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* ''WebAnimation/{{Xploshi}}'': The company known as WebAnimation/{{Soulcorp}} is shown to be quite shady, as their products tend to involve enhancing technology using the souls of the dead. One product, the Spectrephone, which is used to communicate with the deceased, can become a vessel for damaged souls if the cremated ashes are contaminated or some are missing. Meanwhile, another product, Tobias, uses the soul of a man who was presumably killed by Soulcorp and has become self-aware and visibly frightened and angry about his soul being used in a robot. A third product named BOTM the Clown is based on Tobias, but with less sentience, resultimg in a frightening MonsterClown that ended up bring scrapped. As a result, Soulcorp tends to attract several lawsuits.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Xploshi}}'': The company known as WebAnimation/{{Soulcorp}} is shown to be quite shady, as their products tend to involve enhancing technology using the souls of the dead. One product, the Spectrephone, which is used to communicate with the deceased, can become a vessel for damaged souls if the cremated ashes are contaminated or some are missing. Meanwhile, another product, Tobias, uses the soul of a man who was presumably killed by Soulcorp and has become self-aware and visibly frightened and angry about his soul being used in a robot. A third product named BOTM the Clown is based on Tobias, but with less sentience, resulting in a frightening MonsterClown, result in it being scrapped. As a result, Soulcorp tends to attract several lawsuits.

* Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. from ''Website/SCPFoundation'' is an [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocratic]], AffablyEvil MegaCorp that specializes in selling paranormal artifacts to anyone willing to pay. They have a formal and respectful relationship with just about every power involved with the {{Masquerade}} and practically have the entire world in their hands. Their only reason for their continued existence [[ForTheEvulz is because they want to play with it]]. They even [[KillThePoor use their own employees as test subjects]] for "quality assurance" the same way the Foundation uses death row inmates.

* In ''Webcomic/JennyAndTheMultiverse'' (see also ''WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere'' in "Web Original" below), the Altern Corporation act as the primary antagonists, with its CorruptCorporateExecutive "the Man in Grey" serving as the BigBad.

* The Altern Corporation in the ''WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere'' mythos, DependingOnTheWriter, can be a genuinely sinister megacorp, sometimes running the Earth in a dystopian cyberpunk-type setting, or a more lackadaisical organisation when it's founded and run ''by'' [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Laura Drake]]. However, it's rarely if ever been benign.

* The Amaterasu Corporation in ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'' is pretty much defined by how shady it is, with it hiding secrets from the citizens of Kanai Ward and the whole company being an unfiltered source of evil. However, when [[spoiler:infiltrating the research lab itself in Chapter 4]], we find out that the employees themselves are not to blame. [[spoiler:It's actually the fault of Yomi Hellsmile of the Peacekeepers and Makoto Kagutsuchi, its CEO, than anyone else, alongside head researcher Dr. Huesca, as its their collective amorality that influences its bad reputation. You only find out about this later in the game, however.]]

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series has Vault-Tec, who are the creators of the Vaults and the ones behind all the various horrible social experiments that often result in disaster and unnecessary human suffering. The ''Vault-Tec Workshop'' DLC of ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' gives a good look into the mentality of Vault-Tec employees: they are typically amoral psychopaths dedicated to [[ForScience nonsensical experiments]] that result in nothing worthwhile, and any employee with an interest in [[TokenGoodTeammate actually improving the quality of life of Vault Dwellers]] is hated and shunned by the others.

** The series' iconic villain is the Umbrella Pharmaceutical Company, a corporation founded by a group of creepy English {{Evilutionary Biologist}}s who wanted to create a race of superhumans and TakeOverTheWorld. While Umbrella is a massive conglomerate that has multiple subsidiaries dealing in legitimate businesses, almost all of these serve as some sort of front for the company's illegal activities]] in creating biological weapons. In [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 the original game, the company stumbles on a zombie virus while performing genetic experiments. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' the virus leaks into the water supply after a botched mercenary operation, unleashing an epidemic on their CompanyTown, Raccoon City. Rather than try to, you know, help save the town from the epidemic so that it won't spread any further and their reputation won't be completely ruined, the company [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste sees a golden opportunity]] to test their newest line of biologically engineered {{Super Soldier}}s in a combat environment and use them to conduct a FieryCoverup while at it. Things ultimately go so bad that the US government ends up nuking the city, and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Umbrella's stocks plummet]], as nobody wants to work with a company that has such a massive stigma attached to it. The United States government drives the company into bankruptcy by freezing its assets and filing a massive number of lawsuits against it, and as Leon eloquently says in the opening intro of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'':

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Sonic's nemesis Dr. Robotnik is shown to own a few companies as fronts for his evil schemes, especially in the ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' sub-series where he's the owner of Robotnik Corp., the provider of the Extreme Gear used in the first installment, and [=MeteorTech=], a security company that produces androids. He's also been known to lease out his older robot designs to security companies.

# Suspicious, but still keeping its villainous activities hidden ([=PMCs=], [[WarForFunAndProfit arms manufacturers]], pharmaceutical companies, etc.)

** The series' iconic villain is the Umbrella Pharmaceutical Company, a corporation founded by a group of creepy English {{Evilutionary Biologist}}s who wanted to create a race of superhumans and TakeOverTheWorld. While Umbrella is a massive conglomerate that has multiple subsidiaries dealing in legitimate businesses, almost all of these serve as [[TotallyNotACriminalFront some sort of front for the company's illegal activities]] in creating biological weapons. In [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 the original game]], the company stumbles on a zombie virus while performing genetic experiments. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' the virus leaks into the water supply after a botched mercenary operation, unleashing an epidemic on their CompanyTown, Raccoon City. Rather than try to, you know, help save the town from the epidemic so that it won't spread any further and their reputation won't be completely ruined, the company [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste sees a golden opportunity]] to test their newest line of biologically engineered {{Super Soldier}}s in a combat environment and use them to conduct a FieryCoverup while at it. Things ultimately go so bad that the US government ends up nuking the city, and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Umbrella's stocks plummet]], as nobody wants to work with a company that has such a massive stigma attached to it. The United States government drives the company into bankruptcy by freezing its assets and filing a massive number of lawsuits against it, and as Leon eloquently says in the opening intro of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'':