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|relatives=Mother, Sister, [[Bill's grandfather|Grandpa]]

|generation={{Gen|I}}, {{Gen|II}}, {{Gen|III}}, {{Gen|IV}}

|games=[[Pokémon Red and Blue Versions|Red, Blue]], {{v2|Yellow}}, [[Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions|Gold, Silver]], {{v2|Crystal}}, [[Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Versions|FireRed, LeafGreen]], [[Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Versions|HeartGold, SoulSilver]]

In the Japanese versions of the games, Bill speaks in Kansai dialect like most Goldenrod City natives.

In {{game2|Red|Blue|Yellow}}, Bill can be found at the [[Sea Cottage]] on the [[Kanto Route 25|Cerulean Cape]], initially performing an experiment on Pokémon teleportation. However, Bill accidentally becomes combined with the body of a [[Pokémon (species)|Pokémon]] and requires the player's help to fix the problem. In Pokémon Yellow, {{ga|Red's Pikachu|the player's Pikachu}} [[Walking Pokémon#Pokémon Yellow|will be confused]] by the whole ordeal, and shocked upon seeing Bill return to his original form. After things are back in order, he speaks about his Pokémon Storage System and what was formerly on the PC menu as "Someone's PC" will change to "Bill's PC." He will also give away an {{key|I|S.S. Ticket}} so that the player can board the [[S.S. Anne]]. He gives the player the ticket as a gift for changing him back into a human, and also claims that the rich crowd of the S.S. Anne isn't his type. If the player exits Bill's house and goes back in, they can check his computer for information on {{p|Eevee}} and its three [[Evolutionary stone|stone]] evolutions, his favorite Pokémon.

===[[Generation II]]===

In {{game2|Gold|Silver|Crystal}}, Bill is visiting his family in [[Goldenrod City]]. After he gets the [[Time Capsule]] up and running in [[Ecruteak City]], players can visit him at his parents' house in Goldenrod and receive an {{p|Eevee}}. His sister will give the player Bill's number so they can check the storage system.

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:''"Hi, I'm <sc>Bill</sc>. And who are you? Hmm. <player>, huh? You've come at the right time. I just finished adjustments on my <sc>Time Capsule</sc>. You know that <sc>Pok</sc>é<sc>mon</sc> can be traded, right? My <sc>Time Capsule</sc> was developed to enable trades with the past. But you can't send anything that didn't exist in the past. If you did, the PC in the past would have a breakdown. So you have to remove anything that wasn't around in the past. Put simply, no sending new moves or new <sc>Pok</sc>é<sc>mon</sc> in the <sc>Time Capsule</sc>. Don't you worry. I'm done with the adjustments. Tomorrow, <sc>Time Capsules</sc> will be running at all <sc>Pok</sc>é<sc>mon Centers</sc>. I have to hurry on back to <sc>Goldenrod</sc> and see my folks. Buh-bye!"''

:''"Hi, <player>! Do us a favor and take this <sc>Eevee</sc>. It came over when I was adjusting the <sc>Time Capsule</sc>. Someone has to take care of it, but I don't like being outside. Can I count on you to play with it, <player>?

 

*If the player is carrying six Pokémon

 

 

:''"I used to experiment with a <sc>Teleporter</sc>. I ought to do a follow-up."''{{sup/2|GS}}

:''"My pop, he won't work. All he does is goof off all day long. He's getting to be a real headache..."''{{sup/2|C}}

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[[File:SeaBill.png|thumb|240px||right|Bill as a {{p|Clefairy}} in the Sea Cottage]]

In [[Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Versions]], Bill is in the same area as in the original games. However, he also appears on [[Cinnabar Island]] asking for help in the [[Sevii Islands]] shortly after [[Blaine]] is defeated. While on [[One Island]], he introduces the player to [[Celio]].

