Wilhelm

Wilhelm is a character in the Xenosaga series. He is the founder and CEO of Vector Industries, making him Shion's, Allen's and Miyuki's employer.

Trivia

 * Wilhelm's motives and nature are similar to Xenoblade Chronicles 3's main antagonist, Z.
 * Neither are real beings: Wilhelm was created by the Collective Unconscious to protect the Lower Domain from collapse, while Z is a manifestation of the fear of the consciousnesses stored within Origin.
 * Both treat the world as if it were entertainment, with Wilhelm treating it like a play, and Z like films.
 * Both want the world trapped in a time loop to avoid a perceived catastrophe in the future. To prevent the destruction of the universe, Wilhelm resets time to a point before the universe's collapse — a cycle known as Eternal Recurrence. Z has frozen time at the point where the two universes collided, creating Aionios, the "endless now".
 * Wilhelm is likely named after Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Eternal Recurrence was proposed as a concept by Nietzsche in a form very similar to how it appears in Xenosaga, and the subtitles of the mainline Xenosaga games — respectively Der Wille zur Macht, Jenseits von Gut und Böse, and Also Sprach Zarathustra — are named after various works of Nietzsche.