[1] In the first film, Billy is first introduced at age five, when he witnesses his parents' murder on a country road on Christmas Eve by a hitchhiker in a Santa Claus costume.

On Christmas Day he arrives at the orphanage where he was raised to enact revenge on Mother Superior, but is stopped by police who shoot him to death.

The character was largely received by critics as offensive due to the violent acts he commits on Christmas, and the film was widely protested upon its theatrical release in 1984.

On their way home, his parents stop on a desolate country road where a man in a Santa Claus suit has experienced a car breakdown.

At the store's Christmas Eve party, while wearing a Santa Claus suit, he witnesses his male co-worker Andy attempting to rape his female co-worker/crush Pamela in the stock room.

He impales Denise on a pair of antlers on a taxidermy deer head, and throws Tommy through a window to the ground below, killing him.

The 8-inch figure is dressed in a fabric Santa suit with removable sculpted hat and features the authorized likeness of actor Robert Brian Wilson, is fully poseable and comes with an axe and hammer accessories.

[7] Chad Byrnes of LA Weekly ranked the character at number seven of the greatest slasher killers in films.