Billy Kincaid

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caption=Billy Kincaid's first appearance in "Spawn" #5
comic_color=background:#80ff80
character_name=Billy Kincaid
real_name=
publisher=Image Comics
debut="Spawn" #5 (October 1992)
creators=Todd McFarlane
alliance_color=background:#cccccc
status=
alliances=Hell, Satana
previous_alliances=
aliases=Mr. Chill-ee (professional name)
relatives=
powers=While alive: none
As Hellspawn: unknown
As ghost: possession, power of suggestion, harnessing of souls|

Billy Kincaid is a fictional character in Todd McFarlane's "Spawn" comic book series. He is a recurring villain in the series.

Publication History

Kiddie Killer

In "Spawn" #5, Kincaid is released from a mental institution, where he had been placed because he was suspected of murdering several children. The most notable of the cases, and the only one Kincaid was actually charged with, was the disappearance and murder of a senator's daughter. In his previous life as Al Simmons, Spawn had been hired to kill Kincaid, but had arrived just as Kincaid was apprehended by the police and so was unable to complete the mission.

Upon his release from the institution, Kincaid immediately goes back to kidnapping and murdering children by luring them into his ice cream truck. He kills a child before Spawn kills him and hangs his bloody corpse in the precinct office of detectives Sam Burke and Twitch Williams, who had been investigating Kincaid, with the note that says, "Boys screamed and girls screamed. So I made him scream and scream and scream..." Both Sam and Twitch are consequently blamed for the the gruesome incident and put on probation, though this is eventually cleared.

In Hell

Kincaid wakes up in Hell. He is greeted by the Vindicator, brother of "Spawn" archvillain the Violator. The Vindicator leads Kincaid to the Eighth circle of Hell, the same level where Al Simmons made a deal with Malebolgia to become a Hellspawn. Kincaid is fitted with a similar suit as Spawn's and informed that he is now in the service of Satan's Army.

In "Spawn" #53, Spawn returns to Hell, where he battles the newly-empowered Kincaid. It is a quick battle, as Spawn easily defeats Kincaid and severs his head.

Kincaid's Return

After a series of seemingly senseless and brutal crimes, Spawn, with the aid of Sam, Twitch, and his mentor Cogliostro, discovers that Kincaid's ghost is forcing people into acting out their most violent impulses. These senseless crimes hit close to home, as a number of homeless people are savagely murdered. Spawn and the detectives are helpless to stop Kincaid as he jumps from body to body and continues to indirectly cause these senseless crimes. With each murder, Kincaid not only damns the innocent souls coerced into committing the crimes, but grows stronger himself. Eventually, Spawn leads Kincaid, inhabiting a police officer, into the Dead Zone, an area of the Raccoon City bowery where Heaven reigns supreme and Hell has no power. Now depowered, both Spawn and Kincaid fight each other hand-to-hand. During the melee, Twitch fires a single shot into the cop's forehead, killing the cop and the depowered Kincaid simultaneously.

Kincaid makes another brief appearance as a denizen of Hell in "Spawn" #100, as Spawn passes him on the way to battle Thamuz.

Issue 150

Kincaid reappeared in "Spawn" #150 to torment Christopher, the lost soul sealed within Spawn's heart. Christopher is given the form and powers of a Hellspawn by the mysterious Man of Miracles, and eventually runs afoul of Kincaid, who operates a toystore filled with Spawn action figures. In later issues, Christopher confronts Kincaid again at a diabolical carnival revealed to be a portal to Hell. Kincaid forces Christopher to watch every murder he commits. Christopher's eyes burn out of their sockets, and his necroplasmic uniform then tears Kincaid apart.

Appearances in other media

* Billy Kincaid was featured heavily in the first season of the HBO animated series "Todd McFarlane's Spawn". He was voiced by Ronny Cox.
* Kincaid is the subject of American Heavy Metal band Iced Earth's song "Vengeance Is Mine". He is also featured in the song "Living in the End" off of the album "All Sides" by the jamband O.A.R. [ [http://www.oarsa.org/features/viewlyric.php?lyricID=212 oarsa.org | of a revolution (O.A.R.) setlist archive ] ]

ee also

* Spawn villains

References

External links

* [http://www.spawn.com/toys/product.aspx?product=2498 Billy Kincaid toy, recreating the infamous death of Kincaid]