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11->''"'''MANN CO.''' -- We make hats, guns, bats, bombs, bazookas, camera beards, comics, magazines, portable baccarat detectors, banners, swords, shields, and get in fights. Non-employees welcome for 'Gorilla Wrestling Fridays'."''
12-->-- '''Sign outside Mann Co.''', ''[[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Team Fortress 2's]] [[http://www.teamfortress.com/bloodbrothers/#f=31 "Blood Brothers" Comic]]''
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14Your one-stop shop for a [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080212084642/http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html variety of products]] which may or may not function exactly as advertised. Renowned for [[InstantHomeDelivery express shipping]] that has [=FedEx=] drooling in jealousy.
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16For this wiki's purposes, an Acme Corporation is ''any'' generic corporation that seems to supply ''[[CrazyPrepared everything]]'' a character, or entire cast, uses. These supplies are, of course, Acme products. Not to be confused with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACME any of the myriad non-fictional objects and entities bearing the moniker]] (which is what our {{Trope Namer|s}} was making fun of at the time).
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18The eponymous example appears most famously in [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation classic]] Warner Brothers cartoons featuring Wile E. Coyote (hinted to be the company's QA tester), whose more elaborate plans involved Acme catapults, earthquake pills, bat suits, spring shoes, {{Plunger Detonator}}s, and so on; the Coyote's undying faith in Acme Corp, despite the endemic flaws and defects, is one of the mysteries of this series. WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and other characters made use of their services as well, with [[KarmicTrickster better results]].
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20See also MegaCorp, MailOrderNovelty, TropeCo/TropeCo, and WeSellEverything.
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23!!Examples:
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26[[folder:Advertising]]
27* Advertising/{{Geico}} once ran commercials featuring Acme Insurance as its competitor.
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30[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
31* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': The Serious Group is the series' equivalent to Acme. Among their products are the Serious Onsen, whose various baths include showers with the power of fire hoses, a bath that increases the bust size of any women who enter, and the "Serious Paradise Bath", which very nearly sends the entire cast ''to'' Paradise. A later chapter features their "Addictive Cabbages", which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: cabbage so good it overrides everyones' desire for yakiniku that everyone had gone out to eat originally. Rentarou has to exploit his girlfriends' even greater addiction to kissing him to overcome it.
32* Everything in ''Manga/TheDemonGirlNextDoor'' is [[Magazine/MangaTimeKirara Kirara]]-branded: from alcopop to hotplate to video games.
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35[[folder:Comic Books]]
36* In Franchise/TheDCU, Lexcorp tends to be one of these, especially during the periods that ComicBook/LexLuthor has been a VillainWithGoodPublicity.
37* The ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' universe uses "Ace" as the go-to company name.
38* In Disney Comics… Well, Scrooge [=McDuck=] is more one guy owning many companies, though it [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on the writer]] (sometimes there is such a thing as a "[=McDuck=] company"), seems to own and sell virtually anything. The use of it, however, is different from most ACME companies in that since the company belongs to the ''hero'', the gags taken from it are centered around Scrooge not having to buy anything either fo him or anybody else; when asked for anything, he just phones, call for "the director of his [insert product here] company", and asks to be delivered one in no time.
39* At the end of the adaptation to ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'', Demons have "ACME 666" sledge hammers for Details Nomolos and the robot Bill and Ted to break rocks with for all eternity.
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42[[folder:Fan Works]]
43* ''Library of the Damned'' has the Plot Contrivance Corporation, which does exactly what you'd imagine. It provides Plot Contrivances. One Librarian and his Original Characters often reverse engineer stolen technology from the fics they riff. Multiple Librarians also order technology from the PCC.
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46[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
47* Everything humanity uses in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' is produced by Buy n Large. Which is apparently also the ''government''.
48* The world of ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' controlled by the Octan Corporation, whose president is ''the'' President, and has ambitions for complete perfection. This is a MythologyGag, as Octan is a fictional oil company whose logo appeared on several LEGO City sets.
49* In ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' Ruber has a potion that turns his minions into metal monsters, and its labeled ACME on it.
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52[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
53* ''Film/NineteenFortyOne1979'' briefly featured an Acme Turpentine warehouse before it got wrecked.
54* The Weyland-Yutani company from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series of films seems to be one of these, being involved in government, interstellar shipping, attempts at biological weaponry, colonization of planets, and warfare. As of [[Film/AlienResurrection the fourth movie]], they have been bought up by Wal-Mart.
55* In the movie ''Film/{{Braindead}}'' uncle Les uses an Acme brand clothes mangle.
56* In the film of ''Film/TheLosers'', the team has to hack into a hard drive from Goliath International, which makes "pretty much everything."
57* OlderThanTelevision: Creator/HaroldLloyd comedy ''Film/NeverWeaken'' (1921), in which Harold uses "Acme Soap Flakes" to make a road slippery.
