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12->''"Excellent job! Now to restructure the banking system so that we will be able to rob the shirts off of poor people... uh, I mean, to invest prudently and generate wealth that will trickle down."''
13-->-- '''Antonio Lopez''', ''VideoGame/Tropico4''
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15A senior manager, CEO or owner of a [[MegaCorp major definitely-for-profit corporation]] who is out to [[{{Greed}} make as much money and gain as much power]] as possible, by [[TheUnfettered any means available, regardless of who suffers]]. To that end, they are perfectly willing to violate business or social ethics, commit crimes (ranging from fraudulent accounting to mass murder), and [[ToxicInc devastate Mother Nature]] and human communities, justifying those actions under the name of "just business." They are confident that all they have to do is [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney spread enough money around to get their way or avoid punishment,]] and are very likely to cross the MoralEventHorizon in their search for profit. They are also very, very likely to be White (or Asian) and male, like [=CEOs=] in real life.
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17Expect to find them at the head of an enormous boardroom table on the top floor of an EvilTowerOfOminousness. He may be a BadBoss, but not always. A few of them can actually be very decent employers, with employees who are completely in the dark about their underhanded plans. If so, the public [[VillainWithGoodPublicity is often just as much in the dark]]. Naturally, this sort of villain tends to have an AmoralAttorney (or several) on his payroll to keep the authorities off his back, in case he does slip up, and a small stormtrooper army of "[[{{Mooks}} security personnel]]" who have carte blanche to "[[DeadlyEuphemism deal with problems"]], dispose of evidence of wrongdoing and commit violent crimes to protect the boss. If those resources fail, [[EveryManHasHisPrice he often uses money to "buy" or even "own" officials]]. In more {{Dystopia}}n settings, expect them to be like dictators, each leading a MegaCorp.
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19They usually [[FridgeLogic fail to consider]] the [[DidntThinkThisThrough full effects of their plan]], or the fact that [[CutLexLuthorACheck they can make more by going legit]], and at times the plan [[MissingStepsPlan seems to have no concrete way of creating wealth]]. Usually, they remain in business thanks to OffscreenVillainDarkMatter. Expect them to butt heads with fellows executives when their plans give the business a P.R. headache.
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21If they have a [[TheDragon Dragon]], expect them to be a vice executive or personal assistant. If TheDragon is female, then she'll most likely be a SecretaryOfEvil. They can either be a BeleagueredAssistant or ProfessionalButtKisser depending on how much they put up with their boss's crap.
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23Though there are earlier examples, the modern Corrupt Corporate Executive had (until relatively recently) a distinctly TheEighties feel (due to the influence of {{Cyberpunk}}), which made him seem progressively more out of place as those affectations become less mainstream. Earlier Corrupt Corporate Executives tended to be far less stylized and distinct from other "smooth" villain types (often with a healthy streak of [[Characters/JamesBondBlofeld Ernst Stavro Blofeld]]). However, starting with the TurnOfTheMillennium onwards, countless high profile real-life cases of corporate corruption have arguably diminished the '80s feel of the character and made the Corrupt Corporate Executive a very modern villain — particularly with the rise in the last decade of the TechBro subtype. See the [[Analysis/CorruptCorporateExecutive analysis page]] for more discussion of the variations of Corrupt Corporate Execs that show up in media.
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25This is one of the inevitable progressions that any {{ambitio|nIsEvil}}us character will end in. See Also ThereAreNoGoodExecutives. Occasionally, the CCE will be the producer of an ImmoralRealityShow. If the executive is a caricature of a certain someone with [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump fake poofy hair and lives in a giant tower]], then that is a {{Trumplica}}.
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27See also the CorruptPolitician and the MorallyBankruptBanker (who helps hide ill-gotten gains in a secret SwissBankAccount), his drinking buddies, and the AmoralAttorney, a brigade of whom will be found on his payroll. A CCE will either be in regular contact with the local DiabolicalMastermind or (if particularly organised, competent, and disinterested in petty matters of legality) will be one himself. Compare GreedyJew and PointyHairedBoss. Contrast HonestCorporateExecutive, the CCE's natural enemy. But remember that sometimes, EvenEvilHasStandards (and/or [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Loved Ones]]), especially in a WhatYouAreInTheDark situation. In a work with a GreenAesop, this individual is usually an EcocidalAntagonist who runs some form of ToxicInc for selfish and greedy reasons, if any at all.
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29Might be defeated if you HitThemInThePocketbook.
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31Sadly, this trope is all too often TruthInTelevision, but be that as it may, Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease
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35!!Examples subpages:
36[[index]]
37* CorruptCorporateExecutive/ComicBooks
38* [[CorruptCorporateExecutive/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
39* CorruptCorporateExecutive/LiveActionTV
40* CorruptCorporateExecutive/VideoGames
41* CorruptCorporateExecutive/WesternAnimation
42[[/index]]
43
44!!Other examples:
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47[[folder:Advertising]]
48* The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G33BeHzVrf0 Pole Position]]'' Platform/Atari2600 and 5200 ad lampshades this:
49-->'''Unknown voice:''' HEY! YOU LOOK LIKE A REAL JERK! \
50'''Father:''' [[SelfDeprecation Well I am a corporate executive!]] \
51'''Mother:''' [[ExecutiveMeddling He stops exciting things from happening!]]
52[[/folder]]
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54[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
55* Satoru Kanzaki of ''Manga/Area88'' becomes one of these after he takes over Yamato Airlines. Among other things, he was instrumental in adopting a very shoddily built new airliner.
56* Extensively referenced in the {{Cyberpunk}} series ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'', where not only are GENOM's executives corrupt, but also controlling both the police and local government via a GovernmentConspiracy. The BigBad, Quincy, is the head of the corporation who does everything in the name of profit, while [[TheDragon Brian J. Mason]], another high-ranking executive, is even worse; he bought a housing complex, evicted all the residents (including Priss) and leveled it so Genom could develop the property into another of their research facilities, [[spoiler:even after being told someone was still inside at the time. Oh, and years prior to that, [[YouKilledMyFather he murdered Sylia's father, too]]]].
57* [[BigBad Sir Isaac Ray Peram Westcott]] in ''Literature/DateALive'' is the Managing Director of Deus.Ex.Machina Industries. On one hand, he was the one who invented the Realizers. On the other hand, he wants to seek and harness all of Spirit powers so he can plunge the whole world in chaos and destruction.
58* At first glance, the Yotsuba Group in ''Manga/DeathNote'' appeared to be a group of ruthless businessmen who were willing to turn anything towards gaining money. When one of them gained access to the eponymous ArtifactOfDoom, they used it to selectively kill off their rivals in order to increase their profit margins. As L and Light's investigation went on, it was revealed that only ''one'' of them was willing to go so far. The others were just there because their lives had been threatened by the holder of the eponymous note.
59* The Gowa family and Symbol from ''Anime/{{Gasaraki}}''. Kazukiyo Gowa is pretty goddamned corrupt, from using hollowed out demons to develop mecha, resulting in his brother's death, his adopted brother's borderline slavery to the family and nearly killing his sister for a new demon, to taking part in a coup that will result in either Japan being left completely bankrupt, or Japan and America both completely bankrupt, only to get a hold of the entire county's financial Data, so he can restart the stockmarket with his hands holding all the cards.
60* ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'' has George Kurai, the President of the Criasu Corporation. He's trying to steal everyone's future by stopping time.
61* ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko'': Eriko's EvilUncle [[BigBad Yuusuke]], once he gets control of his deceased brother's entertaiment company, sees Eriko as a potential cash cow, and once she decides to work with her father's best friend instead, tries to destroy her career. He's basically the anime version of [[WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} Eric Raymond]], but perhaps ''even worse''.
62* Gan'an Shinomiya in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' is [[LonelyRichKid Kaguya]]'s [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]] father and the head of a shady ''zaibatsu''. [[SmallRoleBigImpact He's rarely seen]], but it's shown that he raised all of his children to be manipulative sociopaths for the sake of increasing the family's prestige.
63* [[BigBad Ajo]] from ''Anime/KeyTheMetalIdol''. When he wasn't busy traveling to foreign countries to sell them illegal weapons, he was murdering people who got in his way ([[AnyoneCanDie no matter how much the audience may like them]]), kidnapping homeless people to extract their gel [[spoiler:(and robbing them of their humanity in the process)]], extorting people, abusing women, or, in the end, [[spoiler:building a giant reactor to steal the essence from 50,000 people at a concert.]] All apparently to fuel his robot fetish.
64* Ragyo Kiryuin from ''Anime/KillLaKill''. This woman has managed to get way with...
65** Helping a MagicMeteor eat random people off the street due to having a global monopoly on clothing.
66** Making clothing that installs a custom WeirdnessCensor in anyone without built-up immunity (or nudism).
67** [[PedoHunt Blatant sexual]] [[ParentalIncest abuse]] of her daughter Satsuki [[spoiler:and her [[LukeIAmYourFather other daughter Ryuko]]]].
68** Attempting to allow an entire stadium full of innocent men, women, and children to be consumed by alien lifeforms.
69* Oyama from the [[AlternateContinuity 2009 TV special]] of ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion''. He isn't into money so much as he is into playing God with animals.
70* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' brings us the evil GalacticConqueror Nightmare. He is the owner of [[MegaCorp Holy Nightmare Corporation]] (Nightmare Enterprises in the dub), a company that literally '''rules the entire universe'''.
71* Hades Vandein, the BigBad of ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' and general manager of the Vandein Corporation. He's the main instigator of the Eclipse incident and the reason why there are [[ViralTransformation Infected]] running around TheMultiverse blowing various towns up, as well as various labs filled with the bloody and fatal results of human experimentation. It's all part of the R&D his company is doing on the Eclipse virus as it'll bring huge profits to his company once they refine the technological advances related to it.
72--> '''Hades Vandein''': It's not unusual for bloodshed and lawsuits to happen over the development and monopolizing of new technologies.
73* From ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'':
74** Nergal Heavy Industries in general, with the exception of people on the ship from the start. [[PropheticName With a name like that...]]
75** Their rivals, the Crimson Group, are even worse, financing the terrorist coup in the movie.
76* In ''Manga/MensLove'', many of the characters are portrayed as [[GreyAndGreyMorality morally flexible]] in the interests of business, but Daigo's father definitely wanders into this trope when he bribes Kaoru to break up with Daigo and (failing that) threatens to expose his sexual orientation so that Daigo can make a [[ArrangedMarriage marriage]] that's advantageous to the company.
77* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' featured the Meta Liberation Army, a terrorist organization fighting for unregulated usage of superpowers, led by several corporate executives [[spoiler: who secretly controlled all of Deika City]].
78** The leader, Re-Destro, was president and CEO of the Detnerat Company, which was dedicated to creating individual items fitting people with Quirks that make them unable to buy anything standardized [[spoiler: as well as items to support the Quirks of himself and his followers in combat]].
79** Curious was the executive director of Shoowaysha [[BitingTheHandHumor (Shueisha)]] Publishing and used her authority to disseminate MLA propaganda across Japan.
80** [[MissionControl Skeptic]] was a board member from leading IT company [[ShoutOut Feel Good, Inc.]], and as a result [[SinisterSurveillance could restore data and trace phone calls to know the location of his enemies]].
