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{{quote|''"Killing the indigenous looks bad, but the only thing the shareholders hate more than bad press is a bad quarterly statement."''
|'''Parker Selfridge''', ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]''}}
A senior manager, CEO or owner of a major definitely-for-profit corporation who is out to make as much [[Greed|money]] and gain as much power as possible, by 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 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 [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|spread enough money around to get their way or avoid punishment,]] and are very likely to cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]] and/or become [[The Unfettered]] in their search for profit.
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They usually [[Fridge Logic|fail to consider]] the [[Didn't See That Coming|full effects of their plan]], or the fact that [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|they can make more by going legit]], and at times the plan [[Step Three: Profit|seems to have no concrete way of creating wealth.]] Usually, they remain in business thanks to [[Offscreen Villain Dark Matter]].
Though there are earlier examples, the modern '''Corrupt Corporate Executive''' had (until relatively recently) a distinctly 80s feel, which made him seem progressively more out of place as those affectations become less mainstream. Earlier
A well-known variation of the CCE is the CEO or President of a [[Mega Corp|megacorporation]] that [[Acme Products|produces and]] controls everything [[Law Enforcement, Inc.|(even the authorities)]] and is the de facto ruler of the world. This is one of the major villains in [[Cyberpunk]].
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Another variation of the CCE is the Robber Baron, a pre-80s, industrial revolution era manifestation that retains all of the CCE's cosmopolitan, far-reaching financial and political power, with perhaps even less governmental or media constraints to consider. Joseph Pulitzer, from the movie ''[[Newsies]]'', is a perfect example of this subtrope. The Robber Baron will have a different wardrobe and jargon than the 80s CCE, as appropriate to his setting, but is otherwise indistinguishable.
Another variation on the CCE, found mostly in [[Walking the Earth]] series, is basically a [[Corrupt Hick]], with a business. The "corporations" they represent are not major multinational conglomerates, but small businesses like trucking companies, hotels, or other "mom and pop" ventures that simply want their competitors out of action. They tend to have little power outside of a single town or county, but can usually amass a small army of redneckish goons and threaten violence with impunity by virtue of paying off local law enforcement and/or the judiciary. This flavor of
This is one of the inevitable progressions that any [[Ambition Is Evil|ambitious]] character will end in. See Also [[There Are No Good Executives]] and [[Morally-Bankrupt Banker]].
Compare [[Greedy Jew]] and [[Pointy-Haired Boss]].
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Contrast [[Honest Corporate Executive]], the CCE's natural enemy.
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'''Father:''' "[[Self-Deprecation|Well I am a corporate executive!]]"
'''Mother:''' "[[Executive Meddling|He stops exciting things from happening!]]" }}
== Anime and Manga ==
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* {{spoiler|Albert Maverick}} from ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]''. 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''. Oh, and did we mention that {{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 [[Fake Memories|rewrite people's memories.]] And he ''very'' much uses them.}}
* Many, '''many''' of the [[Asshole Victim]]s in ''[[Detective Conan]]'' are these.
== Comic Books ==
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* [[Doctor Strange]] goes up against one of these in ''Doctor Strange: The Oath'' when he discovers a magical elixir that can cure all diseases. Though they insist they are [[Withholding the Cure]] so that humanity can make discoveries at its own pace, it is only too clear they are only interested in their profit margin.
* While he is sometimes portrayed as [[Uncle Pennybags|the exact opposite]], [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe|Scrooge McDuck]] is typically this trope, especially in the Italian Disney comics.
== Film ==
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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Kurt Fuller]] has a knack for playing these types (usually dwindling to a [[Butt Monkey]] by the end). See ''[[Ghostbusters]] [[It's the Same, Now It Sucks|II]]'', ''[[The Running Man (film)|The Running Man]]'' and ''[[Wayne's World]]'' for proof.
* Beckett of the second & third ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' movies is one.
* Many villains from [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] flicks:
** Elliot Carver in the
** Similarly, Elektra King, daughter and heir to her father's Mediterranean oil pipeline, seduced her captor, murdered her father, kidnapped M, and plotted to destroy Istanbul so her pipeline would get more use. She's so much of a twisted villain, she's currently the only Bond Woman Bond himself has killed in cold blood.
