History Main / MegaCorp

** Mao-Kwikowski Mercantile, the founder and funder of the protoparticle conspiracy, which has advanced stealth ships and SuperSoldier troops and overall a more advanced tech base than what the other power blocs have. The Trope is Deconstructed and RealityEnsues, though, in that [[spoiler:events such as the Eros Station massacre and the attempted ColonyDrop of said station (and its protomolecule cargo) on Earth was seen by many (even some of their higher-level administrators) as an incredibly blatant crossing of the MoralEventHorizon and are now hunting Jules-Pierre Mao down for his crimes, even if for some of those performing said hunt it's essentially a "TakingYouWithMe" action]].

* ''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.

* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': Apex Cybernetics. They're a hi-tech corporation invested in the fields of robotics, neurology and A.I., who must have a budget in the ''tens of billions'' to fund some of their huge facilities and [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla]]. And at their heart their egotistical CorruptCorporateExecutive is overseeing a shady corporate conspiracy within the company to build a [[spoiler: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. Although they're never observed directly abusing their employees or committing any crimes against humanity directly in the film (the {{novelization}} reveals they're not above staging car accidents for people who do too much nosing), they ''do'' unintentionally but knowingly instigate Godzilla's rampage by [[spoiler:creating Mechagodzilla using Ghidorah's remains and what is implied to be a reverse-engineered ORCA]], and they not only continue the project in complete disregard for the civilians in Godzilla's warpath, but they outright take advantage of Godzilla's rampage to make it seem like evidence that Godzilla can't be trusted and humanity needs Apex's anti-Titan weapon.

* In ''WebVideo/TheKaskadeRegion'', a fan-created Franchise/{{Pokemon}} region of the North American Pacific Northwest, the biggest company around is Amaze-All, a major parcel delivery service, and also the parent company behind Poryphones, the Goomaze web search application, and the FaceDex social media app (effectively an {{Expy}} of Amazon if it also did the work of Apple, Google and Facebook). Headed by CEO Tom Bezzle, it effectively controls 100% of the delivery services in the Kaskade region, a majority in Orre, Unova, Galar and Kalos, and is steadily making inroads into the Japanese regions. It has been known to buy out rivals and news companies that criticize it, has rumored connections to organized crime, and is also doing research into Kaskade's weather for... some reason.

** ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' has Weyland-Yutani. Famously evil enough to sacrifice squads of colonial marines, entire colonies, and the security of the Earth in its attempt to weaponize the eponymous alien critters... and in the [[Film/AlienResurrection fourth film]] eventually buys out by an even ''more'' evil rival, Wal-Mart. In this case, though, Cameron did not make the mega corp; it was already present and evil in the original ''Film/{{Alien}}''; Cameron just fleshed it out.
** The ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'' films introduce the separate Weyland and Yutani corporations in a fictionalised current-day Earth. While not much is shown of either, Weyland at least appears to have its own spy satellites and mercenaries, suggesting it must be at least getting towards mega territory. Yutani meanwhile apparently has enough pull with the United States military to have a general bring an alien weapon to ''her'', rather than his ''actual'' superiors in the military and government.

* ''Webcomic/LovelyPeople'': The World Council cooperates with a large retailer named Alizongle to provide those who have good ratings in the social credit system with gifts and various other monetary rewards. Take a wild guess as to which retailer people need to buy from to score the most social credit points. The situation may be even worse than that, as there is no idication of retailers who aren't associated with Alizongle in some way existing at all.

* ''Film/JamesBond'' has some of these usually involved in criminal conspiracies. They're often the public face or one of many fronts for a larger NebulousEvilOrganisation such as S.P.E.C.T.R.E.
** [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Auric Enterprises]]
** [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe The Stromberg Shipping Line]]
** [[Film/{{Moonraker}} Drax Industries]]
** [[Film/AViewToAKill Zorin Industries]]
** [[Film/LicenceToKill Ocean Exotica]]
** [[Film/TomorrowNeverDies The Carver Media Group]]
** [[Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough King Industries]]
** [[Film/DieAnotherDay Graves Diamonds]]
** [[Film/QuantumOfSolace Greene Planet]]