81* ''Anime/NappingPrincess'': The main antagonist, Watanabe, is a senior member of Sajima Motors, and uses his power to influence the police and ultimately intends to make a hostile takeover of the company. In general, he does keep to legal means, however, and even wants the procession at the Olympic Games to go over well just as much as everyone else ([[PragmaticVillainy even if that's just because it would be bad for him if someone was injured]]). His counterpart in Heartland is much worse, making sure the princess stays imprisoned, keeping the country in danger, and ultimately wants to watch everything burn when his plans are foiled.
82* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' featured Gato, head of Gato Company, in the first major story arc. His company's shipments allowed him to mask his trade in all manner of illicit goods. For unspecified reasons he decided to take over all shipping lanes from the Land of Waves, preventing the island nation from carrying out any of the standard trade and driving it into poverty. Gato went one step further by purposefully targeting anybody who gave the people hope and eliminating them in public and gruesome manners.
83* The Siberian Railroad from ''Anime/OvermanKingGainer'' uses the monopoly they have to overcharge people on everything, and since the only way to get anything is to use the Siberian Railroad they can do whatever they want.
84* ''Anime/PatlaborTheTVSeries'': Schaft Enterprises is a ruthless corporation that produces military mecha, among other things, and uses highly illegal means to test their vehicles. An odd case, in that it remains a monolithic entity with no BigBad in charge of it, though their agents Kurosaki and Richard Wong/Utsumi give it a human face. Schaft even has its own private army of mercenaries that operates in a great part of Southeast Asia.
85* ''Anime/PhantomQuestCorp'': Not only is [[HandsomeLech Mr. Nagasuki]] screwing [[SexySecretary his secretary]] on the job, he abuses his position as the museum's curator to try to coerce his employee, Natsuki, [[SexualExtortion to sleep with him.]] Plus, he was later found guilty of embezzling funds from the museum, so the blank check he had paid Ayaka with, was worthless.
86* ''Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterOfIllusions'': Grings Kodai. He's the founder and owner of his extremely successful company. He will also go down in history as one of the nastiest pieces of work in Pokemon history. There are no lows he won't sink to in order to get what he wants, including blackmail, lying to a city, kidnapping, and [[spoiler:threatening to ''murder a baby Pokemon '''directly in front of its mother!''''']] He'll also go down in Pokemon history as having one of the most satisfying HumiliationConga ever given.
87* ''Literature/RebuildWorld'': {{Cyberpunk}} {{Dystopia}} variant. TheAlliance of MegaCorp have absolute power in the country in which protagonist Akira lives, with their PropagandaMachine disguising the various company's frequent FalseFlagOperation strife. Most of the bad corporate schemes are shown at the local level.
88** BadassInANiceSuit Yanigisawa is a DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent, his corruption ranging from minor things like setting up a PublicityStunt with a MiniMecha producer to help them sell to his city, to [[spoiler:conspiring with a different megacorp to arrange TheSiege that leaves the slums [[UrbanSegregation and lower district]] of his city in ruins while the defense units stay neutral.]]
89** Inabe is TheTeamBenefactor who is introduced buying relics in secret to fraudulently inflate the value of his territory, and is a rival to Yanigisawa who believes himself to have the wellbeing of the people in mind more than him. A ReasonableAuthorityFigure who nonetheless has a ManipulativeBastard streak.
90** The megacorp the above two work for, Sakashita Heavy Industries, is headed by Sugadome, who funnily enough, is portrayed as a BenevolentBoss, treating his SuperHumanTrafficking agents very well.
91* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' has [[FourEyesZeroSoul Takeda Kanryu]], who participates in shady businesses (opium and weapon trade) and won't hesitate to have people slaughtered if it will allow him to continue making money. The live action movie expands on this, showing him snub his nose at the authorities whenever they try to question him.
92* ''Manga/SaturnApartments'' features a power plant. The safety there leaves a lot to be desired. The boss at the plant knows. He does not, however, give a damn.
93* ''Manga/ShugoChara'': While the show is "extraordinarily" supportive of [[ToBeAMaster large amounts of ambition]], both the "director" of Easter Company, [[BigBad Kazamu Hoshina]], and [[ManBehindTheMan his boss Gozen]] definitely count for this; although, unlike most examples, they are not motivated by money: Gozen just asks for the Embryo, and Kazamu does as he says. However, while an all - being source of infinite powers in the "care" of a couple of bastards may be a very annoying thing indeed, it's what 'makes' them bastards that throw them straight to this trope: Their methods. Their worst crime would be breaking or corrupting horrifically large amounts of Heart's Eggs, thus stopping the dreams of what would probably be hundreds of children, in order to get the Embryo. As for [[spoiler: Kazamu's foolishness while attempting to give Gozen, A.K.A. Hikaru Ichinomiya, his grandson, easter's C.E.O. position, due both towards a distaste of the (Would be forced.) former proposed heir towards the easter heritage, Aruto, partly due towards his (Acheived.) dream of playing his violin, and due towards him emigrating, alone, within order towards avoiding running that company, and an action asking to use a "fitting" heir for easter: Blackmailing throughout violence Souko, Aruto's former wife, towards marrying him, thus giving him parental authority of both Aruto and Souko's children: Ikuto and Utau]]
94* [[spoiler:Albert Maverick]] from ''Anime/TigerAndBunny''. He's willing to [[spoiler:make deals with crime syndicates, murder people who know too much, and mess with a child's mind to make a new popular hero]] ''just to keep ratings up''. And [[spoiler:said child was the son of two of his victims, and another victim worked as his caretaker]]. Made even worse by how [[spoiler:he has NEXT powers too, in which he can [[FakeMemories rewrite people's memories.]] And he ''very'' much uses them]].
95* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': BigBad [[EvilMatriarch Miranda]] [[TheDisembodied Jahana]] is the driving force behind [[NebulousEvilOrganization The Jahana Group's]] activities, with [[TheDragon Damian]] as her most loyal subordinate. Once they learn of [[MinorLivingAlone Satomi's]] latent fighting potential, she has him manipulate her into entering the VG tournament, so she could use Satomi as her [[BodySurf new vessel]].
96* In ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' Wadou of the Douji Group is quite willing to backstab a colleague, risk his corporation's image or abuse his position to work with mad partner from NSWF toward personal goals while endangering bystanders knowingly and by negligence. In contrast, Reiji Takayama (as well as his old staff) in the same Douji Group, despite his [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman occasional blunders]], is responsible and becomes a SilentScapegoat to save his company's reputation.
97* ''Anime/YuGiOh'':
98** Gozaburo Kaiba and the Big Five. Gozaburo [[TrainingFromHell put Seto Kaiba through hell]] to mold him into his idea of the proper replacement for him and had no qualms with manufacturing and selling weapons to anyone for the right price. The Big Five, meanwhile, made plenty of deals behind Kaiba's back after he gained control of the company and reinvented it as a gaming distributor, including ''kidnapping Kaiba's own brother'', in order to oust him as chairman and revert the company to its former warmongering ways.
99** Kaiba himself. While not as bad as his father, he still abuses his wealth and power for everything it's worth, blocking players he doesn't like from tournaments, refusing to call a halt to the proceedings after several of his players are hospitalised, and taking over companies by threatening their employees. He's even worse in the manga where he has dealings with the mafia and sets up a colossal theme park designed to kill the guests (Well, more specifically to kill Yugi and his friends, but still). (He gets better, though.)
100--->'''Kaiba:''' Am I supposed to be scared to attack?\
101'''[[FillerVillain Dartz]]:''' Well, only if destroying an innocent soul concerns you...\
102'''Kaiba:''' Nah. As the president of a major corporation, I have to do that every day.
103** Pegasus fits this as well, using his power as the head of Industrial Illusions and host of the Duelist Kingdom tournament for all its worth.
104** Dartz, the main antagonist of the anime-only Doma arc, is the head of the Paradius corporation, a multinational conglomerate that dwarfs Kaiba's company. The whole group is a front for resurrecting an evil, soul-devouring god, and some of the company's activities include running a private prison for children and funding civil wars in other countries.
105** Manjyome's two brothers from ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' probably count (although, as Kaiba himself says, they're [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain clearly not very good at it]]).
106* From ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'':
107** Sakyou and the Black Black Club. Gambling on the torture and destruction of demons, and organizing a tournament for this reason, just to earn more money... these people DEFINE "corrupt".
108** There is also the Dark Tournament Committee, who are easily bribed to impose increasingly absurd restrictions on the heroes during their fight with Team Masho.
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111[[folder:Fan Works]]
112* In the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' Franchise/MonsterVerse fanfiction ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'', [[spoiler:Apex Cybernetics]] heiress [[spoiler:Maia Simmons]] is a RareFemaleExample, although it should be noted that she implicitly still answers to her father, the company's current director, like in canon. [[spoiler:Maia]] and her company are a bit of a HiddenAgendaVillain here, but she appears to be interested in accumulating power in the post-[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Mass Awakening]] world via both legal and illegal means. Unlike most [=CCEs=], [[spoiler:Maia]] actually scorns over-reliance on ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney.
113* Tanizaki Kazuo, the BigBad of the sequel to Claymade's ''FanFic/TheDarkLordsOfNerima''. The head of one of the biggest corporations in Japan if not the world, he has numerous shadowy dealings ranging from bribery to weapons dealing, which he operates alongside his legitimate operations. And that's not even scratching the surface of what his actual plans are.
114* In the ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' fanfic ''Fanfic/HeroesForEarth'', this is pretty much the standard MO for everyone who works in the Corporation, as greasing the wheels of government officials, breaking government laws, and strong-arming those who dare to protest is done to achieve greater profits and make sure they get away with their actions.
115* ''Fanfic/InvaderZimABadThingNeverEnds'': Aldrich Coathanger, CEO of [[MegaCorp Coathanger Electronics]], is conducting multiple illegal experiments in [[CityWithNoName The City]] and using [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney blatant bribery to cover it up]]. [[spoiler: He's also a child-hating psychopath who implies he's killed several, and intends to harness enough [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Childergy]] to warp reality and destroy the entire concept of childhood.]]
116* Damon Trout in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fanfiction ''FanFic/JustAnotherNightAtFreddys'' steals Foxy, an animatronic at Fazbears, as well as kidnaps and even threatens to murder Mike Schmidt to ensure the success of his rival pizza chain, Pizza Baron. And only emits anger with Schmidt when said animatronic assaults and almost kills his technicians and investors, even allowing him to interact with kids, predictably scaring them (and traumatizing Foxy).
117* In ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'', [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Gabriel Agreste]] has his secretary Nathalie use sentimonsters to impersonate Union leaders, having the doppelgangers get caught doing immoral or illegal things in order to undermine said Unions and dissolve their power.
118* ''[[FanFic/JusticeLeagueOfEquestria Mare of Steel]]'' has Alexander Silversmith (basically ComicBook/LexLuthor as a pony); his first appearance has him arranging a bombing to destroy the facilities of one of his competitors, and he is powerful enough that when Rainbow Dash/Supermare foils his plot, he passes it off as third party zealots trying to frame him and stall the economy. And that's ''before'' he puts his resources to work helping [[GeneralRipper Steel Wing]]'s campaign against Supermare, or helping ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} build a bomb capable of destroying Cloudsdale as part of a SadisticChoice designed to [[BreakTheCutie break Rainbow Dash's will]]. [[spoiler:[[KarmaHoudini Neither of which he's punished for in the story]].]]
119* ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'' has Marcus Vickers as of episode 7; before then, he was mostly ineffectual. In a bit of a win for [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome reality]], it's shown that the board of directors only put up with him as long as he kept the company's image clean and the profits in the green. When both of those fall apart from his increasingly deranged actions, the board has him voted out of power.
120* William Meikletrough in ''FanFic/MyLittleAnimaniacs'', a pony who forces Rita to perform in his show by holding several of her friends hostage.
121* Gavin Caine and Roger Arsenault of ''FanFic/TheNewRetcons'' are both this, but it's hard to say who is worse:
122** Gavin, who tried to halt an investigation [[spoiler:into whether building Millborough on a nuclear test site affected the health of its citizens]] as revenge by proxy on his son Anthony because he refused to assist Gavin in his expansion plans, and the investigation was spearheaded by the wife of the man Anthony chose to work for instead of him.
123** Or Roger, who will fan the flames any which way he can so he can buy land dirt cheap and develop it.
124* In the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fanfic ''Fanfic/OblivionGabrielSeraph'', Ansem is depicted as one -- he's the CEO of a massive electronics company, and he's got a secret lab where he's carrying out certain unethical (and unnatural) experiments.
125* ''Fanfic/PrehistoricEarth'': Percival von Grimm is a very high ranking member of the executive board for [[MegaCorp Novum]] and is second in rank only to HonestCorporateExecutive founder Theodore Richardson. In contrast to his boss's altruistic plans to use the time portal as a means to bring prehistoric animals to the future for the sake of being given a second chance at life at the titular ExtinctAnimalPark, Percival's own ideas for how to make money off the portal and the prehistoric animals are far less benevolent. [[spoiler:More specifically, he goes so far as to secretly run a prehistoric animal smuggling ring on the same island as the park and hire [[TheMole Duncan Kent]] to sabotage the park behind Theodore's back.]]
126* ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined'': While not quite to the same extent as his Prehistoric Earth counterpart, Percival Richardson is not a pleasant Novum board member to be around and is entirely willing to resort to underhanded techniques (up to and including hiring cheap laborers to spy on the titular park) to achieve what he wants.
127* ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'': FillerVillain [[SmugSnake Anton Mortimer]] is an example leaning more towards corrupt {{jerkass}} than outright evil: he inherited a Pacific shipping company from his father, which he uses as a front for amassing a huge collection of stolen Asian artifacts to fuel his ForeignCultureFetish. Since his assistant didn't ReadTheFinePrint on her contract, he able to treat her like a slave, forcing her to wear a fuka and change her name just so he has a badass Asian sidekick, with no care towards her personal feelings. And he doesn't hesitate to use his money and connections to try and threaten the J-Team and Captain Black into backing off so he can keep a recently-purchased Oni mask -- and he's not even ignorant of its power; he knows how dangerous it is, but cares more about it as a collectible.
128* ''Fanfic/ServiceWithASmile'': Averted with Alexander Sterling, a regional director of Café Prime, [[MegaCorp a major coffee retailer]], and Jaune's rival. While he does engage in marketing schemes that are barely disguised price-fixing, and he is personally [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant and rude]] toward Jaune, [[VillainyFreeVillain he is operating within his rights as a competitor]]. Jaune himself tells off the Malachite Twins for wanting to treat a legal business like a rival gang to destroy. [[spoiler:Played straight, as it's revealed that the hoods who wrecked Jaune's place and injured him were working on orders from Café Prime. Later when he starts receiving bad press due to buying Jaune's building and evicting him, Sterling tries to have Jaune evicted sooner than is legal, even if he has to make up a reason why.]].
129* ''FanFic/SophisticationAndBetrayal'' has Cashmere, who is very willing to engage in unethical business practices to beat out her competition.
130* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged''[='=]s version of Shouzou Yuuki is this in contrast with [[HonestCorporateExecutive his canon self]]. Not only is he an {{Abusive Parent|s}} who's willing to cut off his daughter Asuna's life support to avoid paying the medical bills (before his lawyers talked him out of the idea), but he's also a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter who decides to marry her off to the "[[SmugSnake nice]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity gentleman]]" Nobuyuki Sugou so he can pay them instead.
131* ''Fanfic/TarkinsFist'': Zig-zagged with Kuantus Kuat, former Moff of the Kuat Sector and owner of the Kuat Drive Yards. By Earth's standards the man is a ruthless plutocrat and war profiteer who'd give pause to history's most avaricious robber barons. However, he is also proud of his company's reputation as the galaxy premier starship manufacturer, and puts heavy emphasis on the creation of quality products. He is also politically pragmatic, being one of the first in the Empire to advocate the reintroduction of democracy to Imperial society. Of course, he only does so because he thinks democratic representation is the best way to keep the population pacified and avoid the political radicalization that leads to revolution. [[spoiler:Once the Senate is re-established, he plans to buy off most of the Senators]].
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135* ''WesternAnimation/AnAngelForChristmas'': Kovet, who uses his power as the boss of the flange factory -- where practically everyone in town works -- to even do such things as boss around his own enforcement group and cancel Christmas.
136%%* Lamon Montgomery from ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie''.
137* Alistair Krei of ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', who [[CoolTeacher Robert Callaghan]] mentions as cutting corners when it comes to his company's application of technology. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that one such incident led to the loss of Callaghan's daughter when Krei proceeded with the live demonstration of teleportation technology despite the warnings from his own engineer of a problem]].
138* [[spoiler:Sir Miles Axelrod]] from ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' [[spoiler:is the CEO of Axelrod Industries. The plot centers around his scheme to SabotageToDiscredit alternative fuels by inventing Allinol, which is actually an explosive gas, so he and the lemons can become rich from their oil rigs by encouraging cars to go back to fueling themselves with gasoline rather than switch to alternative fuels. In order to cover up this fact, and to succeed at his goal, he is willing to kill anyone who interferes with this plan, including Lightning [=McQueen=] and the C.H.R.O.M.E. agents investigating him, Finn and Holley.]]
139%%* [[EvilMentor Chester V]] from ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2''.
140* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'': Even by the standards of the Bank of Evil ([[TakeThat Formerly Lehman Brothers]]), it turns out. Can there be anything more evil than someone like Mr. Perkins? And is using his position to promote his own worthless son over the solid efforts of a real villain?
141* The BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheMovie'', Alphonse Perrier du von Scheck. Not only is he the CEO of Future Tech Industries, but also the descendant of a commanding redcoat during the Revolutionary War. His main goal is to have Arnold's neighborhood, where a significant battle took place in which the colonists won against his family, razed so that he can make room for a new mall complex reclaimed in the name of his family. He even goes as far as to [[FieryCoverUp burn up]] [[DestroyTheEvidence the vital government document]] revealing the truth about his ancestors and declaring the neighborhood a national historic landmark [[EngineeredPublicConfession in front of Arnold and Gerald]] so nobody can stop his evil plan. [[spoiler:However, Scheck's decision to destroy the document [[DidntThinkThisThrough comes back to bite him right in his ass]] due to the whole thing having been CaughtOnTape [[HoistByHisOwnPetard by his own surveillance cameras]], [[BigBrotherIsWatching mounted everywhere in his building]], and the document was shown as clear as possible before he burned it. The boys manage to obtain a videotape of Scheck's crimes and show them to the infuriated townspeople, resulting in his eventual [[PutOnAPrisonBus arrest]] for his treason.]]
142* Mr. Gilbert Huph in the ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1''. He is an insurance exec who is determined to deny as many insurance claims as he can, regardless of how legitimate they are as per their customers' contracts. So, if Bob Parr really wanted to strike back at this bully, he could remember that Huph is making himself liable for a major Breach of Contract lawsuit.
143* ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'': Mr. Spacely, who is normally a MeanBoss to George, hiring and firing him on a whim, graduates into this [[spoiler:by knowingly destroying a colony of cute aliens on an asteroid to mine for raw materials]]. While he does relent and [[spoiler:agrees to let the aliens recycle the sprockets]], he takes away George's raise.
144* President/Lord Business from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie''. His corporation manufactures and sells literally everything in Bricksburg, and the main conflict in the film consists of him trying to "micromanage" (super-glue) everything together so that it stays in place and the corporation stays in business.
145* Mr. O'Hare in the film version of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' only cares about profiting from his air company and is actively disdainful towards trees returning. The Once-ler also acts the same way towards his Thneed company before the failure of his business and subsequent HeelRealization.
146* {{Averted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons''. The large company Inventco is responsible for mass-producing the [[AIIsACrapshoot evil robotic hats]] which end up [[BadFuture enslaving humanity in one alternate timeline]], but it's strongly implied they had no idea that this would happen. The real villain is actually the original hat itself. Otherwise, Inventco does nothing but positive things, sponsoring school science fairs and giving aspiring inventors a chance to make it big.
147* {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Dr. Mark Bowman, the TechBro CEO of the tech giant Pal in ''WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines''. He genuinely wants to create products to help people, but has little qualms about ethics as he laughs about his VirtualSidekick [[AIIsACrapshoot hacking into his rivals' emails]] and admits to stealing people's data during his HeelRealization.
148-->'''Mark:''' Just so someone knows, I'm sorry about causing the whole [[RobotWar machine uprising]]. It's almost like [[ObliviouslyEvil stealing people's data and giving it to a hyper-intelligent A.I. as part of an unregulated tech monopoly]] was a ''bad'' thing.\
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150'''Rick:''' Yeah, that wasn't your best thought.
151* [[spoiler:Mr. Waternoose]] in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''. [[spoiler:This is mostly brought about by the company's impending failure, so he felt he had no choice but to agree to serve as Randall's henchman.]]
152* [[NoNameGiven "Big Boss"]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio 2}}'', who runs an illegal logging operation in the Amazon and doesn't hesitate to abandon a few environmentalists in the jungle just to cover up his acts.
153* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'' has Ratchet, TheDragon to [[BigBad Madame Gasket]] who took control of Bigweld Industries prior to Rodney coming to Robot City. He had a plan to con robots out of their money by convincing them to replace their old bodies in favor of shiny newer ones and shutting down production of spare parts for older models to make the new parts their only choice, going against Bigweld's slogan that you can be successful regardless of what you're made of.
154* ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis'' had Coco [=LaBouche=], the FrenchJerk executive in charge of the [=EuroReptarland=] amusement park. Her own ServileSnarker henchman describes her as a "heartless shrew" and ChildHater, and she spends the film trying to [[WickedStepmother manipulate Chuckie's father into marrying her]] so she can [[GoldDigger impress the family values-believing CEO and be named as his successor]]. She resorts to kidnapping and imprisoning the toddlers to prevent them from disrupting the wedding, and [[KickTheDog steals Chuckie's teddy bear for no reason other than spite]].
155* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAbracadabraDoo'': Calvin Curdles has a spy informing him about any struggles suffered by the owner of the castle he wants to buy to turn into a restaurant. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out his real reason to want the castle has nothing to do with business.]]
156* ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'': Hunter is the CEO of Cornerstore, a stork-run delivery service that he created to get away from [[DeliveryStork the baby business]]. When a baby is accidentally created, he is more concerned about the value of the company's stocks than the baby's fate. [[spoiler: So much so that he decides that having the baby raised by penguins is better than the real family since that way nobody would find out about their mistake.]]
