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| 10 | [[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doof_evil_inc_0.png]]]] |
| 11 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[https://youtu.be/FJeBHiDOTPE Complete with its own Evil Jingle.]]]] |
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| 13 | ->''"The '''NEVIC''' corporation, who are evil because they're a corporation in a sci-fi game. They might as well have been called '''T'''here's '''S'''hit '''W'''e're '''N'''ot '''T'''elling '''Y'''ou Ltd. Formerly traded as '''H'''ope '''Y'''ou '''H'''aven't '''W'''atched '''A'''ny '''A'''lien '''F'''ilms '''L'''ately PLC."'' |
| 14 | -->-- '''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''', ''VideoGame/LostPlanet 3'' |
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| 16 | Welcome to '''Evil, Inc'''. We offer many services, 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're a publicly traded company with thousands of branches across the globe (as well as a few secret labs cleverly disguised as corner 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! |
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| 18 | 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:\ |
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| 20 | # [[MilkmanConspiracy Unassuming]] (such as "Milwaukee Bakery, The" actually [[TotallyNotACriminalFront being the front]] for an international terrorist group) |
| 21 | # Suspicious, but still keeping its villainous activities hidden ([=PMCs=], [[WarForFunAndProfit arms manufacturers]], PredatoryBigPharma, etc.) |
| 22 | # [[CartoonishSupervillainy Cartoonishly evil]] (look up [[CardCarryingVillain "Big Evil Corp."]]) |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Regardless of which type it is, evil corporations have one or two ultimate goals: [[{{Greed}} make as much money as possible]] regardless of who suffers, and TakeOverTheWorld. |
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| 26 | 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, despite being pretty predictable. 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! |
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| 28 | Evil Inc. is likely to be ruled by a CorruptCorporateExecutive. |
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| 30 | 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 superheroes 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; conversely, if it has a secretive agenda itself, it is a CorporateConspiracy. 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. |
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| 32 | Also the name of a [[Webcomic/EvilInc webcomic]] by Brad Guigar. |
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| 34 | Corporations with various 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 |
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| 36 | !!Examples |
| 37 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 40 | * The Mint Mobile ad "[[https://youtu.be/3B0OsoxoE1g?si=riQZmyfTGcPlukgn Dream Job]]" has the Devil getting a job at the hilariously customer-unfriendly "Big Wireless", proudly proclaiming "These guys torture people on a whole other level! I'm learning so much!" |
| 41 | -->'''Exec:''' He's been a real addition to the team. Prices are up, hold times have doubled, and some fees are so hidden, ''we'' can't even find 'em. |
| 42 | [[/folder]] |
| 43 | |
| 44 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 45 | * Midas Bank from ''Anime/CControl'' 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 "[[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian]] Inc.". |
| 46 | * Dark Agency from ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' 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. |
| 47 | * Medical Mechanica from ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'', which wants to eliminate free thought and has some killer robots and a giant clothing iron with which to accomplish that goal. [[NebulousEvilOrganization And that's all you ever find out about them.]] |
| 48 | * ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'' has the Dark Tomorrow Corporation, who seek to remove the futures from humankind. Their CEO wishes to freeze time to leave everyone happy. |
| 49 | * Being an AffectionateParody of {{Tokusatsu}}, ''Manga/MissKuroitsuFromTheMonsterDevelopmentDepartment'' follows the evil organization Agastia and the travails of the Monster Development Department that has to produce a new MonsterOfTheWeek and remain under budget. |
| 50 | * The RX Group from ''Manga/PrecariousWomanExecutiveMissBlackGeneral'' is a rising villainous organization aiming to TakeOverTheWorld. They veer into HarmlessVillain territory thanks to being stuck in PerpetualPoverty and their sheer incompetence in taking over the world. |
| 51 | [[/folder]] |
| 52 | |
| 53 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 54 | * ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': |
| 55 | ** [=TransGene=] 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. |
| 56 | ** The Black Lab performs underground science for anyone willing to pay. |
| 57 | * Vought-American, from ''ComicBook/TheBoys'', responsible for both [[IncompetenceInc 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]]. |
| 58 | * Franchise/TheDCU has a few examples. |
| 59 | ** The best known example is Lexcorp, the corporation that ComicBook/{{Superman}}'s ArchEnemy Lex Luthor 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 megacorp! Why arrest me?"]] |