58* Omni Consumer Products (OCP) from ''Franchise/RoboCop'' also produces everything from weapons, to simple consumer products, to the eponymous hero.
59* In the movie ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' all products seen are Spaceballs brand, due to Yogurt's ownership of the film's own merchandising rights.
60* ''Film/StarOfMidnight'': Police detective Doremus of the NYPD is introduced reading an advertisement for "Acme Arch Supporters". He has problems with his feet.
61* ''Film/TopSecret'': On one of the walls of Dr. Paul Flammond's cell/laboratory in the east german prison, there is a sensual calendar of "Acme Lab Equipment".
62* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' the president of the Acme Corporation is a nice chap, Marvin Acme, whose [[LostWillAndTestament lost will]] becomes the MacGuffin.
63* In ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', Acme is headed by a CorruptCorporateExecutive, the movie's BigBad, who, not coincidentally, counts Wile E. Coyote among his hired goons.
64-->'''Acme Chairman:''' My God, man, what am I going to do with you? You've done nothing but screw up! You've walked off of mesas, been smashed by boulders and run over by diesel trucks! And don't blame the equipment! The equipment is good! It's Acme equipment! You're a coyote! Be wily!
65* In ''Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman'', Nancy's doctors use Acme Medical Supplies to get everything they need to keep her sedated and restrained. The deliveryman is incredulous at the order, which includes morphine and plasma by the gallon, an elephant syringe, and lengths of heavy chain and meat hooks.
66* A somewhat odd example in ''Film/BachelorMother'', in which Acme isn't making products. When Polly gets fired from her Christmas seasonal job, the temp agency she returns to is called Acme Employment Services.
67* Acme products are very common in several shorts and movies of ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' (as are Ace and Excelsior products).
68* The gun shop in ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' sells Acme gunpowder.
69* A close up of one of the speakers in Frank's lab in ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' shows that it has "ACME SOUND" stencilled inside it.
70* ''Film/BirchStreetGym'': The gym is inside a warehouse for "Acme Wiping Materials".
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73[[folder:Literature]]
74* The RAMJAC Corporation is a fictional multinational conglomerate, or MegaCorp, featured in several novels by Kurt Vonnegut. In ''Jailbird'', the company at its height owns 19 percent of the United States. Every time any product or corporation is mentioned, it is also mentioned that it is owned by the RAMJAC Corporation.
75* The novel ''The Quillan Games'' in the [[Literature/ThePendragonAdventure Pendragon]] series features the territory of Quillan, in which the Blok corporation, which started as a general store, evolved until it completely controlled the territory, and produce everything, from food to buildings to artwork, on the planet. If it doesn't have the name "Blok" on it, it probably doesn't exist or is boarded up underground with a factory or concentration camp built over it.
76* The Pixler corporation in ''Literature/{{Abarat}}'' doesn't have a monopoly, but it likes to say in its marketing copy that it will provide for you from cradle to grave--which it very well may, given that it runs both hospitals and funeral centers. In between, it provides everything from food to education. (And yes, these people are [[MegaCorp evil]].)
77* Jasper Fforde's ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' series has the Goliath Corporation. Its motto is "For all you'll ever need."
78** In ''One of Our Thursdays is Missing'', Thursday has a sort-of part-time job in a carpet fitting company which is ''called'' Acme.
79* The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation from ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' produces most of the sentient robots, sentient computers, and sentient elevators (ItMakesSenseInContext[[note]]Not really, but it's that kind of book anyway.[[/note]]) seen in the series. They have a very poor reputation and at one point it's mentioned that their complaints division is the only part of the company that turns a profit (and that seems to be true because of the SCC[='=]s motto "Share and Enjoy").
80* CHOAM (Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles) is a massive entity in ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' which, more or less, controls the sale of everything - essentially a mass amalgamation of craft and guilds.
81** To a lesser extent the Spacing Guild, who are a strangulatory monopoly (and own about a third of CHOAM's stock) as the only entity capable of space travel and the only owners of interstellar ships - all of CHOAM's goods require them, and they take a hefty cut of profit, as well as all transport or movement - without the Guild, the Empire, and CHOAM, collapses.
82* The humor book ''How To Be A Genius on 50p A Week'' recommended El Guffo products, a company strongly hinted to be owned by the author.
83* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels, [[HonestJohnsDealership CMOT Dibbler Enterprises]], while mostly associated with meat pies and sausage in a bun, will sell pretty much ''anything'', as long as it isn't something where actual functionality is a concern. In the business directory section of ''The Compleat Ankh-Morpork City Guide'', the Dibbler name is attached to beauty products, patent medicines, spirits, shampoos, and adult magazines, as well as the famous pies and such services as taking bets, offering loans and flyposting.