157* Clayton from ''WesternAnimation/Tarzan2013'', who uses a conservation project as a cover for securing the MineralMacGuffin, brings in a private mercenary army to secure control of it, and plans to murder Porter and Jane to ensure that there are no witnesses to gainsay his version of events.
158* ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'': The real estate guy who made Carl out to be a public menace after Carl hit one of his employees with a walking stick just so he could have him sent to a retirement home and thus remove the only obstacle to getting Carl's land. For some he is the only real evil character of the movie[[note]]Muntz is at least partly insane, and thus not entirely responsible for his actions[[/note]].
159* The main villain of ''WesternAnimation/YogiTheEasterBear'' was the owner of a plastics factory named Paulie, who schemed to kidnap the Easter Bunny and destroy his supply of Easter eggs so that he could make a profit on eggs made of plastic.
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163* ''Literature/TheRadix'': Deena Riverside and Dilon Armstrong, respectively [=CEO=] and owner of Taft-Ryder Farmaceuticals, who hunt for Radix, a holy relic that belonged to Jesus, to develop a new, [[CutLexLuthorACheck groundbreaking medicine]].
164* Occurs in Daniel Handler's ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' with Sir, the amoral, cigar-smoking lumbermill owner who pays his workers in coupons and gives them gum for lunch; in a later appearance, business is bad, as nearby lumber source the Finite Forest is running out of trees.
165* From ''Literature/TalesOfTheAstonishingBlackSpark'' there is Christopher Row, Donald's agent after arriving in New York to become a superhero. The chapter All This and Rabbit Stew is where he ramps it up to eleven, manipulating Donald into taking advertisements that accentuate the stereotypes associated with his race.
166* Occurs several times in David Wingrove's ''Literature/ChungKuo'' series.
167* In Creator/RoaldDahl's ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', it is mentioned that [[TheWonka Willy Wonka's]] first factory was put out of business due to his recipes getting stolen by [=CCEs=] via corporate espionage. This is a major reason why Wonka hires Oompa Loompas because they are completely loyal to him. As a subplot in the first film adaptation, Charlie is approached by a CCE who tries to convince Charlie to spy on Wonka for him (fortunately, it's only a SecretTestOfCharacter, and Charlie refuses anyway).
168* ''Literature/DeadSilence'' has several in the background along with Reed, who is more interested in career advancement and feeding his daddy issues than solving the mystery behind the lost GhostShip Aurora being found.
169* ''Literature/TheDragonEggPrincess'': Mr. Murtagh, the son of the owner of the Omni Murtagh. He has large sections of the Kidahara bulldozed, knowingly endangering the lives of his men due to the various magical creatures inhabiting the forest. He's also in cahoots with [[TheEvilPrince Prince Roku]] and [[TheFairFolk Samena]], [[spoiler:aka Luzee.]]
170* Robert Sobel's AlternateHistory classic ''Literature/ForWantOfANail'' features Bernard Kramer, a RagsToRiches German immigrant who corrupts the democratic political system of the United States of Mexico for the benefit of his MegaCorp. [[spoiler: He even prepares the installment of a [[TheEmperor dictator]].]]
171* ''Literature/ForeverAndADeath'' by Creator/DonaldWestlake has Richard Curtis. He was always a corner-cutter and bullying executive but is living off of investors money at the moment (over-selling shares in projects) and plans to steal all the gold in Hong Kong's bak and flood half the city to cover it up.
172* Averted in ''Literature/StarshipsMage'' by the righteous fury of a CEO whose interstellar corporation would have had a zero-fatality year, if it weren't for the Corrupt Corporate Executives at competing companies. He provides information to the protagonists as they're going up against the corrupt government that was handing out [[NoOSHACompliance safety "exemptions"]] left and right.
173* Newman King, founder and CEO of the eponymous retail chain of Creator/BentleyLittle's ''The Store''. Whereas the average CCE causes suffering as a side-effect of their ruthless pursuit of profit, King and his organization go out of their way to cause completely unnecessary suffering ''on top of'' the side-effects of his ruthless pursuit of profit. The company's corporate motto might as well be "ForTheEvulz." The Store sets up shop in small towns, buys the local government and puts small business owners out of business, like a relatively normal company might. But then it also does things like buy up the town's utilities so it can spy on people's phone calls and e-mails, murder small business owners, , force employees to go out and beat the homeless, stock child pornography and other bizarre, illegal products, whore out female employees, sic zombies on people, trick a man into having sex with his own daughter and send his wife the videotape of it, etc. This is, however, partly done as jet-black satire.
174* Derek Leech in assorted fiction by Creator/KimNewman, including the novel ''Literature/TheQuorum''; a [[StrawCharacter living embodiment of Thatcherism]] or an AnonymousRinger of UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch crossed with {{SATAN}} himself.
175* Reacher Gilt from Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/GoingPostal''. Essentially John Galt from ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' reincarnated as a MagnificentBastard, he runs the Grand Trunk (essentially a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_line pre-telegraph version of Western Union]]) and is willing to run the machines until they fall apart (and kill off the operators as needed) in the name of extra money. In fact, he's a con artist like Moist von Lipwig, the book's protagonist, but worse because he has more ambition and fewer scruples; it's eventually revealed he plans to run the company into the ''ground'' and buy it at rock-bottom prices (with money embezzled from the other board members, no less) under an alias, just to see if he can get away with it. He also conned the original owners of the Grand Trunk by buying the company with its own money, driving them into despair and poverty, and keeps a half-feral banshee on hire to kill anyone who threatens his long con whom he can't buy off or discredit. ''All this'' Gilt did because conning and outsmarting people [[ForTheEvulz is his idea of fun]].
176* Many of the villains of ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' are the Robber Baron variety with an emphasis of power (or 'pull') over money, complete with public welfare projects in order to smooth over the various crimes they commit. The main example is probably Orren Boyle, an industrialist who uses his close contacts with various {{Corrupt Politician}}s to steal his competitor Hank Rearden's innovations.
177* Such characters appear many times in ''Literature/TheDestroyer''. The example that comes to mind is the Executive of the Vox network trying to take over a rival via using the Evil AI FRIEND.
178* The emissaries from the Western Galactic Empire in Robert Zubrin's ''The Holy Land'', who arrange for the export of [[AppliedPhlebotinum helicity]] from Earth. They seem like average sorts until it becomes obvious that the technology they help Earth import in exchange is used to murder hundreds of billions of innocent people and transform America into a totalitarian regime, and yet their biggest worry is the imminent formation of a [[RecycledINSPACE Space OPEC]] that cuts into profit margins.
179* Guilder Worlin in the third book of ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'', who doesn't hesitate to murder anyone who gets wind of his illegal operations and inadvertently [[spoiler: leaves the door open for an invasion of the city.]]
180* ''Literature/BattlefieldEarth'''s [[MeaningfulName Psychlos]] have a disproportionate number of corrupt corporate executives: BigBad Terl's whole plan is to get access to some gold off the company records, and is able to [[strike:blackmail]] [[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord gain "leverage" over]] his boss by exposing the latter's embezzlements. Their race even has company regulations allowing planetary overseers to take whatever actions deemed necessary to ensure a profit. Of course, anyone who is actually ''caught'' embezzling corporate profits is executed.
181* Felix Jongleur, founder and owner of [[MegaCorp J Corp]] in Creator/TadWilliams' ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'', seems to feel that it's his right as the oldest living human being to use his financial power to find a way to cheat death, regardless of the cost in terms of money, lives, or morality.
182* In Creator/TomHolt's ''Literature/JWWellsAndCo'' series, many of the members of the board of executives of the eponymous company are like this, and since the company supplies magical services to anyone able to pay enough, the members of the company often have supernatural powers themselves. Both [[MadScientist Professor van Spee]] and [[TheFairFolk Judy di Castel'bianco]] try to take over the world before being neutralized by the hero, and Dennis Tanner is universally regarded as a highly unscrupulous jerk, though not as evil as some of his colleagues. The latest book, ''The Better Mousetrap'' features another corrupt executive from a rival company, who has people killed on a regular basis until [[spoiler: she is sent back in time and her magical abilities are neutralized.]]
183* In Sebastian Faulks' ''A Week In December'', John Veals may qualify, given that he's only out to make as much money as possible and to do it legally - ethics aside.
184* ''Literature/AbleTeam''. Unomondo, who controls powerful business interests in Central and South America, funds {{Banana Republic}}s and death squads, and is the BigBad behind a neo-Nazi conspiracy with sympathisers in the US Government itself. Probably the closest thing that series had to a recurring villain.
185* ''Literature/MaximumRide''. Every antagonist in the series is a shady business executive.
186* Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries
187** Geryon from ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' is a more rustic version of this.
188** The sequel series ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'' feature [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan Nero and the other surviving Emperors]], who secretly manipulate conflicts through their company, [[MegaCorp Triumvirate Holdings]].]]
189* Subverted in ''Fletch and the Widow Bradley'' by Gregory [=McDonald=], where Fletch is drawn into a story that seems to revolve around a Corrupt Corporate Executive but really, the lies, half-truths and doctored documents all turn out to be the result of the CEO's convoluted personal life, for which Fletch and the reader feels empathy.
190* Pavel Kazakov from the Creator/DaleBrown novel ''Warrior Class''. A Russian oilman with the goal of building an oil pipeline in the Balkans as part of re-strengthening the Fatherland, he is [[TheDreaded feared]] even by the Russian higher-ups, [[ShroudedInMyth rumoured]] to be a powerful [[TheMafiya Mafiya boss]] and druglord and certainly in possession of much violent power.
191** Harold Kingman from ''Act of War'', a slimy and well-connected oilman whose facilities [[WellIntentionedExtremist eco-terrorist group GAMMA]] seek to wreck. When he tries to get Jason Richter and the [[ImpossiblyGracefulGiant CID]] technology into his hands, Jason's refusal is empathic.
192* Marc Vilo (and to some degree, the rest of the Board of Governors) in ''Literature/TheActsOfCaine''.
193* Jon Spiro from the ''Literature/ArtemisFowl: The Eternity Code'', has an alliance with the Chicago mob, and states that he intends to spend the last 20 years of his life bleeding the planet dry with the stolen 'Cube' supercomputer; once he's gone, the world can go to hell with him for all he cares.
194* The Privy Council of the Literature/{{Sten}} Series is a group of CCE's, whose ruthless money-grubbing is eclipsed only by their perverse proclivities.
195* Occasional antagonists in the ''Literature/{{Bolo}}'' universe.
196* ''Literature/HollowPlaces'' mentions the upper management of Shore State Corrections. They institute policies that purposefully foster recidivism in their prisons in order to increase profits.
197* The [[OurElvesAreDifferent Darhel]], from Creator/JohnRingo's ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata'', are a ''race'' of [=CCEs=]. Human [=CCEs=] also are seen here and there in the series.
198* Rod Portlyn from the ''Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers'' series. How corrupt is he? He deliberately poisoned a colony world to induce crop failures, then came in to buy the increasingly useless land. He kept the farmers on as workers and thus earned their gratitude by "saving them" from bankruptcy. He turned another world in the same star system into a dumping ground for garbage, and he later tries to murder its population. All in the name of profit, obviously.