** Auric [[Goldfinger]]. A ''proper'' Bond villain. If you can't have the United States' gold reserves, you can always just destroy them. Wiping out the entire population of Fort Knox (civilian and military alike) in the process is just collateral damage. Of course, his true motive is to increase the value of his own gold holdings astronomically - his scheme is very much insider trading taken [[Up To Eleven]].
** Max Zorin from ''[[A View to a Kill]]''. How do you effectively corner the microchip market? Destroy Silicon Valley with a massive man-made earthquake. And if the rest of southern California has to go with it? So be it.
** And pretty much the whole American government in ''[[Quantum of Solace]]''.
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* Ed Dillinger in ''[[Tron]]''
* As mentioned above, Joseph Pulitzer in ''[[Newsies]]''. He raises the wholesale price of his newspapers by 10% because he wants more money (and who cares about the starving homeless orphans who have to pay for it?). Later, when his actions have provoked a strike that actually ''costs'' him money, he still won't back down, because giving in to demands from ragged street kids would make him look weak.
* R. J. Fletcher from [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al Yankovic]]'s 1989 film ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]''.
* Ian Hawke from the ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'' [[Alvin and the Chipmunks|film series]]. In the first film, he discourages Dave from furthering his music career at the beginning, then once the Chipmunks get famous, he proceeds to spoil them, distance them from Dave, and tire them out from constant tours. It wasn't until the Chipmunks see Dave infiltrating one of their concerts that they realise Ian's a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|bastard in sheep's clothing]]. In the sequel, he is jobless, but plans to get his revenge by adopting the [[Distaff Counterpart|Chipettes]] and putting their Battle of the Bands audition on the Internet. They end up getting the opportunity to open for [[Britney Spears]], and Ian puts it in top priority over the actual Battle of the Bands concert, [[Complete Monster|threatening to barbecue them if they don't comply]].
* Parker Selfridge in ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]''.
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* Travis from ''[[Congo]]'' is so obsessed with making money that he sends out multiple expeditions into the [[Banana Republic|dangerous African jungle]] to search for diamonds that will make his company billions of dollars. When the members of the expeditions keep dying off, he doesn't care. He just sends more people out in the hopes that at least one of them will retrieve the diamonds.
* Alonzo Hawk in ''[[Herbie Rides Again]]''.
* Kujo's Epsilon Pharmaceuticals from ''[[
* Judge Doom from ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' is this ''and'' a [[Corrupt Politician]]. {{spoiler|Being the sole stockholder of Cloverleaf Industries, he murders Marvin Acme, the owner of Toon Town (framing Roger for it in the process) and then tries his hardest to make certain that Acme's will is never discovered so that Cloverleaf can win the bidding war to buy Toon Town, so that he can demolish it and build a freeway. As if that weren't enough, his plan involves murdering every toon living there. It says a lot for how rotten a villain is when he is willing to commit genocide upon his own people simply for profit.}}
* In ''[[Police Academy|Police Academy 6]]'' the villain {{spoiler|eventually revealed to be the Mayor, again making this Trope overlap with [[Corrupt Politician]]}} is orchestrating a crime wave in the area along a proposed bus line, so he can lower the property values, buy it up for cheap, and build the bus line with much less overhead. Commander Hurst is disgusted to discover such a plot was all a "nothing" buta real estate scam, although Nick does point out that it would have been a ''very'' profitable real estate scam had it worked.
== Literature ==
* Occurs several times in David Wingrove's ''[[Chung Kuo]]'' series
* In [[Roald Dahl]]'s ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'', it is mentioned that [[The Wonka|Willy Wonka's]] first factory was put out of business due to his recipes getting stolen by CCEs via corporate espionage. Grandpa mentions three of them, Mr. Slugworth, Mr. Fickelgruber and Mr. Prodnose, who did this. 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 [[Secret Test of Character]], and Charlie refuses anyway).
* British sci-fi author [[Peter F. Hamilton]] deliberately set out to invert this trope with Julia Evans, the young idealistic CEO of Event Horizon, in his trilogy about psychic-detective Greg Mandel. She keeps most of her industry in Britain to provide work and a strong economy (of course, this also increases Event Horizon's power and influence within Britain) and quashes [[The World Is Not Ready|potentially harmful technologies]] rather than make a profit from them.
* Newman King, founder and CEO of the eponymous retail chain of [[Bentley Little]]'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 "[[For the Evulz]]." 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.
