| Cacique Caribe | 09 Dec 2009 11:04 a.m. PST |
In case anyone needs to flesh out their gaming scenarios with fictional companies . . . Alien(s):
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link Dan
PS. I thought this had been posted before, but could not find it. |
| Tsunami | 09 Dec 2009 11:11 a.m. PST |
Good list, but I didn't see "Jennings and Ralls" from Jericho. They would certainly qualify as "sinister". |
Dropzonetoe  | 09 Dec 2009 11:23 a.m. PST |
My gaming world is run by the evil United Corporations of McMerica. |
| ming31 | 09 Dec 2009 11:32 a.m. PST |
"Brawndo the Thirst mutilator" from Idiococy . not evil just stupid.
Dunder Miflin- just great paper .
Innotech --Office space.
Mooby's – so Evil angels smite them _ Dogma and Clerk's 2
Insura care (?) the Incredibles
The umbrella corp – resident evil |
| Cacique Caribe | 09 Dec 2009 11:39 a.m. PST |
Soylent Corporation –
link Dan |
| Agent Smith | 09 Dec 2009 11:52 a.m. PST |
The main 3 from the Kryomek universe Hajunka – Space craft, weapons and everything else Pandaris Prime – Space folding probability mapping Agarax – Inventors and marketers of the Agrax Cyberneural Matrix and Talos series cybernetic battlefield units AS |
| darthfozzywig | 09 Dec 2009 12:12 p.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 09 Dec 2009 12:19 p.m. PST |
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Frederick  | 09 Dec 2009 12:29 p.m. PST |
More evil than Walmart? Hard to imagine Thanks for the links, CC – especially since I know now the origin of Weyland-Yutani name! |
| Toaster | 09 Dec 2009 1:12 p.m. PST |
Transmutual Conglomeration of Associates. |
| Cacique Caribe | 09 Dec 2009 1:30 p.m. PST |
Frederick, LOL. Walmart is a very real corporation! We're talking fictional. :) Dan |
| The Black Tower | 09 Dec 2009 1:31 p.m. PST |
What was the name of the evil companies in Total Recall and Outland? |
 Dentatus  | 09 Dec 2009 1:35 p.m. PST |
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 javelin98 | 09 Dec 2009 1:38 p.m. PST |
All great choices. Some others: Aperture Science
Black Mesa Research
Blue Sun
Multinational United
Zorg Industries
Devlin-MacGregor Pharmaceuticals |
| charles popp | 09 Dec 2009 1:38 p.m. PST |
yoyodyne propultion from Buckaro Banzi. |
| Pole Bitwy PL | 09 Dec 2009 2:03 p.m. PST |
No Umbrella Corp, no zombies and no Milla Jovovich ! link We want Milla Jovovich zombies :D |
| Goober | 09 Dec 2009 2:19 p.m. PST |
The Black Tower: Rekall and Consolidated Amalgamated, the mine is ConAm-27, which shows up in a few Peter Hyams films, Consolidated Amalgamated also made the life support system that would fail three weeks into the mission in Capricorn 1. G. |
| Mainly28s | 09 Dec 2009 2:29 p.m. PST |
Massive Dynamic from Fringe? |
| Hexxenhammer | 09 Dec 2009 2:32 p.m. PST |
OCP from Robocop. Mostly Dick Jones' division, but even Bob Morton's group transferred the best candidates for the Robocop program into the highest police fatality rate territories to get test subjects. Anyone remember the names of their business divisions? I think one was Defense Concepts. |
| Covert Walrus | 09 Dec 2009 2:49 p.m. PST |
There is Veridian Dynamics from Better Off Ted . . . Not so much evil as overly profit-motivated and goal directed, which in the case of the lab techs is usually a positive thing . . . |
| Timbo W | 09 Dec 2009 3:14 p.m. PST |
Hmmm,from the original cyberpunk… Tessier-Ashpool SA
Ono-Sendai
Julius Deane Import Export
Sense/Net
Hosaka
The Eastern Seaboard Fission Authority
Bockris Systems GmbH
Maas Biolabs
Virek Industries |
| bogdanwaz | 09 Dec 2009 4:24 p.m. PST |
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| Dokter Q | 09 Dec 2009 5:27 p.m. PST |
As I recall, in Alien Resurrection they mentioned that Wayland-Yutani were bought out by Wal*Mart.
Yikes! |
| Dokter Q | 09 Dec 2009 5:45 p.m. PST |
How about the Jupiter Mining Corporation (mining) and DivaDroid International (mechanoids and other sentient robotic devices).
Red Dwarf Rules!!! |
| CAPTAIN BEEFHEART | 09 Dec 2009 7:04 p.m. PST |
I like timbo w's choices, Walmart is so evil it could be fictional. Maybe FRB Boston, but that's too personal. |
| Sven Lugar | 09 Dec 2009 9:12 p.m. PST |
Monsanto,
Pfizer,
Baxter Pharmaceuticals,
Tyson,
Blue Cross,
Cargill,
Bayer,
etc You don't have to look far – the evil corporations have already learned from reading SF & are here! |
| bobblanchett | 10 Dec 2009 1:06 a.m. PST |
how about Games Workshop-Yutani? |
| AndrewGPaul | 10 Dec 2009 4:03 a.m. PST |
CC's 2nd link under "Others" (the Wikipedia article List of Fictional Comapnies) seems to cover all the ones I can think of. David Weber's Honor Harrington series has Manpower Unlimited, which openly deals in genetically-modified slaves. Tom Holt has used Kawaguchi Integrated Circuits (in a few of his novels – involved with everything from mass-produced genie lamps to commercial exploitation of afterlives. Some of his novels also feature a goblin-run company which offers, among other services, dragon-slaying services and general supernatural support. I always wanted to run a Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0. scenario involving raiding the McDonald's bioweapons division.  |
| Lion in the Stars | 10 Dec 2009 11:44 a.m. PST |
EuroBank, from Cyberpunk 2020. They engineered the entire (major spoiler)! |
| Dokter Q | 10 Dec 2009 4:53 p.m. PST |
Araska and I believe it's IE ( a German electonics firm ) from Cyberpunk.
Big bad megacorps (go big or go home). |
| Dokter Q | 10 Dec 2009 4:56 p.m. PST |
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| Dragon Gunner | 12 Dec 2009 4:37 p.m. PST |
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| Dokter Q | 13 Dec 2009 7:48 p.m. PST |
Dragon Gunner,
yep, Taco Bell kind of does a number with your digestion tract. |