199* Red Hammernut from Creator/CarlHiaasen's ''Literature/SkinnyDip''. Hires everyone from crooked hydrologists to hitmen to keep his farming operation looking clean enough on paper that he doesn't have to spend money on pollution controls.
200%%* Lois [=McMaster=] Bujold's ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
201%%** [=GalacTech=]'s executives in ''Falling Free''.Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
202%%** The White Chrysanthemum Cryonics Corporation in ''Cryoburn''.Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
203%%** The literal robber Barons of Jackson's Whole.Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
204* Sir John Charnage from the ''Literature/YoungBond'' novel ''Literature/DoubleOrDie'' is an owner of several failing businesses, and plans to leave England to [[spoiler:Soviet Union]], taking revolutionary technology with him. His late father was even worse, as he let the men working in his factories work in inhuman conditions, and used his connections in high places to keep it that way for better profit.
205* Xanatos, Qui-Gon's former apprentice in ''Literature/JediApprentice'', is the head of Offworld, one of the largest mining consortiums in the galaxy. Under his control, Offworld has stripped numerous planets of their resources, blackmailed and/or bribed governments, and backed criminal politicians on several planets. Its front company [=UniFy=] in ''The Day of Reckoning'' is no better, keeping the population of Telos pacified with BreadAndCircuses while they stripmine the planets holy spaces, and contaminate their sacred pools with chemicals. And that's leaving out the fact that Offworld is also involved with the illegal slave trade, and Xanatos' terrorist vendetta against the Jedi.
206* Morgan Sloat in ''Literature/TheTalisman'' at first. However, the truth is slightly more complicated and involves alternate realities.
207* There are many of these in ''Literature/{{Daemon}}'', working with unsavoury PrivateMilitaryContractors to try and preserve the status quo.
208* ''ComicBook/TransformersTransTech'' had a prose story titled "I, Lowtech", which has protagonist Bulletbike, whose only redeeming quality is that he's ''technically'' never broken a law or directly injured anyone. [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain Then he gets worse]]. His ArchEnemy Ego is no better, and it's implied ThereAreNoGoodExecutives period.
209* ''Literature/TransformersShatteredGlass'' has [[spoiler:the human R.J. Blackrock]], who turns out to be PlayingBothSides so he can later [[spoiler: kill all of the Cybertronians]] for his own benefit.
210* Max Barry's ''Literature/MachineMan'' has The Manager, head of Better Future. The bastard even smirkingly admits to [[spoiler:putting an {{EMP}} in Lola's heart.]] Well. At least before Dr. Neumann [[spoiler: kills him via DestinationDefenestration]].
211* [[TheFaceless The Onceler]] from ''Literature/TheLorax''.
212* ''Literature/MoonBaseAlpha'': Space tourist Lars Sjoberg is an ultra wealthy tycoon back on Earth who has been accused of breaking regulations and bribing people hundreds of time. He isn't any better during the main series.
213* Peter Sharpe of the Prometheus Corporation, from ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfProfessorJackBaling'', describes the Prometheans as shepherds and humanity as sheep. Two guesses on how much value he assigns to the lives of people who aren't "enlightened."
214* ''Literature/YearZero'' is pretty much one long scathing (albeit amusing) indictment on the music industry and those in charge.
215* ''{{Literature/Airframe}}'' turns out to have two in [[spoiler: John Marcer and Bob Richman]].
216* Billington in ''Literature/TheJenniferMorgue''. This is quite logical since the book is an homage to the James Bond books, where the BigBad is usually a megalomaniac Corrupt Corporate Executive.
217* ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' features Breckenridge Scott, inventor and vendor of Phalanx, a purported "cure" for African rabies (actually the zombie virus). It was actually a placebo, and he openly gloats about fooling most of the population into believing his rabies vaccine was a cure.
218* ''Literature/TheDivideTrilogy'': Snakeweed runs a potion company that considers proper testing a complete waste of time, leading to treatments that work great on one mystical species and are usually lethal to others.
219* ''{{Literature/Paranoia}}'': Nick Wyatt, head of Wyatt industries, is this personified, as he sees any and all competition, in any field, as something to be conquered, to the point of firing those he disagrees with. He also is not above using blackmail and extortion to get his employees to engage in illegal activities such as corporate espionage, burglary, theft, and breaking and entering, or face being sent to prison for at least 20 years and your life ruined.
220* In ''Literature/ComradeDeath'', Sarek eventually goes from a PunchClockVillain ArmsDealer -- selling weapons because his employer now manufactures weapons -- to the head of the Krieger MegaCorp and sole producer of arms in the world. [[WarForFunAndProfit All wars benefit Sarek]] and he sinks his vast fortune into developing new and horrific chemical weapons, even making vague promises to someday provide [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Not-Hitler]] with the firepower to blow up the world.
221* ''Literature/MuchAdoAboutGrubstake'': Railroad and mining magnate Sidney Lockwood loves firing people face-to-face to take pleasure in their despair, achieves his goals by blackmail, arson, and other such activities, and is contemptuous of Morgan's refusal to only check the mines that he owns for Osblindium rather than trespassing on holdout claims.
222* Fashion designer Gordon Steuber in Creator/MaryHigginsClark's ''While My Pretty One Sleeps.'' He hires illegal immigrant women (some of whom are underage) to make his clothes in sweatshops, he cheats on his income taxes, and he smuggles heroin in the linings of his clothes. He's also suspected of murdering one woman and arranging a hit on another. [[spoiler:He turns out to be innocent of the last two things. But he's still a thoroughly nasty character; when police ask him about the planned hit, he says he has nothing to do with it, "but what a great idea."]]
223* ''Literature/JurassicPark1990'': People who saw [[Film/JurassicPark1993 the first film]] and decided to give the book a try got a ''very'' rude awakening when they learn that John Hammond of the book was this trope. He makes no qualms about blackmailing his employees, cutting costs, and endangering people if it means he can open a park (or three) and make a profit out of it. [[spoiler:His greed and unwillingness to see how much of a failure the park is eventually got him killed when he was attacked by a herd of compys.]] Compare that to the film, where Hammond comes across more as a WellIntentionedExtremist (he genuinely wanted children to experience the same wonder and excitement he feels about dinosaurs, but he still cuts corners to try to speed up the opening day, [[spoiler: but is willing to disown the park when he sees how much of a disaster the park had become]]).
224* ''Literature/TheRunningMan'': Damon Killian is the smarmy head of the Games Company, overseeing the {{Immoral Reality Show}}s that are broadcast to the poor populations to distract them from how the network is poisoning the air.
225* The ''Literature/CraftSequence'' involves a lot of shady business dealings, but Tan Batac in ''Literature/LastFirstSnow'' takes the cake. [[spoiler:He engineers a conflict that turns a peaceful protest movement into a bloodbath... to get his company out of a bad insurance deal.]]
226* ''Literature/TheMarkAndTheVoid'': Porter Blankely, who has left every previous institution in ruins while escaping with huge profits. At the Bank of Torabundo, his "counterintuitive" ways encourage everyone to take on unreasonable amounts of risk. [[spoiler: Eventually it is revealed that Blankely tricked his employees into purchasing a lot of worthless holdings from his previous company through a complex scheme that bankrupts the Bank of Torabundo but greatly enriches him.]]
227* Billy Clyde in Anna Boekelheide's Web Serial ''Literature/{{Fishbowl}}''.
228* The ''Literature/ExtremeMonsters'' book series had Damon Christopher, money-grubbing owner of Pendant Enterprises who saw the athletes playing for his team Team Pendant as expendable and willing to do anything unethical or illegal to line his pockets. The book ''Battling Bigfoot'' even had his actions endanger a tribe of Bigfoot, with him not caring at all about their plight.
229* ''Literature/RaceToTheSun'': Mr Charles is the CEO of a huge gas and oil corporation, seems to be friends with the President and his company destroys the environment (not to mention building a pipeline on Native land) and is the target of many protest actions. And he's also a man-eating monster who kidnaps gifted children to work for him.
230* Preston Exley is the much-respected father of LAPD hero Ed Exley in ''Literature/LAConfidential.'' He's also a corrupt businessman who pursues crooked real estate deals that result in death and destruction. He shows up in the prequel ''Literature/{{Perfidia}}'' where he...pursues crooked real estate deals that result in death and destruction.
231* ''Literature/TheseBrokenStars'': Roderick [=LaRoux=] owns [=LaRoux=] Industries and is probably the richest man in known space. He's also experimenting on extradimensional beings as a power source and to use their MindControl abilities for his own ends, and has used his wealth and connections to have at least one person killed.
232* ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': Don Exbridge, founder of XYZ Enterprises, is usually regarded this way InUniverse. It's proven correct when [[spoiler: book #23 (''The Cat Who Smelled a Rat'') sees him caught out as participating in a {{Ponzi}} scheme.]]
233* In ''Literature/{{Metaltown}}'', Josef Hampton has dozens of shady deals going on behind the scenes to keep the factories running and his profits secure, and [[spoiler:was behind the deaths of Ty's parents, ordered her death as well, and has kept the war going well beyond a natural endpoint]]. He's so rich and powerful that the characters can't really stand against him, and at most can force some concessions.
234* ''Literature/TowerOfSomnus'': The default. The Earth is ruled by megacorporations, and while it's ''supposed'' to be a meritocracy, it's blatantly obvious that everything is heavily weighted in favor of the powerful. Even ignoring that, the highest levels only get where they are by breaking the already unbalanced laws, stealing from and assassinating each other.
235* ''Literature/WhoMovedMySoap'': The whole premise of the book is as a guidebook for a recently convicted one of these to serve out their prison sentence.
236* ''Literature/DarkerThanYouThink'': Preston Troy is a millionaire and owner of the ''Clarendon Star'', a local newspaper. He's cheated on his wife with countless women, is heavily involved with the crooked city government, and uses his paper to produce biased propaganda in the hopes of getting an equally crooked friend elected Senator. [[spoiler:He's also a loyal member of April's coven.]]
237* The detective novels of Creator/FreemanWillsCrofts often involve crooked executives, either as murderers or victims:
238** The murder victims in ''Mystery in the Channel'' were financiers absconding with thousands of their customers' life savings.
239** The suspects in ''Crime at Guildford'' are the directors and officers of a failing jewellery business; the guilty men decided to steal the company's stock of precious stones before they had to be sold off to pay the creditors.
240** In ''Mystery on Southampton Water'' the quick-drying cement industry is a cut-throat business, with executives from rival companies willing to resort to industrial espionage, blackmail and murder to gain a commercial advantage.
241* ''Literature/TheRippleSystem'': Ned's dad was one of the most classic examples; he ran a venture capitalist firm, where he bought up companies, slashed their expenses by firing people to make their books look good, then sold the company again at a profit. Ned became infamous for running the firm into the ground, which is one of the reasons that he's known worldwide as a failure. [[spoiler:Ned gave up on the company when he realized it was ''impossible'' to run it morally, and the company fell apart without him]].
242* ''Literature/ThePsychologyOfTimeTravel'': Margaret, the leader of the Conclave, ''could'' use Barbara's new fuel-recycling technology to reduce Atroposium usage when time travelling. This would help the environment and save the Conclave money in the short run, but sadly there's a lot of powerful people involved in the Atroposium market who have agreed to scratch Margaret's back if she'll scratch theirs.
