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* The Blue Sun Corporation in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' ([[NameIsTheSame not to be confused with]] [[Franchise/MassEffect the Blue Suns of Mass Effect]] was implied to be one of these, though they may have simply been an arm of the totalitarian government. The series didn't last long enough to make it clear.

-->-- '''Magazine/TheEconomist''' on [[UsefulNotes/TheRaj the British East India Company]]

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation, an [[TheMenInBlack international secret society]] that [[TheMasquerade hides paranormal/supernatural phenomena]] from the whole world, is an absurdly powerful organization that operates beyond any national government. They have [[OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding nearly limitless resources]], including a fully-equipped paramilitary force, several trillion dollars' worth of assets including heavily-secured facilities, access to magical (and otherwise) artifacts allowing them control over time and space, the ability to essentially bend the world's governments to their ends, and even their own ''ship prefix''. [[JustifiedTrope Considering they're responsible for securing and studying]] thousands upon thousands of anomalous {{artifact|OfDoom}}s and {{eldritch|Abomination}} entities, many of which can easily [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy the world]], trying to stop them would be a bad idea; save for some rival Groups of Interest[[note]](the biggest one of which, the Global Occult Coalition, is backed by the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations and so just as well-funded and stocked)[[/note]], no one opposes the Foundation.

* [[MegaCorp Event Horizon]] in the Greg Mandel trilogy by Creator/PeterFHamilton. Not only do they have hardliner security forces with PoweredArmor and hypersonic aircraft to deploy them anywhere in the world, by the third novel their CEO Julia Evans has hacked the top secret design of electron-compression warheads. Fortunately she just wants to use them for asteroid mining, but people are [[ColonyDrop understandably nervous]] when she blasts an asteroid into Earth orbit to mine it.

** The Center for Chaos Containment. The CCC owns a lot of nukes, a gigantic mecha, [[spoiler:are aware of the entire ''multiverses'']] and have weapons powerful enough to ''stop time itself''.

** Said pirate lords themselves can also count. Despite being put together under a single title, the Four Emperors, they are not a cohesive whole. Each Emperor operates independently of the other three and they effectively rule the second half of the Grand Line. When the Marines decided to pick a fight with the most powerful of them they brought out every single soldier and weapon they had and the Seven Warlords besides and ''still'' barely achieve victory.

*** By the end of Act 2 of the Wano Arc, [[spoiler:Kaido and Big Mom officially form an alliance to initially take down that brat called Straw Hat Luffy, who is a major thorn in both of their plans, but they are also former crewmates as well. Soon they decide to TakeOverTheWorld, starting with Wano, with Kaido pulling a quick coup on the resident decadent Shogun, and declaring to their followers and rest of the world they aim to take One Piece and crush everyone else who opposes them. It gets so bad ''the Marines'' freak out, and decide to wash their hands of Wano, because there's no force on the planet that can take out ''two Emperors'' at once. To give a scale, the last time they fought an Emperor, their island got destroyed with ''many'' casualties on both sides, with the Emperor himself being taken down only due to his raging illness and treachery from one of their own. Two Admirals resigned, causing a major shift in power. That was the Marines' ''[[PyrrhicVictory victory]]'', by the way. It just gets worse when Luffy's crew and the allience they've formed takes them on... And have a real chance of ''winning''. If they weren't panicking before, they will at the prospect of an enemy force even more powerful than ''two'' Emperors at once.]]

** Mexican drug cartels are today what the Medellin Cartel used to be, in particular the Sinaloa cartel and the Los Zetas. They make an estimated $60 ''billion'' dollars a year and they can stand toe-to-toe with the Mexican military, in several cases matching them for firepower.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation, an [[TheMenInBlack international secret society]] that [[TheMasquerade hides paranormal/supernatural phenomena]] from the whole world, is an absurdly powerful organization that operates beyond any national government. They have [[OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding nearly limitless resources]], including a fully-equipped paramilitary force, several trillion dollars' worth of assets including heavily-secured facilities, access to magical (and otherwise) artifacts allowing them control over time and space, and the ability to essentially bend the world's governments to their ends, and even their own ''ship prefix''. [[JustifiedTrope Considering they're responsible for securing and studying]] thousands upon thousands of [[EldritchAbomination eldritch entities]] and {{artifact|OfDoom}}s that can easily [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy the world]], trying to stop them would be a bad idea; save for a few rival Groups of Interest (the biggest one of which, the Global Occult Coalition, is backed by the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations and so just as well-funded and stocked), no one opposes the Foundation.

* ''Film/{{Traffic}}'': Judge Wakefield (Creator/MichaelDouglas), in preparation for his new job as America's "Drug Czar," speaks with various politicians and drug enforcement officials. One official tells him that {{The Cartel}}s have an "unlimited budget." Wakefield asks for clarification; does he mean that these cartels can actually compete with a nation like the U.S., with all its power and resources? The official responds, "No. They're way beyond us." (The filmmakers went to great lengths to ensure authenticity in these scenes, so this is very much TruthInTelevision.)

