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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 their EvilPlan. Often a [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Lex Luthor]] 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:\\

# [[MilkmanConspiracy Unassuming]] (such as "Milwaukee Bakery, The" actually [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub being the front]] for an international terrorist group)

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 it’s a smaller part of a secretive agenda, it may be involved in TheConspiracy. 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.

** The series' iconic villain is the Umbrella Pharmaceutical Company, a corporation founded by a group of creepy English {{Evilutionary Biologist}}s who wanted to create a race of superhumans and TakeOverTheWorld. While Umbrella is a massive conglomerate that has multiple subsidiaries dealing in legitimate businesses, almost all of these serve as [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub some sort of front for the company's illegal activities]] in creating biological weapons. In [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 the original game]], the company stumbles on a zombie virus while performing genetic experiments. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' the virus leaks into the water supply after a botched mercenary operation, unleashing an epidemic on their CompanyTown, Raccoon City. Rather than try to, you know, help save the town from the epidemic so that it won't spread any further and their reputation won't be completely ruined, the company [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste sees a golden opportunity]] to test their newest line of biologically engineered {{Super Soldier}}s in a combat environment and use them to conduct a FieryCoverup while at it. Things ultimately go so bad that the US government ends up nuking the city, and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Umbrella's stocks plummet]], as nobody wants to work with a company that has such a massive stigma attached to it. The United States government drives the company into bankruptcy by freezing its assets and filing a massive number of lawsuits against it, and as Leon eloquently says in the opening intro of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'':

* In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', the various gun manufacturers run the gamut from just being criminally negligent (Dahl abandoning their workforce on Pandora led to them becoming insane bandits) to outright CartoonishSupervillainy in the case of Hyperion under Handsome Jack's rule. ''Videogame/TalesFromTheBorderlands'' shows that Hyperion corporate culture puts heavy emphasis on worshiping Jack and emulating his psychopathy with KlingonPromotion a completely viable way to climb up the corporate ladder.

** The series' iconic villain is the Umbrella Pharmaceutical Company, a corporation founded by a group of creepy English {{Evilutionary Biologist}}s who wanted to create a race of superhumans and TakeOverTheWorld. While Umbrella is a massive conglomerate that has multiple subsidiaries dealing in legitimate businesses, almost all of these serve as [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub some sort of front for the company's illegal activities]] in creating biological weapons. In [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 the original game]], the company stumbles on a zombie virus while performing genetic experiments. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' the virus leakes into the water supply after a botched mercenary operation, unleashing an epidemic on their CompanyTown, Raccoon City. Rather than try to, you know, help save the town from the epidemic so that it won't spread any further and their reputation won't be completely ruined, the company [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste sees a golden opportunity]] to test their newest line of biologically engineered {{Super Soldier}}s in a combat environment and use them to conduct a FieryCoverup while at it. Things ultimately go so bad that the US government ends up nuking the city, and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Umbrella's stocks plummet]], as nobody wants to work with a company that has such a massive stigma attached to it. The United States government drives the company into bankruptcy by freezing its assets and filing a massive number of lawsuits against it, and as Leon eloquently says in the opening intro of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'':

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# Cartoonishly evil (look up "Big Evil Corp.")

* Midas Bank from ''Anime/CTheMoneyAndSoulOfPossibility'' is a parallel-dimensional, worldwide organization which uses its customers' futures as collateral. Although they're less "Evil Inc." and more along the lines of "[[BlueAndOrangeMorality Love]][[EldritchAbomination craftian]] Inc."
* 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 on the orders of their masters, Queen Beryl and the Dark Kingdom.

* Vought-American, from ''ComicBook/TheBoys''. [[IncompetenceInc Responsible for both a WW2 fighter plane that almost cost the US its advance in the Pacific and an assault rifle so crappy the Vietcong didn't even steal it from the soldier's corpses, who only survived thanks to their extensive bribing network]]. Now they're the only ones producing superheroes, kept in check by the rest of the military industry and [[CapeBusters The Boys]].

** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' gives us Daggett Industries, whose products include face-melting and dangerously addictive plastic surgery cream Renuyu, synthetic viruses and health resorts run by [[PsychoPsychologist Hugo Strange]].