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246* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjGASsP2co0 'Bad Businessman']] by the Squirrel Nut Zippers.
247* Music/IronMaiden's "El Dorado" is mostly told through the point of view of one of those.
248* UFO's "A Self Made Man" is told through the point of view of one of those.
249* The eponymous character of Music/RayStevens' "Mr. Businessman."
250-->"You can wheel and deal the best of them/Steal it from the rest of them/You know the score/Their ethics are a bore."
251* The eponymous bourgeois sociopath of Music/WarrenZevon's 'Mr Bad Example' has a phase of this in Australia, stealing the wages of the aboriginals he has hired to work the opal mines, after previous occupations as an altar boy (where he stole the collection), a carpet fitter (where he laid his clients' housewives and stole their furnishings), a lawyer (when he counselled all his clients to plead insanity), a hair replacer ('swindlin' the bald!'), and a gambler (where he lost all his hair replacement money, mugged a prostitute for her passport and her wig, and caught the midnight flight from Monte Carlo to Adelaide). The song ends with him having to flee another country, cash in hand.
252-->''I bought a first-class ticket on Malaysian Air,\
253And landed in Sri Lanka none the worse for wear,\
254I'm thinking of retiring from all my dirty deals,\
255I'll see you in the next life, wake me up for meals!''
256* The titular character of "Robber Baron" by Music/{{Voltaire}}. He sits in his tower, counting his gold, while the children working his factories lose body parts on the job and go hungry.
257-->''What cold heartless beast\
258Can sit and have his feast every night,\
259While their plight's always in his sight?''
260* The evils of corporate greed is a recurring theme in folk singer Music/DavidRovics' work, including the [[EarWorm insanely catchy]] "Henry Ford Was a Fascist":
261-->''Ford built tanks for the Nazis\
262And the Nazis used those tanks\
263To gun down lots of soldiers\
264In the U.S. Army ranks\
265Yes, Henry Ford was a fascist\
266And a nasty one was he\
267He'd build tanks for anyone\
268For the proper fee''
269* The Music/FrankZappa song "Uncle Bernie's Farm" on the album ''Music/AbsolutelyFree'' is about a line of [[MyLittlePanzer violent]] and ugly toys, with one lyric addressing that someone is despicable and heinous enough to allow the creation of such dangerous playthings.
270-->''And smiling in his office is the creep who makes the toys''
271* “Kiss Me, Son of God” by Music/TheyMightBeGiants is about a corrupt, egotistical businessman who has taken over the world:
272-->''I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage\
273Called the blood of the exploited working class\
274But they’ve overcome their shyness\
275Now they’re calling me Your Highness\
276And the world screams “Kiss me, son of God”''
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282* ''Literature/TheBible'': You'd expect something OlderThanFeudalism to be exempt from this trope, but in the Parable of the Shrewd Manager, a wasteful manager is told that he's going to be fired, so he needs to give an accounting of his management. While the audit was still going on, he cooked the books in such a way as to get on the good side of his master's debtors, so that they'd be grateful to him...so that he could ''mooch off them'' after he's let off his current job.
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286* In ''Pinball/PopeyeSavesTheEarth'', Bluto is a proud and unrepentant planet-destroying polluter with a cartel of toxic companies.
287* ''Pinball/{{Heist}}'': Frank "Mr. Big" Bigelow is an extraordinarily rich executive who seizes control of Ocean City before the game begins. Local businesses and institutions are renamed after him (ranging from banks to shops to soda), while he [[DirtyCop bribes the police into serving his own interests]].
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291* ''Podcast/KakosIndustries'' revolves around the heir to an EvilInc dedicated to "Doing Evil Better". Being this trope [[CardCarryingVillain and more]] is considered a necessary part of the job.
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295* In the '80s, Wrestling/{{Ted DiBiase}} was one of the early examples of this trope in nationally televised wrestling. He was billed as the "Million Dollar Man" and paid Wrestling/AndreTheGiant to win the WWF championship only to sell it to him immediately after the match. When the bought title was not recognized by the WWF, he declared himself the Million Dollar Champion and created his own Million Dollar Belt. He was also something of a DastardlyWhiplash, as at times he would engage in evil behaviour with no significant personal gain whatsoever, such as when he offered a young child $100 if he could dribble a basketball ten times without dropping it, then kicked the ball out of the child's hands halfway through.
296* Wrestling/EricBischoff crossed this with TheQuisling when he joined [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder the nWo]] at the end of the November 18, 1996 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro.''
297* Wrestling/{{Vince McMahon}} became this as part of his heel turn following the {{Kayfabe}} Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob at ''Survivor Series 97'', leading to him forming his own PowerStable Wrestling/TheCorporation.
298* Wrestling/DonCallis played this role twice. In Wrestling/{{ECW}}, he was Cyrus, who was supposed to be the face of [=TNN=] and who was supposedly trying to bury ECW and get it thrown off the Network, which was also the name of his power stable. Under his own name in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]], he played a "Management Consultant" who was looking to oust Director of Authority Erik Watts from his position and who did everything in his power to make life difficult for Wrestling/JerryLynn.
299* [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] played this role when she was the Commissioner of WWE's developmental promotion Memphis Championship Wrestling in 2001 since she was still competing and working as a heel manager for Steve Bradley.
300* Wrestling/StevieRichards played it for laughs when he was the self-appointed General Manager of ''[[{{BShow}} Sunday Night Heat]]'', which he had renamed ''Stevie Night Heat'' and was supposedly the head of "[=StevieCorp.=]" His catchphrase for this was "ALL STEVIE! ALL NIGHT! NOTHING BUT HEAT!"
301* After his run in APA, Bradshaw became Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield (or "JBL") and, playing off his legitimate success in the stock market, became a [[Series/{{Dallas}} J.R. Ewing-inspired]] robber baron who did anything he could to capture and then keep the WWE Championship, keeping a stranglehold on the belt for nine months before losing to rising star Wrestling/JohnCena. JBL often belittled anyone below his perceived class status and often threw his money around to get what he wanted. This was exemplified in his early 2009 run when he employed a broke Wrestling/ShawnMichaels to help him take the WWE Championship from Cena. It didn't work.
302* Wrestling/PaulHeyman played this role as the General Manager of ''[=SmackDown!=]''.
303* Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis as the general manager of both ''[=Raw=]'' and ''[=SmackDown!=]'', depicted as the leader of an evil outfit known as "People Power," which consists of Laurinaitis, Wrestling/DavidOtunga, Wrestling/EveTorres, and Wrestling/BigShow.
304* After [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] won and immediately lost WWE's title belt came Wrestling/TripleH and his "Best For Business" regime, officially known as "Wrestling/TheAuthority", put together to ensure Daniel Bryan would keep losing.
305* In 2014, Joshi fed REINA hired "The World Famous" Wrestling/{{Kana|koUrai}} as a consultant, because every child of Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE apparently [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter had to trust her]] at least [[ContractualGenreBlindness once]]. Naturally she instructed them to reward her friends, punish wrestlers in their way and bribed her way to victory in the ring, gradually taking over the promotion.
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309* Matt Crawford from ''Radio/TheArchers'' embodied this trope pre-VillainDecay.
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313* ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'':
314** A flashback sequence reveals a story involving two such people going head-to-head. Uærlig Sindstorme, CEO of Mindstorms, Inc., decides to hire a team of small-time crooks to do dirty work against rival Dacta Corp. in order to lessen their competition. Meanwhile, Edward Korrupte, CEO of Dacta Corp., hires infamous assassin Silencia Venomosa to infiltrate Mindstorms, Inc. The results are... not pretty.
315** Implied to be the case with Mr. Bonaparte. He prescribes his patients with "classified" medications, but we have not seen anyone at Napoleon XIV Mental Institution whose mental health has improved under his supervision. Napoleon XIV also has a history of security issues, and he is willing to lie about them to avoid bad press.
316** Dr. Walter Breen also has many traits of a Corrupt Corporate Executive, especially in his days as administrator of Brick League United. Like Edward Korrupte, he was willing to hire Silencia Venomosa to take down his competition.
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320* In ''Script/JusticeLeagueMortal'', Maxwell Lord is a fast-food executive who puts nanobots in his food to get people addicted [[spoiler: and later turned into OMAC drones]].
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324* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': Mammon's servants are expected to be ruthless, amoral profiteers driven by a thirst for material wealth and absolutely nothing else. Progress in his organization is done strictly through crooked deals, wholesale buyouts and open backstabbing, and a Miser's work on Earth is devoted to making sure that this kind of culture remains firmly in charge of the mortal financial world.
325* In ''[[http://misspentyouthgame.com/ Misspent Youth]]'' by Robert Bohl, if the group creates a Corporate villain, then it will no doubt include corrupt and rotten [=CEOs=]. It's a game where you play bomb-throwing anarchist teenagers who are out to upend a Dystopia that has it out for them personally.
326* Anyone in a CEO position at Pentex in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse''. Those not in the know merely believe that the company plays fast and loose with environmental regulations and human rights laws to deliver cheap-to-produce product to a demanding audience. Those in the Inner Circle know that the company is actually an extension of [[EldritchAbomination the Wyrm, the universal embodiment of decay and corruption]] and that their products are [[MayContainEvil stuffed full of Bane spirits that play on humanity's negative emotions]] -- and they don't care if the company makes a profit or not, because they're all licking the Wyrm's filth-encrusted boots[[note]]that is to say, they don't care about profit for its own sake. They are pragmatic enough to care about profit insofar as it affects their ability to spread the Wyrm's influence -- for example, by not stuffing their electronics so full of Bane spirits they don't work well enough to sell, as one overzealous executive did. Rumour has it he was the main course at his replacement's welcoming feast.[[/note]].
327** Technically, anyone not in the know shouldn't realize Pentex even exists as an entity; it should just look like a bunch of shady but independent companies that are all in each others' pockets.
328* ''TabletopGame/{{Orpheus}}'', also from the TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness, has a number of standout examples among the ghost-tech corporations: the drug-manufacturing head of Terrel & Squib, the ex-blood diamond baron that leads the mercenaries of Next World, and [[spoiler:the unethical experimenting of the founders of Orpheus itself]]. The corebook also wryly notes Orpheus' complex backs up to one of Pentex's.
329* ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} 2020'' has the character class "Corporate". While you are not ''required'' to be corrupt, is there really any fun in role-playing a normal executive?[[note]]Perhaps. It's a class similar to a Cleric/Priest in fantasy games, using your influence on the company to provide those who work for you with goodies[[/note]] The best in-game example may be Saburo Arasaka, CEO and major shareholder of the Arasaka corporation, who is using it in the pursuit of Japan's world domination.
330* The various corporations and megacorporations that run much of the show in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''.
331** Out of all the Corps in the Sixth World, Aztechnology takes the cake. Not only are they the largest practitioners of BloodMagic in the world (A type of magic ''so evil'' that before [[spoiler:Dunkelzahn sacrificed himself to fuel a Mana-Absorbing Artifact]], ''every spell a blood mage cast'' would bring the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt a bit closer),but the board of directors also has connections with [[EldritchAbomination The Horrors]]! They've come incredibly close to having an [[NukeEm Omega Order]] called out on them by the Corporate Court, but their [[VillainWithGoodPublicity squeaky clean public image]] has allowed them to prosper. After all, who would believe that the company behind the [[PredatoryBusiness Stuffer Shack]] would want to bring about the end of the world?