| 60 | ** The second volume of ''Mystery in Space'' introduced the Eternal Light Corporation. They're mostly put out of business by Captain Comet, but are shown to still have a small core of hardliner supporters. |
| 61 | ** ComicBook/WonderWoman's [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Volume 2]] villain Victoria Cale runs a pharmaceutical company, that breaks supervillains out of jail to experiment on them without their consent and uses their amelioration of mind control techniques on civilians. |
| 62 | ** ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Tim Drake and Cassandra Cain take down the head of a pharmaceutical company that has been testing its new SuperSerum by having compatriots sell it as a street drug and then hiring mercenaries to hunting down and kill the survivors to cover up their misdeeds. |
| 63 | * The Franchise/MarvelUniverse has several examples -- most of whom are ''ComicBook/IronMan'' villains. |
| 64 | ** 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}}. Roxxon is ToxicInc to the extreme, using projects to specifically make environmental issues worse so they can profit, and even ally with Malekith's Dark Council to conquer the Ten Realms. |
| 65 | ** Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM) used several shell corporations as fronts for their dealings, before the whole thing was bought out by Roberto "Sunspot" [=DaCosta=] and rebranded as [[HeroesRUs "Avengers Idea Mechanics"]] in ''ComicBook/NewAvengers2015''. |
| 66 | ** Osborn Industries from ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' was {{retcon}}ned into one, once Norman Osborn himself was retconned to be EvilAllAlong. |
| 67 | ** Creator/MarvelUK's 1990s books are largely centred around Mys-Tech, a globe-spanning evil corporation led by immortal sorcerers. They employ ComicBook/{{Warheads}} and act as the BigBad for the rest of the Marvel UK protagonists. |
| 68 | ** ''ComicBook/XMen'' has 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. |
| 69 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' has the Beyond Corporation, both the secret sponsor of Nextwave and the force behind their greatest enemies, H.A.T.E.. ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers2013'' 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. Then after ''those'' cosmic bastards got kicked out, Beyond stuck around, and is still doing seriously questionable experiments. |
| 70 | [[/folder]] |
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| 72 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 73 | * ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': Following the [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Mass Awakening]], pharmaceutical companies and corporations such as [[MythologyGag Bio-Major]] are apparently scrambling over each-other and willing to hire mercenaries to obtain Titan DNA samples (including the Ghidorah DNA samples obtained by Alan Jonah) for lucrative purposes. |
| 74 | * ''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. |
| 75 | * ''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. |
| 76 | [[/folder]] |
| 77 | |
| 78 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 79 | * Weyland-Yutani and/or its surrogates from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise are in the continuous habit of forcing ill-prepared humans into encounters with the insanely dangerous Xenomorphs, all in the hopes of somehow using the aliens for profit. |
| 80 | * Virtucon from ''Film/AustinPowers'' is a example of a fully functional Evil Inc. that was screwed over when Dr. Evil came back and insisted that they start working on doing nefarious deeds again. |
| 81 | * 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.'' |
| 82 | * ''Film/CarryOnSpying'' has STENCH (the '''S'''ociety for the '''T'''otal '''E'''xtinction of '''N'''on-'''C'''onforming '''H'''umans), who steal a drug. |
| 83 | * PANTAC from ''Dottor Jekyll e Gentile Signora'' is a company which deliberately destroys economy of underdeveloped countries to gain cheap labour, and which produces poisonous food in prospect of selling cures for the maladies it induces. |
| 84 | * ''Franchise/JurassicPark'': The ''Film/JurassicWorld'' trilogy and ''Camp Cretaceous'' animated series gives us both the secret conspiracy within In-Gen and [[MeaningfulName BioSyn]], who are out to find some way to profit by weaponizing cloned prehistoric life forms come hell or high water (''[[StupidEvil very]]'' high water). [=BioSyn=] (and [[TheBusCameBack Dr. Lewis Dodgson]]) win the pot in ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' by [[spoiler:going full Umbrella/Weyland-Yutani and risking an extinction-level event with cloned prehistoric locusts just so his company can obtain full monopoly of the world's food market.]] |
| 85 | * ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': 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]]. 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]]. |
| 86 | * The Shield Corporation from ''Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening''. The company's founder is the hero himself, who intended it as a bulwark against the depleted ozone layer. Alas, it is presently under the guidance of crooks who bilk consumers and governments for the service, and are covering up data showing the ozone layer has restored itself. |
| 87 | * ''Film/{{Logan}}'': Hiding behind a benevolent public image, Transigen is 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. |
| 88 | * 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.]] |