** [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM)]] used several shell corporations as fronts for their dealings, before the whole thing was bought out by [[ComicBook/NewMutants Roberto "Sunspot" DaCosta]] and rebranded as [[HeroesRUs "American Intelligence Mechanics"]].
** [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Osborn Industries]] was {{retcon}}ned into one, once Norman Osborn himself was retconned to be EvilAllAlong.
** Creator/MarvelUK's 1990s books were largely centred around Mys-Tech, a globe-spanning evil corporation led by immortal sorcerers. They employed ComicBook/{{Warheads}} and acted as the BigBad for the rest of the Marvel UK protagonists.

* The HighSchoolAU fanfiction ''FanFic/MoreThanHuman'' has an evil corporation called John Smith (JS) Inc. The Rowdyruff Boys work for them in the Special Cases unit, which deals in weaponry, espionage, assassinations and other evil.
* ''Fanfic/AnywhereButHere'': It is never stated ''what exactly'' the Diamandis Company makes, but all we really know is that it is environmentally unsafe and involves exploiting its workers to the point of various protests and acts of [[EcoTerrorist eco-terrorism]] is done against them. Since Blue and Yellow are a HangingJudge and CorruptCorporateExecutive respectively, going up against them in any way is risking life in prison or the electric chair.

* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseHumans Apex Cybernetics]] are the second type. They're a hi-tech corporation invested in the fields of robotics, neurology and A.I. with facilities on both U.S. and Chinese soil, and they're using their own facilities as a front to [[spoiler:build a Titan-killing Mecha]] with which they can kill Godzilla and any other Titan they deem a threat, and fashion themselves as the architects of humanity's future. What makes it even worse is they actually have the [[TooDumbToLive astonishing levels of stupidity]] to [[spoiler:use [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]]'s telepathic remains as the ''brain'' for their superweapon]]. And when [[spoiler:Apex's own actions instigate Godzilla's rampage]], true to corporate form, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Walter Simmons]] who's masterminding their EvilPlan takes advantage of it to make the public think Godzilla has made a FaceHeelTurn and that Apex will be humanity's savior instead of [[spoiler:the ones responsible for provoking Godzilla's rampage]].

* ''Film/{{Logan}}'': [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesTransigen Transigen]]. Hiding behind a benevolent public image, they are directly involved in illegal human experimentation on mutant children. They're also responsible for preventing further mutant births via genetically modified crops, which suppress the X-gene.

* ''Film/SorryToBotherYou'' has Worryfree, which has its workers sign lifetime contracts where they live at the factories, [[spoiler: and that's before you find out about the [[{{Animorphism}} equisapiens]].]]
* Umbrella Corporation in ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries''. Never one to miss a chance to accidentally unleash a ZombieApocalypse, Umbrella can always be counted to pick the most dickish of dick moves over anything else. [[spoiler:Then the [[Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter final movie]] reveals that they ''intentionally'' unleashed the T-virus, so that they could rule the post-apocalyptic world after the rest of humanity is decimated]].

* In ''Literature/{{Company}}'', Zephyr Holdings doesn't just have a BadBoss, its entire business is ''creating'' them. The whole company is just one big laboratory for finding the cruelest, most demeaning ways that a corporation can treat its own employees without losing productivity... and then teaching those techniques to managers at other companies.
* The Sombra Corporation in ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' series.

* In Kelley Armstrong's ''Literature/TheOtherworld'', back in the 16th century, the Sorcerers decided that they wanted to be the main supernatural power and duped the church into forming the Inquisition. Now, the Sorcerer cabals operate as massive, family-owned multinational corporations with more than their fair share of shady dealings...
* [=BeauTek=] from ''Literature/TheUltraViolets'', masquerading as a biocosmetics company while manufacturing mind-controlling perfume and their own army of mutants in the Mall of No Returns.

* Manpower Incorporated from the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series. Their main product is genetic slaves. Unlike many examples, their own nature is plainly visible for the galaxy to see. [[spoiler:Actually, Manpower is both a source of revenue and a distraction for the Mesan Alignment, which plans to [[TakeOverTheWorld Take Over The Galaxy]]]].
* The Goliath Corporation in the ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' books.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': The law firm Wolfram & Hart is a front for the Wolf, Ram, and Hart, a cabal of powerful demons commonly called the "Senior Partners". The firm's goals are to represent the evil and unnatural in mortal courts, further the aims of the Senior Partners to bring about the final Apocalypse, to keep man's inhumanity to man running smoothly, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking grow their yearly profit margin]]. Their clients include other Evil Incs. such as [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Weyland-Yutani]], [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension Yoyodyne]], [[TakeThat Newscorp]] and the patent holder of ''cancer''. It's also an [[JustForFun/MadeOfWin awesome]] EvilLawyerJoke. Some of the lawyers really ''are'' soulless, bloodsucking monsters; the rest are only soulless by contract.

