Billy Handsome

"Sal rarely got his hands dirty...that was my job. Slice 'em, burn 'em...so long as it made the headlines."

- Billy Handsome on himself

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

Billy looked up to Salvatore DeLuca, and wanted to work for him. He took care of the "dirty work" that Sal didn't 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 19th, 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.

Trivia

 * Billy likes Finn O'Leary and Salvatore DeLuca.
 * Billy is the only one of the crew that doesn't wear the blue T-shirt with the prison numbers on.
 * Billy is voiced by Ray Liotta who was also the voice actor for Tommy Vercetti, the protagonist in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Interestingly enough both characters share several characteristics such as an affinity for doing dirty work and psychotic behavior.
 * 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 that way in the Audio Logs.