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|name=Willem
|jname=ウィル
|tmname=Will
|image=Champions player male.png
|size=170px
|caption=Will in [[Pokémon Champions]]
|gender=Male
|eyes=Violet
|hair=Violet
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|gen={{gen|IX}}
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'''Willem''' (Japanese: '''ウィル''' ''Will'') is the male [[player character]] of [[Pokémon Champions]].

==Appearance==
Willem is a young male with fair skin, violet hair, and violet eyes. He wears a pair of browline glasses with violet rims. His outfit consists of a purple shirt with magenta highlights on the sides, black compression sleeves on his arms and legs, white shorts with a belt to hold [[Poké Ball]]s, and a pair of purple shoes with white shoelaces, black tongue, and magenta soles. He also wears a magenta-and-black fingerless glove on his right hand and an [[Omni Ring]] on his left wrist.

==In the games==
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| style="border:2px solid #{{Champions color dark}}; background:#{{Champions color light}}; {{roundytl|20px}}; overflow: hidden;" | [[File:Willem Select 1.png]]
| style="border:2px solid #{{Champions color dark}}; background:#{{Champions color light}}; {{roundytr|20px}}; overflow: hidden;" | [[File:Willem Select 2.png]]
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| style="border:2px solid #{{Champions color dark}}; background:#{{Champions color light}}; {{roundybl|20px}}; overflow: hidden;" | [[File:Willem Select 3.png]]
| style="border:2px solid #{{Champions color dark}}; background:#{{Champions color light}}; {{roundybr|20px}}; overflow: hidden;" | [[File:Willem Select 4.png]]
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| colspan="4" | Choosing the player's appearance<br>at the beginning of {{color2|000|Pokémon Champions|Champions}}
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== Trivia ==

* Willem is the first male player character to have glasses in his base design instead of just wearing them as a customizable option.

==Names==
'''Willem''' (Japanese: '''ウィル''' ''Will'') is the name given to this character in pre-release media for {{g|Champions}}.<ref>[https://champions.pokemon.com/en-us/ Pokémon Champions official site]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4v--PNtHWA&t  Pokémon Champions | Overview | Arriving 2026 on The Official Pokémon YouTube channel]</ref>

The internal name in the non-English European languages differs from the name used in the corresponding languages of pre-release media, where the latter all use his English name '''''Willem'''''.

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|-
! style="background:#{{champions color light}}" | Language
! style="background:#{{champions color light}}" | Name
! style="background:#{{champions color light}}" | Origin
|-
| Japanese
| ウィル ''Will''
| From ''{{wp|will}}'' ({{wp|auxiliary verb}} used to express volition or inevitability) or the name ''{{wp|Will (given name)|Will}}'' ({{wp|Hypocorism|hypocoristic}} form of the name "{{wp|William}}")
|-
| English
| Willem
| From the name ''{{wp|Willem}}'' (Dutch {{wp|cognate}} of the name "William")
|-
| German
| Will
| From his Japanese name
|-
| European Spanish,<br>Latin American Spanish
| Bran
| 
|-
| French
| Billy
| From the name ''{{wp|Billy (name)|Billy}}'' (hypocoristic form of the name "William")
|-
| Italian
| Brian
| 
|-
| Korean
| 윌 ''Will''
| Transcription of his Japanese name
|-
| Chinese (Traditional)
| 威爾 ''Wēi'ěr'' / ''Wāiyíh''
| rowspan="2" | Transcription of his Japanese name
|-
| Chinese (Simplified)
| 威尔 ''Wēi'ěr''
|}
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==References==
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==Related articles==
{{Player characters|champions}}
{{Champions characters}}
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