* [[Characters/TheBoys2019VoughtInternational 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]].

* ConspiracyThriller ''Series/{{Utopia}}'' features Corvadt and Pergus Holdings, massive multinationals spanning dozens of different industries. [[spoiler: They are close to perfecting a SterilityPlague that takes effect when a [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke flu vaccine combines with genetically modified corn]].]]
* In ''Series/GetSmart'', K.A.O.S. is a Delaware corporation for tax purposes.
* ''Series/TheColbertReport'' has Prescott Group, a shady MegaCorp Creator/StephenColbert shills for. The pharmaceuticals division, inevitably featured during the "Cheating Death" segment, makes products always have a litany of hilariously horrifying {{Side Effects|Include}}.
* In ''Series/MrRobot'', the company E Corp is [[MegaCorp ridiculously powerful]] and is directly and indirectly responsible for a lot of bad things, including killing the main character's father via radiation. In fact, Elliot hates them so much that he actually mentally refers to the company as Evil Corp, and since the story is told [[UnreliableNarrator through his eyes]], whenever anybody mentions it, we hear “Evil Corp” as well.
* In series ''Series/BadRobots'', [=TezCorp=] is a megacorp who specializes in robotics and electronics. Created to punish humans for mistreating their electronic appliances. By a malevolent robot.
* ''Series/{{Corporate}}'' has Hampton [=DeVille=], a soulless multinational conglomerate headed by the iron-fisted CEO Christian [=DeVille=].

* ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'s workplace veered into this as the strip went on, primarily in the abusive ways in which the employees are treated. Heck, two of the higher-ups actually have "evil" in their job titles!

* Desert Bluffs, the town neighboring [[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale Night Vale]], is owned in its entirety by a company called [=StrexCorp=] Synernists Inc., which as of "Yellow Helicopters" [[spoiler:has begun to expand into Night Vale]].
* The entirety of ''Podcast/KakosIndustries'' deals with a company who doesn't hide their ambitions in the slightest and is determined to "Do Evil Better."

* While every MegaCorp in the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' Verse has its share of corruption, ruthlessness and conspiracies, Aztechnology probably takes the prize when it comes to fitting this trope. They have a pronounced fondness for BloodMagic and ritual cannibalism, and most runners don't want anything to do with them.
* Arasaka in ''TabletopGame/Cyberpunk2020'' is the best example there, even if the other {{Mega|Corp}}-Corps of that setting are anything but "Good, Inc".
* Fabricators Inc. from ''TabletopGame/HeroesUnlimited'' are a criminal company that make advanced weapons and other technology to sell to supervillains.

* In ''Videogame/{{Borderlands}}'', the various gun manufacturers run the gamut from just being criminally negligent (Dahl abandoning their workforce on Pandora led to them becoming insane bandits) to outright CartoonishSupervillainy in the case of Hyperion under Handsome Jack's rule. ''Videogame/TalesFromTheBorderlands'' shows that Hyperion corporate culture puts heavy emphasis on worshiping Jack and emulating his psychopathy with KlingonPromotion a completely viable way to climb up the corporate ladder.

* ''Videogame/CriminalCaseTheConspiracy'' has [=DreamLife=]. Initially introduced as a tech firm company focused on developing virtual reality games, they get slowly unmasked over the course of the story as a morally bankrupt company whose true goal is to [[spoiler:develop a FantasticDrug capable of turning humans into mindless sheeple for them to be controlled by a select powerful elite]], and its influence via the works of [[spoiler:[[BigBad Rozetta Pierre]] and [[TheConspiracy Ad Astra]]]] lasts for the whole game even after its shutdown [[DiscOneFinalBoss halfway through the season]].
* In the ''Videogame/{{Crysis}}'' series, C.E.L.L. starts as a corrupt and bloodthirsty military contractor. Between the second and third games, [[spoiler:they falsely take credit for Alcatraz's victory and obtain an alien energy source]], so their political influence and economic power grows to the point that they can drive multitudes into debt slavery.
* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', most of the [[MegaCorp megacorporations]] dominating the FallenStatesOfAmerica are ChaoticNeutral at best with the exception of Arasaka, which operates the WretchedHive of Night City (a.k.a. "the worst place to live in America") following the SecondAmericanCivilWar.