| 89 | * Omni Consumer Products (OCP) from the ''Franchise/RoboCop'' franchise is an omnipresent company that runs Detroit as a corporatocracy, monopolizing every consumer service and privatizing civil institutions like the police force. They also use highly unethical tactics to maintain control, such as employing violent criminals and producing defective military products (like ED-209). |
| 90 | * ''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]]]]. |
| 91 | [[/folder]] |
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| 93 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 94 | * 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. |
| 95 | * In ''Company'' by Max Barry, 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. |
| 96 | %%* The Sombra Corporation in ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' series. |
| 97 | * Manpower Incorporated from the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series. Their main product is [[WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture genetic slaves]]. Unlike many examples, their own nature is plainly visible for the galaxy to see. [[spoiler:Manpower is actually both a source of revenue and a distraction for the Mesan Alignment, which plans to [[TakeOverTheWorld Take Over The Galaxy]].]] |
| 98 | * ''Literature/TheLastAdventureOfConstanceVerity'': There is an actual company -- Lairs, Incorporated -- that specializes in building secret {{Supervillain Lair}}s. |
| 99 | * Tresisda from the ''Literature/{{MARZENA}}'' series is a computer software company based in Germany and Russia. Their very name is an anagram for DISASTER and their goal is global market domination by any means. |
| 100 | * PlayedForLaughs in ''A Murder of Manatees: The Further Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent'', where a multiversal conglomerate is staging a takeover of several major evil corporations in order concentrate all evil in one place. The list includes [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Weyland-Yutani]], [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Cyberdyne Systems]], [[Creator/DCComics LexCorp]], [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Umbrella]], [[UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken Kentucky Fried]] [[Film/JurassicPark Velociraptor]], and [[TakeThat United Airlines]]. |
| 101 | * ''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... |
| 102 | * Leech Enterprises in Creator/KimNewman's fiction, including the novel ''Literature/TheQuorum''. Its CorruptCorporateExecutive Derek Leech is actually the Devil, or something very close, and seems to have as his ultimate aim simply making the world a worse place, possibly to its destruction. (But on his terms; there have been two EnemyMine situations when something ''else'' wanted to destroy the world.) |
| 103 | %%* The Goliath Corporation in the ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' books. |
| 104 | * [=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. |
| 105 | [[/folder]] |
| 106 | |
| 107 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 108 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'': The [[AmoralAttorney 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 [[OccultLawFirm 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''. |
| 109 | * In ''Series/BadRobots'', [=TezCorp=] is a MegaCorp which specializes in robotics and electronics, created by [[AIIsACrapshoot a malevolent robot]] to punish humans for mistreating their electronic appliances. |
| 110 | * Veridian Dynamics of ''Series/BetterOffTed'' certainly flirted with being one. Its management practices certainly held true with the average Evil Inc., and some of their divisions were engaged in work that wasn't just morally dodgy, but outright evil insanity. Happily, its general incompetence kept it from actualizing. |
| 111 | * ''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. |
| 112 | * In ''Series/TheBoys2019'', Vought International 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 Homelander [[TyrantTakesTheHelm performs a hostile takeover]] of the company with the intent of having a PresidentEvil PuppetKing under his control]]. |
| 113 | * ''Series/{{Capadocia}}'' takes place in a Mexican for-profit prison for women by the same name. ECSO owns Capadocia and uses the jail as a front for trafficking with designer drugs. |
| 114 | * ''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}}. |
| 115 | %%* ''Series/{{Corporate}}'' has Hampton [=DeVille=], a soulless multinational conglomerate headed by the iron-fisted CEO Christian [=DeVille=].%%Needs context - how is it "evil"? |
| 116 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen Oxygen]]", Chasm Forge is a corporation that has no problem in "deactivating" employees when their reduced productivity makes them more of a strain on the limited resource of oxygen than their lives are worth. |
| 117 | * ''Series/{{Dogengers}}'': The series that features some of Japan's finest local heroes, also introduces their most dreaded villainous group: the Secret Society of Darkness Incorporated, or (Aku no Himitsu Kessha INC.), headed by the equally dreadful [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Yabai Mask]], and comprising some other of Japan's local villains like Shuraomaru, Nectaris (from ''Series/EarthWarriorZeros''), and Akuma Bee (from ''Series/LocalizerBrave''), although that last one deserted in 2018, stabbing his employer in the back. |
| 118 | * In ''Series/GetSmart'', the NebulousEvilOrganisation K.A.O.S. is a Delaware corporation for tax purposes. |
| 119 | * 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. |
