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Bill Dauterive

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King of the Hill

Sergeant William Fontaine de la Tour Dauterive (born June 22, 1953) who is better known as Bill Dauterive, is Hank Hill's overweight, lonely, simple minded, and perpetually pathetic friend and neighbor.
Bill is shorter his friends, standing at 5'8. He is overweight with peach skin with a paler tanline that is hidden by his white tank top, a circular chin, and has light red-brown hair that is balding on the top, while the rest of his body is ironically hairy. He has unmaintained eyebrows. Unlike most of the other characters, his eyes are smaller and more circular.
Bill typically wears a white tank top, blue jeans and brown work boots.
When Bill was younger, he was a muscular, confident, lady-killing athlete with long flowing, frizzy hair.
Bill is considered the personification of pathetic. He is described as being nice but often depressed and lonely; his overwhelming need to make people like him makes him easily taken advantage of, particularly by Dale.
He is the first person to be mentioned when any character refers to losers or bemoans a misfortune for fear their lives will be ruined, like his. For example, Hank once, while telling Peggy that a lawn makes a man a man and gives him a purpose, says "Without my lawn, I am Bill." Despite them believing he is pathetic and disgusting, Hank, with Dale and Boomhauer presumably agreeing, views him as brave, honest, sweet, "like a big 'ol stuffed teddy bear".