* In the ''VideoGame/DereDotExe'' series, [=AppSir=] Inc (which shares their name with the out-of-universe developer) appears to just be a game development company but is actually a front group for the Rotschstein Institute, which uses their games as experiments in forced digitization of human minds and other such things. [[spoiler:Even after the demise of the Institute, Darius continues the company's experiments to bring back someone he loves and seek revenge on those he felt wronged him.]]
* Where to even start with ''VideoGame/DeusEx''? Just about every corporation in the series is up to something shady, whether that be actively profiting off of others' misery or being in cahoots with TheIlluminati. Technology and bio-research giant [=VersaLife=] (along with its parent company, Page Industries) is the worst offender, responsible for countless incidents of unethical experimentation, corporate espionage, and [[spoiler:the production and release of the Gray Death [[SyntheticPlague nanovirus]]]]. And that's without even mentioning [[spoiler:their CEO's plans to take over the United States, and his attempt to [[AGodAmI merge with an omniscient AI to turn himself into a god]]]].
* ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' mostly centers around two corporations. Sarif Industries, the protagonist's employer, is a generally benign, if not exactly benevolent, company that treats its employees well and just wants to make an honest buck bringing augmentation technology to the world. Tai Yong Medical, on the other hand, plays this trope for all its worth. Its CEO cares for nothing but profit, outright demanding that employees use untested and even defective materials in its augmentation products in order to meet profit and schedule goals, engaging in hostile takeovers and corporate espionage to eliminate competition, [[spoiler: producing "upgrades" that allow her to shut off augmented people or drive them insane, and even planning to merge with the Hyron Project]].
* The [=BigCorp=] from ''VideoGame/DinerDashAdventures'' is portrayed as a CardCarryingVillain who explicitly sets out to cause mayhem in Diner Town ForTheEvulz, and openly brags about committing "evil" deeds. This is a {{Flanderization}} of their [[VideoGame/DinerDash previous portrayal]], where Mr. Big is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who is willing to engage in sabotage to get rid of competitors, but is also willing to concede defeat if his rivals manage to survive despite the sabotage. By contrast, the [=BigCorp=] in ''Adventures'' seem to cause wanton destruction all over the city for the heck of it, even when it's not profitable for anyone.

* The UAC in ''[[VideoGame/Doom2016 Doom (2016)]]'' have gone straight into this trope, in contrast to their [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure positive portrayal]] in the previous games, thanks to the upper echelons becoming a ''demon cult''. Their antics include sacrificing their employees to summon demons and trying to create fusions of demons and machines, like the [[spoiler:Cyberdemon]]. Other things include encouraging employees to voluntarily give up their souls, get pentagram brands to "show their faith in the UAC", and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking institute a seven-day work week]] (because God rested on the seventh day, but [[BlasphemousBoast just think of how much more work He could have gotten done if He hadn't]]!) as they [[TooDumbToLive try to exploit Hell for its resources]]. The whole thing is PlayedForLaughs at points, with cheerful announcements that offer slogans like "Weaponizing demons for a brighter tomorrow!" Towards the end of the game, they degenerate into BlackSpeech. They go even harder in ''Videogame/DoomEternal'' due to one of the Hell Priests having taken over as the head, with the Slayer constantly coming across an announcer praising demonkind and telling humanity to sacrifice themselves.
* The ''Videogame/{{Fallout}}'' series has Vault-Tec, who are the creators of the Vaults and the ones behind all the various horrible social experiments that often result in disaster and unnecessary human suffering. The ''Vault-Tec Workshop'' DLC of ''Videogame/Fallout4'' gives a good look into the mentality of Vault-Tec employees: They are typically amoral psychopaths dedicated to nonsensical experiments that results in nothing worthwhile and any employee with an interest in actually improving the quality of life of Vault Dwellers are hated and shunned by the others.

