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* Vought International in ''Series/TheBoys2019'' is [[AdaptationalNiceGuy slightly less evil]] than its [[ComicBook/TheBoys comic counterpart]], but still pretty bad. It was founded by a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] EvilutionaryBiologist who wanted to use the SuperSerum he developed to elevate white people into a MasterRace of literal supermen, but in the modern day they've settled for PragmaticVillainy in the form of a massive media empire that uses bribery and blackmail to cover up the crimes of the {{Fake Ultimate Hero}}es they employ. Things escalate in season 2 when they [[HeKnowsTooMuch assassinate multiple United States Congressmen to cover up their crimes]], [[spoiler:and in season 3 when the BigBad [[BewareTheSuperman Homelander]] [[TyrantTakesTheHelm performs a hostile takeover]] of the company with the intent of having a PresidentEvil PuppetKing under his control]].

* Kabushiki Kawaii from ''Wiki/RPCAuthority'' is a Japanese corporation that specializes in creating HumanoidAbomination {{Sex Slave}}s.

* The Shinra Power Co. from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. This is the company that drains the life of the planet (literally) to make a profit and they have a private army that they enjoy sending out to quell anyone who opposes them. They are largely responsible for many bad eventualities in the story, including destroying people's homes because they fought back, kidnapping people and tampering with their bodies, cover-ups, propaganda and using the genetic material of an [[DugTooDeep unearthed]] malevolent alien to create {{Super Soldier}}s for their private army. One of those soldiers, Sephiroth, would become the true BigBad of the first game.

* The Shinra Power Co. from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. This is the company that drains the life of the planet (literally) to make a profit and they have a private army that they enjoy sending to quell anyone who opposes them. They are largely responsible for many bad eventualities in the story, including destroying people's homes because they fought back, kidnapping people and tampering with their bodies, cover-ups, propaganda and using the genetic material of an [[DugTooDeep unearthed]] malevolent alien to create {{Super Soldier}}s for their private army. One of those soldiers, Sephiroth, would become the true BigBad of the first game.

* The Shinra Power Co. from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. This is the company that drains the life of the planet (literally) to make a profit and they have a private army that they enjoy sending to quell anyone who opposes them. They are largely responsible many bad eventualities in the game, including destroying people's homes because they fought back, kidnapping people and tampering with their bodies, cover-ups, propaganda and using the genetic material of an [[DugTooDeep unearthed]] malevolent alien to create {{Super Soldier}}s for their private army. One of those soldiers, Sephiroth, would become the true BigBad of the first game.

* Aesir Pharmaceuticals in the original ''VideoGame/MaxPayne''. The company's founder, Nicole Horne, originally worked for a secret government project. When the [[SuperSerum super solider serum]] they were working on was discontinued, Horne stole and repackaged it as a designer street drug (which led directly to Max's family being killed when a memo about the project ended up on Michelle's desk and Horne found out). Max notes that Horne's laptop probably has info about other sundry world-domination plots (and more mundane things like internet porn), but Max confesses he isn't interested in learning the ''depth'' of her evil (he already wants to kill her for what she's done to him, his family and the city, and has "seen too much of it already") and [[ComputerEqualsMonitor shoots the monitor]]. Interestingly enough, Aesir Pharmaceuticals is implied to be very profitable ''on'' the books, in addition to their illegal activities, as their stock prices are extremely high and rising, and they own a very large tower in prime New York real estate territory, neither of which would be possible with the dirty money gained from drug trafficking.

Evil Inc. is the standard enemy organization in a lot of works — a corporation that sets out to gain money and/or power through some form of villainy. Expect laws to be [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney flagrantly broken]], ethics to be ignored, and dissenters to be [[AssassinationAttempt disposed of]], all in the name of profit or advancing EvilPlans. Often a ComicBook/LexLuthor back-up plan: Create a front that, in case anything goes wrong, gives you both the perfect alibi and the resources to start over. They generally come in one of three varieties:\\

When Evil Inc. would make more money without being used as an evil front, it's an example of CutLexLuthorACheck. When Evil Inc. is a legion of super heroes gone awry, it's a subversion of HeroesRUs. When it's actually ''succeeded'', more or less, in taking over the world, it's turned into MegaCorp. When the Evil Inc. masquerades themselves behind their nice-sounding names and [[VillainWithGoodPublicity publicity]], then they are PeaceAndLoveIncorporated. ToxicInc is a subtrope, where the company is depicted as not just evil but with a specific focus on pollution. Compare IncompetenceInc, which can overlap.