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86[[folder:Live Action TV]]
87* ''[[Series/TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!]]'' features Cinco, which produces a wide variety of questionable products, from Cinco Candy Tails (candy-coated horse hair) to the Cinco Sleep-Watching Chair (now you can watch your friends sleep in comfort!) to the Cinco Eye Tanning System (which works great, though you do have to have your teeth removed before the procedure. Nobody likes brown teeth.)
88* Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} show ''Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'' had this, with everyone listening to Krebstar radios and wearing Kreb of the Loom underwear.
89* ''Series/MaxHeadroom'' had Zik Zak. Motto: "We make everything you need, and you need everything we make."
90* The Prescott group, fictional sponsor of ''Series/TheColbertReport'', has a branch in every industry.
91* Leesburg, the primary setting of ''Series/TheMillers'', has various establishments that all have the same owner: a person/family/company by the name of [=McGee=]. These places range from yogurt stands to restaurants (including a [[ForeignQueasine Irish-Chinese]] [[CordonBleughChef fusion restaurant]]) to a strip club.
92* [[Series/BetterOffTed Veridian Dynamics]] not only designs and makes anything you can imagine but finds some sort of evil use for all of it.
93* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', every type of food and drink employed by the DHARMA Initiative is DHARMA-brand food.
94** There's also the Widmore Corporation and its subsidiaries (Widmore Labs, Widmore Construction, Widmore Industries)
95* Parodied in the mini-series ''Series/{{Fresno}}'', where the Acme Toxic Waste Company is owned by... Mr Acme.
96* Brazilian comedy group Casseta & Planeta has the Tabajara Organizations, "a monopolist megaconglomerate" with products that usually have names in [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign pseudo-English]].
97* ''Series/MadTV1995'' had the company Spishak, which made everything from cleaning products to medicine. The products ranged from useless to having unfortunate side effects.
98* The Shutsu Tonka Unitocracy in ''[[Music/DougAnthonyAllStars DAAS Kapital]]''.
99* ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow'' has Gloopy Products (P). A ([[ParodyCommercial fake]]) commercial for each of their products is shown OncePerEpisode.
100* On ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' Norm has a home decorating business which he names "AAAAAAAAAAA" in order to be listed first in the phone book.
101* Grocery products featured on ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' were typically of the made-up "Neighborhood" brand (for example, [[http://www.neighborhoodarchive.com/images/mrn/episodes/1039/snapshot20130326045023.jpg Neighborhood Cat Food]]).
102* ''Series/MrShow'' has [=GloboChem=], one of the few recurring aspects in the SketchComedy show. Their motto is even "We Own Everything So You Don't Have To."
103* The ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "Revenging Angel"(which was one long love letter to WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons), had Ozme products. The series was produced in Australia, the "[[StealthPun Land of Oz]]".
104* ''Series/TheGoodies'' of course given that it's often compared to a live-action Looney Tunes. For instance in the "Clown Virus" episode, the Goodies attempt to use Graeme Garden's "Acme Giant Soup-Can Flipper" to throw the giant can of tomato soup out to sea (there's even a "beep-beep!" heard) that ends up with Graeme getting an AnvilOnHead.
105* In the Series/ILoveLucy episode "The French Revue", the only words Fred can read on a French restaurant's menu is 'Acme Printing Service'.
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108[[folder:Music]]
109* Music/HoneyWorks' music videos mix this with CreatorCameo, with the band's name (or their associated number 828) showing up on a wide range of products their characters use. Some things, like the recurring makeup brand [=HoneyCos=], are even based on products the band owns in real life.
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112[[folder:Pinball]]
113* Referenced in ''[[Pinball/BugsBunnysBirthdayBall Bugs Bunny's Birthday Ball]]'', where Acme Corporation includes the Acme Rocket Co.
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117* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' has Wesayso, which seems to be mostly in construction, but is also used as the go-to company whenever a MegaCorp is needed.
118* In ''Series/SesameStreet'', the brand name on many products, from electronics to diapers, is Nologo, which is of course a gag on the fact the brand exists so as not to show actual logos.
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121[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
122* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'': Smith & Robards has everything a player character will ever need, all the way to customized submarines. And for the cash-strapped, there's always El Cheapo, which is similar but far less reliable.
123* ''TabletopGame/{{Toon}}: The Cartoon RPG'' has the Ace Company, purveyor of all sorts of crazy props for Toon characters.
124* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'': Everything that Alpha Complex citizens need is manufactured by PLC (Production, Logistics, and Commissary). Multiple "competing" front companies do the actual production and sales to create the illusion of a free market. They're all PLC.
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127[[folder:Theatre]]
128* General Products in ''Theatre/TheSolidGoldCadillac'' is a diversified conglomerate manufacturing everything from locomotives to clocks to bobby pins.
