Billy Handsome

"Am I stuck here until I see the error of my ways? Well, you're gonna have to wait a long time, because I don't regret a damn thing!"

- Billy Handsome

Billy Handsome is a playable character in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. He appears in the Zombies map, Mob of the Dead.

Background
Billy looked up to Salvatore DeLuca and Michael "Finn" O'Leary and wanted to work for Salvatore DeLuca. He took care of the "dirty work" that Sal did not participate in, and specialized in dealing with Sal's enemies in gruesome ways that would make the headlines. He was eventually convicted of 116 counts of murder, leading to his imprisonment on Alcatraz Island.

While in Alcatraz, Billy and his fellow mobsters were talked into escaping the prison by Albert Arlington, who had devised a plan to fly off the roof of the prison in a makeshift plane designed by himself. The plan did not work out and the mobsters blamed Arlington for the plan's failure. Feeling cheated, Billy, Sal and Finn crafted weapons and lured Arlington onto the roof, where they brutally murdered him.

For the murder of Arlington, Billy and the other two mobsters were sentenced to death by electric chair. Their execution came on the morning of January 19, 1934.

With no memory of the escape plan's failure and the murder of Arlington, Billy, Sal and Finn awoke in Alcatraz again, and once again attempted to escape. Before they could even make it out of the cell block, however, zombies attacked them, killing Arlington and Finn. Billy and Sal worked together to try and survive, but Billy does not keep up with Sal and Sal cuts off Billy's escape by locking him in the cell block to keep the zombies occupied. Billy was killed by the zombies and taken to the Afterlife, where he would revive himself and team up with the other four once again to attempt Arlington's escape plan, this time trapped inside a hellish iteration of Alcatraz Prison, inhabited entirely by zombies.

Billy and the rest of the mobsters learn of their failure to escape the prison and the brutal murder of Arlington in the real world. Upon learning this, they set out to kill him again. Whether they succeed is entirely player-determined.

In the Where Are We Going trailer, Billy comes to the conclusion that he is trapped in Alcatraz until he repents his sins.

Personality
Billy displays psychopathic behavior, deriving genuine pleasure from killing zombies in violent ways. His mind seems to be constantly fixated on death and violence. Billy also states that he does not feel guilty for his past misdeeds that led to his imprisonment and would rather die than admit to his errors. Arlington recalls that Billy spent a lot of his time at Alcatraz enduring psyche tests due to his mental illness. He shares a mutual rivalry with Finn.

Status
At the end of the Pop Goes the Weasel Easter egg, Billy, Sal and Finn can either kill Weasel, or Weasel will kill them. Should Weasel die, then "the cycle continues" and the Mobsters must repeat the events of Mob of the Dead again. Should Billy, Sal and Finn die, then "the cycle is broken", meaning that the story can progress. For this reason, Weasel is alive when the events of Mob of the Dead finally ends, while the other three mobsters are dead.

Trivia

 * Billy is very fond of Sal, still thinking of him as his boss. He dislikes Arlington very much, He often mocks Michael Finn O'Leary and he says weird things about Salvatore DeLuca.
 * In the single player intro, Billy has a T-shirt. However, in-game he appears to have a long-sleeved shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
 * Billy states he has been in the electric chair at least once. A reference to how Billy, Finn O'Leary, and Salvatore "Sal" DeLuca are said to have been executed t hat way in the Audio Logs.
 * Billy likes heavy machine guns such as the LSAT and the Death Machine.
 * Billy hates sniper rifles.
 * He has a pack of cigarettes on his left sleeve.
 * He has a tattoo of an anchor on his left arm.
 * Billy lost his mother at a young age.
 * Billy suffers from emotional distress and takes it out on his victims stating in a quote, "You always thought you could take it out on someone else..."
 * His serial number is "872B". Evidenced by the four numbers used as part of the Pop Goes The Weasel Easter egg with "386A", "101A" and "481B" already belonging to Salvatore DeLuca, Albert Arlington, and Finn O' Leary, respectively. Billy likes Michael Finn O'Leary and Salvatore DeLuca but he dislikes Albert Arlington very much.