| 120 | * ''Series/PowerRangersCosmicFury'': [[BigBad Lord Zedd]] allies himself with Squid Ink Inc., the universe's largest and most evil weapons manufacturing company. [[spoiler:In the penultimate episode, Squid Ink CEO Bajilia Naire becomes the DragonAscendant and reveals her plan is to kill Zedd, let his soul release a WorldWreckingWave that will rid the universe of goodness and heroism, and then [[WarForFunAndProfit profit off of the endless wars in a world where everyone is evil]].]] |
| 121 | * In Season 4 of ''Series/TrueDetective'' there's the Silver Sky mining operation. Besides [[ToxicInc their pollution levels causing severe harm to the primarily Alaskan Indigenous villages]], they were funding the "independent" research to produce false contamination levels to meet standards. And "[[Recap/TrueDetectiveS4E05Part5 Part 5]]" reveals they are bribing [[spoiler: Det. Hank Prior]] to obstruct police investigations. |
| 122 | * ''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 [[MayContainEvil a flu vaccine combines with genetically modified corn]].]] |
| 123 | * ''Series/{{Vincenzo}}'': Babel Group, the evil conglomerate that does stuff like deliberately market opioids to the sick for the express intent of getting them addicted, and then kill ''all'' the scientists involved with the clinical trial by blowing them up. |
| 124 | [[/folder]] |
| 125 | |
| 126 | [[folder:Newspaper Comics]] |
| 127 | * ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'s workplace veers into this as the strip goes on, primarily in the abusive ways in which the employees are treated. Heck, two of the higher-ups actually [[CardCarryingVillain have "evil" in their job titles]]! |
| 128 | [[/folder]] |
| 129 | |
| 130 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 131 | * The entirety of ''Podcast/KakosIndustries'' deals with a company which [[CardCarryingVillain doesn't hide their ambitions in the slightest]] and is determined to "Do Evil Better". |
| 132 | * ''Podcast/OldGodsOfAppalachia'' has Barrow and Locke Mining and Railroad. The {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s who run it are among the series' main antagonists, doing everything from crushing unions to performing {{human sacrifice}}s in the name of the [[EldritchAbomination Deep Things]] that they serve. Also, several of them [[HumanoidAbomination may be Things themselves]]. |
| 133 | * ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'': Desert Bluffs, the town neighboring Night Vale, is [[CompanyTown owned in its entirety]] by a company called [=StrexCorp=] Synernists Inc., which as of "Yellow Helicopters" [[spoiler:has begun to expand into Night Vale]]. |
| 134 | [[/folder]] |
| 135 | |
| 136 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 137 | %%* Arasaka from ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} 2020'' is the best example in the setting, even if the other {{Mega|Corp}}-Corps of that setting are anything but "Good, Inc.".%%Needs context - how is it "evil"? |
| 138 | * Fabricators Inc. from ''TabletopGame/HeroesUnlimited'' are a criminal company that make advanced weapons and other technology to sell to supervillains. |
| 139 | * While every MegaCorp in the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' universe 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. |
| 140 | * Pentex from ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' is the multinational cabal behind a series of seemingly disparate corporations, an entity that most legal officials aren't sure exists. It's also made up of executives who are in thrall to [[EldritchAbomination the Wyrm]], and who use the many arms of the corporation to [[MayContainEvil spread Banes amongst the populace, corrupting them in moments of weakness and turning them into further soldiers for the Wyrm]]. |
| 141 | [[/folder]] |
| 142 | |
| 143 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 144 | * ''Franchise/GIJoe'': In the original toyline, COBRA was at least partially portrayed as one of these. Bios for characters like the low-ranking Vipers or COBRA Troopers would include mention that successfully completing weapons sales granted them performance bonuses and a percentage of total sales. In addition, unlike ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' where Extensive Enterprises seemed to be COBRA's main financial backer, in the Marvel Comics and toylines COBRA had numerous legitimate business in addition to weapons dealing and crime. |
| 145 | ** Also from the toyline, Destro's personal army the Iron Grenadiers are also described as being a combination of elite soldier and salesperson. Not surprising, considering Destro's family has been involved in the arms trade for generations. |
| 146 | ** The Marvel Comics show that COBRA Commander is especially good at setting these up. Besides COBRA itself, during a period of time when he was thought dead and impersonated by the traitorous Crimson Guardsman Fred VII he actually managed to build, from scratch, a ''second'' highly successful and profitable organisation. When he returns to retake leadership of COBRA, he keeps the second company (imaginatively named Arbco) as a front and the cash reserves give COBRA a massive injection of liquid assets. |
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| 149 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 150 | * The BigBad of ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' is Halbech Corporation, a defense contractor whose EvilPlan is to trigger a new Cold War between the US and China for the sake of WarForFunAndProfit. However, their efforts are more likely to trigger WorldWarIII, forcing PlayerCharacter Agent Thorton to race against the clock to PreventTheWar. |