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* [[The Faceless|The Onceler]] from ''[[The Lorax]]''.
* Peter Sharpe of the Prometheus Corporation, from [[The Chronicles of Professor Jack Baling]], 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."
== Live-Action TV ==
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* ''[[Smallville]]'': [[Magnificent Bastard|Lionel Luthor]] and his son/[[Bastard Understudy|successor]], [[Manipulative Bastard|Lex]], used their company, LuthorCorp to perform illegal experiments, research and try to control alien life, and increase their own personal power and wealth no matter who got hurt in the process; Lex's [[Number Two]], [[Smug Snake|Regan Matthews]] ends up being one by default due to his [[Undying Loyalty]] to his boss. [[The Baroness|Tess Mercer]], who replaced the Luthor's at the company's helm, is a different variation: a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] who used her position to try and force Clark, her chosen [[Messiah]] into becoming a hero, via the blackest means possible. Then there's [[Alternate Universe|Earth-2 Lionel]], who managed to combine this trope with [[Diabolical Mastermind]], fusing their [[Mega Corp]] with the Metropolis underworld and essentially becoming [[The Emperor]]. The show also has a subversion in [[Green Arrow]]/[[Vigilante Man|Oliver Queen]], who while a definite [[Anti-Hero]] is one of the strongest forces for justice in-series.
* ''[[Leverage]]'' lives and breathes by this trope. Nearly every [[Asshole Victim]] in a given episode is either a mega-corporate exec or the country hick version of this, with a preference for going after the former. [[Word of God]] has stated that many of their villain/victims are based heavily on real corrupt executives and real crimes that they've committed, with only the tiniest bit of embellishment—and that in some cases, the fictional version has been toned DOWN from their real-life counterpart because the real thing just wouldn't seem believable to TV audiences.
== Music ==
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* The eponymous character of [[Ray Stevens]]' "Mr. Businessman."
{{quote|"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."}}
== Professional Wrestling ==
* [[Vince McMahon]] played the part for most of the late '90s in the WWF, with his counterpart Eric Bischoff playing basically the same part in WCW. A decade later, both were doing the same schtick in the merged [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]. Paul Heyman later picked it up in the [[Revival|revived]] ECW.
** Bischoff and [[Hulk Hogan]] teamed up against Jay Leno and [[Diamond Dallas Page|DDP]] once. They got both pwned by Leno and his partner (who won with the help of Kevin Eubanks).
* After his run in APA, Bradshaw became [[John Bradshaw Layfield]] (or "JBL") and, playing off his legitimate success in the stock market, became a 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 [[John Cena]]. 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 [[Shawn Michaels]] to help him take the WWE Championship from Cena.
== Radio ==
* Matt Crawford from ''[[The Archers]]'' embodied this trope pre-[[Villain Decay]].
== Tabletop Games ==
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* Friedrich Dürrenmatt's dark comedy, ''[[Frank The Fifth]]'' is about a bank which is owned and operated by solely such people. The bank uses all kinds of illegal methods, and routinely has customers and even employees murdered.
* Shylock is this in ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', regardless of whether you consider him to be a sympathetic character or not. His love for his daughter is hopelessly confused with his love for his money, and his attempt at vengeance takes the form of a legal bond made over money. [[G. K. Chesterton]] regarded the play as "a medieval satire on usury...[T]he moral is that the logic of usury is in its nature at war with life, and might logically end in breaking into the bloody house of life. In other words, if a creditor can always claim a man's tools or a man's home, he might quite as justly claim one of his arms or legs."
== Video Games ==
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* Adrian DeWinter and the executives of [[Private Military Contractors|Artemis Global Security]] in ''[[Tom Clancy]]'s H.A.W.X''. After getting contract with Brazil to fight Las Trinidas and fought a battle to defend Rio, the US intervened, making the stocks drop, so after a while, DeWinter accepts deal from Las Trinidas (because [[Evil Pays Better|it pays better]]) and launched an all-out assault on USA, trying to assassinate the president, disabling country's missile defence system, and trying to nuke the country.
* Were it not for Edward Diego trying to cover up his corrupt antics, [[System Shock|SHODAN]] would have just sat and quietly run Citadel Station.