** In RealLife, in order to run all of the facilities at Walt Disney World, Disney lobbied and received complete autonomy [[note]]Disney still has to pay property taxes and submit to state elevator inspection.[[/note]] in the 44 square miles owned by Disney (more land than Manhattan) which is controlled by the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RDIC). This "city" is run by a board of governors who are elected by the citizens of the RDIC controlled land, all of whom are Disney Employees. The RDIC website even declares it's "where buisness and government effectively work together to resolve the problems that neither can solve on it's own". Disney being a Real Life MegaCorp is a well known fact, but it's probably the only one that has effectively merged with government. If they so choose, they could have their own police force (in reality, the contract local police forces to have actual arresting and ticketing power. Their own security can cite employees and set up as traffic control, but have no road arrest authority).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' has [=MergeCorp=] (later called "[=MegaCorp=]"), of which [[BrattyHalfPint Angelica]] [[BigBad Pickles]]' mother, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Charlotte]], is the CEO. In one episode where Charlotte is forced to take her daughter and nephew to work with her, after she and Drew couldn't find any babysitters to watch them for the day, this is how Charlotte described her job to Angelica: "A corporation is like a big, hungry monster. ''My'' job is to find smaller, weaker monsters for it to eat."
* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'': There is little that Khan Industries does not produce and/or sell. This Mega Corp has got the tallest skyscraper in Cape Suzette and both a navy and an air force of its own.

* ''FanFic/SovereignGFCOrigins'': The Band of Brothers, seven titanic smuggling organizations (they prefer the term [[InsistentTerminology "alternative shipment"]]) who [[EvenEvilHasStandards play nice]] with the government to keep the status quo intact. They also may have had something to do with smuggling cloaking and superlaser technologies to Cerberus a galaxy over, and are acting as private contractors to do the intelligence service's dirty work.

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** The ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'' films introduce the separate Weyland and Yutani corporations in a fictionalised current-day Earth. While not much is shown of either, Weyland at least appears to have its own spy satellites and mercenaries, suggesting it must be at least getting towards mega territory.

* ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'' has [=TASCorp=], who has a very large presence in the video-game obsessed Silica City. Several other megacorps, like AlphaMax and Cloud7, are name-dropped throughout season one.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': Megacorps are a major part of the setting, and in some cases have outright displaced national governments as major power players in the global stage. They typically have worldwide reach and fingers in almost every pie, although most tend to specialize to some degree -- most 'corps focus on things like informatics, biotech, armaments and so on. They're ranked from A companies, which are merely national in scope, to AA companies, which are international in scope and gain the title of megacorp, to the ones that ''really'' fit the trope, the AAA corps and any one of the Big Ten. Megacoprps are rarely monolithic entities, however -- all, but especially the largest, end up being complex systems of shell companies, fronts, subsidiaries, branches of branches of branches, leased territories and independent companies controlled through majority shareholding, all operating around a more or less compact central core.

* In ''Series/{{Helix}}'' the action is set at ResearchInc. Arctic Biosystems, who are "big pharma", in-universe, and must be rich indeed to afford an arctic ElaborateUndergroundBase base that can house and employ over 120 people. They themselves are a subsidiary of the even bigger Ilaria Corporation. The GenreShift twist halfway through the first season somewhat justifies Ilaria's extensive resources, as it turns out to actually be run by [[spoiler: a group of immortals]] who would have had plenty of time to build it all up.

* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' has "AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Skynet]]-Toyota-Trader-Joe's" starting in Season 3, which is eventually bought out by White Whale Corp. in Season 6, which also buys up "Girl Croosh" to kill a negative story.
-->'''Steffonie''': Well technically they bought Fuddrucker's and merged it with Dow Chemical to create a new media venture called Spronk. Spronk acquired Univision which will incorporate Girl Croosh into the Gizmodo mist of [[AdvertisingDisguisedAsNews advertorial]].

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'' has the Kiryuin conglomerate, which supplies Honnouji Academy's Goku Uniforms and [[spoiler: the entire world's.]]