| 151 | * The Templar Order of ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' runs a multinational conglomerate known as Abstergo Industries in the present day. Abstergo's primary focus is harvesting the memories of various individuals to create products that demonize the Assassins and paint the Templars as heroes not to mention their usage of paramilitary strike teams to take out the opposition. If that weren't enough for you to know that they are an Evil Inc company, they use the colors of [[DarkIsEvil black]], grey and [[LightIsNotGood white]]. Oh and their founders just so happen to be Henry Ford, Ransom "Ranny" Olds and Harvey Firestone. |
| 152 | * 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. |
| 153 | * ''VideoGame/CloseYourEyes'''s V.I.E.W seems to be playing this role and, from what's implied (especially by the protest signs and clues left by the Witch), the participants (or many of them) in the Cognitive Transfer program were not entirely willing. |
| 154 | * The [=FutureTech=] company in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' almost certainly qualifies. Over the course of the Allied campaign in the main game, and especially during the short side campaigns and Commander's Challenge mode of the expansion pack, it becomes bitingly apparent that the corporation has no real stake in which of the three sides emerges victorious - only that the state of the world-wide conflict provides an excellent opportunity to field test their technology. This includes, among other things, helicopters and armored troopers capable of flash-freezing men and machines alike; massive aerial gunships mounting a scaled-down version of a ''superweapon;'' a sentient robot tank that decimates entire armies with neutron particle cannons. Even the voice-overs for units specifically stated to be the product of [=FutureTech=] are decidedly more sociopathic, bloodthirsty, or outright indifferent to the carnage they can inflict, in comparison to the otherwise defensive and patriotic sentiments of the Allies' baseline troops. |
| 155 | * ''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]]. |
| 156 | * In the ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'' series, C.E.L.L. starts as a corrupt and bloodthirsty military contractor. Between the second and [[VideoGame/Crysis3 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. |
| 157 | * ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': |
| 158 | ** 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. |
| 159 | ** There's also Night Corp, an infrastructure company that devotes all its efforts to making Night City less of a WretchedHive. [[TheSpook Nobody really knows how much the corporation is worth, what its main source of revenue is, nor how many people it employs]], yet they seem to have plenty of OffscreenVillainDarkMatter to fund their construction projects [[AmbiguouslyEvil (and mind control experiments)]] [[spoiler:with the heavy implication that they're involved with TheConspiracy surrounding [[PuppetKing Mayor Peralez]]]]. |
| 160 | * 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 [[MetaSequel 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 DeadlyGame just to entertain a bored public. But it's ok; [[NightmareFetishist the kids signed a waiver]]]]. |
| 161 | * ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' 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.]] |
| 162 | * 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.]] |
| 163 | * ''VideoGame/{{Descent}}'' features the [[AsteroidMiners Post-Terran Mining Corporation]], or P.T.M.C., which specializes in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin mining on other planets, moons, and asteroids]] and developing [[AIIsACrapshoot autonomous robots]] to do so. Lo and behold, the robots are [[MurderousMalfunctioningMachine going haywire]], and lo and behold, the player character has to destroy these robots and the mines where they dwell, and lo and behold, [[spoiler: this entire thing was a setup to test and refine the intentional homocidal programming of these robots in a bid by P.T.M.C. for world domination.]] |
| 164 | * Where to even start with the ''Franchise/DeusExUniverse''? 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. |
| 165 | ** Technology and bio-research giant [=VersaLife=] (along with its parent company, Page Industries) from ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' is the worst, 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]]]]. |
| 166 | ** ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' mostly centers around two corporations. Sarif Industries, the protagonist's employer, is a [[HonestCorporateExecutive 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]]. |
| 167 | * 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]], in which 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. |
| 168 | * Kremkroc Industries, Inc. and Frantic Factory in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' and ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', respectively. |
| 169 | * The UAC in ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' have gone straight into this trope, in contrast to their [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure positive portrayal]] in [[Franchise/{{Doom}} 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. |
| 170 | * ''VideoGame/DyztopiaPostHumanRPG'': [[MegaCorp Zetacorp]] outright brags about owning all means of production and they have so much influence that they not only have corporate mercenaries, they also used their wealth to take control of the Church of the Vessel and use them to persecute the poor. Although they are technically fighting dangerous demons, President Zazz's endgame is to revive humanity and have them establish a human supremacist society while subjugating the world's non-human countries. |
