| “ | A death match between Heroes and savage animals. Now that's entertainment! Those NEXT aren't human anyway. We've gotta get extreme, you know? | ” |
–Mark Schneider, Tiger & Bunny: The Rising | ||
| Mark Schneider | |
|---|---|
| Profile | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Owner of Apollon Media (formerly) Owner of Gargoyle Technica (formerly) |
| Media Portrayal | |
| Debut | Tiger & Bunny: The Rising |
| Seiyū | Ōtsuka Hōchū
Sam Riegel (English) |
Mark Schneider is a character in Tiger & Bunny: The Rising. He owns Gargoyle Technica and is known as a genius CEO who can turn around even the worst failing companies to making a profit.
Storyline[]
Schneider is first seen in a meeting at Apollon Media where employees from various divisions of the company are giving short presentations about their areas. When it's time for the Hero Division's presentation, Lloyds tell him that the Second League is causing them to loose money. He later calls Kotetsu and Barnaby to his office, where Lloyds tells them that Schneider has bought Apollon and Schneider says he is promoting them back to First League. He only acknowledges Kotetsu once, asking him to stay after and tell him some stories of his early years as a hero. As soon as Barnaby has signed the contract and left, however, Schneider fires Kotetsu.
Later, in a meeting with Justice Yuri Petrov, Schneider is revealed to be anti-NEXT. He proposes a new program to replace Hero TV - a death match between Heroes and savage animals, and says that "Those NEXT aren't human anyway". He doesn't seem to think there is anything wrong with his statements, as he only pauses briefly to wonder "why [Judge Petrov] is glaring at [him] like that" before shrugging and continuing his presentation. Schneider reasons that because Apollon Media own OBC, which runs Hero TV, they have the authority to silence the seven major companies who sponsor the Heroes. He only needs the Justice Bureau to approve it. He seems fairly confident that he'll get his way when Yuri says the Bureau will look into it, despite Yuri continuing to glare at him through the meeting.
During the justice day festival, he was attacked by mechanical orb and realized that the next terrorizing the city are actually after him. When he calls Agnes to send a hero to save him, she uses the opportunity to reinstate kotetsu as a hero to go save Schneider. When Virgil, Who’s real name is Andrew Scott, is revealed to be the mastermind behind the attacks working with the other nexts, he revealed that Mark schnieder bought Andrew’s father’s company, Scott System, with ill intent as he used his father’s company to hide his illegal investments, leaving Andrew’s father no choice but to sell his company and, in his despair, later committed suicide, while mark schnieder made a fortune and got away with his crimes after tricking Andrew’s father.
it was also revealed that he ruined the lives of three nexts with his lies to help their businesses, but instead did the same thing he did to Andrew’s father and possibly used them for more illegal investments, making them take the fall and force them to sell while he made more money despite the suffering he’s caused.
after Andrew was defeated and he was rescued, he was in court with Yuri when his crimes were revealed, and hinted that Mark intended to do the same thing to Apollon media and the seven companies like he did with the other businesses he’s ruined for his own benefit. Yuri then sentences Mark to prison, though it’s unknown for how long or if Yuri ended up killing him as Lunatic.
Trivia[]
- The name Mark is a form of Latin Marcus used in several languages.
- The surname Schneider comes from German schneider or Yiddish shnayder, making it a cognate of Snyder, meaning "tailor", derived from Middle English snithen (to cut), an occupational name for a person who stitched coats and clothing.