan did not survive the battle. Together, William 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 William's right hand with a stray laser blast from its turret. Taking the loss in stride, William 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—William 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 William, believing him responsible for his ordeal. William was quick to explain otherwise, but Jetfire remained derisive, considering the human's willingness to throw his life away foolish. William 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 William's mission for him by destroying the castle, then flew him to the nearest allied outpost before disappearing. Weapon

The whole experience convinced William 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, William 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 Phillip Nolan, Danco and Fontaine, and a rapidly-thawing Mega-Man, tensions between William and Nolan exploded, the latter having long held a grudge over the Oppenheimer incident. Believing Nolan responsible for the sabotage, William 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, William 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, William'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 William since their meeting during the war, but was only able to save Anne and Nolan from the freezing blast. William's body was never recovered. Frozen

Although Walter Simmons did not know at the time, Danco actually survived the encounter and managed to return to Russia. Rising Storm #2 Whether William was as lucky is, as yet, unknown.

Revenge of the Fallen novelization

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 (novel)

Notes

• 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. For whatever reason, when John Barber wrote the continuity porn that was the Sector 7 comic book, he elected to rename Seymour's father "William". It seems pointless to give these two characters separate articles on TFWiki, so since Felix is a once-referenced non-character in a sea of dropped plot points, and William is one of the leading men in a heavily-thought-out continuity tapestry, we've opted to put this article under his name.