I was finally able to read this entire thread.
I see a lot of people don’t like billy and think he’s a waste
I don’t like the character personally, but I think with out him we wouldn’t have gotten steve to become friends with the kids
Steve thinks of himself as “the King” until he is de throned by this new California bad boy billy.
Billy makes it a mission to become friends with Steve’s friends and take them from him, then he physically out does steve.
Steve is totally beaten by this guy, and now he doesn’t even have his girlfriend to comfort him. With steve not being the king in school anymore he befriends the group of nerdy kids
If we didn’t have billy, I don’t think Steve’s character would have ever become friends with the kids, he would still be the king and moved on to the next “whore” in school