* In ''[[EarthBound]]'',
* ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|Pokémon Platinum]]'':
** {{spoiler|The CEO of Altru Corp. in ''[[Pokémon Ranger]]: Shadows of Almia'' is also the head of Team Dim Sun. The two are nigh-completely parallel - just replace "oil power" with "Pokémon power". Similarly, in ''XD'', Mr. Verich is an obscenely rich man bribing the sailors of Gateon Port, and is likely the man who made a load of Poké through the mines under Pyrite Town. Given he's the man in charge of Cipher, doesn't it make more sense that he'd finance the construction of Realgam Tower, which served as Evice/Es Cade's base of operations in ''Colosseum''?}}
** {{spoiler|Lusamine}} from ''[[Pokémon Sun and Moon]]'' runs {{spoiler|the Aether Foundation, a megacorp that is seemingly dedicated to protecting Pokémon all around Alola. In truth, it's a front for Lusamine's twisted experiments related to the dangerous extra-dimensional Ultra Beasts, and the woman herself is a sadistic [[The Sociopath|sociopath]] who gleefully tortures helpless Pokémon and abuses her children without batting an eye}}.
* Ayano of ''[[Ar tonelico]]'' is introduced as one of these, as the head of the villainous Tenba Corporation. {{spoiler|It turns out she's ''not'', and everything bad about the company is actually Bourd's fault. Once he's out of the way, she makes sure it's reformed.}}
* Chief Blank from ''[[Space Channel 5]]'' is a loon who'll do anything to get high ratings, including brainwash the masses.
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* Trade Prince Gillywax of ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' in spades. When the volcano above Bilgewater Port began to erupt, he extorted a fortune from his own cartel for the right to board his ship. Once onbard, he locked them all in chains as his slaves. His later betrayal on the Lost Isles was not a surprise, but the fact that Thrall let him live and continue to lead the Cartel was.
* Averted in ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' with {{spoiler|Deus's Reincarnation, who takes time out of his work schedule to help an old man (Who is the emperor he ironically killed in his past life who reincarnated as well) cross a busy street. Olga is his [[Sexy Secretary]].}}
* Nef Anyo in ''Warframe'', member of the Corpus Board of Directors, also an interplanetary scam artist leading a (probably bogus) cult to the Void and treating everyone working for him as disposable assets, threatening the Solaris, his workforce on Venus, with "repossessions" (getting their limbs, organic or artificial, removed and sold) if they disappoint him, and his brokers in [[Deadly Game|the Index]] with unemployment or death should they lose to [[Player Character|the Tenno]].
* Max Profitt Haltmann, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Kirby: Planet Robobot]]'' is the president of the Haltmann Works Company, an intergalactic corporation that invades planets so they can roboticize them and their natives, as well as strip mine them of any and all resources that can be used for weapons development and other profitable ventures. He wasn't always a black-hearted CEO, but {{spoiler|the apparent death of his daughter}} and {{spoiler|[[Mechanical Abomination|Star Dream's]] influence}} twisted him into the insane, greedy madman that he is today.
* The primary antagonist of ''[[Yooka-Laylee]]'', Capital B.
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▲== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney]]'' brings us Redd White of Bluecorp in Case 1-2.
** And Kane Bullard in Case 3-2 ... except he's kinda dead before you meet him. He was one of these before hand though. I'll pinkyswear!
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* Richard, the CEO of Nanotech in ''[[Bionic Heart]]'', 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}}.
== Web Comics ==
* Pretty much every member of [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness|Hereti Corp]] in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is one of these. Their company goal ''is'' world domination, after all.
** And now there's brutal industrialist Crustro and [[Mad Scientist]] Dr. Nofun, of their own corporations.
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* The three directors of the Inter-Fiend Cooperation Commission in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' are all styled after executives of hip new startup companies, using coorporate buzzwords ('A community-based grassroots organization dedicated to building bridges between the diabolic, daemonic and demonic populations') and adding [[Our Lawyers Advised This Trope|disclaimers to their offers for souls]], and of course they are literal directors of the IFCC, complete with business cards. While they make for a good [[Crowning Moment of Funny]], they are still fiends [[Deal with the Devil|and will screw you over with their deals]].
* Mr Bunny, the Hoppy Computer Guy, Dark Lord of Microsoft [[Expy]] Ubersoft in ''[[Help Desk]]'', 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).
== Web Original ==
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* Darryl Walcutt, in the [[Whateley Universe]]. 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 [[Psychic Powers|Psi talents]] for corporate espionage. And probably [[Blackmail]].