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131[[folder:Video Games]]
132* ''VideoGame/BioShock'':
133** ''VideoGame/BioShock1'': The fact that Andrew Ryan has his name plastered all over products and establishments in Rapture (Ryan Industries) could be considered an example.
134*** There was also Fontaine Futuristics, the company that Frank Fontaine owned before Ryan took it over. In the original it was established that it was the second most successful brand in Rapture, but it wasn't until ''VideoGame/BioShockInfiniteBurialAtSea'' that we learned they made everything; toys, clothes, jewelry, weapons, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick genetic wonder drugs]].
135** ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' introduces Sinclair Solutions, which actually manufactured many of products that Ryan and Fontaine sold. Sinclair also had hundreds of unrelated establishments such as hotels, booze shops, and prisons.
136** ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' continues the proud tradition - everything in Columbia is made by "Fink Mfg.", owned by one [[MeaningfulName Mr. Jeremiah Fink]].
137* Umbrella Corporation from the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series.
138* Aperture Science from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''. Every single element, item or device used in the countless tests is Aperture-branded product, and that includes the sentient computer running the place. Not bad for a company that started out designing parts for shower curtains.
139* ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'': Yort Industries has its name plastered on everything in the Shelter, from {{Big Electric Switch}}es to the cereal the staff eats, called "Mr. Yort's Tastyflakes".
140* ''VideoGame/TheRoomMobileGame'' has the Talisman company that appeared to have built all the boxes and other intricate contraptions you're manipulating in-game, if the presence of their maker's mark on all of them is any guide. The third installment reveals that [[TrueCraftsman The Craftsman]] began and owned this company, and one of the locations you get to explore is a workshop where it all started.
141* ''VideoGame/EliteBeatAgents'': The ABCD sporting goods company ranges from footballs to Olympic athlete's track suits.
142* ''VideoGame/GroundControl'' had the MegaCorp Crayven which produced food (such as the "Crayven Crunchbars"), combat armour, starships, had a military force, sponsored several frontier colonies and owned a multitude of TV channels. Oddly, Crayven did ''not'' produce Crayven brand weapons. Its armaments came from a sister-corporation called Wellby-Simms instead.
143* ''VideoGame/Hitman2'' has Kronstadt products littered throughout the levels, and the company is known for making friendly home products like vacuum cleaners, as well as lifesaving medical tech, but also cutting-edge AI and war tech. Eventually, of course, [[spoiler: the founder and CEO becomes a target for Agent 47.]]
144* An awful lot of products in the ''VideoGame/NancyDrew'' games, from antique ham radios to modern office equipment, were made by Krolmeister. In ''Secret of the Old Clock'', you even get to go there, delivering telegrams to the Krolmeister nail factory.
145** It's {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Danger by Design'', in which a newspaper article announces that Krolmeister has just ''bought'' the Acme Corporation!
146** ''Trail of the Twister'' introduces Mr. Krolmeister himself, as a phone-voice. You get to ask him how many products his company actually makes; he muses about it, mentioning some examples (salad dressing, industrial equipment...), before admitting he has no idea.
147* The Frobozz Magic Company in ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}'', with amusing subdivision names like Frobozz Exploding Paper Company and Frobozz Wizard Slaying Nasal Spray Company. Also a MegaCorp, since at the end of the reign of [[TheCaligula Dimwit Flathead]], 100% of all commerce in Quendor was owned by [=FrobozzCo=].
148* The Ultor Corporation in several Volition-made games (i.e. ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'', ''VideoGame/RedFaction'') are a clothing label, a mining company, and invest in extensive city redevelopment and LawEnforcementInc.
149* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' has Gadgetron, which supplies the hero's weapons and equipment. He actually gets to save it from an attack in the first game. Future games introduce [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando Megacorp]], [[VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked Vox Industries]] and [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction GrummelNet.]]
150* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', or more accurately, its expanded universe, features Mann Co., with the slogan "We Sell Products And Get In Fights". Mann Co. is actually a subsidiary of the even larger TF Industries, which also owns [[MegaCorp RED and BLU]] and all of ''their'' subsidiaries.
151* [=SynTek=] Megacorporation from ''VideoGame/AlienSwarm''. Everything from drinks to weaponry to medicine and synthetic drugs is made by them.
152* The Lezareno company from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' which handles everything in [[spoiler:Tethe'alla]], from mining operations to making incredibly bad-smelling perfume (which the president of the company, [[spoiler:Regal Bryant]], deeply apologises for and immediatley stops the production of when smelling it for the first time).
153* ''VideoGame/{{Madagascar}}'' has a few ACME products, mainly a cardboard box which you use to sneak past people as the Penguins.
154* While on Illium in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', listen closely to the advertisements in the background. Nearly ''all'' of them, regardless of the product (snacks, asari beauty products, experimental medical treatments) end with the phrase "a division of Elkoss Combine".
