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Take a tip from Bill Sikes, He can whip what he likes, I recall he started small, He had to pick a pocket or two.
~ Fagin singing about Bill Sikes in the film.

William "Bill" Sikes is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Edward Leeford) of Oliver Twist. Although Fagin and Mr. Bumble are sometimes regarded as antagonists, it is Bill Sikes who provides a large amount of the conflict to the story due to his violent nature and criminal tendencies, which surpassed the thieving ways of Fagin as well as the child abusing ways of Mr. Bumble and ultimately led to murder.

Bill Sikes was a brute who regularly beat his own bull terrier to the point the animal required stitches and had no remorse over using Oliver as an accomplice in his crimes. He was involved in a relationship with the kindly Nancy but brutally bludgeoned her to death in a fit of rage with his pistol and then his cudgel when he feared she had betrayed him. The murder Sikes committed was one of the most graphic and disturbing acts of violence that Dickens had written, one which Bill, for the first time in the novel, felt remorse for.

Bill Sikes would meet his end, however, when he accidentally hung himself from the street rafters while trying to escape from an angry mob that had formed to hunt him down (in the 2007 miniseries, he committed suicide by hanging himself in the sewers of London).

In the movie adaptation Oliver!, he was fatally shot in the chest by a police officer and died hanging from a rope around his torso.

In the 1987 animated adaptation made in Mexico he has a more comical defeat where he, Fagin and Mr. Bumble are arrested by the police after falling into barrels of water and slipping.

He is also the main antagonist of the play and film adaption of Oliver!. He doesn't sing in the actual film, but he does in the stage musical.

He is also the main antagonist of Disney's 1988 film Oliver & Company, which is a modern American adaptation of the novel. However, he is drastically different to point where his original work and adaptation are practically two different characters entirely. His counterpart in the animated movie, Sykes, is a mobster loan shark and Fagin's ex-boss.

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