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation, an [[TheMenInBlack international secret society]] that [[TheMasquerade hides paranormal/supernatural phenomena]] from the whole world, is an absurdly powerful organization that operates beyond any national government. They have [[OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding nearly limitless resources]]; including a fully-equipped paramilitary force, several trillion dollars' worth of assets including heavily-secured facilities, access to magical (and otherwise) artifacts allowing them control over time and space, and the ability to essentially bend the world's governments to their ends. Considering they're responsible for securing and studying {{eldritch| abomination}} [[ArtifactOfDoom entities]] which can easily [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy the world]], no one really tries to stop them anyway; save for a few rival Groups of Interest (the biggest one of which, the Global Occult Coalition, is backed by the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations and so just as well-funded and stocked).
** The Foundation even has their own ''ship prefix'', SCPS.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation, an [[TheMenInBlack international secret society]] that [[TheMasquerade hides paranormal/supernatural phenomena]] from the whole world, is an absurdly powerful organization that operates beyond any national government. They have [[OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding nearly limitless resources]], including a fully-equipped paramilitary force, several trillion dollars' worth of assets including heavily-secured facilities, access to magical (and otherwise) artifacts allowing them control over time and space, and the ability to essentially bend the world's governments to their ends. Considering they're responsible for securing and studying {{eldritch| abomination}} [[ArtifactOfDoom entities]] which can easily [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy the world]], no one really tries to stop them anyway; save for a few rival Groups of Interest (the biggest one of which, the Global Occult Coalition, is backed by the United Nations and so just as well-funded and stocked).

* [[TheMenInBlack The titular organization]] from ''Film/MenInBlack''. They're a top-secret, international law-enforcement agency which ''does not'' serve nor answer to ''any'' national government; and yet, they're somehow responsible for policing a fairly large population of [[HumanDisguise disguised]] extraterrestrial immigrants on Earth, and defending the planet from any potential {{alien inva|sion}}ders. Though they often pretend to be agents of the (US) federal government, as part of their efforts to [[TheMasquerade conceal the truth about aliens]].

*** UpToEleven by the end of Act 2 of the Wano Arc. [[spoiler:Kaido and Big Mom officially form an alliance to initially take down that brat called Straw Hat Luffy, who is a major thorn in both of their plans, but they are also former crewmates as well. Soon they decide to TakeOverTheWorld, starting with Wano, with Kaido pulling a quick coup on the resident decadent Shogun, and declaring to their followers and rest of the world they aim to take One Piece and crush everyone else who opposes them. It gets so bad ''the Marines'' freak out, and decide to wash their hands of Wano, because there's no force on the planet that can take out ''two Emperors'' at once. To give a scale, the last time they fought an Emperor, their island got destroyed with ''many'' casualties on both sides, with the Emperor himself being taken down only due to his raging illness and treachery from one of their own. Two Admirals resigned, causing a major shift in power. That was the Marines' ''[[PyrrhicVictory victory]]'', by the way. It just gets worse when Luffy's crew and the allience they've formed takes them on... And have a real chance of ''winning''. If they weren't panicking before, they will at the prospect of an enemy force even more powerful than ''two'' Emperors at once.]]

*** ''Mass Effect: Invasion'' ramps it UpToEleven: [[spoiler:They invade Omega with a small army of elite soldiers, a fleet of heavy cruisers, and a [[https://i.imgur.com/26Bva06.jpg battleship/dreadnought.]] Said battleship/dreadnought is basically a super weapon platform that can depopulate an entire planet in a day.]][[note]]Assuming it's only on par with a standard Citadel dreadnought (even though it's stated to be more advanced). Per the codex, a smaller 888-meter Citadel dreadnought's main gun can fire a 20 kg slug at 4,025 km/s every two seconds, for the equivalent of 38 kilotons of TNT. Scaling this up volumetrically to a similarly-proportioned 1,000-meter long dreadnought gets you 54 kilotons outputted every two seconds (or 27 per second) from its main gun. With 86,400 seconds in a day, that would equate to 2.33 gigatons. For reference, the entirety of the world's current nuclear stockpile comes out to less than 2 gigatons. This is only the main gun, and not accounting for the dreadnought's missile pods or its dozens of broadside guns which could potentially increase its firepower by multiple folds. A typical dreadnought is said to have 156 broadsides with 78 per side, each gun running 40% of the ship's length or ~150 meters.[[/note]]

** This gets turned UpToEleven in the sequels. In a specific example, the first levels of the DLC of ''F.E.A.R 2'', ''Reborn'' consists of a massive battle between Armacham and Replica forces. This includes dozens of elite operatives on both sides, fifth-generation fighter jets (think things on par with the F-22 Raptor), helicopter gunships and PoweredArmor dropped from orbit. All of it--including the Replica slaughtering them--is the property of the Armacham Corporation.