* Benjamin Palmer {{spoiler|and Lear Dunham}} from ''[[Broken Saints]]''.
== Western Animation ==
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** Roger Meyers Jr - the CEO of Itchy and Scratchy Studios - is a jaded and selfish businessman who has nothing but contempt for the children who comprise his audience. While not the blatant plagiarist his father was, he still eagerly profited from a stolen manuscript and likely violates several building and zoning laws in his numerous promotions, like [[No OSHA Compliance|Itchy and Scratchy Land]].
* Some episodes of ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' suggest that [[Big Bad|Dr. Claw]] is a shadow owner of some corporations, using them as fronts for smuggling rings. One notable example was when his scheme involved using technology to prevent cows from giving milk so he could sell his own dairy products at inflated prices. Clearly an illegally-run monopoly; he was bold enough to even put the MAD insignia on the milk cartons.
* Elves are portrayed this way in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]'', having tricked the dwarves into growing mushrooms for a living so they could take the far-more profitable cookie business for themselves. Eventually, the two reconcile and become business partners, but the elves still get 60% of the take.
* The Crimson Guard twins Tomax and Xamot are this in ''[[G.I. Joe]]; the CEOs of Extensive Enterprises, they provide much of COBRA's funding.
* Mr. Krabs from ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' is a somewhat more lovable example.
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* Ed Wuncler from ''[[The Boondocks]]''.
* The newest version of ''[[Yoohoo and Friends]]'' has the main characters start as this prior to their [[Karmic Transformation]].
* Dr. Robotnik in ''[[Adventures
* Leonardo Leonardo from ''[[Clerks (animation)|Clerks]]''.
* Arguably the worst thing Elmer Fudd has done in ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' history occurred in "Hair Brush" where, as CEO of a large company, he pretends to have a mental illness so the IRS wouldn't notice he hasn't paid $300,000 in back taxes (given the cartoon's 1955 release, this is slightly over $2.87 million when adjusting for inflation) and then framing Bugs for it, the result putting his own company in a serious financial crisis.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast| Dr. Killemoff]] from ''[[Toxic Crusaders]]'', head of Apocalypse Inc. Yeah, [[Card-Carrying Villain|at least he's honest about it]]. Of course, that is still a [[Bowdlerise|Bowdlerised]] version of [[The Toxic Avenger| the original movies]], where the company was run by [[Satan]] himself.
* In ''[[Hazbin Hotel]]'', an Overlord is a local ruler in Hell with influence comparable to [[The Don]], and it seems all of them are the highest authority in some industry or service, making them fit this trope. It is heavily suggested that the majority of their employees in these companies do so via the terms of Faustian contracts with the appropriate Overlord. The most important example is Alastor (being a member of the main cast) who dominates the radio media. Other important examples include Vox (television), Valentino (film), and Velvette (social media), all three considered enemies to Alastor and Charlie for a variety of reasons. There is also Roxie (fashion and food industry, for [[I'm a Humanitarian| a specific type of customer]]), Carmilla (weapons production and distribution), and Zestial (unknown, but is believed to be the eldest and most powerful member, being their ''de facto'' leader). Exactly how corrupt they are varies depending on the individual (Roxie and Zestial seem the most pleasant, Alastor and Carmilla are evil yet pragmatic, while the VVVs are the most villainous), but it is implied that all of them have employees that are bound to them via Faustian contracts.
** This also holds true for the Seven Deadly Sins, who rule entire layers of Hell, mostly appearing in the sister series, ''[[Helluva Boss]]''. Given what can be construed from their appearances, Mammon is a theme park tycoon who also specializes in merchandising (an embodiment of capitalism at its worst), Asmodeus controls entertainment of sexual theme (the Lust layer of Hell being one [[Red Light District]] , where he also controls the market for sex toys, many of them via a his reluctant partnership with Mammon), Beelzebub distributes processed food and liquor, plus advertising, and Belphegor controls distribution of drugs (both illicit and legit) along with what passes for Hell’s healthcare system (which does explain a lot). It is even implied that [[The Devil| Lucifer]] himself (ironically, the most benevolent of infernal rulers) is Hell’s version of [[Walt Disney]], owning the most popular theme park in Hell (possibly even a chain of them) Mammon being a plagiarist in that regard.
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