| 171 | * The ''Franchise/{{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 [[ForScience nonsensical experiments]] that result in nothing worthwhile, and any employee with an interest in [[TokenGoodTeammate actually improving the quality of life of Vault Dwellers]] is hated and shunned by the others. |
| 172 | * This is lampshaded in the ''Dead Living Zombies'' DLC of ''Videogame/FarCry5'' where a filmmaker notes that corporations make for excellent generic villains since [[AcceptableTargets no one likes them and you don't have to worry about offending any specific group]] |
| 173 | * 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, [[TheDreaded Sephiroth]], would become the true BigBad of the first game. |
| 174 | * From ''VideoGame/FurFighters'', this billboard: |
| 175 | -->''Viggo Industries: You'' '''will''' ''buy our products''. |
| 176 | * Mantel Industries from ''VideoGame/{{Haze}}'' is a {{Private Military Contractor|s}}[=/=]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]]. |
| 177 | * [=UltraTech=] is the evil MegaCorp that hosts the ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'' tournament. It's not clear why they host it, but the comics implies they make a killing through spectators. |
| 178 | * 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. |
| 179 | * ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'': Really, any of the Wings of the World in the Creator/ProjectMoon SharedUniverse[[note]]which also contains ''VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina'' and ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany''[[/note]] count, but you ''play'' as one as the titular Lobotomy Corporation (also known as L. Corp). The corporation's product is energy for the MegaCity the setting takes place in, and they get said energy by [[MonsterOrganTrafficking 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. |
| 180 | * The Amaterasu Corporation in ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'' is pretty much defined by how shady it is, with it hiding secrets from the citizens of Kanai Ward and the whole company being an unfiltered source of evil. However, when [[spoiler:infiltrating the research lab itself in Chapter 4]], we find out that the employees themselves are not to blame. [[spoiler:It's actually the fault of Yomi Hellsmile of the Peacekeepers and Makoto Kagutsuchi, its CEO, than anyone else, alongside head researcher Dr. Huesca, as it's their collective amorality that influences its bad reputation. You only find out about this later in the game, however.]] |
| 181 | * Aesir Pharmaceuticals in the original ''VideoGame/MaxPayne1''. The company's founder, Nicole Horne, originally worked for a secret government project. When the [[PsychoSerum super solider serum]] they were working on was discontinued, Horne stole and repackaged it as a [[FantasticDrug 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. |
| 182 | * 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 mind-control. 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]]. |
| 183 | * The Magog Cartel of the ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}'' series are a conglomerate of multiple horrifyingly corrupt companies. Openly using slave labor, supervisors having the authority to administer on-the-spot executions on employees for little to no reason, and planning to genocide their entire working force to sell as delicious snack food are only some of many of their atrocities. |
| 184 | * 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. |
| 185 | * [=DataDyne=] from ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' try to help an evil alien race retrieve a very powerful weapon and 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. |
| 186 | * In the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games, some of the evil teams are this: |
| 187 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'': Team Galactic is publicly a natural energy-harvesting company that owns several buildings in Sinnoh, but is using that energy to carry out a plot to RestartTheWorld and recreate it InTheirOwnImage, with all spirit removed as Cyrus believes it to be [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill the source of all conflict]]. |
| 188 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger: Shadows of Almia'': [[spoiler:The Altru Corporation turns out to be the bosses of Team Dim Sun who plan on using a mind control device to enslave Pokémon for labor and warfare, thus ushering in an era of prosperity for Almia.]] |
| 189 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'': Lysandre Labs, a tech company founded by Lysandre with a focus on resource conservation, is the company that Team Flare serves and is stealing money and Pokémon, with the ultimate goal of averting an OverpopulationCrisis by [[spoiler:[[OmnicidialManiac killing everyone who isn't them]]]]. |
| 190 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'': [[spoiler:The Aether Foundation is a charity variant, as they masquerade as a benevolent group who takes in Pokémon and protects them from [[{{Gangbangers}} Team Skull]], but are the ones funding Team Skull in the first place and are using those Pokémon as guinea pigs for experiments or freezing them to add to Lusamine's collection. Lusamine's ultimate goal is to open a wormhole to Ultra Space and have the Ultra Beasts wreak havoc across Alola. However, once Gladion replaces Lusamine as head, he decides to reform the organization and turn them into an aversion.]] |