{{incomplete|section|Needs quotes from his role around the Sevii Islands}}

:''"Hiya! I'm a <sc>Pok</sc>é<sc>mon</sc>... ...No I'm not! Call me <sc>Bill</sc>! I'm a true-blue <sc>Pok</sc>é<sc>maniac</sc>! Hey! What's with that skeptical look? I'm not joshing you, {{tt|pal|If player is a male}}/{{tt|lady|If player is a female}}. I screwed up an experiment and got combined with a <sc>Pok</sc>é<sc>mon</sc>! So, how about it? Help me out there!"''

:''"{{tt|No!? Now don't be so cold! Come on, you gotta help a guy in deep, deep trouble! What do you say, chief/beautiful? Please? Okay? All right!|If player refuses}} Wait till I get inside the <sc>Teleporter</sc>. When I do, go to my PC and run the Cell Separation System."''

:''"{{tt|Yeehah! Thanks, bud/lady! I owe you one! So, did you come to see my <sc>Pok</sc>é<sc>mon</sc> collection? You didn't? That's a bummer. I've got to thank you... Oh, here, maybe this'll do.|First time}} That cruise ship <sc>S.S.Anne</sc> is in <sc>Vermilion City</sc>. I hear there are lots of <sc>Trainers</sc> on board, too. They invited me to their party, but I can't stand fancy do's. Why don't you go instead of me? Go and have a good time."''

:''"Feel like checking out some of my rare <sc>Pok</sc>é<sc>mon</sc> on my PC? Go on, check out my PC."''

=====Fame Checker=====

===[[Generation IV]]===

====Sinnoh====

In {{game|Diamond and Pearl|s}}, [[Bebe]] mentions that Bill invented the original PC storage system, and that she tinkered with it to make it easier to use. Upon giving the player an {{p|Eevee}}, Bebe refers to Bill as a friend from Johto to whom the Eevee previously belonged.

 

Bill appears in {{game|HeartGold and SoulSilver|s}} in the same capacity as he did in Generation II. He will give the player an {{p|Eevee}} if he is visited at his parents' house in Goldenrod.

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======Gives away======

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===[[Generation VII]]===

====Alola====

Although he has no physical appearance in {{game|Sun and Moon|s}}, [[Lillie]] goes to him to treat [[Lusamine|her mother]], even making a reference to when he was combined with a [[Clefairy]].

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|desc=When Bill was telling Ash his story about becoming a Pokémon Trainer, a flashback showed his {{p|Ivysaur}} evolving into a {{p|Venusaur}}. This motivated Bill into becoming a Pokémon researcher.}}

[[File:Bill leopard form PM.png|thumb|125px|left|Bill as a leopard]]

[[File:Bill PM.png|thumb|140px|Bill in Pokémon Pocket Monsters]]

Bill and his wife were transformed into a leopard and {{p|Mew}} respectively from an unsuccessful experiment, which his wife noted, when they combined themselves with a cat when they wanted to combine a human and an animal together. After doing so, Bill's wife went out to search for a Moon Stone in order to get changed back to humans. She managed to find the Moon Stone that {{OBP|Red|Pocket Monsters}} and {{OBP|Green|Pocket Monsters}} were searching for. They went after Mew and arrived in an abandoned water mill. Red and Green's entrance caused Bill to appear and introduce himself to them. He then explained that he was the one who created the unknown Pokémon in the house and is experimenting on creating the most powerful Pokémon. However, the Pokémon Bill created turned out to be just plush dolls instead of real Pokémon. Seeing {{TP|Red|Clefairy}}, Bill decided to use him for one of his experiments but was stopped by his wife before he was able to do so. His wife explained the story about their transformations to the group and why she took the Moon Stone from them. After the story, Green decided to try and catch her, thinking that she was a real Mew but was stopped from doing so by Bill.

 

When Clefairy battled [[Green's Charizard]], Bill went to one of the machines to shrink Charizard but it ended up shrinking both Clefairy and Charizard since the former did not leave the machine on time. After Green gave up on catching Bill's wife in the form of Mew, the group watched as Bill and his wife used the Moon Stone and the machine that transformed them in the first place, to change back into humans. As soon as that happened, both Red and Green ran away after noticing Bill's hideous appearance in human form.

