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| “ | When are you gonna learn, prag? You belong to ME now! I make ALL your decisions for you! | „ |
| ~ Vernon Schillinger intimidating Tobias Beecher. |
Vernon Schillinger is one of the main antagonists in the TV series Oz.
He was portrayed by J.K. Simmons, who also played Alexander Rausch in Homicide: Life on the Street, General Wade Eiling in Justice League Unlimited, Skip in Aliens in the Attic, Cave Johnson in the Portal video game series, Terence Fletcher in Whiplash, Kai the Collector in Kung Fu Panda 3, Captain Matt McKenna in 21 Bridges, Omni-Man in Invincible, Ivo Shandor in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Captain Putty in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers and Ketheric Thorm in Baldur's Gate 3.
Biography[]
Vernon Schillinger is the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood in Oz penitentiary. He hates and occasionally kills Jews, Black men, and homosexuals (which is ironic since he also rapes male inmates). During his childhood, Schillinger was abused by his father, Heinrick Schillinger, which contributed to making him the way he was.
Vernon Schillinger is also the main antagonist of Tobias Beecher's storyline. After being his sex slave for the whole first season, Beecher ends up fighting back, humiliating his rapist by defecating on his face. The rest of the series have them trying to hurt each other the most possible. After his son Andrew ends up in Oz, Vern seems to want to be a good father to him, but because Andrew is a drug addict, it is hard for Vern to be nice and caring for him. After Beecher participated in a conspiracy to have Andrew turn against Vern and die of an overdose, Vern seeks revenge against Beecher and pays his other son, Hank to kidnap Beecher's two children and eventually has his son killed. Once Vern realizes that Beecher had sent Hank to unite with his father, he decides to let go of Beecher's daughter. Beecher, however, becomes even more vengeful and pays Italian inmate Chucky Pancamo to kill Hank as well. Schillinger eventually orders an inmate to murder Beecher’s father.
Schillinger does have, like all inmates, some moments of humanity. He loves his sons (to whom he transmitted his beliefs) and tries to support his stepdaughter, who gave birth to his grandchild. However, Schillinger is also one of the most cruel and dangerous criminals featured in Oz, and despite sometimes wishing to, never stops to make a hell out of Beecher and other inmates' lives.
Once he thinks that Chris Keller has betrayed him, he conspires with Keller to kill Beecher during a production of Macbeth, only to find out that he has been double-crossed by Keller when Vern is stabbed with a knife by Beecher that was suppose to be Vern’s weapon to kill Beecher.
Personality[]
As the head of the Aryan Brotherhood, Schillinger is virulently racist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic. Schillinger is dedicated to his convictions, even when it requires him to hurt those who he cares about. He banishes his second-in-command and best friend James Robson after he received gum transplants belonging to a black man, and murders his own son Andrew because he had renounced white supremacy. In spite of his virulent homophobia, Schillinger makes a habit of raping new prisoners, often keeping them as sex slaves referred to as "prags".
Schillinger is an extremely sadistic and abusive man, often going out of his way to bully other prisoners for no other reason then for fun. He takes Tobias Beecher as a prag and systematically breaks his will, before deciding to have him killed after getting bored with him, and treats other prags with similar cruelty. He even settles for acts of petty bullying at times, such as repeatedly spitting in Agamemnon Busmalis's food just to torment the man. Schillinger abused both of his sons as well to force them to conform to his white supremacist ideals; however, while he has intrained deep-seated racism in both of them, Hank and Andrew have come to despise him for it.
In spite of this, Schillinger does genuinely care for his family. He repeatedly gives Hank money even when its clear that he's exploiting him, and attempts to take care of Andrew and his daughter-in-law Carrie. However, he lashes out violently against them whenever they do not conform to his narrow-minded views.
Schillinger is often deeply vengeful over any slights against him. When Beecher takes revenge on him for his abuse, Schillinger begins a systematic campaign to ruin Beecher's life further and continues to torment him even when Beecher attempts to bury the hatchet. Schillinger does consider reforming with the influence of Reverend Jeremiah Cloutier, but ultimately reverts back to his old ways in a fit of pique when Beecher neglects to inform him of his parole.
Schillinger is a sanctimonious, self-righteous hypocrite who doesn’t recognize the immorality of his actions. Despite Schillinger’s history of murder, torture, sodomy, racism, xenophobia, and anti-semitism, he claims, whilst threatening a pedophilic preacher, that “What I’ve done I’ve done for righteous reasons” and that “Any laws I’ve broken don’t deserve to be laws”. He claimed during a TV interview that he was “No monster.” This shows that Schillinger either believes himself to be justified in all of the horrible acts he commits, or he simply doesn’t view his actions as cruel.
In spite of his amoral and cruel personality, Schillinger does demonstrate some scruples, such as despising drug dealing and harming children. He was also willing to protect Agustus Hill, a black man, after Hill snitched on another inmate who had murdered an innocent family. Schillinger also raised money for Bob Rebadow’s grandson, who had leukemia, to go to Disneyworld.
However, he is quick to disregard his own morals, such as having Beecher's young son murdered in a fit of paranoia and spite.
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