* Mantel Industries from ''VideoGame/{{Haze}}'' is a PrivateMilitaryContractor / MegaCorp responsible for the massacre and displacement of South American indigenous groups. Its activities are so heinous that it has to forcibly keep its soldiers in line with "Nectar", a drug which makes their horrific actions seem like [[WarForFunAndProfit good, patriotic fun]].
* [=UltraTech=] is the evil mega-corp that hosts the ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'' tournament. It's not clear why they host it, but the comics implies they make a killing through spectators.
* Czerka Corporation in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' is only marginally less evil than the Sith, and siding with Czerka on some dispute is a rite of passage in any Dark Side playthrough. Its business opportunities have included botching up the Telosian restoration with short-sighted profit-grubbing, dealing with the Exchange (only to have your Dark Exile kill the leader when that relationship becomes...''inconvenient'') and trading in Wookiee slaves.
** Thankfully according to ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', their shit finally caught up with them and they were eventually gutted by TheRepublic and ended up changing their name and restructuring themselves to try and distance themselves from their former reputation. They became a legitimate company after that, although during the Galactic CivilWar they signed an exclusivity contract with [[TheEmpire Darth Sidious' Galactic Empire]]. However, they [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating held no real loyalty]] to TheEmperor and actively sought out weapon production contracts with the New Republic after his fall.
* Really, any of the Wings of the World in the ''Creator/ProjectMoon'' SharedUniverse (which contains ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'', ''VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina'' and ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany'') count, but you ''play'' as one, as the titular ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'' (also known as L. Corp) - the corporation's product? Energy for the MegaCity the setting takes place in; how do they get said energy? By harvesting it from horrible eldritch creatures called Abnormalities like a twisted for-profit version of the Website/SCPFoundation. Employees have to essentially live within the branches and are never allowed to live, their lives are completely up for grabs in the case of an outbreak and insanity is common - and that's not even talking how [[spoiler: the grand majority of Abnormalities are artificial and created by L. Corp itself, or the atrocities the Sephirah had to suffer thanks to Ayin.]] The gameplay encourages you to play very callously - it is, ''technically'', possible to have run where you treat all your Agents well and prevent all of them for dying, but the NintendoHard nature of the game acts as a natural barrier to that, and the game offers you various ways to KickTheDog - such as an Abnormality that slowly and painfully kills an Agent sent to work in it in exchange for 'free' energy.
* Aesir Pharmaceuticals in the original ''VideoGame/MaxPayne1''. 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.
* In ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'', the DeadlyGame the cast find themselves in [[spoiler: was derived from a similar one created by Cradle Pharmaceuticals, who kidnapped 18 children from one of their hospitals for an elaborate human experiment into PsychicPowers and MindManipulation. Their MadScientist [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] was gleefully willing to potentially [[WouldHurtAChild murder children]] to get results, and they even abducted a police detective who was getting too close to the truth.]]

* [=DataDyne=] in ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' counts as this. They try to help an evil alien race retrieve a very powerful weapon. They try to kidnap the US president so they can use the government's submarine to reach said weapon. Prior to this, no one suspects them of any wrongdoing except the protagonist's organization.

** The series' iconic villain is the Umbrella Pharmaceutical Company, a corporation founded by a group of creepy English [[EvilutionaryBiologist Evilutionary Biologists]] who wanted to create a race of superhumans and TakeOverTheWorld. While Umbrella is a massive conglomerate that has multiple subsidiaries dealing in legitimate businesses, almost all of these serve as some sort of front for the company's illegal activities in creating biological weapons. In the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 original game]], the company stumbled on a zombie virus while performing genetic experiments. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' the virus leaked into the water supply after a botched mercenary operation, unleashing an epidemic on their CompanyTown, Raccoon City. Rather than try to, you know, help save the town from the epidemic so that it wouldn't spread any further and their reputation wouldn't be completely ruined, the company [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste sees a golden opportunity]] to test their newest line of biologically engineered supersoldiers in a combat environment and use them to conduct a FieryCoverup while at it. Things ultimately go so bad that the US government ends up nuking the city and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Umbrella's stocks plummet]] as nobody wants to work with a company that has such a massive stigma attached to it and so the United States government drives the company into bankruptcy by freezing its assets and filing a massive amount of lawsuits at it and as Leon eloquently says in the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' opening intro.
--->'''Leon:''' Soon its stock prices crashed and for all intents and purposes, Umbrella was finished.

* Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog's nemesis Dr. Robotnik is shown to own a few companies as fronts for his evil schemes, especially in the ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' sub-series where he's the owner of Robotnik Corp., the provider of the Extreme Gear used in the first installment, and [=MeteorTech=], a security company that produces androids. He's also been known to lease out his older robot designs to security companies.
* [=OmniCorp=] from ''VideoGame/ScrapMetalHeroes'' is a Type 2 example, being a robot manufacturer who is behind the mysterious robot malfunctions for unknown reasons. Later, it's revealed that [=OmniCorp=] is actually [[spoiler: a [[SubvertedTrope subversion:]] they're just a scapegoat for the real villains.]]
* [[BlandNameProduct Roxxon Energy]] appears in ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'' and plans to sell their experimental fuel source called Nuform to the state while [[IncompetenceInc concealing the fact that it's highly unstable and toxic]], while harassing dissenters with their [[ObviouslyEvil corporate death squads]]. [[GenderFlip The Tinkerer]] tried to stop them with her brother who invented it, only for him to be murdered by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the CEO Simon Krieger]] as he downplayed the potential danger to the public.
* The various corporations in ''Videogame/TheOuterWorlds'' operate without any oversight due to the fact that they're far away enough from Earth that they are for all intents and purposes the rulers of the colony, which coupled with [[IncompetenceInc their utter incompetence]] spells dangerous things. Aside from overworking their employees, they're also not above such actions as causing robots to go haywire and killing everyone as a form of insurance fraud as well as other shenanigans. The only aversion is Monarch Stellar Industries, a more egalitarian company that unlike the others valued the rights and individual liberties of its employees, which has led to it becoming a major thorn in the side of the Board.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has the Betty Crocker wing of General Mills, which may or may not be its own company Crockercorp [[CosmicRetcon depending on what universe you're in]]. Betty Crocker is real, and is also known as The Batterwitch. [[spoiler: She's an alien empress acting in the service of the BigBad and [[TheStarscream trying to overthrow him and take over herself.]]]]
* ''Webcomic/CthulhuSlippers'' has Cthulhu Corp, a biotechnology company owned and operated by Lovcraftian monstrosities. Products are more often than not fatal to their users ("Can o' Shoggoth", "Face Squid", and "Stress Brick"), and employees both human and nonhuman are routinely eaten, mauled, afflicted with Body Horror, driven to insanity, or [[KlingonPromotion ritually sacrificed by their coworkers for raises and promotions]]. It's [[WorldOfSnark all]] [[BlackComedy played]] [[WorkCom for]] [[LovecraftLite laughs]].
* In ''Webcomic/JennyAndTheMultiverse'' (see also ''WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere'' in "Web Original" below), the Altern Corporation act as the primary antagonists, with its CorruptCorporateExecutive "the Man in Grey" serving as the BigBad.

* Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. from ''Website/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.

* ''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]].
* 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E2YouOnlyMoveTwice the Globex Corporation]], run by Hank Scorpio, a man whose twin desires are world domination and [[BenevolentBoss the well-being of his employees]].

* ''[[WesternAnimation/VillainousCartoonNetwork Villainous]]'' has the Black Hat Organization, which makes its money by selling various weapons and other creations to villains so they can defeat their heroes.

* [=TransGene=] of the ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' story "Pastoral" -- abducted many victims for experiments, with only a sole, superpowered survivor; he escaped but is now a fugitive from justice, and the corporation is now hunting for him with more experimental subjects, in order to dissect him and learn why the process worked on him.

** The oldest example is [[BlandNameProduct Roxxon Oil]], which was swallowed up by another evil corporation, Kronos. Roxxon later returned as an independent company and major antagonist in ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' and ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' under the control of Dario Agger, before its new CEO goes against the ComicBook/{{Champions|2020}}.

Welcome to Evil Inc. We have many functions, 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 whether you know it or not, you probably work for us. Have a nice day!

# Cartoonishly evil (look up Big Evil Corp.)

Regardless of which type, they will typically have one of two basic goals: [[{{Greed}} make as much money as possible]] regardless of who suffers, and TakeOverTheWorld.

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 the “reveal” that a company is Evil, Inc. can be seen coming from a mile away, but the test for whether or not the hero is working there is to ask whether his mission is some level of top secret, or whether he’s ever seen 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!

Welcome to Evil Inc. We have many functions, 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 whether you know it or not, you probably work for us. Have a nice day!

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 their EvilPlan. 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:\\

* [=TransGene=] of the ComicBook/AstroCity story "Pastoral" -- abducted many victims for experiments, with only a sole, superpowered survivor; he escaped but is now a fugitive from justice, and the corporation is now hunting for him with more experimental subjects, in order to dissect him and learn why the process worked on him.

