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* The Bulero corporation in George Zebrowski's ''Macrolife''.

* Benevolent example: World Enterprises in ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]'' starts with and specializes in electronics but quickly grows into this because its products are so innovative; it is actually able to launch a space program. The secret? The mysterious man at the top is actually an alien who brought his dying world's technology to Earth specifically to make enough money and obtain the resources needed to save the rest of his people, who will blend in with humanity as he has and positively influence it.

* ''[[Crysis (series)|Crysis]]: Legion'' claims that Hargreave-Rasch is so big and powerful that even real-world giants like [[wikipedia:Monsanto|Monsanto]] and [[wikipedia:Halliburton|Halliburton]] are small fry compared to it.

** Uniquely enough (especially for a [[Peter Watts]] novel) is the fact that the entire corporation and its subsidiaries are secretly dedicated to one man's shadowed, {{spoiler|century-long struggle to prepare humanity against an imminent conflict with [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] that he first came across at [[The Tunguska Event|Tunguska]]}}. The corp is stated to own, among other assets, an Arecibo-sized radio telescope which it uses to scan the sky for ''something''.

 

* Where do we start with [[Borderlands]]? Let's see now, the one that's probably coming to your mind now is Atlas. They make powerful firearms, maintain a private army outfitted with said guns and other Atlas Artillery, and control most of Pandora, notably T-Bone Junction. <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KjR0rneQH8 They also fail propaganda forever]</ref>. Then there's the Hyperion Corporation, who owns the New-U and Catch-A-Ride stations, the Guardian Angel Satellite, Dahl Corporation, who also makes guns, (Unlike Atlas, they have an [http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Dahl inspiring and awesome] [[Badass Creed]]. Also, they're the largest weapons producer on Pandora.) claptrap repair kits, wind turbines, and can finance the mining operations for an entire colony which, by the way, the also financed themselves <ref>They seem to be [[Half Life|the Black Mesa]] to [[Portal (series)|Atlas's Aperture Science facility.]]</ref>. Jakobs, aside from making Wild West-ish hunting-quality sniper rifles, [[Hand Cannon|high-power revolvers]], and [[Shotguns Are Just Better|shotguns]] seems to be in on the colony supply industry, making prefab housing and fuel tanks, and made a small town for the workers employed to make their guns. Tediore, like everyone else here, also makes firearms, including Outrunner artillery. We're not sure what Maliwan, S&S, Vladof, and Torgue do, though logic states that Maliwan, considering their involvement in incendiary weapons, may have had something to do with climate control in the cold years of Pandora.

** All the other space-based corps are also mega corps of varying shadiness from "very" to "not much" and wield significant pull; a group of Gallente megas recently stood up against an attempted government takeover and succeeded.

* ''[[Ratchet & Clank|Ratchet and Clank]]'' - The [[Trope Namer]] is ''[[Ratchet and Clank Going Commando]]'''s Mega corp, which controls much of the Bogon Galaxy, and sells highly destructive weapons to anyone with enough coin. Along with anything else. (But don't worry, all of their products are tested and 100% safe.)

* The Patriots of Metal Gear Solid fame count as this. They are a secret organization that runs the American Government from behind the scenes deciding everything from who gets elected into Congress to who gets to be the President of the United States and have a firm control of the CIA and the Pentagon who conduct their secret Military operations and projects funded with massive stashes of secret cash that can't be tracked by the legal government. They control all the media that the American people consume, everything from literature, TV, movies, and Internet is all filtered by them for your enjoyment and have all the major corporations in their back pockets which influence the government and the average citizen. They are also implied to have international reach as they have secret bases which are mentioned in the story in China and Russia. Not to mention all the technological achievements they have accomplished, they have engineered clones from Big Boss's DNA which Solid Snake and his two brothers are the result of, have conducted genetic engineering which is capable of improving a human being into a super soldier, created super-powered exoskeleton suits that are akin to Iron-Man that can give a man super-human strength and speed, and massive bi-pedal, walking, nuclear-launch capable battle tanks known as Metal Gears. Stuff like this would run the U.S Government's economy into the ground but the Patriots seem to have no trouble funding these projects.

* ''[[Xenosaga]]'', and by extension, ''[[Xenogears]]'' has Vector Industries (simply called "The Company" in the ''[[Xenogears]]'' ''[[Word of God|Perfect Works]]'' book). Vector makes everything from starships to cellphones, has a branch on every inhabited planet in the galaxy, holds conciderable sway over both the local and federal governments of the [[The Federation|Galaxy Federation]], and has been around for (at least) 7000 years. They have a rival corporation called Hymas, but {{spoiler|Vector actually owns them too!}}

* ''[[Nexus the Jupiter Incident]]'' has a number of [[Mega Corp|Mega Corps]], and the game's [[Backstory]] reveals a war between the corporations and the [[One World Order|IASA]], which the corporations won, essentially abolishing all regulation beyond the Moon. The protagonist, Marcus Cromwell, works for SpaceTech, a relatively minor [[Mega Corp]]. On one occasion, two OSEC ships ambush an IASA ship in deep space, proving that they can do whatever they want without repercussions. The most powerful [[Mega Corp]] is the Kissaki Syndicate, a Japanese corporation that has managed to make enormous advances in the recent years (thanks to {{spoiler|[[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]]}}). The status of the [[Mega Corp|Mega Corps]] is unknown after the events of the game.

* Facebook's ''Wasteland Empires'' has Omega Corp. They were involved in pretty much everything before the [[Depopulation Bomb]] and released a virus that turned some of the population into slime coated mutants-in fact, they likely caused the destruction of the world in general.