** In the 4-FA continuity, this is taken UpToEleven, where before the events of the game, these {{Mega Corp}}s destroyed the world's governments and ''took over the world'' in under a month using a small number of ''extremely'' advanced mechs. [[spoiler:And they're still in control at the end of FA, unless the ORCA Path is chosen, in which case the revolutionary ORCA Brigade (also an NGO Superpower) take over the world instead, then let humanity out into space.]]

---> '''Militia:''' If our gear's top-of-the-line then what's the Bat's? Over the line? On-top-of-the-line? [[UpToEleven Is that even a thing]]?

** The Titans in ''Series/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' are nominally just an elite StateSec for the Earth Federation, but in practice they're basically a private army for Jamitov Hymen [[spoiler:and later [[TheStarscream Paptimus Scirocco]]]], acting as their own autonomous faction and paying little regard to the Federation government, whom they outright plot to usurp.

* ''Literature/EncryptionStraffe]]'': Overmind is a creation between the internal security organs of many NATO countries that evolved to control two cities, multiple front companies, and pretty much all of the private armies in the world.

* The two largest factions in ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'' are Schicksal and Anti-Entropy, which are rival organizations despite sharing the same goal of defeating the Honkai because the latter was originally the North American branch of the former that defected. Both organizations transcend all existing nation-states and are effectively giant governments in themselves own with their own militaries, laws, and even nuclear weapons. Schicksal controls Afro-Eurasia while Anti-Entropy controls North and South America. Only a handful of countries are neutral between them, one of them being Singapore.

** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' has Cerberus, a human supremacist terrorist organization which, due to generous covert funding from major human organizations, owns multiple deep-space habitats (some, like Cronos Station, being around 10 km long and should easily mass over a hundred million tons), funds multibillion-dollar resurrection projects, builds bleeding-edge spacecraft, and decks its people out in spiffy uniforms. Notably, they managed to rebuild the Normandy, which Admiral Mikhailovich said costed as much as a heavy cruiser (read: multi-million ton capital ship that spits out kilotons per second in its main gun alone) or 12,000 fighter craft. The multi-billion credit initiative to revive Shepard was pocket change by comparison, and even that was enough to build and outfit an army, per Shepard himself.

** According to some backstory revealed in ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'', one of the co-founders of Hyperion took part in "The Last Corporate War" that led to the collapse of the central government of the sic galaxies and becoming essentially political factions in their own right. Armed conflicts between the corporations remain common, and they are all mentioned or shown to have massive armies.

** According to some backstory revealed in ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'', one of the co-founders of Hyperion instigated a "Corporate War" that led to the corporations destroying the central government of the galaxy and becoming essentially political factions in their own right. Armed conflicts between the corporations remain common, and they are all mentioned or shown to have massive armies.

* [[MegaCorp Vector Industries]] in ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' definitely counts. Not only are they the wealthiest corporation in ''the galaxy'', they maintain the entire galactic infrustructure through [[TheAlternet the U.M.N.]], they make up roughly half of the galaxy's equivalent of the military industrial complex, they are responsible for production of [[ArtificialHuman Realians]], and their corporate headquarters is a ship so massive that it can qualify as an artificial ''planet.'' The kicker? [[spoiler:Their CEO, Wilhelm, is not only TheChessmaster to such a degree that he controls Vector's top corporate competitor, Ormus (the majority religious organization in the galaxy), as well as being the former head of one of TheFederation's top subcommittees, effectively making him TheMan, he's also a freaking ''CosmicEntity'' with godlike powers that has been using an ArtifactOfDoom that allows him to see the future. If he wasn't too busy trying to avert TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt (albeit through [[WellIntentionedExtremist very questionable means]]), he might as well just crown himself God Emperor For All Eternity and be done with it.]]

** Kaibacorp certainly comes close to this a lot of the time, being a MegaCorp with very advanced technology and enough revenue to casually pull off insane feats. They're definitely well into this point by ''Anime/TheDarkSideOfDimensions'', where Kaiba has built a space station with accompanying elevator and a full-dive VR network that uses the minds of its users as computational power, and one scene suggests that he owns Domino City and has made owning a Deck and Duel Disk mandatory.

* Doma from the post-Battle City Tournament FillerArc of ''Anime/YuGiOh'', the {{cult}} run by Dartz and [[YourSoulIsMine the Seal of Orichalcos]] that owns Paradius, a company which in turn owns shares in every company in the world in order to finance its operations.

** Villainous organizations like Kobra, H.I.V.E. et al in Franchise/TheDCU, not to mention the LegionOfDoom and, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive under certain leaders]], [[{{Superman}} LexCorp]].

* In modern times however, federal agencies largely crippled the Italian Mafia through RICO statutes in the 70s-80s. They did regain a little strength after 9/11 when the feds were distracted elsewhere, but they're still a shadow of their mid-20th century heyday when they controlled entire cities.