155* The Shinra MegaCorp in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' is supposedly an electrical power company (using nuclear reactors that run on AppliedPhlebotinum), but they also make weapons, automobiles, SuperSoldiers, a complete city hundreds of feet up in the sky, a WaveMotionGun, submarines, moon rockets and possibly other things, when they are not busy ruling the world and stamping out all resistance.
156* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', Mettaton's MTT brand includes various beauty products, stoves, a fancy hotel, a hamburger place, all of Mettaton's shows (including MTT News) and Canned-Human-Soul-Flavor-Substitute.
157* {{Parodied|Trope}} in the ''Franchise/CarmenSandiego'' franchise, which gives the "ACME" label to a detective agency rather than a product.
158* The Orochi Group of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' sells just about anything, thanks to its eight daughter corporations. Among other things, it's been known to provide pharmaceuticals, electrical power, packaged food, soft drinks, experimental weaponry, satellites, passenger jets, computers, multimedia players, gaming consoles, banking services, investment, insurance, stock market trading, TV channels, movie studios, SFX production houses, books, magazines, newspapers, theme parks, pesticides, and agricultural biotechnology. At one point, faction contact Bong Cha notes that the keypad she types on is an Orochi product - [[ParanoiaFuel and that it scans her fingerprints over a thousand times a day]]. And there's a whole lot more going on behind the scenes...
159* Saikou Corporation in ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' is an electronics company which has created most of the products found in the game; the radio has the Saikou logo on it, the phones and laptops the characters use are also made by Saikou, the metal detectors and security cameras in Mission Mode, or when a member of the Student Council dies in Story Mode, belong to Saikou, the cameras that The Photography Club wears are also made by Saikou, heck! even Akademi High School itself is being bankrolled by Saikou ever since it was founded in 1985.
160* ''VideoGame/TheOutfoxies'' sees the titular group of seven hitmen working for a Mr. Acme [[spoiler:(or rather, ''Mrs.'' Acme)]], who himself is a wealthy executive with a large mansion.
161* In ''VideoGame/JamesPond: Underwater Agent'', [[BigBad Dr. Maybe's]] EvilInc is called "ACME Oil". This is only in the first game, as his organization is known as J.A.W.S. in ''James Pond 3.''
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164[[folder:Web Animation]]
165* Cheap as Free in ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' (with a few exceptions: Compy computers, Videlectrix video games, and Cold Ones beer).
166* Characters from ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'' get anything they need from UsefulNotes/{{WalMart}}, including ''a time machine''.
167-->'''OJ:''' Wow. Walmart has everything.\
168'''Marshmallow:''' Yes. Yes it does.
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171[[folder:Webcomics]]
172* ''Webcomic/MSFHigh'': Miss Fenris runs one of these, with lots of fine print.
173* The Excalibur Corporation in ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' seems to make everything, including cars, computers and [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0999.htm more esoteric things]]. It also has a media arm.
174* [[http://1977thecomic.com/comic/smokin-in-the-boys-room/ Acme Industrial Garbage Containers]], as seen in ''Webcomic/NineteenSeventySevenTheComic''. Also, [[http://1977thecomic.com/comic/livin-after-midnight/ air horns]] and even [[http://1977thecomic.com/comic/the-orgins-of-the-mystic-frog-part-1/ exotic pets]].
175* Webcomic/{{Precocious}} has Chrispco, which makes tablets, children's toys, and soft drinks.
176* In ''Webcomic/YumisCells'' and ''Webcomic/DailyJoJo'', almost every significant product is branded Jullie (the author's wife).
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180* Music/DoctorSteel seems to order some of his supplies from them; he can produce a large hammer or lit stick of dynamite at will...
181* Roy and Simon use Acme products several times during their cartoon battles in ''WebVideo/TheCartoonMan'' and its sequel.
182* In ''Podcast/TheJohnDredgeNothingToDoWithAnythingShow'', K-Tel is this, with their products ranging from simple matches to giant catapults and [=BuffaLocators=] (for when you've misplaced your buffalos).
183* VillainSupport features the daily mishaps of John working customer support at the Acme company, either through selling villains on various Acme products to use in their schemes, or trying to smooth over various mishaps that come about from the misuse of their products.
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186[[folder:Western Animation]]
187* The {{Trope Namer|s}} comes from ACME Products, frequently used in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons, especially the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts, in which the coyote orders tons of products from ACME that he tries to use to catch the Road Runner.
188** Creator/ChuckJones joked in his memoir, ''Chuck Amuck,'' that ACME was an acronym for "American Company Manufacturing Everything," and that their corporate motto was, "We Produce Fine Acmes."
189** In a Creator/CartoonNetwork advertisement, Wile E ''sued'' ACME over their malfunctioning equipment, and was awarded a prime-time slot.