** The best known example is Lexcorp, the corporation that ComicBook/{{Superman}}'s ArchEnemy ComicBook/LexLuthor uses to forward his evil schemes. Almost every time after one of his plans fails, he'll say something to the extent of [[BlatantLies "Arrest ME? But I'm just the head of a perfectly legitimate Mega corp! Why arrest me?"]]

* Franchise/MarvelUniverse has several examples - most of whom are ComicBook/IronMan villains.
** The oldest example is [[BlandNameProduct Roxxon Oil]], which was swallowed up by another evil corporation, Kronos.
*** Roxxon later returned as an independent company and major antagonist in ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' and ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' under the control of Dario Agger, before its new CEO goes against the ComicBook/{{Champions|2020}}.
** [[ComicBook/{{Avengers}} Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM)]] used several shell corporations as fronts for their dealings, before the whole thing was bought out by [[ComicBook/NewMutants Roberto "Sunspot" DaCosta]] and rebranded as [[HeroesRUs "American Intelligence Mechanics"]].

** Marvel UK’s 1990s books were largely centred around Mys-Tech, a globe-spanning evil corporation led by immortal sorcerers. They employed ComicBook/{{Warheads}} and acted as the BigBad for the rest of the Marvel UK protagonists.
** The ComicBook/XMen have Trask Industries, which exists solely to manufacture KillerRobot Sentinels. Shaw Industries picks up the Sentinel slack after Trask and his company go the way of the dodo.
** ''ComicBook/NextWave'' had the Beyond Corporation, both the secret sponsor of [=NextWave=] and the force behind their greatest enemies, [=H.A.T.E.=]. ''[[ComicBook/MightyAvengers2013 Mighty Avengers]]'' later reveals that Beyond Corporation is actually made up of cosmic entities like the Beyonders who took a bunch of heroes and fucked with their personalities ForTheEvulz, and most of the old [=NextWave=] team has been dealing with some serious psychological repercussions from it. And then after ''those'' cosmic bastards got kicked out, Beyond stuck around, and is still doing seriously questionable experiments.

* Dead Rising 2 introduces Phenotrans, the pharmaceutical company responsible for manufacturing the expensive anti-zombification drug Zombrex. [[spoiler:As it turns out, producing Zombrex requires the acquisition of a steady supply of Queens, parasitic insects responsible for (and spawned by) the creation of zombies. Phenotrans' solution to this was to intentionally cause zombie outbreaks in Las Vegas and Fortune City, killing and infecting millions of people while giving Phenotrans the supplies they needed.]]

* Mantel Industries from ''VideoGame/{{Haze}}'' is a PrivateMilitaryContractor/MegaCorp responsible for the massacre and displacement of South American indigenous groups. Its activities are so heinous that it has to forcibly keep its soldiers in line with "Nectar", a drug which makes their horrific actions seem like good, patriotic fun.

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''':

-->'''Leon:''' Soon its stock prices crashed and for all intents and purposes, Umbrella was finished.

* Where to even start with ''VideoGame/DeusEx''? Just about every corporation in the series is up to something shady, whether that be actively profiting off of others' misery to being in cahoots with TheIlluminati. Technology and bio-research giant [=VersaLife=] (along with its parent company, Page Industries) is the worst offender, responsible for countless incidents of unethical experimentation, corporate espionage, and [[spoiler:the production and release of the Gray Death [[SyntheticPlague nanovirus]]]]. And that's without even mentioning [[spoiler:their CEO's plans to take over the United States, and his attempt to [[AGodAmI merge with an omniscient AI to turn himself into a god]]]].

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'''s Umbrella Pharmaceutical Company was founded by a group of creepy English [[EvilutionaryBiologist Evilutionary Biologists]], who wanted to create a race of superhumans and TakeOverTheWorld. While the company is a massive conglomerate that has multiple subsidiaries dealing in legitimate businesses, almost all of these serve as some sort of front for the company's illegal activities in creating biological weapons. In the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 original game]], the company stumbled on a zombie virus while performing genetic experiments. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' the virus leaked into the water supply after a botched mercenary operation, unleashing an epidemic on their CompanyTown, Raccoon City. Rather than try to, you know, help save the town from the epidemic so that it wouldn't spread any further and their reputation wouldn't be completely ruined, the company [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste sees a golden opportunity]] to test their newest line of biologically engineered supersoldiers in a combat environment and use them to conduct a FieryCoverup while at it. Things ultimately go so bad that the US government ends up nuking the city and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Umbrella's stocks plummet]] as nobody wants to work with a company that has such a massive stigma attached to it and so the United States government drives the company into bankruptcy by freezing its assets and filing a massive amount of lawsuits at it and as Leon eloquently says in the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' opening intro.