332* The Chrysalis Corporation in ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' takes it to a whole new level, insofar as their Director is actually ''Nyarlathotep''. Don't think anyone else is gonna be toppin' ''that'' one any time soon.
333* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' in its CloakAndDagger lore has a lot of big traders and merchant cabals ranging from unscrupulous to [[TheMafia mafia]]-like to fiendish.
334* ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' has many opportunities for this, since the dragonmarked houses are essentially [[{{Magitek}} magical]] [[MegaCorp Zaibatsu]].
335* [[TabletopGame/RogueTrader Rogue Traders]] of the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe can often become this, being fabulously wealthy merchant princes given free rein to orchestrate business ventures in the far reaches of space by Imperial bureaucracy. This being [[BlackAndGreyMorality the]] [[CrapsackWorld universe]] that it is, even the HonestCorporateExecutive examples of Rogue Traders will often treat employees as expendable and exploit entire planets for profit in the name of capitalism. It's just that there are far worse Traders that will hire incredibly dangerous aliens like Orks and Dark Eldar, or sacrifice the men under their command [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney just because they can]]. That is to say, Honest Rogue Traders are zealots of the [[TheEmpire Imperium of Man]] and Corrupt Rogue Traders are zealots of their pockets. It's all relative, really.
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338[[folder:Theater]]
339* Friedrich Dürrenmatt's dark comedy ''Theatre/FrankTheFifth'' is about a bank that is owned and operated by solely such people. The bank uses all kinds of illegal methods and routinely has customers and employees murdered.
340* The board of directors of General Products in ''Theatre/TheSolidGoldCadillac'', composed of four stuffed shirts named T. John Blessington, Alfred Metcalfe, Warren Gillie, and Clifford Snell.
341* Caldwell B. Caldwell from ''Theatre/{{Urinetown}}''. His Urine Good Company forces people to pay steep fees to use public restrooms (the only kind that exist anymore), and arrests anybody caught peeing without paying. [[spoiler:A subversion in that everyone dies as soon as he's overthrown since his policies actually kept the water shortage from getting out of control.]]
342* Brook Lansdale in ''Theatre/{{Allegro}}'', a soap manufacturer who may not be the nominal executive of the city hospital but has enough authority to promote his sycophants and fire anyone he doesn't like. He's not so interested in pursuing patients who aren't wealthy but does take an interest in the protagonist's wife.
343* Phil Romano in ''Theatre/ThatChampionshipSeason'' is a strip-mining mogul who gives frequent kickbacks to local authorities; he made a significant campaign donation to help his former basketball teammate George Sitkowski become mayor in exchange for generous terms on the land lease for his mines, and when it looks as though George's re-election bid will fail, he tries making a similar donation to his opponent (who refuses).
344* Marion from ''Theatre/{{Owners}}'' is a ruthless broker who buys up cheap buildings in an up and coming area in London, forces out tenants who are very poor and helpless and then she profits from the high-end and expensive housing.
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347[[folder:Theme Parks]]
348* Ride/CedarFairEntertainment: Maverick, according to Steel Vengeance, was once an illegal moonshiner, before moving to Frontier Town and founding a mining company. Aside from using his illicit moonshine income to start up the company, he also failed to compensate Digger after a workplace accident and bribed his own brother to stay silent about the aforementioned moonshine business.
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351[[folder:Visual Novels]]
352* Richard, the CEO of Nanotech in ''VisualNovel/BionicHeart'', bribes the police into pursuing Tanya (the main character's android love interest) as a fugitive, illegally manufactures androids, and worst of all [[spoiler:preserves people’s bodies so that he may place their brains into android bodies to do his bidding]].
353* Dennis’s dad from ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'' can qualify. He’s running a scam online casino, and Dennis states that he sometimes orders drugs for “corporate functions.”
354* ''VisualNovel/TheFruitOfGrisaia'': Both Irisu Kiyoka and Sakaki Michiaki hold really high positions in their respective companies, and neither of them is afraid to use that power in any way necessary, to further their own interests.
355* The CEO of [[spoiler: [[EvilInc Cradle Pharmaceuticals]]]] in ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors''. [[spoiler:Hongou recreated the [[DeadlyGame Nonary Game]] to research [[PsychicPowers telepathy]], this time [[WouldHurtAChild using children as the participants]]. When forced to participate in the new game in the present day, he decides MurderIsTheBestSolution and [[BigBad plots to kill everyone involved and escape alone]].]]
356* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'':
357** Redd White of Bluecorp in Case 1-2, head of a big information firm, and rotten to the core. He would use his company to collect information on people and {{blackmail}} them for money or whatever else he wants. He then murders Mia for trying to expose him, pins it on her sister Maya, and even tries to frame Phoenix, Maya's defense attorney, for the murder as punishment for daring to stand up to him.
358** Kane Bullard, the AssholeVictim in Case 3-2, used his own company as a way to gather and sell information about his own clients for a profit.
359** ''Ace Attorney Investigations'' has [[spoiler:Ernest Amano, part of [[BigBad Quercus Alba]]'s smuggling ring, and a doting father [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney who tried to use his vast fortune to stop the police from finding evidence to convict his son Lance]] (who was indeed the guilty party).]]
360* ''VisualNovel/ShallWeDate'':
361** In ''[[VisualNovel/ShallWeDateNinjaAssassin Shall We Date?: Ninja Assassin]]'', Yui's father was killed because he was falsely accused of being in cahoots with some of these. There's a more or less straight-up example in-story, though: [[spoiler: Willem, a Dutch ManipulativeBastard who is also [[DatingCatwoman one of Yui's prospect boyfriends]].]]
362** ''VisualNovel/ShallWeDateNinjaShadow'' has the greedy SmugSnake Saburo Suetsugu, alias the BigBad of the game and the richest man in Nagasaki. He is the one is behind the death of the PlayerCharacter's beloved older brother and is the target of her and many other's revenge desires. [[spoiler: And Willem from ''Ninja Shadow'' turns out to be his business partner.]]
363* Noboru Ishimaru, the CEO of the Sumii Group from ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'', is a real piece of work, as are some of his employees. They're part of the 5/5 Club, which embezzles money out of the company and various other illegal transactions. It's also revealed that [[spoiler:he covered up for his son when the latter started a department fire store, killing twenty people]]. When a dietwoman tried to expose them, they brutally murdered her, disposed of her body, and covered up all of their crimes.
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366[[folder:Web Animation]]
367* ''WebAnimation/AttackOnMika'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfe5QOk1GmE Eiji's father]] is a CEO who abuses his wife into doing the house chores even when sick, and hates his [[spoiler:adopted]] son Eiji, favoring the boy's [[spoiler:adoptive]] sister Sayuki for her good grades. When his wife got bedridden, he decides to marry his secretary and kick her (and Eiji) out of the house. It is revealed he had a history of [[spoiler:forging documents and bribing people for his company.]]
368* Benjamin Palmer [[spoiler:and Lear Dunham]] from ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints''.
369* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' mocks this trope with Weyland-Yutani from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise. Apparently the decades spent and trillions they've wasted trying to acquire the xenomorphs will somehow be balanced out by the amount they can make trying to sell them to the military industrial complex, assuming they can even be controlled.
370-->'''Yahtzee:''' Christ knows how Weyland-Yutani spent their time ''before'' the aliens were discovered. Probably [[StupidEvil threw children on top of piles of burning money!]]
371* Malcolm Hargrove from ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''; he is largely a background character until Season 12, where his company Charon Industries is financing a civil war on the planet Chorus in an effort to have everyone on it kill eachother so Charon can get full access to the vast quantities of alien technology on Chorus. Also overlaps with CorruptPolitician, as Hargrove is the chairman of the UNSC Oversight Subcommittee and launched an investigation into Project Freelancer which, while revealing some of the highly illegal activities Freelancer was engaged in, was partially a cover so Hargrove could seize some of the experimental technology the Project was dealing with.
372* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Weiss Schnee's father, Jacques, is one. In Volume 1, Blake states that the Schnee Dust Company is infamous for its poor labor laws and questionable business partners. In Volume 2, Weiss admits that under her father's control, the company has gone in a "Morally grey" direction. In Volume 4's World of Remnant segment on the Schnee Dust Company, Qrow states that Jacques has made the SDC more profitable than ever, but at the cost of its soul, and employs in constant PR scams to stay in power. During Volume 5, Weiss even stated that Jacques stated he only married her mother for the Schnee family name and the company itself. [[spoiler:Among the people who were victims of the company under Jacques' leadership were Illia Amitola's parent's who died in a mining accident with her human friends laughing at it causing her to join the White Fang and Adam Taurus who's face was branded with the company's "'''S.D.C.'''" logo.]] Following a dust embargo placed by Ironwood, Jacques considers running for a seat on the Kingdom's council while considering laying off most of his workers before deciding against it since he needed their votes to win the council seat. [[spoiler:Arthur Watts helps Jacques with both by rigging the seat in his favor so Jacques can lay them off without consequence.]]
373-->'''Qrow:''' Cheap labor, dangerous working conditions, doing whatever it takes to destroy the competition... Jacques Schnee doesn't care about people. He cares about winning.
374* Lucks from ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'', the CEO of the megacorporation [=TASCorp=]. In his words, when he sees an opportunity to strengthen his company, he takes it, willing to go extreme lengths to take it, especially in the case of protaganist Tari and her mysterious ability to warp into video games.
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377[[folder:Web Comics]]
378* Morgause in the modern arc of ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' is a mild example. [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0997.htm And Arthur's trying to convince her to be even less of one]].
379* Businessmen in ''Webcomic/MandatoryRollerCoaster'' are often depicted as demons wearing navy blue suits.
380* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'':
381** Mr. Kornada is willing to use his (temporary) authority at Ecosystems Unlimited to pervert a program intended to address an issue with the robots on Jean purely for the sake of personal profit, even if the perversion would effectively wipe out over 450 million sapient (if robotic) beings and turn them into mindless automatons, and could well doom the colony that relies on those beings for {{terraforming}}.
382** Mr. Ishiguro, Kornada's nephew, is somewhat less corrupt (and definitely much ''saner'' about it), but he's not entirely moral either. He's still someone who prefers to have the entire colony under his thumb until the debt is paid and gets nervous when it isn't, his resume outright calls him "a little bit evil", and the only reason he agreed with the plan to give his company's manufactured robots freedom and rights is because he's getting some ''serious cash'' out of having them as customers. He's someone who wants to keep the current corporate system stable as it is (rather than collapsing horribly), so that his grandsons can keep making money out of everyone ''else'''s grandsons.
383--->'''Ishiguro:''' [[PragmaticVillainy It's okay to have steak when there's a chicken in every pot. But if you're eating steak and the majority of people have nothing, it doesn't take long for you to look like a chicken]].
384* Anyone that works for FOX in ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort'' but particularly Ansem and Vexen. They secured the rights to ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' '''just''' to remind people of how evil they are.
385* Any member of Tera Corp from ''Webcomic/AntiheroForHire'' almost certainly qualifies. However, it is worth noting that they have had a good amount of infighting. It would seem that one Corrupt Corporate Executive is not loyal to any other one.
