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Contrast [[Honest Corporate Executive]], the CCE's natural enemy.
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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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* 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.
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* 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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* Dr. Robotnik in ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]].''
* 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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