190*** A circa 1978 ''National Lampoon'' article also had Wile E. suing [=ACME=] over the integrity of their products.
191** ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster'' spoofed this, by having [[LawyerFriendlyCameo an unnamed coyote]] recommend that Marion get a better catalogue.
192** In one ''Looney Tunes'' short comic it was revealed that the ACME agent Wile E. goes to so he can pick up his equipment is Bugs Bunny in disguise, which may have something to do with why they never work the way they are supposed to.
193** {{Defictionalization}}: You can [[http://www.amazon.com/ACME-Catalog-Quality-Our-Dream/dp/081185115X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357450145&sr=8-1&keywords=acme+catalog get yourself a copy of an Acme Catalog]], detailing some of the various Acme items from the Looney Tunes cartoons.
194** Daffy Duck is a salesman for Ace Novelty Company who peddles his wares to Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg in "The High and the Flighty."
195* WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse cartoons from the '30s, '40s, [[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse 90s, and early 2000s]] often featured a similar company called Ajax, although this varied between being an actual Acme-style corporation and being Mickey's rink-a-dink entrepreneurial outfits ([[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment "Ajax Clock Cleaners, we clean clocks!" "Ajax Ghost Hunters, we hunt ghosts!"]] etc.) However, the Donald Duck short ''WesternAnimation/CuredDuck'' featured an "Acme Garage".
196** However, the Wile E. Coyote short "Rushing Roulette" involved the Coyote using an Ajax product.
197*** As he does in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt8aeTgY9u8 this 1968 commercial for the Plymouth Road Runner automobile]].
198* The Acme Corp. for ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' was Schlocko, purveyor of various Ron Popeil-type novelty items.
199** Little Gem was also used a few times.
200* WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther uses Acme products on several occasions.
201* In ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'', everything is made by Fleemco, with the main characters making most use of the company's "replacement service" that can replace anybody that a person wants with someone more to their liking. The person that gets replaced usually gets sent off on a nice vacation by "some weirdos in jumpsuits" for a couple of weeks before returning, assuming that they aren't legitimately awful people.
202* Invoked with Krusty Brand products in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', though the reason tends to be Krusty the Clown's willingness to [[MoneyDearBoy approve every license handed to him]]. He doesn't seem to care that Krusty Brand products are universally poorly-made, dangerous and in some cases, [[MayContainEvil cursed]].
203** There are also the Li'l Bastard products.
204** Referenced in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E1LardOfTheDance Lard of the Dance]]" with the BlackMarket thugs who siphon the grease Homer's attempting to sell out of his car and steal his shovel, claiming they run rackets for both. Their truck is labeled "''[[PunnyName Acne]]'' Grease and Shovel".
205* Even ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' had an Acme product: the Acme Majestic Ultra-light All-Weather Fiberglass Volcano as shown in the episode "Gadget Goes Hawaiian".
206* In ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'' they have Wizard Kelly products. Most everything is sold under the name of Wizard Kelly or Wiz.
207** Which was a gag about basketball legend and successful businessman Magic Johnson, who owns everything from theaters to restaurants to a line of hair care products in the black community. He single-handedly convinced major corporations that there was money to be made targeting the black community.
208* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' live at Acme Labs. We don't see them making a ton of bizarre roadrunner-busting products, but turning lab animals into evil geniuses who want to TakeOverTheWorld...sounds about right.
209* In ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'', most products and businesses have a sign or logo for AOL Time Warner, the actual parent company of Turner Broadcasting at the time. Additionally, almost every store and service has the ending -lux (Javalux coffee, etc.)
210* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', everything is made by Misery Inc...[[MayContainEvil unfortunately]].
211* Conglom-O from ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' was either this, or a corrupt MegaCorp, depending on episode needs.
212* A short on ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' had a company called "Apex" that specialized in cartoon props and gadgets; the plot of the cartoon revolved around a fox and a weasel sneaking along on a tour of their factory to get their hands on some of these gadgets.
213* A ''Disney's WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' (actually ''[[ShowWithinAShow Quailman]]'') episode features [[FunWithAcronyms S.T.U.A.R.T.]], a company that makes all sorts of products which malfunction and fail on purpose just to annoy their users as much as possible.
214* In the "first in the phone book" category (see Real Life examples), in the WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}} episode "Haunted Society Plumbers" Duckman and Cornfed use "[=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA1=] Plumbing" as a cover business. That's 25 "A"s, though in a gag to draw out the joke as long as possible, some characters use the "A" only 24 or 21 times in spite of it. There are also too many to fit on the van (not sure offhand how many).
215* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' is set in a [[CompanyTown town]] called Acme Acres. Guess what product brand is always used.
216* ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' has, in one episode, Nebulous Nifty, who make a lot of interesting, useful products, that promptly self-destruct. Spacely, George Jetson's employer, merges his company with them, and the sign goes up on the company building, only for George to warn him that their products self-destruct, much like the building eventually did.
217* Smarty Mart in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' stocks everything from clothing to livestock.
218* In ''WesternAnimation/JorelsBrother'', Shostners & Shostners is a company composed almost entirely of identical bureaucrats that seems to own and produce almost everything in the show. According to Perdigoto, the company is the largest communication and food conglomerate in the world, owning almost everything people touch, see, wear, eat and throw away (including their dreams).
219* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatSantaClausCaper'', TheBigBadWolf (whose real name is revealed as "Alexander Graham Wolf") has invented a substance called "gloopstik" and even created a company to manufacture it. However, his business card reveals that the Gloopstik Corporation is owned by Acme, making gloopstik an Acme product. [[Creator/ChuckJones Guess who]] made this cartoon?
220* The unnamed online company that the characters of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' buy stuff from. They sell everything. Including weapons, time machines and LovePotion.
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224* Chuck Jones, creator of this trope's namesake company, attributes his usage to the large number of fly-by-night companies that named themselves Acme in order to be first in the yellow pages. Acme, which means "the highest point" or pinnacle, struck him as particularly funny (think HonestJohnsDealership but for catalogs). To this day, it is rather fun to call one of these businesses and ask if they have any products that can be used to kill a roadrunner.
225* The Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog, which was your one stop shop for everything you could every possibly want (and much you didn't)... at least until around UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when demographic changes moved people away from rural areas to suburban zones. Sears even sold ''cars and houses'' via catalog.[[note]]One of the products found in an early 20th century Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog is an actual [[http://www.acme.com/what_is_acme/ Acme anvil.[[/note]]]]
226* In early 20th century Canada it was the Eaton's catalogue, well-known for including everything from diamond jewelry to prefab houses. It was multi-purpose, too, since last year's catalog was this year's outhouse accessory.
227* Creator/{{Sony}}. Currently dealing in consumer and industrial electronics (including laptops, phones, camcorders, cameras and radios), home entertainment, media production (including TV, Film, and Music), electronic components, industrial chemicals, video games (both games and consoles), batteries, toys, robots, banks, and life insurance.
228* Likewise, Mitsubishi, known in the US mainly as a car manufacturer, does everything in its homeland and the rest of world. Just check the list of subdivisions on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi their Wikipedia entry]] for a quick-and-dirty rundown. Not to mention they are ''the largest suppliers for [[UsefulNotes/KaijuDefenseForce Japan Self Defense Force]]''.
229* While Samsung is best known for the smartphones (and phablets), televisions, refrigerators, computers and other techy gadgets, Samsung Electronic is just the tip of the iceberg as Samsung is a conglomerate of companies with enormous amount of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung#Subsidiaries_and_affiliates subsidiaries]] which contributed to around 10-20% of South Korea's GDP output (which is quite substantial considering that South Korea is one of the four Asian Tigers).
230* In a similar vein with Samsung, LG Corporation, primarily known as an electronics manufacturer outside of South Korea, also carries household care products, cosmetics, beverages (as a Coca-Cola licensee no less) and their own telecom provider.
231* Fujifilm, while primarily an imaging company, has also dabbled in photochemicals, biopharmaceutical products such as stem cells, antiviral drugs and regenerative medicine, recording media, X-ray imaging and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking cosmetics]]. Fujifilm's [[https://petapixel.com/2016/04/08/film-makeup-fuji-made-ultimate-pivot-business-dried/ venture into skincare]] was said to have kept the company afloat despite film being rendered obsolete by digital photography and smartphones, and they were able to apply their knowledge gained from photographic research in achieving the ideal skin tone. And it actually makes sense too--on a marketing standpoint it would be preferable and more photogenic to take photos whilst wearing Astralift makeup by Fujifilm. Not to mention that they have also developed favipiravir, one of the treatments for [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19]] which is sold under the trade name Avigan.
232* General Electric once had a massive line of products ranging from lightbulbs to household appliances to railroad locomotives, jet aircraft engines and miniguns. For a few years in the 1960s, the company was one of the eight most important manufacturers of mainframe computers in the US. The company declined slowly, shedding numerous product lines before finally announcing a three-way breakup in 2021.
233* Back in the '60s and '70s, Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures was owned by a conglomerate called Gulf & Western (or "Gulf+Western", going by their logo); in addition to Paramount, they owned clothing manufacturers, car parts factories, financial services firms, cigar makers, sugar plantations, the list goes on. They even owned Creator/{{Sega}} for a time, and New York's famous Madison Square Garden arena (and their associated sports teams). Eventually, former Paramount head Martin Davis became head of the company and realized they ought to focus on their most profitable subsidiary-- Paramount and its' collection of smaller companies (including Famous Music, Simon & Schuster books, and MSG); as a result, all the industrial and consumer companies were sold off and the company was renamed ''Paramount Communications'' in 1989; they eventually acquired a bunch of medium and small market TV stations and a chain of theme parks (both previously owned by Taft Broadcasting), and in 1994 merged with Creator/{{Viacom}}.