386* The RIAA in ''Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger''..... who are the real-life RIAA, drawn out to their logical conclusion. They were so avaricious that they took to scanning dying people's brains on the grounds that their ''memories'' contained copyrighted materials. It did not end well for them.
387* ''Webcomic/{{Vexxarr}}'' used "[[http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=121905 Is this the same Sony that..?]]" query for an EvenEvilHasStandards joke.
388* The three directors of the Inter-Fiend Cooperation Commission in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' are all styled after executives of hip new startup companies, using corporate buzzwords ('A community-based grassroots organization dedicated to building bridges between the diabolic, daemonic and demonic populations') and adding [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope disclaimers to their offers for souls]], and they are directors of the IFCC, complete with business cards. While they make for good funny moments, they are still fiends [[DealWithTheDevil and will screw you over with their deals]].
389* ''Webcomic/HelpDesk'' has Mr. Bunny, the Hoppy Computer Guy, Dark Lord of Microsoft {{Expy}} Ubersoft, along with his doubles at SCO and the RIAA. Being evil is what Ubersoft is ''about''. That's why they've never had more than one help desk employee authorized to actually help people at any time (and he quit).
390* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', several characters such as Mickey Mouse, WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, Tom the Cat. Homer Simpson and Charlie Brown [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2973 appear as leaders of different major crime families]], with the Devil as ruling Don of the Five Families.
391* In ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', there's R.L., CEO of Herd Thinners, later joined by his wife (Kevin's ex) Angelique. Angelique seems to be the more corrupt of the two, as she did sell out the rest of the rabbits and is more scheming, while R.L.'s corruptness is tempered by, of all tropes, BrilliantButLazy: he shot down both world conquest and a racketeering scheme because it'd be too much work. (However, he's become a ''lot'' more corrupt now that [[spoiler: Kell has established a rival company.]] For what it's worth, one comic classified R.L as NeutralEvil while Angelique was classified as ChaoticEvil. Ironically, the one time they ''were'' jailed (for overstating production), they were innocent of the crime (being set up by a disgruntled ex-employee as revenge for getting fired).
392* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfGynoStar'' features a shadowy cabal of corrupt corporate executives who plot to "eliminate" Gyno-Star for her meddling ways.
393* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'':
394** Every member of [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Hereti Corp]] is one of these. Their company goal ''is'' world domination, after all.
395** And now there's brutal industrialist Crustro and MadScientist Dr. Nofun, of their own corporations.
396* Pierce from ''Webcomic/SturgeonsLaw'' is a former corporate executive now part of a corrupt company trying to take over the world. There’s a possibility that some of his namesake company's [[http://sturgeonslaw.net/comic/40-technical-difficulties/ products]] may contain babies.
397* ''WebComic/QuestionableContent'' gave us Beatrice Chatham, Hannelore's mother and a woman who openly laments that the days when you could topple a MegaCorp with a few transsexual prostitutes and a Polaroid camera are over.
398* ''Webcomic/DrugsAndWires'' has Marilyn [[MeaningfulName Hope-Fokker]]. A grate-A vulture-capitalist, she acquires an agricultural facility in Nebraska and forces its employees to have a bake-off to avoid having their jobs outsourced or downsized. When she's given a dish that meets her approval and [[HopeSpot the hopeful employee asks if he can keep his job]], she reveals that she's already sold the entire facility to a Taiwanese sexbot manufacturer and ''everyone'' is being terminated; the bake-off was just to scout employees for her new bakery subsidiary, [[KickTheDog since they'll be looking for a new job anyway]]. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment And this is all just in her introduction!]]
399* In ''Webcomic/TheLettersOfTheDevil'', Rita Carey is the CEO of Carey Investments, and the story starts when Cedric receives a letter saying her entire business is a Ponzi scheme.
400* ''Webcomic/WeakHero'':
401** Yongbae is the head of a construction company and will go to any lengths to ensure its success, whether it's sending out hooligans to threaten other businesses or hiring goons to rough up the kids who stand in his way.
402** The head of Yeongdeungpo, Chungil Lee, is [[BrutalHonesty completely transparent]] about how he only cares for profits, and is content with letting [[BigBad Donald]], a prodigal gang leader, take charge of the business' affairs.
403* ''WebComic/GrrlPower'': Deus, of Machina Industries, has a dim view of this type, claiming they only look to "the next quarter", but ''he'' plans "in decades".
404* [[BigBad The Man in Grey]] in ''Webcomic/JennyAndTheMultiverse'' is primarily introduced as the head of [[EvilInc the Altern Corporation]], which apparently has a bad enough reputation that Jenny wanted nothing to do with them, and argued with Laura about her decision to accept funding for them, even ''before'' he personally comes after her in Chapter 2 via [[TheHeavy Nowhere]].
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408* ''Website/TheOnion'': "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/layoffs-are-necessary-if-we-want-to-keep-the-light,26250/ 'Layoffs Are Necessary If We Want to Keep the Lights On,' Says CEO Halfway Through Tasting Menu]]"
409* In ''Literature/ArcanaMagi'', Oryn Zentharis, Vyndor, and The Board of Directors of Avalon Tech Enterprises want to use the Sentinels to dominate the economy and control the world.
410* Darryl Walcutt, in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. He's suspected of belonging to the Brotherhood of the Bell. His daughter Tansy is the supervillainess Solange, and we know he has illegally used her [[PsychicPowers Psi talents]] for corporate espionage. And probably {{blackmail}}.
411* Tim Sullivan from ''Literature/AvalonsReign'' runs the corporation Sullivan Detainment, specializing in private prisons. He has no problem ordering the death of a politician who questions his business practices. On a smaller scale, Dirk Chambers, the manager of one of those prisons, is a drug addict who actually arranges for said politician's demise.
412* One of the episodes from the fictional second season of ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'' that was described in Cy-Kill's CharacterBlog ''Blog/RenegadeRhetoric'' was "Bears and Bulls", where the Renegades conspired with a wealthy industrialist named Drake J. Hinkleford IV in a scheme that involved buying out every company in the country and using the obtained control over the economy for nefarious purposes.
413* ''Podcast/PretendingToBePeople'' features Ferguson Beans, who not only runs a major company involved in government conspiracies, but trafficks in cocaine, uses child labor, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking exploits loopholes in election laws to vote in two counties' elections]].
414* Tina Johnson From ''WebOriginal/WelcomeToMountport'' Is a wealthy business woman who is self-admittiedly destined to be mean and finds it to be fun. In fact it's stated that Tina uses cheap construction Materials in the building of her Skyscraper out of pure spite for local building regulations.
415* ''WebOriginal/WellBeRightBack'': Donovan [=MacNeil=], CEO of [=MacNeil=] Tech, could possibly be one. While he does sound concerned over what happened to the little girl who had a seizure in "Evidence Capture (2003)", the wanted poster listing him as "armed and dangerous" in one of the ZIP folders seems to suggest he's up to no good.
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421* Dr. Leonard J Alderman from ''WebVideo/LG15TheResistance'', who doesn't hesitate to steal, kidnap, or torture providing it furthers the company's aims. He claims to be doing the world a service, but it's pretty clear he's really only interested in making a profit.
422* The Hasbro Guy from the sequel to ''WebVideo/ThreeInTheAfternoon'', who's behind convincing Lucas and his corporations to mass-produce and sell lightsabers.
423* In ''WebVideo/TheCartoonMan'', Simon is a small-time version of this, hoping to exploit Roy and Karen's findings for his own gain [[spoiler:at least until he becomes a straight-up DastardlyWhiplash cartoon villain, at which point his plans become much bigger.]]
424* ''WebVideo/ClimateTown'': The oil industry and coal mining companies' corruption and abuse of their workers and ability to pay off government officials and produce misinformation to ensure the public doesn't pay too closely to their true actions is brought up on several occasions.
425* In ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'', Danny is learning about the Zelda convention of cutting down plants to get random drops (typically money). After discussing it a bit, Dan realizes that [[http://youtu.be/a2Cbx8Uc_fI?t=12m10s he's starting to sound like this trope.]]
426-->'''Danny:''' Oh God, what kind of jaded person have I become? [gruff] Burn the flower beds, there might be money underneath!!
427* Charles-Antoine Donteuil, the creator of the game in which ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'' is set, qualifies for the money-making variant. One of his hidden marketing ploys is behind one of the major elements of the setting, to the point that knowledge of it becoming public is the cause of the first WhamEpisode of the story.
428* ''WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow'' has Corporate Commander, who's basically [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero Cobra Commander]] if he was the CEO of a video game company. He mainly partakes in developing overpriced, poorly made games and locking content behind downloadable content and loot boxes.
429* The BigBad of the Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Fakemon region ''WebVideo/TheKaskadeRegion'' is Tom Bezzle, CEO of [[Creator/{{Amazon}} Amaze-All]]. Though devoted to improving the lot of humanity, his idea of doing so is to make his MegaCorp the biggest and most expansive in the world, and does so by means of listening in on the public with his products, buying out news companies that criticize him (like accusing him of increasing unemployment levels), and even [[spoiler: seeks to control the region's BizarreSeasons by capturing its local Legendaries]].
430* WebVideo/TheDebbieAndCarrieShow features as one of its main villains Leonard Wilson, who is part owner of the Town's hospital and takes advantage of that position to contaminate the Town's own water supply to get the hospital more patients to increase its own profits. He is also part owner of a water bottling company and a tire company.
431* Music/TheStupendium has cosplayed as many of these characters in his music videos based on video games. Notable examples include [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Mr. House]], [[VideoGame/DeathAndTaxes Fate]], and [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Tom Nook]]; as well as his board gamer persona "[[{{Pun}} The Chairman of the Board]]." As stated in the description for [[VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds "The Fine Print"]]:
432-->[[https://youtu.be/vvANy49Kqhw If there's one weirdly specific niche I have carved for myself it's 'angry business man at desk' songs.]]
433* ''WebVideo/TheWarpZone'': Dick Richards, portrayed as working as an executive for a number of media companies such as Warner Bros, Paramount, and especially Disney, qualifies. In his more recent videos, he details how he pulls the strings behind movies such as ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' to make as much money as possible no matter how low-quality or cheap his plans are and how they effect the consumers, who he sees as dumb sheep that will watch whatever is put on a screen.
434* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'': In the battle between Creator/StanLee and Creator/JimHenson, the two of them actually put aside their differences... only for Creator/WaltDisney to [[IncomingHam enter]] as the corporate overlord who owns the rights to not only both of their respective [=IPs=] but also ''Epic Rap Battles of History'' [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou itself]] (through Creator/{{Disney}}'s ownership of Maker Studios, the show's producers). He promptly puts Lee and Henson to work in his "empire of joy".
435* ''WebVideo/SMPLive'': Schlatt is a money-hungry [[ConMan "businessman"]] who runs a corporation that primarily focuses on a cryptocurrency exit scam. He and his business partner (and the company's co-owner) Connor are not above using [[WhiteCollarCrime less than legal means]] in order to ensure a business deal works out.
436** In one instance, he and Connor manage to convince [[spoiler:Wilbur to steal diamonds from a police station just so he could buy their cryptocurrency, while also blackmailing him using the fact that they saw him with golden apples (which are illegal on the server)]].
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