| 191 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'': [[spoiler:Downplayed with Macro Cosmos. They aren't outright evil, but are willing to help Chairman Rose's crazy plan to avert an energy crisis by awakening the dangerous Eternatus, not caring about the potential damage to Galar.]] |
| 192 | * Aperture Science from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' is a humorous example. Founded by eccentric billionaire Cave Johnson (who becomes more eccentric after contracting lead poisoning during a botched murder attempt on his industry rivals), the company bases its ideas on his crazy delusions. Unsurprisingly, the company is hemorrhaging money. They originally used pro athletes and astronauts to perform simulations; however, as the tests became more lethal and Johnson's fortunes began to dwindle, they resorted to using [[DisposableVagrant vagrants]] and ultimately [[BadBoss their own workers]]. |
| 193 | * In the ''VideoGame/PurgatoryRPGMaker'' games, the [[AristocratsAreEvil nobility-owned]] D&M Biological Weapon Manufacturing Corporation, aka the [[spoiler:Lobelia]] Corporation, is in the business of kidnapping criminals and experimenting on them to turn them into "demons", living weapons. To create a "perfect demon", they are trying to get their subjects to kill 20,000 people, which they believe will turn the subject into a perfect demon. |
| 194 | * ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': |
| 195 | ** 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 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 wanted 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'': |
| 196 | --->'''Leon:''' Soon, its stock prices crashed, and for all intents and purposes, Umbrella was finished. |
| 197 | ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' sees another biopharmaceutical company, TRICELL, continue from where Umbrella left off. Having already grown from its [[EvilColonialist mass exploitation of the African continent]], TRICELL steals research from the now-defunct Umbrella Corporation to conduct its own research into bioweapons. This culminates in the intentional infection of Kijuju's residents with the Plagas parasite, turning them into mind-controlled, zombielike soldiers. |
| 198 | * [=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 {{subver|tedTrope}}sion they're just a scapegoat for the real villains]]. |
| 199 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Sonic's nemesis Dr. Eggman 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. |
| 200 | * [[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]]. 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. |
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| 202 | |
| 203 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 204 | * ''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 [[BlackComedy all played for laughs]]. |
| 205 | * ''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]].]] |
| 206 | * In ''Webcomic/JennyAndTheMultiverse'' (see also ''MediaNotes/JennyEverywhere'' in "Web Original" below), the Altern Corporation act as the primary antagonists, with its CorruptCorporateExecutive "the Man in Grey" serving as the BigBad. |
| 207 | * ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' has Hereti-Corp, a both very straight and parodic example. They're among the most major antagonists in the MythArc of the comic and have dabbled in various "taking over the world" schemes, from trying to gain control of the gymnastic assassin Oasis for reasons as mysterious as her origin to wanting to clone the resident alien Aylee as a living superweapon. At one point, they almost went under after being exposed, but they resurfaced as "House of Cheese", selling pizza made entirely of cheese, and under new leadership eventually regained the name Hereti-Corp and are now involved in a potential end-of-the-world scenario. |
| 208 | [[/folder]] |
| 209 | |
| 210 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 211 | * The Altern Corporation in the ''MediaNotes/JennyEverywhere'' mythos, DependingOnTheWriter, can be a genuinely sinister megacorp, sometimes running the Earth in a dystopian cyberpunk-type setting, or a more lackadaisical organisation when it's founded and run ''by'' [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Laura Drake]]. However, it's rarely if ever been benign. |
| 212 | * Charon Industries from ''WebAnimation/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. |
| 213 | * Kabushiki Kawaii from ''Website/RPCAuthority'' is a Japanese corporation that specializes in creating HumanoidAbomination {{Sex Slave}}s. |
| 214 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'': |
| 215 | ** Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. 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 the {{Masquerade}} 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. |
| 216 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3914 SCP-3914]] is a TakeThat against Creator/{{Amazon}} portraying them as (an even bigger) one of these. Their board of directors is in reality a CosmopolitanCouncil of {{necromancer}}s using their powers [[PragmaticVillainy to make as much money as possible]], with founder & CEO Jeff Bezos having been reduced to a zombie slave they use as a figurehead. Zombie warehouse/factory workers, [[DemonicPossession possessed]] Alexa virtual assistants, and politicians as well as employees of rival companies [[KillAndReplace being turned into undead double agents]] all to simply CutLexLuthorACheck. They're currently engaged in a cold war with the Foundation, disrupting their operations through hostile takeovers of affiliated companies and attempted graverobbing of deceased personnel. |
