History PlayingWith / MegaCorp

* '''Invoked''': The country of Tropestan deregulates it's economy, hoping that {{Mega Corp}}s show up and bring in some tasty, tasty tax money.

** Motor Union sends its ''extremely'' well-equipped and very large [[CorporateWarfare "Company Security Forces"]] and/or [[HiredGuns hires]] the Tropestani military to defend its property...and they [[CurbStompBattle demolish]] the Tropestani government forces. The Tropestani government then wisely decides to leave them alone.

** Motor Union has been granted vast power by Troperia to act as a proxy to Troperian interests, but is still firmly under the Troperian government's thumb.

** The country of Troperia where the Motor Union is situated has a laissez-faire economy with little to no regulation to stop creation of monopolies.

** The country of Troperia is a [[CommieLand communist state]], so instead of businessmen controlling the government, [[RussianReversal the government controls the businessmen]].
** Rather than a CommieLand, Troperia has a market economy but follows state capitalism, so its government has a number of businesses controlled directly and can easily cower the [[DecoyLeader supposedly private owners]] of other companies into submission (think [[UsefulNotes/ToGetRichIsGlorious People's Republic of China]] since UsefulNotes/TheNewTens).
** Troperia has [[BalkanizeMe so hyperbalkanized]] that its only surviving remnants are now businesses.

* '''Invoked''': The country of Troperia deregulates it's economy, hoping that {{Mega Corp}}s show up and bring in some tasty, tasty tax money.

* '''Defied''': The Troperian regulators have outlawed large corporations (and [[UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt forcibly broke up those that already existed]]), so {{Mega Corp}}s are unable to form.

** Motor Union [[BullyingADragon bribes, threatens, and swindles]] its way towards controlling the vital aspects of Troperian state... and then [[TheGovernment Troperian government]] [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant decides to show]] [[CurbStompBattle who's really in charge]].
** Motor Union was never designed to function outside of another nation's standards of laws. Without one to deal with things like minority shareholder dispute resolution or any way to hold the CEO accountable it becomes a defacto dictatorship after the CEO [[BoardToDeath kills the board to consolidate power.]] The investors soon become holders of useless pieces of paper and it is more meaningfully described as a 'state which arose after the collapse of Troperia, and the subsequent vacuum filling by Motor Union followed by the CEO's coup'.

** Motor Union was founded by the people holding all the power in Troperia, so even if it slowly takes over the country, no-one will try to close down or nationalize it because in the end it benefits the same people.
** Motor Union sends its ''extremely'' well-equipped and very large [[CorporateWarfare "Company Security Forces"]] and/or [[HiredGuns hires]] the Troptanian military to defend its property...and they [[CurbStompBattle demolish]] the Troperian government forces. The Troperian government then wisely decides to leave them alone.

* '''Straight''': [[TropeCo/TropeCo Motor]] [[BlandNameProduct Union]] manufactures everything from aircraft to zippers, tends to buy up it's competitors or drive them out of business as soon as they appear, and lobbies the government into giving it more and more power.

** Rather than a CommieLand, Troperia has a market economy but follows state capitalism, so it has a number of businesses controlled directly and can easily cower the [[DecoyLeader supposedly private owners]] of other companies into submission (think [[UsefulNotes/ToGetRichIsGlorious People's Republic of China]] since UsefulNotes/TheNewTens).

** Rather than a CommieLand, Troperia has a market economy but follows state capitalism, so it has a number of businesses controlled directly and can easily cower the [[DecoyLeader supposedly private owners]] of other companies into submission (think [[UsefulNotes/ToGetRichIsGlorious People's Republic of China]] since UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, or the US during the Progressive era).

* '''Defied''': The Troperian regulators have outlawed large corporations (and forcibly broke up those that already existed), so {{Mega Corp}}s are unable to form.

* '''Defied''': The Troperian regulators have outlawed large corporations, so {{Mega Corp}}s are unable to form.

** The country of Troperia is a [[CommieLand communist state]], so instead of businessmen controlling the government, [[RussianReversal the government controls]] [[DecoyLeader the businessmen]] (think [[UsefulNotes/ToGetRichIsGlorious People's Republic of China]] since UsefulNotes/TheNewTens).

** The country of Troperia is a [[CommieLand communist state]], so instead of businessmen controlling the government, [[RussianReversal the government controls the businessmen]].

* '''Conversed''': "motor union is big company? a villain of silent hill"

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Played For Drama''': [[MegaCorp Motor Union]] is a primary antagonist in a {{Cyberpunk}} story.

* '''Parodied''':
** The boardroom meeting of Motor Union executives is shown - and as soon as one of them mentions a market they haven't cornered, everyone is thrown into blind panic until the CEO screams at them to get a hold of themselves and explains how they're going to take over that market too.

* '''Inverted''': The country of Troperia is a [[CommieLand communist state]], so instead of businessmen controlling the government, [[RussianReversal the government controls the businessmen]].

** Motor Union is nominally a corporation but full of oddities, ,checks and balances, and aspects of other systems. Depending on the period of time it may resemble an unequal democracy, feudalism, or even ironically a communist state.

* '''Subverted''': Motor Union, which hyped around the galaxy as a MegaCorp is a big pile of overadvertised and overpriced stock whose main use is as a tax write off. [[IncompetenceInc It is incompetently administrated]] and dripping in debt and its very existence is a giant PetTheDog on the part of all the [[MerchantPrince Merchant Princes]] around who don't deign to buy it out.

* '''Parodied''': The boardroom meeting of Motor Union executives is shown - and as soon as one of them mentions a market they haven't cornered, everyone is thrown into blind panic untill the CEO screams at them to get a hold of themselves and explains how they're going to take over that market too.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The influence of Motor Union waxes and wanes as the plot demands.
** Motor Union is nominally a corporation but full of oddities, ,checks and balances, and aspects of other systems. Depending on the period of time it may resemble an unequal democracy, feudalism, or even ironically a communist statr.

** Motor Union was never designed to function outside of another nation's standards of laws. Without one to deal with things like minority shareholder dispute resolution or any way to hold the CEO accountable it becomes a defacto dictatorship after the CEO [[BoardToDeath kills the board to consolidate power.]] The investors soon become holders of useless pieces of paper and it is more meaningfully described as a 'state which arose after the collapse of Troperia and the take over of Motor Union.

* '''Subverted''': Motor Union, which hyped around the galaxy as a MegaCorp is a big pile of veradvertised and overpriced stock whose main use is as a tax write off. [[IncompetenceInc It is incompetently administrated]] and dripping in debt and its very existence is a giant PetTheDog on the part of all the [[MerchantPrince Merchant Princes]] around who don't deign to buy it out.