History UsefulNotes / BillyTheKid

* Appears in ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure''.

* Appears in ''WesternAnimation/{{Lucky Luke|1983'' in the episodes adapting the comics. He's also portrayed a SpoiledBrat with GoofyBuckteeth here.

* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': Much like other legendary TheWildWest characters he appears in the stories ''Billy the Kid'' and ''The Escort'', where he is portrayed as a SpoiledBrat with buck teeth who scares everybody so much that he can do whatever he want, because nobody dares to testify against him.

* ''Series/TheTimeTunnel'' did an episode actually titled "Billy the Kid", in which the time traveling heroes wind up in a shootout with the outlaw.

* In the 1971 NewOldWest series ''Series/CadesCounty'', Music/BobbyDarin plays a contemporary villain who's under the delusion that he's Billy.

* ''Series/{{Voyagers}}'': In "[[Recap/VoyagersS1E3BullyAndBilly Bully and Billy]]", Billy appears as the antagonist, who messes up history by killing Theodore Roosevelt in at least one timeline, preventing him and the Rough Riders from turning the tide of the Spanish-American War. He also drives a wedge between Jeff (who once dressed up as him for Halloween) and Bogg, who takes a more cynical view thanks to his dislike of guns. Jeff ultimately gets disabused of his hero worship upon seeing just how mean and dishonorable Billy can be.

Billy's legend really took off after he was dead. In stark contrast to UsefulNotes/JesseJames, who gained a reputation as a FolkHero despite being a murderous pro-Confederate guerrilla and bank robber, Billy was painted as a sadistic young psychopath. Garrett published a sensationalized biography called ''The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid'', which made the outlaw infamous all over the world. A lot of urban legends about Billy are derived from this book, including several that painted Garrett in a much more heroic light. The most common myth about Billy the Kid is that he supposedly murdered 21 people, one for each of the years he'd lived. In reality there are only four confirmed murders by his hand, plus a couple of others that ''might'' have been him. There's also no evidence to suggest he was a sadistic psychopath who [[StartOfDarkness got his start by]] torturing animals, a legend that began to spread when he had barely been dead a few years. Lesser known is that Billy was friendly towards Mexican ranch workers and immigrants, unusual by the standards of the time; he enjoyed their company enough in peacetime to recruit them into his gang, and by the time of his death he had a Mexican wife, who cried over his body when he was killed.

Billy's legend really took off after he was dead. In stark contrast to UsefulNotes/JesseJames, who gained a reputation as a FolkHero despite being a murderous pro-Confederate guerrilla and bank robber, Billy was painted as a sadistic young psychopath. Garrett published a sensationalized biography called ''The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid'', which made the outlaw infamous all over the world. A lot of urban legends about Billy are derived from this book, including several that painted Garrett in a much more heroic light. The most common myth about Billy the Kid is that he supposedly murdered 21 people, one for each of the years he'd lived. In reality there are only four confirmed murders by his hand, plus a couple of others that ''might'' have been him. There's also no evidence to suggest he was a sadistic psychopath who [[StartOfDarkness got his start by]] torturing animals, a legend that began to spread when he had barely been dead a few years. Lesser known is that Billy was friendly towards Mexican ranch workers and immigrants at the time; he enjoyed their company enough in peacetime to recruit them into his gang, and by the time of his death he had a Mexican wife, who cried over his body when he was killed.

Billy's legend really took off after he was dead. In stark contrast to UsefulNotes/JesseJames, who gained a reputation as a FolkHero despite being a murderous pro-Confederate guerrilla and bank robber, Billy was painted as a sadistic young psychopath. Garrett published a sensationalized biography called ''The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid'', which made the outlaw infamous all over the world. A lot of urban legends about Billy are derived from this book, including several that painted Garrett in a much more heroic light. The most common myth about Billy the Kid is that he supposedly murdered 21 people, one for each of the years he'd lived. In reality there are only four confirmed murders by his hand, plus a couple of others that ''might'' have been him. There's also no evidence to suggest he was a sadistic psychopath who [[StartOfDarkness got his start by]] torturing animals, a legend that began to spread when he had barely been dead a few years.

[[caption-width-right:165:[-One of only two known photographs of the man.-]]]

* In ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'', he appears as Sherlock Holmes and William James Moriarty's savior after their plunge into the Thames during ''The Final Problem''. He's a dead man who ''works for the US government'' and drags them into service with him.