| 217 | [[/folder]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 220 | * ''WebVideo/KanePixelsTheBackrooms'': The [[ResearchInc ASYNC Research Facility]] is a very deliberate {{subver|tedTrope}}sion 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]]. The only snag is that they're [[JustThinkOfThePotential still trying to make money off it]]. |
| 221 | * ''WebVideo/TolarianCommunityCollege'': Ludevic Laboratories, the company featured in 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. |
| 222 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Xploshi}}'': The company known as WebAnimation/{{Soulcorp}} is shown to be quite shady, as their products tend to involve enhancing technology using the souls of the dead. One product, the Spectrephone, which is used to communicate with the deceased, can become a vessel for damaged souls if the cremated ashes are contaminated or some are missing. Meanwhile, another product, Tobias, uses the soul of a man who was presumably killed by Soulcorp and has become self-aware and visibly frightened and angry about his soul being used in a robot. A third product named BOTM the Clown is based on Tobias, but with less sentience, resulting in a frightening MonsterClown that ended up bring scrapped. And to top it off, one employee mentions that one of his relative's Spectrephone burst into flames. As a result, Soulcorp tends to attract several lawsuits. |
| 223 | [[/folder]] |
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| 225 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 226 | * ''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]]. |
| 227 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Dogstar}}'': Bob Santino's company SRC (Santino Robotics Corporation) is devoted to the global domination of an many markets as possible. It actions have included accidentally triggering a planet-wide RobotWar, [[PlutoIsExpendable blowing up Pluto as a demonstration]], creating a product so pointless that it then attempted to inflict the population of New Earth with a [[PhlebotinumInducedStupidity stupidity virus]] so they would become dumb enough to buy it, and [[KickTheDog attempting to destroy the ark carrying all of Earth's dogs]]. |
| 228 | * Cognito Inc. from ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'' is an AffablyEvil corporation (and rival company to TheIlluminati), created for the purpose of [[ConspiracyKitchenSink managing all of the world's conspiracies]]. They run the world in secret and don’t always have humanity’s best interests at heart, such as keeping an entire town drugged on faulty memory erasure chemicals to offload defective 80s stuff for profit, and planning WorldWarIII for the purpose of harvesting Walrus Oil. |
| 229 | -->'''[[VillainProtagonist Reagan]]:''' This isn't the President. It's a [[KillAndReplace robot replica that's gonna replace him]].\ |
| 230 | '''[[NaiveNewcomer Brett]]:''' [[YesMan Love it, love it]]. Question. Is this place evil?\ |
| 231 | '''Reagan:''' Ehhh, is Website/{{Facebook}} evil? Is Starbucks evil? At least here, I [[GadgeteerGenius develop tech]] that could prevent war with {{Atlantis}}. |
| 232 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'', Bob works for a company with the not-at-all-suspicious name [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Globocide]]. |
| 233 | * ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' has Boxmore, a store that manufactures robots for villains whose boss tries to destroy the neighboring plaza. |
| 234 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has "Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated". While [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin more]] [[CardCarryingVillain blatant]] than most examples (and with a catchy jingle), it's also smaller, consisting of the single, titular evil scientist attempting to rule the tri-state area. |
| 235 | * [=McFist=] Industries in ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'', which is the result of Hannibal [=McFist=] making a deal with the EvilSorcerer to destroy the Ninja in exchange for a superpower. [=McFist=] owns almost everything in Norrisville and creates and funds numerous projects for profit, from amusement parks to killer robots. |
| 236 | * ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiraciesAliensMythsAndLegends'': Intracom, a company with many dubious enterprises, lorded over by vampires. |
| 237 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E2YouOnlyMoveTwice You Only Move Twice]]" has the Globex Corporation, run by Hank Scorpio, a man whose twin desires are world domination and [[BenevolentBoss the well-being of his employees]]. |
| 238 | * The villains of ''WesternAnimation/SuperDuperSumos'' are Bad Inc., a corporation which seems to only exist to take over the world (needless to say they're a "cartoonishly evil" example of the trope.) The only employee focused on actual business is B.S., the other three employees are wholly devoted to sending {{Kaiju}} to attack Generic City and fight the sumos in order to more easily TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 239 | * ''WesternAnimation/VillainousCartoonNetwork'' has the Black Hat Organization, which makes its money by selling various weapons and other creations to villains so they can defeat their heroes. |
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