MSF isn't evil. They're basically neutral. MSF is disbanded by the time Big Boss goes cuckoo bananas. It's possible Diamond Dogs could be considered evil, but we don't know what their objective is yet.
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What is the evilist corporation in fiction?
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Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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Weyland-Yutani is also the most incompetent. I dont understand what they think they can do with an alien. They never seemed to have a plan beyond "catch an alien". They never even got remotely close to being able to turn aliens into weapons. In fact the closest anyone got was the dude in alien resurrection who trained them to recgonize the button was bad for them before the aliens shockingly broke out and killed him.
You would think that they could have taken the billions (trillions?) They spent trying to domesticate aliens and just made new weapons that were sentiant bloodthirsty bugs with acid for blood.
You would think that they could have taken the billions (trillions?) They spent trying to domesticate aliens and just made new weapons that were sentiant bloodthirsty bugs with acid for blood.
Umbrella didn't actually have many failures at all. There were some interconnected incidents in 1998, but they weren't the company's fault. If you look at their B.O.W. product list, they're actually quite successful:
Zombie
Cerberus
Licker
Eliminator
Neptune
Chimera
Anubis
Web Spinner
Jumping Maneater
Plague Crawler
Black Widow
Bandersnatch
Albinoid
Ivy
Ivy +YX
Hunter
Tyrant
Nemesis-T
...etc. All successful products and great weapons.
Succinct Verbosity
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Nobody has said Weyland-Yutani.
Is right there in the OP.
John Kowalski
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PMCs are evil.
They're functionally amoral.
North Central Positronics and the Sombra corporation from the Dark Tower.
Two companies working in tandem, the former trying to bring together magic and technology to increase its own power with little regard for human rights or even life-ok maybe just a regular company- and the latter trying to destroy the very foundations of the universe.
At least NCP board meetings can play dumb and say "oh yeah our revenue this quarter is up 8% from the projections!". Sombra corporation board meetings must just be two graphs shown every three months, saying "Roses destroyed this quarter" and "Projected Roses Destroyed Next Quarter".
Both graphics an horizontal line, at 0 and 1 respectively.
Two companies working in tandem, the former trying to bring together magic and technology to increase its own power with little regard for human rights or even life-ok maybe just a regular company- and the latter trying to destroy the very foundations of the universe.
At least NCP board meetings can play dumb and say "oh yeah our revenue this quarter is up 8% from the projections!". Sombra corporation board meetings must just be two graphs shown every three months, saying "Roses destroyed this quarter" and "Projected Roses Destroyed Next Quarter".
Both graphics an horizontal line, at 0 and 1 respectively.
Succinct Verbosity
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The first line too. God, I don't know why I browsed over that. Still, they are the most evil corporation...
Astral Dog
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The patriots on MGS.
Why mass produce master balls when you can force them to buy 50 ultra balls instead? Ultra balls are so much better for their profit margin.
Technically MSF isn't evil, but they develop their own Metal Gear putting them a little on the bad side.
Came in here to post the Sombra Corporation. If a company serving the interests of the Crimson King isn't the most evil, then I don't know what is.
Well even out of those quite a few were failures or just prototypes. Zombies in particular are unfortunate accidents. Even just on a purely financial level I just don't see how the BOW production business could be so profitable to justify the risk. But there's also the fact that pretty much everything they do is absurdly evil to the point where you'd assume it'd be pretty hard to find people willing to work on those projects.
Tyrants are especially horrible. To extract the chemical they need to make them, they have to cut open a living kid or teenager's skull while they are alive and awake.
NCP is funnier, cause they probably developed tons of really neat technology that somehow was corrupted into evil -like Andy-, and in the end tried to replace the beams with artificial ones -that are probably more resistant or better or so they can tax people for their reality- but Sombra corporation was always just clearly evil.
The Rossum Corporation - Dollhouse (spoilers follow)
At the onset of the creation of the Dollhouses, Rossum's only interest seems to be money. They begin by renting out 'dolls' - humans who have had their minds wiped and can be imprinted with any personality/memories chosen - to the highest bidder for basically any task. At the end of the mission/job, the doll is wiped again and returned to a base mental state.
As their technology improves, their objectives become more clear - use their technology to obtain complete and total power for the privileged few the founder of the company personally selects. For anyone who gets in their way, they will be killed, have their minds completed wiped remotely to be used as a backup body for someone, or have their consciousnesses inserted into a gigantic human computer system called The Attic wherein they are eternally subjected to their greatest fears.
Rossum realizes that the technology will be leaked to other individuals and groups and will be similarly abused, so they set about to develop a vaccine to protect against remote wiping/imprinting they can apply to their selected few to survive the inevitable apocalypse that will result.
As their technology improves, their objectives become more clear - use their technology to obtain complete and total power for the privileged few the founder of the company personally selects. For anyone who gets in their way, they will be killed, have their minds completed wiped remotely to be used as a backup body for someone, or have their consciousnesses inserted into a gigantic human computer system called The Attic wherein they are eternally subjected to their greatest fears.