Evil Inc. is the standard enemy organization in a lot of works — a corporation that sets out to gain money and/or power through some form of villainy. Often a ComicBook/LexLuthor back-up plan: Create a front that, in case anything goes wrong, gives you both the perfect alibi and the resources to start over. They are generally one of three types:\\

# Suspicious, but not too strange ([=PMCs=], [[WarForFunAndProfit weapon developers]], pharmaceutical companies, etc.)

Welcome to Evil Inc. We have many departments, including manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, genetically modifying orphan children to create super villains, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking producing herbal soups made of weed.]] Chances are, you've heard of us, considering we are a publicly traded company with thousands of branches across the globe, as well as a few secret labs cleverly disguised as bakeries. Oh, and don't try to stop us, because chances are that you work for us. Have a nice day!

Evil Inc. is the standard enemy organization in a lot of works- a corporation out to make money and/or gain power through some form of villainy. Often a ComicBook/LexLuthor back-up plan: Create a front that, in case anything goes wrong, gives you the perfect alibi as well as the resources to start again. They will be one of three types:\\

# [[MilkmanConspiracy Unassuming]] ("Milwaukee Bakery, The" actually [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub being the front]] for an international terrorist group)
# Suspicious but not too strange ([=PMCs=], [[WarForFunAndProfit weapon developers]], pharmaceutical companies, etc.)

Often this is considered {{Camp}} (''especially'' if it's a Type 3), a DeadHorseTrope, or both in movies (excluding [[GreenAesop environmental ones]]). In video games, it's still running strong and considered a decent plot twist. And in (mainstream) comic books, [[Franchise/{{TheDCU}} LexCorp]], and [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse OsCorp]] have been running without interruption for decades, and are therefore still the medium's prime examples. Often this can be seen coming from a mile away, but the test for whether or not the hero is working for Evil Inc. is to ask whether his mission is some level of top secret or whether he ever saw the CEO's face. If the answer to the first question is yes and the second one no, congratulations! You're one of the bad guys!

Evil Inc. is likely to be ruled over by a CorruptCorporateExecutive.

Corporations with various of the traits of this sort of business have existed, and do exist, in real life, from the usual suspects in Big Tech and Big Pharma to more colorless monopolies who simply exploit their market dominance to unethically stall innovation, influence legislation, destroy competition and gouge the customers. However, few[[note]][[https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/inside-evil-corp-a-100m-cybercrime-menace/ but some!]][[/note]] of them will ever self-consciously advertise themselves as evil, preferring instead [[PeaceAndLoveIncorporated another trope]]. By definition, Evil, Inc. as used here is an [[TheWarOnStraw exaggerated and caricatured]] example of corporate villainy. Therefore, Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease

* Dark Agency from ''Manga/CodenameSailorV''. It is a talent agency instead of a manufacturer corporation, but promotes several {{Teen Idol}}s and other teen media with the sole purpose of gathering energy and brainwashing the youth.

* Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. from ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' is an [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocratic]], AffablyEvil MegaCorp that specializes in selling paranormal artifacts to anyone willing to pay. They have a formal and respectful relationship with just about every power involved with TheMasquerade and practically have the entire world in their hands. Their only reason for their continued existence [[ForTheEvulz is because they want to play with it]]. They even [[KillThePoor use their own employees as test subjects]] for "quality assurance" the same way the Foundation uses death row inmates.

* The film version of ''Literature/{{BigTrouble}}'' morphs the book's Penultimate Corp into Penultra and erases its Type 1 angle. Mostly Type 3, but flirting with Type 2. Penultra is mostly a construction company, but as corrupt as the day is long, willfully incompetent to the point of cartoonishness, but so well connected that they still keep raking in contracts. They have no trouble blaming any problems on subcontractors and disposing of said blame magnets in "boating accidents" on a regular basis. Oh, and there's an M1919 machine gun ''on the boardroom table.''

* Penultimate Corp in ''Literature/{{BigTrouble}}'' cuts across all three types. Penultimate Corporation is mostly a construction company, but as corrupt as the day is long, willfully incompetent to the point of cartoonishness, but so well connected that they still keep raking in contracts. They have no trouble blaming any problems on subcontractors and disposing of said blame magnets in "boating accidents" on a regular basis. On top of this, Penultimate's main shadow goal is to overthrow Castro.

