Mark Hunter

"“My name is Mark Hunter.” ―Mark Hunter" Mark Hunter (マークハンター) is an original character created by Banpresto for the 1994 Super Famicon game Gaia Saver: Hīrō Saidai no Sakusen before appearing as a minor rival character in Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier EXCEED.

However, he would appear again with a much larger role in the crossover fighting game Super Project Cross Tag Battle with a backstory, a more expanded moveset and more refined personality, appearing in various confrontations across many episodes in the game's Story Mode before becoming a main character in Episode Final.

Appearance
As a human, he was a normal-looking man with a slightly above average height, grayish-blue eyes and brown hair.

As Mark Hunter, his helmet has white mouth-covering, red fins at its sides, golden spiked "hair" on one half of the head and a golden dome on the other, and black visors. His metallic body armor is red on the red on his chest and waist areas, gold on his shoulders, gauntlets and boots, and white on the rest.

Personality
Mark Hunter is an aggressive bounty hunter who fights to receive a large amount of rewards in cash in return. As a result, as time passed, he starts to care less about money and more so on getting into fights. He also takes delight in battling opponents who are just as strong as him, after experiencing boredom in some of his recent successes. While he is a strong warrior who will use every tactic he can think of to defeat or at least throw the enemy off, he is not above cheating however and hates these kinds of people who will resort to dirty tricks for their own selfish motives. This His memories however tell another story, since he has no memory prior to being a bounty hunter under an alias.

However, in Super Project Cross Tag Battle, upon researching his origin and his conversion into Mark Hunter, he becomes doubtful of who he is and what he is really fighting for and even more ruthless, trying to search for answers and his memories prior to being Mark Hunter, to the point where he starts to hate even himself.

Gaia Saver
Anything about Mark Hunter in Gaia Saver is very vague. What was only known was that he was paid and hired by an alliance of Ultras, Kamen Riders and Gundam pilots to fight alongside them in a war against Shocker, Zeon and space kaiju in occasion. Later in the game, he officially joins the group.

Endless Frontier EXCEED
Mark Hunter's OG incarnation appears in Endless Frontier EXCEED as a minor enemy character.

To recruit Mark Hunter into the player's group, they have to have beaten the game at least once, and after the second battle against him in Chapter 14, he will ask if they want to hire him. If the player offers him the 300,000G he wants, he becomes a permanent member of the party as an assist unit and a very powerful one at that. In further playthroughs, he can join the player for free.

Super Project Cross Tag Battle
In the game, Mark Hunter was hired by Yuki Terumi, Salem and the followers of That Man to hunt down the heroes who broke off from the Cross Crisis Tournament in exchange for one million gold. Because of this, he occasionally confronts the heroes, proving to be a very difficult challenge to them and becoming a rival to Kouta Azuma the Fighter Roar.

However, in Episode Final, Mark sees the injustices within Terumi's actions and begins acting behind his back by infiltrating into the lair of the Valentines to search for whatever could be useful against his former offerers. He is shocked to discovered something: documents and video files revealing his origins that were retrieved from the Gaia Sabers' destroyed headquarters.

According to the files, he was once a human named Shuichi Honda (本田 秀一), a late-20's man from Tokyo, Japan who lost everything important to him; his family disowned him, his friends deserted him, his loved ones cut all ties from him, his house was sold off after being evicted, all his properties, money and possessions seized; he had absolutely nothing left and was left to rot in the streets for several months. He was found dead in an alley by the Gaia Sabers and sent to a laboratory to be revived and converted into a combat cyborg codenamed "Mark Hunter". His memories were erased to make him be obedient and fight by the side of the Gaia Sabers. However, upon completion, he destroyed the laboratory, escaped the facility and roamed elsewhere in the Endless Frontier, which is why he couldn't be found by the Gaia Sabers to fight the Earth Federation's Steel Dragon Battle Group during the Sealing War.

Mark Hunter is absolutely outraged from finally learning where he really came from and feels disgusted to have been used and taken advantage of. Not helping with his memories not yet recovered, he begins to doubt his own identity, cuts off his deal with Terumi and reluctantly begins fighting alongside the heroes.

Quotes
"“I don't believe it… You fucking…! What right do you have to say that to me?! Are you God?! Are you the one who gave life to me!? WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!! YOU THOUGHT YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?! I DON'T WANT THIS!!” ―Mark Hunter, upon learning the truth of who he is really is."

Trivia

 * Mark Hunter's appearance shares many similarities with Fighter Roar, another character created by Banpresto for the Compati Hero Series. Like Hunter, Roar also appeared in Endless Frontier EXCEED.
 * His helmet is also similar in appearance with Kamen Rider Ex-Aid.
 * Mark Hunter, being a main character of Super Project Cross Tag Battle, is a great way to link Gaia Saver, a game developed by Arc System Works, into the game with elements from Banpresto franchises.