Rossum realizes that the technology will be leaked to other individuals and groups and will be similarly abused, so they set about to develop a vaccine to protect against remote wiping/imprinting they can apply to their selected few to survive the inevitable apocalypse that will result.
There were no failures or prototypes among the ones I listed. Zombies were accidentally discovered (as were Lickers) but they were utilized as effective weapons quite early. For instance, infecting a POW, sending them back to the enemy base, then letting them wreak havoc among the base.
In the BIO universe, B.O.W. sales are profitable because of pure logic. They are cheaper and deadlier than human soldiers, able to be mass-produced with little cost. Once one military wants them, they all do. Development on the other hand is not cheap. Wesker makes note of this at one point and it makes him question the motives of Spencer. I don't think they're necessarily evil. The company founders were elitists that desired to make themselves genetically superior humans, and in Spencer's case, to force evolve and rule over a new human race. A lot of the company's scientists became involved because they wanted to explore the evolutionary potential of the Progenitor Virus.
Tyrants are created like every other B.O.W. and mass-produced via cloning. The Beta Hetero Nonserotonin chemical has nothing to do with Tyrants or mass-production, however it is a principal component in the creation of the Hypnos-T Type. It's a chemical that increases aggressiveness and ferocity, characteristics Umbrella wanted to increase within a controllable B.O.W. It's also notable that Umbrella did not advocate this practice, it was solely the idea of researcher Vincent Goldman, who was a particularly ruthless man. Although while the company wasn't involved in the practice, they knew about it and did not stop Goldman because it would've produced a major weapon.
MrCunningham
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Interesting fact: The two cardboard cut out models in the Joker commercial are the same women that were reported dead by the Gotham Action News right before the Joker Highjacks the broadcast.
Also, Brawndo:
They replaced water with electrolytes.
TheProdigal
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Umbrella is a company where that guy probably wouldve been used as a guinea pig in some twisted experiment for saying that.
Dunedain_Ranger
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President business and his evil micro managers with the kraggle of course .
True Savior
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Their goal is to achieve a forced evolution that 99% of the people would reject. Their objective is pretty evilish , even if they think its the right one.
The Elite
BOSS
... and of Profit.
The crossover we deserved.
Also, wasn't Welyand-Yutani jockingly mentioned as a client of Wolfram and Hart?
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
They developed a learning computer for the sake of making the world a better place.
It wasn't their fault that when they tried to pull the plug Skynet fought back.
Their understanding is that the universe converges to that outcome, and by resisting they bring untold amounts of human suffering. That peak suffering comes right at the end of the universe. They are trying to start the cycle a new, they see it as a benevolent sacrifice.
This guy (gal?) gets it.
But if we're staying purely fictional, I gotta go with Wolfram and Hart. They are literallythe devil's lawyers, working his will every single billable hour in all manners large and small. And have been doing so, unchecked, since the dawn of human civilization, until Angel said fuck that nosie and did something about it.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
Philip Morris in that one movie.
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SniperHunter
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UNATCO from Deus Ex - an organization that allows child torture and death. Maximum evil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxN-mbwLVkE&index=870&list=FLQmGVoBHKIIgRPTNud0dxRQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxN-mbwLVkE&index=870&list=FLQmGVoBHKIIgRPTNud0dxRQ
TheGreatDirector
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Mann, Wurst, and Finnwich Company from Detentionaire
The own practically every business in the world, create clones of people and trap the originals in a secret prison, brainwash kids who know too much and mind control people into doing their dirty work, make the greatest soda out one of the most deadly chemicals in the world, and plot to unleash lizard men in order to wipe out humanity and rule the world.
The own practically every business in the world, create clones of people and trap the originals in a secret prison, brainwash kids who know too much and mind control people into doing their dirty work, make the greatest soda out one of the most deadly chemicals in the world, and plot to unleash lizard men in order to wipe out humanity and rule the world.
TheExhaustedWalrus
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Skynet
human onion
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They don't look so bad. They should tell him about the NSF.
Also, Page Industries isn't controlled by the Illuminati by the time of Deus Ex. Page splintered off from them using Majestic 12, which was more militarized so the Illuminati couldn't deal with them.
The Technomancer
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It has to be those guys in the back half of the Dark Tower books right? Since they would literally destroy all of reality? My memory is hazy
Gurgelhals
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The Crusader series has the WEC (World Economic Consortium), which is basically what happens when the world's megacorporations decide to merge into one giant totalitarian world government.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Holy shit I should probably re-read the Dark Tower books
Violence Jack
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Spoilers for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
OCP should be right next to Weland-Yutani and Cyberdyne Systems.
Atlus were some evil fuckers.
OCP should be right next to Weland-Yutani and Cyberdyne Systems.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
If Sombra doesn't take it then I'll also nominate the Bad Wold media company which was a sleeper plot to stall humanity's development by gorging us on awful reality TV so the Daleks could slaughter and enslave the planet
You mean Cyberdyne.
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