* ''Series/BloodOverWater'' has Sleet Mountain, with its CEO Clyde Spendelworth. In the novel remake, he's revealed to be running an illegal sex slave trade, using his role as CEO of Sleet Mountain as a front. In the original miniseries, he was merely a con man who was ripping off the government and polluting a pond. The novel keeps the pollution and cleanup fraud theme, but expands to make Clyde unlikeable regardless of which end of the political spectrum you're on.
* Vought International in ''Series/TheBoys'' is [[AdaptationalNiceGuy slightly less evil]] than its [[ComicBook/TheBoys comic counterpart]], but still pretty bad. It was founded by a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] EvilutionaryBiologist who wanted to use the SuperSerum he developed to elevate white people into a MasterRace of literal supermen, but in the modern day they've settled for PragmaticVillainy in the form of a massive media empire that uses bribery and blackmail to cover up the crimes of the {{Fake Ultimate Hero}}es they employ. Things escalate in season 2 when they [[HeKnowsTooMuch assassinate multiple United States Congressmen to cover up their crimes]], [[spoiler:and in season 3 when the BigBad [[BewareTheSuperman Homelander]] [[TyrantTakesTheHelm performs a hostile takeover]] of the company with the intent of having a PresidentEvil PuppetKing under his control]].

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-->'''[[VillainProtagonist Reagan]]''': This isn't the President. It's a [[KillAndReplace robot replica that's gonna replace him]].
-->'''[[NaiveNewcomer Brett]]''': [[YesMan Love it, love it.]] Question. Is this place evil?
-->'''Reagan''': Ehhh, is Website/{{Facebook}} evil? Is Starbucks evil? At least here [[GadgeteerGenius I develop tech that could prevent war with]] {{Atlantis}}.

* Charon Industries from ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' is a weapons manufacturing company whose CEO Malcolm Hargrove is willing to kill off the population of an entire planet just so his company can have unrestricted access to the alien technology there.

* One of the twists of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' is that the current [[DeadlyGame Mutual Killing Games]] were set up by [[spoiler:Team Danganronpa, a media company dedicated to replicating the fictional-in-this-universe ''Danganronpa'' games into an actual SadisticGameShow for a viewing audience, and are willing to brainwash and pit students against each other in a death competition just to entertain a bored public. But it's ok; [[NightmareFetishist the kids signed a waiver]]]].

* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', most of the [[MegaCorp megacorporations]] dominating the FallenStatesOfAmerica are ChaoticNeutral at best with the exception of Arasaka, which operates the PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny of Night City (a.k.a. "the worst place to live in America") following the SecondAmericanCivilWar.

-->'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]]:''' And why is everyone ''so'' eager to buy into the stereotype of the greedy evil monolithic corporation just because this is a {{cyberpunk}} action movie set in [[BadFuture a dystopian future?]] It's not as if their CEO is ''clearly'' a suspicious shifty-eyed weasly money-grubbing douchebag.\\
'''David Blake, CEO:''' [[EvilLaugh WHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!]]

* ''WebVideo/KanePixelsTheBackrooms'': The [[ResearchInc ASYNC Research Facility]] is a very deliberate {{Subversion}} of this trope. They develop "Project [=KV31=]", a portal to the titular EldritchLocation... And proceed to follow rational safety rules, such as [[GenreSavvy Sending researchers in groups of no less than three, using tether lines leading back to the portal,]] [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and staying the hell away from the terrifying monster they run into]]. Only snag is that they're [[JustThinkOfThePotential still trying to make money off it]].

* ''WebVideo/KanePixelsTheBackrooms'': The [[ResearchInc ASYNC Research Facility]] is a very deliberate {{Subversion}} of this trope. They develop "Project [=KV31=]", a portal to the titular EldritchLocation... And proceed to follow rational safety rules, such as [[GenreSavvy Sending researchers in groups of no less than three, using tether lines leading back to the portal,]][[BreadEggsMilkSquick and staying the hell away from the terrifying monster they run into]]. Only snag is that they're [[JustThinkOfThePotential still trying to make money off it]].

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* Ludevic Laboratories, the company featured in [[WebVideo/TolarianCommunityCollege the Professor's]] video showcasing his exclusive Shadows Over Innistrad preview card, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Prized+Amalgam Prized Amalgam.]] The video is chock full of dressed up corporate speech nonsense meant to earn good PR when the company exists solely to create monsters that consume the living.

* Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. from ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' is an [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocratic]], AffablyEvil MegaCorp that specializes in selling paranormal artifacts to anyone willing to pay. They have a formal and respectful relationship with just about every power involved with TheMasquerade and practically have the entire world in their hands. Their only reason for their continued existence [[ForTheEvulz is because they want to play with it]].

** [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Osborn Industries]] was [[{{retcon}} retconned]] into one, once Norman Osborn himself was retconned to be EvilAllAlong.

# [[MilkmanConspiracy Unassuming]] ("Milwaukee Bakery, The" actually being the front for an international terrorist group)
# Suspicious but not too strange ([=PMCs=], weapon developers, pharmaceutical companies, etc.)