* Where to even start with ''VideoGame/DeusEx''? Just about every corporation in the series is up to something shady, whether that be actively profiting off of others' misery to being in cahoots with TheIlluminati. Technology and bio-research giant VersaLife (along with its parent company, Page Industries) is the worst offender, responsible for countless incidents of unethical experimentation, corporate espionage, and the production and release of the Gray Death [[SyntheticPlague nanovirus]]. And that's without even mentioning their CEO's plans to take over the United States, and his plans to [[AGodAmI merge with an omniscient AI to turn himself into a god]].

* ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' mostly centers around two corporations. Sarif Industries, the protagonist's employer, is a generally benign, if not exactly benevolent, company that treats its employees well and just wants to make an honest buck bringing augmentation technology to the world. Tai Yong Medical, on the other hand, plays this trope for all it's worth. Its CEO cares for nothing but profit, outright demanding that employees use untested and even defective materials in its augmentation products in order to meet profit and schedule goals, engaging in hostile takeovers and corporate espionage to eliminate competition, [[spoiler: producing "upgrades" that allow her to shut off augmented people or drive them insane, and even planning to merge with the Hyron Project]].

* Really, any of the Wings of the World in the [[Creator/ProjectMoon]] shared universe (which contains ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'', ''VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina'' and ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany'') count, but you ''play'' as one, as the titular ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'' (also known as L. Corp) - the corporation's product? Energy for the MegaCity the setting takes place in; how do they get said energy? By harvesting it from horrible eldritch creatures called Abnormalities like a twisted for-profit version of the Website/SCPFoundation. Employees have to essentially live within the branches and are never allowed to live, their lives are completely up for grabs in the case of an outbreak and insanity is common - and that's not even talking how [[spoiler: the grand majority of Abnormalities are artificial and created by L. Corp itself, or the atrocities the Sephirah had to suffer thanks to Ayin.]] The gameplay encourages you to play very callously - it is, ''technically'', possible to have run where you treat all your Agents well and prevent all of them for dying, but the NintendoHard nature of the game acts as a natural barrier to that, and the game offers you various ways to KickTheDog - such as an Abnormality that slowly and painfully kills an Agent sent to work in it in exchange for 'free' energy.

* The UAC in ''[[VideoGame/Doom2016 Doom (2016)]]'' have gone straight into this trope, in contrast to their [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure positive portrayal]] in the previous games, thanks to the upper echelons becoming a ''demon cult''. Their antics include sacrificing their employees to summon demons and trying to create fusions of demons and machines, like the [[spoiler:Cyberdemon]]. Other things include encouraging employees to voluntarily give ueir souls, get pentagram brands to "show their faith in the UAC", and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking institute a seven-day work week]] (because God rested on the seventh day, but [[BlasphemousBoast just think of how much more work He could have gotten done if He hadn't]]!) as they [[TooDumbToLive try to exploit Hell for its resources]]. The whole thing is PlayedForLaughs at points, with cheerful announcements that offer slogans like "Weaponizing demons for a brighter tomorrow!" Towards the end of the game, they degenerate into BlackSpeech. They go even harder in ''Videogame/DoomEternal'' due to one of the Hell Priests having taken over as the head, with the Slayer constantly coming across an announcer praising demonkind and telling humanity to sacrifice themselves.

* ''ComicBook/NextWave'' had the Beyond Corporation, both the secret sponsor of [=NextWave=] and the force behind their greatest enemies, [=H.A.T.E.=]. ''[[ComicBook/MightyAvengers2013 Mighty Avengers]]'' later reveals that Beyond Corporation is actually made up of cosmic entities like the Beyonders who took a bunch of heroes and fucked with their personalities ForTheEvulz, and most of the old [=NextWave=] team has been dealing with some serious psychological repercussions from it. And then after ''those'' cosmic bastards got kicked out, Beyond stuck around, and is still doing seriously questionable experiments.

* Arasaka in ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk2020}}'' is the best example there, even if the other {{MegaCorp}}s of that setting are anything but "Good, Inc".