234* CD-R King, known in the Philippines for selling blank recordable media and memory cards, and usually caters to internet kiosk owners. As mentioned earlier, they do sell CD-Rs, but has since ventured into selling a myriad of items, all to the point of carrying things not normally found in a gadget store like [[http://3rdworldgeeks.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/rice-cooker.jpg rice cookers]], and even electric bicycles. This became a source of humour with Filipinos, who jokingly suggested that they might be carrying even more unlikely items such as frozen fish or helicopters. And like Acme, they're derided by some for their products' hit-and-miss build quality - some items work reliably for a long time, while others would work for days or months but eventually break down or malfunction. Though in recent years CD-R King declined partly due to legal pressure owing to the company selling recording media at a discount, which, as you might guess, has been seen as facilitating piracy, and also due to cloud services and flash-based storage displacing optical discs as a primary storage medium.
235* SM Prime Holdings is well known in the Philippines as one of the biggest retailers and property developers in the country, selling everything from apparel and other household supplies to real estate. Which is far cry from the fact that "SM" originally stood for [[ArtifactTitle Shoemart]].
236* The [[http://www.tata.com/ Tata Group]] in India, supplier of many products including [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking automobiles, energy, and tea]].
237* The Walton Group in Bangladesh. While they primarily specialise in electronics, their product line covers things as diverse as desktops, laptops, RAM sticks, SD cards, home appliances, generators, elevators, batteries and even motorcycles. It wouldn't be that of a stretch for a Bangladeshi family's home to be decked out entirely with Walton-brand appliances, with one or more family members owning a Walton laptop and/or cellphone, and riding a Walton motorbike whilst they're at it, money permitting.
238* [[http://www.amazon.com Amazon]] is definitely this. So is [=eBay=].
239** Special mention goes to the [=AmazonBasics=] line which is not only sold but also manufactured by Amazon and contains a whole range of products ranging from basic electronics, household appliances, furniture, office supplies, personal accessories, camping gear, and various other products.
240* The ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companhia_Uni%C3%A3o_Fabril Companhia União Fabril]]'' ("Manufacturing Union Company"). It was, before the Carnation Revolution, the largest company in Portugal and the Iberian Peninsula, one of the five largest ones in Europe, and one of the 100 largest in the ''world''. While mainly known as a chemical company, especially in fertilizers, for they were produced under the main company name, it also operated in other sectors, such as: cement, petrochemicals, textiles, beer, beverages, metallurgy, naval construction, electrical equipment, oilseeds, insurance, banking, wood pulp, tourism, mining, etc. In fact, there is still a company with the same name (although ''not the same company'') owned by the family who owned the old CUF, centering around chemicals, and hundreds of other spin-off companies which might be or not be owned by the same family who owned the old CUF. Their slogan, BTW, was ''"O que o país não tem, a CUF cria"'' ("What the country [Portugal] doesn't have, CUF creates").
241* Hitachi, the company that makes everything from MRI machines and nuclear reactors to vacuum cleaners and vibrators.[[note]]They still manufacture the Magic Wand to this day, but are marketed and sold by sex toy company Vibratex sans the Hitachi branding as Hitachi themselves did not want to be associated with sexual activity.[[/note]]
242* Generic store brands, such as Walmart's Great Value and Target's Up & Up, qualify as this. They sell everything under that brand from food to toiletries.
243* Boeing is mainly known for manufacturing both types of the passenger and military aircraft (especially the 7x7-series passenger aircraft, fighters like Hornets and Eagles, and rotor aircraft such as Apaches and Ospreys), but the conglomerate also covers air security and R&D technologies, among others.
244* There actually ''is'' a supermarket chain called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_Markets Acme Markets]] (no relation to the {{Trope Namer|s}}, though), which can be surprising for people who know the fictional brand but had never heard of the chain growing up. However, the chain is mainly based in the Mid-to-Upper Atlantic region of the United States, making it an aversion of the trope.
245** A ''more'' isolated aversion of the trope is the [[https://www.acmestores.com/ Acme Fresh Market]] chain based in Akron, Ohio.
246* There used to be an "Acme Novelties", which sold stuffed toys for the redemption counters at arcades and at carnivals.
247* San Miguel Corporation in the Philippines, best known for its [[https://www.sanmiguelbrewery.com.ph/ beer]], started out as a brewery during the twilight years of Spanish colonial rule but later ventured to industries far beyond brewing and selling beer, such as food and drink, finance, infrastructure, oil and energy, transportation, and real estate.
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