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** TLH also has Bingo! corporation and, in the sequel, WATIcorp.
* If GLaDOS is to be believed, Aperture Science from ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]''. The Aperture-branded cans of beans found in secluded places throughout the game would seem to support this theory.
** Also in the same 'verse; hardly anybody important in the Half-Life universe apart from Chell ''not'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20141006161610/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/10-The-Orange-Box worked for Black Mesa at some point?]
** One of the slides from a projector in a meeting room shows that Black Mesa clearly controls the market that they are competing for. It insinuated that Aperture Science has high goals but never actually delivers.
* The World Economic Consortium, bad guys in the ''[[Crusader: No Remorse|Crusader]]'' series, are ''the'' Mega Corp—a conglomeration of several economic bodies who themselves rose to power and prominence as traditional governments failed in their area at the end of the twenty-first century. The WEC extracts everything, refines everything, manufactures everything, packages everything, sells everything, employs everyone. And they brook no [[La Résistance|red ink]] in the bottom line.
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** To be more specific, in most Feudal Futures a house owns a planet or an area on a planet, in this game houses only rule planets if they enter the Politics sphere and have one of their members (or more often hired retainers) run for senate. In addition houses can build facilities on any planet within range of their homeworld. When you add that in at least one galaxy [[The Emperor]] is an elected position the eponymous imperium sounds more and more like a Federation run by corporations, like the U.S. except the CEOs have titles like "Duke" or "Marquis" and are allowed private armies.
* ''[[Dystopia (video game)|Dystopia]]'' has Datatrust, a mysterious corporation that has even [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|demonstrated control over the development team]].
* ''[[Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere]]'' features this in the form of General Resource Ltd. and Neucom Inc., who are at war with each other at the start of the game. The series returned to national conflict setup with ''[[Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies|04]]'', but chillingly, ''[[Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War|5]]'', ''[[Ace Combat Zero
** In fact the entire series between ''Electrosphere'' and the [[Continuity Reboot]] with ''[[Ace Combat Joint Assault|Joint Assault]]'' (except maybe ''[[Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation|6]]'') can be safely considered one giant [[Prequel]] to the Usean Corporate War.
** Escalated in ''[[Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown]]'' with mercenaries deployed by General Resources partaking in the conflict, alongside the development of advanced AI technologies, such as Alex.
* The [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Fur Fighters]]'' sent up his own vast Mega Corp at some point and it's shown throughout the game at many points doing many different things. Presumably Viggo got the money for everything from getting advanced technology from the dinosaurs (don't ask) and then decided to bid massive air-craft-carries and submarines to conquer the world.
* The Post-Terran Mining Corporation in ''[[Descent]]''. All they do is mining, but they control dozens (that we see) of incredibly large mines in at least eight star systems (likely more). They also have their own mercenary force, which is large enough that the ''combined Sol System military'' considers it a legitimate threat.
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* Crockercorp from the new {{spoiler|post-Scratch}} timeline in ''[[Homestuck]]''. It's Betty Crocker expanded from baking goods to superscience, with handheld teleportation devices and telepathic personal computers. Rumors circulate that Betty Crocker herself is an evil alien "Batterwitch" controlling it all and trying to brainwash the population. {{spoiler|They're right; she's actually Her Imperial Condescension from the trolls' ancestors' timeline.}}
* Lampooned in the [[YouTube]] video ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99l-ocvAs0M Top Ten Most Evil Corporations In Video Games]''; after detailing such nefarious organizations like [[Mass Effect|Cerberus]], [[Oddworld|Rupture Farms]], and [[Fallout|Vault-Tec]] (mentioning that [[Take That| the last one might actually be more ethical than Bethesda itself]]), the [[Lemony Narrator]] tries to place [[Electronic Arts]] at the number one spot, until an unseen editor tells him only fictional companies are allowed and he changes the top spot to [[Resident Evil|the Umbrella Corporation]].
* [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/marshall-carter-and-dark-hub Marshall, Carter, and Dark] from ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' lore is an organization that, like the Foundation itself, is committed to researching SCPs and how to contain them, but in their case, have a much different motive - profiting from them. They are described as a group that "exists at the frightening intersection of dark anomalous power and unfettered capitalism", MC&D is [[Only in It For the Money]], and despite having [[Oddly Small Organisation| only about 100 actual employees]] at any given time (not counting other "groups of interest" they are allied with) their wealth and influence [[Fiction 500| rivals that of some entire nations]]. Much like the GOC and Church of the Broken God, they are usually portrayed as either antagonists or uneasy allies of the Foundation.
== Western Animation ==
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* [[Your Mileage May Vary|Depending on what you personally believe]], the Church of Scientology can be viewed as an organization that, at least, ''aspires'' to achieve this.
** Some have classified the [[wikipedia:Sea Org|Sea Org]] as a paramilitary organization, keep that in mind.
* In 1967 the Florida legislature granted [[Disney]]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511060048/http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/downloads/362/emerson.pdf A citation] for those who like such things
* The Hudson's Bay Company owned the vast majority of the land now known as western Canada up until the late 19th century. It acted as the de facto government for the area, issuing its own currency and enforcing a monopoly on trade. The company survives into the present day, though it's no longer the Mega Corp it once was, being best known as the owner of several Canadian department store chains. It lost its independence after being bought out by the Zucker family in 2006, having lasted for more than ''three hundred and thirty years''.
* Inco, subsidiary of the Brazilian mining company Vale, can sometimes look like an evil Mega Corporation right out of a Cyberpunk story. Richer than whole countries, it buys and takes lands away from their people to mine metals (mostly nickel), bribing politicians to pay the least possible amount in taxes and fees. Once on their land, the union and employment laws of the country do not even apply anymore, and things have sometimes gone so far that the company was removed from the FTSE 4 GOOD index for failing to meet their human rights criteria. It also created a lot of problem for the environment, for example their plan to let go of their acidic waste directly in the UNESCO-classed lagoon in New Caledonia (a "coincidence" when the UNESCO decided to enter the coral barrier reef on the World Heritage List means that the part where their waste pipeline leads is one of the few not under the protection of the List).
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