[[File:Bill 2 PM.png|thumb|130px|left|Bill's Johto appearance]]

Bill made a reappearance in ''[[PM025|Bring Down the Strongest Pokémon!!]]'' with his wife. {{OBP|Giovanni|Pocket Monsters}} kidnapped him and his wife in order to finish creating {{TP|Blue|Mewtwo}} since Giovanni only created the first half. Giovanni tied up his wife, as well as Green and his Charmander, thus blackmailing Bill into working on creating the Mewtwo. Clefairy tried to stop the creation of Mewtwo from getting finished but Giovanni's {{p|Meowth}} prevented him from getting closer. With Mewtwo completed, Bill's wife was released, and she and Bill went up to Mew to see if it was okay. When Clefairy battled Mewtwo, he threw it in the DNA switching machine and Clefairy went in the other one. Clefairy told Bill to give Mewtwo his DNA and Bill activates the DNA switching machine which transformed Clefairy into Mewtwo. Clefairy goes in the machine again but Bill could not do it since it did not have any power. {{OBP|Red's Pikachu|Pocket Monsters}} used his electricity to charge it up and Clefairy's DNA went to Giovanni's other Pokémon.

Bill made his third appearance in ''[[PM088|Find the Legendary Pokémon!!]]'' His appearance is closer to his game artwork in this chapter. A Kimono Girl takes Red and his Pokémon to him after they were playing around in the [[Burned Tower|Brass Tower]]. Bill shows them his [[Time Capsule]] machine and demonstrates it on a guy about to get hit by a car, Tyrogue runs to the car and gets hit instead. Bill then ponders about his past which made Clefairy interested and wants the group to try it out. They go in the time machine and he sends them back in time.

Bill appears in ''[[PZ04|Vermilion City]]'' where he transformed into a {{p|Nidoran♂}}. {{Zensho|Satoshi}} comes by and mistakes him for an actual Nidoran. He ends up catching him and Bill tells Satoshi that the Nidoran is him. He then has Satoshi place him in a machine that will separate his human self from his Pokémon self.

|desc=Prior to Satoshi's arrival, Bill ends up being merged into the {{p|Nidoran♂|male Nidoran}}'s body in a Pokémon transporter. As soon as Satoshi shows up, he ends up catching Nidoran♂ but releases it after finding out that it was a human. Nidoran♂ got separates from Bill after telling Satoshi how to use the transporter to separate Bill from the Nidoran's body.}}

* Bill being mixed with a Pokémon during a teleportation experiment seems to be a direct reference to the movie ''{{wp|The Fly}}'', where a scientist experimenting with teleportation pods ends up combined with a fly.

* In [[Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Versions|FireRed and LeafGreen]], if a player declines to go to the [[Sevii Islands]] after defeating [[Blaine]], Bill will wait in [[Cinnabar Island]]'s Pokémon Center. During this period, he is both back at his home on {{rt|25|Kanto}} and on Cinnabar Island at the same time.

* Many rumors sprouted up during the time of Generation I where if the player could travel to the gap which appeared at the back of Bill's House, they would encounter Mew. This proved to be false and to stop further rumors, the gap was removed in the Generation III remakes.

* In the English dub of the anime, his Kansai dialect is portrayed as an {{wp|Regional accents of English|English accent}}, while in the Pokémon Adventures manga, this becomes a southern American accent.

* The Pokémon Bill is mixed with is different in each canon: in Generation I he is mixed with an unknown Pokémon, in Generation III he is mixed with a {{p|Clefairy}}, in the Pokémon Adventures manga he is mixed with a {{p|Rattata}}, in the Pokémon Zensho manga he is mixed with a {{p|Nidoran♂}}, and in the anime he is trapped in a {{p|Kabuto}} costume.

* Bill is currently the only Storage System developer to have appeared in the {{pkmn|anime}}.

|이수재 ''Lee Su-Jae''

|From 수재 ''Su-Jae (秀才)'', meaning a very talented person, referring to his Pokémon research expertise in many fields.